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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:32 pm
I'm am sorry to inform you, but I will be leaving this guild. Anyone is free to take over my character if they wish.
~Shisou
Table of Contents:
1.Table of Contents (You are HERE)
2. Prolouge to War
3. Setting
4. The Story of War
5. Rules
6. Race Discriptions (powers, basic appearance)
7. Clans & clan members
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:54 pm
Prolouge to War
The four races Vampires, Demons, Mages, and Elves, have long lived in a smouldering peace, ready to erupt into raging fames at any moment. In this post-apocolyptic era, humans have been scourged from the world, leaving only the strongest races, previously living in secret from humanity. A confusing web of allies and enimies has been created among the races, ignoring the usual loyalties to good or evil. In this time, it is hard to know who is your friend, and who, an enemy. Those of power hire spies and assasins and gaurds untill they can afford food no better than a peasant. Distrust runs amuck untill one of the strongest Elven spell-caster-assassin's brother is killed. Though she perished a short time ago, she left behind several students whom she treated as her childern to continue to fight for her. Her brother was a random target, for he spied on Mages, and the Demons chose to kill him for he posed a threat. The Elves attacked Demons, while Mages helped the demons, and the Vampires supported the Elves. However, various clans within the races either lead the effort of the race, or fight against it by aiding opposition, while other clans choose to have no loyalties to their native race, but instead pledge it to their allies. What was thought before to be distrust pales in comparison to the web of alliegences that entangle the Four Races in war.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:01 pm
A glade sits deep in the heart of an old oak tree forest. An ancient weeping willow stands strong in the middle of the glade, sprouting from it's roots there is a spring that quietly made it's sad watery music. Though it is a cloudless midsummer day, a dark shadow seems to enshroud the glade. You step into the darkness, and as you do the shadow seems to spread across the sky and land. It is hear that a battle is being waged between four parties, their allegiances shown by muddied banners and crests on armor.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:06 pm
The Story of War
It was a tranquil night, the breeze softly rustling the trees and the exquisite black embroidered traveling cloak of a girl who crouched on one of the tree's upper branches. She crouched with practiced balance, one hand holding a strung bow, the other resting on the rough bark of the oak's trunk. Her wolf-gray eyes watched the path below, a strand of midnight black hair slipped from behind her ear and fell in front of her pale face. Footsteps sounded behind her, the heightened senses of the Elvish blood running through her veins allowed her to hear the otherwise inaudible padding of leather clad feet coming down the abandoned path. A young man came into sight. He looked 15 or 16, about the age as the girl. He held a lantern that emitted the eerie purple glow of magic fire. He had blond hair cut right below his ears, parted in front of his face complementing his wolfish eyes, the same eyes as the girl's.
The girl jumped off the branch, doing a flip in midair, landing before the boy. "Hello Caleb, long time no see!" Caleb jumped back, torch light swinging sending queer shadows across the wood.
Caleb relaxed and sighed, "It's dangerous to be out at night now. The Vampires and Demons are making a ruckus. I don't want anything to happen to you." Caleb stepped forward and wrapped his arms around the girl in a hug she returned. Releasing her he continued, "Celestial, please go find some place safe. My dear sister, you may be a year older, but let me take care of this. Go some where safe."
Celestial laughed at him and smiled, "Do not forget who is the master archer and swordswoman!" Celestial hugged Caleb again, " come home soon! I cannot wait to teach you to be a better swordfighter, so you don't have to completely rely on your magic!" Caleb punched her jokingly, "So you want me to be just like you?" It was Celestial's turn to punch her brother. "Yes. Exactly." She laughed again and looked lovingly at her brother, how she had missed him after he went to join their lord's legion of spies, but here he was, all grown up. She suspected she must look older as well, but no matter how old he was he'd always be her little brother. The little brother she loved with all her heart.
As Celestial gazed at her brother, there was a quite thud and then the squelching sound the skin makes when punctured. An arrow tip appeared from Caleb's chest and a look of pained surprise slid across Caleb's face. He gasped and fell into his sister's arms as the demon's poison started to work it's painful way through his body. Celestial recognized the arrow as the drake demon's styling and she knew the poison would be ravaging Caleb's body. His breathing was ragged and uneven as he spoke in gasps. "If you must fight, Celest, please fight for me too."
