[OOC] The Relics

[BingTheWing]

1. I meant to say he wore it as a necklace around his neck. Sorry. O_O
2. I don't exactly what you know by that (I'm not that great with Relic lore), but when he uses it for too long and keeps using it to augment strenuous movements (like backflips), and if he does a lot of them, his energy is used up. So yeah, probably his own willpower.
3. Definitely the second type.
4. I'd take your suggestion on that.
5. Probably the royal guard.
6. Maybe an outstanding member of the local village militia. He's been in his village up until he reached sixteen.
7. Bandits.
8. Bandits.
9. No relations. I may fix that later as he meets more people IC.
10. Maybe in the heat of battle, when no one really pays attention to what he's doing as long as he doesn't make it too extreme.
11. Eh, just imagine him taking on ten guys at once with it playing in the background?
12. Sure.

[Legion020]

I'm not sure if i'm allowed to but i wrote out some lore for the Kalnach way of goverment. As i'm planning to make my charachter a Kalnachian. I'll just post it here and i guess you can tell me if anything is wrong.

Kalnach Goverment

Kalnach goverment is extremely divided. There is a small royal family that holds the capital, Northpoint and the lands around. They still hold the most power in Kalnach. Each lord must swear featly to his king when he inherits his late father’s titles, lands and honors. All nobles also need to pay taxes based on the income of your land.

Under the kalnachian King you have the noble houses. These constantly strive for power, lands and gold. These houses are often ruled by the family who’s last name is the name of the house. (For example: House Aurelion is ruled by the Aurelion family). Only for this fact blood lines are very important. Great families will often try to retrace their line to great heroes of old. Houses mostly gain power through gaining favors, buying land or arranging marriage with other houses.

Marriage is entirely controlled by the father of the girl that is to be wed. Sometimes the brothers might object and another suitable proposal is found. However, most women are married to older, cruel or boring men. Singers and tales might fill their heart with the concept of ‘true love’. Which makes them flee their father’s hold. If this would occur, the father mostly sends out forces to find her. If she is found by a lesser house, there is a reward. If the girl if found by another house, that house has 2 options: Force the girl into a marriage or returning her to the father (and gain a favor). If she would be able to cross the border to another land, the father must denounce her and forever refuse her as a daughter. Most men have no trouble with this.

Lesser Houses are noble houses sworn to greater houses. Most own holds and keeps and the land around it. They pay taxes to the greater house above them. Lesser houses often gather as much favors from their greater house in the hopes of gaining more power and land. Unruly houses are often punished (by taking their sons or raising taxes). However, it has happened that, when the lesser house would no longer obey its greater house, that said greater house would summon its banners and march down on the lesser house, destroying the bloodline.

Knights are often the second and third born son of a lord. The lord’s title and lands go to his first born son (or second born if the firstborn dies. Women cannot inherit land or power). Second born sons take up knighthood under their father’s banner. Though sometimes their skill is good enough to be called into service of the greater house. Conquered land or land without a true heir (bastards can never inherit land) can be given to a knight, effectively raising him to lord.

Bastards half noble born are often left with the none-noble family, as they form a disgrace for the family. When both the mother and the father are nobles, things get more troublesome. When neither are married, they will be forced to. Even if neither of the houses like it. If one or both are married, both families gather and discuss the issue. In this discussion it is decided which family will take in the child. Mostly the less powerful will be forced to. It is forbidden by royal law to disband or kill a noble born baby. Even if he’s a bastard. Bastards have no rights, meaning they cannot use neither family name, nor banner, nor can they inherit land. However, they can be raised to knighthood and acknowledged as a true born son. From there they can be given a lordship. But he still cannot inherit land.

[BingTheWing]

Hey, Ellri, I'm scrapping Ajax in favor of a new character concept. Ok with you?

[Ellri]

It's not as if we can stop you, bingthewing...

We'll look over the lore suggestion later.

[Fallenreaper]

Alright, yesterday got a little crazy but I'll have a post up tonight ASAP and bring Roan into the IC shortly.

[AlidaMaria]

No pressure Fallen, it's better to take a long while and come up with a good post than to hurry and be dissatisfied with it (though I am looking forward to it!)
-I doubt that I needed to tell you that, but well... I did it anyway ;p-

[Sep]

I kinda wanna collab for malich, but dunno who with.

[BingTheWing]

Ellri, can we have allegiances to 'sub-factions', e.g merchant guilds based in Amaryth? Or what about factions that aren't countries, e.g independent trading ships? Or maybe a secret circle? A thieves' guild?

I'm also suggesting a sort of intelligence force among the common folk in Othea. For example, an agent would masquerade himself as a minstrel and have plenty of access to all sorts of gossip in a tavern. Gossip could be the latest on thieves' guilds, whereabouts of important people and even potential rebellions. It sounds more Kalesian than Othean, but I have no idea what kind of Kalesian agent like that would be doing in Amaryth. Or it could be a foreign espionage unit left over from Othea's wartime days.

