Hunter’s Name:Lariel

Age:29

Appearance:

Weapon of choice:
-Longsword
-Kukuri

Armor of choice:
-Brigandine

Strengths/Abilities:
-Melee combat
-Stealth
-Tracker
-Literate

Weaknesses/Hindrances:
-Greed
-Fear of intense fire
-Alcoholic (high functioning)

Personality:
Lariel is a fiercely spoken and independt person with a very skewed sense of morality, not necisarrily evil or demented but simply realistic on the cold nature of the world. Not carrying much in the way of sentiment or guilt.

History:
Lariel was born to a peasant family in the poorest slum of the capital city well outside of the Royal Families home in the keep, only just inside the outerwalls. Her mother and father were butchers not the fancy ones the high born had, but butchers of just about anything rats, dogs, cats, horses if they got lucky the occasional not entirely spoiled slab of beef or pork. Her father died just after her ninth birthday in a drunken dispute with some men ovee paying for the food he had prepared, that was the day Lariel learned men voided their bowels when they died. She killed her first man at eleven as he slept promised a gold coin by a braggard outside of a tavern, a promise which he upheld to the girl paying her when she returned with the mans ear as proof. As she got older Lariel decided that killing men.... Well people in general was her best way out of the slums, she learned to steal to move unseen and unheard and most effectively kill. Her mother passed from fever when she was fourteen and Lariel at this point had already gotten her first sword, a horribly battered iron hunk with an edge which even with constant care never seemed to hold.

Lariel left the capital after being chased by guardsmen after an incident in a brothel involving a noblemans wife, before she left however she killed a guard and took his blade in place of her own. With her new sword and a horse 'borrowed' from the stablemaster Lariel set out to make her fourtune as a sellsword. She roamed from inn to inn town to town, shithole to shithole and slowly became more adept at her trade, losing never though she never fought with 'honor' as knights called it but sense as she saw it. At twenty she joined a company of sellswords and fought in a few skirmishes with bandits and highwaymen, this carried on till around the age of twenty four till she left again on her own. Working for minor nobles killing other minor nobles, illegitimate children, nosy mistresses whoever so long as the gold was paid and the price was right. When the King decided to revive the Royal Hunters and called for fighters Lariel figured it would be a good opportunity to make some gold and possibly work her way into some position of esteem; not that she cared for responsibility or gallantry but simply to milk it till it was no longer in her best interest.

Added minor npc's for lore building. Goal is for each city to have its own brief description as well as all minor characters who live there and any major lore events that may have taken place there.
So far the only cities are Rothenburg and Augsburg.
Estramoz, Shrewbury and Silchester are towns, the rest are not yet determined.

Ignore this post I was testing the image link

Once you get a 4th weakness go ahead post it in the characters tab!

Once you get a 4th weakness go ahead post it in the characters tab!

Done

Edited the Royal Guard. The captains will get more backstory and character depth as we go on. Background Npc characters are encouraged, though they should have a purpose to play either in the development of your characters personal story or the overall story in general. Ideas for characters and monsters are encouraged. Questions, comments and concerns are welcome!

Age: 35

Weapon of choice: Trappers gifts

• Extended wrist blades (picture is too long. About a foot long hidden blade. Slides out of a wrist sheath.)
• Chain whip
• Spring-loaded bear trap
• Sharpened skinning dagger

Armor of choice: Davos made his armor over his career of hunting game in the wilds of the Durot mountains. Thick cloth was traded for with various furs of indigenous yetis and the large wolves prowling the mountain tops, of course the thickest parts were used for his own needs.
The wrist braces he uses have long thin pieces of steel sewn into the leather periodically, preventing any creature from tearing into the vulnerable area while still remaining very light. These are usually the first pieces of gear to be replaced.
Leather padding on his legs and chest follows the same styling of protection, with the most amount focused on the thigh leathers.
The crimson clothing he wears is a ritually dyed piece of clothing often splashed by his victims, that he might remember them forever.

Personality: Davos is a man of conviction, purpose, guile, and one of the scariest men I have ever seen. This is a man with the knowledge of a royal scholar on the subject of the inhabitants around Durot mountains, the Ondorro forests, anywhere monsters that feed on the warm flesh of the people. Skulking in the shadows you will find this man alone waiting for the chance, still as the trees, until the time is right.