She shook her head in hysterics, " No, you won't die, you can't die on me Caleb! You'll stay with me! Please, don't leave! You cannot leave me here alone!" Celestial bowed her head and held her brothers hand as she lowered herself to her knees, Caleb's head on her lap. He reached his hand up to her face and rasping, he told her, " I love you, big sis. Use it to bring you through these times. Be careful, never forget be careful. Do that for me. Fight and be caref-uhh..." He took in his last breath and his hand fell. His grip loosened on her hand and life passed out of him.
Celestial loosed her entire supply of arrows to the area the demon's arrow originated before picking up her brother and starting to the nearest town. She buried him the next day in a Elvish ceremony, where she swore revenge on all Demons and whoever they joined forces with.
And so started the War of the Four Races.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:15 pm
RULES:
1. Follow guild rules.
2. NOTE: Specification on "NO GODMODING" rule; controling other's characters in any way IS concidered Godmoding! This will be the most severely enforced rule. (addition) Contradiction of a previously stated FACT (or stated as being such) by anyone in this rp about a certain race's attributes that fall within the race discriptions or about a character that falls within the character discriptions is concidered GODMODING. If you want to know EVERYTHING that is concidered godmoding, PM me. Please wait for up to a month before bothering me again, because godmoding is a very wide topic that takes time to explain.
3. Stay IC ((In character)).
4. All posts must be well-written, with minimal spelling and grammer mistakes. Minimal means that the reader can still easily understand you, and may not even notice the error.
NOTE:
5. All posts must be written in third person paragraph form with at least five decent-length sentences. They could be discribing the scenery for all I care, as long as it's discribing the scenery well.
6.(addition) No n00bish behavior. If you want to know the exact perameters of that, PM me.
7. (addition) MODS BE WARNED. If you delete a post in this RP without permission, you will not be allowed back into the RP if you do it again.
8. Follow basic fourm ediquitte. It you have no clue what that is, PM me, and I will do my best to explain.
You will be notified via PM if you break these rules. If you continue to break these rules you will be Role-played out of the thread, or if in a severe case, completely deleted. I will tell you if you are banned from the thread. If you think my ruling is unfair, PM me with a good explaination of why I should let you continue to RP here.For each strike, the offender will get a orange "x" next to their name. I am sorry to point this out, but I feel that it is important to let everyone know that as long as you're in MY RP you will go by MY rules, no matter who you are in this guild, or how close you are to me. You do not look at and then delete a post without fixing anything. If you feel embarresed, deal with it, because everyone gets embarresed as they practice RPing. people who have been RPing for five years still get publicly embarressed, but you don't mak a big stink about it or try to hide it. the fact that you don't hide it earns you more respect for being mature enough to fix your mistakes.
ELF_Fire_Alchemist.exe "So... I let you get a head start." Akahoshi appeared out of no where, running backwards. "I thought I tought you better. Yeah... Elves are generally faster than us Aura Vampires, but I have trained decades longer than you have. Do not get cocky; it might mean the difference between victory and defeat." Akahoshi acted like Celestial's father, always watching out for her best interest. In a way, she acted like his daughter, almost never listening to him. "Pay attention: We must first ask this individual to identify himself or herself. In this chaotic world, you and I are the two of the few that can keep justice from becoming a thing of the past." Akahoshi continued to run backwards, and just to show off a little, he closed his eyes and began to hum as well.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:42 pm
THE FOUR RACES:
Vampires:There are two types of Vampires; The Blood Vampires and Aura Vampires. Blood Vampires are the most common Vampire, and also the weaker kind. They can only get energy by taking the blood of non-vampires. Taking blood from another vampire is leathal to a vampire. Blood vampires also have much physical strength, but are bad at or completely incapable of using magic. They do have the ablility of changing into bats as well. Blood Vampires have large pupils with almost no iris. This makes looking into he light or even being in the daylight painful to their eyes, so their skin is usually paler from the lack of sun.Aura Vampires have the ability to sense the auras of anything around them. It is from these auras that they drain their energy from, excluding vamparic auras. They could drain a weaker creature completely of their aura, however, if the other creature is stronger their attacks could just waste energy. Aura vampires are physically stronger than humans, but weaker than blood vampires, however, they are able to cast spells and use magic, most often form changing or illusions. Aura Vampires tend to be darker because their eyes are cat-like, better adopting them to light. Any in the Vampire race should RP in RED.
