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@Frengo

What? Why should you go? I get it if you lack confidence to play the king, but there's currently no reason I know of for you to just leave.

As a side note since you are playing the ranger I incorporated Galungtrung keep into Raven's slightly upgraded bio and you may want to get back to me if you have any problems with that.

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My character and my application to our glorious dark lord to be his commander.

Raven Von Stein

Name: Raven Von Stein

Appearance: Wrapped in chains and bound in old battered plate armor the Revenant of the White Wood is tall and slim as he was in life, but where he once held himself high and reserved as a noble should the revenant now holds himself hunched over and his hot ragged breath steams through the cold air Raven exudes around himself. His skin pale in life now seems tainted by a sickly grey color, his hair is ragged and filled with dirt and his eyes glow with an unearthly blue flame. At his hip is a simple rapier and held in his left hand at the end of Raven's chain wrappings is a lantern glowing with the same blue flames as his eyes.

Age: ?

Gender: Male

Race: Currently a demonically corrupted living dead being originally of the human race.

Side: Dark side. Revenant of the White Woods. Applicant for Commander of the dark forces

Weapons(s): A rapier enchanted to drain blood from enemies. A heavily reinforced lantern used to store extracted souls. It can also double as a flail when Raven fancies to do so.

Abilities/Powers: Raven can drain souls to increase his magical prowess and physical strength to a small degree per soul and blood to heal his wounds. Magically raven focuses on necromancy, Raising lifeless bodies and even fusing some with his collected souls to create greater more unique undead abominations. He also dabbles in the art of soul fire, a fire designed to afflict only ones soul. Finally an aura of extreme cold surrounds Raven chilling the physical form to its core and weakening the souls of his foes for easier extraction later.

Talent(s): Dueling, strategy and tactics.

Personality: Cold, distant, calculating. He enjoys seeing plans come together and witnessing the demise of those who slight him first hand.

Biography: The white woods are the site of a battle most are too young to remember. As the elders say the king's men were come upon in a surprise attack, but they fought valiantly to protect the King's flank so that they could strike a finishing blow to the enemy army. Now though stories of ghosts from that ancient battle and worse travel among the peasantry in those towns neighboring the wood. Nobody travels through the woods without good reason. But if you must travel through the white woods the villagers will tell you to keep watch through the night and to run as fast as you can if the woods become unnaturally cold, if you hear the rattling of heavy chains, see the pail glow of an unholy fire blue in the distance or if you see the outline of plate mail walking towards you. He will cut you down and and strip your very essence from you before you die.

Raven Von stein some whisper is the Revenant of the White Woods. A tragic and unruly noble who brought death to his noble family Stein and destruction to the castle Galuntrung where the Stein family once collected taxes and offered protection from outside dangers. They were known for their greed, their speed to anger and the deadliness of their champions in single combat. Any slight leveled against them was sure to elicit a challenge them and few are the stories of a Stein's loss in a duel. Raven they say was too kind to truly have been a stein. Where his family would treat their serfs with distance and disdain, Raven was often seen riding around to talk with the common folk and take account of their problems. If one day he were to have taken hold of the family then maybe a great change for good could have been made in the northeastern lands of Celakor. Alas it would never be.
A marriage was arranged between Raven and a noble woman of house Korsh from a Kingdom in the north. She was truly a match made in heaven form the elders of the Stein Family as she desired to solidify power in the north between her family and the steins and presumably reap wealth from the lower born, but this must not have sat well with Raven for shortly after her arrival she stormed back to Korsh family's lands quite outraged. The Steins quick to outrage themselves called for a duel with Raven as their champion to defend his own and their honor. In kind, their one time conspirators put forth their own champion, but upon entering the arena and starting the duel the Korsh champion was defeated in seconds.
Outraged again the Korsh declared war on the stein's They brought an army to burn every village and collapse Stein power in the region. While Most of the Steins tried to fight off the invaders Raven gathered as many common folk as he could and guided them south to safety in the capitol. While there he begged the king of the time for reinforcements. The king agreed to help, but with no love of the stein's greed he marched his army for his own glory. Upon returning to Stein lands the villages were pillaged and only the keep of Castle Galungtrun remained. The king organized a decisive battle against the Korsh and in the fight Raven met his end. Or so some say.

