{ ”A war within a war. A battle to determine the King amidst a battle between kings. A battlefield full of arrows, blades, and spells.” }
✿ In Character Information
The screams and cries of war echo through the tainted, bloody atmosphere of a long battle between three relentless, merciless factions. Arrows fly through the air, blades are swung overhead, and catapults fling boulders onto legions of men, yet an eery presence and a peculiar light alters the familiar environment. The occasional spell could be heard chanted among the ravages of war, having unimaginable results -- whether it be incredible healing, an unbreakable shield, or an invocation of great destruction. With a broad spectrum of spells, they all stem from an unusual possessor.
Mamodos. Creatures from another world that journey to earth to partake in a war to establish the new king of their realm, binding themselves to a human individual to act as their spell caster and primary ally. A spellbook is assigned to each Mamodo in which contain the commands to unleash their power, each being different from vast diversity of their race. Adding to the diversity of spells that the Mamodos conjure, they all come in many different forms. Some say they've witnessed giant, demonic-looking beings that hold bold strengths and spells, while others could be small children that dominate in the battlefield and unleash unmatched abilities. Making an appearance in this time, the Mamodos have quite the selection of humans to decide on.
In an incredible battle to overtake land and release growing frustrations to the opponents, the three countries utilize their best acts of war to see who it is that will succumb first. Although they all see the strength of the Mamodos as blessings and personal weapons to aid in their own war, some have formed an alliance, regardless of which faction they are apart of, in hopes to make an outside party to help build a rebellion against the ongoing war. They are led by three Mamodo-users, one from each faction, who founded what is called 'The White Knights'. While they were quick to receive their Mamodos, they are still growing in strength despite their already strong and famous battle prowess. The White Knights are small in numbers though capable of battling large armies, but they are recruiting more, especially those in possession of a Mamodo, to try to build a fearful army.
✿ Setting
Many of the towns and villages that lie on the border of each country are unpopulated due to the dangers and inconsistently reoccurring attacks. Battles exist on the shores of each country, even to the populated streets of reinforced cities, and to the deep seas that separate each faction. The zones for war stretches far and wide, with unpredictable events taking place anywhere within the zone.
The Vikings rule the northern islands and are not consistent attackers, focusing more on their defenses due to their shortage of numbers. Though their attacks are commonly seen on the shores of England and China, they never maintain their newly conquered territories for the sake of being low in numbers.
The English control a large land mass that has several hills and beautiful architecture. Their lands are well-populated and their borders are heavily defended, stationing many of their knights at various bases along their shores.
The Chinese maintain a very diverse, large, and beautiful land mass that is very-populated despite the many acres of land that are popular to the abundant wildlife and beautiful natural beauties. The Chinese are well-rounded individuals from having territory in the deserts, the frigid mountains, and the incredible rainforests that house a harsh jungle climate. With this, they have many leaders across the land that control their own city-states.
✿ Out of Character Information
So this roleplay is medieval-themed while taking on the concept of Zatch Bell in that they are participating in the Mamodo war to decide who is their next King. Zatch Bell is about a war of a race known as the Mamodos who are fighting each other until one is left. The only way to kill a Mamodo is by REALLY killing them down, or by burning their book with an offensive spell. The Mamodos depict a human to be the caster of their spells, reciting the words in the book that appear. Through practice, battle, and/or increased emotional relations between caster and Mamodo, newer and more powerful spells will be unlocked. The book is basically full of unreadable, slightly-transparent words, glowing and becoming readable when the caster is of ability. Their citations and spells are listed here, but feel free to be creative and make up your own and whatnot; feel free to use that site as a guideline!
Aside from the battling that'll commence in this roleplay, we'll also be dealing with political plots and alliances and whatnot. So don't expect to constantly be fighting! The first post will probably take place at the end of a battle, and receiving an invitation from the White Knights to meet at a specific spot which would be their hideout. Then the proposition of joining the White Knights would take place, and that's when you can accept or deny it. Not sure how I'm going to go about this just yet.
✿ Creating Your Character
So you'll be creating two characters essentially, your human character and your Mamodo character. Your human can be of any faction and have any status, whether it be a strong knight, a commander, a commoner, or a beggar even. Your Mamodo can be of exotic appearances or take the appearance of humans as well. I know in the anime they use a lot of child-like appearances for the Mamodo since it is about children battling to become King, but I'm not going to enforce a drastically youthful appearance here. Feel free to do that if you wish, but just know you have free-reign unless I say otherwise!
