Ranvena

The Eye of the Needle (where Fantasy and Sci-fi collide)

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@Catharyn

Thanks! I would just like to wait a bit so that my character comes in about a day or two after the crash, if that's alright?

The Eye of the Needle (where Fantasy and Sci-fi collide)

Ath'kerai Sehtarith

Name: Ath'kerai “Kerai” Sehtarith
Species: S'tor
Appearance: Ath’kerai is a female s’tor who stands about 7’2” in height. Her scales are silvery white with uneven patches of grey.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/q607mz/ocart_gray_silver_dragonborn_fighter/
Augmentations: none
Magical affiliation: none
Occupation: mercenary and crusader
Key skills:
Weapon specialization – glaive: While Ath’kerai has been trained in the use of most common martial weapons, such as long swords, maces, shields and long bows, she prefers a glaive to keep enemies at a distance and disarm them.
Basic survival skills: Kerai has learned the following skills after being on her pilgrimage for almost a year: camping, hunting, scouting, cooking, armor/weapon maintenance & basic medicine. She also has a very basic reading proficiency courtesy of the monastery.

Equipment: Ath’kerai wears basic armor – a steel breastplate, steel greaves and gauntlets, with leather padding in other vital areas for protection. She favors a degree of mobility over bulky heavy armors.
Her glaive: https://the-griffons-saddlebag.tumblr.com/post/619281544813723648/%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%98%84-%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BA-red-queens-burden-weapon-glaive
Longbow and 30 arrows: nothing special, used mainly for hunting when necessary.

Besides the usual camping supplies such as a tent and bedroll, she also carries a medical kit, extra clothing, snacks (she’s gets hangry!) and a set of worn wooden tokens used in a game called Ut’sek’ii.

Personality: Kerai is usually quite stoic and patient (unless she is hangry). While she is zealous in her belief of temerarism and the Path of Ten, she prefers to show it through action rather than words. She leaves the sermons to her more charismatic peers. Because of her beliefs she will gladly throw herself into harm’s way to protect another.

Backstory: Clan Sehtarith, once a large and proud family with ties to the old Empire, had fallen into decay by the time Ath’kerai hatched. A dying clan led by a weak matron and divided between the old ways and the new, members of a warrior caste who had fallen to the level of dredges and laborers. Kerai’s sire believed that their once-proud race was being displaced by the emergence of magic and the spread of other, weaker races. They taught their offspring to fight, so that they might have a chance to reclaim their glory when the opportunity arose.

Kerai believed her sire’s teachings for a long time, though in that time she never found the vision behind her battle. It just felt like an endless war against everyone – tiring and hopeless. She was supposed to excel as a warrior, to perhaps become matron of the clan one day so that her brood would be strong and successful; but it wasn’t until she happened upon the temerarians that she found her purpose.

The temerarians* believed differently and fought for a unified purpose: members from all races dedicated to fighting evil rather than one another. It was a leader among them, an ancient s’tor simply called the Seeker, who convinced her of the righteousness of their beliefs: that all mortal souls are tempered in the fires of life. Those that prove themselves transcend the frailty of flesh to become divine, and those that fail are cast back into the crucible of souls and reforged to try again. To prove oneself worthy of becoming divine, a mortal must perform ten great feats across their collective lifetimes and have them recorded in the Book of Ten.

Something sparked in Kerai’s mind, and she became obsessive of this new religion. She openly rejected her xenophobic clan before following the Seeker to one of the temerarian monasteries and taking an oath to serve them as warrior and champion. Her belief was only strengthened several years later when she received word that her sire and several of her siblings were killed in a skirmish with a neighboring nation.

Now that her formal training is complete, Kerai has begun a long pilgrimage with a small group of other temerarians to find her own ten feats to accomplish. Surely, the spreading rumor of fire from the heavens is an omen that something feat-worthy is about to happen…

*temerarians are often colloquially (and mockingly) called ‘ten-men’ because of their belief in the sanctity of the number ten.

The Eye of the Needle (where Fantasy and Sci-fi collide)

character sheet draft for approval :)

Ath'kerai "Kerai" Sehtarith

Name: Ath'kerai “Kerai” Sehtarith
Species: S'tor
Appearance: Ath’kerai is a female s’tor who stands about 7’2” in height. Her scales are silvery white with uneven patches of grey.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/q607mz/ocart_gray_silver_dragonborn_fighter/
Augmentations: none
Magical affiliation: none
Occupation: mercenary and crusader
Key skills:
Weapon specialization – glaive: While Ath’kerai has been trained in the use of most common martial weapons, such as long swords, maces, shields and long bows, she prefers a glaive to keep enemies at a distance and disarm them.
Basic survival skills: Kerai has learned the following skills after being on her pilgrimage for almost a year: camping, hunting, scouting, cooking, armor/weapon maintenance & basic medicine. She also has a very basic reading proficiency courtesy of the monastery.

Equipment: Ath’kerai wears basic armor – a steel breastplate, steel greaves and gauntlets, with leather padding in other vital areas for protection. She favors a degree of mobility over bulky heavy armors.
Her glaive: https://the-griffons-saddlebag.tumblr.com/post/619281544813723648/%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%98%84-%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BA-red-queens-burden-weapon-glaive
Longbow and 30 arrows: nothing special, used mainly for hunting when necessary.

