Dark Souls, Anyone?

[Silent Esper]

Hey, would anyone be interested in a roleplay based on Dark Souls? I don't have much of a concept yet, but if people are interested we could work together to establish a story that would fit. The lore of Dark Souls is really elaborate and awesome, and it would be a lot of fun to roleplay.

If anyone hasn't heard of Dark Souls before, it's a video game about an undead's journey to you can check out this lovely video to get an idea...

Also, here's a lore page on the wiki that might help. http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Lore

So, anyone interested?

[Winter]

I might be interested. Where would you stand on races, classes etc?

[Silent Esper]

I'd have to say that most, if not all players would be undead, maybe some un-cursed humans if the plot allows it. I say this because in Dark Souls there's not much in the way of sentient races that aren't just too drastically different from humans to work out. So probably no elves or dwarves or anything like that, but if someone can create a unique character that fits into the lore of Dark Souls, I'd be fine with that.

There won't be any set classes or anything, you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as it makes sense and isn't overpowered. Sorcery, dark magic, plain old swords and shields, anything that would go well with the plot of Dark Souls is perfectly fine with me.

[Hunter of Shadows]

Yes, I'm interested

And there are Dwarves in Dark Souls mister Esper, they're just a form of mutant human

[Silent Esper]

Ah, do you mean the gyrm? I forgot about them completely, mistake on my part.

Yay, interest! I hope we're able to start this up. If anyone has ideas, feel free to say them :3

[eemmtt]

im interested in this.

[Hunter of Shadows]

Silent Esper said
Ah, do you mean the gyrm? I forgot about them completely, mistake on my part.Yay, interest! I hope we're able to start this up. If anyone has ideas, feel free to say them :3

Yup, the Grym, Gyrm or however you spell it, and I'm sure there could be something that's elven like.

As for ideas I don't know, I'd have to think

[Winter]

Silent Esper said
I'd have to say that most, if not all players would be undead, maybe some un-cursed humans if the plot allows it. I say this because in Dark Souls there's not much in the way of sentient races that aren't just too drastically different from humans to work out. So probably no elves or dwarves or anything like that, but if someone can create a unique character that fits into the lore of Dark Souls, I'd be fine with that.There won't be any set classes or anything, you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as it makes sense and isn't overpowered. Sorcery, dark magic, plain old swords and shields, anything that would go well with the plot of Dark Souls is perfectly fine with me.

Hmm ok. I'm interested.

[Silent Esper]

Okay cool, there's four of us now! I don't have much in the way of ideas yet, but I'll brainstorm ideas and we can all agree on what we want in the roleplay.

[Winter]

I think it would be nice if we took on a new place with it's own lore within the DS world. I don't think we should reuse Drangleic. I mean we could, but it'd me more interesting to explore a new kingdom which bordered it with it's own tales and grim stories, don't you think?

[eemmtt]

That could be very cool.

[Silent Esper]

Yeah, I think it'd be cool if we made something original to roleplay in, but I think it would also be cool if we had our storyline focused around the first flame. I'm not exactly sure how we could do that, way later in history, like the transformation between Lordran and Drangleic, though I don't believe we could actually work that out.

Another idea though, perhaps we could do an alternate ending of Dark Souls 1? From the events of Dark Souls 2, it pretty much makes it known that the Chosen Undead kindled the first flame, but what if he didn't? I'm not an expert in Dark Souls lore, but what do you all think about this? Perhaps the first flame went out, and the world was thrust into the Age of Dark. The Age of Dark setting in would cause abyss to spread across the world, and possibly all humans to become undead, though I'm not sure how that works exactly. I was thinking that maybe the only sources of hope left would be the lord souls/soul shards, the ones from Gwyn, The Witch of Izalith, Gravelord Nito, and the Furtive Pygmy. This would only be a legend to the remnants of the living humans/undeads, but I was thinking that our characters would be attempting to find these souls.

I'm not sure if that even makes sense, but that's an idea I have now. Not anything official, just something I wanna throw in. What do you all think about a story like this?

[drallinix]

I want in I want to be a dark wizard.

[Winter]

The idea plays nicely story wise, I'm just not a big fan of reusing the bosses etc. I think we could get more creative then that. Also, I'd want to chose a Sorceress using Hexes.

[Silent Esper]

I wasn't planning on using the same bosses, this would be farther in the future. The lord souls would be in other beings by then, ones that we could create. We would have room to create what we want, but still stick to Dark Souls lore at the same time.

Sorta like how you The Old Iron King possessed the Old King Soul in Dark Souls 2, which was said to be either Gwyn's soul or a part of it, we could have our own different bosses that're hosting the souls.

[Winter]

Oh ok. Well it could work, but I'd have to leave that to you. I only know the second game as I watched an LP for the first instead of playing it myself.

[Kokurokoki]

The thing is you could technically have multiple demi-human races to the souls RP and it wouldn't change anything. Just give them some backstory as to why they are relevant and how they came about.

Remember that in the Dark series of the Souls franchise, it has been stated that countless kingdoms have risen and fallen throughout time. We could easily make a case for Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins and the like being that they were descendant from a Lord or a Chosen Undead who's accumulation of souls warped his biology which was then passed onto his children. Or heck, you could have these races be a result of experimentation with souls and living beings. The Lion Warriors from Dark Souls 2 are a demi-human race (one of the first I might add), and it is heavily implied that they came about through human experimentation.

[Silent Esper]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind some people playing as races such as that, from experimentation or otherwise, but I'd like to stick to undead characters for the most part. I feel like if there were a ton of characters playing as non-canon races it wouldn't fit the whole Dark Souls atmosphere. I'm not trying to restrict creativity, but there's roleplays where numerous races work and there's ones where they don't, and I don't think they'd work in a world such as this.

I'm gonna get to work on an opening and the such soon, and get some more ideas to start off with. If anyone wants to throw some more ideas in, please feel free! :)

[Pathfinder]

Interested.

[Silent Esper]

I'll try and get an outline of the thread done by tonight, but I won't have computer access for some hours. Also, what do you guys say when it comes to worldbuilding around Lordran? The roleplay would be at least a few hundred years after the chosen undead became the dark lord in our little alternate storyline, so that will give ys enough leeway to create what we want for the most part. With the abyss spreading and the darkness setting in, a large amount of land and creatures will be corrupted. We also need to find a way for our characters to actually get there in the first place.

I have most of the pieces together, so hopefully we can get an OOC started up soon