[Sundered Echo]

I'm already working on a concept for Kalesian intelligence in Amaryth.
Did you really think the Kalesian Embassy was there solely to represent the Empires interests politically? *Grins evilly*

Also, LiverisGood, I may have an idea concerning your character, if you are interested - though it may take her out of her terrible patrols...
Basically, Alessia would request her as a local guide and guard. It would be a foreign dignitary turning down all the offered (male) soldiers for the task in favor of the female evoker.

[Ellri]

We suppose guilds exist... No reason for them not to do so. However, we doubt most guilds have much close contact with similar guilds in other kingdoms. There would not be any guilds that span all of Azukhar. There are too many conflicts of interest.

Some guilds might have some contacts with guilds in other nations. Thieves guilds probably don't have much reach, if they exist in any organized fashion.

[Fallenreaper]

Finally, posted!!! Enjoy it.

@ Apokalipse: I'm not sure how you want to enter into that scene but feel free to jump in however. If she's watching him, Roan might notice and we can hop into a collab or something. Also I finally found an image, though it's among others, which best depicts what Roan looks like when he movers on all fours in his beast mode to help with visualization if you need it-

look here

On top: the first one is likely a normal wolf or large canine/second is likely a dire wolf or what the Kalesian Empire stand-in would be/ the third is Roan's beast mode stance.

On the middle/bottom: shows a bit of his galloping run, four legged stance in combat, etc.

It's easy to see how Roan can be mistaken for a Kalesian beast or a mutated wolf in a way, which might help in attracting anyone's attention to interact. From what Echo said, its not common for Kalesian beasts to be in other areas so Ellri, if I'm wrong blame Echo for the false information! Either way here's some things to note:

1. Over the last few days, Roan has been pillaging needed things and only what he needs. Nothing major so there's likely various sightings of a strange wolf like beast on the prowl near human residents or forested areas. Anyone traveling is likely to at least note or caught a glimpse of it if they went near the forested area near the Karak Claw Mountains.

2. He's only encountered a few bandits here and there since he can easily avoid them due to his nose. The few foolish enough to attack were victims to his wolf's hunger, mainly to stay silent about his evoker status and location. If anyone wants to play off this fact go for it.

3. Before anyone asks, during that memory Roan had been in his wolf for about 10 hours straight and starving so there's a peek at why you need to make sure the wolf is fed. :p His animal side is much stronger when hungry and takes over faster then when he's not eaten recently.

I did my best to follow the established lore and created a scene which I think fit, also thanks to a bit of research over middle age farming, so hopefully it's alright. Roan's location is still slightly vague as I wanted to enable anyone who wanted to encounter would be able to without encountering problems.

[Fallenreaper]

-snip-

Urgh... -_-

[Apokalipse]

Fallenreaper said
Finally, posted!!! Enjoy it. @ Apokalipse: I'm not sure how you want to enter into that scene but feel free to jump in however. If she's watching him, Roan might notice and we can hop into a collab or something.

Let's collab! ^_^ What do you prefer? Google docs, PM, or err...that chat thingy which the name escapes me right now. I plan to have Lavica just huffing around the plains when she notices the beast eating a carcass and then go on from there; if he notices her or not is up to you ^_^ But she probably wouldn't be that quiet.

[Fallenreaper]

Apokalipse said
Let's collab! ^_^ What do you prefer? Google docs, PM, or err...that chat thingy which the name escapes me right now. I plan to have Lavica just huffing around the plains when she notices the beast eating a carcass and then go on from there; if he notices her or not is up to you ^_^ But she probably wouldn't be that quiet.

Alright and I think it's called a titanpad or something like that. Google docs or Titan pads work best for me as for her being that close, it's likely Roan already knows she is there and could be waiting to see her intentions before he does anything. Surprisingly it's very hard for someone to sneak up on a wolf easily and from what I read, it's unlikely Lavica has the ability to do that at all. :p

[Apokalipse]

Fallenreaper said
Alright and I think it's called a titanpad or something like that. Google docs or Titan pads work best for me as for her being that close, it's likely Roan already knows she is there and could be waiting to see her intentions before he does anything. Surprisingly it's very hard for someone to sneak up on a wolf easily and from what I read, it's unlikely Lavica has the ability to do that at all. :p

Probably, but Lavica does overestimate her abilities so keep that in mind since I already started a couple of paragraphs XD

[Fallenreaper]

Apokalipse said
Probably, but Lavica does overestimate her abilities so keep that in mind since I already started a couple of paragraphs XD

Need permission to access first. XD

[Fallenreaper]

Apokalipse said
Probably, but Lavica does overestimate her abilities so keep that in mind since I already started a couple of paragraphs XD

Need permission to access first. XD

[Apokalipse]

That's right -__-

[Fallenreaper]

No problem, happens to me, currently reading up on it right now. :p

[Fallenreaper]

Alright, Apokalpise, after Roan changed he has already covered his tracks and started to move before finding a spot to get dress. I'm sorry if that wasn't very clear in the IC post. XD