[OOC] Starless

[Vigfast]

NOTIFY THE PRESS: CORVIDAE IS MAKING ACTUAL PROGRESS ON HER CHARACTER'S MYTH. HOO, BOY.

Buckle up, everyone.

@Corvidae

Please, spare the kittens!

[Harbringer]

@Corvidae STOP THE PRESSES

[Jack Travidi]

@Jack TravidiLooks good, if you're ready you can put him in the character tab.

Just to clarify what i read, though, is it safe to assume that Sikes was present at the dwindling of a flame in times past? As though it were a foreshadowing of what has happened in Ansus recently?

@Transience

Yes, actually. The idea is that it was the first of the flames to falter, with Novissah as the first of the Gods to die, leaving Sikes to be remembered for something that never actually occurred. He would have lived during the beginning of the decline, should this not conflict with something else.

(Also thanks everyone for the image suggestions. Too lazy to find something else now, but I'll keep it in mind for future characters.)

[rivaan]

question: are the pictures obligatory to be completely realistiv it's possible for something more... animeish/comicish .. thats sound tottaly wrong, but /i believe it gets the idea across wow

[Transience]

@rivaanAnime pictures aren't my first choice, but post what you will to help us better visualise your character.

[rivaan]

hmhmhm okey. I will be searching for realistic one first. if I find nothing better I will check the other ones, but may take some time to get to it. Im runnin on incredibly slow net

[Invisible]

I'd say I'm done with my character now. Oddly enough, the colors I chose actually work together as it would seem. I just sort of randomly picked them in hopes of them looking nice against the greyish-black background of the Guild.

[Corvidae]

My character is finally finished, and I'm cringing so hard at her myth I think my face is going to implode.

I'll polish her up later; for now, I'm just glad I'm done.

Edit: I feel like I owe the laws of grammar a nice steak dinner as an apology for that entire section. Working on cleaning up my phrasing right now.

[Transience]

@Invisible Looking good! Feel free to place your character in the character tab when you're ready.

@CorvidaeWhat? That's a very nice mythology! Maybe your standards are impossibly high ;) But it looks good, post her up!

[ravenDivinity]

I'm itching so hard to start. The hype is so real.

[Corvidae]

I'm itching so hard to start. The hype is so real.

@ravenDivinity

I'm looking forward to getting this off the ground so I can put Crow back in the ground draw some neat fanart.

[Vigfast]

A poorly written draft as it were, but I wanted to show some progress (and I'll inevitably end up rewriting/editing most of this, however, this should still provide a general idea of what I'm aiming for). Alas, today has been a bit busy and looks to get busier still.

The Green Knight

N A M E / A L I A S

Sir Otto Oddmund Ormsson (though his name has long since been forgotten), instead he is known as simply as the Green Knight

M Y T H O L O G Y

Some of the oldest remembered legends of Ansus tell the story of the Green Knight, a valiant martyr whose name is said to have been lost even to the gods themselves. In each form of the ancient tale that are still told, he is a different man, a different sort of hero (or even villain), and his ultimate fate inevitably varies depending on the whims of the storyteller. However, in all the stories, some common threads of truth can be found.

Once the stories say, the Green Knight was but a man of flesh and blood, a brave knight returned from decades of fighting in a lengthy war that few care to remember. Little is known of the Green Knight's origins, but he is remembered most frequently as a knight of the southern lands, with a number of stories suggesting that he was a Nalmorian noble. Traditionally, it is thus claimed that after his return from the war, he guarded the forests near the once great Kingdom of Nalmar. For years, it is said that he tested and judged all those that dared to pass through the wilderness that he claimed and more than one heroic story involves a hero facing the Green Knight in honorable combat. In time, the Green Knight was said to have become a favored servant of Tavra, the goddess of nature and legends tell of his travels in service of this powerful deity.

Many years later a blight spread across the lands, the dead were rumored to arisen from the grave and dark things took hold in the hearts of men. The legends say that Tavra, troubled by the disruption of the natural order sent the Green Knight from his ancestral lands on a mission to cleanse the troubled lands and restore balance. The truth of the matter is less than clear, but the tales suggest that the Green Knight purged the lands of an undead horde.