Besides the usual camping supplies such as a tent and bedroll, she also carries a medical kit, extra clothing, snacks (she’s gets hangry!) and a set of worn wooden tokens used in a game called Ut’sek’ii.

Personality: Kerai is usually quite stoic and patient (unless she is hangry). While she is zealous in her belief of temerarism and the Path of Ten, she prefers to show it through action rather than words. She leaves the sermons to her more charismatic peers. Because of her beliefs she will gladly throw herself into harm’s way to protect another.

Backstory: Clan Sehtarith, once a large and proud family with ties to the old Empire, had fallen into decay by the time Ath’kerai hatched. A dying clan led by a weak matron and divided between the old ways and the new, members of a warrior caste who had fallen to the level of dredges and laborers. Kerai’s sire believed that their once-proud race was being displaced by the emergence of magic and the spread of other, weaker races. They taught their offspring to fight, so that they might have a chance to reclaim their glory when the opportunity arose.

Kerai believed her sire’s teachings for a long time, though in that time she never found the vision behind her battle. It just felt like an endless war against everyone – tiring and hopeless. She was supposed to excel as a warrior, to perhaps become matron of the clan one day so that her brood would be strong and successful; but it wasn’t until she happened upon the temerarians that she found her purpose.

The temerarians* believed differently and fought for a unified purpose: members from all races dedicated to fighting evil rather than one another. It was a leader among them, an ancient s’tor simply called the Seeker, who convinced her of the righteousness of their beliefs: that all mortal souls are tempered in the fires of life. Those that prove themselves transcend the frailty of flesh to become divine, and those that fail are cast back into the crucible of souls and reforged to try again. To prove oneself worthy of becoming divine, a mortal must perform ten great feats across their collective lifetimes and have them recorded in the Book of Ten.

Something sparked in Kerai’s mind, and she became obsessive of this new religion. She openly rejected her xenophobic clan before following the Seeker to one of the temerarian monasteries and taking an oath to serve them as warrior and champion. Her belief was only strengthened several years later when she received word that her sire and several of her siblings were killed in a skirmish with a neighboring nation.

Now that her formal training is complete, Kerai has begun a long pilgrimage with a small group of other temerarians to find her own ten feats to accomplish. Surely, the spreading rumor of fire from the heavens is an omen that something feat-worthy is about to happen…

*temerarians are often colloquially (and mockingly) called ‘ten-men’ because of their belief in the sanctity of the number ten.

By Decree of the Elder Scrolls...

I'm a fan of that series as well! :) I'd be down for an Elder Scrolls RP at some point.

"So much universe, and so little time."

Welcome to the Guild, @Ranvena! If you're looking for a roleplay that combines both original fantasy and sci-fi, a friend and i have just started one called Eye of the Needle. Link is here if you wanna check it out! roleplayerguild.com/topics/189457-the…

@Catharyn

oh yeah I was looking at your post - it looks absolutely fantastic! I was actually going to ask if you were still looking for people. I'll just read a little more into the character creation and then I'd love to join!

"So much universe, and so little time."

@Dark Cloud I'd be willing to try running something if there's enough interest in the forum. I have not all but many of the 5th Ed. books. I also have Pathfinder v2 resources for folks interested in that. I might put it in the interest check section once I think about what I want to run/am capable of running!

5th edition D&D Adventures starting at 1st level and continuing on thru homemade Quests

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It's dead in the water unfortunately my friend

@Dark Cloud

Sadness :( Thank you for letting me know though! I probably should have paid more attention to the last post date lol

"So much universe, and so little time."

@Ranvena you morebinto playing D&D tuan running it?

@Dark Cloud

I've only run an adventure over Discord/Fantasy Grounds in ages past. I enjoyed doing it, but the group fell apart so lately I've just been playing solo adventures in video games. Happy to do both, but I've not tried running anything in text format before :)

5th edition D&D Adventures starting at 1st level and continuing on thru homemade Quests

I would love to join if you are still accepting players! I don't think I still have any pre-created characters, but I'm happy to fill in whatever role is needed.

"So much universe, and so little time."

Greetings fellow adventurers!

I am new to this site, although I have RPed in the past on other forums here and there. I'd like to think that I'm an advanced roleplayer, but in reality I just have a love/hate relationship with writing. I'm hoping to find some writing partners out there with similar interests. I’ll write in 1v1 or group threads: I find both quite fun. I write both protagonists and antagonists - I love to brainstorm on character building through interactions with both.

My genres are mainly high fantasy and "semi-dark" fantasy, but I would love to expand into more sci-fi as well. I write both serious stories and comic stories. (Fair warning: I’m a Terry Pratchett fan.)
I’m also a big nerd – Dungeons and Dragons, video games, hedgehogs, nature, science and making music are my happy place.

Here’s a sample of my writing that might help you decide if you’d care to write with me or not. Thank you and happy writing!

[The former Dr. Danoud turned her gaze from the endless dots of stars outside Lumina's cockpit window to the augmented reality image floating like a ghost in her peripheral vision. A slightly-modified image of herself stared back with digital lifelessness. To the right of the image was a floating window of falsified data concerning her identity; a fake address, falsified date of birth, and what was to become her new name: Praxa. A new identity was an easy enough thing to purchase on the InterGalacticNetwork, even for someone who was usually above dealing with the criminal elements. How much harder was it going to be to rebuild a hard-earned reputation left smoking in a devastated corporate laboratory?]