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Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

Well XIv knows got the talent to, but we'll wait for the others while I make up an actual IC post to get us started.

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

Kraytan continued running down the hall he was in when the Temple shook as a hangar was bombarded with missiles destroying it and a part of the Temple along with it. "That didn't sound good..." He said to himself as he continued to move on. He was closing in on the Library, if he failed to protect the Temple today then so be it, but he had to destroy the Holocrons that contained the location of all force sensitive children at all costs. As he approached the Library he heard the sound of blasters, activating his lightsaber he ran forward through the large archway and saw his former masters battling off a few dozen clones. He hopped into the fray without another thought and caught the clones off guard as he came up from the rear. He began sweeping the area with his Lightsaber pike, cutting blasters and paralyzing clones. They were laying siege to the Temple, but even of all the times to adhere to the Jedi Code and to preserve life now was that time, for the dark energy that was looming over was merely waiting to fill anyone who would allow it to with the Dark Side. After several minutes the three Jedi had subdued the threat for now. "Masters! I am glad to see you are alive." Kraytan said as he deactivated his lightsaber.

"As well as you my padawan, but we have no time to exchange greetings we must preserve the knowledge of the Library." His mother said as she moved to the Holocron vault. His father stepped in front of her and waved his head back and forth In a disapproving way.

"While I would love to preserve this great Archive of knowledge, sadly I think it best to destroy it, less it fall into the wrong hands."

"But we can't! This is the Order's future right here!" She exclaimed as she pushed him aside and moved to the vault door opening it. Kraytan moved up and stood next to her. His face was masked, but she could very well sense that he agreed with his father.

"I am sorry master, but I agree that we must destroy the Holocrons. If the dark one who has come to the Temple gets his hands on the location of any force sensitive children or any of this knowledge housed here, he could very well use it as a tool to spread the influence of the Dark Side. Our Order must live on with the survivors of this attack, not by mere records. It will be a sad thing to see our history lost, but we shall rebuild it one day." Kraytan said as he placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. She lowered her head, but acknowledged that he was right. The three Jedi went to work destroying the Holocrons and quickly left the vault. By now reinforcements had arrived in mass, there was too many even for the three Jedi.

"My padawan you must leave now while there is still time!" His mother yelled as he battled a group of clones. Kraytan was caught in the center of several clones and spun rapidly and cut the ends of their blasters before force pushing them all away.

"It is my duty to protect the Temple! You two must go!" He shouted back.

"The Temple has fallen, your duty is now to protect the Order and to ensure its survival! Leave now, that is an order from a member of the Jedi Council!" His father yelled to him as he was shot in the leg, his pain could be felt through the Force, but he battled on.

"Take this with you my padawan! It is a Holocron I have been saving for when the time was right! It will guide you on your path to becoming a Jedi Master as well as reveal the truth as to who you really are!" His mother said as she tossed him a Jedi Holocron. He caught it and watched as a rifleman on the balcony above fired a round right into her chest and sent her to the floor. Time seemed to stop around him as his former master's hand hit the floor and her lightsaber rolled out of it. His father looked on in shock before raising a large force barrier to protect them from the dozens of blaster bolts.

"Get out of here now and take this with you, I won't need it anymore..." His father said as he tossed him his blue lightsaber. Kraytan caught it and gave him a look in the eye one last time before calling on the force to bring his mother's green lightsaber to him. He clipped both of them on his belt and placed the Holocron in a pouch and took off running. As he ran down a nearby hall he could feel the Force's energy swell up in the Library and disperse into a million directions, he could also feel as hundreds of voices disappeared in the blink of an eye. He continued running, almost blindly, not sure where he should even go that was until his communicator began to buzz.

"Kraytan this is Deja! The Master has ordered a full retreat! The Temple has been overridden! the Hangars are being destroyed or being flooded with clones. Our new pritority is to ensure the safety of all escaping Jedi and to see them off world. We are to abandon the Temple with whoever we can find." Kraytan didn't reply, he understood his orders, but as of right now he was trying to combat the loss of his two former masters. He was a Temple Guard, he had been trained to be detached to everything, to be able to make objective decisions, but he had never experienced a loss like this before. He did his best to push the thoughts to the deepest recessions of his mind and headed for the training halls, they were the closest and most vital location near him now that the Library had been overrun.

Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

Aye mate, you're always welcomed here.

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

...I can't think of anything querky to say right now...

Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

I will try and resctructure my last post that consisted of Onyx talking to Gaios and Demoko telling Nayrin and Aadab to go and check the bridge ahead soon.

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

Got up a post as well here

Star Wars - Jedi Exile.

Kraytan walked the halls of the Jedi Temple with his partner, Deja, a Cathar woman who was a bit younger than him and was a newly assigned Temple Guard. He could feel she was a bit nervous, excited, and everything in between. He smiled underneath his mask, he had felt the same way when he had become a Temple Guard prior to the Clone Wars. He knew she would soon learn to relax and knew she would also come realize that there was nothing exciting about the job as a guard. They had just left the Library, which was one of their stops on their graveyard shit route. It was a quiet night like most nights at the Temple. However while it was usually quiet at the Temple, problems had been arising more than they had prior to the Clone Wars, he was sure of that. So far he had dealt with rogue padawans, suicide bombers, even a few assassins, but the worst was the protestors outside the Temple every once in a while when they formed to well protest something the Jedi had done. As he walked down the large halls with Deja he stopped in his tracks as he was bombarded with his visions once again, however instead of the whole thing he could only see the pillars of smoke rising from burning towers and the sounds of thousands of panicking and suffering screams. The vision was stronger than it ever had been before, it hit him hard and gave him a massive headache causing him to fall to one knee.

"Kraytan are you okay? What's wrong?" Deja asked him as she knelt down next to him and helped him to his feet. He stood a bit dazed, stressed, and confused. He looked at Deja's same blankness face mask before shaking his head and standing on his own. He then felt something in the Force, something that was wrong... A presence was approaching the Temple and it spelt destruction in the fire's of war.

"Let us cut our routine short and head to the Temple Entrance, I feel something is out of place my friend." He replied as he walked at a brim pace down the halls. Deja followed behind him. As they approached the Temple Entrance from the balcony above, Kraytan began to run faster as his vision began to play in his head as the sound of tens of thousands of feet marched was becoming louder. He was confused at first if the marching sound was coming from his vision or if it was coming from the actual world around him. As they reached the balcony he saw the 501st Legion marching up the steps led by a dark figure. The last part of his vision played in his head, directly over what he was seeing now, they were a perfect match. Those weren't Mandalorians he was seeing they were clones, and those weren't towers that were on fire they were the spires of the Jedi Temple he had seen. "Deja alert the other Temple Guards we must form up and defend the Temple at all costs!" Kraytan yelled as he began to run towards a flight of stairs that led to the level he was on. He activated his lightsaber and ran down the stairs. initiates and padawans were fleeing up them as clones pursued.

"Kraytan! There are too many! We have to retreat!" Deja yelled as she tried to catch up with him. Kraytan guessed she was feeling super nervous and perhaps a little fearful, but it was hard to tell because panic and strife had flooded the Temple as clones began slaughtering Jedi everywhere. However he would not handle that kind of talk. They were Temple Guards, they were Jedi Temple Guards. They were sworn to protect the innocent, and sworn to protect the Temple at all costs. It was their sole mission to do this and he would see his job accomplished.

"Then you retreat Deja! Round up the Padawans and initiates! Link up with the other Temple Guards and ensure their safety!" He yelled back to her before jumping over the ledge of the flight of stairs and landing with a hard thud at the bottom sending some clones into the wall while others fumbled about. He began slicing their weapons as they raised them to shoot him down. He ducked and weave between blaster bolts, taking cover behind other clones and letting them shoot each other. The clones were starting to come at him in too great a numbers and he was force to give up ground as he retreated back up the stairs deflecting blaster bolts back at the clones and using the force to push them back down when they tried to run up them. He stared in disbelief as a clone with a rocket launcher came up from the mix of them and knelt down and aimed at him. He leapt up on the guard rail and then jumped up allowing the force to aide him and landed on the next level and then did it again until he was at the top. The clone fired the rocket and it locked onto him. He ran through the doorway and turned as the rocket came up and at him. He used the force to direct it upward into the roof which made it collapse on the doorway of the level he was on. They wouldn't be pursing him from that way at least. He began to run down the halls of the Temple looking for others to help and hoping to hear word from the Temple Guard Master as to what their strategy was to stop the clones.

Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

Also repost your CS sheets if you could please.

Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

OOC is up with an update Legend so Far, if I missed anything please tell me, since it is hard to remember everything with everything gone.

