Alright, Lets lay out a few expectations.

1: This RP will have fighting, both mock battles staged like duels between recruits, and missions where You Can be Hurt or killed. Be a good sport about it!

2: Everyone's starting out at an "Equal" position, no one who's joining is higher than the rank of Recruit. No matter your social class, you will be a Recruit. No matter if you are a Noble or a ex-Slave.

3: Be sure to have a decent backstory to your char! To have been recruited the Knight had to have visited your village town or kingdom, met you and traveled with you to bring you to the factions Guild halls. You know a few of the knights! The Knights you most likely have talked to Are: Sania Silver (Elf), Brian and Mich Locke, Xanatos and Ryun Bloodseeker. (All four, Human)

4: You guys aren't coming into this with chars who inherently know how to fight other than basics from childhood play. Punching, kicking, biting, hitting with sticks, Etc.

Last thing, if you don't think you can stay as active as you'd like Say So. I understand emergencies, and the RP is set up so your char can be moved about shuffled around. You can always come back and PM me, we can talk about how your char will have developed in your time away, what they've been doing, and more. In fact, the reason there is a Hierarchy, and a way for you guys to go higher in rank... Is so that when/If I have an emergency, you guys can still RP and interact with your inferiors/Superiors with minor guidance from me.

Now then, with all that settled. . .
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The Sword, The Dragon, The Rose. These are the factions that make up The Order.

You are being recruited for the largest faction, The Sword. Your previous life is lost. Beggar, Peddler, Farmer or Lord, you're now a Recruit. You, from where ever you're from, no matter your race, have traveled with the recruiters and made your way to the halls of The Sword.

Here at the Guild Halls of The Sword you will be trained by one or more of many master knights in the way of War.

No matter your master(s), you are now a Recruit of the sword, and will be living together in the Barracks. You know the other recruits, You know the Knight Recruiters, and soon the first classes will begin, and you will be allowed to chose your Armor Class, Weapon or weapons, and other specializations such as Medic, engineer, Cavalry, and Ranger.

Your group was assigned to the barracks named the Seeker Hall. You share this hall with the knights Sania, Mich, Brian, Kale and Xanatos.

You do not know much about Kale but he is apparently a Senior Knight of the Dragon. He uses a Longbow and a Long Sword.

You know Xanatos has a weird secret and ALWAYS wears a cloak, Always. to hide something, he also is the Master Smith and Quartermaster (As in, He's the guy who's going to give you gear... and kick your scrawny arse if you break it) OH, and Xanatos is Ryun's Son.

what your char will IMMEDIATELY know, regardless of anything, is that there are other recruits knights and squires, there's several training yards, halls, barracks and a Guild hall/Mead hall in the center of this faction keep.


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Char Sheet:
Name:
Age: (Suggested ages: Human 16 - 22, Elf 16 - 40, Dwarf 16 - 25.)
Race: (Human, Dwarf, Elf, or pm to ask for a specific Race)
Height:
Weight:
Social Class: (I.e: Homeless, serf, peasant, noble, Etc.)
Location of Recruitment: (I.e: Village, Town, City, Keep, Stronghold, Capital)
Previous occupation: (i.e: Smith, Beggar, Guard, Merchant)
Appearance: (Text, picture or both)
Chosen Specialization: (Medic, Cavalry, Ranger, Craftsman)
Chosen Weapon(s):
Chosen Armor Class:
Items Carried: (Add Recruits' tunic, pants and belt.)
Positive Traits: (i.e, Protective, Strong, calm, collected, Good habits)
Neutral Traits: (just personality/character quirks)
Negative Traits: (I.e, Anger issues, odd smell, deformity, bad habits)
Reason for pursuing Knighthood:
Backstory:
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I'll be keeping my Char-sheets Up To Date with everything you guys learn about each char, adding more chars, removing those who die adding References to chars you hear about but do not Meet. Such as several Legends of the order you chars could look up to, like Raynold, Peyrelia and Miamont.

working on my cs now but, follow up questions if i may:

Roughly what is the timeframe the story is taking place? I want to be able to know what technology is available and what kinds of armors are in use typically. I'm guessing around or beyond the 14th century but i dont want to make any assumptions.

As far as specializations go, are recruits coming in with a preference and are they allowed multiple specializations or is this granted later on?