I've heard him speak of the werewolves he hunted before. Heard lots of hunters brag about them one after another and for good reason, but Davos. No. Not him. The way this man speaks about his prey can only be likened to a man of the faith reciting the words of prayer to the gods above.
He envies these creatures.

I do not believe he seeks their power for his own or to be enslaved, by the divines it doesn't even sound like he wants to try and save or tame some of the creepy crawlies that stalk the night, he just wants to share in that.. strength? The confidence of a predator at the top of the food chain.
That has to be it; He envies their lack of humanity. Perhaps he wishes to be free of the morality of human existence..

None will truly know but him. So I give fair warning to any who meet the crimson garbed being.

Sleep with one eye open.
-Signed,
Shopkeeper Warren Flynn,
Owner of the Flynn family general store.

History: Davos' family separated from the clustered living of the villages. Forsaking the comforts of the herd and superior numbers to strike out a living far to the south in the mountain range of their forefathers. The living was rough and often nearly struck them down but with the knowledge given from a nomadic tribe of barbarians, wisdom traded for with food or tools, his parents claimed a piece of the mountainside for themselves.
Not a particularly attractive home it did serve its purpose as it sheltered them from the storms and hungry eyes of the predators, nestled on a hard to reach cliff. From there Davos was tutored to hunt down the animals that stalked the snowy hills and delve into the darkest caves dotting the mountains.

Year by year he grew increasingly restless.

The first kill was a rabbit. Then a great white Elk. From there; wolves, bears, wildabeasts, great furred yetis. Davos excelled at luring in such beasts to the killing-fields, springing creative traps that fell from the treetops down onto the beasts. When they inevitably struggled to free themselves, the tip of his sword struck them in the heart.

With his parents passed away from a fever many years ago, Davos returned from the society his family had left and began reintegrating himself. First came money, taken from bounty hunting and vermin disposal, then the ability to read, until finally he signed on with the Royal Hunting Guild.

Strengths/Abilities:

• Tracking
• Trap location
• Blacksmithing
• Skinning

Weaknesses/Hindrances:

• Swordplay - Can hold his own, but cannot excel in a fight against trained swords fighters.
• Crazy ideals - People do not often like the way he praises the beasts.
• Ill mannered - Living in a cave for 25 years will that to you.

@ZelosseSounds good! Just add one more weakness to even it out and you can post it in the character tab.

This is gonna be great I think, character mix is good so far.

This is gonna be great I think, character mix is good so far.

Agreed

We've got a good amount of characters so far. I think we should probably get a few more before we start. What do you guys think?

We've got a good amount of characters so far. I think we should probably get a few more before we start. What do you guys think?

Should wait till tomorrow I suppose but id hate to see it just die off while we wait

@Nymeria

Just letting you know that I haven't found any inspiration to make a character, so I'll be dropping out. Best of luck with your roleplay guys!

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Should wait till tomorrow I suppose but id hate to see it just die off while we wait

This though. Hopefully starting will attract more people

Alright. I'll start thinking up an introductory post. I'll post it either tonight or tomorrow. Once that's up, feel free to start up!

Aaaaand the first post has been made. I already had a post on the IC that I just edited. And we are OPEN!

@Nymeria Howdy there! Saw your rp gig in the general interest thread and followed it here. So much lore written! I can see dedication and care were put in.

I wish to join and I was wondering if this character concept was doable: a vampire character who mascarades as either a hunter or assistant, while still keeping ties to the vampire community, serving as sort of a background political player who agreed to serve one of the families or the King possibly in exchange for a protected role, using her/his vampire powers to that human's benefit or manipulating other vampires or helping the hunters keep them in check through double agent play (but the hunters don't know they are a vampire).

@ExcalHmm, that would be an interesting character. There's some background information you would have to know playing that character that isn't readily available to everyone else. Let me confer with LordLinguinie real quick and I'll get back to you.

EDIT: What gender were you planning on having this character be?

@Nymeria Either/or. Was planning female, but I can do male if need be.

@Excal Female would work best. I send Linguinie a message. I'll send you a message about it once I hear back.