[OOC] Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

[Dystopya]

Sadly, I'm gonna have to leave this RP, best of luck to ya guys though!

[FlappyTheSpybot]

The Knight Serpenta

Name: Maritza (Mari for short) Verenna

Age: 28 (assuming standard human lifespan)

Gender: Female

Race: Naga

Appearance:
13 ft in total length, Mari's human half is 3 ft from her waist to the top of her head and her tail half is 10 ft in length. Mari has tanned skin, short black hair, golden eyes and pale olive green scales. When out of armor, Mari regularly wears a simple sleeveless tunic and belt over a sarashi-esque waist & chest wrap.

Personality:
Mari is an odd duck. Half nomadic wild child, half daughter of the church, the Naga is as sophisticated & eloquent as she is blunt & plain-spoken. While she is a firm believer in the core tenets of the church, Mari will quite often interpret them through the harsh & pragmatic lens of a survivalist; frequently leading her to decisions that put her at odds with those who had more 'civilized' upbringings.

Brief Backstory:
Born & raised as part of a nomadic tribe in the scrub-lands & savanna to the east of Thaln, Mari was kidnapped by slavers in her early-mid teens. After a short but brutal experience with slavery, the young demi-human was freed by Mayonite paladins. Taking pity on the young Naga, Mari was taken in by the church; an action that was met with mixed results. On one hand, Mari took to the core tenets of the dual church like a fish to water. On the other, she constantly fought with the rigidity of it's structure and by extension the structure of 'civilized' society.

Naturally combative by nature, Mari began training with the resident Mayonite paladins as soon as she was able. When the War of the Red Flag broke out, Mari saw action on multiple battlefields, serving as the squire of a Mayonite paladin in the service of the Iron Rose Knights. Shortly after the conclusion of the war, Mari was granted her knighthood in which she swore her oath of loyalty to the Iron Rose Knights.

Equipment:
- For armor Mari has a gambeson, partial steel plate covering her upper torso, arms & head and partial chain-mail over the rest of the exposed gambeson. For her helmet she has a sallet with a bevor. She currently has pair of heavy leather gloves as she currently can't afford a proper set of fully articulated steel gauntlets.
- For weapons Mari has a quarterstaff with a small flanged mace head at either end. She carries a long knife and a hand axe balanced for throwing as backup weapons. In addition she has a long bow, though she usually doesn't carry it unless requested. Her weighted quarterstaff is also mildly enchanted for increased durability.

Skills:
- A talented tracker, hunter and survivalist on account of her nomadic youth.
- Skilled in combat with more utilitarian weapons; spears, staves, axes, bows and to a lesser extent hammers & knives. While she can use traditional blades, they are hands down the weapon that she's the least proficient with.

[VitaVitaAR]

@FlappyTheSpybot: Since we talked about it over PMs beforehand, accepted.

[HereComesTheSnow]

Sorry, dealing with some roommate switches. Still here, looking to post again before the end of the week.

[Crimson Paladin]

I improved the formatting on my character sheet. No information has been changed.

[VitaVitaAR]

Considering an update tomorrow, since while everyone hasn't posted yet I'd like to avoid going much longer without one. ^^;

[FlappyTheSpybot]

I intend on holding off on posting till the party returns to whatever base camp they have. Don't really want to 'retcon' Mari into the current situation.

[Raineh Daze]

I intend on holding off on posting till the party returns to whatever base camp they have. Don't really want to 'retcon' Mari into the current situation.

@FlappyTheSpybot

It's not much of a retcon, to be fair. All the knights were assembled together--we can just assume Mari has been hanging back playing dodge-the-camera until now.

[HereComesTheSnow]

I’m sure nobody’d mind

[Genon]

@VitaVitaAR @Raineh Daze

Hi, I'm interested in this game. I have a character concept in mind, but the problem is that it's a Sapient Undead. It can be modified to work as a normal human, but I feel that the character will click better if he's undead.

Basically, the idea is that he was an ordinary conscripted soldier of low birth, who, out of loyalty, jumped in the way of an arrow meant for the king of Thain in the middle of a pitched battle. The arrow was enchanted to cause death near-instantaneously if any part of it touched one's bare skin, and it pierced through his armor and went into his ribcage.

Thanks to his sacrifice, the battle was won and the king survived. Out of gratitude for the young soldier who sacrificed his life to save his own, he had him raised and subsequently knighted, to be inducted into the Iron Rose Knights for his great and noble deed. 150 years later, he's still serving.

Of course, if we go with him just being human, then that basically means that the arrow would have been perfectly ordinary, he survived the attack, and was knighted normally.

Either concept would work I think, I just like the former one better. What do you think? Is this acceptable?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Genon: Well... Sapient undead are incredibly rare, it's almost impossible to actually get one intentionally. Which is why there's not more of them.

Additionally, necromancy is considered an abomination by the church(at least, the raising the dead type. There's some offshoots of it that have medicinal uses and communing with spirits of the dead isn't viewed poorly), so someone who could even attempt it just being around for the king to ask it of them is pretty much impossible. Let alone the king asking them to begin with.

[Raineh Daze]

Who still needs to go?

[OwO]

i do, will try to get up post 2morro

[VitaVitaAR]

Might wait until Monday to post, but I won't delay any longer than that.

[Psyker Landshark]

oh ok it's Superguts

[HereComesTheSnow]

ok im glad i wasn't the only one thinking it

lets beat that ass

[Raineh Daze]

I tried to tell people but nobody wanted to talk to me. :<

[HereComesTheSnow]

got kicked over to the opposite side of the field from you my b

[Raineh Daze]

It was when I was doing the whole compare-the-bodies thing. Oh well, no harm done.

Setting history lesson: the Vos Korvungand was a seaborne invasion ~200 years ago. Raided, pillaged, sacked temples. But more like your bigger medieval army than "small group of raiders". 10,000+ men.

Obviously, it wasn't just the Iron Roses, but they did a lot that day.

[HereComesTheSnow]

unless my memory's failing me, we didn't get much in the way of hints as to what we were looking for there