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โ€‹๐Ÿ‡นโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ญโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ชโ€‹ โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ณโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ชโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฑโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ชโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹ โ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡นโ€‹โ€‹๐Ÿ‡พโ€‹


Dโ‚’ yโ‚’แตค โ‚•โ‚‘โ‚แตฃ โ‚˜โ‚‘ wโ‚•โ‚‘โ‚‘โ‚šแตขโ‚™g fโ‚’แตฃ yโ‚’แตค? Fโ‚’แตฃ โ‚‘แตฅโ‚‘แตฃyโ‚’โ‚™โ‚‘?

โ‚—โ‚‘โ‚œ โ‚œโ‚•โ‚‘ dโ‚แตฃโ‚–โ‚™โ‚‘โ‚›โ‚› bโ‚‘cโ‚’โ‚˜โ‚‘ wโ‚แตฃโ‚˜โ‚œโ‚•...
Wโ‚แตฃโ‚˜โ‚œโ‚• โ‚œโ‚•โ‚โ‚œ wแตขโ‚—โ‚— cโ‚’โ‚˜fโ‚’แตฃโ‚œ yโ‚’แตค.
Cโ‚’โ‚˜fโ‚’แตฃโ‚œ yโ‚’แตค แตขโ‚™โ‚œโ‚’ โ‚‘โ‚œโ‚‘แตฃโ‚™โ‚โ‚— โ‚›โ‚—โ‚‘โ‚‘โ‚š

Dโ‚’ yโ‚’แตค โ‚œโ‚•แตขโ‚™โ‚– yโ‚’แตค cโ‚โ‚™ โ‚‘โ‚›cโ‚โ‚šโ‚‘ fแตฃโ‚’โ‚˜ โ‚˜โ‚‘?
Yโ‚’แตค โ‚แตฃโ‚‘ โ‚—โ‚’โ‚›โ‚œ wแตขโ‚œโ‚•แตขโ‚™ โ‚˜โ‚‘.
โ‚—โ‚’โ‚›โ‚œ wแตขโ‚œโ‚•โ‚’แตคโ‚œ โ‚˜โ‚‘.
Dโ‚’ yโ‚’แตค โ‚•โ‚‘โ‚แตฃ โ‚˜y โ‚›โ‚’แตฃแตฃโ‚’w?
Dโ‚’ yโ‚’แตค cโ‚•โ‚’โ‚’โ‚›โ‚‘ โ‚œโ‚’ โ‚™โ‚’โ‚œ โ‚—แตขโ‚›โ‚œโ‚‘โ‚™ โ‚œโ‚’ โ‚˜โ‚‘?
แตข bโ‚‘g yโ‚’แตค โ‚œโ‚’ โ‚—แตขโ‚›โ‚œโ‚‘โ‚™.
Fแตขโ‚™d cโ‚’โ‚˜fโ‚’แตฃโ‚œ แตขโ‚™ โ‚˜โ‚‘.
โ‚™โ‚’โ‚œโ‚•แตขโ‚™g wแตขโ‚—โ‚— โ‚‘แตฅโ‚‘แตฃ โ‚•แตคแตฃโ‚œ โ‚gโ‚แตขโ‚™.
แตข โ‚šแตฃโ‚’โ‚˜แตขโ‚›โ‚‘.



From the darkest depths of the curse-ridden storm that surrounds the city to the gracious lights of the heavens upon the central tower, where do you find yourself? The once beautiful city is flooded with chaos from the populous and tension from the royals and the council of the Great King. Each Regia, the physical vessel of the god of light, has been passing earlier and earlier. The last Regia known passed away at a mere glance of fifty.

The city is centuries old, and the storm is older than that. Once the city was proud with seven rings and valleys and foundations past the seventh wall. Now the city finds the encroaching darkness from the storm past the wall that separated the fifth and fourth rings. Roughly ten years ago a storm surge that was seen like no other consumed the fifth and shadowed beats, storm beasts, rampaged through the Wardana and Regia Guardโ€™s defenses. A handful of Wardana were lost. The population of the fifth was immense though the fourthโ€™s population only increased by double if that.

Everyone in the kingdom, especially the outer two rings, the fourth and the third pray to the Great King. The god of light. The savior of the city is to protect them from the storm surges and to keep them safe from the storm's touch. After the last major storm surge took over the fifth ring, prayers were not enough for people, and a revolution blossomed like a beautiful lotus flower. A flower of fiery power. A power that the royals and the council fear. A threat that the first and second rings want to squash out like the butt of a finished cigarette. It leaves a sour taste in their mouths.

Where does your story begin?



