Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

[Darkspleen]

”I had a dream. A dream in which a great darkness from the East spread across the continent. This darkness was angry and hurt; its lust for vengeance was so great that soaking the entirety of Askor in blood could do little but whet its appetite. It is coming. I have seen it. But fear not, for I have seen how to stop it.”

It was these words that the Prophetess spoke to the lords and ladies of the continent of Askor when she had a vision of the future. At first she was ignored, but when her prophecies proved correct time and time again a sense of dread began to creep into them. They couldn’t help but suspect that she could indeed foresee the future. Perhaps more terrifying for these lords was the fact that their peasantry had come to believe in the divinity of the Prophetess and were demanding that she be aided in her quest to stop the darkness.

Heroes and champions from across the continent answered the Prophetess’ call. Soon the Prophetess had a legion of these heroes and champions and they became known as the Silver Legion. The Prophetess and Silver Legion departed for the East, ready to fight the threat she had foreseen. The fight was a harsh one; ten years later the Silver Legion returned, two thirds of its men having passed away.

The continent of Askor had been subjected to droughts, famine, and terrible plagues during those ten years. Some of the people welcomed the Prophetess back as a true hero, their savior. Most viewed her as a terrible demon, the cause of all their pain and suffering over the past decade. The lords of Askor took advantage of this sentiment. They attacked the Silver Legion, killing it to a man, and captured the Prophetess. It is said that the Prophetess had one final prophecy as she was burned at the stake.

“Three hundred years will pass before you realize the terrible mistake you have made. Askor shall suffer through two decades of war before the East brings an even greater conflict.”

OOC

This world, in the event that you haven’t caught on yet, is a high fantasy one complete with magic, non-human races, and heroes who can change the courses of entire wars. It has been three hundred years since the passing of the Prophetess and her Silver Legion. The continent has seen its fair share of strife and peace since then, however the past twenty years has seen the entire continent embroiled in war, with all countries partaking in the conflicts. This has been, in large part, due to unknown entities influencing countries to wage war on each other. While this era of war seems to be coming to an end a new threat has arrived on the horizon: the Einherjar. As of the beginning of the RP they are an unknown entity: the countries of the continent do not know they exist and largely do not believe that there is a threat to the east.

Given the high fantasy setting technology will be that of the high middle ages (12th and 13th centuries), except more centralized governments will be allowed. In the interest of preserving the fantasy setting there will be absolutely no guns or gunpowder based weaponry. Magic will be a moderately common sight in the RP. In terms of combat strength the average magician is on par with a single warrior; the average mage will only kill one foe per spell, so don’t expect your run of the mill mage to kill scores of troops with a single fireball.

Rules
1) Don’t be a child. Seriously, if you can’t act like a reasonable human being then this simply isn’t the RP for.
2) You are expected to post 1-2 times every 7 days. Any more and you are liable to burn yourself, and others, out and any less and the RP will move along too slowly. If you do not make a post within 14 days with no prior warning you will be dropped from the RP.
3) This is an advanced RP. I expect you have to correct grammar and spelling in your posts, at the very least. One or two mistakes per post is fine, and expected, but if I see ten “teh”s in your post we will have a problem.
4) Please don’t join if you are going to disappear after one or two posts. You know who you are.
5) Just in case you missed it in the above section: guns and gunpowder based weaponry are not allowed.

Maps

Base/Climate Map


Political Map

Nation Sheet

Country Name

Government

In short how is your country run? How is your ruler selected? How much power does your ruler have. Is it a monarchy, a republic, or something else? What is the ruling dynasty? I don’t want to see five paragraphs here about how your monarch has to go through parliament to select viceroys or something. It needs only be long enough to provide a sufficient summary of your government. Feel free to add additional info under a hider if you feel compelled to.

Geography

This should be more just a claim of your location. Talk about the climate, terrain, and important locations in your country. Specifically mention major cities and your capital. Bonus points if you have an internal map that includes highways.

Culture

Much like the government section, don’t drown us in details, though feel free to add more info under a hider or something. Is your country culturally homogenous or a mixture of ethnicities? Are your people humans or some other race? If you have various ethnicities, how do they interact with each other? What are your people’s values? Bonus points for adding insults they use to refer to the people from countries they have been at war with. A note about nonhuman races: do not simply make them arbitrarily superior to humans, if they are better than humans in one way then they will be inferior in another way.

