Everdark: The Fall (OOC~ Mature)

[Wintersend]

Rated M for mature, May include but not limited too: possible Sexual situations, obscene language, Blood/Gore.

GMs Note: If everything works out the way i would like it to, I may be able to make this more than one game. I have Ideas for sequels, but i want to make sure that I can get this one up and running before i even plan another.
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Prologue: When all seems lost in the realm of Everdark, and the great King Thrandir perishes at the hands of a great enemy, look to the sky and the stars will fall from the sky bringing the people of Everdark a new hope in the darkness. Heroes will rise up and challenge the great host of Beasts and return Everdark to its former glory.
~ A prophecy found in the ruined library of Irrandil

In a world not too different from our own lies a realm that is covered always and forever in the darkest nights. This realm was named Everdark. It consists of many villages and cities, all within 500 leagues of the capital city Stronghold of the Ancients. Everdark flourished for nearly a millenia with its ruling family protecting its people from the enemies that bordered their lands. Everdark had been free of poverty and unnatural death for nine-hundred years.

The day had been going as normal in the capital city until refugees from the outer regions of Everdark stumbled battered and bruised into the palace at The Stronghold of the Ancients, telling the king of a massive army consisting of Werewolves, Vampires, Dark Elves, and Dark Faeries was ravaging the land and killing thousands of people without mercy. When, the king found this out he ordered large groups of scouts and healers to leave and bring back all his people that survived the attacks so far. He sealed the gates upon the return of the thousands of refugees that returned.

Within the next three years, the King had set up a secret network of tunnels that all lead to a massive camp built underground. The camp was put in place to house the civilians of Everdark in case the dark army made it to the capital. Of course, the beastial army made it to the Stronghold of the Ancients, and began there assault on the great city. The King ordered his greatest sorcerors to enter into the secret tunnels and seal the passages, so as to prevent the bestial army from discovering his people hidden below Everlasting Keep. The fall of Everdark had begun.

The King with his army of loyal soldiers stood in defiance as a shining beacon of hope against the beastial army. The King and his men fought bravely against the beastial army and took many lives with them, but alas they were not to last. The Kings army fell in the courtyard of the palace, and the King fell by the hands of the great Were-king Barshulk. Barshulk and his men burned the stronghold of the ancients and every building within. Not knowing that the King had hidden the only hope for the survival of his people beneath the great city.

Now the time has come, after three years of living underground for the people of Everdark to rise from the ashes of their former life and rebuild. But without hope, what an they do?

The time has come for heroes to rise above the rest and defy the great beast king Barshulk and destroy him. The time has arisen for the people of Everdark to reclaim their realm. Will you be the hero of the story? Will you come to the aid of the people?
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Plot: You are the heroes that have been called upon by the people to seek vengeance on the beast king Barshulk. Your first step will be to travel to the temple of the goddess hidden deep within Nightshadow forest. From there you will received instruction from the goddess on what to do next.
More to be added upon hearing the Goddess's instructions.
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Races Available for play: (Please note that you will all be on the side of good,unless you have a death wish.)
Humans [a few things. Humans have enhanced eye vision due to being in Everdark, Longlife; a blessing from the goddess, and greater strength.]
Vampire [Exceptional speed, strenght, vision, and hearing] [Weakness: Silver]
Faery [ Attuned to nature, enhanced vision, no wings, Elven like features. Can command small spells*]
Elf [average size of humans, enhanced senses, medicinal skills, traditional elven features]

Spoiler: Important Characters [NPC's 

Spoiler: King Thrandir Darkwind 

Spoiler: Thrandir Darkwind 

Immortal king of Everdark. He was a human gifted by the Goddess of Everdark with Immortality, unless killed by the blade of an enemy. Thrandir was beloved by all of his people and when he fell they mourned and lost all hope. His lineage however still carries on with a son that is still young and hidden with the rest of Everdarks people in the hidden camp below The stronghold. It is said that if you have need of him, Thrandir will appear before you in spirit form and aid you in what way he can.

Spoiler: The Goddess 

Spoiler: Goddess 

The sole deity worshipped by the people of Everdark. She is worshipped as the mother of Everdark and all of its inhabitants, but in truth she only gave birth to the humans of the realm. She crafted them in her image, and all bear some resemblance to her in one way or another. Though, she is the sole deity and many worship her; many have also turned against her. Without hope what need is their for a goddess?