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Legend of Zelda: The Templar Crusade

Over the last few centuries the land has remained in peace. The land and its people prosper everywhere. Even the driest of deserts hold lushes amounts of spoils, and even the most frozen tundra holds sweets and goods waiting to be found. Though with every time of prosperity, one of poverty must follow, for you cannot know one without the other. A dark cloud covers the skies of Hyrule. It brings with it plagues and darkness. Hyrule’s land has become infertile without the shining rays of the sun. It has been two decades since the dark clouds came. Some blame Termina and its pollution of its own skies, but others can tell the clouds are different from the smoggy ones above Clock Town. Other blames the people, saying that they have been ungrateful of the Goddesses mercy upon the land. Most agree and have turned to prayer and worship of the Three Golden Deities. Sadly no matter how much one prays, their prayers are unanswered. Famine has struck Hyrule now, food prices are high and unbearable. Villages and towns form angry mobs. Thieves steal from the weak, families hoard what they can to try and stay alive. It is the perfect time for a wolf in sheep’s clothing shall come to the rescue….

He came in the night like a thief. With one swift foul swoop he covered all of Hyrule. This man was brother to some, but would become the father of many. H was Father Thallus, leader of the Order of the Templar’s. Churches were established in every town, spreading the new faith, the faith that there was only one true god, and he was simply known as God. They claim him to be above the three puny goddesses, and guided them to the land of Hyrule to help their brethren who were still blinded by the lies of the Goddesses. At any other time, the people of Hyrule would have called the Templar’s heretics and drove them out of Hyrule, but it has been so long since the Goddesses have showed any sign they still watch over the land or answered anyone’s prayer. The thoughts of the Templar’s has even penetrated those of Termina, The Templar’s have promoted their god to be one of acceptance of all people. wizard or inventor, Hyrulean, or Terminean, it does not matter. The Order of the Templar has spread across both lands like the flu, within a week all knew of the Templar’s and already thousands have joined the Order, and thousands attend the churches on every 7th day .

With their leader, Father Thallus, the Order of the Templar’s has dug its claws into the politics of both Hyrule and Termina. Neither the Royal Family of Hyrule or the Mayor of Termina can dare resist Father Thallus‘ advice without the chance of riots. But who would want to resist? With Father Thallus‘ help, Hyrule instead of declining into poverty is inclining back to its regular state. With his prayers the skies have all but cleared, the once infertile land has become fertile once more. Templar Knights protect the villages and farmers from thieves, they maintain order, and promote closer communities. Termina and Hyrule have never been on better terms, even the Gerudo welcome Father Thallus into their homes. No one can hate such a loving man, a man who spends his time working only to give his rupees away to the poor, a man who spends his spare time helping the illiterate children learn and still has the strength to fight off the creatures of the night. None dare oppose or want to oppose Father Thallus and the Order of the Templar’s and their benevolent god.

It has been several years now since the Templar’s first came to Hyrule and Termina. The temples once used to worship the Goddesses have now be torn down and replaced with temples built to worship God and his saints. Few statues remain of the Old Goddesses, mostly falling apart and covered in overgrowth. Those couple who worship the Goddesses must do so in secret out of fear of being punished by the Templar’s who have made the worship of other god’s illegal. They have been labeled heretics in their own land, and to survive they have formed their own cult of the Goddesses. With each passing day though, the Templar’s catch more of the Goddess Cultist and “clean” them of their sins. Many have fled to Termina, where the Templar’s influence is not as strong and religious tolerance has been established by the Mayor. Though not as much can be said for Hyrule, who’s Royal Family cannot make a decision without Father Thallus’ approval. The State of Hyrule has become a slave to the Templar’s out of their own will and soon will for eternity. Hyrule has been having some bad misfortune, famine has struck the crops this year, moblins attack trade caravans with more force, and crime is escalating. Plague has struck the youth of Hyrule killing 1/3 and the others in critical condition. Father Thallus blames the Goddess Cultists, directing the people’s anger at them. He says their use of black magic has poisoned the land and that God orders them to cleanse it in his name, and to eradicate the Cultists all together.

The Purges have begun; Templar’s have the freedom to arrest, execute, or come into anyone’s home they want without fair trial. Witches are burned before the public, most not even witches. The Templar’s threat to invade Termina in a crusade of cleansing if it does not give up its cultist and get rid of its religious tolerance policy. As well as to turn its back on its own deities and to have all of Termina convert to the Templar’s religion or face a purge. Father Thallus will have order, he will keep the land safe, he will do so and whatever else he wants as long as he is the puppeteer of Hyrule….

