[OOC] The Relics

[Sep]

AlidaMaria said
Daww, okay then, well I only mentioned that his mask is sort of the male equivalent of the Vocator Leader's mask, so it'll be fine. A shame that you got rid of all of the counterparts/friends of the characters you convinced me to make xD... (Although that's only three and I've abandoned two of them as well lol.)Speaking of Shin:

None of my chars had you as a friend :P

Ivano tried to kill you, and I can't recall Tyrell meeting any of your chars.

[AlidaMaria]

Sep said
None of my chars had you as a friend :PIvano tried to kill you, and I can't recall Tyrell meeting any of your chars.

D': Butbutbut they had a deep connection that spanned through several previous lives! (or well... their ancestors did at least)
And hey, don't just forget about Numiel, Nuriel and the rest of the Dynasty! (although none of them were really one another's friend xD) You might've abolished it, but that's no reason to just forget about dragging me into godhood rofl :'D

[No Bite and All Bark]

Sorry ive been rather quiet in this thread but ive been working on other things, trying to keep up with the other two GMs, etc.

As for what people have been asking, Ellri covered it all. Magic, as far as its known in this world, is chanelled through relics. Any magic done without a relic is mostly smoke and mirrors, and its doubtful that it exists at all without relics.
The CSs all look good as far as i know but thats more Ellri's specialty.

[Sep]

AlidaMaria said
D': Butbutbut they had a deep connection that spanned through several previous lives! (or well... their ancestors did at least) And hey, don't just forget about Numiel, Nuriel and the rest of the Dynasty! (although none of them were really one another's friend xD) You might've abolished it, but that's no reason to just forget about dragging me into godhood rofl :'D

Oh I forgot about that. Also Ellri told me he's utilizing some of it, mainly the Kheris relic I don't want you to use as my new character will have that kinda relic(Though he won't have unlocked its potential yet and whether he goes good or evil depends on his interactions)

[The Grey Dust]

Well, Here is my humble submission I hope I formatted everything correctly...

Morgan

Name: Morgan
Age: 3
Gender: ???
Faction/Allegiance: Lady Deltrith

Relic Description: The Key to the Umbra Gate.
This immaterial relic is itself nothing more than a shadow, which manifests its binding unto Morgan by replacing Morgan’s own shadow. The shadow itself appears as a small skeleton key and is only revealed when light strikes upon a wicked-looking dagger to cast itself upon the surfaces. Make no mistake the dagger itself is not the relic, but rather the shadow of the skeleton key that has replaced the shadows of many things Morgan owns. Morgan can use the relic to steal away the shadows it touches. The greatest ability the relic offers is the ability to travel through the whispered realm of Umbra. The Umbra is a darker reflection of the plane parallel to the material world that is linked to the material world through and between shadows. Umbra exists as both a singular linearity and multi-dimensional state similar to an ever-shifting spherical spider web made from a single thread. Thus, imagine travel through Umbra is similar to a single winding road leading to anywhere else a shadow exists.

The relic is called the Key to the Umbra Gate for only shadowless things may enter or leave Umbra, allowing Morgan to pass and even let others pass should Morgan so choose. Although the longer one remains in the Umbra, the greater the chance the Umbra will desire to keep the visitor trapped forever as the unnatural flora and fauna moves against them. Furthermore, while traveling through the Umbra shortens travel time tremendously, it still expends energy to physically travel through it and energy expended in crossing into it as a toll for entry and exit. Prolonged usage will eventually overexert a user to become trapped in one of the two worlds until a short rest.

Appearance: Morgan was not born, but rather made: a vessel for a relic in unnatural birth.



