Make a Mermaid rp with me?

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnow@Legion02

So what did i miss X3

[Legion02]

Arena added some more rule-suggestions, asked what the mere-people - human relation is (NAP with working on a peace treaty in the beginning. Going to be war soon though) and reminded us all that to have children, you need a mother (AKA the queen).

[Silen Syanka]

@Legion02okay sweet, ugh, I'll be back in a bit guys, my head aches gotten so bad i need to get off

[Legion02]

NP, i have to go off too. Sleepy time. Bye bye!

[ArenaSnow]

Edit: I seem to have done it when everyone of interest logged off :P

Right, cranked him out, partially due to the fact I'm trying to build an interest check and resources for another RP that I will be starting eventually... but never mind, here enters the King!

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King Meldwich Varron III

Varron the Great

72 Years of Age

Male

Straight

Human

An old veteran of many battles and firstly a warrior-king, King Varron is not necessarily evil, but has the cold heart of a warrior and bias from battles both with neighboring kingdoms and the mer-folk of all types. More happy to yell at his advisors than show his son the attention befitting a prince; made obvious by the way he put his son in tutoring rather than having him learn from one of the best.

At his age, all his biases are deeply rooted and almost impossible to change. He can only get a worse impression confirming his distrust; very little can be done to actually improve his view. He has a dark, negative outlook, always watching for threats that may not even exist. He absolutely hates the sea; he had not come close to it for 50 years and warns anyone who he can against it. Political strife has made him into a sort of dictator, although his aim is only to keep the peace in a world where neighboring countries go through civil wars every couple of years.

Despite his flaws, he does make an attempt to be friendly with the men and people in the courts; it’s only when his temper gets out of hand that his problems show. He treats his family like anyone else, of course knowing that they are in fact his family.

Every day, he exercises, even when it causes pains in his back. He won’t take pain for an answer. This is to keep him fit, even as he ages.

Appearance

He doesn’t look too bad for his age, no doubt the result of his almost religious dedication to exercising every morning. He stands fairly tall and always keeps his sword besides him. He also has a deep, almost booming voice that combines with his ability to give people deep stares when he is talking.

The Varron family line; one of leaders and warriors. Having overthrown the last family line, one that may still lurk in the shadows of new troubles, Varrons started out in the military and ended as rulers.

In a world where civil war was rampant and old feuds between lords stirred unrest in their own kingdom, the first Varron, Lord Augustine Varron, saw an opportunity.

He took his own forces and aligned with several neighboring Lords to take out the King at the time. That king was weak and little more than a political tool for lords and his advisors to throw around. Varron and his allies were able to easily take out the divided capital. Varron promptly had his allies executed as traitors and crowned himself King. It helped that the men under the other lords looked up to Varron, and that his own forces were a match for any individual former ally. So began 30 years of making the lands of other Lords, by force or by gaining their sworn allegiance, his own.

His son was a military officer who helped Varron I take over the capital. He served well, crushing petty lords and advances from outside the kingdom alike. He was an undisputed successor to the first king. He became the king under… mysterious circumstances that left the former king no longer around. It is said he died in his sleep.

Varron II enjoyed a fairly calm reign, although there were still barons and lords left on the borders of the kingdom, let alone kingdoms on the outside that gazed hungrily at his fertile lands. The highlight was near the end, when a war broke out between the mer-people and humans; war on the scale that had not been seen in many years, since before the Varron line. He died in an accident involving a landslide… after his son had advanced through the ranks of the military (Do I see a trend here?).

Spinoffs of the main family line were limited, although Varron III has an uncle, who he had banished following an attempted coup.

Meldwick Varron was born while his father was on campaign. He spent the first few years of his life not knowing his father; after that, the only impression he got was that his father was a cold, heartless man. When he was 11 he was sent to a castle to train as a soldier.
He did extremely well for the next 10 years and advanced himself to being a captain.

He was deployed in one of the many battles against the mer-people, most of which were botched up in the beginning due to their complete inability to battle those who could duck under water easily and attack when least expected. However, with a new system of using nets and alchemy to create a fire that could burn for a few seconds in water, the casualties started to even out on both sides. Meldwick was finally transferred away from the front after having lost his leg in a battle on a ship that had almost sunk. For whatever reason, the mer-people spared him; he did not look past the other lives lost and the destruction of the ship. He held a deep hatred of the mer-people for many years hence.

He became king when his father was lost in an avalanche while marching to crush a rebellion in the mountains. His early opponents raised rumors of a rigged avalanche, rumors that were silenced soon after he became king. His father had made a treaty with the mer-people, one of non-aggression. Despite hating the mer-people, he had his honor and kept the treaty, to this day.

His accomplishments included a more effective structure of military garrisons (although the fleet was never rebuilt) and the quieting of the realm. The standing armies were able to keep neighboring kingdoms away, and the pact with the mer-people ensured relative safety on the waters (although raids have been reported). His methods were considered a bit harsh, perhaps overly so. Such rumors didn’t last long.

He wasn’t married until after he was 40; partially because of the wars that had prevailed his early life and also because he would prefer to be an old man when he had a son, if only so that he could claim to have had a full life and reign, unlike his father and grandfather. The result is him being married to someone still fairly young when he could be his son’s grandfather.

His wife is Tessandra, a human minor noble who caught his attention when he finally decided to settle down. She was 20, whereas he was 40 at the time. Although odd by modern perspective, arranged marriages all throughout the kingdom could go so far as a marriage between a 16 year old and a 60 year old if the nobility was right. She caught his eye, and when her father, a minor lord, heard the rumors, he was glad to marry his daughter off to a man so powerful in the kingdom. Tessandra is still pretty for her age and is the only one who can actually talk back to the king to his face, which she does happily all the time. They have a relationship almost built around them insulting each other in the mornings… and he never is able to answer why he doesn’t pay more attention to the son.

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowso I'm feeling a little better X3 so we could plan some more stuff out, I just will be poofy and won't be typing out anything huge

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnow@Legion02i hope you guys wouldn't mind if I used your characters in a banner for this rp

[ArenaSnow]

Mind? It would be hard for me to :P

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowokay good X3 also, wanna help me decide what kinda male I should make out of the mer-people? I don't want to do a merman X3

[ArenaSnow]

Oh, Idk, mermen...

But anyways, sharks perhaps, although those might be taken... sea lions... I honestly don't know as mer-people are far from my specialty.

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowoh we already have a list of the mer-people! I just need help picking one out! (You can see it at the first post) I was thinking either a Naga or the half sea horse people

[ArenaSnow]

Well... naga seem to grab my interest faster...

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowme as well X3 thank you for helping in my choice!

Also would you be okay with also make a mer-person so that we can always make sure your included(and the more the merrier!)

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowoh! Maybe we could make a set of Naga twins!

[ArenaSnow]

Honestly? That side of things is the one I am less interested in... although if ya want me to I can come up with a character.

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowoh! Maybe we could make a set of Naga twins!

@Silen Syanka

@ArenaSnowdoes this sound appealing?

[ArenaSnow]

I would have to know how that would work, first :P what are some of the details?

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowwe'd come up with most of the details about them together, we'd rp them as two separate characters. You rp your twin, I rp mine. But twins are always so fun to share because than they can do random and weird things together, and understand each other.

[ArenaSnow]

Mmm... so what's your idea on history/social status? And how about age?

[Silen Syanka]

@ArenaSnowi was thinking in their early twenties, or late teens. As for social status, it depends on what you want. I was thinking either nearly a farmer sort of status, or a status in which they come from a rich family