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[Spiderking50]

Can we be part of one of the major fractions?

You can be affiliated with them, but cannot play as them. If we get enough vampires, I'm going to change the NPC vamps.

Hero name: Aduial
Hero description: A Moriquendi noble, slender and beautiful, with eyes like stars and hair that glistens as waterfalls. Scholar and wizard.
Faction name: Vanimar
Faction type: "Wizard" (As opposed to sorcerer)
Starting holding: Orchard
Starting staff: Wizard

Faction race: Moriquendi (Tolkien dark elves, not Gygax dark elves)
Elves were the first race created by the gods. We are tall, beautiful, magical, ageless and immortal. Then for reasons we never entirely understood, the gods created the inferior mortal races. Humans. They must murder and feast upon the decaying corpses of animals to survive. And even then, only for a short time, falling prey to aging, death and disease in the blink of an eye. Aging? Even if they take care of themselves they fall apart and die anyway. Disease? Why did the gods breath life into such flimsy creatures? We never understood,

Unsurprisingly, after the inferior mortal races were brought to this world, things started to fall apart. For along with their physical frailties and mental deficiencies, so too did they naturally bring with them war, crime, and a host of other ills.

After a mere few hundreds years, the gods finally realized that yeah, this whole "mortal" thing was a dumb idea. So they came to us, the beautiful ones, and basically said, "hey, so the world is turning evil. We love you. Why don't you leave all this behind and come hang out with us instead?"

Most elves agreed, and fled to Valinor.

Some few instead said "Nahh, we'll stay here, thanks."

And thus, we became Moriquendi. The dark ones. Those who rejected the light and chose instead to remain here.


Affiliations
Humans are inferior creatures. We're simply better than they are. But because we are better, we don't engage in petty treachery or war upon them as they do with each other.

We have basic respect for the vampires. Humans are frail and weak, but the vampires have risen above that. It sometimes amazes us that all humans don't eagerly embrace vampirism, but presumably even if they did the vampires wouldn't allow it because they need humans as prey animals. That's slightly uncomfortable for us. Yes, humans are frail and stupid, but animals are unintelligent, eat meat and die of age too. You don't "be better" than animals by murdering animals. Noblesse Oblige. But while the vampires still cling to vestiges of their former mortal frailties in the sense of enjoying the hunt and the blood, they've also clearly risen above their origins. We acknowledge them for that.

We're kind of on the fence about the werewolves. One does not have contempt for an animal merely because it's unintelligent. It's ok, because they're animals. Giving humans intelligence was clearly a mistake. The werewolves are trying to be what humans should always have been: animals. So, while we might disagree with their choice to return to their proper place rather than to seek to rise above it like the vampires have, we nevertheless understand it.

Dwarves? Better than humans.

Demons? Neutral. One does not anger at the wind when it blows in a contrary direction.

Elves are accepted.

I was going to make my own faction, but LordBucket's faction made the same choices I was going to make
(orchard and creating a "wizard" category. LordBucket, may I have control over your wizard unit?

...umm, no?

My character hasn't actually been approved, but I'm not seeing any benefit to giving up control of my only unit. We don't even know yet if that format is going to make sense in this game. Id' be giving up my unit, and you'd be giving up everything else about running a faction. It doesn't benefit either of us.

Nothing stopping you from having a wizard and an orchard too.

This doesn't even make sense. I'm not sure what you're asking, but two players can have the same starting resources and staff.

[LordBucket]

This doesn't even make sense.

He said he wanted control of my unit. I assumed he was proposing that rather than be his own faction with coincidentally similar starting conditions, that he and I "share" the faction I'd created, with me personally playing Aduial, and him personally playing the wizard in my employ.

Which isn't something I want to do. Like you say, nothing wrong with two wizard/orchard factions.

[ATHATH]

This doesn't even make sense.

He said he wanted control of my unit. I assumed he was proposing that rather than be his own faction with coincidentally similar starting conditions, that he and I "share" the faction I'd created, with me personally playing Aduial, and him personally playing the wizard in my employ.

Which isn't something I want to do. Like you say, nothing wrong with two wizard/orchard factions.

I would, of course be subservient to you. Perhaps later, when you have more wizards.

[LordBucket]

I would, of course be subservient to you. Perhaps later, when you have more wizards.

Hmm, ok maybe. We'll see.

[Spiderking50]

So far we have werepyres, elves, and humans. Good so far.

