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The Heavens Aflame - A Civil War Among Deities

Sooz if anyone wants to be a child of Vaela and Aroesus who came from their union that'd be super awesome. ^^ If you want to do that, shoot me a message so we can do some work together. -_^

The Heavens Aflame - A Civil War Among Deities

Bringing Vaela back! Woohoo ^-^

The Heavens Aflame - A Civil War Among Deities

Vaela

Name/Titles: Vaela, The Queen of Grace and Beauty, Mistress of Spite, The Silver Archer Gender: Female Patronage: Love, Kindness, Mercy, Beauty, Youth, Lust, Spite, Malice, Envy, Seduction, Archery. Parentage: Vaela was a child of Ventu but she was feeble in her youth and he discarded her with disgust. She rejected her father after he cast her out and does not claim her heritage. Pantheon/Affiliation: Deity Appearance: Vaela is a creature of divine beauty and youth. Her body is the envy of mortal women and the dearest desire of mortal men. Her hair is like spun gold, intricately braided and shimmering in even the faintest light. Twin braids hang down sides of her face as the rest of her hair cascades down her back. Two ivory horns that twist around each other emerge from the sides of her head. Her skin is the color of silver and perfectly flawless with not even a single scar or cut. Vaela’s face is an almost perfect oval, her eyes shimmer with a totally bewitching golden glow, her nose is perfectly positioned, her cheekbones are high and refined, and her lips are warm and inviting like the honeyed words she speaks. She normally wears a silver gown that leaves her back exposed and clings to her body like a second layer of skin. Vaela can also appear in a more unpleasant guise when she is enraged or slighted. Her skin becomes blood red, and her head is adorned with a crown of much longer ebony horns. Her hair changes from gold to white and her eyes turn to blood red orbs that emit hatred and malice. She’s also appeared as many types of animals but they are always silver colored so they are easy to spot. Centres of Worship/Places of Power: Vaelan is one of the strongholds of her worship. The ageless Queen Avaelin is the adopted daughter of Vaela and she showers her blessings on the nation. Vaelan is slightly to the south of Caesilinus and not the largest nation but it is her most beloved of human nations. Vaelan also holds the greatest of Vaela’s temples and is the home of the highest concentration of the Vaelie. There is also a great temple in Caesilinus. Almost every town or city has at least a shrine to Vaela because her aspects are almost universal. Servants, Prominent Followers and Worship Base: Almost all women and many men have worshipped Vaela throughout their lives. Maidens plead to her for a blessing of her beauty and the love of man, while men plead that they will be successful in wooing those same women. Many vain women pray for their beauty to remain constant and ask her to keep them from aging and many men do the same; asking for their virility and strength to remain even as they grow older. Jilted lovers often pray to her, asking for the balm of renewed love or for the sweet nectar of malice and spite that makes it easy to forget they ever loved at all. Vaela has always been fond of pleasure and frequently allows her favored mortals the joy of a union with her and her many children have spread her blood throughout many parts of the world. Vaela is also open to the worship of deviants and individuals with strange or perverted lusts and she understands that many find pleasure in pain as well; she even has been known to find it herself. The Vaelie are her children and they all inherit her skin, hair, and horns, they also can shift from the fair form to the darker one at will like she can. There are both male and female Vaelie and they are supernatural attractive and able to incite lust and desire in the hearts and minds of others. They feed on the youth of those they couple with to sustain their own lives and they have magical gifts too. They worship her a lot. Vael’Lana, High Priestess of Vaela: The eldest of Vaela’s living children and the first of the Vaelie Vael’Lana presides over the faith of Vaela and the affairs of the Vaelie. She is said to be insatiable in her appetites for both pleasure and pain, much like her mother before her. Avaelin of Vaelan: Avaelin is the Queen of Vaelan, a nation to the south. When she was young she was beautiful enough to draw Vaela’s gaze and her fondest wish and burning desire was to remain as she was forever. Vaela watched her with favor as the Queen sought any method for eternal youth. In the end she came herself and offered the Queen eternal youth for eternal faith. The Queen accepted taking a name that paid homage to her goddess and renaming her own nation. Though Avaelin is human she has the ability of the Vaelie to feed on youth through intimacy. Psychology: Vaela is given pleasure by love in all its forms. She does not discriminate between the gentle love of a young romance and the sadistic love of a man who tortures his partners during the act. She has a special place for those as they meld her two attributes together in a way that she truly admires. She is known to be difficult to pin down, enjoying acts of pleasure herself to the point that she has likely coupled with many of the gods of the pantheon, both male and female. There were even rumors that at times Aroesus had called her to him. Vaela frowns on celibacy considering it one of the only sins that she cannot abide. She also takes rejection very poorly and often will attempt to trick people into accepting her if her advances are initially rejected. History: Vaela was one of the children that Ventu sired upon the stars. She was gentle and kind with no violence or malice in her then. But Ventu did not find her docile beauty and grace appealing, and wished that she had instead been a force of destruction. He cast her from his sight with disgust and that rejection changed her. She had loved her father with pure and unadulterated love that had known no limits. But now it was shattered into pieces and where a broken heart lived darkness crept in. She began to hate, and malicious intent crept into her even as she embraced the creations of her brothers; teaching them of love. When Aroesus rebelled against Ventu he searched for his sister and promised her a place in his new order if she helped him. Vaela agreed in an instant, eager for acceptance and companionship, and believing that when the time came she would be chosen as the Queen of the gods and as his bride. He passed her over after the victory, choosing instead the goddess _____ which made her furious. Vaela’s darker side became more visible after she was passed over; her malice and spite changing her from the pure goddess of love and beauty that she once was into the double sided being she is today. But until the end Aroesus often called his sister to him 'secretly' and there are rumors something might have come from their union. Relationships: Loves, hates, lusts, crushes, affairs, rapes, incests, zoophilia incidents with shepherd girls (always a Jovian favorite) and the like. Oh, and mere alliances and rivalries, as well. Probably fueled by the above. (Anyone can have had a liaison with Vaela. Pm me if you want to! I totally want to flesh this out more and totally think she would have had flings with almost anyone -_^.)

