Tixxy Savage

A Port in Chaos (Work In Progress)

@Rubix - Your Character Sheet is accepted, although the city-state is spelled Indiga, not Indica, but that's just nitpicking on my part :P

@Azathoth, Saffron - If you're interested, feel free to post character sheets, ask questions about the world, etc. The story will go live when I have some people, but the world is in constant development. If you have any ideas, areas you'd like covered, etc, let me know.

Here's the link to the OOC. A Port in Chaos (OOC)

I'll be posting my own Character Sheet within the OOC, and I'll put Rubix's in there as well.

Letixia Hughes (Syindra)

Name: Letixia Victoria Hughes
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 20
City-State: Indiga
Occupation: Herbalist
Height: 5'4"
Hair Color: Auburn

Letixia comes from a wealthy home. Her father, Gerard, was quite successful as a merchant before retiring to the easy life. Her mother, Leila, was the only daughter of a wealthy family of Indiga, and inherited quite the fortune. Leila had plans to marry her off to the heir of another wealthy family, but Letixia refused every suitor. She had learned a lot about herbalism and business from her father, and with his help, received a business loan from the Indigan Council. With it, she opened up 'Letixia's Soothing Salves and Clinic'. It's on a fairly large property near the fringe of the city. Her house and shop are in the same large building, along with several other rooms. She's unmarried, with no suitors, and lives alone with her large Indigan Guard Dog, Rufus. Her shop sells herbs, remedies, salves, etc, as well as operating as a clinic for non-life threatening injuries. Most of her money, however, is in supplying various products to companies under the Sailor's Guild, everything from Sealing Tar for crafting ships, to preserves for keeping food good while traveling.

Likes: Plants, Nature, Cooking, Dogs
Dislikes: Her mother, Fighting
Skills: Herbalism, Medicine, Farming, Business
Magic: Shielding

Rufus

A Port in Chaos

World Summary

Races

Races

Human - Run of the hill human, coming an a variety of shades from incredibly pale white, to tan, to dark ebony. These are the most prevalent race on Syindra, though not necessarily the most populated in each city state. They reproduce more quickly than a lot of races, and have a massive ability to adapt.

City States

City States

Indiga - The main city-state of this story, known for its Trade, Ships, Indigan Academy, and Library of the Skies. It is a busy port, constantly in the hustle and bustle of business and trade.

Crimsia (Destroyed) - The nearest, island city-state to Indiga, was destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption. Most of its inhabitants were evacuated and now live in a ghetto borough of Indiga.

Magics

Magics

Other City-States's Bios

Crimsia

Crimsia was one of the oldest city-states in all of Syindra. While it doesn't have the far reaching influence that Indiga might have, it is considered a cultural center. It is believed that several magics were born on this island including Fire Magic, Earth Magic, and Farsight. The city-state was run by the council of Four, religious leaders from the four highest castes of its church. There is no poverty on this island, for resources, as well as work loads, are shared amongst everyone. The island has massive marble mines and huge fields of incense and dyes, making them highly desired by artisans and the wealthy.

The Five Castes consists of the Farsight Mages, the leader of whom is known simply as The Prophet. The Prophet is selected as the most experienced Farsight Mage in the city after the previous Prophet dies, This is the highest Caste, and their word is law. The second caste is the Artisan's Guild, in charge of all crafts and trade within and without the city-state. The middle caste is the standard citizen, anything from a shopkeeper to a fisherman. The fourth caste is the Azulian, which is anyone on the island that isn't born in Crimsia. They are often treated with mild disdain unless they join the church wholeheartedly, through a series of trials. If they succeed, they become a proper citizen of the third caste. The lowest caste are the Marked Ones, which are criminal slaves. Anyone who has broken a law, gone against the church, or committed some other similar offense, has their face tattooed, their bodies changed, and are forced to work in the mines or fields. If they continue to cause troubles here, they are set adrift on a rickety raft into the seas, a fate that is most likely to result in death.

However, in recent times, Crimsia was met with tragedy. The Prophet received a Vision that the island was to be destroyed by the volcano at the center of it. The church believed this to be destiny, and had intended to keep it from the main population. They believed if the Gods wanted them to die, then it would happen. However, a new initiate to the Farsight program, a young woman by the name of Cassia did not agree with their opinion. Her first ever Vision showed ships coming to rescue their people. When she brought this before the Prophet and the other Farsight leaders, they mocked her and her fledgling status, and dismissed her. She then took her information to the Chief Sculptor, one of the leaders of the Artisans' Guild Dimitri Slovegn. Unlike the Prophet, he believed her and contacted through merchants the nearby city-state of Indiga. Indiga pledged to have its navy bring ships to the island the day before the eruption was predicted to occur.