Spoiler: Were-King Barshulk 

Spoiler: Barshulk the Murderer 

The king of the werewolves, and responsible for the death of Thrandir Darkwind, King of Everdark. Barshulk was jealous of the loyalty and power that Thrandir had from his people and his love; The Goddess. Yes, Barshulk was in love with The Goddess, and when he found out that Thrandir was graced by the goddess with Immortality he grew furious and roused the other creatures who didn't like the humans and marched on the Capital of Everdark, killing the goddess's champion and a great king.

Spoiler: Lady Marianna 

Spoiler: Marianna 

Leader of the Vampire Legion. She is a neutral party in this story, though she sided with Barshulk. She had no choice because Barshulk had captured her son Eridamis and threatened to kill him, if she didnt lend him her legions. The vampires have no home to call their own. They are a group of nomads and often move about. Right now they are settled in Nightshadow forest on the outskirts of Irrandil.

More to be added upon introduction....

Spoiler: Important places 

Spoiler: Stronghold of the Ancients 

Please note this was before being destroyed. It is now nothing more than a few pillars and an arch marking the entrance.

Spoiler: Nightshadow Forest 

Spoiler: Barshulks Fortress 

More to be added upon introduction....

Rules:
1. No God-moding allowed. Keep control of your own characters, and you are not immune to death.
2. I reserve the right to dictate your characters action upon certain events that may impact a vital part of the story. (only in emergencies)
3. I'll try my best to keep this flowing smoothly, but please forgive me if i screw up. This is my first time GM-ing and i will be open to suggestions by someone who has had experience with GMing on RPA.
4. I do hope you have fun, and enjoy my game.
More to be added later... (In case, i've forgotten any that might pop into my head)

Character Skeletion
Username:
Name: [characters name here]
Age: [Elf: maximum is 100] [Human: maximum is 80] [Faery:90] [Vampire:170]
Race:
Skills/Weaknesses:
Personality: {Tell me what your character is like}
Bio: (1-6 sentences minimum)
Appearance: (picture, description, or both)

*Also, i will be editing this every now and again, and i will do my best to let you know when i do.*

Spoiler: Accepted Characters 

Spoiler: Username: MisguidedSoul 

Name: Airaion [pronounced Orion]
Age: 19
Race: Human

Spoiler: Skills 

Twin blade mastery: Ever since he was young Airaion has been training with his twin blades. Even, when the king sent the people of Everdark into those caves and to that camp he continued to practice. Gaining more and more of an edge within those dark caves. His skill is near unrivaled.

Stealth: Airaion is a master of stealth. He can walk upon a wooden floor one hundred years old and it will not creak. He can step on a twig and it will not snap. He is a silent assassin, and often uses this skill to tease his little brother.
Poison: Airaion is extremely skilled at making poisons. His poisons are potent and dangerous. He coats his blades in the poison, and the poison is effective against all races in Everdark. Course he only plans to use it on The beast king.

Spoiler: Weaknessess 

Compassion: Airaion's compassion for the injured or those unable to defend themselves is a danger to himself. He can't help but help them, he loves all life. Especially his family. If you get to his family, you get to him.
Anger: Airaion's anger has often gotten the best of him, and when he is angry he goes and kills everything that is a danger to him mercilessly. Its as if his entire personality changes. But, after he has killed. Guilt overrides him and he tends to linger away from people.

Personality: Airaion keeps to himself mostly, but if the need should arise; he can work in a group. He is a quiet person, but don't let his quit attitude fool you, he is dangerous even when silent. No one can read him, but his friends know they can trust him. He has great respects for the Goddess, who saved his family long ago when they were in need. He is extremely loyal to her. Some say he can even talk to her in his dreams.

Bio: Airaion was born on a farm in the outer region of Everdark near the border of the werewolves domain. His village was the first to be attacked by the army of monsters, but with the help of the goddess, he and his family escaped..Well, most of them. His father died defending the helpess villagers with a group of townsmen, giving the villagers a chance to get away. Airaion and his family were among the last to make it to the Stronghold of the Ancients before the gates were sealed and the king began his preperations.

