[OOC] Godhood - A Tale of Deities

[SillyGoy]

Neveras

@Cale Tucker

Remove the part where Neveras' sacred weapon can turn into a gun, and he's very much accepted.

[Pie Flavor]

Name: Yakushi Age: Ancient Nature: Independant Harvester of Knowledge, Weaver of Intellect

Backstory

As one of the first several spirits on Ceyr when it was created, Yakushi has always been separated from her kind and always been indulging in what the mortals have done, when not under the control of the spirits of course. She was sure to never be caught showing too much interest in the other race, by keeping to herself and practicing her own thing so when questioned she could easily counter them. Showing them her impressive skill of using the magical arts. But now after the death of the Golden Orb and in the current age, people know Yakushi as person, or whatever she is whether Mortal, Upstart or Ancient everyone knows that she is a powerful person in many ways. She is often known for her mass collection of knowledge in the world and knows about almost anything, whether its just from rumors or ancient texts she usually finds a way to verify facts from lies. She is generally told to be a helpful person to those who are able to find her but there have only been scattered reports about it in Ceyr, and is easily found by the mystical beast that follows her around which stands out like a sore thumb. It is easy to win her favor with the gifts of knowledge of any kind whether musical, artistic or anything else. Knowledge is the best way to win her over, but there are other more tricky ways to earn her favor, one which is to present rare items to her while another would be to give her animals of the same quality as the items. However, presenting fake items would indeed no doubt incite anger upon those who indeed try to trick her, causing her to simply at best give them a simple curse that would last for their life and leave. It is said that she has no permanent place in which she stays however often finds herself in forbidden, restricted and many other places that are often guarded and closed to the public. However if there is one thing that Yakushi is known for, it is her interest with the mortals that makes her an well known person.

Personality

Although not shy, Yakushi is generally perceived as so, as many people do not see her talk a lot or even at all. Its not that she is shy or reclusive, she is just more interested and watching how life goes it's natural flow while doing her own thing hoping people dont mind. It isn't often that you find her talking to people, and that is only when she finds the interesting. However she has a natural curiosity for things and easily is distracted by new things that peak her interest.

Skills and Abilities

Her interest with the mortals has taught her many skills that she has honed to a satisfactory level for Yakushi's standards in which she is happy with. Scientifically, her skills in medicine are advance as it is one of the areas of interest that she likes to indulge in due to the expansiveness that area has and all the possibilities there is to simply solve a problem. Herbology is also included with her knowledge of medicine as she has found out that sometimes these natural remedies are matter in fact better than the artificial things that medicine can produce sometimes. If we were to list all the skills that Yakushi knows it would take days, but we can simply assume that she is a very educated person both in skill and knowledge to be a doctor with the combined knowledge of an library. Outside her interest in the mortal world, her own personal skill that she proudly admits is that she has an impressive encyclopedic knowledge on about almost anything in general. More specific things will need more research and dedication to verify whether they are actual facts or simply nothing at all. Her interest in meddling around with the world has actually effect nations before when she given them tips to their enemies or a piece of knowledge that helped them advance, however she is only done this thrice which was when it was necessary. With her impressive amount of knowledge anything she generally likes to read and can remember anything with an acute accuracy, making her a very talented historian if it ever becomes needed. With her impressive mental forte she excels in the magical arts of many the many branches, however its obvious that she doesn't know all of them which have been kept hidden so well...

Connections

Most of the relationships she has with other Ancients and Upstarts are mostly one-sided due to Yasuki's own curiosity, so she knows at least a little bit of infomation on all the ancients in Ceyr. However even then some of these facts about them are obvious or vague about them. With her own resources she often can dig deeper into the identities of other ancients with some difficulty depending of their power and threat that they present. Ancients Danives: One of the gods that she is interested in, Yakushi is mostly intrigued by the fact that she often loses him due to his main power being able to turn invisible. Anything involved with him is interesting as it is enticing to see what incident will bring with him involved. The assassins that are the followers of Danives are no worries to her as she can overwhelm them with magic both by brute force and strategically as well. However its never bad to be cautious around him, so she usually remains discreet about her works about him. Agimar: An ancient that she knows, who she knows that holds some power in the nations that his followers are in, most of them are people who are in high positions that allow him to manipulate a nation to some degree. While his powers not interesting in any way particular, she notes that his offensive abilities are something to watch out in a fight. Besides that he is not that interesting in many ways, however when she encounters one of his followers she does interfere whenever they are doing their little schemes. Outside messing with his followers she doesn't interact much with Agimar. Hiraga: Hiraga someone she notes to be a person of interest, Yakushi has known her for a long time and it isn't hard to know at least a little bit of the first spirit to live on Ceyr. She knows that Hiraga grants her followers the gift of reincarnation, however into different bodies which may be a good as well as bad thing depending on the scenario. Some of those forms that Yakushi knows her followers reincarnate into are Dryads, Treants and similar creatures which helps aid Hiraga with the land. However outside generally knowledge about her, its best to not get in the way of her as she is an intimidating opponent if she ever becomes one. Rumors circulate about Hiraga's powers but she usually brushes them away til the proof shows up for her to verify them. Upstarts Dust: ...Dust is an interesting individual that Yakushi is currently looking into, however she is definetely interested in him. A creature born from the death and destruction of a now barren land. A creature made from such a violent past is sure to be interesting and not to mention the inherited abilities that Dust earned from his creation. It is more or less a one sided interest from her and she silently watches him with tabs used to keep track of him.

