[OOC] Children of Aton - Demigod RP [Recruiting!]

[Barrett]

Hey guys, glad to see so many new characters after the weekend and I like all the ones I see in the characters tab. I'll hopefully be working on Kinion's opinion tab this evening.

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven I am not gonna lie I see you put effort into that character but he kind of completely destroys the purpose of mine...

@The Narrator

Not necessarily, they could be like a subordinate to Thanatos, one that represents and manages some kind of specific aspect of death.

[Crimson Raven]

@Roosan

Your profile made me wonder, have you heard of a play called Alexander Hamilton?

[Barrett]

@Crimson Raven
I have heard of it but being someone who lives far, far away from America, I have not had the privilege of seeing it, assuming we're talking about Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical. I'm intrigued as to what made you think I'd heard of it though, do tell.

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven
I have heard of it but being someone who lives far, far away from America, I have not had the privilege of seeing it, assuming we're talking about Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical. I'm intrigued as to what made you think I'd heard of it though, do tell.

@Roosan

"How do they rise up?"

The phrase "rise up" was used several times in different songs, and earlier, your profile picture was a gif of a man who looked like the man who played King George III in the play.

[Barrett]

@Crimson Raven
Ah, I see. That's very interesting and makes me want to see it more.

Actually, 'How do they rise up?' is a quote from Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, which is all about revolution. I wonder if Lin-Manuel Miranda borrowed it from Night Watch or not. And the gif was from a BBC mini series about Casanova with David Tennant playing Casanova.

Have you seen Hamilton?

[BayRat]

Name: Kilgarrah, The Honorable

Dragon transformation

In armor

Current face

Description:
It was said that kilgarrah's initial form was of a great dragon, even amongst the usually six limbed hellkites, legless wurms, and swift wyverns, Few natural dragons could be considered equal in power and greatness.

However despite being a monster, kilgarrah has the spirit of a warrior and has a very distinct set of Morales revolving around chivalry, honor, and respect above all else. This has lead him to die in battle numerous times, and as such had to have humans willing to give their bodies up for him. Because of this, kilgarrah's form presently is more human then dragon.
When kilgarrah takes his willing host, he will mostly resemble that host, however the body will gain some minor mutations (a pair of small horns, reptilian glowing eyes and two sharp canines in addition to an otherwise normal set of teeth.)

Kilgarrah is known for his pride in addition to his honor bound Morales, one must be careful not to poke a hole in his ego.

Powers: The power of Kilgarrah is that of fire and physical superiority. Even with a human form, his strength, speed, and durability prove to have qualities that would be considered super human. He has some extension of fire abilities, but can only produce and manipulate flames from his body such as creating a ball of fire in his palm to breathing fire. He can also temporarily transform his current body into a dragon that is smaller and lacks any wings compared to his original state, a weaker and shallow shadow of his former glory. He has learned to use weapons with great efficiency and typically uses a lance and great shield, adorning a set of armor made by the blacksmiths of his tribe as well. All three equipments are made with black iron, an alloid made specially by the tribe that while not the hardest metal it has a very high heat resistance, and durable enough to not expected to break anytime soon.

Original tribe: To this day, Kilgarrah's tribe is renowned as being the top soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries of any culture, however their difficult to work with as they refuse to do any work that goes against their code of ethics. Kilgarrah has attracted many mortals that have been inspired by strength and knightly virtues. Warriors, knights, former mercenaries, samurais, and their families all gathered to follow the dragon child. Seeing him as a god-like figure they follow his teaches with a strict code of ethics, and their entire culture revolves around his codes of knighthood, honor, chivalry, and to either lead a path of warrior-ship, or support a warrior with the highest honor. Families will often teach their sons (and daughters occasionally) their warriors art, which goes all the way back to the ancestors they started from, be it a samurai or knight. When kilgarrah dies, the tribe will go under temporarily leadership by an elected warrior and his generations to come for the next hundred years. After the hundredth year the oldest sons of all families have the option to fight to the death in a make shift coliseum for the right to be the vessel for kilgarrah, which is considered the highest honor of all in the cultures tradition.

As tradition, many warriors will either tame or slay monsters, usually dragons, to appease Kilgarrah. Those that tame a dragon become one of his most elite and favorite of warriors.

Faction: Though independant, he was eventually pressured to pick a side. While he had a disdain for many of his own kin he sides with the angels simply to defend his own people and potentially great warriors. However he only made him and his faction present in the fewest battles he can get away with.