Demons: Demons are any magical creature that can pass between the worlds of the living and dead. They each have a different look and varient degrees of power, ranging from brute force to devistaing magical ablilities. For such a vastly differentiated race it's amazing that 46 out of 55 of their DNA is consistant throught the entire race. It is impossible to put a general appearance on demons either, due to the drastic differences in appearnces, however, all Demons are weak to 'holy' powers, or any magic used by someone with a pure aura, such as a priest or monk. (These exist in every race except Demons. It is a way of life, not a power one is born with.) Any in the Demon race should RP in INDIGO.
Elves: Elves are creatures that can gain neutrients through sitting beneath the sun or moon. They are believed to have once been from another world, or perhaps Heaven itself, however, their long stay on earth has made their high percentage of holy magic users drop greatly as more and more use their magic to cause harm without necessity, weather it be for good or evil. All of Celestial's students are Elvish. Most of the six were girls, however she accepted one boy that reminded her of her brother. She was toughest on him, though ahe died without revealing her exact reasons. Elves are known for their rounded features and ability to glimpse into the future, though it is only a few minutes ahead of the present. Any in the Elf race should RP in GREEN.((If you are interested in playing as one of Clestial's student's PM me.))
Mages: Mages are the cloest relitives to humans left. They look almost the same as humans except for the common trait of adopted animal attributes such as wings and tails. This is because most mages bind themselves with the spirit of an animal and at times become almost one creature. Most mages live short lives compared to the other races, dying at about 100, though in this time they can become proficient at magic faster because of their animal guides. They are also of equal strength to Aura vampires physically and known for their angled features. Any in the Mage race should RP in BLUE.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:20 pm
CHARACTERS:
Name: Clestial
Played by: Shisou_tenma
Race: Elf
XXName: Akahoshi
Played by: ELF_Fire_Alchemist.exe
Race: Aura Vampire
Name: Kole
Played by: ml33
Race: Mage
Discription:
Miles a way a man in his early twenties could be seen climbing the sacred mountain. Many have dared to climb to the top of this mountain; only three have ever survived.
They were the three most powerful mages that this world had ever seen, up to the present time. As the prophecy goes, these three mages had hidden three sacred items in the mountain. These items were never recovered and little is known about them. What is known is that they are different types of acceceries(i.e. necklaces, braclets, rings, ect.), except they are made of a very rare compound that is as hard as a diamond, but looks like gold. The person who has one of these items will be able to harness the power of their race, hold all three and unspeakable destruction will happen.
From the back of this man you will see Crimsom feathers forming the shape of two wings. Seeing this most people would think that this mage had cast a spell that backfired and permanitly damaged his physical body. He has in fact been chosen at birth to have the sacred pheonix as his animal. He wears sunglasses to protect his eyes from the Sun. He wears a bone of a dinosuar to show the status and culture of the village where he grew up. The boots were created as his first success toward learning magic.
At the moment, he is going to get one of the three items to increase his power and get revenge on the Demon race, for they burned down his village many years ago. He returned there to find it ablazed with high ranked demons running from the mess that they created.
Kole returnes from the flashback of that terrible night and begins to soar up the mountain.[minorly edited for gramatical errors by Shisou_tenma]
Name: kizuna- last name unknown
Played by: China_doll210
Race: Blood Vampire
Description: Kizuna is a very young blood vampire compared to others of her race. She appears to be 16 in human years, however she is only in her early 100 of vampire years. Being that she is a blood vampire, her skin is very pale, almost white. Her eyes grey, almost black- with no iris. She hates the sunlight and wears a large coat to cover herself at all times. She is strong and faster then many in her race- but has no magical abilities whatsoever. Kizuna has no family, and has lost her memory. She was beaten by her relatives to the point that she could not remember anything. This was because she was good friends with Caleb and other members of races. She was beaten and dis-owned by her clan, for being rebellious to them. Now with no memory of her dreadful past, she searches for someone who might know her. Even more, she searches for someone to call her family.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:56 pm
The news of the demon attack spread like wildfire throughout the village. It was the first time in a few weeks that this village had been attacked. A young man could be seen walking around town. He stood out like a sore thumb, because draped around his neck was a crimson scarf. In his hands, he held two red roses; which were very expensive due to their scarcity. His hair was jet black, and his eyes were a bright red. No one knew, but this young man that looked 17 in elven years, was a 100-year-old Aura Vampire. His name was Akahoshi ((Aka for short)); one of the best assassins in the entire army.