Other

The animal that follows her around, she calls it Caliburn a magical creature that she personally had created by questionable means. By being the one of its kind, Caliburn is a thing that people often do not see, as it is Yakushi's familiar as she is able to communicate to it and command it to do certain task. The creature has its white coat with its noticeable ruby colored gem that it has on its forehead. Its two tails follow behind it as Caliburn is capable of using magic, of most of commonly used branches of magic, however only to the most basic degree. The only exception is that Caliburn is skilled with the use of light magic, both normal and holy as it is able to fend off the undead with some difficulty and can give minor blessings to people. These blessings are a form of holy magic that can also be put into the healing branch as they aften heal or improve the condition of people. With this in mind, if one who knew the creature and it's abilities one could say it could be distantly related to the unicorn or some other pure magical beast.

(I'll just post this here to make it easy)

[SillyGoy]

Yakushi is accepted, and mages, liches and necromancers look up to her for her embodiment of knowledge. The IC will be getting up soon, perhaps later this day or tomorrow. I am liking everyone's CS's, and appreciate your participation thus far. I hope we will go far.

[King Solterra]

Neveras

@Cale Tucker

Remove the part where Neveras' sacred weapon can turn into a gun, and he's very much accepted.

@SillyGoy

That is only supposed to be for lore as it can transform to anything. Even if he did, transforming it to a pistol would just wound (probably an equivalent of 3+ mortally wounding shots to kill), but no matter what he doesn't like guns, horrible accuracy, he just likes melee weapons. I can take it out but it's there for aesthetics

[SillyGoy]

Neveras

@Cale Tucker

Remove the part where Neveras' sacred weapon can turn into a gun, and he's very much accepted.

@SillyGoy

That is only supposed to be for lore as it can transform to anything. Even if he did, transforming it to a pistol would just wound (probably an equivalent of 3+ mortally wounding shots to kill), but no matter what he doesn't like guns, horrible accuracy, he just likes melee weapons. I can take it out but it's there for aesthetics

@Cale Tucker

I would prefer if you took it out or modified it, otherwise there is no issue with Neveras as he is a good character is accepted by me. I would rather not have firearms mixed with swords and bows, unless they're muskets. I should have mentioned this before, but Ceyr's technological level never left a magic-imbued early modern era.

[Art of Fun]

Name: Varavana, the Creature of Peace Age: Upstart Nature: Independent, Hero to Mortals

Personality

Personality: Varavana brims with wisdom and compassion which belays his years as a child of the Golden One. He is greatly concerned with the fates of 'mortals', and in turn is incredibly eager when it comes to engaging with them - he has a problem turning down the opportunity to help someone in need, and may find himself being taken advantage of due to his naivete when it comes to mortal individuals and societies. He knows little, and cares little, for the affairs of gods but will not turn down the opportunity to talk with one of his siblings. This, however, may end up grating for the other individual, as he is rather...idealistic, to say the least.

Skills and Abilities

Skills and Abilities: The physical being of Varavana is nothing more than an amorphous mass at the end of the day, 'preprogrammed' to replicate the shape and body non-spirit entities to a T. Oddly enough, Varavana may not 'copy' the appearance of any individual, appearing rather distinct no matter what creature he chooses to replicate. The current limitations on this ability lays in the size of the creature Varavana is attempting to shapeshift into, unable to become something like a fully sized dragon but easily capable of changing into a yeti or an ogre. For the most part, Varavana utilises this ability by mixing and matching, generally taking the appearance of a humanoid chimera of some description. His default 'mode' is something between a human and other mortal races with various other variables thrown in. Varavana is highly empathic towards mortal races and creatures, radiating an unnatural charisma which, while not driving them to follow him on instinct, certainly makes it easier for him to talk with them. Non-sapient creatures rarely take issue with Varavana. Beyond his abilities as an Upstart, Varavana is exceptionally talented in agricultural matters, and knows how to get the most out of the land in any environment.

Backstory

Backstory: Varavana is an entity born from the mud of the most fertile land on the three worlds, so the rather recent gossip goes. Another rumour claims that the young god is all that remains of a now dead, most-ancient solar deity, a perfect yet changing mass hatched from the old spirits corpse. Whatever the truth may be, Varavana could not say, for his memories are even younger than he is. His first memories are vague and feral, but over time become more clear - what he does know is that he spent his first years with no mortal interaction, only surrounded by animals, before he was come upon by a farmers son. Upon instinct he took the shape of the mortal boy, a human, and gained the mind of mortals. In the instant, he knew his name - Varavana - but that was all. He was taken in by the boys family, raised as one of their own. It did not take too long for the parents to notice that while their birth son grew, Varavana remained the same. He too noticed this, coming to realise that his calling was elsewhere. He has since started travelling the world of Ceyr, and word has spread of him over the past twenty years, of the seemingly eternal youth who aids villages and towns in their time of need. He does not do this by direct intervention most of the time, but by helping the people help themselves, teaching ways to better live off the land and how to engage in healthy exchanges with local wildlife. It is safe to say that where Varavana, the need for deities is reduced - if only somewhat -, something which few may not approve of...