Military

How do your people fight? What strategies and tactics do they usually employ? What sort of equipment do your troops use? What’s the emphasis of your military? Try to be somewhat unique here. If a pre-existing country makes heavy use of heavy infantry and shield walls, for instance, don’t do the same yourself. I am not interested in numbers or percentages, so don’t use them.

Heroes

Each country gets one superior hero and three normal heroes. In terms of combat strength expect a superior hero to be on par with about 150 men and normal heroes to be on par with 100 men. (Yes, this is the only place in the sheet where there are actually numbers) Basically these are the badasses of your country that you can use for point of view characters if you want. At absolute bare minimum you need a name and one line description of what your hero is good at; however, ideally this should be the largest section of your sheet. You can use any explanation you want for why your heroes are stronger than normal people. For example using magic, being blessed by a god, or simply being very skilled with their weapons. Also keep in mind that if a hero dies you can replace him or her with a new one.

History

A brief history of your country is fine, so long as you cover the last 20 or so years. I’m looking for more of a summary of important events than list of dead monarchs.

Relations

How does your country interact with its neighbors. I am not looking for a list of exports and imports, but feel free to add them if you want. At bare minimum I want a listed rival here, another country that yours viewed as an enemy and actively worked against during the past twenty or so years.

Characters

Optional section. Put any info about any characters here. Examples of this would be your kings or queens, military leaders, and non-hero “badasses”. You can also put more detailed info of your heroes here as well.

Chatzy

[Sigma]

You know me! I'm in.(Already knew before, but still :P )

[Darkspleen]

@Isotope Alright. You can stop complaining now. XP
@Drunken Conquistador You know you want in.

[Goldeagle1221]

I already finished my sheet and internal map :>

[Serpentine88]

In and preparing my claim on the map.

[Darkspleen]

Do you have an idea of where you want to be?

[Serpentine88]

The brown.

my general idea is to be a race of Draconians (biped dragon/reptile people) assuming fantasy races are allowed (otherwise I'll be barbarian humans, whatever works). These Draconians are barbarians that used to be highly decentralised like Sigma and Goldeagles people until they had a Genghis Khan moment and unified. They launched large scale invasions of neighbouring civilised land and have now become like Ostrogoths (or mongols), being barbarians that are occupying civilised cities and lands more advanced than themselves and now are being forced to gradually adapt and 'civilise'.

The darker brown line inside my land is where my people originally lived in the mountains, the rest being the conquered civilised human lands.

[Darkspleen]

Fantasy races are 100% cool. Just make sure they are balanced with humans.

[Serpentine88]

Right, I have a plan to make them balanced (That is to say, have legitimate weaknesses). I will send you a PM concerning my ideas so you can give advise/critic it.

[Darkspleen]

Sure thing. I'll check it out when I've got the chance.

[Chao]

@Darkspleen I'm interested.

[Darkspleen]

Excellent. Here's a link to our chatzy if any of you care to join us.

[Isotope]

I want the long snakey peninsula in the south west pls

[MonkeyBusiness]

Map Claim in purple

Would I be able to claim this land as my own.

[Sigma]

@MonkeyBusiness No one's claimed that piece of land, so you're good :)

[Darkspleen]

Claims map has been updated. I'll fix the climate map later.

[Goldeagle1221]

For anyone interested in what the yellow blob is so far:

My sheet

The Sakabanatu Region

Government

The Sakabanatu region is divided into vastly strewn out families and tribes, held together by a common culture, loose family ties and are typically ruled independently by seniority and elders or a gerontocracy with no inequality in gender succession. The numerous tribes are known to hold grudges, or alliances and have fluidly joined together for common goals or divided, but never has there been a complete unification of every tribe for any purpose. Warring among themselves isn’t uncommon but generally not very destructive or mindlessly violent as one would expect if two empires were to clash. Tribes can be as small as a family to multiple!

Geography

The Sakabanatu region is mostly desert, yet holds some forest and grassland areas in the Northwest, allowing for the culture to spread diversely over two biomes. While there is no capital city, the tribal land of Sondoper is considered the epicentre of the Sakabanatu culture and has been the site of more than one historical treaty or deal among tribes. The tribes surrounding Sondoper are probably the most well known to outsiders who study oral histories, barring border tribes.

Map
* Only major waterways and landmarks are shown
* most permanent settlements (usually yurt towns or tent villages, but occasionally clay or mud huts) would be located where the Sanju splits with the Canal, where the Canal splits, along the Trade River, or in the Sondoper Oasis.

