[OOC] Intrigues of Venedig - A Fantasy RP (18+)

[Stitches]

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[Claw2k11]

Elyria Elis

Name: Elyria Elis

Age: 20 years old

Physical Description: A beautiful young woman with long silver hair, emerald green eyes and a slender and highly flexible body

Important items:
Arguably her most important possessions, the two double-bladed daggers she has on her are expertly crafted and expertly refined silver daggers given to her by her former master for her job and though she hates her master now, she keeps them to remind herself of what she truly desires.

Short Bio:

Elyria did not really remember much from her early childhood, the only thing that stuck in her memory was her master saying "You and your kin will be very useful to me!" before the rest blurred very quickly and any further memory vanished.

As years passed and her memory became clearer, she would find that the person who had said those words had become her and what was left of what he called her kin's master and that they all had become slaves, though none of the children there even remembered what their life before this was and how they had become slaves in the first place.

What was more surprising was that instead of training them in different menial tasks or selling them, he had hired skilled trainers and mages to teach them how to fight, how to survive and many sorts of magic, though many were more focused and combat more than anything else. She herself was trained by a few people, a few of them were spies that taught her how to be stealthy, a few more of them were (odd enough) foreign dancers that taught her to become flexible and agile. The last people to train her were several previously convicted assassins that in exchange for training her to be the best she could be with knives, daggers and short-swords, her master would use his influence and at least save them from being executed.

The trainings were harsh, especially with the assassins, who were forced to do this, but nevertheless, the training had paid off. By the end of her training, Elyria had become agile, stealthy and very skilled with daggers. Her kin had also become quite efficient in their training, be it simple combat with swords, to even many sorts of magic, yet none even bothered to question why this certain man was bothering to train them so hard.

Halfway through their training, they were all moved to one of the large estates their master purportedly held and were mostly allowed freedom outside their training, though they were not allowed to exit the estate at all unless their master gave them his express permission and for another year, nothing really changed, until...
In one of the days, during what would normally be their training time, instead of their trainers showing up, large groups of soldiers and some mages showed up armed to the teeth and surrounded the estate. The leader of these soldiers came up and shouted that their master had become displeased with them and so, they would all be killed as a result.

For a few moments, silence followed as her kin processed what was actually happening, but the soldiers did not wait for them and after a few seconds passed, pikes and swords were prepared, a charge was ordered and combat started. While Elyria knew that she was very skilled in combat, she would be killed by the vastly superior numbers of the unknown soldiers, so instead of outright combat, she opted to sneak out of the estate taking advantage of the battle that was taking in place in courtyard of the estate.

And as if by seemingly impossible luck, she was able to escape through the combat and find a dozen more of her kin close by and together with them, they were able to escape outside the estate, to find out that the estate itself was quite close to the city of Venedig.

So, all of the people there promised to one another that they would get their revenge for their fallen kin one day by trying to finding the man, their former master, question why he would do something like this and then finally killing him, though for now, they had to establish themselves in the city.

Starting Faction:
The Silver Daggers- The guild recently started by her and her kinsmen once they escaped the clutches of their master, named after the pair of silver daggers she received from her master during her training. Though they hide their past about their pasts, the members of the guild act as killers for hire, with each person in her guild having their own unique way of killing their target.

Though they take jobs to kill anyone, they are not very willing to kill anyone that is directly associated with the city's government, or directly associated with the emperor as it would draw too much attention to them and possibly mean the end of them if their hideout is discovered.

Elyria and the faction's secret mission however, is to and has always been to find their previous master and to enact revenge for his senseless killing of their kin.

Spell List: None

Exceptional Skill List:

Exceptional Stealth x2: Elyria is quite a stealthy and light-footed character, her steps barely make any noise and to most people, she simply blends in with whatever's around, unable to see her, though a person with more acute sight or hearing may see or hear her.
Exceptional Dagger Combat x2: Elyria was taught at the order of the master she now despises to be taught to fight with knives, daggers and short-sword should the need arise and though she's decently skilled with the other two, her skills with the daggers are nearly top notch, though she knows that she still is nowhere near the skill level of her former master.
Exceptional Agility: Elyria's body is not very resistant, and as such, she has adapted to be very agile to dodge the attacks of larger and slower targets.
Exceptional Seduction: Though she does not like to use this certain skill very often, due to her pleasing physique, Elyria has learned on her own to seduce people, regardless of their gender to quite an advanced level, controlling their actions with her words, though at her current level of skill, she has to seduce her target once every two days or the effect will fade. Also, more strong-willed characters have a good chance of resisting her charms.

@Letter Bee@Tyki
Here is my first character, sorry if you may find some mistakes, I wrote this after a general lack of a lot sleep for two days in a row so there may be a few errors here and there.

[Ambaria]

I'm working on a character idea for this cool little fantasy thing. I'm really liking the other characters who have been made so far!

[Letter Bee]

@Stitches, Accepted, but Change Magic would be far better for 'seeing counterfeits'. Also, is your character a Xul? Because Xul are meant to look like Warcraft/World of Warcraft Orcs.