Extras: N/A.

Arbitrary application to be commander of the Dark Army under our Dark Lord

1: Name: The Revenant of the White Woods.

2: REAL Name: Raven Von Stein

3: Age: ?

4: Gender: Male

5: Nationality: Celakorian

6: Race (if not human please state race/species): Human. Kind of. Demonically corrupted living dead are maybe a grey area as far as race goes.

7: Supernatural Powers (if any): Raising of minor undead. Infusing of minor undead with souls to create undead champions. An aura of cold around myself that wears down the souls of my enemies as well as their physical form. Additionally I can absorb the souls into my lantern for a minimal increase in my magical power and physical strength per soul and can drain blood to heal wounds.

8: Do you or have you ever had a hunchback? (We do not disqualify for handicaps): No.

9: What do you fear? (list any and all fears): I fear failure to accomplish my goals before my end finds me.

10: Do you now have or have ever had aspirations of being an evil lord in your own right?: Don't we all have such aspirations your Dark Lordship. I assure you I seek only to be able to fill your role in the event of your unfortunate demise and your approval of my ascent to such a lofty and honored position.

11: Are all your vaccinations current?: In my current state disease does not affect my physical form.

12: What weapons do you own?: A rapier, a great sword, my lantern, which can be used as a flail if I feel like a change of pace.

13: What martial arts are you trained in?: In my living years I was trained in dueling. Now with my demonic soul infused strength I find it easy enough to brawl and wield impressively large swords or the corpses of my enemies, though I would not say I have been trained in such combat.

14: If references are asked for, could you provide them without digging up an unmarked grave?: Why yes, I hold onto the souls of many references for further questioning and advice.

15: Are you willing to be cannon fodder? (if you don’t know what “cannon fodder” mean, just say yes): No.

16: Would you enjoy attacking heroes as part of a horde? (that’s a really big group): Your dark lordship I would hope that anyone you seek to hold such a high and honored position in you dark forces would understand what a horde is. I am perfectly fine with joining the rabble for a decisive conflict for my abilities are useful on the front lines, but I would not like to be relegated to only being a front line combatant.

17: Why did you become an evil minion?: To kill the Royalty of this land and satisfy my vendetta.

18: What crimes have you committed?: Murder, aggravated assault, deterioration of the boundaries between life and death, murder, forming pacts with demonic powers, grand theft human soul, more murder and slanderous speech against the king and other nobility.

19: What crimes do you want to commit?: I want to remove the entirety of the nobility from their mortal coil. Many crimes may be committed in the accomplishment of this goal and your own goals, but this is the only crime I specifically desire to commit at this time.

20: Can you provide your own minion theme music?: Immediately no, but the acquisition of suitably encouraged musicians should not be too difficult.

21: Can you laugh in an evil manner?: Yes.

22: You have just captured a hero and tied him up. Your next action would be to?: Steal his soul. Stealing their soul has multiple benefits in increasing my power, keeping the hero available for questioning and separating them from their body to remove them as a threat. I would probably not have bothered with the whole tying them up part and jumped straight to the stealing their soul part as soon as they were weakened enough to guarantee its success. Assuming however, that a minion came to my attention with a tied up hero I would then steal their soul and discard the body.

23: A superhero is attempting to thwart my plans. What do you do to them?: Depends on the hero, depends on their plans. Most likely I leverage whatever troops I can to fight with me against them and steal their soul for my collection.

24: Arrange the following in order of importance to you:
A: Money
B: Power
C:The death of all who oppose you
C/B/A/

I did update his bio a bit if anyone is interested. May still need some work.

