Cyrania

War of the Magi [OPEN]

@ShinyEve

Got it. I've changed her age to reflect that.

Also got the images to work. Just needed to take it another step.

War of the Magi [OPEN]

Here's my Selkie then.

Question. Is the Academy meant to be a high school-esque setting or a college-esque setting?

Edit: She's done and ready for inspection.

Ariana Ronan

Name: Ariana Ronan
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Species: Selkie
Room Number: (will be assigned to you before roleplay)
Alignment: Good/Magi?
Appearance: When not wearing her skin, she looks like an average human woman with long black hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin with slight freckles. Her face is angular and her stature is short, about 5' 6". She commonly wears a dark blue cotton Irish-style dress with a silver Celtic Knot brooch clasping a dark green cape over her shoulders. She also wears a silver necklace with a Celtic tree of life pendent on it and black slip-on shoes. Has her seal coat within her school satchel which she keeps a firm grasp on at all times.


(Not my image. Comes from moonchild-ljilja on DeviantArt)
Something like her just with black hair, the silver necklace, and the school satchel.

When wearing her seal skin, she looks like an average Atlantic harbor seal with a dark grey/black spotted back and a whiter belly.


Personality: She's a cautious sort, seeking to analyze the room and know what's going on before making any decision. Knowledge is power after all, and she wants to know all she can so that she's trapped in a situation that she can't win. It causes her to be prone to being a wallflower, especially since she's prefers to not broadcast the fact that she's a selkie. But she does want to make a difference in the world and make it so that humans will no longer be able to hurt selkies or any other race ever again.

Bio: Ariana grew up with her parents and siblings in a traditional traveling selkie clan, following their seal herd and coming up onto the seashore every seven months in order to not lose the use of their legs. All her life, she grew up with the warnings to always guard her skin and of what men would do to her if they had it. But of course as a young kid, the warnings seemed mere tales. There came a day when she wandered too far and mislaid her skin, only for a man to come to claim it and her. But before he could, her elder sister, Patricia, tackled the man and told Ariana to grab her skin and run. And so she did, near out of breath as she told the rest of the clan. Several of the man went to try to rescue Patricia, but they were too late. All trace of them was gone, aside from the necklace she had been wearing which had been cast upon the ground.

Ariana blamed herself for what happened. And when she found that she had developed magical powers, she vowed that she would hone her powers and either find her sister and rescue her or find the man that took her and have get justice for her. And so now she finds herself at the academy, seeking how to move forward from here.

Main Magic: Soul Magic (Telepathy, Empathy, and the like)

Sub Magic: Healing

Likes: The Sea & Seashores, Swimming, Cloudy Days, Rain, Nighttime, Stars, Old-Fashioned/Medieval-Style Music, Singing, Fish, Reading, Tea, Sweets (one of the few pleasures she likes that come from the surface)

Dislikes: Bright & Scorching Sunshine, Heavy Metal Rock-Type Music, Being Within Crowds of People, Sudden Loud Noises, People Invading Her Personal Space, Anyone Trying to Take Her Skin Away from Her, Coffee, Socializing with Strangers, Cosmetics, Failing at Anything She Tries, Urban Cities, Salads

Family: Her Parents, Donal & Bridget Ronan; Her eldest twin siblings, Alastair & Alastrina; Her elder sister, Patricia, who was captured saving her and is missing; her younger siblings, Colum, Caitlin, Conan, and Bran; her closest uncle, Brian Ronan, head of the clan, and his wife Fiona, the current clan storyteller & herbalist.

Friends: None really. The Ronan clan is small and tight-knit with many other extended family members and family friends, but she grew distant from the other children her age after what happened to her sister and so ended up drifting apart from the other children her age.

Sentimental Attachment: The necklace she wears had once been her sister's favorite. Also she has an understandable attachment to her selkie skin which if someone else grabs it, they gain power over her.

Weapon: A bronze leaf-blade short sword imbedded with a green emerald in the hilt, one well cared for and handed down in the family for generations and gifted to her as she left for the academy

Other:

Pet Name: Alycon
Pet Age: 8
Pet Gender: Male
Pet Species: Kingfisher
Pet Appearance: Royal blue feathers with a yellow belly

Pet Personality: An outgoing risk-taker that likes to test his abilities to its limits, whether in the air or within the water, and to encourage Ariana out of her shell. He though can be calm and kindly when he can tell she needs it and genuinely cares for his owner.

Pet's Main Magic: Water Manipulation (allowing him to breathe and move underwater as well as do other things)
Pet's Sub Magic: Teleportation

Kings and Killers: A Classical Fantasy Adventure (Chapter 1)

On the Way to the Knight Isles

@Sol Grim@Timemaster@Fetzen

The sea spray gently crashed over the Ivalicia as seagulls cried out overhead, the ship rocked with the waves, and the sharp smell of fish and brim filled the nostrils. The sailors around them were diligent in their work, scrabbling up and down the mast and swabbing the deck, and all clearly excited. They would arrive into port the day after tomorrow.

Arthur spent a lot of time on deck, looking out over the sea, doing his daily meditations, and aiding in any of the sailor's medical needs. Yet every so often, he'd close himself into his cabin to pour over the dark mage's journal or Gwyn's journal when he could get his hands on it, seeking to find any clues from within.

On this particular day though, he was especially engrossed within his readings. His companions on the journey might check in on him or with each other or might talk more with the captain and crew.

The Knight Isles

@The Muse

The port city was as bustling as it always was, an ironic tragedy for what Nylah knew lay ahead. She really ought to seek out a bounty board to see who her next target should be, one with enough gold to cover what her employers expected from Dalious's bounty and from whatever this new bounty would be. But it was beautiful day. Could she perhaps forestall things for just one more day?
The port was as bustling as it ever was

Simple guild adventure fun.

