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More of a minor at best and a hobby after the corpses are done.
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You know, I was hoping that our Dark Lord would be more serious, and not an uninspired ripoff of a well-known Warhammer 40k character.

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No, not awesome. It's an insult. The rest of us are trying to at least make something original, and all you do is plop an image of a space marine and come up with a half-arsed backstory where he falls into a well and becomes a dark archmage for no reason. My incomplete character, Vizir, at least had to go to school to learn some magic; Kalar Splint actually had a reason to found the Rangers and went through a soul-searching revenge phase; King Furlong is a monarch by birthright, but Ahriman version 0.01a pre-alpha just falls into a well and now he's a master elementalist and the man whom we must kneel and bow to? No way, dude.




Cough...

Sorry...

Anyways, I might hop onto this! Is there a position for one of the royals open? From what I read, I believe the princess position is still there?
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He and Raven ought to have a fight at some point seeing as they both want to wear down their opponents spiritual selves in order to gain the edge. They also may be the only ones capable of beating the other for good.
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Most interesting battle indeed it would be, but I believe Raven would have an edge with his necromatic abilities. Allucard is still obviously an undead capable of being controlled by a necromancer. Only saving grace for him is his will and ability to disrupt his opponents focus which is sort of a counter at least.

But either way, I would like to see the battle if it ever comes
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Mine isn't original either, but it's niche enough that people most likely haven't heard of him.
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This is still a major work in progress. I haven't even gotten around to her equipment, her abilities and skills and her backstories. But I just thought I'd leave this here as a little outline of what I intend my queen to be like. I don't want to continue it until Feather makes a verdict on the lore being presented because I want to easily be able to edit this sheet without having to rewrite her history.

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You know, I was hoping that our Dark Lord would be more serious, and not an uninspired ripoff of a well-known Warhammer 40k character.

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No, not awesome. It's an insult. The rest of us are trying to at least make something original, and all you do is plop an image of a space marine and come up with a half-arsed backstory where he falls into a well and becomes a dark archmage for no reason. My incomplete character, Vizir, at least had to go to school to learn some magic; Kalar Splint actually had a reason to found the Rangers and went through a soul-searching revenge phase; King Furlong is a monarch by birthright, but Ahriman version 0.01a pre-alpha just falls into a well and now he's a master elementalist and the man whom we must kneel and bow to? No way, dude.


Oh my god, I'm having fun. SOMEBODY STOP ME!

My very first post had a wizard driving a muscle car through the heavens, ON FIRE, with N0F4TCHX as a numberplate. So what if I really am having fun just playing a walking talking cliche in gauche armour. Yes it is a powerfantasy, yes it is a touch immature, yes it shall lead to an unfortunate and ill timed fiery demise. I. Do. Not. Care. I did not sign up for this RP to have a deep and emotional story arc, I signed up to become fantasy Doctor Evil. To become a foil and a walking talking plot device. To give the speeches, to lead the armies of doom, to have that Fortress of Doom. Remember the name of the site, Roleplayer guild? I choose to play the role of Evil Overlord and I plan to milk it for every ounce of ham and cheese I can get out of it.

Besides when the character fell in he was 16. In that abyss something horrible has been doing nothing but pouring Dark knowledge into his brain pan ever since (note his current age). How much is still really Ahzek after all that and how much it is just Darkness made manifest is up for debate.
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@Agent B52 Silly may have come across as a bit harsh in his judgement of your character, but I can see where he's coming from.

I'm not trying to hate on having fun or the power fantasy or whatever. If you like doing that man, then you do that. But I think the point Silly is trying to make is that there's a time and a place for that kind of thing and it's probably not the best character to make when you're applying to be the central antagonist of the story. That's just my two cents. Not meaning any disrespect to anyone here, but I do want to voice my opinion on this.
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Oh my god, I'm having fun. SOMEBODY STOP ME!