Morgan was created from birth to become the perfect tool: an assassin devoted to unerringly killing and unwaveringly serving. Toned perfection of the human body, muscular form made androgynous to captivate either gender to make the knife ever more surprising. Cast to be desirable and alluring with the traits of beauty, grace and power. With albino skin bleached the alabaster white of fallen snow, designed to shimmer and glisten when barely wet to mimic the vitality and strength of marble. A body crafted just tall enough to evoke power, yet short enough to avoid intimidation, with a figure shaped between a feminine hourglass and masculine V. tantalizing curvatures of the flesh pulled throughout, sculpted into and softly chiseled in. Blessed with a serene visage, both soft and defined with arched silvery-brows their fading tips above the pallid cheeks yielding to a squaring-triangular jaw and chin. With ghostly-white fringes of bob-cut hair, falling around as wispy strands draped over the sides of bangs, and a tricky lock crested over the forehead fell over the pale sharp nose and ivory lips as if to part the face with a slash. Such stunning androgynous features would confuse those who gazed too long, as purple-red eyes stared back with stoic lips almost waiting to be opened with an ever so subtle, so allusive smile.
Clothing-wise, Morgan prefers to conceal flesh to the public eye, covered by a dark cloak of satin silk with a drooping low cowl. A secondary cape is draped upon the first cloak sweep as the black satin silk and runic fringe swept from its silver clasp just in front of the right shoulder to fall over the left shoulder as it came back around to be clasped by silver. The silver clasp was ornate, shaped into a triple cresent moon with silver drops of blood dripping into each sickle-shaped bowl.
Beneath the cloak were the daggers, Held fast against the body was a black leather corset, to accentuate those sinuous curves of the flesh. This was such a strange taste in clothing, though perhaps protective, for one with such a boyish chest, the tightness unable to provide any cleavage to tempt any would be suitors. The corset bound up tight with leather-lace wrapped around make out the rounds of those glutes perked in the leap against the leather which wrapt around the pelvic V continued from the corset as if to tease. Those ivory thighs exposed at the generous cut, allowing freedom for those long legs. So tempting perhaps, but around those lovely thighs were leather straps holding a ring of deadly knives ready to be pulled and thrown at a beating heart. Ivory arms, slender yet of strength, were armed in black-leather bracer covered its forearm, enforced with iron plates balanced out the knee-high boots leather-laced up the side, each eyelet pulled and drawn.

Flaws:
Identity – Morgan is in some aspects the alter ego of the Relic’s Sentience. It is Morgan and Morgan is it, thus other than the psychological effect of being created by another before being discarded without any knowledge of identity or purpose, Morgan is also affected by anything that would affect a relic. More severe however is the connection between Morgan and the Relic as removal of one from the other would mean instantaneous death for both.

Inexperience – Morgan has only lived for a relatively short time. As such, very few things are known to Morgan outside of stealth and assassination. The one being who created Morgan abandoned the homunculus, though having instilled in it a natural aptitude for murder, Morgan is nothing more than a sword, waiting to be used by the proper hand.

Skills:
The Shadow – Morgan is quite skilled in the art of being both noticed and unnoticed. Anonymity is afforded when needed with a quick turn of a cloak, while the opposite may lend itself to an invitation. Silently being present, listening rather than speaking, contorting to whatever shape may work best to remain unseen and unheard, as breaths and voice become ventriloquists.

The Dagger – Morgan enjoys art and painting. Morgan also enjoys knives and daggers, and knows quite a deal about how to use them as paintbrushes.

Biography: Created 3 years ago, Morgan was given life through the realm of shadows: the Umbra. Morgan was crafted through a ritual, which had breathed life from the Relic into the cold pale vessel. Somehow instilled with the various arts of assassination, Morgan was to serve as a hidden blade deeply concealed within the metaphorical sleeves of the creator, not as the greatest assassin perhaps, but rather the greatest weapon of the greatest assassin.

However, the creator ultimately deemed Morgan a failure, having failed to instill a mindlessness in lieu of the Relic’s own sentience. To which Morgan was not destroyed, but rather unleashed into the world by abandonment. To Morgan birth as this was akin to waking up a complete human being yet not knowing who or rather what one was. The innocence of a newborn tainted with the knowledge of dark murder, instantly became lost as Morgan took the first life of an unfortunate soul who had accidentally discovered the Alchemist’s hidden project. The rest of the story is coloured red, as Morgan became a wandering mercenary to find the proper parental figure to serve and perhaps even have a normal “childhood” if one could call it that, with despite all the killing.

