Dredigan

The Sixth Blight

Alright I read both of your posts and I don't see any problems. :D As soon as Pyro and LetterE post intro's I'll begin the joining.

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I made the first post. I tried to make it more like a post from my character's view rather than an omniscient view, I figured I'd just give it a try this way for a change. Ready whenever you guys are.

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Commander Levine stood solemnly under the shadow of the Tower of Ishal, in the same place that the wardens of the Fifth blight had over two hundred years earlier. He had sent out over thirty new recruits from the Ferelden area, however Levine had decided that the time had come for him to find some to accompany him, so tonight he'd gathered the most promising recruits he could find from all across the country. He had just blown his battle-horn and was waiting for the recruits to gather, they'd been told that to come to his location as soon as they'd heard the noise. He had tried to make the place as regal as possible, torches lit on all sides, the moon directly above and vines growing majestically around the stone arches made it look nice, but it felt more like a place you'd bring a lover rather than a hardened soldier. It would serve. Just as we serve, Marc thought honestly.

His only fears rested with the Half Elf, Val. Val seemed the least likely to survive the joining ritual, but then again he'd seen weaker people go through it and be fine. These were, after all, his most promising recruits. It was odd that he hadn't found any humans to accompany him but he had played it off as having sent the best ones out of the country already, perhaps it was due to a slight tinge of racism that even Marc was unaware that he'd had inside of him or perhaps it was true. All that really mattered was getting these fine people through the joining. Then they could be counted among the wardens and start to serve a purpose rather than live by their own selfish needs and wants.

The joining had fallen far from the graceful ritual that it had been several centuries ago, mostly due to the fact that you couldn't make a baby go out and kill a darkspawn. Though Marc had tried his best to recreate the ceremony based on what he had learned about it. Tonight he wouldn't be sending the recruits out to do their own killing though. He'd done it himself. He knew that most of them had encountered Darkspawn before and all of them could fight so it seemed like a waste of time. The goblet stood ready for them, as soon as they arrived.

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Alright well I'm going to take the day to figure out where we will go immediately after Ostagar and how to handle the joining because I actually didn't put a lot of thought into that yet but tomorrow we will begin so everybody be ready.

Again I ask that you don't write about your backstories in your introductory post, thanks.

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Okay well I would like to ensure that everything is worked out but I'm worried that if we wait too much longer that we may never even get started.

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I like the idea of the Templars having an agency that would investigate corruption within Magi and the Templars themselves and it actually would really help with the story I had behind the Templars. It would add an aspect of "Do you do what's right or what is in the world's best interest." Anybody else interested in this?

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Alright so here's the decision I've come to about the Inquisition I hope it pleases you all and if it doesn't please voice your opinion before the roleplay begins.

The Inquisition did an Alexander the Great type of thing and fell apart when the inquisitor died. It broke into several factions some of which exist now and some of which died out. If we encounter them we may gain an ally, enemy. or neither. Maybe some are prejudice against mages but we already have a Mage hunting faction.

I believe I said that the mages were hunted down by the Templars during an illegal war after the evens of DA II and then the war came to an end and the Circle of Magi is no longer so tight as it used to be. Mages are not kept on such a tight leash though they are generally required to register as members of the circle and the circle and the Templars have been arguign ever since. Since the Blight broke out the Templars have been trying to enslave the mages to use as weapons against the darkspawn but the Wardens are kind of preventing it since they need the mages as well.

I don't want two different large factions fighting for the same thing such as magic genocide in this because it creates less interest and will pretty much just create two duplicate story arcs for us to suffer through.

In addition I edited Isala's profile on the front page however I could not add the picture in seamlessly. But I believe most of us know what a Tal=Vashoth looks like so I don't think it's necessary unless you really want me to put it there.

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I will accept you if your CS is well done, Lionheart but you and the person going to pm me their CS are the final two that I will accept. As for the inquisition I would say that perhaps it took an Alexander The Great type of road and fell apart after the death of the inquisitor unless you guys are all against that.

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Well I've got one more CS coming in tomorrow, after that is in assuming you're all ready we can start tomorrow afternoon or evening.

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Alright there we go. If you don't see your CS on the front page please pm it to me and I'll get it up there.