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(Heheh, can you tell I had Trigun in front of me when I wrote that?)

Dyrwyndd: It�s a standard fantasy world, with the standard contingent of standard fantasy races: orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves, humans, halflings (i.e. hobbits), humans, and human-cross-any of the above, to make half-orcs, half-elves, etc. It has a standard prophecy regarding an obligatory glowy stone, known as �The Orb�, or, when clarification is required �The Orb of the Prophecy.� According to the prophecy, the orb shall bring darkness and despair to the land it is housed in until it is destroyed.

Or is that, if it is destroyed?

A bleak and bitter winter has settled over the land, bringing three years with no summer. The Church of Melete Graciana has sent forth a band of adventurers to find the stone, and bear it to the Pillar of the Sky, in order to cast it down to shatter among the Teeth of the World. This would be hard enough with only the terrain and weather to contend with, but they are also faced with opposition from the Cult of the Mountain God Coilean, who, with their wintry rites, rituals and beliefs, clearly want to break down society with this endless winter, and force all to turn to the worship of their icy god.

On the other hand, the Church of Coilean, Guardian of the World have sent out a fellowship to bar the progress of the Cultists of the Death God Melete of Grace, who are determined to bring about the end of the world, presumably hoping to bring themselves to the bosom of their morbid goddess.

The adventurers are not necessarily strongly affiliated to the churches they are representing, but they are from the nations governed by the relevant church. The Pillar of the Sky is considered to be the pivot the flat sky revolves around above the obviously flat world, and must therefore be positioned in the centre of the world. A strange geological phenomenon, it is actually a towering and strangely slender mountain (for a mountain, of course) looming over and dwarfing jagged foothills � the Teeth of the World.

In reality, the world is a sphere, as worlds generally are, and the endless winter is a freak irregularity in the planet�s orbit � perhaps caused by a near miss from a meteor � plunging the globe into an ice age. Of course, no-one knows this, just as no-one knows that the Orb is no more than a strange lump of quartz. Which, incidentally, glows at opportune moments. This could only be a reaction to temperature and humidity, and maybe dust concentration in the air, of course� right?

Obviously, this one is going to need a few roleplayers, so it might be sitting around stagnating for a little while, until we scrape the numbers together. Regardless...

ROLE CALL!
(Heheh, it's funny because its a pun!)

Please let me know your preferred affiliation -- Church of Coilean (don't destroy the orb) or Church of Melete Graciana (destroy the orb), your race, class, gender... and whatever else you consider essential information. I'll no doubt end up putting a profiles thread up a little later on.

I was working on it, honest! xd

I like it, very much. The opposing churches give it a greater depth than most fantasy quest plots. I think it could be very successful, if we could get enough people to represent both sides with a good number of characters. That's going to be the only issue, I think, otherwise it could be a really great, fast-paced roleplay.

Oh yes, and a question: Did you want a profile thingymajib now, or when/if the roleplay opens?

Hehehe, I would be happy to play as any side.. So long as I can be an evil charrie domokun Sounds a cool idea, with a good structure behind it. Even I couldn't do something like that.. lol I get bored typing it all out XD

Yeh, I'm lazy.. Woo~

But anyways, cool idea! I'm definately in!

I like it too. Count me in, prolly as a followe of Coilen. I found a cool new race of elves I want to play around as. xd

So...Profiles. Pm them? Post them? Wait for the word? Eat them?

Tellll meeeeee!

I'm currently trying to set this up.

I'll have more than enough time to run it in a couple of weeks, after the exams...

Who's in?

I am SO in for this.