Of Steam and Ambition - The Library of Nations

SuperWIP

Nation Sheet
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Nation's Name
Velis Veiln

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Nation's History
Velis Veiln is old. The Vaelie do not know how long they have lived within their jungle homeland but their oldest ruins date back thousands of years. The earliest recorded civilization in Velis Veiln were the Veiln city states 2,300-1,900 years ago. The ancient Vaelie raised cities built on the backs of their slaves and the pyramid shaped temples and statues of that age still dot the Pizan jungles. What caused the Veiln city states to fail is unknown, but historians have speculated it might have been over population and predation, or an outbreak of plague. Whatever the reason the civilization that had emerged from a historical void faded into a new one almost overnight.

Then after 300 years off chaos and anarchy that left little archeological evidence a new city rose. It was called Velis and it flourished. But Velis too was doomed to wither away suddenly. The Vaelie population boomed during the growth of the Velis Empire and outstripped the slave population that they used for both labor and sustenance. Velis did not go out with a whisper like the Veiln cities did, and there are records of historical wars with people around the jungles.

In the next dark period the breeding program that created the Casselen humans began. Who began the breeding program is a mystery for the ages but they started a revolution in Vaelie culture. With a steadier source of labor and food the next set of city states did not collapse under their own weight like the others had. With promises of gifts and privileges the Vaelie lured the Pizan humans into willing service.

The Vaelie began to trade with the outside world in earnest just in time to get a malevolent gift from the world. The flu swept through the jungle lands of the eaters of men killing thousands of Vaelie and even greater numbers of Casselen and Pizan humans. The cities nearly collapsed again as food became scarce and panic set in over the plague. But the plague did not quite cause another collapse. The reborn city of Velis had been hit a lil less hard then the others and the ruling Vaelie manage to scrape together an army when the others could not. This army brought unity to the land and brought Velis Veiln into being.

The Vaelie have never expected the world to become like they are. They have always kept the world at arms length and traded with it but otherwise kept their distance. But that is starting to change. (It can have already changed a bit if people want. :) )

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Form of Government
Theocratic Monarchy
Political Status
Political Overview
Current Political Leader
Notable Figures

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Total Population
Employed Population
Military Population

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The Specie's Information
Vialie:
The Vialie are a humanoid race that has skin, hair, and eyes with metallic colors. Their skin is silver and gleams faintly in light, their eyes are pools of gold, and their hair is as bright and beautiful as gold spun into thread. Vialie have several traits other than skin, hair, and eyes that differ from humans. They have very different internal mouth structure with teeth that are clearly carnivorous. Vialie have retractable spines that come out of their wrists to inject potent paralytic venom and they can inject this through bites as well. They can naturally produce pheromones that induce an addled and aroused state of mind in humanoids. This was a hunting tool in the old days. Vialie are also natural contortionists and can bend their bodies in abnormal ways. The Vialie are the original race of the Piza jungle and they have lived there since times long forgotten. The fetid swamps and hostility of the jungle to outsiders was a shield.

Humans: (Pizans)The human subjects of the Vialie. Pizan humans are slight and olive skinned. They have lived in the lands for nearly as long as the Vialie and while they used to be food in the old days the breeding programs that produced the Casselen have allowed the Pizan humans an unmolested place in society and led to flourishing.

Humans: (Casselen)Casselen humans have been bred for traits such as having large fleshy areas, muscle mass, stupidity, obedience. They are large humans, with ample flesh and it is said they taste truly divine. Casselens are borderline sentient and treated as expensive cattle by the Vialie and other residents of the nation. They are raised to serve as food for the Vialie and little else.

