[OOC] The Sea King

[Warborn123]

In the 8th Century, viking's prowled the sea, looting and plundering everything like a group of pirates, nothing near the sea is safe from their lust for gold and destruction. You are a viking born and bred in the icy forest of Scandinavia, where only the strong, cunning and powerful survive. You and a group of other's, be they friend or foe. will take to the sea's and explore the vast unknown, in search of loot, glory, whatever it is your heart's desire. The odds are stacked against you, it is likely many of you shall not return. but play your card's right, and you will become a king, a sea king.

Tl;dr: You're a group of Viking raider's!

Rules: 1: don't be a dick
2: Nothing that wouldn't exist in the medieval ages is allowed.
3: Have fun
4: ???
5: Profit

Character Sheet

Appearance: (Picture or Description is fine)
Name:
Personality:
Backstory:
Equipment:
Skills:

[Warborn123]

@Sirkaithethird@Drakey@Suaiedail@Winterwake@LordLinguinie Here it is!

[Sirkaithethird]

Got mine up
Anything you want changed or does it look good?
@warborn123

[Winterwake]

Here's mine, let me know if you're happy with it as well.

Edit: Moved to character sheets tab! Thanks @Warborn123!

[Warborn123]

@Winterwake it's great!, accepted

[Drakey]

woohoo!!! Got mine up!

[pandapolio]

If you guys are still accepting people I would like to hop in.

[Sirkaithethird]

Panda are you following me?@pandapolio

[Warborn123]

@pandapolio go ahead!, we're always accepting

[pandapolio]

@Sirkaithethird Maybe, or we just both really like history rps.

[Sirkaithethird]

@pandapolio
True,
Napoleonic RP
WW2 RP
Viking RP

[pandapolio]

Do you want us to post the cs here for approval or straight to the cs tab?

[Sirkaithethird]

@drakey
Jeez your character is rich lol

[Warborn123]

@pandapolio straight to the CS tab. as long as you don't add anything stupid it's auto-accepted

[Drakey]

@Sirkaithethird

Correction -> she was rich. No longer, all of her wealth resides on her body.

[Sirkaithethird]

@Drakey
That's what I figured looking at your loadout

[Drakey]

@Sirkaithethird

Yep, but most of it isn't bought, but pillaged and reshaped.

[Winterwake]

@Warborn123@Sirkaithethird@Drakey Hey!
I don't want to be a party pooper, nor am I one of the DMs. I don't know how historically accurate our DMs want to keep this RP considering it's in the free category. Regardless, in my opinion the fact that it's listed as Viking RP should prompt players to create characters with some semblance of historical accuracy so I feel the need to point out a few things.

Equipment:
A modified set of half-plate armour that she uses. SHe also wears a black gambeson underneath.
A greatsword is strapped to her back, along with a longsword.
On her left hip swings a one-handed arming sword.
Across her chest are three throwing knives.
On her right hip is a dagger.
On her left forearm is a black and red buckler with her family's crest on it.
Family Crest:

@Drakey

First and perhaps most importantly. Plate armour absolutely did not exist in Europe during the viking age, and though earlier Romans had plate armour in the form of their Lorica Segmentata this armour did not last into the viking age. The armours of the time were almost always chainmail or the rarer lamellar.

Big picture of typical viking age equipment

Secondly. Longswords, these weren't in use during the viking age, in fact they only really came into use 600 years after this RP is set! Greatswords/Claymores/Two-handed swords came even later than longswords. Arming swords are forgivable, as they are what evolved from the earlier Viking swords but tended to have much larger guards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_sword
Thirdly, throwing knifes are almost always a no-go in general. Javelins and hatchets do what they do much better.
Lastly. Family crests weren't really a thing, the first evidence of a family crest/coast of arms/escutcheon were evidenced by the Bayeux Tapestry from the 11th century. Wherein some of the warriors have shields painted with crosses and nothing more.

Once again, I am not a DM and it's up to the DMs to decide what to do with their RP but the historian in me felt the need to speak nonetheless!

Edit: Bonus! Women warriors were totally a thing in viking culture. The absolute badassery that is the skjaldmær. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield-maiden

[Drakey]

@Winterwake

Holy shit, thank you. I'll make sure to fix my CS later today!

[Sirkaithethird]

@Drakey
I was trying to draw attention to that but I didn't have the heart to just point out all the wrongs. Thanks@Winterwake