Alright, so I'm revising what I wrote in the General interest check because I think that this would be better, and to see if anyone's interested. The idea is that the players are people who are taking a commercial airliner to Europe on Christmas day but then some kind of freak storm comes out of no where and crashes the plane. Everyone on the plane dies except the role players. When the role players get out of the plane they find that they have traveled back in time to Christmas day in 800 AD the year that Charlemagne is crowned by the Pope as Emperor of Rome, the first emperor in the west for hundreds of years.
The gist of the role play is that the role players would have to survive in the this era. Now, a lot of interesting things were going on during this time period. The viking age had just begun and vikings were sacking England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Byzantium. During this time England was separated into seven kingdoms ruled by the Anglo Saxons which were a Germanic people with a culture very similar to the vikings. Back then the Irish were still living in the same way their ancestors had been living for thousands of years and the eastern Roman Empire was still alive and kicking in Greece and Turkey. Down south the threat of the powerful and vast Islamic Caliphate always loomed over Europe and Spain was still under Moorish control. In this role play I will differ from my interest check in the general forum in that we'll try to be as realistic with the setting as possible while still making allowances for the stories' sake. I'm thinking that any historical inaccuracies will be accounted for by this role play being in an alternate history to our own so any poetic license can be hand waved away, but there will be a real attempt to keep it historically accurate.
The final thing is that this will be a fantasy role play. In this story the gods and monsters of Europe and beyond fairies, dragons, goblins, trolls, giants, ogres, mermaids, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires, unicorns and pretty much any being you'd see in a medieval bestiary or a Castlevania game, or a Chivalric romance exist. Also the religions are true as well, so Christianity and Roman Catholicism as well as the gods and stories of the Vikings are absolutely true. So I'm thinking of an epic role play were the heroes are men out of time fighting monsters, vikings, knights, and demons in Dark Ages Europe. If you're interested comment and I'll start working on the story.
The gist of the role play is that the role players would have to survive in the this era. Now, a lot of interesting things were going on during this time period. The viking age had just begun and vikings were sacking England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Byzantium. During this time England was separated into seven kingdoms ruled by the Anglo Saxons which were a Germanic people with a culture very similar to the vikings. Back then the Irish were still living in the same way their ancestors had been living for thousands of years and the eastern Roman Empire was still alive and kicking in Greece and Turkey. Down south the threat of the powerful and vast Islamic Caliphate always loomed over Europe and Spain was still under Moorish control. In this role play I will differ from my interest check in the general forum in that we'll try to be as realistic with the setting as possible while still making allowances for the stories' sake. I'm thinking that any historical inaccuracies will be accounted for by this role play being in an alternate history to our own so any poetic license can be hand waved away, but there will be a real attempt to keep it historically accurate.
The final thing is that this will be a fantasy role play. In this story the gods and monsters of Europe and beyond fairies, dragons, goblins, trolls, giants, ogres, mermaids, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires, unicorns and pretty much any being you'd see in a medieval bestiary or a Castlevania game, or a Chivalric romance exist. Also the religions are true as well, so Christianity and Roman Catholicism as well as the gods and stories of the Vikings are absolutely true. So I'm thinking of an epic role play were the heroes are men out of time fighting monsters, vikings, knights, and demons in Dark Ages Europe. If you're interested comment and I'll start working on the story.
