[OOC] Knights of Galvarok: The Forbidden Gate

[PrincessWeirdo]

Nox Aeterna

Name:
Nox Aeterna

Age:
17

Gender:
Female

Race:
Half-Elven

Personality:
Nox is quiet and observant. She doesn't speak unless she feels it's needed but will offer her opinion when necessary. Becomes angry easily but carefully hides these emotions from view. Often the target of her fury will go unaware of their transgression until she eventually enacts her revenge. Dislikes dogs more than any creature and will go out of her way to kill one if she can get away with it. Despite this she can be caring and thoughtful if she feels it's earned.

Appearance:
Nox is 5'8 with a slim bone structure and lengthy, agile limbs. She has Ivory toned skin and long silver hair that is usually kept in a neat ponytail. She has many raised, white and pink burn marks wrapping around her arms, legs, and torso, giving her skin a swirling, unpleasant appearance. Her face is slim with high cheek bones, a long, straight nose, and small but full lips. Her left eye is blue, but the right is a milky white and unseeing. The right portion of her face, starting at her eye and ending at her lip, is covered in a red, raised scar tissue. She wears most often a pair of grey, sturdy pants, a cream colored shirt, a hooded brown cloak and a pair of reliable leather boots.

Backstory:
Nox was chosen to be a knight at age three, and like many others remembers none of her life before that. What she does know is that she was raised and taken to the Choosing by a since closed orphanage. Given her half breed status, she can only assume that she was given up due to being a bastard child. This leads her to believe that her mother was the one with Elvish blood, as she's been told that they are an exclusive and closed off people. She also believes there must have been some great fire at the orphanage or before that, because for as long as she can remember she's been covered in a thick layer of aged scar tissue which she can only assume are from serious burns.

Knight's Raiment:
Hell's bow: A long bow, made of a flexible, light wood, with many silver embossed designs carved along the sides. The top and bottom of the bow each bear one silver eye with a ruby set into the iris. When an arrow draws blood from it's target, these eyes glow momentarily. Nox has found that going to long without a blood kill of some kind causes the bow to become unbalanced and difficult to shoot. If an arrow does draw blood, the special ability of the bow causes the arrow to dig itself in further like a leech, worsening any wound it causes. The quiver is similarly designed aesthetically and does not run out of arrows.

Skills:
Has a working knowledge of healing and first aid, taught to her by the village doctor.

Magistra:
minor healing spell: can suture small wounds

Please let me know of any adjustments that need to be made. :)

[chukklehed]

A knight only gets one raiment.

Also knights generally don't know their families, being chosen as infants. Even Minato, who follows the traditions of his hometown, had to learn them from his master

[PrincessWeirdo]

AHHHHH that sucks. Well, I'll edit it in a bit, I need to get some more coffee. Thanks for the heads up. :)

[Lionheart]

Chukkle is in fact correct, Knights are chosen at a very young age and are trained from then onward, the only knights who really know their parents are ones who were knights themselves. As I said, a Knight's child will always be a Knight, so for them they do get to sort of raise their children, but the instructors super-cede them most of the time.

Secondly, a Knight's Raiment is his unique weapon that is perfectly suited to him, whether he knows it or not. It is the result of deep meditation to understand yourself combined with a magic ceremony to project the weapon itself. A Raiment however isn't only a weapon, it's an extension of the knight's personality, his symbol, his brand. So if you want to keep your Raiment as is, that's fine. I just want to encourage a bit more thought and care for it.

[chukklehed]

Actually, that raiment seems pretty accurate for her. It's kinda like her poisoned soul given litteral form,l. The only reason I'm not 100% onboard is that we already have a poisoner, but this one fits the weapon much better.

[PrincessWeirdo]

Well, edited my CS, including personality, let me know if anything else needs fixing :D

[Kumori Master]

Okay, this took some time and a couple reworks but it's finally finished.

Rhea Llewellyn

Name: Rhea Llewellyn
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Race: Half Elf

Personality: Rhea is proud, strong willed, and optimistic. Though, she has an extremely stubborn side. She's a very kindhearted individual who will go to great lengths to help her allies and her friends. However, she's rather headstrong. If she sees someone in trouble she'll rush in to help them without a second thought. Or a first one for that matter. This often gets her into troublesome situations.

