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In this world, there is darkness and there is light. These two opposing forces, forever intertwined by a cruel fate, govern the laws of our known world and our very existence itself. Everything possesses a soul; the container in which these forces battle from the moment we are born, to the moment we die. Yet, even bound by this fate, the miraculous act of being alive grants us the power to influence the soul with our actions. With acts of kindness and selflessness, our inner light can shine brightly and illuminate the dark. On the other hand, acts of evil and cruelty beckon the darkness; snuffing out the light.

Yet no matter how hard some may try, our souls cannot exist without both light and dark. Even the most righteous of men can still fall prey to sin, and the most misguided individual may redeem themselves. It is the ebb and flow of the soul that makes us mortal, as well as keeps the world in balance. So what if this delicate balance was tipped by someone completely outside of our worlds laws? What if a being of pure darkness or pure light entered our world?

Everything changed when a Demon of the Abyss; the place where souls tainted by darkness go after death, broke all the laws of nature by linking their existence to the Soul. Every time a person fueled the darkness within them, they indirectly allowed this monster to grow in power. It grew, using it's influence to sway others to commit horrendous, irredeemable acts of evil that shrouded their souls in the dark; all while providing more power to the Demon. The balance disrupted, with souls of pure darkness inhabiting mortals, the world was thrown into chaos. Natural disasters ravaged the land, men slaughtered each other in brutal wars and the horrible demon that started all of our suffering was released unto the world with the intent of sinking everything into the Darkness.

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Characters

Kingdom

Royal Family

• King -Sariel Proudsword - @Cultural Titan
• Queen - Lucinda Giséle - @Leslie Hall
• Crown Prince - Alistair Proudsword - @The_written_John
• Youngest Son - Lethonel Proudsword - @Cubix
• Princess - Rida Proudsword - @Cuccoruler

Kingsguard

• Captain of the 19th Division - Sir Khyssoun Maerdrym - @firetigress3
• Paladin - Sir Roland Arturious - Previously Bacconator's character, currently an NPC
• The Silent Guardian - Allucard - Previously ArtifactCreator's character, currently an NPC

Others

• Chief Ranger of Galuntrung Keep - Kalar Splint - @Frengo
• Nightweaver - Zebulon - @Blizz
• Ranger - Liara Corinne Hart - @IcePezz

The Dark Forces

The Dark Lord/Overlord - Nyarlathotep - @Leslie Hall

The Inner Circle

• Commander - Raven von Stein - @Cultural Titan
• Head Researcher - Darrow - @Avanhelsing
• Dragon Reborn - Ythreïn Methreon - @Legion02

[*] Mere Human - Kaird McGrath - @Makrinagon

Unaligned

• Key of the Mistwalkers - Galio Sharp - @Esterdi
• Bard - Adria Solium - @Absolis
• Half demon - Aegis - @Crimson Raven

You want us to move our characters over here, Titan?

Feel free to post characters in the character section if you desire, but all accepted characters will make their way over their by my hand regardless.

Glad you decided to pick up the rp Culture.

We're gonna make it work this time around.

Leslie told me this was a cursed rp a while ago where it always fails. Not sure how true that is, but with any luck I will have a post up for noon tomorrow eastern time to kick things off.

works perfectly. I go on my break at noon. @Frengo and I will work out details for the Rangers. Or at the least for my character. So I should have all sorted out by then.

I'm here! do I post my character bios here or wait?

You can post them here or in the character section. When they are accepted they will be moved to the first post in the character section.

It's here then! If you have something that your concerned about though please let me know

Greetings folks. I'll be helping Cultural run the roleplay! If he is unavailable for whatever reason, feel free to direct questions to me and I'll either answer them or discuss them with Cultural when he's available.

My characters are added to the character tab I see. I do need to edit Queen Lucinda's biography a tad, but it's mostly just changing names and removing one sentence so it's not a big deal.

By the way, @Cuccoruler, we're accepting your characters. We do want you to know that while we very much appreciate these more light hearted and quirky characters (Especially Rida, I look forward to the mother/daughter dynamic between her and Lucinda), we'd like to point out to everyone, not just you, that the tone of this roleplay is quite serious. Just a reminder to everyone that even though we love our fun and games and badass characters, there will be a time and a place for a more somber mood in our story.

EDIT: I would also like to apologise now if I'm unavailable for short periods of time over the next few weeks. It is Christmas and what not. We're also expecting a lot of you to be spending times with your family for the holidays.

@Leslie Hall I added everyone who had gotten back to my pm's to the list. I have a few more to get to now. when you change things around just point it out to me and I will update it.

If anyone has any ideas about their characters or their factions or anything really that you want to be added to the lore we are more than willing to discuss and work things out to that regard. feel free to post any suggestions here or in a pm to me or Leslie.

We'll most likely take any ideas you guys give us and write up a rough draft of the lore. Obviously we'd like to get everyone's opinion on it, but at the same time we're also going to be taking some GM liberties with how things are portrayed. We apologise if what we decide isn't exactly how you imagined it to be.

I've only noticed now, but in the map provided, which ones belong to territories of the light and dark sides? Or, are the dark characters just silently lurking somewhere in the shadows, but the light characters can still explore the outer edges of the map without fear of being bombarded with a hail if aether arrows?

Which brings me to another stupid question... where would be the starting points of the characters for the intro posts of each user?

Other than that, I'm revved up for this to get started.

@Cubix

The dark side has not started doing its thing just yet. I will leave it up to Leslie as to exactly where the dark forces are gathered. You, unless you have objections will start the rp in the castle be woken up by Sariel along with your two siblings.

Sounds good to me!

We might have the Dark Side starting in a place called the Abyss Labyrinth, a large catacomb like area tainted by Nyarlathotep's dark presence. The entrance could be north of the White Woods.

The northern border of the kingdom is always fucked always.

Galuntrug's gonna be the first to fall... probably...