Raylah

Rebellion is Our Calling, and why we rise!(closed)

Not just their magic. They could steal skills, languages, knowledge, experience, blah blah blah. Depending on the symbology used (for instance the eyes could be symbolically linked to a person's perspective ) you could steal whatever is symbolized. However, once an individual does that in their brain it's linked like that. So they'd permanently think (eyes = perspective) in this case. So they don't always target a person's magic necessarily.

@OneStoryToMany

That makes sense. Maybe consider adding this to their description?

Rebellion is Our Calling, and why we rise!(closed)

@spencerishere I was actually very surprised that so many people decided to play for the "bad guy" rather than for the rebels.

@OneStoryToMany I have a small question, I just noticed that the description of the Ouroboros states "Mystic cannibalistic wizards", what exactly is one supposed to imagine under the "cannibalistic" part? :)

Rebellion is Our Calling, and why we rise!(closed)

Dhaeva

Name: Dhaeva

Race/Faction: Shrikanti

Age: looks around 35, but is probably much older

Description:

image

Dhaeva looks like a typical Shrikanti woman – very dark skin, rather short and skinny. She always wears magical talismans and trinkets, some of them made of wood and stones, some of them of animal bones or teeth. She has looked the same age for years, some even say decades, maintaining her body through her magic. Her eyes are said to hide the flames of Sol, as they are bright orange, a color very unusual amongst the Shrikanti.

"Class": Witch

Motivation:
Dhaeva prefers to stay out of conflict and tries to focus on helping her people through healing and protection magic. She will fight fiercely when her people are attacked, but is quite reluctant to attack herself.

History:
Dhaeva was born as a sixth child into a poor family. Her father was a goatherd and their family wealth were a small herd of goats. Dhaeva’s mother died a few days after giving birth to her, the childbirth was long and complicated, and she never stopped bleeding after it. Because her father could hardly feed the children he already had, let alone a few days old infant, she sent her to a witch coven to raise her. Witches were reluctant to take the baby in, but when the oldest one saw the color of child’s eyes, she prophesied great future for it.

So Dhaeva grew up learning magic even before she could walk and talk. She studied all kinds of magic, but it was the healing that she preferred, partially because of the way her mother died. Dhaeva wanted to prevent that happening to other women.

Very little of this history is known to common people, as Dhaeva spends her long life travelling between Shrikanti cities and smaller settlements, sometimes spending few months in place, sometimes a few years. She has a place in every witch coven, but she rarely uses this privilege, as she prefers to lead simple life free from politics.

She has been staying in the city of Cealla for the past three years, helping other Shrikanti and surviving on the gifts she received for her help.

Strengths:
She excels in healing and protective spells, also knows some useful curses and confusion spells. She wants to help everyone and hates to see people dying from causes that could be prevented, like minor diseases or hunger.

Weakness:
She is very reluctant to use offensive magic. She helps people sometimes to the detriment of herself, giving them last food or water or using her powers to the point of exhaustion. Also, she is quite weak in hand-to-hand combat.

What is the most important thing to know about your character?
Dhaeva is a healer, not just by profession, but by heart.

What is your character's greatest flaw?
Sometimes she cares too much and that can be used against her. She will go out her way to try and save people, even into dangerous situations.

Why should your character be in a position to influence an entire country?
While she doesn’t like using offensive magic, she certainly knows her way around it. If nothing else, she can help protect her people from foreign attacks.

Writing example

Dhaeva was sitting in front of her hut, enjoying the morning sun. If you asked her, mornings were the best part of the day. Perfect balance between the unpleasant cold of the night and exhausting heat of the afternoon. She closed her eyes and appreciated the quiet for a moment.
“Dhaeva, Dhaeva!” So much for the quiet. Little girl was running towards her, calling her name.
“What is it?” she asked while getting up and trying to remember the girl’s name. Was it Sali, or Sari or something like that? She couldnt have been more than six years old.
“Our well is dry again, my mother asks if you could help us.“
Another one? That’s the third one in two weeks. “Well then let’s see what the power of Macea can do about it,“ she smiled at the girl and followed her around the outskirts of the city. Some people greeted her as she passed by. She tried to at least smile at them and remember everyone, but there were just too many. So many people and only one of her to help all of them.
Finally, they arrived to a small hut. Some more children were playing around it, from small toddlers to about age of ten. Older children were probably somewhere working, so their younger siblings had something to eat.
Dhaeva headed straight to the well. It was a typical well shared by multiple families from the area. She peeked at the bottom. There was some wet mud, but that was about it, no water. Some women were watching her carefully, as she sat down on the sand next to the empty well. Dhaeva closed her eyes and reached for her magic, mumbling prayers to Macea. Praying wasn’t necessary for this spell, but it helped her concentrate.
She spread her senses around and down, beneath the dry sand. A few years ago, any novice witch could simply reach a little bit under the surface and she would find plenty of water to fill a dozen of wells. Now Dhaeva had to reach deep to find the spring and direct it into the well. She was shaking and drops of sweat appeared on her forehead, as the well slowly started to fill with water. When she was sure that the water will find the right way on its own, she interrupted the spell, sighing with relief. Water gathering was getting harder and harder. In just a few decades, this place will turn back into a dry dessert, she thought to herself.
The children were cheering and playing around the well, splashing water at each other. Their mothers picked up some water into larger pots for cooking.
One of them headed to Dhaeva with a basket in her hands. “We thank you for your help,” she said and bowed slightly. “Here, have this in return.”
Dhaeva took the basket and looked inside. It was filled with some basic food, milk and a little bit of butter. “I thank you for this gift,” she smiled at the woman, already thinking about starving children from a family she visited yesterday. Well today, they will finally have something proper to eat.