Hyrule has never faced such a threat as this one. It is a new form of evil never combated before, but there is a first for everything. This is no job for the Chosen One of the Goddesses to take on, this is one only the one who can see through Father Thallus’ sheep disguise. For the one who does not walk with the crowd, but against it. For the one who does not cower in the face of danger, but jumps feet first into it. You decide whether you are one of those heroes or if you are one of Father Thallus’ puppets.

THE LEGEND SO FAR: (Working to add more to this section)

Our unknown heroes have become the most wanted enemies of the Templar Order, because Father Thallus has uncovered the identities of the heroes to be in his visions of what is to come. The heroes have been saved from the clutches of Father Thallus’ hands by the ancient and forgotten Sage of Time Demoko. With Demoko’s help, our heroes know of their destiny written in the Book of Legends and Prophecies, to help Link the chosen hero of the Godessess’ to vanquish the greatest threat Hyrule and the world has ever seen, Thallus and the Templar Order. Link is not so sure of his abilities; he has much doubt in himself, and is very afraid of his dark powers he cannot control. Link is not like his predecessors, he is troubled, confused, doesn’t fit in. Demoko and the others have tried to reassure him that he is to be a great hero, but at the same time the Happy Mask Salesman seeps into Link’s mind, fuels his dark side powers and causes the young hero to be much frustration.

With Thallus growing more powerful by the day, Demoko tries to hold the group together as they made their way to the Forest Temple to save Saria one of the last remaining sages from Thallus’ forces who are not far behind. Demoko and the heroes pick up a few more additions to their group and before Demoko’s eyes the prophecy changes, it seems there are still more to become great heroes of Hyrule, and some who are meant to wither away from history. The group barely makes it to the Forest Temple and they are able to access its hidden chamber with Demoko’s help. The group arrives to see that Regol, Thallus’ Twili assassin and right hand man has already stolen her life source. Though when all hope seems lost a large hound like Deku creature comes onto the scene and absorbs Saria’s life source and some of Regol’s dark energy powers. The heroes are barely able to defeat the large and powerful beast with the help of Link’s dark powers which he was only able to control with the Mask Salesman’s help. They recover Saria’s life source as well as put the beasts’ spirit to rest who in return gifts Link with a rare an ancient Arcane Crystal. Demoko is badly hurt from the battle and is mechanical nightmare to look at, for the man is made of metal not flesh. Regol allows the heroes to escape through an unknown portal believing they fought honorably against the beast and he earned his respect this time around.
Demoko takes them to his personal dimension or domain which houses the doorways to the other split timelines of the Zelda Universe. Demoko allows them to rest in his sanctuary or his personal slice of paradise. Demoko talks to some members of the group personally to give them the answers they seek for Demoko has much knowledge. Nayrin the Sheik from a snowy mountain village learns of Demoko’s terrible fate that happened long ago and his curse to be a machine forever, and his betrayal by Thallus a brother and fellow sage of the first era of Hyrule. He talks to Kalama the draconic shifter next, an evolution of dragons to become more nimble and sleeker. Demoko reveals that his ancestors were the once great Guardian Dragons that Demoko had created himself with Thallus. Dragons were timeless, because of Demoko’s input, and they were strong in fire because of Thallus’ input as the Sage of Fire. When Demoko was cursed by the Goddesses’ for a crime Thallus had committed and exiled from his once proud pedestal as Grand Sage, and Thallus as well fell from his former glory as a master sage, the dragons purity faded away and they became fearsome creatures and terrors of the sky. The draconic shifters were the small amount of good that still existed and had slowly evolved its way into the Draconic Shifters. Demoko informs Kalama once their quest is done he must take Thallus’ place as master fire sage.

After this, Demoko uses his last bits of immortality to revive some of the fallen heroes who were slain in battle on the journey to the Forest Temple. The group next set off on an adventure to the Pirate Fortress in the Great Bay to find the Spirit Sage in hiding from the Templars. Along the way the Happy Mask Salesman bothers Link once again, and tells him that no matter what the heroes do that the end of the world is upon them. They will fail, Demoko will die, the world will be covered in fire and there will be a hell on earth. Though to humor Link, he gives him the ability to control his dark side powers a little more by giving him a black tattoo on his arm. Next the Mask Salesman harasses Demoko and turns him into a bumbling fool stricken with fear. He makes Demoko reveal to the group that an entire era in Hylian history is missing because it was erased from everyone’s mind by the Goddesses’. He reveals that there once was a great Link, the greatest to have ever lived, the most pure of all and the most courageous. He set out to destroy the source of evil the Tetraforce, created by the Goddesses’ evil brother Kaiden. Link was consumed with power when he acquired the Tetraforce and brought about destruction across the earth and Hyrule and he became known as the Fierce Deity. The current Link now sees that there is a chance for him to become evil and is afraid to use his dark powers. The Mask Salesman though is repelled when Nayrin plays a magical flute which fuels Demoko with power and brings him out of his bumbling state.