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@Legion02

Well if you want to go by things that are accepted then to my knowledge that is literally nothing. Hopefully soon. Maybe after the ooc is posted?

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@Leslie Hall

That is not what I expected to happen. I didn't mean to remove Joan as a character.

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@Leslie Hall

I think I would be fine so long as the wounds were not incurable. for my own purposes, raven can deal with the rest by stabbing someone and healing off the blood =P. What we actually would get out of this is being able to allow Joan to hit people since it won't mean they will just bleed out and die. She'll still be pretty lethal, but the chance exists for someone to escape. Or for raven to heal past it all and kick Joan off a cliff, but I have already stated my desire for dark side characters to be OP

Speaking of him, I'm in the middle of rewriting him. so far I'm still not quite happy with him. it may take a while... but I'm thinking of making him so that the only ways to really beat him are to break his lantern using the king's sword thereby cutting him off from all his collected souls and leaving him completely powerless or using Allucard's mind rewriting ritual to make Raven Forget he wants to kill everyone. The idea being to make it more dramatic to actually beat him rather than to let Raven bulldoze through all of the heroes. I am okay with adding methods to the list of ways to end Raven, but I would like them to remain reasonably difficult. The sword is in the hands of only an okay swordsman and would need to hit the lantern which can be kept out of reach and the ritual would need to be performed after beating Raven in combat which Allucard will have trouble doing on his own.

Of course we don't have to go that way if everyone has a problem with it. He can be just as kill-able as everyone else, I just thought it would be cool if the light side had to go the extra mile to take him down. of course I kinda lose all claim to that if he doesn't get to be second in command, but whatever...

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@Esterdi

but if you do hit Joan with a crossbow bolt she can be healed of the injury and be saved where if she cuts you you will be stuck with that wound forever magic healing be damned, which is that part I am concerned about in an rp where the players are likely to be in contact with each other. Either Joan kills characters or she never lands any blows on anyone and looks incompetent.

@Legion02

Now I'm not in charge so I hold no power, but we do have quite a bit of the undead thing going already on the dark side with a necromancer, an undead and an incomplete character sheet for another undead and a lot Ythreïn's abilities seem to be a little too close to my character for my liking with the cold aura and using the souls of slain enemies. Again I have no power here and you don't have to change anything, but it does concern me. blah blah complaining blah blah.

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@Firetigress3

Legion will bring dark to 6 characters and artificer has an incomplete undead elf for the dark side as well. bringing it up to seven. However 3 of those dark characters are incomplete or not submitted while only 2 of the light characters have not been submitted.

Of course I have no idea what is accepted, who is still playing or if there's something I missed so who knows how it will actually end up

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@Legion02

I am okay with it. We are looking to end up a little outnumbered actually.

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Soon would be nice, but I have almost nothing to do with my time till I have classes again on Monday so yeah.

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@Leslie Hall

I love Killing Floor. Seriously one of the best shooters. If I had a console I would stay away from destiny for a lot of reasons... Shooting on console blows, its published by Activision. What's left of Bungie seems to be made up of assholes. It charges way too much for its content. Its super grindy... etc. etc.

An... issue I guess. So if Joan fights someone they will die. Basically. Between high resistance to magic, incurable wounds and massive blood loss if Joan gets her hits in the opponent will die and I'm not entirely sure I'm okay with that. And maybe its just because I want raven to be a bit stupid op and she completely counters him to the point its not funny, but then again nobody else is likely to survive if Jan comes after them either.

This may also lead into a discussion about how over powered we want the dark side characters to be, I think for narrative purposes they should be quite a cut above the light side characters, or at least the dark lord and their inner circle. Additionally how may ways the light side characters should have of dealing with the dark side characters, like our dark lords super heavy, impressively enchanted armor.

Of course in bringing this up i will also need to acknowledge that nobody's anything has been accepted so who knows if this will even be a problem.