๐”—๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”–๐”ข๐”ณ๐”ข๐”ซ โ„œ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ

Each ring of the city is an ancient stone wall that was built before anyone in any part of the city was born. They are hundreds of feet high and about a few hundred feet thick. Starting from the central ring and going to the outer rings, you have to pass through large iron-enforced gates that spiral down cracked stone stairs. Riddled with guards that will pull you aside and question you at any moment if you are unlucky.

All seven rings stood strongly and miles upon miles away from the storm but each year the storm encroaches. No one ever thought that it was an issue. That they needed a solution till the seventh ring itself was consumed by the storm beasts and darkness.

There were seven rings, and each ring had a purpose. The seventh was the ring that allowed protected farmlands and waterways to develop around the city. The ring supplied the most food and safe drinking water while holding the most livestock and animals of the nameless city.

The sixth ring was a production ring, everything from the seventh ring was sent to this ring to go through protection by specialized ikonomancers. The industrial ring they called it. It had the second-largest population out of all the rings.

As the storm consumed the seventh and the sixth, everyone that survived each consumption was forced into the rings that were closer to the center ring. The central ring or the first ring, is the home of the Regia, the beautiful leader of the city. The leader sacrifices their body for the Great King to have a physical vessel. The leader that most look up to. They pray to.








๐”๐”ž๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”  ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”š๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ฉ๐”ก




๐”—๐”ฅ๐”ข โ„œ๐”ข๐”ณ๐”ฌ๐”ฉ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ฌ๐”ซ




๐”‰๐”ฌ๐” ๐”ฒ๐”ฐ ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข โ„œ๐”ฌ๐”ฉ๐”ข-๐”“๐”ฉ๐”ž๐”ถ

I use the term โ€œsandboxโ€ role-play very loosely since this is not a choose-your-own story but is to a point. There are things happening in the bigger picture for this whole idea. Some character(s) will have more influence than others. No matter what you are, fourth ringer to first ringer, your character(s) decisions will influence the story in some way. Somehow. Decisions have consequences no matter how small they are.

Character-wise, you have the freedom to go for whatever you want. Currently, there are no restrictions though there are recommendations for some character(s) who will have more difficulties because of rings and so on. It creates difficulties and causes people to have creative ways of jumping over those hoops and hopefully not getting caught by the Regia Guard or Wardana!

At the beginning of this role-play, everything is in chaos or at least everything to do with the royal family, Regia, Regia Guard, and the royal council is in chaos. The higher-ups in the kingdom are trying to figure out solutions because the storm surge past the fourth wall has shaken everyone.


โ„ญ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ž๐” ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฏ โ„‘๐”ซ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ช๐”ž๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ฌ๐”ซ

The slots that have an unlimited amount of access to anyone are inhabitants of the fourth - second ring and apprentices or academic students of the Wardana Academy. There is no cap on characters for an individual player as well. I will probably have quite a few character(s) that are not NPCs running around.

Character(s) positions that are capped are the Royal family, the Regia, the Regia Guard, and the Wardana.

- No character under the age of twenty-five will be allowed to be a Regia Guard.
- Characters that are apprentices of the Regia guard have to have at least two to four years of the academy under their belt and be the highest in their ranks
- No character under the age of fourteen can apply and participate in the Wardana Academy
- Wardana leaders typically are late teens to late forties in age

- Regia is a position that will most likely be filled by an NPC unless an individual makes a great claim as to why they want this position for it is not very active. The Regia is a lifeless husk because the Great King (who is an NPC) speaks through them and uses their physical form which makes it very difficult to write and I will not allow this to be anything above a secondary character for anyone.
- Regia Guard are individuals that protect the Regia and step on the bounds of morals when it comes to protecting the city and hushing the revolutionists and not caring for the storm touched. There are only six slots opened for the Regia Guard including the leader. These are individuals who have excelled during their academics, were Wardana (leaders or not), and were able to become apprentices to the Regia Guard. The Regia Guard are only allowed to take on one apprentice to replace them except for the leader who is able to take on two.

[0/6] Regia Guard slots are taken.

- Wardana Leaders are a part of the Wardana Academy and tend to work as trainers. Wardana leaders are able to have up to five apprentices under them. There are eight slots for Wardana leaders in the symbolization of cardinal and intermediate directions. One for each to protect the city and the people against storm surges and storm beasts.

[0/8] Wardana Leaders slots are taken.

Wardana leaders have to have at least one apprentice under them at all times.

- Storm Touch character(s) are individuals who are touched by the storm. Storm beasts however do not cause curses to happen. The storm herself causes curses to befall individuals and generational curses happen as well. If a character is touched by the storm, they will develop a curse. That curse can be practically anything. Snakes for hair. Owl characteristics. Rock skin that slowly consumes the body. Cat-like features. Anything. Nothing is considered fortunate when touched by the storm. The individual becomes ineligible for rations and the majority of people fear them.





