[OOC] The Witcher: The Second Conjunction

[rivaan]

So I'm thinking of a sorceress based of my good old drawing~ A kind of melee to mid range magic user.

My Hider

[Jones Sparrow]

@Rekaigan

An interesting character, and a cool one! She's accepted!

@Nightwing95

I also really like this character as well! and I'll update my bio to incorporate Foltest!

@rivaan

We're absolutely still accepting! especially when it comes to mages XD

I think that combo will be great, mages would have to be in hiding and fend things off without using magic, so it makes sense!

[rivaan]

There we go.

My Hider

Character Sheet :

Name: Scilla of the Dancing Blades.
Age: 132 looks around 25
Appearance:

My Hider

Scilla stands at 5'8'' feet tall with very long black hair, fair skin and piercing gray eyes. Like all women of her vocation, she's very beautiful, but at the same time currently her body appears a lot better trained than all her colleagues. Her muscles are well defined, but not invasive to the eye and it's clear she's no pushover when it comes to physical activity.
Race: Human sorceress
School: N/A
Bio: Scilla was born sometime before the great purge that nearly turned her kind and the witchers all but extinct. In fact she was just a young sorceress when it happened. She was just traveling with her direct mentor when they were jumped on by a great number of soldiers. Everything happened so fast that even to this day she is not completely sure how it all transpired. One moment they were simply riding a carriage down a road and the next a rain of arrows struck the vehicle. The carriage driver and the horses died right away, she and her mentor survived because of a shield he put.

The following was a rather quick battle as a great number of soldiers died to magical fires and lightning, but her mentor also took an arrow to the back. Not wanting to die like a common mutt, Scilla was forced to defend herself, but she was considerably weaker than her mentor at the time. Still in that desperation, she reached into her mind and pulled a way of using magic that no one had taught her. By instinct, using her ability to manipulate objects and energy, she grabbed a great number of the scattered arrows, swords, axes and shields, anything that could be thrown and using her magic turned the hail of death onto the soldiers. First by a handful then by the dozens, as the weapons were hurled with ever so greater speed. She was mostly lucky that those were rather common troops, but non the less she managed to escape while the majority of the soldiers were trying to close their wounds from the randomly hurled sharp metal objects at them... at least those who survived it.

After that event, Scilla fled the continent and headed north towards Skellige. The islands were a great place to lay low from the massive witch hunt that was happening, especially since she dressed like a commoner and eventually joined a ship's crew. She spend the following 50 years on ships, before disembarking back on the continent. By now she had mastered sword fighting to a certain degree and in secret she had also advanced another skill she discovered when she escaped the purge. The precise and exact manipulation of energy, which allowed her to control objects and fight with them. Over the next 50 or so years she spend the time traveling, mostly spending her time as witchers would do, despite her not being one. The time with at Skellige taught her to appreciate great alcohol and all chaos that came with it. Eventually she was dubbed The Dancing Blades by a bard from a caravan she happened by complete chance to safe from some rampaging nekkers. In general she did prefer to not use her additional blades though, keeping a low profile and being confused with one of the many warrior women out there suits her just fine... When the Second Conjuring happened it came as only a very vague surprise. So was the massive hunt down for witchers and sorcerers that followed in the desperate attempt by the Grand King to safe his skin by throwing those they deemed evil and unnatural at their enemies. Well for now at least they have not yet realized what she was, so she kept quiet for the moment, simply spending her time, planning a next move. Wondering which would be more beneficial... the death of the new monsters or the death of the...Grand King.

Personality: Mostly calm, Scilla is a very level headed individual who would rarely explode in bursts of rage, but once she does, her wrath could be stated to be legendary. She's has incredibly good memory for people who wronged her in some way and eventually she will always deliver her vengeance down the line. Besides that she's someone who loves nature in almost all of it's forms. One of her most favorite things to do is lay down on a sunny beach, enjoying the sun.
Weapons:
2x Curved steel sword
4x Steel straight narrow blades
Leather bundle wrap for the blades
Family/relationships?: None that matter.
Other: Immense hatred for The Grand King .

[Jones Sparrow]

@rivaan

Oooohh, I like it!! Accepted!

And with everyone making a character, I'll most likely start the IC soon! I'm excited! :D

[rivaan]

Will throw her in the CS section

[VKAllen]

Do you know what is my pet peeve of Witcher 3? Characters with steel swords dealing the same amount of damage as the Witchers who uses a silver sword. Ciri's part of this pet peeve too when clearly Zirael, the steel sword is not in any way forged with any silver in it, yet still cuts through basilisks like butter. What the fuck CD Projekt Red?! And Andrezj! Why didn't you say anything!!

[rivaan]

@VKAllen I assume it's because well magic, but then again silver isn't inheritently better for swords in fact witcher silver swords are simply specially coated steel ones most of the time from what I remember. Steel simply cuts where I believe silver has additional effects on monsters.

[VKAllen]

@VKAllen I assume it's because well magic, but then again silver isn't inheritently better for swords in fact witcher silver swords are simply specially coated steel ones most of the time from what I remember. Steel simply cuts where I believe silver has additional effects on monsters.

