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TL'DR AT THE BOTTOM

The story takes place in a realm known as "Aldaria", a land that for ages has been under constant war among the several empires and feudal lords that share this world, bloodily war that resulted in the deaths of countless soldiers and civilians that got caught up in the carnage. All over cultural differences and resources, this era of the war is however under the shadow of the second era of this war

"The War OF fortune" it was called, originally called "The war of Differences" This spoof of a title was created after the war was gone on for centuries when the military of practically every royal faction started to become increasingly small due to all the blood shed and little progress made in the wars, stuck in a constant stalemate. Rulers would also try arming peasants but this led to a giant uproar in communities across the realm, being forced into this war to die in their pointless war in exchange for nothing

Due to this shortage of military power, bands of mercenaries comprised of mostly armed peasants trained by AWOL soldiers start appearing in the thousands across the realm from all races and cultures they raise and offer their services. The royalty of the realm only saw them as ungrateful peons trying to "move up" in this world rather than stay in their modest lifestyle..But they needed troops and if theses people are willing to kill themselves for a few coin, why not? So the nobility play along and even offers some groups their own land if they work for them, maybe even make them royal knights if they prove their worth. So they sent them to fight their vanity war and kept their actual troops inside their walls for their protection.

To say the least theses rulers never kept their promises and ended up slaughtering entire bands when they come to receive their reward, refusing to honor their agreement and pay up to some lowly peasants. Of course this does not end well and they realize the error of their ways and see that they are without a army again. Then one of the more influence rulers of the realm, King Hale IV, a human ruler then called for a end to this chaos among each, to put a end to the slaughtering of their people that their foolish ancestors put them in. The various empires and kingdoms agree to this and wish to try for a era of peace. but they want to make it spectacular , not just some verbal agreement among messengers. No what they wanted this to be a amazing event. A grand citadel was constructed smack dab int he middle of the continent of Alderia, After its construction each royal house would send their son or daughter as a envoy to a gathering held in this citadel, each accompanied by a hundred royal knights each to the grand structure to sign a peace treaty on behalf of their nation...In their own blood, as a sign how they will honor this agreement.
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The Players of this Rp would play as theses heirs as they attend the gathering to issue in a era of peace.

Or...Is it that simple? No, Of course not...
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You see during the "War of Fortune" the people of Alderia stepped on the toes of a giant. West of Alderia is a continent not as large as Alderia..But despite its size there us a long history on this piece of land. This continent is known as "Celdrin" to the natives, the natives of this land were also caught up in their own war, but compared to the wars waging in Alderia, the wars in Celdrin were far "cleaner" and "Honorable" if there was ever such a thing. five factions are native of this land, children of each are bred for war and can't wait for the day they can fight. The Factions here did not fight for land or Vanity,they fought because they see it as the ultimate test of Skill, Discipline and honor. Everyone is trained for combat and those deemed "dishonorable" are enslaved to work on their farms to pay for their crimes and eventually upgrade from slave to a Laborer and live as a citizen with rights..banned forever from fighting however.

The people of both Celdrin and Alderia have known about each others existence for awhile but never really bothered with each other during the "Vanity War", the Celdrin did not see it as their war and that they should stay on their land and keep to their honorable warfare, but they did however do trade with some of the rulers of this land for food and sometimes even purchase prisoners to work on their fields as slaves. However when the "War of fortune" comes around and see the need for mercenary bands as a "inventation" to be apart of the war, the five factions of Celdrin see the need to band together to combine their epic trained forces as one massive army to take on the larger war happening in Celdrin.

They sent some of their best to Alderia to represent what true warriors look like, looking for honorable Combat and a fortune they make way to Alderia to take part int he epic battles they hear stories of that happened in Alderia. Sadly they did not get what they expected, they got battles but they fought against untrained peasants that used dishonorable tactics that sacked villages and are only doing this mercenary gig because they were mistreated by their former masters due to their corruption and their Vanity war.

They were also betrayed by their employers, nobility saw them as equal to the mercenary bands made of peasants, and thus treated the same, not getting their end of the agreement and disrespected by the "Mighty" Royal bloodlines of the land.