In battle Rhea is aggressive and keeps to the front of the combat, protecting her allies by distracting and otherwise occupying the enemies. "First to strike, first to win" is her motto.

While Rhea is not performing her knightly duties she's very carefree and sociable. She enjoys singing to pass her time. Though she is very embarrassed by this and hasn't told anyone. Aside from that she's very active in interacting with her fellow knights.

Appearance: Rhea has a small, slim figure as well as a slightly tan complexion. She's roughly 5' 6" with shimmering blue eyes, and long snow white hair usually hanging freely. Rhea often prefers wearing light armor due to her small frame. She uses her small stature to emphasize mobility and speed over flat out defense.


Backstory: Rhea is the daughter of two knights, as such she was chosen to be a knight from birth. While both of her parents are knights, she only knows one of them. Due to the fact that her mother died some time after she was born. Her father, a very famous knight, master of martial combat. Ever since she was born Rhea has wanted nothing more than to be exactly like her father. However, as she became older it became apparent that her physical prowess would never match up to her father's. Her instructors urged her to begin mastering Magistra, as she had a great talent for it. So she began training her ability to use Magistra.

Eventually Rhea summoned her Raiment, Balmung. After she obtained her Raiment she set hard to work at crafting her own unique fighting style. She trained harder and harder each day. She now continues to develop and master her blade and magic fighting style. In the hopes of making her parents proud.

Knight's Raiment: Balmung: Her Raiment takes the form of a standard long sword. Aside from it being a brilliant silver color and having a white crystal embedded in the handle. It's a rather simple sword. As far as abilities go. It has the passive ability to channel and strengthen Magistra. Making them take much less energy, thus allowing her to use them more than other knights. Balmung also creates a magical tie to it's wielder. As such she can will it to her hand at any point.

Skills: Acrobatics to some degree, basic magical knowledge, horse riding, first aid

Magistra: Rhea has developed a number of Magistra to be employed in the midst of combat, they all require one word incantations.
-"Vo": Creates a small burst of green energy she most often uses to augment jumping, or propel herself through the air.
-"Ai": She creates a barrier of shimmering blue energy, she can create it anywhere she can see. The size can vary. However, in order to make it any larger than a standard shield it would take an amount of concentration.
-"Fa": This allows her to channel energy into her blade. Giving it a faint red glow. This makes just about every aspect of it more powerful by giving it a magical enhancement. The effect only lasts a short time unless she concentrates on sustaining it.
-"Ru": Glowing gold light instantly mends small wounds upon recitation. As with the others, if the wounds are serious she can still heal them. But It takes longer.
-"Ly": A small purple symbol appears in front of her. This symbol fires a bolt of purple energy. When it connects it will create a magical shackle, binding whatever it struck for a short time. The larger the shackle the longer the cast.

-Holy Lance: Her only outright offensive Magistra. She channels her energy into a shaft of brilliant white energy. She can create a number of them, but only if she has ample casting time.

[Zero Hex]

Name: Cyrus Reinhardt
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Human

Personality: The blood of Nosk is strong, even if Cyrus was taken from his homeland long ago. Hailing from a place where only the strong survive, Cyrus places great value on personal strength and power as well as skill in combat, always seeking to test his mettle against whatever may come his way. Straightforward and often brutally honest, he dislikes taking roundabout ways around things when one could simply cut straight to the heart of the matter and especially dislikes "cowardly" approaches to battle.

Appearance: Standing at 6 feet sharp, Cyrus is a large, square-jawed man with piercing blue eyes, long dark red hair and the beginnings of what promises to one day grow into a remarkable beard. Beyond that, however, it's hard to determine what Cyrus actually looks like, as his body is permanently encased within his raiment, a bronze, draconic set of armor inscribed in runes from head to toe.

Backstory: Unlike many others, Cyrus was not the son of a Knight, not even tangentially related to a Knight in any way, shape or form in fact, and never really stood out that much either. A native of Nosk, known for producing headstrong, no-nonsense warriors, Cyrus' defining trait has been his dislike for having to rely on anything other than himself. Not just help from others, but having to use weapons or tools when his own body could potentially suffice. It was this drive for extreme self-reliance that led to his raiment's manifestation.