@rivaan

In accordance to the original books, the witcher silver swords are in fact pure silver. Also, when playing as a witcher in the game, it specifically penalises you for using a steel sword against a monster enemy by reducing the amount of damage you deal to the enemy (except this is an exception in terms of several characters in Witcher 3, for brevity sake I suspect?). I conclude from this as the fact that silver weapons in the Witcher universe contains the same properties as that of many other fantasy worlds where silver is a purifying and holy metal that is able to penetrate an abomination.

Edit:

I am not dismissing the fact that silver-coated steel weaponry weren't used, in fact Geralt himself in the books would instruct other combatants to do so when there are monster infestations.

[rivaan]

Well it's not impossible to kill monsters without silver sword you know. Those Order of the Rose Douches tend to do it and undercut the prices >_>

[VKAllen]

Well it's not impossible to kill monsters without silver sword you know. Those Order of the Rose Douches tend to do it and undercut the prices >_>

@rivaan

Which is why its a personal pet peeve.

The Witch Douches too!

Damn them all!

Damn game logic!!

[rivaan]

Nahh it's not only game logic lol. Hell in the book they killed a bruxa with a big piece of wood and just skewered her so ehh...

[VKAllen]

Nahh it's not only game logic lol. Hell in the book they killed a bruxa with a big piece of wood and just skewered her so ehh...

@rivaan

Indeed twas sad day for Nivellen.

[rivaan]

@VKAllen Well at least in Scilla's case she can always coat the blades or swords in magical fire or something of hte like and thus provide herself with the monster killing effect ^^

[VKAllen]

@VKAllen Well at least in Scilla's case she can always coat the blades or swords in magical fire or something of hte like and thus provide herself with the monster killing effect ^^

@rivaan

Yes! Or have someone forge her a silver sword herself if she came up with one or managed to woo one out of a witcher's pockets.

[rivaan]

@VKAllen All of those are things that could totally happen and at least one of those will xD

[VKAllen]

@Jones Sparrow Have you thought of a way to begin? I suspect you do, and if you do; tell us what you are planning?

[ManoftheNorth]

In earnest, I think the idea of the game is just that taking the time to specifically map out every little detail got rather annoying to the developers, so they just decided: "HERE IS TEXTURE 1! Use this. Only use this. It will be easier."

That is why I generally value canon from Games only on major topics. That is only my opinion, I have Pet peeves myself, and with plenty of games honestly. Like I have a pet peeve with Skyrim that in the base game without mods, so much was limited with relationships and marriage, and I say this in the best of ways.

I.e. I often play Khajiit because once upon a time I played Morrowind, got super into lore, and discovered the wonder that is the Khajiit. However, Bethesda decided it would be best to not allow Khajiit players, ANY Khajiit spouses. That is a peeve of mine.

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Also, if anyone wants to know Koldar or have previous association with him. We should talk about it before the Rp starts, I completely forgot to mention he is on the table for anyone who wants to have connections/relations/etc. with him.

[VKAllen]

In earnest, I think the idea of the game is just that taking the time to specifically map out every little detail got rather annoying to the developers, so they just decided: "HERE IS TEXTURE 1! Use this. Only use this. It will be easier."

That is why I generally value canon from Games only on major topics. That is only my opinion, I have Pet peeves myself, and with plenty of games honestly. Like I have a pet peeve with Skyrim that in the base game without mods, so much was limited with relationships and marriage, and I say this in the best of ways.

I.e. I often play Khajiit because once upon a time I played Morrowind, got super into lore, and discovered the wonder that is the Khajiit. However, Bethesda decided it would be best to not allow Khajiit players, ANY Khajiit spouses. That is a peeve of mine.

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Also, if anyone wants to know Koldar or have previous association with him. We should talk about it before the Rp starts, I completely forgot to mention he is on the table for anyone who wants to have connections/relations/etc. with him.

@ManoftheNorth

I agree with you. The game tends to prefer brevity over accuracy. I think this is why theres this wonder of mods made by the community who often improves the game for the better and lore accuracy. Then theres the nude and sex mods.

Has Koldar travelled to Haakland? If he has, perhaps he could've taken on a job with Ferghus?

[ManoftheNorth]

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I agree with you. The game tends to prefer brevity over accuracy. I think this is why theres this wonder of mods made by the community who often improves the game for the better and lore accuracy. Then theres the nude and sex mods.

Has Koldar travelled to Haakland? If he has, perhaps he could've taken on a job with Ferghus?

@VKAllen

As of right now, he has been all around. He favored Kaedwen and Temeria for the most part: Kaedwen for it's terrain and snowy cold climate, it's forests and locales made it a place that struck his heart. However he favored Temeria for it's people, not their racism mind you, but their politeness and their religious nature. While Koldar himself isn't religious to an extent, he values the ideal of belief and faith in what one believes. Koldar holds these not only as a code, but as a virtue.

Anyway, enough rambling from me. He did travel to Haakland for a time, after his hunts in the Blue Mountains and on his way to a place he will likely never speak of to anyone, less they truly get him to deprive himself of personal secrets.

[VKAllen]

@ManoftheNorth Perhaps then Ferghus may have only heard of a rumours about a man with an eerie flail. I'm fine with that.