[CHAR] Blood Debt - Medieval/Fantasy

[HeySeuss]

_{Some badass forest battle artwork to help set the mood.}

Guidelines

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• Discord Chat for the RP. - to plot, collaborate and otherwise make things interesting.
• "Jump In" really does mean, "Jump In." I want only a couple things over in character sheets - a name, a faction (Brand, Harold, other) a location (At the start, generally Bosfyrd, though this may change.) and maybe a one sentence summary of the character. Yeah, because we need to be writing posts, not character sheets, and this way we can quickly -add- essential characters.
• Please use one sheet for all stubs, character and lore.

Character Stubs

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The whole point of this system is to quickly introduce a character's name, faction, species and a quick summary of who they are in order to get them into the fight quickly. We're doing away with large sheets as an experiment. You can even write this stuff -after- you make the first post.

Name:
Race:
Faction/Unit: (ex. Brand's Brood, loyal to Bloody Harold, mercenary, etc.)
Location:
Synopsis of Role: (One sentence, keep it moving. Ex. A young half-elf raised by Brand after his parents were killed in an unfortunate nighttime skiing incident that involved alcohol.)

Lore Stubs

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The whole point of this system is to quickly introduce a location, unit or faction. This allows you to quickly create a reference item for the lore. We will work on a way to organize all this as we move along, but please add this to your character stubs.

Name:
Type: (Location, culture, military formation, type of beast etc)
Faction/Unit: (ex. Brand's Brood, loyal to Bloody Harold, mercenary, etc.)
Synopsis of Role: (One sentence, keep it moving. Ex. A large, haunted forest that is rumoured to hold the ruins of ancient civilization. From time to time, people are never seen again after entering it.)

[GreivousKhan]

Name- Diēscogitō
Gender-male
Race- Draythikon (Human)
Class- Ranger

(Draythikon are humans who have adapted to harsh environments from living centuries as nomads)

Appearance

Diescogito roughly 5'7, with a slender but athletic build. His arms are strong and leanly muscled, surprisingly so despite his size. Due to his long practice with the bow.

Type: Loner Exile

Faction: Brand's Brood

Location: The Webwood

Synopsis of Role: A lost child born of the steppes, cursed to wander until the beast within consumes his soul.

Ignore this equipment

This is mostly for my reference but also as a quick way to see what my character looks like. You don't need to read this in the spirit of quick character summary. You can if you want, this will also be updated as Diescogito gains or losses things during the course of the RP.

Equipment-


Diescogito wears a set of armor and clothes as shown directly above. It consists of beautifully crafted vambraces made from supple deer leather and though thick, is easy and comfortable to wear. The vambraces work great with his bow. He also wears leather padding on his right arm, though not as thickly in order for him to make full use of his right hand for shooting. The single Pauldron on the left side shoulder comes with a built-in chest harness that provides a very sturdy fit and is also tied in with the quiver on his back. Crafted from hardened leather they provide adequate protection.

The roguish armor overall is made for agile movement, making it the perfect protection for those mobile types who like to hit and run, or at least dodge and roll when they're engaged in heavy combat. The right side is cut away for an increased reduction in weight. When a blow does get through Diescogito's agile defenses, the armor has the strength to keep him safe from a few lucky light blows. The armor is comprised of a single cuirass, which consists of a flat abdomen that's been reinforced with several small leather plates. The upper part of the cuirass echoes this design somewhat, possessing a fuller, rounded shape that's been reinforced with additional leather plating, creating a truly defensible design, which is mostly focused on the left side and over his heart.

His belt is made entirely from hardened leather and serves well as a piece of armor around his abdomen. The belt is wide in design, similar in nature to a kidney belt, as is it's purpose The belt features riveted-on plates of leather for reinforced defense as well as a fine patterned design using Draythikon runes and symbols. The edge is accented with a stitched leather lacing accent too, all the while remaining light and flexible. The final touches come in the form of an attached hood, as well as a baked bark wooden full face mask with leather padding underneath. The eye holes are large enough to see through and not disrupt his aim.

Quivers: Diescogito possess two quivers, one strapped to his back, the second to his right leg hung from his belt. Neither is special in and of themselves. Though there is a hidden compartment underneath each. Made from tanned leather, the first leather quiver has a shoulder strap and is meant to be worn on the back. The quiver is held together by leather lacing, the second is worn from this belt by two straps. Both leather quivers are 3.5 inches in diameter and approx. 26 inches deep. Both can carry 2 dozen arrows. Making for a total of 44 arrows.

(going to stop here before I go over board XD)

Personality- Diescogito is a calm collected individual, often kind and gregarious when meeting strangers. He has a noble heart and is extremely loyal, especially to trusted friends. Though this often makes him a little naive and over trusting at times. Having lived with his adopted family for so long, Diescogito dislikes being alone. His greatest fear, in fact, is being abandoned or left behind. A fear born of the fact he became an outcast due to his cursed lineage. Competent and intelligent, Diescogito is a quick learner when it comes to new task or experiences. His lifestyle has been one of adapting quickly to thrive, has bred him into an effect survivor. Despite circumstances he can be very optimistic, always trying to find a way out or around a problem. His determination to prevail gives him a resolve that borders on zealous. Never wanting to be one to let his comrades or adopted family down. He seeks to please all in the subconscious hope they will do the same for him.

