Rune_Alchemist

The Elder Scrolls: Before the Great War

Meen-La
Location: Orange Road.

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Overall, there was little to be said about the founding of their little group for now. Certainly growing pains were to be had as everyone felt each other out, got to know boundaries. Who the ones in charge were to be, or who was a useful idiot, that kind of thing. As they traveled down the Orange Road, her eyes lingered on their supposed leaders. Perhaps like a beast, stalking its prey. Judging if it was worth it for the meal or not. Kiffar wasn't leader material in her opinion. A useful enforcer. Arvindr...he seemed to have a reasonable head at least, but she had to wonder if he truly could handle leadership and the difficult decisions that came with it.

For now though, all she would do is yawn.

And with it, came the distinct feeling of something being amiss.

The lack of wildlife sounds. The feeling of something...wrong, in the back of her mind. In situations like this it was always a good idea to trust ones instincts. And her instincts as far as she cared, had never been wrong...which meant they were likely walking into some sort of trap. A few of the others seemed to have noticed too, but she'd let them take care of it. A simple and straightforward approach was always best for bandits and ambushes.

Their would be attacker would soon reveal themselves. Some old rival of their party leader, it seemed. By her count from what she could see, eight wielding various melee weapons, nine archers, and this Brigit herself that were immediately noticeable. Chance for more? Likely, if this woman was smart. She didn't seem to be, though. She could have engaged with the bandits similar to Kiffar, or stealthily handled them like the other seemed to be, but splitting their forces entirely now was not the best idea.

"Sweet Hist Sap, Arnvidr. You should have told us you had a secret admirer." Meen-La chuckled, hefting her warhammer and resting it on her shoulder. If nothing else she could support their leader, for now. Watch his back for now. "You should listen, woman. You are clearly not built for this kind of thing. You can't even tell when half your pathetic excuses for bandits are already Haj Mota feed." A lie, but words were very good at causing one to second guess themselves or make mistakes.

She really wanted to just kill this woman outright, though, but she'd stay her hand until given the order too.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

and a posty.

Xalt already had informed me what the chicken thing is, so well, there lol.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

*Yingmei Okudaira*

@Xaltwind@CitrusArms

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"O-oh!" She had been fully prepared to go alone, and in some manner that would have made things easier. At least, mentally, but she was also glad that it seemed like someone had decided to actually take her up on the offer. "N-niara. Yes I heard your name. Nice to meet you. Uhm, yes, I can help you find a rope, probably! If one is around...might be able to make a decent one from plant fiber if we find enough, though." She glanced towards Brom, shaking her head. "U-uhm, no its fine. I've had enough excitement for one day and w-well..." Her voice trailed off, frowning as she'd refrain from stating that she'd only get in the way again as she'd start walking towards the fields.

So following an old dirt road, Yingmei would walk towards the edge of the village. It was rather nice, all things considered. Peaceful and getting a good look around...well, not that there was much to see. The land seemed to be mostly entirely flat. Not even any rolling hills or plains to speak of. Just flat prairie and grasses, long since having overtaken any paths that may be here. The only real noticeable landmarks were the stone and wood posts littering the landscape occasionally. The remains of fences, likely marking land ownership having long since decayed into nothing and overtaken by nature once again. They may be able to reuse some of them if they found any that weren't too bad. Not permanently, at least, but maybe for firewood or something...

The only good thing she could see was the fact that there were still usable plots of land! Well, mostly. She'd need to trim and likely find a way to deal with any pests. She'd have taken time to thank the gods for a stroke of good fortune had it not been for a teensy, tiny, problem.

"Erm...Miss Niara...did...I did see something moving out there, didn't I?" Yingmei would ask, though she would very much know the answer. She could see it moving off in the distance, between the two of them and a small building. "D-do you think we should approach?" Well, they would need to see what it was regardless, wouldn't they? If it was some sort of monster they would need to know what it was living here so the others could deal with it.

She unconsciously gripped her hoe hard again.

"R-right, ok. Uhm. You know what? I'll go see what it is. If I scream, then...well, honestly I might do that even if its nothing, ahaha..." She'd chuckle in a self deprecating manner. She'd walk closer to this mysterious creature, keeping her steps as light as possible as she'd walk past the overgrown grasses and shrubs. It wasn't long before the creature came into view.