The forces of "The Celdrin Union" boil with disgust and anger at the of Alderia, labeling the royalty as "Dishonorable savages" that need to be put down, that plagued this land with their own selfish desires. A council meeting made of the leaders of the Five factions of the Celdrin Union to discuss a drastic move, to purge the land of Alderia of this "Royalty" and bring more "Civilized war" to Alderia. When they learn of the peace treaty signing in Alderia, the Union of Celdrin only want to destroy them more, seeing this as them trying to run away from their dishonorable actions for a few years before going back to their savage war.

The Union of Celdrin does not even see this as them declaring war on Alderia..More like a "Purging" it and building on the ashes a new future. With the armies of Alderia small and feeble, and the well trained and massive horde belonging to Celdrin; its would be very easy to take them out. So they plan to make their mark and attack the Citadel after the signing of the treaty, if they truly mean to stand together then let them show it.
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TL;DR

The Rp is about a fictional realm known as "Alderia" that is ruled entirely of royal houses that rule over its people with a iron fist, the land has been in a age of war for centuries until one point their forces are almost if not all depleted from the never ending bloodshed. They then call for peace and build a massive structure together in the middle of the realm together as a symbol of their new found unity and will have a peace treaty signed at this landmark. The royal houses send their children to attend this gathering to sign the treaty in their blood to seal the deal of peace.

However the Peace meeting is disrupted by a foreign faction with the goal of whipping out the smug nobility from the world.
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So the PCs of this Rp will take the role as Princes or princess who are sent on behalf of their Royal house to sign this peace treaty and issue in a new era of peace but the Celdrin union attacks the gathering to start their war on all of Alderia with their massive forces.

The PCs will have to work together to escape the citadel alive and try to find safety somewhere with a pissed of legion of warriors hellbent on whipping them out hunting for them. Will they put aside their past transgression and honor the peace treaty? Or will they have in fights and lead to their demise.

i did not establish any official factions in Alderia so i can allow people who want in on this to make up their own royal house with their own history and culture

Anyone interested .-.

Why does this remind me of the storyline of Battletech?

I'll keep a watch on this, at the least.

Edit: Eh, not really interested anymore.

Never really looked at the mechwarrior lore, i am a bit interested in reading on it tho

And thank you for being slightly interested :D was thinking nobody would :c

Never really looked at the mechwarrior lore, i am a bit interested in reading on it tho

And thank you for being slightly interested :D was thinking nobody would :c

If you look into the lore, it's actually quite similar. PC's here are the Inner Sphere in the Great Houses and the Celdrin are the clans who are a bit miffed at how the IS fights and has a quest to take them down with their elite wariors and superiority.

That parallel was probably what drew me in the first place :P

Interested! Very interested!

Sounds like there are multiple races in play here. Would you have any objections to one of the PCs being of a traditionally monstrous race like vampires, dark elves, or orcs?

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If you look into the lore, it's actually quite similar. PC's here are the Inner Sphere in the Great Houses and the Celdrin are the clans who are a bit miffed at how the IS fights and has a quest to take them down with their elite wariors and superiority.

That parallel was probably what drew me in the first place :P

Dman :/ was sorta hoping i had something original..however im still interested in my little idea even though its not as original as i thought :x

Also for anyone willing to help me out... the only problem i encountered with this idea is that i want the PCs to stick as a group and try to assist each other in surviving this manhunt but i would think realistically the group would split up to go to their respective nations and alert their homes before the Union wipes them out

The main thing im aiming for is having the characters be taken out of their pampered life where they were raised in comfort and shoved in a life where they lose all that comfort and are having to dig thought he dirt to survive, hiding from the Union who will even go as far as to put bounties on anyone who is apart of a royal bloodline (Most common why to find out is to ask local villagers if they seen their Lord, Price, Princess, etc in the area) looking to snuff them out of existence and because of that theses people who just signed a peace treaty will have to depend on each other to survive because they are all marked for death.