[HeySeuss]

Name: Dakgu Elf-Scalper
Race: Half-Orc, half something else.
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: Nightwood, outside of Bosfyrd, an old meeting ground for rangers stretching back to the mists of time.
Synopsis of Role: A warg-handler, bounty hunter and lead scout of the Orcish mercenary unit Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi, the Elf-Scalper was orphaned with his mother's wargs during puberty and finished growing up under Brand, who taught him, but also socialized him. His mercenary company has an absolutely fearsome reputation and is currently based out of neighboring Ceril, where they managed to secure themselves a foothold and patronage in the form of their young queen, a rumored witch. His warg mount, Khashgol, is a mound of muscle and predatory instinct.

[Sightseer]

Name: Chesed (Ches) Galanodel
Race: Wood Elf
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: The Nightwood, resting in a bower of her own making.
Synopsis of Role: A roving elven druid fond of conversing with elemental creatures and shapeshifting, raised by Brand following the death of her parents at the hands of an infamous necromancer.

[Cairo]

Name: Harvey, the 'Scum Prince'
Race: Human
Faction/Unit: The Stoats, Brand's Brood
Location: The city of Ovragos
Synopsis of Role: Mouthy gang leader, taken in by Brand after picking his pockets as a street urchin.

Name: The Stoats
Type: Gang / Criminal Enterprise
Faction/Unit: Loyal to Harvey and themselves.
Synopsis of Role: Gang of thugs and thieves based in Ovragos who have their hands in illegal operations from smuggling to racketeering to robbery.

[Cycad]

Name: Vasile
Age: 32
Race: Human
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: Bosfyrd
Synopsis of Role: As a wanderer who has leveraged their skills tutoring the rich and entitled heirs of nobility across half the known world, Vasile owes much to Brand; the ranger who saved an unremarkable boy from an equally unremarkable fate.

Would you like to know more?

History:

Vasile was a mere boy of eight when he first came to face the cruelty of nature. It was not bandits, monsters, nor anything dramatic or meaningful which rendered him an orphan. Vasile’s parents had simply chosen to make the trip to a nearby village, and as traders who made the journey every so often they felt confident enough to bring along their child. In hindsight they could have known, any more experienced and further ranging traveller could have told them, but events so transpired that they never saw the danger in distant storm clouds as they forded what seemed to be a minor stream. By the time the water began to rise it was too late, Vasile and his parents were swept away alongside their meager cart. The horses which drowned first, and in the years to come, despite the fact he’d heard the final cries of his mother and father, it would be that panicked and hopeless braying that came to haunt him. Happenstance, coincidence, a log floating above the rest, whatever the reason Vasile survived the wash out, he was alone in having done so.

How far the stream carried him, how far a child can walk subsisting only on dirty stream water before succumbing to the inevitable, Vasile never did find out. All he knew was that by the time Brand found him aimlessly following that cursed stream in the Nightwood Vasile was skin and bones, closer to his parents than his saviour in condition. Brand would take the child on, but it would be another year before Vasile spoke, and longer still before he shared what had befallen him on that night when everything changed for no reason at all.

Vasile’s years under Brand’s tutelage would prove to be harsh, but among the best of his life. Slow to learn compared to some of the others, Vasile took to whatever lessons he had to learn with determination. He was not the strongest, nor the smartest, kindest, or most charismatic, but he never faltered. Driven by what he saw as a responsibility to repay Brand and the world at large for a second chance at life Vasile worked to become more than merely capable. By the time he departed the Nightwood at the age of nineteen Vasile was a skilled fighter and outdoorsman. Yet he would not stop there. In the years since Vasile has wandered from nation to nation, eventually teaching what he knew to others, though often less charitably.

[Rilla]

Name: Adinraen Barriurden
Race: Elf, darker than usual complexion.
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: Bosfryd
Synopsis of Role: A full blooded elf, with an affinity for combat and nature; adopted by brand as a youngling that was was exiled for his appearance.

Adinraen

[Naril]

Name: Kareth (Kay) Farel
Race: Dark Elf
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: The Nightwood, outside Bosfyrd, in a bower, formed by druidic magic.
Synopsis of Role: Irrepressibly cheerful itinerant knight of the Church of the Path, indiscriminately doing good, defending those who can't defend themselves, and having a lot of fun while doing it.

[Flagg]

Name: Andal Kadath
Race: Human
Faction/Unit: Mercenary Captain, leader of the Red Fangs
Location: King Harold's Court
Synopsis of Role:

• Infamous sorcerer and mercenary
• Helped Harold defeat William of Barkstead and later Brand of Nightwood.
• Leader of the Red Fangs, a mostly human band of sellsword reavers originally from the North but with a long history of service across the world

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Name: Asa
Race: Wood Elf
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location: The Nightwood, returning to the home of her adopted father.
Synopsis of Role: The eldest of Brands adopted children, Asa is a Ranger and shape shifter in the truest sense. She was raised by Brand following the death of her parents in the teeth of a winter storm.

[magistur]

Name: Andreas Alcaeus
Race: Human
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood, Imperial Guard
Location: Bosfyrd
Synopsis of Role: A spatharios in the Imperial Court in far-off Livianople, Brand turned Andreas from a wandering mercenary with a fondness for alcohol into a man worthy of the prestigious Imperial Guard.

Name: Livianople
Type: Location
Faction/Unit: Livian Empire
Synopsis of Role: Capital of the decadent Livian Empire, one of the largest cities in the known world and home to the Imperial Court.

[The Robbomaster]

Name: Ryven
Race: Human
Faction/Unit: Brand's Brood
Location:
Synopsis of Role: One of the oldest of the adopted children, Ryven stayed in regular contact with his adopted Father. He lives a simple life as a Hunter and Tracker, with his ten year old Daughter.