A fat, small, white feathered creature. On its head rested a feather that was disproportionately large compared to the rest of its body. The rest of its feathers seemed smooth, and...honestly she kind of very much wanted to pet it. It was idly waddling around on its two clawed feet, and it seemed she had stumbled upon it mid snack as it pulled a bug of some sort off the ground.

"Uhm...H-hello? You...wouldn't happen to be friendly would you?"

The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel

Paladin

• Name:
  Colcette Phielus
• Gender:
  Female
• Race:
  Breton
• Appearance:
  Colcette, standing at five foot eight has long red hair, often hanging loose when not tied up or wearing a helmet. When shes not wearing her armor she wears either her robes from her time in the chantry or very humble peasant clothing, noting that wearing anything more feels a little excessive for a humble servant of Akatosh and the Divines.
• Personality:
  In her day to day, Colcette's personality can be described as confidently brash and self-assured. She fully believes she's here for some divine purpose, some grand divine portent such as helping the Empire rebuild itself and drive out its elvish aggressors and return peace and stability. She couldn't tell you exactly when she started believing this, but growing up on tales of Akatosh, Talos, and Pelinial Whitestrake certainly likely had a factor in it. This, of course, has also given her something of a less than stellar opinion of elves - especially the High Elves and the Bosmer who were the first to break away from the Empire.
  
  She often spends her free time either in churches or studying any religious text she can get her hands on. One could make the argument she is fairly arrogant. Perhaps rather paradoxically, though, she can also be surprisingly playful and a little catty which can catch people meeting her for the first time a little off guard.
  
  This attitude entirely vanishes in combat, however - that is something she takes with an almost impressive amount of seriousness and even hostility, and even mild cruelty depending on who or what she's fighting and the overall situation.
• Brief Backstory:
  High rock is no stranger to conflict, politicking, and having its own internal wars and strife. Such a way of life has long been ingrained and even celebrated by the peoples of the Illiac Bay. This fact and way of life is only overshadowed by the Bretons staunch ability to come together to defend against outside forces despite this. As such, the Thalmor had difficulty with its plots messing with the internal affairs and destabilizing region, allowing the Bretons to still remain staunchly loyal to the Empire.
  
  This, would be the climate that Colcette would be born into. Roughly four years after the Great War, Colcette would be born in the Stormhaven region of Highrock, in the city of Wayrest to a minor noble family as their youngest daughter. Her older siblings included a brother a few years older, a sister, and the her oldest brother. Growing up, the Phileus children couldn't be more different. Her gloomy and stern older brother focusing entirely on statecraft and inheriting the families titles. Her lively, slightly clumsy and too into fashion her older sister desiring to become a skilled mage, and her second brother focusing on sorcery and magic who grew up on too many tales of adventure and knighthood.
  
  Not that she could fault her second brother for that, she often would share his exuberance in such tales but her focus ultimately would end up going in an entirely different direciton.
  
  Theology, specifically myths and legends surrounding Talos, Akatosh, and spending much of her free time in Wayrests Temple of Akatosh studying any bit of religious text she could get her hands on, no matter how dubious in its origin. She spent her time learning from the priests, with a clear desire to join the Akatosh Chantry herself and becoming an ordained member of the clergy.
  
  This peaceful time in her life, though, came to an abrupt end in 4E 188. The sudden assassination of the corrupt head of the Order of the Hour by the dark brotherhood would cause a chain reaction that led the city to be besieged by corsairs. The king of Wayrest at the time, cut a deal with the pirates and fled, leaving the cities' gates open and free for the pirates to raid it as they see fit. If not for some unknown hero rallying the guard and populace together, the damage could have been much worse, but it didn't stop tragedy happening entirely. Her father was killed during the raiding, leaving the affairs of the family to fall to her eldest brother once her mother fell Ill shortly afterwards.
  
  During the following years, Colcette started questioning what she could do to prevent something like that happening again. Not only to prevent something like pirates or a corrupt leader or cowardly king to leave the populace at their whims, but to prevent something like the Great War that happened shortly before she was born from happening again, to say nothing of the Thalmor that were still causing issues and problems. Her abilities as a healer and student of Akatosh and Arkay could only do so much.
  
  It was only when a man started frequenting the Cathedral did she start to get some idea of what she could do. He was a former member of the Order of the Hour. Past his prime and obviously injured, but one day she walked up to him and demanded to be taught swordsmanship. It took awhile of her pestering him, but eventually he acquiesced and for several long years, she would learn everything she could from this former knight, gaining new perspectives on both her beliefs and how one can better aid people around her.
  