Knight's Raiment: Soulforged
Taking the meaning of the word "raiment" rather literally, the Soulforged is not a weapon but an exquisite set of armor which covers the entirety of the user's body. The armor is seemingly made out of polished bronze and its design is both obviously ancient and clearly evocative of dragons, a mixture of solid plates and small scales which together manage to cover the entirety of the body, coupled with a large helmet in the shape of a dragon's head. While the armor's material and design are eyecatching enough it's also covered in runes from head to toe, each scale inscribed with an individual symbol while the solid plate cuirass, pauldrons, gauntlets, grieves and indeed the helmet are covered in intrincate diagrams. Not a single symbol is ever repeated across the whole armor and the entire set seems to blend together into little more than decorative carvings, requiring close inspection to make it all out.

The Soulforged is a very practical raiment, instead of providing stranger or more complicated powers and abilities it simply boosts the user's natural capabilities to superhuman levels. The armor itself is very durable and provides effective defenses, even if it's not as powerful as wholly defensive raiments, and with it Cyrus is innordinately strong, fast and tough, posessed of amazing stamina and pain tolerance and gifted with enhanced senses to keep up with his body. In exchange it lacks the more complex uses and applications of other Raiments, makes the use of weapons or implements practically impossible (as they tend to simply shatter from the Raiment's power), limits the use of most Magistra (though this could very well be a trait of Cyrus' personality as well) and, perhaps worst of all, the Soulforged is seemingly permanently attached to Cyrus' body. The only reprieve from this is that the helmet is not a permanent manifestation, only forming around the user's head to initiate combat.

Skills: Spectacular unarmed fighter, skilled at wilderness survival, decent knowledge of flora and fauna, extremely capable athletics (good climber, swimmer, runner, etc).

Magistra:
-Dread Roar: Taking a moment to breathe in as much air as possible, Cyrus can release a bloodcurdling howl that creates a powerful sonic blast. The attack can cause pain and disorientation as well as knock back light objects in a small area, but its main use is to scream directly at someone close by, potentially shattering their eardrums.

[Lionheart]

Zero, Kumo, and Princess your characters are accepted. As such I shall begin work on the IC and hopefully have it posted sometime tonight!

[Zero Hex]

hm I just realized I forgot to add general athletics to Cyrus' skills, kinda rushed through the bio. It's cool if I add that in right?

[chukklehed]

Minato can ride a horse, but he hasn't exactly mastered it so i didn't put it down.

[Lionheart]

Yeah, go right ahead Zero, whatever skills fit the character are perfectly fine.

[chukklehed]

Does "extreme environmental resiliance" count as a skill? That is, the ability to stand out in freezing rain or walk across a scorching desert and not even complain about it?

[ERode]

Still have room here?

Might be interested in joining, cause I have way too many fantasy characters lying around.

[chukklehed]

ERode said
Still have room here?Might be interested in joining, cause I have way too many fantasy characters lying around.

I think we had a cutoff, but I totally know that feeling.

[Lionheart]

ERode said
Still have room here?Might be interested in joining, cause I have way too many fantasy characters lying around.

Sure, read the OP and get a character sheet up. Also, now with eight players, nine if I count myself, I declare this RP officially closed to new applicants. That is unless people start dropping.

[chukklehed]

Saw the first post and thought "Minato NEEDS to be able to call that hawk" So I'm adding animal husbandry to his skills.

[Gisk]

That seems like a massive copout to me, Chuck.

So I ruined it.

[Kumori Master]

Gisk said
That seems like a massive copout to me, Chuck. So I ruined it.

I'm in agreement to some extent. I think the bird was supposed to have more of a purpose than simply waking the characters up. At least, that's how Lionheart made it seem.

[chukklehed]

I don't think we actually have our regalia guys. Pretty sure that, being rookies, today is the day of the ritual. Notice minato only has one sword.

Also I really don't see how it's a copout, since the bird has little meaning whatsoever.