The ships arrived and were refused entry to the island by the Prophet. They captured Cassia, Marked her face, and sent her to the fields to work, while they waited for their world to end. The Indigan Navy didn't leave though, waiting just off their shores. Then the eruption began, and the Prophet and many of the Farsight members were the first to be consumed in their temple at the base of the Volcano. The leaders dead, the people went into a panic and made for the ships, which assisted in their rescue. Dimitri led the Artisan's Guild to free the Marked Ones, personally saving Cassia. About sixty percent of the population was saved, but several ships were destroyed by falling debris and molten rock.

With no one left from the highest caste, Dimitri took charge with Cassia. On the journey to Indiga, there was a massive change in the government of the former city-state. All of the Marked Ones were freed, and the statuses of every person was equalized with one exception. Cassia became the new religious leader, and consented with Dimitri that her role should have significantly less power than it would have been previously. As such, the Crimsian Senate was born. Each company within the Artisan's Guild was allowed one representative. An equal number of representatives from the new Crimsian Way, the upgraded religion, as we as an equal number from the standard citizens were appointed. There was now equal power among the masses.

The Indigans emptied out one of their boroughs, relocating its own citizens so that the Crimsians could have a place to call their own. It is crowded, there is mild starvation, and the standards there are low, on par with some of the other slums in the city. The Crimsians, though thankful, began making themselves self-reliant, while avoiding the taxes and regulations of the powers of Indiga. The Indigans ignored this for the most part, so long as no harm came to its own citizens. The Crimsians often demand that they be given a representative in the Indigan Council, but were rejected due to avoiding the city's taxes. There has been a large amount of dissent amongst the Crimsians, particularly within the newly freed Marked Ones.

A Port in Chaos

TL;DR Overview of Indiga
- Indiga is a decently populated port city-state in the world of Syindra.
- Indiga doesn't have much land due to the surrounding mountains and dangers of the environment around them. Much of the population lives crowded together.
- There is a large disparity between the rich and the poor, with very few middle class. Much of the wealth exists with Trade Merchants.
- Due to the city-state's location, it is an ideal trade location with the various other city-states of the world.
- Food shortages are fairly common, especially for the lower classes. Land for crops is rare, and mostly exist on the outer fringes of the city, which are more dangerous. Fishing is the main, reliable source of food, all other food comes from trade with other city-states.
- The only major natural resource the city has access to is a nearby forest of high quality woods and lumber. The forest is owned, protected, and maintained by the Sailor's Guild, specifically the Shipwright's Company.
- Indiga is also quite well known for its Academy and Library, both of which are the largest in the world.
- Indiga has three main influential bodies. The first and most powerful is the Sailor's Guild, which controls all trade by sea, ship building, and the fishing industry. The second is the Academy Governors, who are in charge of the Academy, Library, and are in charge of all the record keeping for the entire city. The third is the Indigan Council, who are in charge of the city's taxes, military, and day to day operations of the city not controlled by the Academy and Sailor's Guild.
- A fourth faction recently joined the city in the form of a large ghetto of immigrants from the nearby city-state of Crimsia that was destroyed by an erupting volcano.
- Like most city-states, magic is rare in Indiga, but not unheard of. Passive or craft based magics are much more common than offensive magics. Indiga takes a neutral stance on magic, viewing only those that are useful to the city's survival as "good". There is no Light or Dark magic, just useful or harmful.
- Technology is pre-industrial, with blacksmithing and woodworking being the most prevalent. Electricity is nonexistant.
- The Crimsian immigrants have recently been in a state of unrest, crying unfair conditions, but their cries have fallen on seemingly deaf ears.

IN CHARACTER INFO

The year is 714 on the planet Syindra. This world has a large amount of oceans and a few large continents, peppered with several city-states, encompassing many races. Many of these city-states are so distant from one another, with dangerous wildlands in between, that they have very little interaction with one another. There is some trade, mostly along coasts, and travel is slow. This has caused each city-state to develop into unique, distinct culture, one of which is known as Indiga.