The most current position Morgan hold is as a personal retainer Mrs. Elise Deltrith, an Othean upper class noblewoman who had the fortune of enjoying her nobility without her late husband. The Mistress, as Morgan calls her, has taken quite a liking to Morgan and the beautiful plans she has for her dark child.

Personality/motivation: Morgan is a rather hushed being with the silence of a ventriloquist, speaking softly in an entrancing feminine voice seeming to come from nowhere as unmoving lips smile suggestively. Flaunting certain assets, Morgan enjoys the literal arts of murder, death and assassination and holds an innate undying loyalty Morgan has to the current user. Given this, Morgan has mixed feelings with playing with the assassination target and carrying out orders efficiently. However, beyond enforcing the will of others, one does begin to question if Morgan has a will of its own. In as much one could speculate Morgan’s motivation in live is to serve someone, or perhaps something.

Relations: Mrs. Elise Deltrith and her household, a small noble house in Othean, within two days travel of the main capital set in a secluded country side, teamed with a few dozen serfs who run the production of wine.

Final Point - Secrets: (Later)
Theme Song: (Never asked for one of these before, thought it would set the mood while I read CSes. Totally optional.)

[Freeshooter92]

Ellri said
One minor mistake, McHaggis: Amaryth is the Capital of Othea, not the capital of Kalnach. Other than that it should be good. By the way, nice to see you using formatting to make it easier to find different sections. Other than that one thing, we don't see anything that needs changing therein. Once that's fixed, feel free to post it up. First of all: nice to see you including numerous flaws that make sense and limit him noticeably. The one thing we feel is missing is his connection to the established lore. If the nations don't fit, tie him to the geography. While finer details change, its not likely that any major stuff changed. Mountain ranges may have wear, tear and growth, but they do not change on the grand scale in a span of mere centuries. Fix that, and we'd think it should be fairly good to go (unless, of course, the other GMs disagree).EDIT: would you mind adding some formatting to the CS to make it easier for people to browse? (bold, underscore, italics, those sorts of things)Lore:Anyone can write such. Other than Kalesia (which is a pet project of ours) and Da-Hyun and to some degree the Dominion of Idris (which are AlidaMaria's), most nations are entirely free for people to add to. Changes to those two-three should be checked with the people claiming them. Later we imagine that other places will have similar restrictions with different people. One of the chief goals here is that no lore contradicts other lore, and that it sticks roughly to the gameplans imagined by the GM-triune. Adding cities to Othea (and potentially other nations) is something people especially do not need to ask about. There aren't cities there yet because we've not defined them, not because they don't exist.

What do you mean, tie him into things? Specifically? I'd rather not try formatting at this moment, my PC is turbo slow right now.

[Ellri]

Connect him to the lore, freeshooter. Right now, he doesn't really have much of any connection to the lore. As formatting is done in raw code, it shouldn't strain your computer much. Bonding section names on the cs is sufficient.

The Gray Dust: did you read the earlier answers to your questions at all? We specifically stated that all characters have to be alive and human, not artificially animated beings.
Second, the clothing on that image doesn’t make sense in the setting. Those are undergarments plus a cloak, not full clothes.

[Freeshooter92]

I added a bit to bio, will reformat later.

[Freeshooter92]

What do you mean by bonding section names?

[Fallenreaper]

Freeshooter92 said
What do you mean by bonding section names?

Bolding I think is what he means. Like Name, Age, Gender, etc.

[AlidaMaria]

Ellri said
did you read the earlier answers to your questions at all? We specifically stated that all characters have to be alive and human, artificially animated beings. Second, the clothing on that image doesn’t make sense in the setting. Those are undergarments plus a cloak, not full clothes.

I'd like to add that while your concept is really interesting, especially the part about Umbra (but well, I'm a sucker for lore xD), I find it a bit disturbing that it appears to me that the relic has been forged three years ago. The secret of creating relics has been lost to time, so to me it would seem better if Morgan was 1. Human and 2. Locked in Umbra for a very, very long period of time, she was granted her relic which had been lost there as well, taught the ways of assassination but not anything else and pushed out into Azukhar to make some kills.