Now the heroes have reached the Pirate Fortress which is a well-fortified city inside of a city. The men are thrown into the pit or dungeon where all men go when they are captured and duel it out with Regol who was waiting for them. Link and the heroes are able to defeat Regol and his massive clone army, but even though Link dawns the Master Sword, it did not vanquish Regol and Demoko believes there is more to him than meets the eye. The women of the group have been placed under Fiona’s wing for training to become part of the Gerudo’s society of women superiority. Fiona is secretly a Templar agent herself who is among Thallus’ inner brotherhood of Templars with Regol. Now she works to gain the heroes trust so that she may strike down Demoko and steal his life force and kill Link ensuring Thallus’ plan to obtain the Tetraforce himself without any worries.

THE LEGEND SO FAR (again)

Our heroes have been released from the dungeon and have found the Spirit Sage Nabooru. While talking with Demoko in private, Nayrin has discovered that Nabooru is Link's birth mother and that Demoko is his genetic father. However their visit is cut short when the fortress is attacked by the mighty General Onyx, yet another of Thallus' members of the Inner Brotherhood. Demoko beings to conjure a spell that will transport them all to safety in the Gerudo Desert, a long way from the Great Bay. The heroes are tasked with stalling the Templar forces, but meet a Templar controlled dragon and are force to go head to head with it. After its weakness is discovered, Link's inner darkness rises up and is harnessed into a controlled state with the help of the Happy Mask Salesman. The dragon soon meets his end, but his spirit thanks them for releasing him from the Templar's grasp and rewards them with another crystal as well as a dragon scale shield. As the full force of the Templar army attacks, fortress succumbed to overwhelming odds, but thanks to the brave heroes everyone escaped safely through the portal. In the battle however Regol had been betrayed by Fiona and spent his last few seconds of life staring at his target before dying.

With everyone in the Gerudo Desert at the Rebellion's main headquarters, the last safe stronghold in Hyrule against the Templars, Demoko tells everyone that the spell took too much out of him and that he is dying. The group decides to travel to the Arbiter's Grounds to look for a place called the Trials, a Sheikah Legend said to hold a great power source, perhaps the only way to restore Demoko. After a three day journey on giant beetles the group arrives at the Grounds and find their way to the Trials, which turns out to be the Happy Mask Salesman's own realm. There he tries to split the heroes by revealing dark secrets and truths about them. Link finds out the truth about Demoko as well as other secrets he had been withholding from him. Demoko's life source runs out and he becomes as stiff as stone. Kalama is possessed by a Twili demon and attacks the heroes. Nayrin plays her flute and recalls Regol from the Death Realm unintentionally with its powers. Regol seperates the demon from Kalama and saves his life. The Mask Salesman is contempt with the heroes passing most of the Trials and allows them to enter through the portal to the power source.

The power source turns out to be not to be a power source, but Hylia herself. The heroes have travelled back in time to the Golden Age of Peace in Hyrule. Hylia explains to the group what is going on and how that the Happy Mask Salesman is not their enemy, but a friend who has been testing them along their journey. At this time Regol pledges his loyalty to Nayrin for restoring him to life, believing that he is to serve her for some reason as the calling of his god. Hylia restores Demoko to his former self and more, giving him back his full range of powers as well as his long lost armor gifted to him by the Goddesses. During this conversation Link finds himself talking to a human Demoko who tries to help him feel better about himself. Not knowing who Link is, Demoko allows him to change his destiny and placed it into a medallion which can be reset in three days time. Hylia talks in private with Nayrin asking her o look after Demoko for her and giving her the option along with Aadab to change their fate as servants to the Goddesses. She then sends the heroes back to the present, and they awake in the desert at some old ruins. At this time Demoko wakes up and forges the group new weapons with his new powers and they set off to leave the desert, as to where only Demoko knows.