Airaion had began study of poisons while taking refuge in the stronghold. He worked under a great posion master, who died defending the stronghold from the beastial army. Though he died in vain, his trade lives on through Airaion. Airaions poisons are known well among the humans, he has become the official poison supplier for the human people still alive. With a little expirementation, he thinks he has perfected a poison that will affect all races, but he saves it for one special person.

Spoiler: Appearance 

Spoiler: Username: Ace_of_hearts 

Name: Jet
Age: 19
Race: Human
Skills/Weaknesses:
skills:
-intellect
-insane reaction time [seems to make everything (including his own body) slow down giving him time to process situations and react aptly]
-knowledge of explosives
Weaknesses:
-overthinking things
-brash when angered
-doesn't play well with some personalities
Personality: a deep thinking individual who is generally easy-going. He has a persona that can sometimes get on peoples nerves because of his inability to obey direct orders out of perverseness and ADD. Jet can go off on someone only after being pushed excessively but when he does he can only be stopped by calming voices.
Bio: Jet was born to a normal family that wasn't very rich nor were they poor. His parents worshipped the goddess above all else but were killed a few years before Barshulk came to power by some random bandits. For this reason, Jet never believed much in the power of the goddess. He figured that if she could let such loyal supporters die, then there was no point in heeding her power, if she even had any. Appearance: Shaggy almond hair that hangs over his eyes partially, Jet is a fairly scrawney kid for his age though he has more power behind him than most can realize. His eyes are a brilliant green and his face is surprisingly clear considering he is on the latter end of adulescence. Jet is seldom seen without his navy blue hoodie on.

Spoiler: Username: max shadow 

Name: tian
Age: 49 (looks 19)
Race: elf
Skills: bow and arrow mastery, fast runner and flexible, good with a sword
Weaknesses: (couldn't think of anything i didn't put in the personality section)
Personality: normaly layed back and uncaring but easily gets bored and start to fidget, can be bot iritable and iritating, loves to be a smart ass and test peoples limits
Bio: normaly keeping to himself and traveling around tian doesn't have any family or many friends. often called a warg for his conection to his pet magpie who is never far from him, his past is a mystery to even him, not knowing much beyond the year before when he woke in an inn stitched up and covered in his own blood.
Appearance: tall and thin with light brown short hair normally hidden under the hood of his cloak, he wears commoners riding gear and stands about 6'4" with green and brown eyes, a long scar the length of his chest from where he was stitched up.

Fionne (played by Hunter)

Spoiler: Username: Enfilon. (Enfi or Enfibro) 

Name: Unknown goes by Grim. (He doesn't remember much)
Age: 29
Race: Half human half Elvin.
Gender:Male
Skills/Weaknesses: Grim very agile and quick, and uses his two daggers to his advantage. Each attack is a critical one, (Or tries to be) he tries to attack with precision and guile.
Being quick, nimble and using weapon that make precise attacks have their drawback. Direct attacks can't be blocked epically if its heavy weaponry like a two handed sword. He can be easily over powered and he can't dodge forever.

Grim also uses a form of hand to hand combat that he uses to evade and counter more than to fight. The style consists of switching the role of hands with feet. He switches around his center of gravity by going onto his hands and parrying out of the way with various maneuvers. He usually flips and spins into the safest direction, kicking his feet out at the opponent(s)

Grim can block direct well, epically if its heavy weaponry like a two handed sword. He can easily be over powered and he can't dodge forever.

Appearance: Grim has Dark blue eyes, flat black hair that goes down to his neck, with messy bangs that slightly cover his eyes. His skin is very pale and he has 3 noticeable scars on his face. One very large going from the top left of his for head down to his chin, another small scar on his right cheek, and one starting at the bottom of his left eye going down to his cheek about halfway. He wears a black greatcoat (older style of trench coat) with a high collar that covers about half of his face. The greatcoat goes down to his feet and shows his pants and upper part of his chest. He wears a plain white shirt under this Greatcoat. The great coat is made a reinforced leather is black/ dark brown in color and he wears black glove with 2 white line running up them. He wears standard steel tipped black boots, which he uses to add an extra punch in his kick. He has a belt that holds his daggers that various white marks scattered on it. Two short knives on his back making an X shape on his back. He is about 5"9"" weighing roughly 185 pounds. His ears are far pointier than other elves. And stick out farther than others