A New Home for Humanity

Arisia Bakari

=== LEADER ===

NAME, AGE
Arisia Bakari, 26

Motto/Saying
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

PICTURE

Picture

APPEARANCE
Arisia is rather short and petite, giving her a “damsel in distress” look, even though nothing could be further from the truth. She prefers wearing a combat suit and never goes anywhere without a gun and a knife.

PERSONALITY
Arisia is very friendly and outgoing, especially with the common people – miners, workers, soldiers. She might be a bit impulsive, but her good intuition and quick decision-making rarely lets her down.
She is no stranger to diplomacy, but tends to rely on her military training when diplomacy is about to fail.

BIOGRAPHY
She was born into a wealthy family, yet nothing was given to her for free. Always in a shadow of her older brother, she tried to do everything to impress their father. She went through the best schools, or, in her case, suffered through the best schools would be more appropriate. She always preferred to run outside and fight with her friends rather than quietly sit and study.
Even though she disliked school, she finished it, because her father wanted her to. Even though she didn’t want to live the “high society” life, she frequently visited banquets and various business meetings, because her father wanted her to. The older she became the more she realized that no matter what she does, she will always be the second, long way behind her brother, so she stopped trying.
Suddenly, she was free to do whatever she wanted. She traveled a great deal, working on her father’s mining stations with common miners, getting a military training and briefly working for a mercenary organization.
After a few years she got back in touch with her family. Surprisingly enough, her father was rather impressed by her “rebellion” and offered her a job running small mining operation on a planet with very hostile environment. Arisia did an exceptional job there and, against all odds, managed to start a smooth and successful operation.
Ever since her father offered her to lead the colonization expedition to Calypso Major, she has been putting together a team of reliable and trustworthy people.

=== FACTION ===

NAME
Bakari Mining Guild

TYPE (NATION/CORPORATION/INDIVIDUAL/OTHER)
Corporation primarily focused on mining and associated technologies.

FACTION LEADER
Devan Bakari

DESCRIPTION OF LEADER
Even though Devan inherited the family company from his father, doesn’t make him any less capable and fearsome leader. He is smart and well-educated, but furthermore he possesses a trait every leader should have – he is an excellent judge of character. That allows him to choose his companions carefully and avoid unpleasant surprises when dealing with other factions and corporations. It is also the reason why he chose his daughter Arisia to lead the mission on Calypso Major over her older brother Wes, who is to inherit the company one day. Devan appreciates her intuition and ability to make right choices in unexpected circumstances. That, and also interstellar traveling and planets colonizing isn’t without a risk – and who would want to lose his heir when he has a suitable, expendable replacement?

DESCRIBE THE FACTION. MAYBE INCLUDE HISTORY, REASONS FOR COLONIZATION, ETC
Bakari mining guild history spans over several generations. The company originally started as a small mining operation on an insignificant asteroid with large deposits of Edritium and Casmal. At the time, these materials were mostly ignored, because while they had some good use in electronics, obtaining them from raw ores in sufficient quantity and stability was very hard and expensive.
Founder of the company, Alex Bakari, realized the potential of the ores, and even though all advisors told him to invest his last money to try to get better mining grounds, he paid researchers and scientists instead. And in a year, he could completely revolutionize mining of these ores by a patented new method which is still used even today.
From that time, every generation of Bakari family added something to the company, leaving it one of the biggest players in the mining market of today. There is also a long tradition of funding various researchers in their private research lab. Money from patenting new technologies are a big addition to the company wealth.

I prefer this (color=39b54a) color.

Rebellion is Our Calling, and why we rise!(closed)

Hello, I would like to join if it is still possible :) I hope I didnt make any major mistakes in the CS, if so, feel free to point them out and I will do my best to fix them.