Think like this (please read if interested in towns or cities)

The Sakabantu tribes don't have anything like a city, stronghold or castle but there may be isolated incidents where a tribe built a clay fort or something for whatever reason. However protective mounds or palisades may be present around larger yurt towns or stationary craft/farmland.

forest tribes

Identical to the desert tribes in every way but dress and living accommodation, they tend to live in simple huts and tend to not be nomadic. Instead of desert robes, they found use in trousers and long ponchos. They tend to accumulate larger tribes in the glades of the forest, and because of their lack of nomad life, tend to have many different families.

Culture

Sakabanatu isn’t so much the name of a singular country or tribe but the unifying term for the culture that ties all the tribes together, one of the few if not only factor that unifies them into the same category nationally. The culture is in itself also a religion and holds a holy ground at Sondoper, specifically at the Sondoper tree, the birthplace of the religion and also a important site in Sakabanatu myths.

Sakabanutu

TLDR: (Basically entities called the ghosts of Sondoper appeared from the hole in ground, taught everyone how to live and survive, gave them dreams, a written and spoken language, intricate canal systems/irrigation and the night sky, motivation and muse, then left in the same hole named “Sondoper” then plugged it with the Sondoper tree which still stands, and now people revere their teachings of harmony, purity, respect of elders, and survival as sacred, making Sondoper a good pilgrimage destination. Sakabantu tribespeople often depict the ghosts as feathered beings or ones with intricate tattoos or often both and leave effigies of them in fields, carvings of them in the ground by canals or by the Sondoper tree for good will, and often feature them in their plays at harvest feasts by dressing up in feathers and painting blue tattoos on their bodies. Some claim to still see the ghosts now and again but the population can be skeptical, especially of those claiming to be part Sondoper. As a side note the Sondoper canal is a super canal built in the age of myth and credit for its construction is often given to the Sondoper Ghosts. The Canal is massive splitting canal that stretches for miles and eventually feeds into massive reservoirs and leads to the Sondoper Oasis that surrounds the Sondoper tree. )

Military

Each tribe and family will send their brothers, fathers, and sons to settle disputes with other tribes and families, be it diplomatically or by drawing blood. Battlefields tend to be small and pre-picked and “armies” can be as tiny as one person representing the entire family in the dispute. More often than not a large tribe in conflict with another will choose a champion to duel the other tribes champion instead of wasting valuable resources on a battle or war, this also reduces the time the men are away from tending the fields and livestock. If a large dispute does occur the tribesmen equipt themselves in thick quilts or a long coat made of linked chains of steel or iron and conical helmets of a variety of metals. Long curved blades and round laminated shields are favored among the resource rich tribes while heavy maces of various materials provide a close second. Hunting equipment such as composite recurve bows, slings and broad headed spears are also favorable, especially when combined with the small and swift desert horses or camels often used by central tribes and families, however the use of cavalry is generally unfavorable in honorable face to face battles to settle disputes and are exclusively saved for desperate wars, an uncommon occurrence.

Heroes

Super hero

Old vegetable dude

Hero 1

drunk

Hero 2

Has no interest in the outside

Hero 3

Let go

History

A brief history of your country is fine, so long as you cover the last 20 or so years. I’m looking for more of a summary of important events than list of dead monarchs.

Relations

Tarkima: Mixed relations with the Tarkima tribes, often on edge. Occasional raids from the north trouble the northern Sakabanatu tribes, but they also benefit from Tarkiman warbands that travel through the desert alongside the “trade” river, where a lot of bartering for safe passage and supplies to get through the desert takes place. This trading allows the Tarkimans ease of passage to go and pillage the empires on the borders of the Sakabanatu region while providing the Sakabanatu tribes with fresh trade every raid as well as the purchasing of their lost sons and daughters that were enslaved by the empires but released by Tarkiman raids. From constant contact, the Grogar and other Tarkiman languages often find themselves as second languages in Sakabanatu tribes near heavy Tarkiman activity points such as the trade river and northern border.

Empire of Mycae: Little interaction aside from some trading along the border, the relations of border tribes are stressed by the occasional slave raids from the Mycaens.

Comyral: Jack shit.

Characters

Optional section. Put any info about any characters here. Examples of this would be your kings or queens, military leaders, and non-hero “badasses”. You can also put more detailed info of your heroes here as well.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Claimio Dealio

[Sigma]

@MonkeyBusiness What kind of nation do you plan on making anyway?

[Darkspleen]

Claims map has been updated.