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medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

Also for creating future character names, here is a list of name elements appropriate to the setting! You can adjust and filter this list to your liking with the menu at the top.

medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

@Lurking Krog@MissCapnCrunch

Like I said, Wikipedia searches are more than fine to draw inspiration from. This is just a free RP and it's all in fun, lol, I'd just like it to be rooted in real events.
Here are some of the articles I've been reading!
Middle Anglo-Saxon history (660–899)
(this is the most relevant section of a very big article, but the page also has good stuff about society and culture if you don't mind going down the wiki hole.)
Mercian Supremacy and Ecgfrith of Mercia
(short and sweet summaries. the last paragraph of the first article is the most important for us as it's about the end of Offa's reign. Ecgfrith died less than a year after his consecration and that was the beginning of the end for Mercia. this all would have happened just before our RP will begin.)
Coenwulf of Mercia
(the king during our RP. this is a long article but it has a lot of good info.)

Some of these are pretty long, so if you just skim them or pick passages that catch your interest, that's perfectly fine. :)

medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

@Emma@SantosGabriel77

For this particular RP I didn't have time travel in mind. If you guys would like we could get another RP interest check going that is about time travel in a similar setting, but I'd like this one in particular to lean toward fantasy and away from sci-fi. How does that sound?

medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

Sorry I was gone for a few days! There was an unexpected family circumstance… won’t happen again. I hope y’all are still interested!

I was considering the kingdom of Mercia, around the year 800 or maybe slightly thereafter. At this point the entire Heptarchy was Christianized with some lingering paganism, which I think leaves a good place in the RP for supernatural elements. At this point the kingdom was in decline after a golden age in the mid 700s, about to be removed from supremacy by the kingdom of Wessex. Perhaps the overarching plot will be about espionage between the kingdoms, featuring the power struggles of lower lords sensing the end of an era? The characters can largely be common peasants, who wind up in such affairs and become heroes in their own right.

So far for names I've been using searches within this list, focusing on Anglo-Saxon names for major characters since we're looking at an English setting, so many established and authoritative figures will naturally be Anglo-Saxon.

medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

@MissCapnCrunch@SantosGabriel77

Hi guys! Glad to hear you're interested!
SG, an English medieval setting definitely sounds interesting... are there certain characters you like to play or plot elements you like to see in those?
And MCC it's okay that you aren't an expert, this is in Free for a reason lol. I'm more than happy with quick Wikipedia and Google research to draw inspiration from.

I'm in class right now but I have a lot of things to post in a few hours! <3

medieval roleplay, possible low fantasy elements [accepting!]

I'd like to start an RP with a medieval setting, possibly with some low fantasy elements or possibly without. I'm a bit of a history geek so I want it to be fairly period accurate, but not to the point of killing any fun. It would be high-free/low-casual, as in I care more about the quality of a post more than the number of words in it; that's not to say posts must be short, but that they shouldn't be overly long and they should be well written no matter their length.

Interested? Chime in with any ideas, no matter what they are! Everyone has something to add to the setting and story. I've never been a GM before on this site, so any experienced folks are welcome to volunteer as Co-GM! I'll post ideas here as I think of them.

Mud and Blood.

@Forgiveness aaaaand I just realized I forgot to tag you in my first post!

Mud and Blood.

Interested! I just have a few questions that may seem a tad obvious... I did read the op, but my ADHD is so bad that I wanna make sure I didn't misunderstand something important.

Is everyone to play as an Abandoned?
When you say "deserters" I assume you mean Crimson Companymen who deserted to join one of the armies, until all those remaining joined Saineven. Is that right?
Thanks!

Supernatural Creatures and their scary secrets

Very interested! But, are we all living in the mansion you pictured or can we live anywhere in the city?

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Count me in!