Ancedotes: Kilgarrah before he was first slain was considered to be the king of dragons despite not having any sort of control or leadership of them. He lost his form to a battle with a massive giant who was trampling over his tribe, the giant stood victorious over the dragon until it too succumbed to its wounds minutes after, providing years worth of food to the surviving tribe. Because of this he has a distinct hatred towards giants and offers great rewards and respect to those that bring him the head of a giant.

Opinions: (WIP)
Eyra: He disdains her lack of strength and feels that she doesn't deserve her god-like appraisal by her tribe. He finds her dishonorable, especially due to her sly nature.

Kinion: At best he sees him at something to laugh or mock at, at worst a minor annoyance. He despises both his ability to go where he pleases yet having no sort of strength whatsoever. Though this anger is mostly rooted in confusion due to the nature of what he can only reason as a fool.

Wu-Dan: A pleasant presence in his view, he both respects his great power and even admits that he is likely greater then himself unarmed (Though he wont always confess to this), and he respects his reclusive nature. He is one of the few of his fellow children he admires.

Nod: Despite what he'll tell you of how he sees him as a lesser child, Kilgarrah has a deep and hidden respect for him. He admires his great strength and beastly nature (though he still believes dragons are superior to all else.) perhaps at a time before he was stripped of his wings and glory from his first death, he might have been a stronger force of power and flames, but now in his current state he sees himself as a sort of rival to Nod now, while he may say he is still above him he truly believes they would be equal in combat, though his ego wouldn't accept a fact where Nod could be stronger then himself at any time.

Kozz: He has enough respect to Kozz as to welcome his presence, if he ever did show. Of course that would be unlikely, but he encourages his own tribe to seek out Kozz's to purchase their forged crafts.

Azoth: If he disdains Eyra, then he absolutely hates Azoth. Few people exist that Kilgarrah denies complete respect for, and Azoth is one of those people. His deceptive nature, illusionary powers, his betrayal and the monstrosities that were once his people are all the biggest points of hatred towards him, and has no pity that his name has been denied from the public and locked away in the pit.

Therelon: While you would think he would despise a magic user, Kilgarrah respects him as a sort of elderly scholar, frail but wise. And acknowledges such wisdom as greater then his. However, he has grown envious of Therelon of his wings, as Kilgarrah himself misses the skies he once flew through.

Chinasa: He has very little opinion of this sibling of his other then he creeps him out. He doesn't really like his powers either, but he doesn't necessarily hold any real positive or negative feelings towards him.

Tarrthus: While a warrior's death is very important to the tribe of Kilgarrah, Kilgarrah himself has very little opinion of Tarrthus. In fact, he has a very little understanding of a nature and motivation that perplexes him. However he understands the importance of mortality to a degree and doesn't hold Tarrthus in any real negative opinion.

Aylin: While he has some respect for her he otherwise has very little opinion of her as rarely does he every interact with her, due to her reclusive nature and far off territory.

Ash: Due to her, or rather their nature, Kilgarrah as a difficult time understanding her yet he despises her all the same, seeing her as untrustworthy due what seems like a bipolar nature.

Zhystkrexas: He has as much hate for Zhystkrexas as he hates Azoth. Corrupting mortals with temptations and seemingly no redeeming qualities in the eyes of Kilgarrah, he denies him any sort of honor or respect.

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven
Ah, I see. That's very interesting and makes me want to see it more.

Actually, 'How do they rise up?' is a quote from Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, which is all about revolution. I wonder if Lin-Manuel Miranda borrowed it from Night Watch or not. And the gif was from a BBC mini series about Casanova with David Tennant playing Casanova.

Have you seen Hamilton?

@Roosan

Oh yeah, I even have bought the soundtrack, and I love listening to it.



Actual line from one song. XD

[Barrett]

@Crimson Raven
Consider me very jealous, literally green with envy.

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven
Consider me very jealous, literally green with envy.

@Roosan

I wish I could share it with you...

[Vahir]

@The Grey Dust

Second sheet looks good to me.

@dragonmancer

Yours too. My only quibble is that independent isn't a choice for what faction you were on; if your child refused to pick a side, they were a demon, and locked away as such.

@Crimson Raven I am not gonna lie I see you put effort into that character but he kind of completely destroys the purpose of mine...

@The Narrator

@VahirWelcome back. In terms of putting my character's in the character tab - you want them both in the same post or separate ones? Or does it not matter? xD

@FernStone

The same post is preferable.

@Crimson Raven@The Narrator

I'm reading your sheets. And thinking.