My very first post had a wizard driving a muscle car through the heavens, ON FIRE, with N0F4TCHX as a numberplate. So what if I really am having fun just playing a walking talking cliche in gauche armour. Yes it is a powerfantasy, yes it is a touch immature, yes it shall lead to an unfortunate and ill timed fiery demise. I. Do. Not. Care. I did not sign up for this RP to have a deep and emotional story arc, I signed up to become fantasy Doctor Evil. To become a foil and a walking talking plot device. To give the speeches, to lead the armies of doom, to give that Death Metal concert.

Besides when the character fell in he was 16. In that abyss something horrible has been doing nothing but pouring Dark knowledge into his brain pan ever since (note his current age). How much is still really Ahzek after all that and how much it is just Darkness made manifest is up for debate.


You do not care? Well, I most certainly do, because your character does nothing but irk me and I am forced to interact with him when the IC starts. Do remember that roleplaying is a collaborative exercise and you have completely thrown away the serious tone of the first post just to write some completely out-of-the-blue character that has got no basis but ironic humor - not that there's anything wrong with such characters, but your character is the dark lord while at same time being a walking joke. Maybe if he were someone lower-ranking, I'd be fine with it - but I most certainly did not (and I think everyone else in this thread also did not) come into this roleplay just to poke fun at fantasy tropes. Look at all the other character sheets in the thread. The Queen's CS is amazing! Characters like her are what I had in mind for this RP. But yours is just so incredibly incongruous to the serious tone that was set in the GM's first post that it's just past the point of silliness, dude.

Anyway, unless you provide us with a dark lord who isn't a ripoff nor a walking spigot of shallow humor, or somebody else does, I think might just withdraw from the RP.
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That would appear to be accurate.
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Okay, here's the map I promised. If anyone can do better, and they probably can, then by all means have a shot yourselves.

Edit: I've only included major cities and 1 major fortress; smaller settlements have been left for the players' imaginations.

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Seems maybe a bit smaller than I was thinking. Though what are my impressions hat they can determine the size of a fictional and previously nondescript country. No white woods though. Little disappointed about that.
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Seems maybe a bit smaller than I was thinking. Though what are my impressions hat they can determine the size of a fictional and previously nondescript country. No white woods though. Little disappointed about that.


I need to go through everyone's character sheets and add/rename locations that they may have mentioned, this is more of a concept art type deal... although graphically, it's as bout as good as it's going to get.

I plan for the size of the Kingdom to be about 600x600 miles, with a population of a few million.
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I want to finish writing Lucinda up D:
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I'm gonna say that the Tomb is somewhere off the map. It's easier that way.
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With 600x600 miles we're looking at something just slightly smaller than if France and Germany were to become one country. There would probably be more significant locations in that kind of area. Blah blah pending gm's orders blah blah.
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Read the complaints and will respond to them in full to hopefully reach a mutually acceptable outcome. Unfortunately work will take me away from a computer for the next three days, as I mentioned in my second post in thread this will be a regular weekly occurence.
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@White Feather Maybe this is something for the OP to solve?
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I finished the Queen. The backstory is a little lazy but I'm just not in the mood for a lot of writing right now.

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On the issue of the map:

This is a map of Dunbar, a county of Scotland
http://dunbarcommunityenergy.org.uk/files/2012/12/Ward-7-map-2.jpg

This is our map
http://i.imgur.com/ZQkf5X8.png

The two look incredibly similar. Only having a few Major Cities is expected, of course, but the scale and positioning of this map makes it appear more like a county than a kingdom. The cities are giant dots, the forests are huge (Shadowsong's Rest is two hundred miles wide) and there isn't any evidence of minor towns or cities. A particularly fast person walks at about 5mph. Therefore, it could take a day of nonstop walking just to get down from the mountain, and two days of nonstop walking (i.e. without sleeping, eating, going the wrong way, etc.) to get from one end of Shadowsong's Rest to the other. That's a big forest.

Perhaps the map should be a little more broken up - a few more minor forests and a few less major forest.
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