Are weapon choices static? If i were to start off with a short sword lets say, could that character change their mind and switch to training with axes or warhammers?

thanky you in advance
- Haky

working on my cs now but, follow up questions if i may:

Roughly what is the timeframe the story is taking place? I want to be able to know what technology is available and what kinds of armors are in use typically. I'm guessing around or beyond the 14th century but i dont want to make any assumptions.

As far as specializations go, are recruits coming in with a preference and are they allowed multiple specializations or is this granted later on?

Are weapon choices static? If i were to start off with a short sword lets say, could that character change their mind and switch to training with axes or warhammers?

thanky you in advance
- Haky

Typically due to this being a Fantasy setting there's a lot of options but mainly think around the time of the Holy Crusades.

Armors range from your basic Padded Leather, up to the intimidating Full Plate, with exotic armors in between like Lammilar and Arabian plate

the topic of weaponry, most knights like to stick to one type of weapon, but changing your mind as a recruit is perfectly acceptable, as many weapons can be handled the same, or similarly there wouldn't be anything to hinder your progress

Typically a recruit can learn as many specializations they want, but Xan will REPEATEDLY remind you, and suggest that perhaps you should focus on One at a time, or stick to just one.

Oh, side note, its entirely up to you as to how to met the Recruiters, and the reason you came with them.

Noted, I still have a few things to fix up. Backstory to fill in and formatting to do however i will post up what i have so far. At the moment i'm heading out and hopefully catching some sleep afterwards. Expect the back stories to be posted later on tonight 12-3, and everything to be fleshed out/formatted tomorrow morning.

@Hakyoku You know there's a characters page.... Right?

Do either of them have a back story, like how they met the recruiters, why did they choose to go with the recruiters to the faction halls, What was life like before, a bit of their home town perhaps?

@zahrale The post was just a placeholder since formatting on site is easier. One is down and I will edit both posts once both chars are finished. As well as let you know what changes i make going forward.

First one's lookin' good.

First: Mythical beings. They are there, NO DRAGONS. saying that right now. Dragons are a No. No. none. No Manticores, nothing Magic-based. What does that leave? Griffons, several lizards of the larger None-fire-breathing variety such as Raptors, big birds, Scary as hell fish, Stags. Basically ask your self "Does it use magic, Can it talk, or does it use some unexplained projectile they just generate to attack?" if the answer is Yes, It doesn't exist. So to be redundant. Dragons, Sphinxes, basilisks, Thunder birds, Demons, Angels, Etc. None of those are real. They are stories.

Second: If it's in this post i can 100% assure you, as far as you as your characters know, it is 100% TRUE.
... I'll have a Hider below labeled "Reality of the World" for those of you who Reeeeally want to know what kind of big ugly scary boogeymen are out there in this world.

I'd never do anything Mean to you guys like.. possibly... Dropping a dragon down on you guys on your first class... or.. makeing your lord commander some Undead variation... Nooo no no....... Maybe just once.

BESIDES! The interest check said LOW fantasy, right, I can't possibly LIE! Right?! Lets ignore the Elves and Dwarves and such Am-i-right?

I mean ... I'm not THAT mean!

Runic, Shut your face, say nothing!!!!

@Zahrale I'm sorry but....

I CALL CRAP!

You've done that to me So. MANY. TIMES!

@LadyRunic I'm sorry Runic.. I warned you not to tell them.... Now you have to die :) . . . Someone hand me a bottle of bleach, a knife, and a Shirt.

PS, CS is good.

Once we get at least 2 more people to make Chars I'll start typing up the IC post. (And likely contemplate removing my hands with a knife whilst doing so.)

@Zahrale Don't make me sic my Chibbers on you.

I'll make some refinements at some point, but the important bits of mine are up.

This looks cool. I'll see about a CS.

edit:probably won't be joining this one.

@Spoo Lookin' good. Your char will have talked to Commander Ryun, whos personal values are very similar, as well as the recruit, Ryimurss.

@Melkor Lookin' forward to it!

Finished up on both characters. Do you mind the being in the same post or should i seperate the two?

@Hakyoku I'm not going to speak for him...

But I doubt he would mind, his own being in one post. And if your worried about him noticing I'll give him a heads up that you've posted.

It's lookin' good, Hakyoku, Accepted.
I got 2 more CS' coming up, ones a bit..... Strange <_< >_>

Soon as Spoo's finished with his, and one more CS is up I'll post the First In Char.

Before that, Any questions, Any at all?