[OOC] Where Angels Fear to Tread (Community Revived Edition)

[Rockette]

Love Norse Mythology.

[Nephriel]

As do I, my friend... as do I. XD

[Naunix]

Yeah sorry I know it is a bit abrupt, but how else do you get a vampire hunter to be somewhere and get easily noticed by the nearby players without killing a few vampires? lol

[Wraithblade6]

Character Name: Ilyndriel "Lyn" Shadowsong

Species: Night Elf

Species description:

Lyn is from a small, obscure community of tall elves far to the east who, for the most part keep to themselves and are generally unheard of in the rest of Eulona. Something unique about them is that arcane magic is banned by their leaders. However, druidism and holy magic are permitted and have been practiced since ancient times. The night elves, as you can imagine, tend to do their sleeping in the day, and are very protective of their forest. They are a predominantly matriarchal society, with the males normally expected to become druids unless they are unable for some reason. Like all elves, they are noble, long-lived, and proud. Night elves have a strong respect for nature and respect wild creatures. The deity of their people is the goddess of the moon.

Their skin can vary in color from that of pale moonlight to deep ashen or shades of violet. Most night elves have yellow, glowing eyes. They are tall, with their bear-like warriors being quite immense and intimidating, certainly formidable matches to the strongest orcs. They tend to have thick hair of various colors, but typically green, blue, or black.

Gender: Male

Noteworthy Abilities / Limitations:

Lyn is a priest of the moon goddess who specializes in healing and defense. Calling on his deity, he can use holy magic that is either of the domain of light or shadow. He can cast a shield on himself or others, heal wounds, dispell enchantments, and levitate. Among his offensive abilities, he has limited mind-control, which would be simmilar to mesmerizing or hypnotizing an individual. He can also assume a shadowform, which minimizes damage taken from spell or physical attacks. Fear and pain are among his shadow spells as well.

Night elves also have the innate ability to phase out, becoming nearly invisable if they hold perfectly still. They call this shadowmelding. A few of them can do it very quickly, appearing to blink out of visiability for a brief second.

Lyn... is fairly bad with weapons. Dear god, don't let him near explosives.

Background: Ilyndriel is the "illegitimate" child of Jarod Shadowsong and Shandris Feathermoon. Jarod was a great general in the ancient war on the demons, which was barely won. It was Jarod's elder sister who was the great warrior, but she was not a leader. Jarod himself was nothing more than a bumpkin, a peon, recruited out of necessity. Yet, in the darkest hour, when all their leaders had been killed, he stepped up to organize the greatest army the world had ever seen, leading the last of his people, allies of other races, and even demigods in a single, unified push to oust the demon forces. Reluctant as he was, he saved the world from complete destruction. Shandris, was a young child at the time of the war, much too young for Jarod. It was even further taboo that they were of opposite social caste. Night elves don't get married like many other races, yet... Ilyndriel was definitely unexpected.

Appearance:

I can't find a great image, but imagine a mesh of these two:





Lyn has light, silvery-blue skin and uniquely bright, light-blue hair that he lets "do as it will," hanging down his back. Long, knife-like ears stick out the back of his head. He's lean and fit from traveling, but he doesn't have the muscle of a fighter. He wears cloth robes, and carries a simple metal staff with a small glowing white orb in the heart of a cresent at the top. On his back is a travelling pack, with a particular box with a lock on it, wrapped in runes of every language that read, "DANGER! Do Not Open! Not Cookies!"

Reason for Detainment: Not sure where we are starting Lyn off. He's a peace-loving type, probably sympathetic to the elves of Nillanor. He's a protector and a priest, and a warrior against demons and evils and the like in general.

[Rockette]

Naunix said
Yeah sorry I know it is a bit abrupt, but how else do you get a vampire hunter to be somewhere and get easily noticed by the nearby players without killing a few vampires? lol

Hey, you gotta do whatever it takes sometimes.

Wraithblade6 said
Ilyndriel "Lyn" Shadowsong

Oh neat, another elf!
-Begins to read-

[Lotta Pumpkins]

So many elves. Wish I did my human golem combo lol

[Nephriel]

Lol, that would have been different but Kyrtaar is pretty cool too.

[The Roman07]

Ilyndriel "Lyn" Shadowsong- Okay he is quite unique to say the least. If it was anybody aside from Wraith id say Nuh uh but I believe Hammond gave wraith and Wiz diplomatic immunity before we were crowned Duke of bacon and dutchess of beer so...... yea..... my vote says accepted. Rocky??

[Rockette]

Well, it's as you say, they have immunity.
Has my vote!