But how can i make that happen without the first option be "Hurry back home while they tear apart the citadel" Because theses characters will all come from different parts of Alderia..The only possibility i could come up with is that launched attacks on multiple fronts with heir massive forces along with their main attack force being in the middle to take the citadel

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Dman :/ was sorta hoping i had something original..however im still interested in my little idea even though its not as original as i thought :x

@Miakardia HELLO :D thanks for begin interested :D

Also for anyone willing ot help me out... the only problem i encountered with this idea is that i want the PCs to stick as a group and try to assist each other in surviving this manhunt but i would think realistically the group would split up to go to their respective nations and alert their homes before the Union wipes them out

The main thing im aiming for is having the characters be taken out of their pampered life where they were raised in comfort and shoved in a life where they lose all that comfort and are having to dig thought he dirt to survive, hiding from the Union who will even go as far as to put bounties on anyone who is apart of a royal bloodline (Most common why to find out is to ask local villagers if they seen their Lord, Price, Princess, etc in the area) looking to snuff them out of existence and because of that theses people who just signed a peace treaty will have to depend on each other to survive because they are all marked for death.

But how can i make that happen without the first option be "Hurry back home while they tear apart the citadel" Because theses characters will all come from different parts of Alderia..The only possibility i could come up with is that launched attacks on multiple fronts with heir massive forces along with their main attack force being in the middle to take the citadel

It happens. No matter what you make... you can probably find something else to compare it to. You just had the luck of a casual battletech fan popping into the thread.

If the place is attacked and the area is literally swarming with enemies, the group will have no choice but to stay together. Later on you can make it a matter of survival as well - split off and potentially get killed alone? Something else that could help would be to make it so multiple nations are besieged and being taken over at the same time, making a wider zone of enemies attacking - and at the least, make returning home to sa "they're attacking" unnecessary. Although that might become invalid if said princes have leadership positions. In which case we can go back to the matter of survival.

Just my two cents... and 3 quarters, and seven nickles in a jumble of words.

Sounds like there are multiple races in play here. Would you have any objections to one of the PCs being of a traditionally monstrous race like vampires, dark elves, or orcs?

I sorta want to keep Orcs exclusive because one of the Celdrin factions is orcish.

As for dark elves i see nothing wrong with them but Vampies? AS a playable race I'm actually not sure because i feel like that would be sorta Op as traditional vampires are required to be attacked in a certain way to kill them, and can infect others with their curse and sorta expand their army that way

My main issue is that tradition vampires would actually give the Celdren a hard time with their very specific conditions to die and that their main weapon would be to infect their foes and have them join their side maybe as a slave.I want the Celdren union to DOMINATE the battlefield so we can put the PCs in this fucked up situation

I COULD just change the vampire idea around bit..But after i get done with it its prolly just gonna be a basic human that has some addition for blood and is allergic to sunlight

@Miakardia Thank you for being interested mate :D

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I sorta want to keep Orcs exclusive because one of the Celdrin factions is orcish.

As for dark elves i see nothing wrong with them but Vampies? AS a playable race I'm actually not sure because i feel like that would be sorta Op as traditional vampires are required to be attacked in a certain way to kill them, and can infect others with their curse and sorta expand their army that way

My main issue is that tradition vampires would actually give the Celdren a hard time with their very specific conditions to die and that their main weapon would be to infect their foes and have them join their side maybe as a slave.I want the Celdren union to DOMINATE the battlefield so we can put the PCs in this fucked up situation

I COULD just change the vampire idea around bit..But after i get done with it its prolly just gonna be a basic human that has some addition for blood and is allergic to sunlight

Actually I was thinking of vampires as batwinged humans that feed on blood, are allergic to sunlight, and have really long natural lifespans. I didn't think of them as infecting anyone they bite, anyway. And with where you are going, I am thinking that they should reproduce sexually, just as with any other race. I was thinking of turning most of the traditional vampire mechanics into religious/folklore beliefs of the Vampiric Kingdom. So for example, they don't like garlic or medicines made with garlic because they believe that it was made by the enemies of their gods to lure them away from their true nature (or something like that).

