Rated 18+ for gore and murder. Sexual themes are discouraged, this is generally a nonerotic story. But graphic depictions of violence and torture are an aspect of the planned story.

Is there no way to survive in a cruel world? Where mothers and fathers eat their children so they won't starve. Where brothers will send each other to the gallows just for a bit of gold or prestige. This kingdom is falling fast. The king and his family are insane, the advisors are greedy backstabbers only interested in their own feeble power. What say you? Will you join our fight?

Join in a rebellion today! Take the power back from a useless pig of a leader to shape the future of your people.

A decent chunk of the story has already been planned out, however, the maps and exact factions are still being fleshed out.

The Ouroborus

A group of cannibalistic mages who will eat the flesh of their enemies to gain power, knowledge, and new forms. Theyhave several agents already hidden through the Kingdom.

The Veiled ones

A desert tribe that is at odds with the Ouroboros and the Kingdom, who is siding with the Ouroborus temporarily to get rid of the kingdom.

The Kingdom

The royal elite already in power, a corrupt selfish group of men and women who are slowly destroying their people, and their kingdom.

The Guilds

The various guilds throughout the lands, crumbling as they each join different factions or split because some go to one and the rest to another. Except for the Vanguard.

The Vanguard

A guild of warriors dedicated to protecting the royal throne, in this time of upheaval they have never been more needed.

If this RP gets off of the ground, I'll be looking for people to play characters throughout the various factions and in different positions. Currently, there are openings for the leaders of major factions (all factions are playable.) As well as various characters in different lower positions. People who play as the leaders CAN RP for the entire faction they lead, though if they do a poor job they CAN be ousted. People in lower positions can scheme, murder, and work their ways to positions of power, but they must remember it will be a long hard slog to the top.

This is in the state of infancy, while the story is semi-complete just missing the characters to influence it, the physical shape of the world, a decent chunk of the geopolitical climate and the finalized names for the factions and kingdom haven't been chosen. This is going to take a while before we get the RP rolling. Right now I am certain it will take about 2-3 weeks before I get the maps were done (And I'm a crappy artist so I admit that even when they do come out they will not be the best.) But I am not putting that much effort into this if I don't see much reason to. I.e. I get no one interested I am not going to attempt to create the setting further.

Finally, this will hopefully be a long-running RP as I have three major arcs planned out. The rise, the plateau, and stagnation. These will be seperate threads, and hopefully we'll be able to gain new players each go around.

This story is one that CAN allow for new players at any time, however the group can't get to big at any one time, so keep that in mind.

Further notes: There are supernatural creatures to some extent in this world. They ARE playable, however, intelligent ones are limited to just a few players, and most importantly they are considered to be second-class citizens. So if you are interested in playing that character you MUST be prepared to deal with IC racism.

This has my eye.

@Lucifina Thanks for the interest :D I'm hoping when I can get the rest of it pulled together you'll like what you see and join us in this! Do you have any ideas about what you'd like to play as?

TO ALL

(I will edit all of this at a later point to pull things together better. While I may not be good at the drawing aspect of art, I do know at least what looks eye-catching :p

Further notes:

Each faction is a different portion of the various common "generic DnD moralities" to try and explain their positions I guess.

The Ouroborus: Chaotic Neutral with a bit of Evil leaning (though, they have some serious issues admittedly :p)
The Veiled Ones: Neutral Good leaning (with a definite tilt towards good, however, they do engage in certain questionable behaviors and will happily overlook another's wrongdoing for their purposes.)
The Guilds: Lawful Neutral (They follow the law of the land, however, the situation demands sacrifices that these people recognize and are willing to pay)
The Kingdom: Lawful Evil (They are the law and wish to destroy anyone who is not them. They're close to calling genocide on their own people)
The Vanguard: Lawful Good (however they ARE on the wrong side. Good people who try to do good things but work for the vilest people. LMAO, it's perfect!)
The common folk technically on a whole are neutral good, but times are tough AND many of the people turned to committing atrocities in the name of survival. Currently, the general populace is leaning towards evil behaviors for the sake of their own skin.

I hope this helps everyone get an idea of the moral codes to a certain extent of the various groups :D

Also, the sides each faction is on will more than likely fluctuate throughout the story. Since whoever leads them will have the authority to break agreement and treaties. However, there can and will be backlash if certain groups take certain actions.

I like where it could go, I'm interested.

interested!

Interested~

I would be interestested in a high ranking General in the Kingdom In turning into a traitor to lead the rebellion to save the people.

Interested

I don't know why I was worried no one would be interested in the story :p

Anyways, question, do the players mind if I cheat the creation of the maps? Honestly, drawing a map is a lot harder than I thought it would be, and I am considering altering existing maps for my use. I'm not sure how yet, but I am probably going that route. SO if the map loos familiar....ooops :p

@OneStoryToMany you can do map generator in google and there are a couple nice ones and tutorials to do it. But I don’t care if you rip from another

Map generator? Let me look this up. Because I was about to photoshop the crap out of something, and I wasn't sure how good it would come out :p

All I'm getting is hits to put a google maps widget on a website?

@OneStoryToMany alteration of a map is fine, but i do believe there are some websites that generate randomized maps

donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world

Not the one I used but that can make a random map for you

Quite interested!

Me too, very very interested

Loving all of this interest in the story!

Bare bones character sheet for now:

Please place your sheet in a hider for space-saving reasons.

[hider=Skeleton]

Name: Character Sheet Skeleton

Race/Faction: NPC

Age: N/A

Description: A well-constructed description totaling five sentences and a picture. Preferably a realistic one, however, if you can't find one you like animation is tolerable. If you would prefer to use just written description this is acceptable, just be certain to use two well-written paragraphs to describe your character. I should have some form of mental image for this character.

"Class": Are you a warrior? A mage of some form? Just a regular citizen dragged into a cesspit of a political drama?

Motivation: What drives your character through this campaign?

History: What is your past? What are you running from? What are you trying to save? Or destroy? Is your background noble? Common? Who are you and what makes you, you?

Strengths: 3-5 Strengths of your character. Personal, physical, or mental.

Weakness: 3-5 Weaknesses your character possesses. Personal, physical, or mental.

What is the most important thing to know about your character?

What is your character's greatest flaw?

Why should your character be in a position to influence an entire country?

One paragraph writing example of dialogue or interaction with another character plus a second paragraph writing example of combat. If your character is a non-combatant (i.e. specializes in healing) use whatever specialization that character would have for the second paragraph.
{/hider]

I would be interestested in a high ranking General in the Kingdom In turning into a traitor to lead the rebellion to save the people.

I didn't mean to overlook this originally, I am willing to hold this spot for you until after I see your character's design. However, I have no doubt you should be able to hold that position! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Now to everyone, I recognize that a good chunk of this CS is hard to fill out for now, I'm just making it available so that you can start thinking of your character's designs for now while I work on typing up the history, and political situation in the Kingdom and surrounding lands!

@OneStoryToManyawesome, I may actually have two ideas if the first one doesn't work. Ill get started on a CS

@OneStoryToMany are you okay with me having two characters?

Multiple characters are perfectly acceptable. So long as you're capable of managing them. You can have no more than three. Especially since some of these characters WILL die at some point. @spencerishere edited to add the mention.