This Role-play is inspired by the "Darkening" book by Sunya Mara. There will be no canon character(s) apart from this role-play. All original character(s).


One of the character(s) who will be played by the GM:

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Giving you some love and interest :)
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I will add this for the sake of adding direct contact. If you have any questions and want quick replies to DM me! If you want easier communication back and forth, my discord is Mayflowers3161. You can add me and ask all the questions you want about lore the world, characters, or whatever your heart desires!
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If anyone wants to join the discord for the RP, it is up! discord.gg/xFJhxQ9Et. Come discuss!
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Might be interested. I have this vague idea of a character born out of wed lock by a woman in one of the high ranking families. Maybe the mother of this character had relations with someone in the Third. In any case, the birth was kept secret, and the mother, or someone else in the family, ordered a loyalist under her to give the baby to the storm. (the idea here that this loyalist would have to walk into the storm himself to give the babe.)

Ultimately the loyalist couldn't bring themself to do that to a baby but curses themselves to keep up appearances. They then raise the baby as one of the storm touched and scars the baby's face and body with searing metal to make the baby appear as storm touched.

What I'm thinking is that this Loyalist knew Ikonomancy and taught it to the child in secret, maybe taking the child to the fifth ring during training or something, assuming that is possible. In any case child is grown up now. Knows they were abandoned. Is pissed off, and wants to kill their mother for abandoning them.

I'm also playing around with the idea of starting the character off by having them steal some Wardana armor during the day that the fourth ringers get access to the third.

Just some thoughts I'm having :)

(Side note: My time may be limited as might my ability to log onto the site often (I'm a father). If this RP takes off and I join, any chance that you will start a discord so that I can be notified of when people are planning to post)
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Might be interested. I have this vague idea of a character born out of wed lock by a woman in one of the high ranking families. Maybe the mother of this character had relations with someone in the Third. In any case, the birth was kept secret, and the mother, or someone else in the family, ordered a loyalist under her to give the baby to the storm. (the idea here that this loyalist would have to walk into the storm himself to give the babe.)

Ultimately the loyalist couldn't bring themself to do that to a baby but curses themselves to keep up appearances. They then raise the baby as one of the storm touched and scars the baby's face and body with searing metal to make the baby appear as storm touched.

What I'm thinking is that this Loyalist knew Ikonomancy and taught it to the child in secret, maybe taking the child to the fifth ring during training or something, assuming that is possible. In any case child is grown up now. Knows they were abandoned. Is pissed off, and wants to kill their mother for abandoning them.

I'm also playing around with the idea of starting the character off by having them steal some Wardana armor during the day that the fourth ringers get access to the third.

Just some thoughts I'm having :)

(Side note: My time may be limited as might my ability to log onto the site often (I'm a father). If this RP takes off and I join, any chance that you will start a discord so that I can be notified of when people are planning to post)


Wild things happen in life, and I could definitely see upper ringers having affairs and things going wrong with lower ringers. If one walks into the storm, they most likely are not coming out, and was probably a good idea that they didn't take themselves or the baby in the storm!

Being storm-touched is always a curse since you would not be considered human/eligible for rations anymore! You would only be accepted in the fourth ring and would probably live in a house full of other storm-touched individuals. For the concept of burning the child's face. Physical scars versus actual curses from the storm touch are different, especially by keen and educated eyes.
The individual could have taken the baby to the Gray Market and had a face changer change their face instead of being so gruesome, but the creative liberty is up to you! Just throwing a few more ideas in the pot for you.

Do not worry about life obligations! This will be a slow-burn RP that allows people to come and go. A reason I loosely use the term sandbox and flexible. For the idea about the character knowing ikonomancy and ikons. They can. You will have to explain in the story to the character why they know it and if they learned from actual reliable sources like going through the Academy. Did they retire? Did they desert the Academy? So on.
Being in the fourth ring and practicing Ikonomancy and using unregulated ikons in that area is very dangerous so they definitely would have to be on the cautious side of things! The Wardana and Regia Guard do not like "filth" knowing more than they should.

Your character can always attempt to steal from the Wardana Academy but that is a lot of planning and work! It's possible. They would have to plan and figure out how to get to the highest point of the third ring where the Academy lies. Get in and out without setting off any alarms and so on. You will figure that out!
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Sounds good working on some ideas now.
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Count me interested! I might have an idea but, Iโ€™ll think it through and see what I can come up with.
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Count me interested! I might have an idea but, Iโ€™ll think it through and see what I can come up with.


Sounds good to me! If you have any questions you can DM me on here or discord or join the public discord. I'll help discuss out ideas as well if needed.
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Is this still open? It sounds very interesting!
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Is this still open? It sounds very interesting!


This role-play is still open and will always accept newcomers as long as it stands. We would love to have you!
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