@Claw2k11, Accepted.

[Letter Bee]

@Claw2k11, You can have a relation to the Emperor's wife, yes.

[Letter Bee]

@Tominas@Stitches

It's more a case of the more things you try to do with a spell the weaker it is (I think) so something like a fireball is fairly strong cause all your doing is throwing a large bit of fire while raising flaming zombies is a bit less potent but slightly more applicable to situations. It's a thing of utility vs power I think. Letter Bee will have to clarify as it's his system

@Tyki

It's both; the more Schools you have, or the more Schools one spell uses, the weaker the spell is. However, getting more spell slots by training/advancing the plot gets around that, as you now have more 'space' for spells.

[Letter Bee]

@Tyki@Letter Bee
Alright... In that case, could you tell me if I'm off the mark with these? I'm more than willing to change if needs be.

-Project Constructs(High): The user conjures simple tools and objects no larger than a breadbox, remaining in existence so long as she focuses on them. Traditionally, Clarimonde utilized this spell for field surgery, summoning sterile clamps and scalpels. Occasionally she drinks out of a conjured teacup for kicks.
-Lesser Judgement(High): Crude but effective, this spell hurls white bolts of energy, doing damage which cannot be healed by magic. Hits as a crossbow bolt.
-Ward(High): Simply a ward against other magic, this spell protects its target for a few hours before wearing off. Has no effect against physical weapons. Analogous to chain-mail, the ward does not completely negate other spells, just lessens their effect on the beneficiary.

@Tominas

It works.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter Bee

I have a question, for how long has slavery been going on in the Reich des Goldenen Grahles? I plan on my character being a child that was taken as a slave as a child and years later escaped with some other slaves. My character is 23 years old if that helps with anything.

I also wish to know if my second character can be related to the current emperor. So if the emperor is married, then can this second character be related with her, like a uncle, or her father(as I plan to make him a bit older)?

@Claw2k11

What Tyki said.

I'm quite interested, though I don't know what to play as - the Warrior-Artisans looked good, but I wouldn't mind being a slaveowner too...perhaps both? Do we even have any slave characters yet?

EDIT: Also, what's the relationship between human and non-human races? Is there a social hierarchy?

@Stitches

Humans and Non-Humans are equal.

[Tyki]

@Stitches

The clothed punching bags is actually a fairly modern notion. generally slaves were actually treated fairly well aside from the grueling work and those that rebelled against their masters... cause... y'know... revolts were actually SURPRISINGLY common if you didn't treat them well.

[Priscilla]

@Letter Bee@Tyki

What do the Tian look like physically?

[Overlord Thraka]

@letter bee
Few questions.
1. Can I join in on this?
2. Is it a issue if I play a sort of anti-hero/semi-villainish character?
3. What are the racial options for this?

[Tyki]

@Priscilla

Letter Bee said they're like warcraft orcs

@Overlord Thraka

Human and something akin to warcraft orcs are official ones, but if you can think of a good one and how they'd fit into the world then I see no reason to deny you unless they're over powered. Also yes, you may join :P

[Overlord Thraka]

@Tyki
Thanks! I'll post my character once I get all the wrinkles sorted out

It wasn't going to be anything particularly original, just a Half-Elf. Though is Elves aren't a thing here then I don't see how that'd be possible.
She's supposed to be half skyrim-esque-Nord/Elf.

[Letter Bee]

@Priscilla@Tyki, That's the Xul; Xul look like Warcraft Orcs; Tian are normal Asian humans.

[Letter Bee]

@Overlord Thraka, Yes, you can join as an Anti-Hero/Villain-ish character. And yes, you can make up Elves, but I'd rather there be none; I normally like them, but in this world, they'd be cliched.

[Overlord Thraka]

@Letter Bee
Half-Elf isn't needed, it's just what I normally run her as.
Perhaps Elves could be extinct, or nearly so, bar like the one she was sired from? Or perhaps she's something else? It doesn't ultimately matter, and I don't want to drastically change your world, but that's what I normally have her as. Whatever works best for you.
Ideally she's just supposed to be a half-BREED, but Elves is what I normally run with
Thanks!

OT

[Letter Bee]

@Letter Bee
Half-Elf isn't needed, it's just what I normally run her as.
Perhaps Elves could be extinct, or nearly so, bar like the one she was sired from? Or perhaps she's something else? It doesn't ultimately matter, and I don't want to drastically change your world, but that's what I normally have her as. Whatever works best for you.
Thanks!

OT

@Overlord Thraka

Something else would work best, then.

[Overlord Thraka]

@Letter Bee
Alright, then what are my options? Half-Orcish thingys? Anything else?

[Letter Bee]

@Letter Bee
Alright, then what are my options? Half-Orcish thingys? Anything else?

@Overlord Thraka

Hmm, all children of a Human/Non-Human couple have the species of the Mother, so no outright hybrids. I'd recommend just pure Human or Xul.

[Stitches]

Thanks for accepting my first character. Please may I keep the photo reference and change the physical description of Afia to fit? I'm going to be hard pressed to find fancily dressed orcs and I'll use it as a loose reference