Mr Rage

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

@Kaalee No worries! I never tagged anyone when I put it in the interest check for some reason.

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

@Skwint@Kaalee@Queentze@Dark Light@NobodiesHero (preaching to the choir for some of you), just wanted to draw your attention to this thread, to make sure that you saw that we are starting. If you haven't already, throw your character sheet into the CS tab and get working on your first post! I am eager to get started!

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

Approx 13 years. You are between five and seven.

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

So you guys know as you look at the first post, you are children, and would barely grasp at the fact that you are more or less permanently removed from your family. You barely understand that you are capable of magic, and you have absolutely no idea what you just saw. Have fun!

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

The cool fall air was warmed by the golden rays of the sun, the wind gently rustled hair and garments. Today was a special day for the students. While they had recently been brought to their new homes in the temple school, they were now on a trip into the forest to see their first Hallow Tree. The morning frost had left the leaves slick with dew, giving their hues of reds and oranges an extra shine and depth along the veins. Sensei Toma leads the group of small children, the next generation of guardians, along the ages worn footpath. A white, folded flag periodically marked the path to the tree. It took a fair amount of time, and while the path was well worn, it was not in any way an easy path. Not for the young children, and not for the obviously elderly Toma. Before the group made the clearing that housed The Old Hallowed Tree, the instructor stopped the group to allow not only himself but the children also, a chance to rest. He stroked his long white beard a moment as he let out a long sigh, the effort was obvious on his breath, especially as spoke.

"Haah, Gather around now, children. Haah, haaah. Hmmmm, we are nearly there now. And judging by the sunlight, we should be getting there just in time to see the changing of the bindings. Haaah, Haaah... uhem... It is imperative that you not get in the way of the older Guardians. But you should watch closely, as someday you too will take over the responsibility of maintaining the Hallow Trees," He coughs into his sleeve, the heavy phlem on his voice cleared momentarily, Toma breaths more easily. "Come along, then."

Not much further along the forest path the group of students and their instructor find themselves in the clearing along with a very large, and very old tree. The ground surrounding it is kept barren, meticulously groomed and the area around the tree stomped into a hard earthen floor. The tree itself was an old birch tree, the white bark peeling back in white scrolls of paper, but in stark contrast to the pure white of the birch, the leaves with red and edged in black. At the base of the tree, five figures moved almost as if dancing with a thick braided cotton rope crossing around the trunk forming a star between the figures. Suddenly lines of colored light raced along the length of ropes. These ropes are then tacked to the ground, the old ropes are then removed. The dancing continues a moment longer, each mage with a length of rope in their hands. Suddenly the ropes dissolve into a scatter of light.

"Well then," Sensei Toma started with a wheeze, "What did you think about that?"

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

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There is the OOC, nothing new information wise. Go ahead and move your character sheets over to the character tab on the OOC. I'll hopefully get the first post up in a few hours from now...

Gotta make dinner and what-not.

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

Krissy Morigan

Picture/Description:

Krissy is shorter than the average girl, but with her extremely athletic build and flaming red hair, she needs to do little else but enter the room to gain everyone's attention. That being said, she tends to have a flair for the showy and the dramatic, even going so far as to paint on different spell patterns onto her face prior to going into any sort of combat situation.
Age: 19
Element: Fire

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

In a world where religion and magic are the same things, it is known that all of Creation is made up of the five elements of Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit. All things are made up of a complexity of these elements, the more elements that they are made with, the more powerful they tend to be. Even humankind is made up of only three of these elements; Earth, Water, and Spirit. Because we are only made up of three, we are imperfect and require heat from the sun, air in our lungs, and food and water to survive. Throughout the eons since the creation of this plane of existence, many a Mage has attempted to combine all five elements to create a superior form of life that transcends all of the restrictions on the human body. Most of these attempts failed terribly, but the worst of them succeeded in creating life, though not the life that was intended. Demons have been born into this world created by those who would wish to push human life into purity, however, these broken, twisted forms come out tainted with the pain of their existence and rampage and destroy anything in their path. So a technique was developed to seal away the demons and the Practice of the Five, as it was called, came to become taboo.

The technique for binding a demon, which works on many other life forms as well, involves binding the spirit of the demon into a living thing and further binding that living thing with elemental bands of each of the five elements. Humans have been used, but the impurity within their own spirit drives them mad, making it improper to use as anything but a very temporary last resort. The ideal vessel is a tree. They naturally live long lives, they grow slow enough to make maintaining the bindings easy, and they are generally not capable of going mad.

This story takes place in this world, where you are students of the order tasked with maintaining the bindings on these Hallowed Trees in order to keep the demons contained. There will be a brief flashback period at the very beginning of the roleplay to when you are all children, between the ages of five and seven learning of this awesome responsibility that you will all one day have. Then we will jump ahead to your graduation date, where you will all be between 17-19, and hijinks will ensue. Members of this order are conscripted amongst the very rare Mages that are adept at Spirit. Four of you will also have a focus on another element (one each, first come first serve). It is possible to have sub-elemental focuses, such as metal for earth, but this will be later down the road, for now, focus on the five main categories.

Elements and How They Are Used

You can think of using the elements similar to the way that elements are used in Avatar: Last Air Bender. There are physical move components to most elemental uses. You are using your body to draw the program runes into the air, and by doing so you shape the spell. The more complex the spell, the more powerful, the longer it takes to cast. There is no set spell list, just understand that it takes time to do more complex things. While the other four elements are fairly straightforward, Spirit may need a little bit of clarification. Spirit in its most basic sense is the essence of life, it flows through everything in existence. A mage that can manipulate spirit can effectively manipulate anything alive. When combined with any one of the other elements, it can create temporary elementals to assist in a labor or to attack and defend, keeping in mind the limitations of the element (don't ask a fire elemental to move the wood stack from one area to the next). But on its own a Spirit Mage can control the flow of spiritual energy, they can use it to heal injuries and revitalize the tired, they can also use it to remove the life from something else, they can encourage living things to do their bidding, with a strong enough spell - even a person. While these are extremely powerful mages, they are limited by one thing- they must make physical contact with what they intend to manipulate. So while a fire mage can throw a fireball or an earth mage can shoot spikes of rocks up out of the earth ahead of them, a spirit mage must physically touch the target of their spells.

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

@SkwintIt's yours!

Under the Old Hallowed Tree

@Queentze looks great!
@Kaalee I still have you down for water!

So that means fire is all that is left. If we don't get any takers within approx 12 hours from now, I will go ahead and fill it and get the Ooc up!