Though I'm curious about the moon goddess.
The lore everyone brings fascinates me.

[The Roman07]

Sorry guys, crazy night at work tonight so it might be a little bit before I get a chance to post :( if not early in the morning than definately tomorrow at latest. Rin is so far behind right now its bleh!

[SyrianHamster]

Guilty Spark said
I know you said gold mask, but this is the first thing that comes to mind.(The Leper, King Baldwin the Fourth. For those that didn't know.)

I'll be honest, Baldwin served his part in creating Jazeer. I needed the Crown Prince to be a physically weak man, and I thought about the various things that could cause someone to degenerate so cruelly - then I remembered Baldwin. Add the magical wards needed to keep the bacterium from devouring the rest of his nervous and respiratory systems, and boom, you also have chemotherapy thrown into the mix. Poor little guy.

Rockette said
Ah I was thinking the same thing, Spark.I can easily colour it to be gold, if you'd like to use it for his sheet, Hammy-ham.

I'd like that, if you could? Would make it easier for people to visualise him.

[SyrianHamster]

Wraithblade6 said
Ilyndriel "Lyn" Shadowsong

So long as I don't get a law suit levelled against me from Blizzard, I have no problem with this at all.

Accepted!

On a side note, what are we doing about Nillanor's geography? I am happy for people to create maps of their own, if they wish to contribute to the RP creatively. That was the original idea, if memory serves - that Eulona would be made up from everyone's input. However I am ready/willing/able to do them myself if needs be.

Oh, and with Baalor - I guess you could compare it to Osgiliath from the theatrical LOTR if you needed a point of reference to what kind of place it is.

[Steel fist]

@Rockete: Thanks :)
@Pathfinder: Would you be a civilized person, please! You don't have to eat the damn boar, Shorus brought it because per his understanding it's a good gift for someone who just woke up from a coma.
And also, everyone is waiting for you for a month in the "Call of Ruin" RP, either post their or inform in their OOC that you bale.

[Lotta Pumpkins]

Didn't king Baldwin actually like, go into battle and kill people and win victories though?

[Nephriel]

@Stefan Till the disease progressed too far I think he did.

Edit: Also, Rockette.... have I told you how much I love your posts. XD

[Nephriel]

@Hamster I have ideas for Nillanor but... not sure my place names would fit the play. X.x I was going to make another character too... a human since we have lots of elves and I usually play multiple characters in my rps but I don't want to overload us either...

[SyrianHamster]

Stefan0620 said
Didn't king Baldwin actually like, go into battle and kill people and win victories though?

He beat Saladin whilst blind and carried on a stretcher, Baldwin was bad ass.

Nephriel said
@Hamster I have ideas for Nillanor but... not sure my place names would fit the play. X.x I was going to make another character too... a human since we have lots of elves and I usually play multiple characters in my rps but I don't want to overload us either...

Nillanor is home to the High Elves, you can't go wrong with names for them, they're tarts. Eblistan's histories speak of the Prophet defeating them at the Battle of Crystal Glade, so you know.

EDIT: Yeah we'll need to discuss people having more than one character. I don't imagine it'll be a problem, but my experience in RPing gets a bit naive in this field.

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Writing a post btw. Massive one again, I have to respond to everyone and my brain is starting to hurt! Haha. Great posts though from all.

[SyrianHamster]

1974 words.

If I've missed something, then I apologise and I'll go back and add it. I was quite thorough though, but talking to several people, some of whose posts span a period of time, is no easy task!

The Crown Prince will make his debut tomorrow, to give flesh to the situation. I'm done for now though, perhaps for the day as a whole, it depends on whether or not I need to go get wasted later.

Keep up the good work, all.

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As for 9's shriek, I know you mentioned it brought the guards to their knees in tears etc, but I imagined it would have travelled to some lesser degree to others. I mean the guy's family/peoples/existence just went down the toilet, I bet that kind of scream can be heard from a mile off!

[Guilty Spark]

SyrianHamster said
He beat Saladin whilst blind and carried on a stretcher, Baldwin was bad ass.

In my Jerusalem playthrough of the Crusades Expansion Pack to Medieval II: Total War, Baldwin actually lived long enough to shatter the Golden Horde in a single decisive battle.

[Nephriel]

My post summary is in my Status hider since my post was long this time. :)

Basically:
She admired Kylmie, fussed at the Prince over his rudeness towards 9 though she understood his upset, revealed her own gift, informed the others she'd go ahead and give them time to gather what they needed, spotted the blaze and informed a soldier before heading off to check it out since it was on her way to the horses anyway.