  When she was sixteen, she finally left home, wanting to both test her skills as a knight as well as start helping folk that she could...and more importantly, travel south to the Hammer fell border and find any evidence of Thalmor presence and eradicate it. Her years of tutelage and study of history and theology resulting in a unique disdain for the High Elves and other elves to a lesser extent - how dare they challenge Akatosh and the Empire?
  
  Thus, her life continued like this until recently. After hearing a somewhat familiar name had become Empress of the Empire and reinstated worship of Talos, Colcette made to travel further south, heading through the Gold Coast, traveling through Anvil and eventually making her way towards the Imperial city where she rather audaciously walked right into a meeting of the Elder Council and swore eternal loyalty to the Empress.
• Equipment:
  As one may expect of a particularly militant member of the Akatosh Chantry, Colcette over the years has put together a full set of Steel armor, decorated with religious iconography of Akatosh, a Steel longsword that is her favored weapon, and an amulet of Akatosh that she has had since she first became interested in learning theology from her home.
  
  Steel Armor
  A set of steel armored modified lightly to have religious iconography of Akatosh on the breastplate.
  
  Steel Longsword
  A simple and easy to use longsword.
  
  Amulet of Akatosh
  An old amulet of Akatosh she's had since she first became interested in the Chantry. Like all of these religious amulets, it increases ones ability to regenerate magicka.
• Skills:
  Restoration - Adept
  As a learned healer Colcette is skilled in Restoration spells, learned both from various priests at the temple of Akatosh and a few others that occasionally visited from abroad. She manifests her restoration abilities fairly simple and effectively as one may expect. To heal herself and those around her, restoring health and reinvigorating her allies and ensuring any negative effects from other spells and magic are also less effective. Also, harming undead through a few simple sunlight related spells. This skill, also extends to magical wards for protecting herself and her allies, and also granting them small boons and fortifying her own strength and stamina or her allies.
  
  Destruction - Apprentice
  While she mainly fights with sword in hand, she does know a handful of destruction spells for the cases where its needed to fend off Daedra or other spirits where her sword fails her. As Akatosh itself is often depicted with fire, that is also her preferred method of expressing this particular school of magic. She can only use simple fire balls or streams of fire really for now, but she is endeavoring to become better so she can cleanse Tamriel of anything standing in the way of the Dragon God and the Empire.
  
  One Handed - Adept
  While not an expert, she was tutored by someone from the former Order of the Hour. She can hold her own against most opponents, but is always looking for ways to improve.
  Heavy Armor - Adept
  The best protection against any stabby weapons and elves that need to be put in their place.

The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel

@Raineh Daze
Here we are. Stopped being lazy and finished up now that I had some free time. Lemme know if anything needs to be changed.

Paladin

• Name:
  Colcette Phielus
• Gender:
  Female
• Race:
  Breton
• Appearance:
  Colcette, standing at five foot eight has long red hair, often hanging loose when not tied up or wearing a helmet. When shes not wearing her armor she wears either her robes from her time in the chantry or very humble peasant clothing, noting that wearing anything more feels a little excessive for a humble servant of Akatosh and the Divines.
• Personality:
  In her day to day, Colcette's personality can be described as confidently brash and self-assured. She fully believes she's here for some divine purpose, some grand divine portent such as helping the Empire rebuild itself and drive out its elvish aggressors and return peace and stability. She couldn't tell you exactly when she started believing this, but growing up on tales of Akatosh, Talos, and Pelinial Whitestrake certainly likely had a factor in it. This, of course, has also given her something of a less than stellar opinion of elves - especially the High Elves and the Bosmer who were the first to break away from the Empire.
  
  She often spends her free time either in churches or studying any religious text she can get her hands on. One could make the argument she is fairly arrogant. Perhaps rather paradoxically, though, she can also be surprisingly playful and a little catty which can catch people meeting her for the first time a little off guard.
  