[FernStone]

Cool, that's what I've done at the moment so I'll just keep it like that

[Barrett]

@Crimson Raven
Thanks man. I'm hoping that they'll eventually release a version for those of us that can't see it on Boradway, I guess we'll see.

[BayRat]

@Vahir
Alright ill fix that and finish the opinions before moving him over

[Vahir]

@Crimson Raven

So, I've decided to side with Narrator on this one. Not only because he posted his first. Not only because your characters are thematically nearly identical, and having two overpowered deaths running around reaping everything that moves would make me reach for the cyanide. But also because your sheet has some key errors that need to be addressed, some of which I'd say other people have flirted with as well.

Objections

1. Your character is a god.

This is something I've gone on about before, and I'll take responsibility for it, as my liberal use of the word "demigod" without sufficient explanation seems to have caused some confusion. The Children are corporal, physical beings who live in the now. If you cut one, they'll bleed. They have no supernatural roles in the world beyond those that they create themselves. There is no afterlife to bring souls to, and even if there were your character couldn't be the one to do it, because you're a soul too, just a powerful and permanent one. Children only have aspects in a thematical sense.

2. You're not really in the Pit

Let me re-iterate this. You either sided with the Angels, and were thus betrayed with the rest, or was branded a demon and locked away before then. There's no option to have not been locked up, or to have never picked a side. The Angels didn't call their job done until every Child not among them was imprisoned. As far as going willingly, demons could have done so, although it'd be very strange. But Angels were locked away in the Betrayal, which by definition excludes having been willing to be locked away.

3. Reviving insanely fast

Children take a looooong time to ressurect. Typically, about a century. If you're very fast about it you might be able to do it in a decade. But a week? No.

4. Overpowered (vs other Children)

I said you could be as strong as Cthulu, and I meant it. But what I should perhaps have specified is that you have to have some kind of vulnerabilities. Not necessarily "weak to fire" or "bullseye on chest" vulnerabilities, but you have to be feasibly possible to kill, somehow. Take Nod: He's a giant murderous warrior, and probably a terror in single combat. But you can imagine that he might meet his match and end up stabbed to death or something.

Admittedly, this same point made me hesitate over Narrator's sheet. But in the end I let it slide because it wasn't blatant. Thanatos can go anywhere, kill anyone, and wipe out entire armies. I'm sorry to say, none of the Children should be able to single-handedly wipe out an army.

Whew, that was heavy stuff!

You clearly know how to write, and write well. So it pains me to say that I just can't in good conscience accept your sheet as it is. In fact, I would recommend you morph your character into something different, painful as restarting may be. You could focus on your relationship with souls, and be a wandering ghost-whisperer? Just a thought.

[The Grey Dust]

@Vahir

Welp, I finished Zhystkrexas with opinions and added him to the roster. He's obsessed with eating things as you can easily discern from his opinions on his brothers and sisters. Of course you would too if you could never feel satisfied with anything.

Alright, so far I've been making quite a few myth combinations.

Wu Dan is Eastern Philosophy and mysticism with Norse mythos. O-Dan is a butchery of "Odin" although the Japanese translates into an actual honorific namesake. The 8 styles are references to hati and skoll, tanngrisnir and tanngnjóstr, hugin and munin, and yin and yang (the fish) while the 8 themselves refer to the 8 trigrams. The arena of Valhalla and temple of Shangri-La are obvious, but more so is the role of the true horn of Valhalla, the pipe he smokes from, as O-Dan serves the purpose of Heimdallr and his Gjallarhorn. The hidden grove holds the golden peaches a nod at the Asian belief of peaches as a sign of immortality and the golden apples in Norse mythos granting eternal youth and fertility.

Zhystkrexas is the Judeo-Christian Devil mixed with the "westernized" Arabian Genie/Djinn. Something about Faustian bargains and what not right? He grants your wishes, which often have a monkey's paw effect.

Now the question becomes... If I were to make another character for the lulz, what two mythos should I mix? Perhaps an elder entity from beyond the stars clad in yellow only who obeys cartoon physics?

[BayRat]

@Vahir

Alright i fixed character sheet. Any other issues with it or can I move it?

[Vahir]

@Vahir

Alright i fixed character sheet. Any other issues with it or can I move it?

@dragonmancer

Well, none aside from some grammatical errors. Go ahead and move it.

So I went ahead and did this for easy access to information.

[Crimson Raven]

@Vahir

Alright, I understand. I will get to work on something else.

Too bad though. I would have enjoyed RPing as the character.

[Zendrelax]

So I went ahead and did this for easy access to information.

@Vahir

Ooh, Therelon's a living battery. I like it!