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The Relics

How many people are still working on CS? or do we have them all in the game?

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A man laid back in a sloppy caravan, letting smoke pour out of his mouth into the air, forming little shapes like crowns and hearts. The man had little patience, and did not intend to continue waiting for much longer. He looked pout over the roads, noticing a single horse-rider coming from down south. The man jumped up, stretching his arms and legs, his large frame clearly apparent to the rider coming close. He adjusted his belt, a large brown and gold, very decorative thing, and he jumped off the wagon, landing right in the way of the horse. The rider continued to advance, seemingly not going to stop, but the rider manages to pull on the reins, stopping a measly few feet in front of the smoky man.
"About time you showed up. I was starting to think you had some bad news." The man surrounded by smoke spoke. The rider slowly got of his horse, standing beside the smoky man.
"I am sorry, Barron, i was held up along the way." The rider said, attempting to present himself as larger then he is to compare to the hulking man beside him. The "Barron" started to walk, the rider following in close suit, as the pair stopped along the edge of a hill, looking over the countryside, and they could almost make out the city in the distance.
"You were stopped?" Barron finally asked, after a few moments of strange silence. The rider swallowed nervously.
"By some guards, i believe that the city is planning something..."
"I know" Barron interrupted. He looked annoyed with the rider as he continued to smoke liberally, a small gathering of smoke gathering around them. "I was invited." The rider nodded.
"I was stopped, and they found the reply message..." The rider said, starting to shake. He coughed quietly, clearly not reacting to the smoke well.
"They have the message?"
"Yes but i can tell you that..."
"They accepted?" Barron nodded confidently. "I knew they would."
"Then..." The rider starting talking hopefully. "You don't need the reply?" The rider coughing a bit more loudly. Barron shook his head.
"I need the acceptance letter to hold them to their honor. Without it, they could easily claim a few months down the line that there was no such deal." He turned to face the rider, who was starting to cough uncontrollably. "In addition, now that the guards know that a local crime ring has joined forces with another, they will be extra more cautious in handling such matters." He started to speak angrily, the rider coughing violently, small bits of blood coming out. "You have failed me," He said, speaking with complete disdain for the man who seemed to be dying. "And one does not fail Barron Blackwill and get away with it." Barron gripped his hand over the rider, condemning him to death as the smoke that had been building in his lungs solidified, causing the man to suffocate, grasping at his neck and mouth, The Barron sighed, twirling his finger around in a circle, wrapping a thickness of smoke around the mans neck, and solidified it and brought it together, snapping his neck and killing him. He turned back to climb into the carriage, a small trail of the remaining smoke following him. He waved it off, knowing they weren't too far from the city. He nodded to a man who sa in the driver seat, who began to take them to the closest city.
"We'll be there within the hour, sir."
"Fantastic." The Barron smiled.

The Relics: Lore

Elenoir

Location: Island north of Kalesia, east of Kalnach
Relics: Relics are considered a part of everyday life, as the country is considered a sort of refuge from the church of idris, as it is one of the farthest points from the dominion. Evokers are generally treated with more respect and sympathy then the general populace, which has led to many citizens holding contempt towards the evoker population.
Culture: The culture is predominantly separated, as many who come to Elenoir wish to stay with their own people, and districts are often unspokenly populated by specific people from diffrent countries, like a district with mostly othean refugees, or one with people from kalesia. The country seems heavily divided and restless.
Military: The Navy is relatively small but ruthlessly efficient, in comparison to the land troops,who are poorly equipped and unprepared for invasion. The island is heavily defended by the well-equipped naval force, lead by some of the most notorious former pirates and naval officers who abandoned their country, making the navy very well led.
Climate: The island is mostly humid, and the most northern area experiences snowstorms, making the southern part of the island much more heavily populated. the trees and animals found on the island are quite different from the ones found on the mainland, due to many years of isolation. However, many refugees have brought breeds and animals from their own countries, creating plenty of cross breeds that exist only in Elenoir.
Political climate: The current leader of Elenoir is considered weak and many do not believe he can lead the country as well as others. Many have challenged the leader but have failed in duel combat with The leader, who has proved to have a strong power not known by the public. The Evoker population is intertwined with the rest of the public, but is generally disliked due to the fact they are treated with more respect and given more sympathy from the nobility and government.
Religion: Religion is considered open to the public but any topic relating to faith is completely ignored in government.
National Secrets/Secret Organizations: A secret branch of naval military unofficially controlled by the leader, consisting entirely of bandits and criminals un-connected to the country, often employed to attack targets that Elenoir cannot directly engage.
Mythology: There is a legend that two groups of nobles first came to the island with the same idea of a safe-haven from the church of idris. The island divided, the son from each family challenged each other to a duel. But once the battle began, each of the kids had been disarmed and began to fist fight. After each son had become too exhausted to fight, they made amends and convinced the nobles to work together, one of the kids eventually even married the others sister. This created a tradition of fisticuffs as a way to settle disputes, rather then deadly dueling. A battle is also traditional to occur during a wedding, between a relative of each person getting married.

