"In this tale, we explore the tragedy of competition."
"The tragedy of having difference. The tragedy of lacking difference."
"We love our fellow countrymen, deride those of other lands, learn wisdom, spread ignorance, foster grudges, are incited by misunderstandings, relish prejudice, savor persecution, and feel pity."
"And for this, we pray."
"We pray that there may never be another war."
"The tragedy of having difference. The tragedy of lacking difference."
"We love our fellow countrymen, deride those of other lands, learn wisdom, spread ignorance, foster grudges, are incited by misunderstandings, relish prejudice, savor persecution, and feel pity."
"And for this, we pray."
"We pray that there may never be another war."
Hi everyone! So, this is for a roleplay centered around the world of Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero, where seven heroes from ages past are summoned by seven mages, to fight a battle royale for control of the Holy Grail.
Instead of the Fourth Holy Grail War (Fate/Zero) or the fifth (Fate/Stay Night), this is an alternate version of the third! The RP will take place in 1939, one week before Poland is invaded by the German Reich and hostilities commence.
The setting will be Fuyuki (the same as in Zero and Stay Night), and there will be two teams, the Japanese team and the German team, fighting for the Holy Grail. The Japanese team has its equivalent of the Mage's Association backing it, while the German team has the Thule Society (and maybe a little bit from Ahnenerbe).
The Church is impartial during this war, and has a moderator present, Risei Kotomine. This is the first time the Church has moderated, so both teams will probably be a little hostile to priests interfering in magus matters.
Something a bit unique about this roleplay is that the Master "roles" are fixed. That doesn't mean you're playing canon Masters, but instead you make a character for your chosen roles! For instance, the Japanese side's roles are the Tohsaka family, Matou family, Einzbern family (which can summon Ruler or Avenger Servants if you want), and a member of the Imperial Japanese military, so we'll need one of each to fill out the Japanese side! For the German side, it will be two Edelfelts (who summon "the same Servant twice", like having two King Arthurs), a member of the SS, and a member of the Thule Society.
I'll be writing up the descriptions for those Master roles soon to explain their little nuances (for instance, the Einzbern character will be a homunculus), but if you're really interested in one or two in particular, let me know and I can explain it right now so you can start on coming up with ideas!
Servants don't have those sorts of specific roles, so just stick to the normal seven classes and make whatever you want! I'll get a banlist for really strong Servants and a few other things up soon if we have enough interest. Also, like I said, the Einzbern can summon Ruler or Avenger, but if you want to make one of those, please check with whoever's making the Einzbern character that they're okay with whatever you're making first! I'd really hate for someone to make a sheet and then all their effort gets wasted because the Einzbern player prefers someone else.
You can have up to two characters, but both characters need to belong to the same faction (I'll be making some private chats for talking about tactics for each team, so we want to keep that fair!), and unless you're doing the Edelfelts, one will need to be a Servant and one will need to be a Master. You can partner with yourself, but I'd really really really prefer you don't, for the sake of character interaction!
Something I think will be fun is that there's going to be imbalance in classes. So as an example, it's possible for the German team to have the three Knight Classes (one of them being summoned twice because of the Edelfelts) while the Japanese faction has the four Cavalry Classes, so the teams will have super-different styles and strategies!
If you've got any questions, ask away! Otherwise, if you're interested in joining then definitely let me know.
Below are tentative versions of the CSs that may get changed between now and the OOC getting put up, to help you in making whatever you want to do preliminarily.