If this is already what you meant to say, then I'm sorry for summarising her history in such a crude way. However, I really have to agree with Ellri that she will have to be human. Perhaps a human with little emotion and social experience, molded to fit the relic (much like the Vocators are), but still... Deep dowm human.

[BingTheWing]

Alright, here's my lore! If anyone hasn't posted yet. A character concept is on the way, but I found this easier to do. Always open to ideas PMed or posted in the OOC.

The Haunted Hills

The Haunted Hills is not officially recognized as a nation by the Azukharian High Council, but unofficially it is a region of tainted decay, darkness and generally hell on earth for the Azukharians as a whole. Many have journeyed into the Hills' hellish wastes, and fewer have returned to tell the tale. Usually, the experience is so traumatic that the survivors are usually in a physically and mentally unfit state to give a full recount of their misadventures. Besides its dark nature, there is no general consensus between Azukharian scholars and the Holy Order of Idris about its origins. But there have been some eyewitness accounts from lost explorers and military patrols.

"Patrolling the border of the Haunted Hills ain't a walk in the park, I tell you. The sky turns blood red once you get a week's march away from it, and it darkens into permanent night once you're within eyeshot. The border between Azukhar and this hellish land is this huge, misshapen wall of black rock with this eerie drawbridge with what were probably watchtowers flanking it. A mound of something just barely peeks out from behind the rock. Sometimes, I don't know if my imagination is playing tricks on my mind because I see these faint blue torches flickering about for a few seconds. Maybe a will o' the wisp, I don't know. Who knows in the Haunted Hills?

The wall stretches out into the murky distance until you can see no more or if you're too creeped out to let your eyes venture further. When we set camp as close as possible to where the boys felt it was safe, it wasn't. In one night there were twenty cases of food poisoning from blackened rations, and four cases of demonic possession of which three our exorcist cast out. The fourth demon made his body run into the mist. I never saw him again. And of course, nightmares affected everyone. My report to you, mister ethics man, is that the Haunted Hills is absolutely MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY UNSAFE FOR MILITARY PATROL."

- Captain Rorrick Elborne of the 117th Cohort of the Othean Royal Army, in an oral report to a representative of the Royal Ethics Committee

The Holy Order of Idris has its own explanation for the Haunted Hills, taken from their holy book The Thousand Tomes.

"Five hundred years later, when the Great Paladin Alor Hennith hath already ascendeth to the Divine Gates, and the Great Emperor Jalen the Last was in his twenty-fourth year of reign, the vile necromancer Lord Ghoul, servant of the Unspoken One, resurrected himself from his vanquished state from his war with Alor, through his Darkest Arts in the plains of Arythya, with one fault: he hath no eye in his left socket, it was said that that eye saw the most evil in himself. Then he surveyed the land, and found it horrendously pleasing in his horrid eyes, and crafted for himself a fortress that he might stay himself from the holy judgement of Idris. The good people of Arythya perished in one dark flame, and the Old Kingdom began to decay into ruin. The people cried out for Alor Hennith, the Valiant One, to descend the Stairs of Heaven and vanquish this new threat, but alas, Alor stayed his judgement. Then, Ghoul crafted a great cauldron, more than a thousand Angels in width, and mixed all his evilness, his vileness, his madness, into that cauldron. To complete his concoction, he found his Eye, and thrust it into the cauldron. And at that very moment, Azukhar broke asunder, yielding to Ghoul's evil, and all the people perished, and the Old Kingdom was no more.

And hence, from the Cauldron's Dark Moment, from Arythrya's once flat realm burst five hills, for the five Hated Deeds that every man hath committed, and if the said man does not yield to Idris, he will fall into the Great Abyss of the Unspoken One. And hark, here are the Hills, in kind and in number:

The Hill of Want, for those that wrongfully covet gold and immorality from others curry favor not with Idris,

The Hill of Death, for those that send innocents to death do unto themselves,

The Hill of Pride, for those that hold themselves above all others are condemned to be thrown to below all others,

The Hill of Sloth, for those that do not earn their lot will toil for it in the Abyss,

The Hill of Blasphemy, for those that preacheth against Idris are the worst in His eyes."