Bio: Being a half breed, he was rejected by almost everyone. Humans thought he was an abomination, and elves thought he was a traitor. Being hated made him isolate himself, he hid away from other until they slept; and at “night”, he would got out and train. Yet, he had no master to teach him, so he created his own sloppy fighting style that he “perfected” over the years. Now much older, and experienced with years of fighting; he desperately wants to escape this life he has and use his “skills”. Feeling like his house isn’t home, he has little attachment to the “hole in the ground” as he calls it.
Since he isolated himself, no one really knows him; and thanks to his rather dark clothing everyone judges him as a creepy guy. He still isolates himself to avoid people he doesn’t like (all of them.). He likes the image he put up, as he rather people ignore or avoid him than confront him. People nicknamed him Grim for the look he had on his face when he was younger and it always stuck with him.

Lillith~Pooky

[SoulReaper]

I might join. Im currently in a bunch of RPs. ANd if you need any help GMing, feel free to ask me. Ive done it twice, going on three.

[Wintersend]

No problem. Thanks for showing interest, and sure thing. I'm open to any help offered.

[Ace_of_hearts]

Username: Ace_of_hearts
Name: Jet
Age: 19
Race: Human
Skills/Weaknesses:
skills:
-intellect
-insane reaction time [seems to make everything (including his own body) slow down giving him time to process situations and react aptly]
-knowledge of battle tactics
-throwing knives
Weaknesses:
-overthinking things
-brash when angered
-doesn't play well with some personalities
Personality: a deep thinking individual who is generally easy-going. He has a persona that can sometimes get on peoples nerves because of his inability to obey direct orders out of perverseness and ADD. Jet can go off on someone only after being pushed excessively but when he does he can only be stopped by calming voices.
Bio: Jet was born to a normal family that wasn't very rich nor were they poor. His parents worshipped the goddess above all else but were killed a few years before Barshulk came to power by some random bandits. For this reason, Jet never believed much in the power of the goddess. He figured that if she could let such loyal supporters die, then there was no point in heeding her power, if she even had any.
Appearance: Shaggy almond hair that hangs over his eyes partially, Jet is a fairly scrawney kid for his age though he has more power behind him than most can realize. His eyes are a brilliant green and his face is surprisingly clear considering he is on the latter end of adulescence. Jet is seldom seen without his navy blue cloak on but he never wears armor because it slows him down.

[Wintersend]

Accepted. Thanks for joining

[SoulReaper]

One thing I noticed, was that you said he is rarely seen without his hoodie. From what I gather, this is more medieval times. Hoodies wouldn't have existed then.
That, and explosives weren't really a thing until gunpowder was invented. In medieval times, they used large boulders and sometimes set them on fire and launched them at walls. But it's up to Misguided.

[Enfilon]

im interested ill have a cs soon

[G]

This looks like a great game. Why not submit it for Roleplay of the Week or put it in the Roleplaying Games Directory or click here to help attract players?

[max shadow]

Username: max shadow
Name: tian
Age: 49 (looks 19)
Race: elf
Skills: bow and arrow mastery, fast runner and flexible, good with a sword
Weaknesses: (couldn't think of anything i didn't put in the personality section)
Personality: normaly layed back and uncaring but easily gets bored and start to fidget, can be bot iritable and iritating, loves to be a smart ass and test peoples limits
Bio: normaly keeping to himself and traveling around tian doesn't have any family or many friends. often called a warg for his conection to his pet magpie who is never far from him, his past is a mystery to even him, not knowing much beyond the year before when he woke in an inn stitched up and covered in his own blood.
Appearance: tall and thin with light brown short hair normally hidden under the hood of his cloak, he wears commoners riding gear and stands about 6'4" with green and brown eyes, a long scar the length of his chest from where he was stitched up.

[Ace_of_hearts]

One thing I noticed, was that you said he is rarely seen without his hoodie. From what I gather, this is more medieval times. Hoodies wouldn't have existed then.
That, and explosives weren't really a thing until gunpowder was invented. In medieval times, they used large boulders and sometimes set them on fire and launched them at walls. But it's up to Misguided.

I didn't really see a time period so I acted like there wasn't really one. I can change it if I'm asked to pretty easily. (although as an accepted nerd I feel the necessity to point out that explosives existed since around 1000 AD and were used primarily by the chinese, and then there was greek fire too)