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Army Overview
Navy Overview
Air Force Overview

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Nation's Location
Nation's Geography

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Economy Overview
Imports: Silks, Spices, Oil, Natural Gas, Luxury Goods, Grain, Technology in general
Exports: Perfumes, Aphrodisiacs, Herbal Medicines, Human blood, Human Flesh, Slaves

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Wellz there was gonna be some stuffz ^-^

I am 100% able to write normal posts In Character. -_^

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>.<' Tis kinda sorta awkward. I wanted to border on serp's nation. ^^ Sooz could I kinda sorta keep that spot? I understandificate if I can't. I just kinda was hoping for it.

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Kilo6 said

REDSHEILD said

I'll take 52 and 53, if they are not already taken.

Sounds good.

But but but >.< Thas what I had just claimed before him!

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Totally awesome! ^-^ Ty ty -_^

Sooz for my nation I was thinkificating that I'd snag 52, 74, 53. Is that okie dokie Kilo? ?.?

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Hiya ^^ I don't suppose you might kinda sorta maybe have space for one last person? '^-^ Twould be totally awesome to joinificate especially with a bunch of old friends joining too. ^^

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

Character you have created: Asya Faye
Alias: Nyx

Speech Color : You know this kinda sorta isn't here anymore right? -_^

Character Alignment: Hero

Identity: Secret

Character Personality: Asya is a girl who totally tried and then failed at being normal. no matter what she did the world seemed to hate her. But she hasn't started to hate it back. She's kinda got a good heart and has refused to let it break her as she dreams of becoming the greatest hero the world has ever known and then finally being accepted. But she's got a totally annoying hitch hiker in her mind in the form of her father who speaks to her. She's got no clue who or what the voice in her head is, but the one time she mentioned it her foster family decided she was nutso and kinda dumped her out.

Uniform/costume:

Picture

Asya wears a black trench coat and a purple scarf wrapped around her face as her costume right now. She kinda hasn't figured out a better one yet since she's totally about to just get started.

Outside form

Origin Info/Details: Asya isn't human. But she isn't an alien, or a laboratory experiment either. Asya comes from a union that shouldn't have ever happened, half a being from outside the universe, and half a daughter of humanity. Her mother was human and a woman of exceptional beauty, but tis not the important part. Her mother was also a member of a cult that worshipped the beings that live outside the boundaries of our dimension. They dreamed of opening a gate between our world and the outside and letting the outside in, but they did not understand what was really out there. They performed a lot of rituals and tried many things to open a gate but they all failed until the last attempt. If they could not open a gate, maybe they could bring a piece of the outside into the world that could open it. Asya's mother volunteered to be the vessel for the piece of the outside and they tried a new ritual. Skipping X rated content ---------------. It kinda seemed to work, but 9 months later everything fell apart. The cult was found out and most of its members were arrested, Asya's mother died giving birth to her, a lil one who wasn't part of either this world or the outside, but something in the middle.

As Asya grew up she kinda bounced around from one foster family and group home to another. She was never a problem child, and grew into a nice young woman; but she was always viewed as a lil strange, the girl who didn't fit in no matter what she tried to do. She was picked on mercilessly and took to hiding out alone, which kinda led to her being labeled as antisocial. In those silent times alone she often thought she could hear a voice talking to her. Asya only mentioned the voice once and it caused her then foster family to try and get rid of her; they had decided she was crazy as well as freaky. When she turned 18 she was kicked out onto the street to fend for herself and she's been wandering around and taking odd jobs ever since. When she discovered she had powers she decided that this was her big break; she wouldn't be the freak or the reject anymore. She's been practicing them in secret, honing them and getting ready to emerge as a hero and maybe feel something other than scorn and ridicule for the first time.

Hero Type (Select one):
Supernatural (Divine agents, Vampires, werewolves, Cosmic deities)

Power Level (Select one below):
D. Cosmic (Ex. Silver Surfer, Green Lantern)

Powers: Eldritch Magic summoned through the language of the outside, Shapeshifting parts or all of her body into her outside form, Psychic, Regeneration and durability. Her psychic powers allow her to fly.

Attributes:

Strength Level: Normal human, Outside form is way above 100 tons

Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 100+ MPH Flying, 40 MPH Ground, 100+ Reaction times.

Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: 4 hours but if she changes completely she has no concept of exhaustion.

Agility: 10X human levels. She is fast, she just isn't super duper agile.

Intelligence: Above Average

Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Minimal

Weaknesses: Asya isn't trained and while she doesn't have any glaring weaknesses she does have some problems. The more of the outside she pulls into herself the more alien and different she becomes. She's only half human and while her human side is mostly dominant when she shifts it is totally a constant struggle to keep her human sensibilities.

Supporting Characters : Nope, she's kinda sorta a loner.

Do you know how to post pictures on RPG boards?: Totally, just look up. -_^

Sample Post: Soooz can I kinda sorta pass on this? -_^ I'm gonna be rewriting her opening from last time if thas okie? ^-^