- Tome 506: 48-76

Meanwhile, scholars and sages dismiss Lord Ghoul and the Cauldron, but they agree that what formed the Haunted Hills probably was the epicenter of the cataclysm that ended the Old Kingdom, and that there was a country called Arythya, the precise history of the Emperor's reigns, and the Five Hills are geographically correct. Some people propose that the Hills were the location of the Old Kingdom's capital. But no one has come to definite facts... yet.

[AlidaMaria]

I have a few comment on that, Bing, but I really like the general idea as well as the simple fact that you came up with lore xD Would you mind it if I send you a pm with my comments? (For the sake of not spamming the OOC)

[The Grey Dust]

AlidaMaria said
I'd like to add that while your concept is really interesting, especially the part about Umbra (but well, I'm a sucker for lore xD), I find it a bit disturbing that it appears to me that the relic has been forged three years ago. The secret of creating relics has been lost to time, so to me it would seem better if Morgan was 1. Human and 2. Locked in Umbra for a very, very long period of time, she was granted her relic which had been lost there as well, taught the ways of assassination but not anything else and pushed out into Azukhar to make some kills.If this is already what you meant to say, then I'm sorry for summarising her history in such a crude way. However, I really have to agree with Ellri that she will have to be human. Perhaps a human with little emotion and social experience, molded to fit the relic (much like the Vocators are), but still... Deep dowm human.

Ah very well. A few edits to be made. This was actually a character from another RP from another time. And well done on using the first gender pronouns!
In a sense, Morgan is human, or rather was however (the whole idea would be for Morgan to learn how to become a human once more, as Morgan does show emotions and an inborn fanatical attachment to a person), in as such perhaps making Morgan a more human being would be fine, although I'd have to tweak the character concept a tad. Or perhaps go with the person who did create Morgan in lieu of using Morgan. As for the cloak and garb, well Morgan was put up to be a seductive femme-fatale (of unknown gender, hence finding the right outfit is difficult) however I suppose we can go with a more darkened aspect of things, creating a costume now becomes the issue. Perhaps something more...

[AlidaMaria]

Yeah I can imagine that. Great to see that you're open for suggestions :)
Speaking of which, I have a few other suggestions for you.

How about the flow of time in Umbra works differently from that in Azukhar? That way, we could say that Morgan is... Let's say 25 years old (your call of course), speaking in Umbraïn time and appearance, but dissappeared from Azkhar as a child around 250 years ago. Basically, it would mean that she hasn't aged as much as she would have on Azukhar. That way she (yep, I'm just sticking with the 'she' even though Morgan is genderless, just for the sake of being practical xD) wouldn't know a thing about what's going on in the world, have no family members or connections on Azukhar and she won't have an idea where she came from or if that place even still exists. Moreover, spending 250 years in another realm would make her completely alienated to Azukhar and would make it very likely for her to become twisted in a way that she's barely human any longer. I suppose she could have gotten stuck in Umbra due to a previous wielder of the key. Figuring out how on Azukhar that happened is up to you (if you're going with this idea lol).

Another option is that as soon as she entered Umbra for the first time, she lost her memory, or she was too young to remember anything about her time on Azukhar.

As for Morgan's clothing, I think tights and a top or simply a closed cloak will help a lot to get rid of the undergarment feeling, without having to lose much of the sex-appeal (I suppose you made the picture yourself? If not, I can totally understand that even small changes will be rather hard to do.)

All of these are suggestions, so feel free to ignore or incorporate them :)

[BingTheWing]

AlidaMaria said
I have a few comment on that, Bing, but I really like the general idea as well as the simple fact that you came up with lore xD Would you mind it if I send you a pm with my comments? (For the sake of not spamming the OOC)

Go ahead. :D This WAS my first time writing lore so bound to be corrections.

@GMs, I recommend a lore sheet skelly. Pls? Would make reading different lores easier.

[AlidaMaria]

BingTheWing said
Go ahead. :D This WAS my first time writing lore so bound to be corrections.@GMs, I recommend a lore sheet skelly. Pls? Would make reading different lores easier.

