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Every time I think I’m going to have plenty of time to work on things… Things come up. Anyhow I did actually manage to get some stuff done (and I’m hoping to get some more done before you wake up). I’ve uploaded the Irean General and Second Prince of Renais although I made some major edits to him than I originally talked about so I do hope it still works. Here’s a summary of what I had in mind.

Summary

I know originally Frelia was going to house a second lord but I was having a lot of trouble with that. When I started writing the Prince’s information down I found it worked rather nicely. I was thinking I could have him stationed at a fort either near/in Frelia/Renais/Along Carcino and most of his early story could basically be him dealing with Southern Carcino’s choice to join in the conflict on Irea’s side—he’d also probably fight off some forces sent from other Irean locations and allies. What do you think?

Otherwise I’ll mention that while I’m catching up on character sheets I am still more than a little behind on character images. I basically have Ismaire done—at least in the basic sketch. I still need to upload her, touch her up and colour her. I had to change her hair a little but I left it as close to the original as I could, however, I did change her clothing/armour a lot as I tried to blend that picture with anime and myrmidon style dress. And don’t feel bad if I show you the picture and you don’t want to use it (either because you don’t like it or because it isn’t even close to what you had in mind).

About Princess Alessa: Firstly, if you’d like I could draw those clothes on a different character—although I’m going to try and finish some of mine first. Secondly it’d be nice if you lowered her age a little. [16-17 like you previously said would be preferred]. As I was planning on making her older brother and King Vendrick is 35. 35-19=16 as is. Or if you’re really set on having her that age I can make him her younger brother. Aging the King up is also, technically, possible.

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Mona was written to 'join' Lance's party as an early healer. Also I imagine all my "image pending" quotes are a bit annoying, so I apologize. I'm probably going to look for at least decent reference pictures for some of them, at least until I have caught up on some of the others' pictures.

P.S. As a brief fore-warning if I randomly stop replying for more than two days it’s probably because my computer/internet has finally refused to work.
P.P.S If you ever have any English-language questions I'd be more than happy to try and help. ^^

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And everytime I think I'm going to get some free time... <sighs>

What do you think of Irea (822) > Hiactance (834) > The Free City (856)? As a note that was the same order I was thinking. Did you have anything to say on the notes I made about the classes?

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Added classes. Your opinion on Irea/Hiactance/The Free City classes would be nice (and on the slight modification of class-weapons uses). I wasn't really worrying, I was more trying to keep you informed, since I did sort of just stop replying. I'm really looking forward to seeing both of them. And congratulations on moving. At least your inactivity will give me time to finish up the OOC/my sheets/my portraits/etc.

Edit: Knowing when the former-Grado Kingdoms were formed would also be nice. While they probably weren't formed directly after the war, some may be quite older.

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My abrupt vanishing act yesterday was caused by my internet’s refusal to do as I asked. And then when I got home a while I was just much too exhausted to go through the trouble of logging on, I went right to sleep. Today (after some hassling) I got my computer/internet to work again, hopefully we can catch up on some lost discussion time.

Wait—I hope you aren’t saying you’re waiting on me to finish my characters for you to finish your Jehanna Heir and Hiactance Princess—I was waiting on you to finish each of those before starting their respective counterpart. If this is the case we might want to discuss their relations a bit more. And finally, I think it would be a good idea to make a couple of extra’s for the Mercenary group. If you make one and I make one we can have up to four, a good solid number. (I also imagine there would be several ‘un-character’ units.)

I’d actually started working on something detailing a fair amount on the countries, classes included. As for Pegasus Knights not being from Frelia… Well I could see them being from Renais or Carcino as well. If one was a deserter they could also now be allied with whichever country they want. I’ll add the classes soon.

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I’d like to see her stay with Hiactance and my group for a while, at least. For one it would help with later convincing other characters if we want to have them switch sides. You could also use her father as her reason for leaving later. Maybe she stayed around so much mostly because of him in order to try and help him to be as he once was, but during the course of the RP he only becomes more and more paranoid/distraught and she can’t see anything left of what he once was. Thus the kingdom could be essentially ‘lost.’ What do you think?

I do think they are going to meet up. In fact I was nearly counting on a battle between them at some point. Not to mention if everyone’s not dead by the time we bring in an outside threat they’ll probably start to get a lot friendlier. Also portions of the groups will likely have a good few opportunities to intersect each other.

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She’s not very far along in the development stages, so for now I’m going to avoid describing her until I get around to brooding more on her. I definitely agree on the interaction bit, if we’re not careful we might end up basically just writing a story where our own characters only interact with our same characters except during certain times. That would sort of defeat the ‘roleplay’ part of it.