The Relics: Character Sheets

Barron Blackwill

Name: Barron Blackwill
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Faction/Allegiance: Is only and fiercely loyal to his wife and his gang. He harbors little love for his father, the current leader of Elenoir, but he does align himself with the country.
Relic Description: A large and flashy leather/gold belt that is wrapped around his waist tightly. He sometimes attaches it to his stomach or arm if he feels it is under threat of being stolen. The relic allows him to control and bend smoke and fog. He cannot create it, but if has access to the resource, he can move fog and smoke how he wishes, and often is able to take from the moisture in the air to create smoke, as well as carrying some smoke bombs with him. He can also solidify smoke into objects in order to fight, such as making a giant fist or a shield out of smoke. He cannot create solid objects bigger then himself, however.

Appearance: (if using a picture, please pick something that you’d get away with wearing in public and that would make sense for the era. Same goes for text-based description.)

Flaws:
Overconfidence He is overly confident in his skills and tactics, to the degree of slight narcissism. He often charges into situations with brutality.
Brutal He is very brutal and cruel to things that stand in his path or that threaten him and his wife's happiness.
Headstrong While good with negotiation, those he decides are allies or foes have little chance of changing his mind. He has a great dislike for the idris church.

Skills: Skilled in hand-to-hand combat. He has trained in a wide variety of different combat styles, and still finds himself skilled with a style of duel blades.
He spent many years being a diplomat and leading men, and prides himself on the ability to be a leader.

Biography:
Born to a family that was cousin to those that had led the country at the time, his father was thrust into the position when the last of the nobles had either died or been disgraced. Barron came to resent his dad, who often valued his country over his family, and found that he had no wishes to lead the country. He instead signed up to serve as a soldier against his families wishes. After a stunning defeat of his battalion against a roving group of bandits, he was captured to be sold as a slave due to his worth. Serving as a slave to a royal family, he learned the inner workings of the country, as well as its criminal rings and underground gangs. One day, he found a strange belt in his masters room, and decided to keep it for himself as an act of defiance. The Noble made the mistake of taking the barron into the swamp to execute him, where he accidentally discovered his ability to control fog and mist. After killing the Noble and all his men, he disguised himself with robes from the castle in order to procure passage back to Elenoir. On the ship, he met a slave women who he decided to free before they had arrived, angering the crew and causing a mutiny from the slaves, who quickly took hold of the ship and took Barron back with the women who would become his wife.
Once he returned, his father rejoiced but the people did no longer accept him as an heir, even more so after he married his wife. A young slave girl with no nobility. He learned that in the time he had been gone, his mother had died and his father was heavily influenced by a corrupt noble. Using the knowledge he gained as a slave, he started his own group of underground criminals, and his influence slowly grew farther then just the island, forming connections to criminal rings in other countries as well. In an attempt by his father to teach him the ways of diplomacy, and an attempt by the noble to be rid of him, he is sent to Othea to encourage the up-and-coming prince to re-evaluate his countries ties to the church. Barron goes, but decides along the way that he has an ulterior motive to garner support for a revolution to overthrow his father and the noble that puppets him.

Personality/motivation:
Barron is a gang leader, first and foremost. He confidently leads his men and believes in freedom from oppression of the church. He is often cocky and overly dramatic, and can be increasingly aggressive, but he firmly has his stance of what is right and wrong and stands by it. He has three goals as he comes to Othea:
1. To convince the prince to oppose the church outright.
2. To further advance the influence of his criminal ring.
3. Garner support and allies for a revolution in his home country.
4. To create the best living he can for him and his wife.

Relations: Characters with criminal background spanning the last few years would have at least heard of him, as well as any characters who have lived or were born in Kalesia or Kalnach
Final Point - Secrets: Barron is an open man and will not hide who he is or what hes done to get where he is now.
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SillyGoy said
I'm afraid I won't be able to participate in this RP. A sudden upsurge of responsibilities has come up, you see. I won't have much time.

Were sorry to see you go, sillygoy.
If you ever find yourself wanting to come back feel free to tell us!

The Relics

Sorry ive been rather quiet in this thread but ive been working on other things, trying to keep up with the other two GMs, etc.

As for what people have been asking, Ellri covered it all. Magic, as far as its known in this world, is chanelled through relics. Any magic done without a relic is mostly smoke and mirrors, and its doubtful that it exists at all without relics.
The CSs all look good as far as i know but thats more Ellri's specialty.

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Maki Casanova said
Should we rename the RP as well?

No i believe "The Relics" is fine unless anyone has some suggestions?"

Kangutso said
I'm glad that this isn't just being let go of.

Dont worry Alida and Ellri are working very hard

Humans vs Gods

Im very interested

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Ellri said
We're waiting on Alida to get back from wherever. And a little for barks to throw stuff into the plans. (preferably wrenches). We don't want to design everything for this RP. Part of the charm here is the fact that elements have so many architects.

Yeah i havent had much to comment since everythng is looking good. Nothing really goes beyond what i imagine to be "Too much background"

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Sundered Echo said
My prefereance is that Relics origins and methods of choosing remain largely a mystery.This allows us to retain a broad range of character options and retains a sense of mystery with the titular objects that would be lost by quantifying them overmuch.

Pretty much what we went with.