As for creating your Mamodo, within the anime, they have a widely diverse amount of Mamodos. Here are an examples of some themes that they have:
❥ Fire ❥ Ice ❥ Lightning ❥ Wind ❥ Light ❥ Dark ❥ Earth ❥ Gravity ❥ Shield ❥ Plant ❥ Metal ❥ Claw ❥ Strengthening ❥ Healing ❥ Energy ❥ Martial Arts ❥ Trickery ❥ Weather ❥ Beast ❥ Laser ❥ Sand
If you have any other ideas, just let me know! The only thing I ask of you guys, is to not have your Mamodo extraordinarily powerful since the beginning will mostly take place soon after their arrival. So your beginning post can consist of just finding your Mamodo and forming the bond, or perhaps they've already found each other and they're exploring each other's personalities. In addition to this, please don't make your two characters be incredibly unstoppable, but don't be afraid to make them rather strong!
✿ The Rules
▲ God Modding
While I'm a huge fan of having powerful characters and really being creative with abilities and whatnot, please don't make your character super overly strong. Auto-hitting also falls under these guidelines; please never assume the outcome of your attacks when interacting with other PCS.
▲ Character
Please, please, please be creative with your characters~! For this RP, I'm giving people free reign to a broad spectrum of possible characters, BUT it must fall under the medieval theme. So, you could create a noble, a knight, a samurai, a viking, a commoner, a farmer, etc.
▲ Character Sheets
I definitely want to see a good amount of effort and thought in your characters. Please don't half-ass your character sheets and pull a character out of your ass. I'm not too strict with what kind of artwork/photography is used for your characters and face claims, but please just make sure they fall under the medieval theme. Be creative~! Since there's not a whole lot of artwork to claim, be descriptive with appearances and such.
▲ Posting
I want this to be a casual roleplay, but that doesn't mean you can get away with posting one-liners. Be considerate and read everyone else's posts before going to post your own, even if they're not interacting with your character! I expect a few paragraphs, but please make the content of your posts to be descriptive of your actions and thoughts of your character. There's nothing I hate more than seeing somebody include content in their post that re-explains the actions of a previous post just for the sake of adding more 'meat' to the post. If that makes sense... Just don't be copy/pasting anything!
▲ Commitment
I definitely wish to see active players in this roleplay and if you're unable to post or be active, please inform us! If you go a week without posting or mentioning that you're to be inactive, I will either post as your character or just continue without you. With that, I hope that everyone makes characters that they enjoy playing and that the story I create will keep everyone interested enough to roleplay~! THUS, I'm not opposed to any feedback or suggestions that you guys give me!
▲ 18+
One thing that I wanted to do with this roleplay that is different than Zatch Bell is to add a lot more realism to it. I'm not opposed to excessive swearing if that's how your character is, nor am I opposed to nudity. But I am opposed to ERP and descriptive sexual encounters. If you wish to do that with another PC, then just take it to the PMs or something. If you wanna flash your titties, or whip your dick out, I don't really care. I don't want to limit your characters just for the sake of the rating of the RP, but there are lines that shouldn't be crossed.
▲ Drama
I strongly encourage in-character drama, but don't be sensitive and take it to OOC drama, nor do I want to see any form of OOC drama. If you wish to give someone a piece of your mind, simply do it in the PMs and don't involve other people of the roleplay.
▲ Respect
Please respect everyone apart of the roleplay, don't be rude!
▲ Have fun
Yeah, have fun. I'm not opposed to you dropping out if you find the roleplay to not be enjoyable, the last thing I wanna do is force someone to participate in something they don't enjoy!
▲ List of nomenclature
So I see that we have interest from people that haven't seen the anime, which is totally fine~! I linked a nomenclature list above that will describe prefixes and such to build the citation of the designated spell. Keep in mind that they have different levels of spells at the bottom, but I'm not really requiring you guys to use them. I believe those citations are only paired with spells to describe them as a stronger version of the original spell. For example Brago's 'Reis' fires a small, compressed, gravitational well that does pretty good damage. The upgraded version uses the proper suffix and is known as 'Gigano Reis'.
There are several different types of combinations that I'm sure will fit everyone's characters~! If there's nothing that properly fits your character's spells, feel free to make your own suffix or prefix or whatever it is. I'll add it to a list here and we'll all go by it!
There are several different types of combinations that I'm sure will fit everyone's characters~! If there's nothing that properly fits your character's spells, feel free to make your own suffix or prefix or whatever it is. I'll add it to a list here and we'll all go by it!
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