Indiga is a republic city-state, at the end of the long and massive Violetta Bay. It is a bustling port, specializing in trade and shipcraft, dominated by humans, though open to other races as well. Magic is quite rare in Crimea, and the only open use of it is for practical purposes. Practical, passive, and craft-based magics are view positively, while destructive and combative magics are highly frowned upon. It is formally governed by the Indigan Council, elected representatives of various boroughs of the city. However, the true power comes from the Sailors' Guild, the group that controls the Shipwright's Company, the fishing industry, and all sea trade. While they are the most influential of the groups, another is always rivaling them, the Academy Governors. These governors run the world renown Indigan Academy and the Library of the Skies. In addition to controlling these iconic landmarks, they also maintain the record keeping for the entirety of Indiga. All other responsibilities, control of the military, taxes, and day-to-day operations of the city-state.

Indiga is a fairly peaceful place, with no nearby city-states to endanger it. They simply have to protect the citizens from the natural, and unnatural, dangers in the wilds outside of the city. This is made a lot easier due to the mountains the encompass the western side of the city, with a single pass into the city. Silver Pass is walled, gated, and guarded at all times. The coast and docks are patrolled and protected by the Indigan Navy. The biggest dangers are starvation and disease, especially in the poorer boroughs. With little fertile land, the main source of food comes from fishing, with some coming from trade with other city-states. Even with these dangers, the city maintains a large, crowded population, the majority living just above true poverty. The wealthy consist of merchant families, the middle class are shop owners and artisans, and the lower class are the manual laborers.

Recently the closest, island city-state of Crimsia was devastated by a massive volcanic eruption. A prophet of Crimsia had seen the eruption in a vision, and with the aid of the Indigan Navy, much of the population was evacuated. They now reside in a ghetto of Indiga, and maintain their own small community, economy, which is for the most part, self-sufficient. They have recently tried to have a representative put upon the Indigan Council, but were rejected. Since then, there has been a large amount of quiet unrest and grumbling among the Crimsians. Many fear this unrest will reach its explosive tipping point soon.

Out of Character Info
This is a character driven RP, the storyline will be driven by the Crimsean Unrest. You can be any sort of citizen of the city, so long as it is not an extremely prominent figure, i.e. Council Member, Academy Governor, etc. I'm open to whatever magic you wish to use (pending approval of your character sheet), but please keep in mind that the average person simply knows that magic exists. They will not likely know names of magics, specific details, and will often view it with a mix of fear and skepticism. Technology is pre-industrial, with blacksmithing and woodworking being the dominating crafts.

When making a character, you have several open options to choose, though must be approved by me. I'm open to just about any race, so long as they are from the world Syindra and from this dimension. No gods/demi-gods, angels/demons, werewolves/vampires/dragons/half-dragons please.

I will answer any and all questions about this world I'm building here, and in the OOC thread which will be coming soon. Thanks!

A Port in Chaos (Work In Progress)

Out of Character Info

This is a character driven RP, the storyline will be driven by the Crimsean Unrest. You can be any sort of citizen of the city, so long as it is not an extremely prominent figure, i.e. Council Member, Academy Governor, etc. I'm open to whatever magic you wish to use (pending approval of your character sheet), but please keep in mind that the average person simply knows that magic exists. They will not likely know names of magics, specific details, and will often view it with a mix of fear and skepticism. Technology is pre-industrial, with blacksmithing and woodworking being the dominating crafts.

When making a character, you have several open options to choose, though must be approved by me. I'm open to just about any race, so long as they are from the world Syindra and from this dimension. No gods/demi-gods, angels/demons, werewolves/vampires/dragons/half-dragons please.

I will answer any and all questions about this world I'm building here, and in the OOC thread which will be coming soon. Thanks!

A Port in Chaos (Work In Progress)

IN CHARACTER INFO

The year is 714 on the planet Syindra. This world has a large amount of oceans and a few large continents, peppered with several city-states, encompassing many races. Many of these city-states are so distant from one another, with dangerous wildlands in between, that they have very little interaction with one another. There is some trade, mostly along coasts, and travel is slow. This has caused each city-state to develop into unique, distinct culture, one of which is known as Indiga.