  This attitude entirely vanishes in combat, however - that is something she takes with an almost impressive amount of seriousness and even hostility, and even mild cruelty depending on who or what she's fighting and the overall situation.
• Brief Backstory:
  High rock is no stranger to conflict, politicking, and having its own internal wars and strife. Such a way of life has long been ingrained and even celebrated by the peoples of the Illiac Bay. This fact and way of life is only overshadowed by the Bretons staunch ability to come together to defend against outside forces despite this. As such, the Thalmor had difficulty with its plots messing with the internal affairs and destabilizing region, allowing the Bretons to still remain staunchly loyal to the Empire.
  
  This, would be the climate that Colcette would be born into. Roughly four years after the Great War, Colcette would be born in the Stormhaven region of Highrock, in the city of Wayrest to a minor noble family as their youngest daughter. Her older siblings included a brother a few years older, a sister, and the her oldest brother. Growing up, the Phileus children couldn't be more different. Her gloomy and stern older brother focusing entirely on statecraft and inheriting the families titles. Her lively, slightly clumsy and too into fashion her older sister desiring to become a skilled mage, and her second brother focusing on sorcery and magic who grew up on too many tales of adventure and knighthood.
  
  Not that she could fault her second brother for that, she often would share his exuberance in such tales but her focus ultimately would end up going in an entirely different direciton.
  
  Theology, specifically myths and legends surrounding Talos, Akatosh, and spending much of her free time in Wayrests Temple of Akatosh studying any bit of religious text she could get her hands on, no matter how dubious in its origin. She spent her time learning from the priests, with a clear desire to join the Akatosh Chantry herself and becoming an ordained member of the clergy.
  
  This peaceful time in her life, though, came to an abrupt end in 4E 188. The sudden assassination of the corrupt head of the Order of the Hour by the dark brotherhood would cause a chain reaction that led the city to be besieged by corsairs. The king of Wayrest at the time, cut a deal with the pirates and fled, leaving the cities' gates open and free for the pirates to raid it as they see fit. If not for some unknown hero rallying the guard and populace together, the damage could have been much worse, but it didn't stop tragedy happening entirely. Her father was killed during the raiding, leaving the affairs of the family to fall to her eldest brother once her mother fell Ill shortly afterwards.
  
  During the following years, Colcette started questioning what she could do to prevent something like that happening again. Not only to prevent something like pirates or a corrupt leader or cowardly king to leave the populace at their whims, but to prevent something like the Great War that happened shortly before she was born from happening again, to say nothing of the Thalmor that were still causing issues and problems. Her abilities as a healer and student of Akatosh and Arkay could only do so much.
  
  It was only when a man started frequenting the Cathedral did she start to get some idea of what she could do. He was a former member of the Order of the Hour. Past his prime and obviously injured, but one day she walked up to him and demanded to be taught swordsmanship. It took awhile of her pestering him, but eventually he acquiesced and for several long years, she would learn everything she could from this former knight, gaining new perspectives on both her beliefs and how one can better aid people around her.
  
  When she was sixteen, she finally left home, wanting to both test her skills as a knight as well as start helping folk that she could...and more importantly, travel south to the Hammer fell border and find any evidence of Thalmor presence and eradicate it. Her years of tutelage and study of history and theology resulting in a unique disdain for the High Elves and other elves to a lesser extent - how dare they challenge Akatosh and the Empire?
  
  Thus, her life continued like this until recently. After hearing a somewhat familiar name had become Empress of the Empire and reinstated worship of Talos, Colcette made to travel further south, heading through the Gold Coast, traveling through Anvil and eventually making her way towards the Imperial city where she rather audaciously walked right into a meeting of the Elder Council and swore eternal loyalty to the Empress.
• Equipment:
  As one may expect of a particularly militant member of the Akatosh Chantry, Colcette over the years has put together a full set of Steel armor, decorated with religious iconography of Akatosh, a Steel longsword that is her favored weapon, and an amulet of Akatosh that she has had since she first became interested in learning theology from her home.
  
  Steel Armor
  A set of steel armored modified lightly to have religious iconography of Akatosh on the breastplate.
  
  Steel Longsword
  A simple and easy to use longsword.
  
  Amulet of Akatosh
  An old amulet of Akatosh she's had since she first became interested in the Chantry. Like all of these religious amulets, it increases ones ability to regenerate magicka.
• Skills:
  Restoration - Adept
  As a learned healer Colcette is skilled in Restoration spells, learned both from various priests at the temple of Akatosh and a few others that occasionally visited from abroad. She manifests her restoration abilities fairly simple and effectively as one may expect. To heal herself and those around her, restoring health and reinvigorating her allies and ensuring any negative effects from other spells and magic are also less effective. Also, harming undead through a few simple sunlight related spells. This skill, also extends to magical wards for protecting herself and her allies, and also granting them small boons and fortifying her own strength and stamina or her allies.
  