Dhaeva

Name: Dhaeva

Race/Faction: Shrikanti

Age: looks around 35, but is probably much older

Description:

image

Dhaeva looks like a typical Shrikanti woman – very dark skin, rather short and skinny. She always wears magical talismans and trinkets, some of them made of wood and stones, some of them of animal bones or teeth. She has looked the same age for years, some even say decades, maintaining her body through her magic. Her eyes are said to hide the flames of Sol, as they are bright orange, a color very unusual amongst the Shrikanti.

"Class": Witch

Motivation:
Dhaeva prefers to stay out of conflict and tries to focus on helping her people through healing and protection magic. She will fight fiercely when her people are attacked, but is quite reluctant to attack herself.

History:
Dhaeva was born as a sixth child into a poor family. Her father was a goatherd and their family wealth were a small herd of goats. Dhaeva’s mother died a few days after giving birth to her, the childbirth was long and complicated, and she never stopped bleeding after it. Because her father could hardly feed the children he already had, let alone a few days old infant, she sent her to a witch coven to raise her. Witches were reluctant to take the baby in, but when the oldest one saw the color of child’s eyes, she prophesied great future for it.

So Dhaeva grew up learning magic even before she could walk and talk. She studied all kinds of magic, but it was the healing that she preferred, partially because of the way her mother died. Dhaeva wanted to prevent that happening to other women.

Very little of this history is known to common people, as Dhaeva spends her long life travelling between Shrikanti cities and smaller settlements, sometimes spending few months in place, sometimes a few years. She has a place in every witch coven, but she rarely uses this privilege, as she prefers to lead simple life free from politics.

She has been staying in the city of Cealla for the past three years, helping other Shrikanti and surviving on the gifts she received for her help.

Strengths:
She excels in healing and protective spells, also knows some useful curses and confusion spells. She wants to help everyone and hates to see people dying from causes that could be prevented, like minor diseases or hunger.

Weakness:
She is very reluctant to use offensive magic. She helps people sometimes to the detriment of herself, giving them last food or water or using her powers to the point of exhaustion. Also, she is quite weak in hand-to-hand combat.

What is the most important thing to know about your character?
Dhaeva is a healer, not just by profession, but by heart.

What is your character's greatest flaw?
Sometimes she cares too much and that can be used against her. She will go out her way to try and save people, even into dangerous situations.

Why should your character be in a position to influence an entire country?
While she doesn’t like using offensive magic, she certainly knows her way around it. If nothing else, she can help protect her people from foreign attacks.

Writing example

Dhaeva was sitting in front of her hut, enjoying the morning sun. If you asked her, mornings were the best part of the day. Perfect balance between the unpleasant cold of the night and exhausting heat of the afternoon. She closed her eyes and appreciated the quiet for a moment.
“Dhaeva, Dhaeva!” So much for the quiet. Little girl was running towards her, calling her name.
“What is it?” she asked while getting up and trying to remember the girl’s name. Was it Sali, or Sari or something like that? She couldnt have been more than six years old.
“Our well is dry again, my mother asks if you could help us.“
Another one? That’s the third one in two weeks. “Well then let’s see what the power of Macea can do about it,“ she smiled at the girl and followed her around the outskirts of the city. Some people greeted her as she passed by. She tried to at least smile at them and remember everyone, but there were just too many. So many people and only one of her to help all of them.
Finally, they arrived to a small hut. Some more children were playing around it, from small toddlers to about age of ten. Older children were probably somewhere working, so their younger siblings had something to eat.
Dhaeva headed straight to the well. It was a typical well shared by multiple families from the area. She peeked at the bottom. There was some wet mud, but that was about it, no water. Some women were watching her carefully, as she sat down on the sand next to the empty well. Dhaeva closed her eyes and reached for her magic, mumbling prayers to Macea. Praying wasn’t necessary for this spell, but it helped her concentrate.
She spread her senses around and down, beneath the dry sand. A few years ago, any novice witch could simply reach a little bit under the surface and she would find plenty of water to fill a dozen of wells. Now Dhaeva had to reach deep to find the spring and direct it into the well. She was shaking and drops of sweat appeared on her forehead, as the well slowly started to fill with water. When she was sure that the water will find the right way on its own, she interrupted the spell, sighing with relief. Water gathering was getting harder and harder. In just a few decades, this place will turn back into a dry dessert, she thought to herself.
The children were cheering and playing around the well, splashing water at each other. Their mothers picked up some water into larger pots for cooking.
One of them headed to Dhaeva with a basket in her hands. “We thank you for your help,” she said and bowed slightly. “Here, have this in return.”
Dhaeva took the basket and looked inside. It was filled with some basic food, milk and a little bit of butter. “I thank you for this gift,” she smiled at the woman, already thinking about starving children from a family she visited yesterday. Well today, they will finally have something proper to eat.

Beyond the wall (open!)

Name: Rina Darkwood

Age: 24

Sex: female

Race: half elf, half human

Appearance:

My Hider

Personality: She is very tough, both physically and mentally. Being half elf, half human, she never belonged anywhere, and she learned that other people should never be trusted. She is sarcastic and likes dark humor.