Connections

Connections: Ancients In Varavana's humble opinion, they are too steeped in their own antiquity. They are growing to be largely unnecessary, clinging to a past which they themselves lost. Not that he would ever let this view translate over to his interactions with them, that would be just rude. Hiraga: She-Most-Ancient whom Varavana has an unending amount of respect for, despite their lack of interaction. However, respect and agreeing with are different matters. Varavana believes that mortals, much like the plants and air, are inherently part of the nature of the world, and she should concern herself in fostering and protecting them as much as the rest of the Ceyr. Varavana's approach is similar to Hiraga's, but he has mortals as the primary focus. Danives: Varavana feels he should be opposed to the shadowy ancient, but cannot bring himself to be anything other than neutral towards him. His actions are never grevious, always slight - and his followers are too few in number to really call him a negative impact on Ceyr. As such, Varavana can only really offer a shrug. Voana: Varavana has little to no knowledge of Voana, rarely interacting with warriors beyond stopping battles. From what he does know, it sounds like they would not get along. Agimar: Varavana feels a slight hint of pity for the creator, but he cannot agree with what he would unleash upon the worlds, should he find a way to make his contraptions live. Were this to happen, Varavana would surely oppose Agimar's creations. Upstarts The true brothers and sisters of Varavana, the 'new gods' as it were. He finds himself to be far more agreeable with them than any of the Ancients (minus maybe Yakushi). Dust: Varavana likes the odd isolated spirit. Although he may not appreciate Varavana's optimism and conversational manner, the young upstart none the less appreciates any help he can get from Dust when traversing the wastes. Itone: He views Voana's wife much in the same light. Gaon Latze: What can Varavana say? Guy likes to fish. That's fine by him.

Religion: None. Has a small 'following' in the scholarly sense, keeping track of his movements. It is very likely that Varavana could find himself with a religion in a few years time. Nation: N/A Other: Among the youngest, yet one of the more well known, Upstarts. His habits of travelling and aiding others have launched him into popularity.

[SillyGoy]

Varavana is a great character and is accepted. Feel free to post him in the character tab.

[Art of Fun]

Done and done. Looking forward to this RP!

[King Solterra]

Apologies about that, I realize and understand now. Post edited.

[SillyGoy]

Neveras is accepted, and you may post him in the Character tab and flesh his Connections out there. Edit: I will give you time till tomorrow to flesh out your Connections and make modifications to your CS's as you see fit. With 9 people participating, the RP is no longer open to new players.

[EsmetheGreat]

Drafting an entry ic post now, very excited to start rp-ing. : - ) also for inspiration, some playlists on 8tracks http://8tracks.com/venus413/collections/gods#smart_id and also, personal fave, suggested theme for rp? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVA6sgOpws

[Forsythe]

Reading Varavana's profile, i probably chose bad words to describe Hiraga's look at the younger races. She doesn't care for mortals and upstarts on individual level, but same as if somebody wanted to burn down a forest, she would take issue with someone who would burn down a city, and jsut like she can't punish someone for falling one tree, she doesn't care for the assassins killing one person. So in an nutshell she beliees exactly what he does, that mortals are part of nature as well and deserving of her aid, just not on small scale.

[Art of Fun]

Aah, alright. I'll edit the connection a little, sorry about that.

[King Solterra]

My first post is ready. Just say the word and I will hit submit.

[SillyGoy]

Wow, you people are hyped, drafting IC posts already. When I get home from uni later in the day, I'll make the opening post, then we can all go crazy.

[RoflsMazoy]

I haven't been drafting anything but perhaps I should start

[EsmetheGreat]

I fleshed out connections for both Voana and Sohena in the character sub so there's something for everyone. I am pretty damn hype.

[Dud]

I finished my intro. Or side story, I'm not sure yet.

[Pirouette]

Sorry I'm late Goy, but Myra and Vyra (no connections made yet, waiting to see the response) are ready to be reviewed.

[SillyGoy]

Sorry I'm late Goy, but Myra and Vyra (no connections made yet, waiting to see the response) are ready to be reviewed.

@Pirouette

Yeah, and you disregarded rule number one too, but then again, it's rather hard to see since it's at the bottom of its post. So I don't fault you for it. I like the dynamic between Myra and Vyra, and enjoyed reading their creation stories. I take issue, however, with the line stating that they have become more powerful since the death of the Golden One. Power provided by mortal worship is petty compared to the grossly incandescent essence given freely to Its children before the War in Heaven. But that's the only issue I have. Remove that, and you're golden and accepted. Give me some time to wind down from a rather eventful day, and the IC should be up in a few hours or so.