  Destruction - Apprentice
  While she mainly fights with sword in hand, she does know a handful of destruction spells for the cases where its needed to fend off Daedra or other spirits where her sword fails her. As Akatosh itself is often depicted with fire, that is also her preferred method of expressing this particular school of magic. She can only use simple fire balls or streams of fire really for now, but she is endeavoring to become better so she can cleanse Tamriel of anything standing in the way of the Dragon God and the Empire.
  
  One Handed - Adept
  While not an expert, she was tutored by someone from the former Order of the Hour. She can hold her own against most opponents, but is always looking for ways to improve.
  Heavy Armor - Adept
  The best protection against any stabby weapons and elves that need to be put in their place.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

@Xaltwind

I just got back from the nightshift at the new job

I'll be probably posting after I get some proper sleep since I can do a thing with Mei now.

So like

later tonight? 8-10 hours? I dunno how long I'm gonna be knocked out for.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

*Yingmei Okudaira*

@Zeroth@Xaltwind

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Did...nobody hear her? Or...or did noone want to come with her? Yingmei began to fidget uncomfortably as it looked like, to her at least, she had either been unheard over the raucous singing of a musician that spoke up shortly after she did, or she had just been flat out ignored by everyone except Akitsugu and a man named...Brom, she thought? She supposed he was right. They really should focus on what they immediately needed.

...which meant in turn, she was rather useless right now wasn't she? Wasn't like she would be any good in a fight. Probably. She'd be more of a damsel in distress then some valiant warrior.

"Mmngh..." Yingmei grumbled in frustration. Not over being upset at what everyone else was doing, but rather her own perceived inability to be immediately helpful. There was nothing for it really, so all she could do was clutch her hoe and decline Akitsugu's offer. "T-thank you Akitsugu, but uhm, I wouldn't want you all to make a detour just for me, ahah..." She'd give a little nervous chuckle. "I-its fine! I-I'm sure there won't be anything scary out there...like...goblins..or...bears...wolves..._{a divine beast of judgement hunting sinners}...a-ahemn." She'd clear her throat. "You'll have your hands full anyways...I can look at the fields...maybe I'll find something! A-and I'll get first choice of any house near there, too, eheh."

Not that she could stop him from actually going on that detour anyways...

She had to think positively, really. Perhaps the Gods will grant her good fortune? She certainly would pray for it as she would start moving towards the southwestern part of the village to look at those fields.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

I'll see about posting soonish
got a cold and not feeling great

The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel

Killing elves?

Pelinial Approves!

Hello Rain, hows it. I'd be down to spin up a CS for this.

The Elder Scrolls: Before the Great War

Meen-La
Location: Weynon Priory

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Meen-La certainly wasn't looking for the Confessors approval, but she certainly didn't mind it. She was still not quite certain these people were fit for the task at hand. Alexios still seemed intent on moving an entire legion which was quite frankly, absurd. The Arvindir fellow certainly also seemed to have a good head on his shoulders, but once again it seemed everyone was conveniently forgetting the threat the bandits posed...which was in no less way helped by the fact a Redguard by the name of Khalia once again suggested posing as a merchant Caravan.

"Tsk," Meen-La couldn't help but to click her tongue lightly. She had already said her appraisal of the whole merchant plan. Costly. Time sensitive. Easily checked and proven false with even the slightest bit of effort by anyone familiar with procedures or proper records. If they didn't want to listen, that was fine. She was more than happy to see the plan either fail or succeed. Either outcome was good for her, really. If it succeeded they got paid. If it failed...easy enough to make changes to the hierarchy of power. "While I still think a merchant convoy has too many negatives to be feasible...electing a leader may be a good idea." She would respond. "I would obviously vote for myself considering my experience in leading small groups, and operations to say nothing of my time avoiding the legion and imperial guard across most of Cyrodill...but that will be left up to everyone else."

It was a good idea, truthfully, to be able to have a clear Hierarchy of power.

"That said...I would also recommend the Confessor be our de-facto leader. She is a neutral party among us and holds no overall allegiance to any of us, and thus would alleviate any...reservations some may have about others."