History: Rina never met her parents, someone placed her in front of an orphanage door when she was an infant. She was different from everyone – not an elf, not a human, so children from both races despised her. It was back then she decided, she doesn’t really need any friends, or people in general.
She only really excelled at fighting other children, a trait not seen very kindly by orphanage managers. As soon as they could, they sent her to work for a nearby businessman. Rina didn’t last there long, working hard for a minimum wage, half from which was sent back to orphanage, wasn’t really her idea for a decent living, so she ran away.
She was lucky enough to join a group of hunters, who ventured beyond the barrier to hunt animals and later sell their skins back in the city. It was merely a bunch of outcasts, people who didn’t fit in anywhere. Perfect match for her. There she learned to shoot a bow, track animals, even fight with a sword. She often spent weeks beyond the barrier, enjoying the space after the crowded streets of the city.

Skills: Rina has no magical abilities, but she is great with a bow and decent with a sword and knives. She knows her way in some parts of the world beyond the barrier and she can track down animals and other people.

other: As English isn’t my native language, I had no idea what “the bee's knees“ even meant, I had to google it 😊

A New Home for Humanity

=== LEADER ===

NAME, AGE
Arisia Bakari, 26

Motto/Saying
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

PICTURE (NOT REQUIRED)

Picture

APPEARANCE
Arisia is rather short and petite, giving her a “damsel in distress” look, even though nothing could be further from the truth. She prefers wearing a combat suit and never goes anywhere without a gun and a knife.

PERSONALITY
Arisia is very friendly and outgoing, especially with the common people – miners, workers, soldiers. She might be a bit impulsive, but her good intuition and quick decision-making rarely lets her down.
She is no stranger to diplomacy, but tends to rely on her military training when diplomacy is about to fail.

BIOGRAPHY
She was born into a wealthy family, yet nothing was given to her for free. Always in a shadow of her older brother, she tried to do everything to impress their father. She went through the best schools, or, in her case, suffered through the best schools would be more appropriate. She always preferred to run outside and fight with her friends rather than quietly sit and study.
Even though she disliked school, she finished it, because her father wanted her to. Even though she didn’t want to live the “high society” life, she frequently visited banquets and various business meetings, because her father wanted her to. The older she became the more she realized that no matter what she does, she will always be the second, long way behind her brother, so she stopped trying.
Suddenly, she was free to do whatever she wanted. She traveled a great deal, working on her father’s mining stations with common miners, getting a military training and briefly working for a mercenary organization.
After a few years she got back in touch with her family. Surprisingly enough, her father was rather impressed by her “rebellion” and offered her a job running small mining operation on a planet with very hostile environment. Arisia did an exceptional job there and, against all odds, managed to start a smooth and successful operation.
Ever since her father offered her to lead the colonization expedition to Calypso Major, she has been putting together a team of reliable and trustworthy people.

=== FACTION ===

NAME
Bakari Mining Guild

TYPE (NATION/CORPORATION/INDIVIDUAL/OTHER)
Corporation primarily focused on mining and associated technologies.

FACTION LEADER
Devan Bakari

DESCRIPTION OF LEADER
Even though Devan inherited the family company from his father, doesn’t make him any less capable and fearsome leader. He is smart and well-educated, but furthermore he possesses a trait every leader should have – he is an excellent judge of character. That allows him to choose his companions carefully and avoid unpleasant surprises when dealing with other factions and corporations. It is also the reason why he chose his daughter Arisia to lead the mission on Calypso Major over her older brother Wes, who is to inherit the company one day. Devan appreciates her intuition and ability to make right choices in unexpected circumstances. That, and also interstellar traveling and planets colonizing isn’t without a risk – and who would want to lose his heir when he has a suitable, expendable replacement?

DESCRIBE THE FACTION. MAYBE INCLUDE HISTORY, REASONS FOR COLONIZATION, ETC
Bakari mining guild history spans over several generations. The company originally started as a small mining operation on an insignificant asteroid with large deposits of Edritium and Casmal. At the time, these materials were mostly ignored, because while they had some good use in electronics, obtaining them from raw ores in sufficient quantity and stability was very hard and expensive.
Founder of the company, Alex Bakari, realized the potential of the ores, and even though all advisors told him to invest his last money to try to get better mining grounds, he paid researchers and scientists instead. And in a year, he could completely revolutionize mining of these ores by a patented new method which is still used even today.
From that time, every generation of Bakari family added something to the company, leaving it one of the biggest players in the mining market of today. There is also a long tradition of funding various researchers in their private research lab. Money from patenting new technologies are a big addition to the company wealth.

Please let me know if I made some mistakes (English isn't my native language) of misunderstood the story.
I prefer this (color=39b54a) color.