Good suggestion, I'll propose a format to my fellow gms. Though lore tends to be a bit unstructured, but we'll see what's possible :3

Also, a mega pm is coming your way as we speak xD (Also, I must say that you got the tone right for lore, it really sounded like an old scroll lol)

[Ellri]

The thing with clothes that do not cover properly is that they will end up biting you when bad weather comes around. We don't mind clothes making characters look seductive, so long as they make sense for a medieval society. Doesn't matter if you go for dress, tunic, pants, robes, etc... That can all depend on specific culture in one nation or other. The more balanced gender-wise a society is, the more likely it is for clothes to be practical for women too.
We doubt women dress equally to men in the Dominion of Idris, for example. After all, they are hardly more than property there. If you're going for "femme fatale", we would guess a suit of say, form-fitting leather would portray the right image. It could also serve as partial armor as a bonus. (think a bit like the mord-sith from the sword of truth series)
An easily discarded, thick woolen Cloak could add necessary protection from elements to such. Woolen lining (on the leather) might also be beneficial.

[Freeshooter92]

Welp, bolded it, and once again there's a little bit added to his bio.

[The Grey Dust]

AlidaMaria said
Yeah I can imagine that. Great to see that you're open for suggestions :)Speaking of which, I have a few other suggestions for you. How about the flow of time in Umbra works differently from that in Azukhar? That way, we could say that Morgan is... Let's say 25 years old (your call of course), speaking in Umbraïn time and appearance, but dissappeared from Azkhar as a child around 250 years ago. Basically, it would mean that she hasn't aged as much as she would have on Azukhar. That way she (yep, I'm just sticking with the 'she' even though Morgan is genderless, just for the sake of being practical xD) wouldn't know a thing about what's going on in the world, have no family members or connections on Azukhar and she won't have an idea where she came from or if that place even still exists. Moreover, spending 250 years in another realm would make her completely alienated to Azukhar and would make it very likely for her to become twisted in a way that she's barely human any longer. I suppose she could have gotten stuck in Umbra due to a previous wielder of the key. Figuring out how on Azukhar that happened is up to you (if you're going with this idea lol).Another option is that as soon as she entered Umbra for the first time, she lost her memory, or she was too young to remember anything about her time on Azukhar. As for Morgan's clothing, I think tights and a top or simply a closed cloak will help a lot to get rid of the undergarment feeling, without having to lose much of the sex-appeal (I suppose you made the picture yourself? If not, I can totally understand that even small changes will be rather hard to do.)All of these are suggestions, so feel free to ignore or incorporate them :)

very good suggestions. Yes, as you mentioned there actually is an aspect of time dilation in Umbra. Although I do not believe the rate to be 10:1, albeit one does have to ask what is the concept of an hour in world of shadows? It would be a viable option to have Morgan enter in as a child and progressively age in the Umbra, although the Umbra tends to make all things which reside in it permanent. And the issue of losing the Relic to Open the Umbra in the Umbra itself is akin to having lost a pair of keys inside the car... I suppose it could work and Morgan is the child of the original user of the relic died in the Umbra to escape the infighting years ago? Which would make Morgan physically around 25-28 but have merely survival instincts and basic communication skills. Thank you greatly for the ideas.

The cloak is actually a full body which goes all the way around to remove the undergarment feel of things (although I had to leave the cloak open to allow arms and legs and other things to be demonstrated, in as such the edges of the inner cloak are actually being pulled back, while the outer cape is being flung open on the stage left side.) And as for concerns of temperature and the elements, Morgan could simply reside in the Umbra should a blizzard set in, while living in the Umbra is difficult due to the nature of the realm as it seeks to keep you (the trees for example, are sentient beings which tend to move their ancient branches to entangle you and roots to trip you before ensnaring you between their woody malice and let you become an addition to the Fey Forest) it is far more forgiving with respect to the lack of weather, Please let not the image act as so much an interpretation but rather a guideline. The Real descriptor is in the text below which does describe the corset as actually a piece of armor I believe. I'll work on fitting Morgan with a more definitive gender ambiguous regalia in a moment.

New Concept?