@Forsythe Hey there!

Simple guild adventure fun.

@Expendable

That would be fun.

Though I suspect that will be later on, after we get money.

Simple guild adventure fun.

@Cyrania Nice! Good work on the CS. I just added a personality section too.
Guild can have NPC's if you can afford 'em. (Or what ever other arrangements you can come to.)

@Dark Light

Sounds good. Could be fun if we could recruit some after rescuing them in a quest or something like that. I look forward to seeing how it goes.

Thanks! I've now added that personality section to her.

Simple guild adventure fun.

So would Guild members only be PCs or would we also be recruiting NPCs into the Guild?

My current character idea.

Alastrina Rogers

Name: Alastrina Rogers| Age: 21 | Gender: Female | Race: Slightly-Elvish

Main role: Swordfighter
Skills: Athletics and Horseback-Riding

Secondary Skills: First Aid & Storytelling

Reason for joining: Seeking to be a hero

Background: Alastrina was the youngest daughter of a guardsman who had married the daughter of an herbalist who had distant elven blood in his veins. Her favorite thing in life though was to hear stories of heroes, whether from a visiting bard or from her own mother's lips. And so she longed to be like those in legends. She saw her brothers getting lessons in fighting and convinced her father to teach her as well, allowing her to learn the sword and how to ride a horse. She learned basic herbalism from her mother and grandfather so she would know how to tend to wounds and those of any she met. And when she became old enough, she left home to seek her fortune, ending up at the starting of the new Adventurer's Guild.

Personality: Friendly and determined, she tends to be cheery and curious, interested in who she meets and those she comes across. When push comes to shove though, she will get serious and shove back, doing all she can to overcome obstacles. Her temper can be fiery and her inherent stubbornness can lead her to try the same thing over and over again until she succeeds.

Equipment: Sword, Dagger, Medium Armor, Basic Herbalist Set

Misc: Can either have a horse already or get a horse later, the small elvish part would mostly help her have the reflexes and dexterity to better survive though I wouldn't complain if she ended up developing some minor magic in the course of the adventure

Simple guild adventure fun.

I would be interested.

The War of the Magi

Could I be a selkie with magic powers?

Cyrania's Character Sheets

Fire Emblem: Aphotic Legacy

Just in case it comes back.

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Alastrina Prototype

Name: Alastrina, Daughter of Stephen of Sherinford
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Nationality: Galadorian

Social Status: Commoner or Noble (Depending on the overall balance of the party)
Occupation: Soldier
Class: Cavalier

Appearance

Broad shouldered, mid-sized young woman with shoulder length hair held back by a simple braid so it stays out of her eyes though her hair often doesn't behave itself as it ought to.
He's within a healthy medium in terms of torso size and with some musculature on the legs and arms. Her face is heart shaped. Her skin is a pale white that's prone to getting sunburned.

Typically, she wears a simple iron breastplate over a white tunic paired with iron greaves over brown breeches paired with brown leather boots.

Height: 5' 10"
Eye Color: Grey; depending on the lighting, they can appear blue or green
Hair Color: Auburn Red with golden highlights

Personality:
Alastrina is a daydreamer, prone to fantasies and imaginings which can sometimes distract her from what's going on around her and liable to let her curiosity get the better of her. But she's also earnestly eager and determined to meet the goals she's set herself, not one to back down from a challenge if there's any possible way she could best it. She tries to be like her father and the heroes of the stories she likes; noble, chivalrous, aiding those that need aid, and standing against those that need standing up against. She is still young though and this will be her trial by fire. It's up to her then to see how well she keeps to her commitment when everything goes wrong.

Her horse is her closest companion. She does seek to be friendly but she often comes off as overly perky or is disliked for trying to be a strict rule follower.

Likes: Heroic Stories, Songs, Singing, The Night Sky, Horses, Horseback Riding, Learning New Things, Tea (if that's a thing on the current continent. If hot chocolate is a thing in the new world, she may come to like it as well)

Dislikes: Not Knowing What to Do in a Situation/Feeling Helpless, Disappointing Those Around Her/Disappointing Herself, Inter-Personal Conflict (so, any in-fighting with those she considers allies), Tragedy, Off-Key Singing/Instrument Playing, Being Startled Awake, Turnips

Background:
Alastrina grew up as the youngest daughter of a legend, or at least a local one. Stephan of Sherinford (either knighted due to his service or just a retired solider now serving his liege lord as an undersheriff) had served Galador faithfully in the past wars and though he rarely told tales himself, those that served under him would tell tales of him and let his deeds be known. Alastrina loved hearing those stories and dreamed of being someone like him. And though the nations were currently at peace, she hoped that some adventure would come about where she could be the hero of adventures of her own. She readily applied herself to training in the sword and lance as well as training in mounted combat upon her beloved horse, a white stallion with a black mane and tail named Winsley.

When she came of age, she joined the ranks of the Galador army and sought to be one of the rare Pegasus Knights who would be sure to be within the heat of battle. Yet when she went through the trials, she was found lacking and so her application was declined. Alastrina was heart-broken for a time, but she pushed forward as a Cavalier and found that it was nice to be able to have Winsley at her side. And then came the call for volunteers to join the All-Aoes Exploration Fleet and represent Galador. She was among the first to sign up. Now she and Winsley are on their way to prove her worth and become a hero worthy of tales.

Weapon Proficiency:
Sword & Lance

Skills & Abilities:
Canto: Allows the user to move after an attack if they have any movement left

Provoke: Increases the likelihood of enemies targeting its user

(The second one could be replaced with something like rescue/pair up if that would be something you'd prefer me to have as a skill instead of just something that she can just do given that so far, no one else is a mounted unit.)

Equipment:
Steel Sword
Steel Lance
Vulnerary