His scarf was crimson because it was bathed in the blood of his enemies. His abilities made him one of the best assassins, because once Akahoshi found your Aura, he would immediately begin to drain it. Rarely would he ever need physical combat during one of his assignments.
He carried one rose for Caleb, and the other for Celestial.
Akahoshi was not on an assignment now. He was looking for Celestial. He knew her since she was born. Little did she know, but he always looked out for her. Celestial was a skilled Elven warrior, but he was an even better Aura Assassin. Akahoshi had the ability to find a target from over two miles away; it was even easier if he needed to find the same target, over and over again.
Celestial's sorrow clouded Akahoshi's talents, making it very difficult to find her today. The town was ablaze with shoppers in the market. The were supposedly stocking up if another attack were to occur. Yet, that did not concern Akahoshi. His primary objective was to find Celestial. Even though she was an Elf, and was considerably younger than Akahoshi, he loved her dearly.
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:32 pm
Celestial sat in a tree near the main flow of traffic in the town. She had her sniping bow strung, it's height and durable wood made to shoot long-distance. She picked a demon out of the crowd, aimed, and loosed her arrow. It pierced it's neck. The demon was carrying a yue bow and poison arrows with the same markings as the one that had passed through Calib. It was female, with human features mostly, but she sported a lizard tail. The crowd began to panic as they realized someone had just been shot dead. However, when another arrow did not pierce the crowd, they resumed their duties. Assasinations would occur from time to time, and no one wanted to get involved in the politics, so they would just ignore it. Little did they know that that particular demon was a high ranking officer, and her death would be the second step to the begining of war.
Celestial's arrow had a holy spell placed on it that would distroy the evil within the spirit of the demon before sending it to the next world, keeping it from causing more havoc. She felt empty still, beleaving she avenged her brother and kept the spirit from causing more trouble. It had died so easily. There was no fight. Her brother was killed by a demon that could not protect itself from a lone arrow. It tore at her untill she fired another arrow at another armed demon, then two, three, four, a blood vampire that bore the crest of demonic loyalty. The crowd again began to panic, but it did not fade as they hurried into the nearest shops and did theirbest to board windows. All the while Celestial jumped from tree to tree, shooting down any armed demon she could. She did not care about the innocent people fearing. She was only targeting demons and those loyal to demons.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:13 pm
Akahoshi finally caught on to Celestial. She was bouncing around which made her Aura flare. Akahoshi could tell that she was pissed. Really pissed.
He heard the arrows peirce the air; a sound few could hear. He followed her trace. He began walking faster and faster until he began to run, keeping right behind her. "Celestial! Come down!" He hopped on the trees now, too. "Taking out your frustration on these demons aren't going to make you feel any better!" He could sense her become angrier, yet saddened as well.
"Miss Celestial! This violence isn't going to bring your brother back!" Akahoshi finally began to catch up with her.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:20 pm
Celestial alighted herself atop one of the stores, aiming her arrow at Akahoshi. She screamed "Leave me alone!" at him before letting the arrow fly, to strike a demon fleeing less than a yard behind him. Her aura was spiking with rage, and stings like needles when someone tries to evaluate it out if her pure anger. She leaps across the rooftops heavily out of the emotions tareing at her, so that the people inside could hear her running. She jumped into a tree, then o the ground, nearly flying she was moving so fast. She barely realized that her eyes were blurring and tears began to streak across her face. She just kept running, untill a tree branch caught her foot a half mile out of town. The ground rose to her face and hit her hard, knocking the wind out of her lungs. Her arrows spilled out of the quivver with her still-strung bow. Slowly, she pushe dherself up, gasping to regain her breath.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:53 pm
Roses still in his hand, Akahoshi was ever dilligent of not letting Celestial out of his sight. He was just as fast as she was; if not more. He suddenly saw her foot get caught on a branch, "Celest! Watch ou..." But it was too late. She fell flat on her face.