Indiga is a republic city-state, at the end of the long and massive Violetta Bay. It is a bustling port, specializing in trade and shipcraft, dominated by humans, though open to other races as well. Magic is quite rare in Crimea, and the only open use of it is for practical purposes. Practical, passive, and craft-based magics are view positively, while destructive and combative magics are highly frowned upon. It is formally governed by the Indigan Council, elected representatives of various boroughs of the city. However, the true power comes from the Sailors' Guild, the group that controls the Shipwright's Company, the fishing industry, and all sea trade. While they are the most influential of the groups, another is always rivaling them, the Academy Governors. These governors run the world renown Indigan Academy and the Library of the Skies. In addition to controlling these iconic landmarks, they also maintain the record keeping for the entirety of Indiga. All other responsibilities, control of the military, taxes, and day-to-day operations of the city-state.

Indiga is a fairly peaceful place, with no nearby city-states to endanger it. They simply have to protect the citizens from the natural, and unnatural, dangers in the wilds outside of the city. This is made a lot easier due to the mountains the encompass the western side of the city, with a single pass into the city. Silver Pass is walled, gated, and guarded at all times. The coast and docks are patrolled and protected by the Indigan Navy. The biggest dangers are starvation and disease, especially in the poorer boroughs. With little fertile land, the main source of food comes from fishing, with some coming from trade with other city-states. Even with these dangers, the city maintains a large, crowded population, the majority living just above true poverty. The wealthy consist of merchant families, the middle class are shop owners and artisans, and the lower class are the manual laborers.

Recently the closest, island city-state of Crimsia was devastated by a massive volcanic eruption. A prophet of Crimsia had seen the eruption in a vision, and with the aid of the Indigan Navy, much of the population was evacuated. They now reside in a ghetto of Indiga, and maintain their own small community, economy, which is for the most part, self-sufficient. They have recently tried to have a representative put upon the Indigan Council, but were rejected. Since then, there has been a large amount of quiet unrest and grumbling among the Crimsians. Many fear this unrest will reach its explosive tipping point soon.

A Port in Chaos (Work In Progress)

TL;DR Overview of Indiga
- Indiga is a decently populated port city-state in the world of Syindra.
- Indiga doesn't have much land due to the surrounding mountains and dangers of the environment around them. Much of the population lives crowded together.
- There is a large disparity between the rich and the poor, with very few middle class. Much of the wealth exists with Trade Merchants.
- Due to the city-state's location, it is an ideal trade location with the various other city-states of the world.
- Food shortages are fairly common, especially for the lower classes. Land for crops is rare, and mostly exist on the outer fringes of the city, which are more dangerous. Fishing is the main, reliable source of food, all other food comes from trade with other city-states.
- The only major natural resource the city has access to is a nearby forest of high quality woods and lumber. The forest is owned, protected, and maintained by the Sailor's Guild, specifically the Shipwright's Company.
- Indiga is also quite well known for its Academy and Library, both of which are the largest in the world.
- Indiga has three main influential bodies. The first and most powerful is the Sailor's Guild, which controls all trade by sea, ship building, and the fishing industry. The second is the Academy Governors, who are in charge of the Academy, Library, and are in charge of all the record keeping for the entire city. The third is the Indigan Council, who are in charge of the city's taxes, military, and day to day operations of the city not controlled by the Academy and Sailor's Guild.
- A fourth faction recently joined the city in the form of a large ghetto of immigrants from the nearby city-state of Crimsia that was destroyed by an erupting volcano.
- Like most city-states, magic is rare in Indiga, but not unheard of. Passive or craft based magics are much more common than offensive magics. Indiga takes a neutral stance on magic, viewing only those that are useful to the city's survival as "good". There is no Light or Dark magic, just useful or harmful.
- Technology is pre-industrial, with blacksmithing and woodworking being the most prevalent. Electricity is nonexistant.
- The Crimsian immigrants have recently been in a state of unrest, crying unfair conditions, but their cries have fallen on seemingly deaf ears.
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World Creation Subforum

Hello,

I asked about this in the Chat and was directed here. So, if possible, could we have a forum dedicated to creating a world in which the creator can use for multiple stories. The creator would have control over the creation of his own world, who can edit it, participate in stories with it, etc. It would be quite similar to Character Sheets in a fashion.

Thanks

Hello hello

Hi,

My name is Tyler and I am new to this site. I've been Roleplaying for quite a while through games, forums, and tabletops. I prefer fantasy settings with light magic useage and low technology. I enjoy world creation, character development, and combat writing. If you'd like to write with me, let me know.

Thanks!