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Actually I was thinking of vampires as batwinged humans that feed on blood, are allergic to sunlight, and have really long natural lifespans. I didn't think of them as infecting anyone they bite, anyway. And with where you are going, I am thinking that they should reproduce sexually, just as with any other race. I was thinking of turning most of the traditional vampire mechanics into religious/folklore beliefs of the Vampiric Kingdom. So for example, they don't like garlic or medicines made with garlic because they believe that it was made by the enemies of their gods to lure them away from their true nature (or something like that).

Well yeah i could settle with that...Seems plausible.

As long as the race in question does not really have a edge over the Celdrin Union im pretty sure il be ok with it...I know that im trying a bit too hard to make everyone weak but thats sorta the idea im trying to get, to make the players feel hopeless and that they can't harm this giant that is tearing their world apart,

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Well yeah i could settle with that...Seems plausible.

As long as the race in question does not really have a edge over the Celdrin Union im pretty sure il be ok with it...I know that im trying a bit too hard to make everyone weak but thats sorta the idea im trying to get, to make the players feel hopeless and that they can't harm this giant that is tearing their world apart,

What about adding the dynamic of magic, and possibly enchantments to the armor of individual soldiers?

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What about adding the dynamic of magic, and possibly enchantments to the armor of individual soldiers?

Magic does exist in this world, forgot to clarify that but while magic exists there will be nobody that starts with crazy ass abilities just because their race is fluent in magic capable of wiping out entire battalions..

Thats to say they can't have the potential to become that powerful...You can start the Rp with some knowledge in basic spells but i won't let anyone take part int his Rp with a character that "Has been trained in magic all his life and is a wizard that has a large book of spells" No..You can say you are a student currently in a school being taught this incredibly difficult task of harassing this energy

But i won't let anyone say they are a master in anything, even if they grew up learning to use a sword..sure you can have some skills with the blade but you won't be on par with Celdrin union troops, yet.

Im doing that because i don't want anyone playing hero and slaying like 10 troops single handedly. im making them weak at the start so theres a fear of death but everyone does have the potential to become stronger and more capable

Seems interesting

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Magic does exist in this world, forgot to clarify that but while magic exists there will be nobody that starts with crazy ass abilities just because their race is fluent in magic capable of wiping out entire battalions..

Thats to say they can't have the potential to become that powerful...You can start the Rp with some knowledge in basic spells but i won't let anyone take part int his Rp with a character that "Has been trained in magic all his life and is a wizard that has a large book of spells" No..You can say you are a student currently in a school being taught this incredibly difficult task of harassing this energy

But i won't let anyone say they are a master in anything, even if they grew up learning to use a sword..sure you can have some skills with the blade but you won't be on par with Celdrin union troops, yet.

Im doing that because i don't want anyone playing hero and slaying like 10 troops single handedly. im making them weak at the start so theres a fear of death but everyone does have the potential to become stronger and more capable

I meant to soldiers in the Union of Celdrin.

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I meant to soldiers in the Union of Celdrin.

I'm sorry i don't exactly understand the question, are you asking if the Union utilizes Magic and enchanted equipment to gain their advantage over EVERYONE? If thats the question then not really what i was aiming for because really what does lead to the demise of Alderia is that they tossed so many resources fighting each other with little gain from it, now with everyone at critical status they are like "Maybe we should just stop.." so they can stop themselves and rebuild. But the Union takes advantage of the wobbly structure.

Plus No royal troops have fought Union forces. The Union came to Alderia during the war of fortune where everyone was utilizing the various mercenary groups to fight their battles while they kept their actual units defending their property. So they have no idea how to fight this enemy or how to counter their strategy because they never personally dealt with them.

But again im confused on what the question is

I'm interested in this. Are there any other races besides humans?

I'm interested in this. Are there any other races besides humans?

Totally, got the basic elves, dwarves and so on

But if you got a idea of something more exotic im open to the idea

I was thinking along the lines of a shapeshifter race.