Akahoshi sprinted to her side to make sure she was alright. "Miss Celestial!" He noticed that she was gasping for air. "Calm down! You need to breathe slower or you'll pass out!" Akahoshi began to wipe away her tears with his scarf. He could tell Celestial was really distrought by the death of her brother.
"Let me tell you something Celestial. You pray for the dead. You do not avenge their death. If everyone did, there would be an endless cycle of deaths that must be avenged, which in turn, would bring only more deaths that would be avenged, and so on, and so on." He began to sit up straight, and he began to talk in a goofingly, serious voice. "Besides! We don't want the amazing Miss Celestial to die of a cuncussion, now do we!?
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:12 pm
Celestial could not be shaken out of her dark mood. Regaining her breath still hunched over, she pushed Akahoshi away as he tried to wipe her tears and hissed at him, "you don't have any alliances with demons do you? I would hate to have wasted time spent with you if you do. You know very well that I am devoted to my race, and my race alone, though in all the time I've known you I've never found out where your political allegances lie." Glareing at him she added, "Besides, I'm fighting for what I -no -we beleaved in. Demons have caused violence for wars, and only by distroying them can we obtain peace. It is in their blood to kill." It's in the blood of all races but mages to kill.she thought before continuing, "Plus they are killing many Elves for no reason," I just killed many deoms with no real reason, "They won't stop till our race has died out," my best hope is a mutual distruction, Elves become weaker with each generation. She knew she spoke half truths, but it did not make the burning of her heart or her need to kill any that may have had a part in her brother's death any less intense.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:29 pm
"Celestial! I known you since you were born! I have no political alligence! I swear loyalty to where you swear loyalty!" Akahoshi jutted out his arm that held the roses. "In all the years that I've known you, you've never acted this way! What's wrong with you?!"
Akahoshi knew he had to get his message across to her, so he held in his tears as hard as he could. "Look! I bring roses! Signs of peace and sympathy! You actually knew your family; I never did. You think you have got it so bad..." Akahoshi was on the verge of bawling. "At least you have people that care about you; that love you..."
Akahoshi placed the two roses on the ground. "One is for your brother... and the other... is for you." With that, he seemingly vanished into thin air. He dashed to the top of the Church's largest tower.
He laid back, and tied his blood stained scarf around his eyes. The began to be stained with tears, as well.
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:23 pm
Her beating up Aka did not make her feel any better, but rather worse. She picked up her bow and arrows and returned them to their quivver before taking the roses with her. She headed to the cemetary where she had buried her brother. She would have buried him in their home town with her parents if there had been anythying left of the town. As she thought about it, demons had also set the town on fire, though no one died that night, her parents had already been dead. That was when she and Calib found shelter in the Elf lord's castle, and how they came to work for him. he was always kind, though they had not met since she went AWOL during a mission she disagreed with.
Celestial's feet just carried her to the church on their own accord. It was her fifth visit today. She weved her way through the graves, praying for the dead in general to find peace and happyness in death and their next lives. Finally, she came upon her brother's grave, marked by a stone with a dagger stabbed into it. It was the only thing that made it stand out, and it took a great deal of magic to do. She put both of the roses on the stone, with a smaller stone on top to hold them there. She then began to change the coulour of the roses to white, the colour that symbolized mourning to elves. They believed for years that death, being the absence of light should be mourned with wearing a tint absent of colour, wich life is full of. White is the absence of colour. It pained even more that there were no white clothes in this town, and so she could not properly mourn her brother. Black, the colour of abuntant life, was all she owned currently. The magic robbedthe roses of their red, and made the colour pour out of it, like an emptying vial, to stain the tan stone beneath it.
She then sat facing west next to the grave, and spoke, "Calib, little one, you were my guidance. Even though you were younger, you knew what to do when I did not. You had the spirit of a wolf, the way you could guide your family and held them dearest. I wish I could have spent more time with you after Mother and Father died. Ravens aren't really the best form of communication. I only could see your face when I scryed you. It was so lonely without you, but now I likely won't see you again. You deserve to be reborn as a protector spirit, the highest version of rebirth before you reach the summerland."
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