Yet, no good deed goes unpunished, and the Green Knight supposedly fell in the final battle against the responsible necromancer Ustgar.

A P P E A R A N C E

In the ancient stories the Green Knight is depicted as a giant of a man, a towering figure adorned with armor of metal and wood, his face always hidden beneath a great helm decorated with the antlers of a strange beast.

However, the heretical writings of the infamous scribe Athust offer the following description: "At the behest of the king and with little ceremony the Green Knight removed his helm. His black hair was long and ragged, reaching to his shoulders, his beard equally unkempt and the man seemed to have lost himself to the wilderness. Calm green eyes looked at our party with only a polite hint of amusement, lingering on each of us as if in judgment, and a broad mouth shifted into a modest disarming smile. His noble features and the antiquated, exceedingly formal manner in which led me to conclude that he must have been a member of one of the ancient Nalmorian houses."

A B I L I T I E S / E Q U I P M E N T

The Green Knight is blessed with the five boons of Tavra:

• Mastery of Nature - As a servant of Tavra, the Green Knight is able to create, shape, and manipulate various forms of plants.
• Gift of the Sun - As patient as his patron deity was, the Green Knight was granted some traits otherwise exclusive to plants (photosynthesis, yo).
• Will of Nature - Unmoved by opposition or danger, the Green Knight has ability to heal wounds that might be fatal to a normal human being (think plants being able to regrow/repair severe damage over time).
• The Armor of the Forest - The Green Knight is always depicted as wearing a green robe and a strange set of armor crafted out of a wood and metal, that defies many of the conventional qualities and attributes of armor working.
• The Arms of the Forest - The legends describe the Green Knight as wielding the Heartwood Spear (a long spear), the Bow of Swift Judgement, and a fearsome two handed blade, known only as Foebane.

[Transience]

@VigfastIt is looking awesome! I understand that the current state is just a draft, but if you felt you wanted, I would have no qualms with you putting the Green knight in the character tab is his current state. let me know of any updates you add.

[Vigfast]

Great!

What I really want to do is to rewrite all the parts as if it's someone telling the reader about the Green Knight (which is most likely what I'll do when I have some time in the near future). :D

[Blackbeard]

I....I think I'm finished?

I'm sure it's dragging behind compared to everyone elses but I hope its good enough. Please let me know if there are any problems. Also if there are any peculiar turns of phrase or incomprehensible sentences please let me know, I don't have the best prose.

[Transience]

@BlackbeardNot at all, I love your writing style. Now if everybody could stop puttng themselvs down, that'd be great!

But yeah! Your character is great, feel free to place him in the characters tab!

[Corvidae]

Speaking of everyone's great characters, I am incredibly excited for character interactions. Especially figuring out dynamics.

[Vigfast]

Indeed, it's nice to see we have good spread of alignments and personalities (from the more lawful/orderly to the more chaotic/violent, and everywhere in between).

[Transience]

@CorvidaeIndeed! It might actually be worth, between us, working out the rough periods of time in which our characters existed. We would be able to use that information to decipher who may have heard of whom and vice versa.

Actually, let's make that a thing! Everybody who is creating / has created characters, if you could add a small extra section to CS' to reflect such information, that would be great.

Use this format:

A g e o f L e g e n d

2000 years ago.

or

5000 years ago.

or... ect.

[However many years prior to the present the hero was active. Bear in mind this must be at the very least 1000 years prior to the present.]

[Corvidae]

Indeed, it's nice to see we have good spread of alignments and personalities (from the more lawful/orderly to the more chaotic/violent, and everywhere in between).

@Vigfast

Given Crow's contempt for knights, soldiers, and heroes, I think a vitriolic rivalry between the Windwitch and the Green Knight might be in order. You know, once everyone's been assembled and forced to work together (if that is, indeed, the direction this plot's headed).

Also, @Transience, good idea! I'll edit my sheet shortly.