I don’t think I want to go with sharing points of view. We have a lot of honourable and dedicated characters surfacing and I think I want to try and go with something just a little bit different. I have an idea. One is that he thinks his sister (whom he cares about a great deal) is acting foolishly and has gone to retrieve. This probably wouldn’t place him in any of the battles fought until he finds another reason to actually help Irea. And I do have an idea for that helping Irea part, but should I choose to go with it it’s the sort of thinking which would be more fun if not revealed pre-IC. Or they could both stay in Hiactance.

Edit; Page 2. ^^

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I hadn’t thought of it that way. I rarely write my sheets from a specific perspective (except if I’m doing a fanciful biography type of thing). And sparkles? :P But I can agree that sides will blame the other and there will be more than a few bits of propaganda.

Or it could’ve been that I mostly skimmed over that part of our conversation so I missed the ‘undecided’ part. I’m glad you didn’t make her much older, since I was planning on maker her brother the elder but was trying not to cut it too close to their father’s age. If you’d like to play another character on Renais’ side you could always make some generals/mercenaries/etc. serving them, I’ll also suggest Princess Frelia’s younger sibling.

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No it won’t bother me. It tends to bother me when people use official art/unedited in-game portraits or clone-copies of the character. However, you chose a fan art and in regards to personality they aren’t too much the same. Basically, don’t worry about it.

That’s that then as soon as I’ve got some time I’ll get to mass drawing and writing character sheets.

You said a good deal about her… I was going to copy and paste it here for you; however, it wasn’t in one solid chunk. If you look at the last few posts on the first page of our PM discussions you can see what was said about her, as well as a little on the second page. You mentioned she’d probably be a mage or dragon rider and would be very against the war. She’d want her father to return to how he was and she would probably end up fleeing Hiactance to join Irea. I was going to play her brother. Does that help?

Also, don’t worry about the secondaries, I wasn’t expecting you to write quite as much as you did for the Prince and probably won’t write too much for some of my characters. Although I do have a little problem with the history in his sheet—You mention Renais’ grudge against Grado, however, I think it would be more the other way around, at least at first. As time passed there may have come to be a mutual amount of animosity, but I definitely wouldn’t think it would be one-way from Renais’ perspective. Plus King Eldys’ main reason for invading Irea specifically was that it was close and weaker. He also has an alliance with half the other countries. I hope this makes sense to you and doesn’t throw off anything you had in mind.

Edit: Sleep well. ^^

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I found the negative and corrected it. But then my internet was too bad to let me tell you that I’d corrected it. Near the end I said would instead of wouldn’t. Sometimes I don’t mind searching for images, but unless the character was created partially off of the image I find the lack of match to drive me nearly crazy. Especially when I have a strong mental image of the character in my mind. Little things tend to bother me much more than they should.

It’s nice to see that you care so much about my wellbeing. :p But I don’t think it will slow down the start of the RP too much. Since I won’t be doing extreme/full body pictures it shouldn’t be too hard. Also because if I focus on the ones who show up early then I can work on the others as the RP goes along. Finally, I will be writing descriptions of my characters until I’ve finished a portrait for them, so if we’re all ready to go except for the images we can just go off of that until I’m done.

I can certainly try and draw it. Aside from the hair colour are there any things you’d like changed/done differently? (The eye will be done more anime-esque). Do you want the hair style the same? Do you want one eye still wrapped? Do you want the armour as closely as I can make it to that or do you want it just based off it? What colour would you like her eyes to be?

I like the picture you chose for Eltshan the prince. Have you played 4/5? Which reminds me, you didn’t answer how old the Princess of Hiactance was going to be (or I don’t remember you answering). Ugh. I just want to work on this and ignore all the important things I need to be working on.

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That does help a lot. Just to make sure I’ve got this correct—He is the commander of a group of mercenaries and she is an exile fleeing from Avdlan, (probably believed dead by the masses). And while she was hiding she (was found by him?) and he recognized her and bearing loyalty to the old line she joined the group? But I just realized a little bit of a flaw of logic. If Avdlan took power ~11 years ago, how old is the claimant and how old was she when she first fled the castle?

I try to never assume anything so that doesn’t work too well in this case. And I was offering to draw your characters for you (I may have accidently made it a negative). With a fair amount of description it wouldn’t be too hard to make an image that matches/resembles what you have in mind, especially if you use reference. So it was a proposition, not a statement.