[Twinwolf]

Spoiler: Hero (click to show/hide)

Name: Katherine Dalius
Gender/Sex: Female
Description: A tall, seemingly human woman with pale skin and short red hair made white in places by overuse of magic power. One would notice she had fangs if she opened her mouth.
Bio: One of the world's few half-vampires, born of a union between a human and a vampire, Katherine is a very odd case. She has enhanced strength and reflexes, and the sun merely irritates her, but she requires both blood and normal food and drink. She will live longer than any human could, but is not immortal.
This long life, wherein most of her friends will die long before her, leaves her with the desire to do something with it. She has been afforded the chance few have: To affect the world, and watch that affect take form.

Spoiler: Faction (click to show/hide)

Faction Name: The Seekers
Faction Backstory: The Seekers are a multi-race faction that aims for two primary goals: Obtain knowledge, and make the fighting of not just humans, but all sentient creatures, end. Started by Katherine Dalius.
Faction Race: Union - The faction accepts members regardless of race, with very few exceptions.
Faction Type: Wizard - See LordBucket's type.
Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): They are accepting and attempt to have at least slightly respectful relations with all factions, until given sufficient reason otherwise.
Starting holding: Mines
Starting staff: Wizard

[Hiddenleafguy]

Seems cool, I will get a CS up latter today. Could I play a tiefling?

[Spiderking50]

Spoiler: Hero (click to show/hide)

Name: Katherine Dalius
Gender/Sex: Female
Description: A tall, seemingly human woman with pale skin and short red hair made white in places by overuse of magic power. One would notice she had fangs if she opened her mouth.
Bio: One of the world's few half-vampires, born of a union between a human and a vampire, Katherine is a very odd case. She has enhanced strength and reflexes, and the sun merely irritates her, but she requires both blood and normal food and drink. She will live longer than any human could, but is not immortal.
This long life, wherein most of her friends will die long before her, leaves her with the desire to do something with it. She has been afforded the chance few have: To affect the world, and watch that affect take form.

Spoiler: Faction (click to show/hide)

Faction Name: The Seekers
Faction Backstory: The Seekers are a multi-race faction that aims for two primary goals: Obtain knowledge, and make the fighting of not just humans, but all sentient creatures, end. Started by Katherine Dalius.
Faction Race: Union - The faction accepts members regardless of race, with very few exceptions.
Faction Type: Wizard - See LordBucket's type.
Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): They are accepting and attempt to have at least slightly respectful relations with all factions, until given sufficient reason otherwise.
Starting holding: Mines
Starting staff: Wizard

Looks good to me. Remember, there is a list of units and a blurb about what they are capable of in the OP.

[Salsacookies]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hero name: James "Man-Shark" Ray

Hero description: An ugly, fat bastard best describes this creature. He stands at around 5 feet tall, and has a girth of about 3 feet wide. His hair is oily and thin, and drapes itself across his face. He has a huge, Roman nose, and small, sunk deep, black eyes. His teeth are gnarly, disgusting, and sharp, thus giving him his nickname "Man-Shark".
His pleasant and creepy personality thinly veils the mind of an insane cannibal. He can become violently psychotic at the drop of a hat, and during this time, no one is safe, so it's best to stay out of his way, or get a chunk bitten out of you.

Hero/Faction backstory: The Murder Gluttons, and James by extension, are simply a group of escaped maniacs who have held up in the poor butcher shops of Blackwater. They come in all stripes of insanity, with them being murders, demonically possessed, or just built with a few less cogs in the head. James himself was a serial cannibal, and was found gorging on his latest meal before being found and put in asylum. Then one day, a small group of them escaped, and began their own little gang.

Faction name (optional): The Murder Gluttons

Faction race: Insanity has no race

Faction type: Completely Insane (Occultist as secondary choice)

Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): None. They just left the asylum.

Starting holding: Food (Butcher shops)

Starting staff: The Insane

[Spiderking50]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hero name: James "Man-Shark" Ray

Hero description: An ugly, fat bastard best describes this creature. He stands at around 5 feet tall, and has a girth of about 3 feet wide. His hair is oily and thin, and drapes itself across his face. He has a huge, Roman nose, and small, sunk deep, black eyes. His teeth are gnarly, disgusting, and sharp, thus giving him his nickname "Man-Shark".
His pleasant and creepy personality thinly veils the mind of an insane cannibal. He can become violently psychotic at the drop of a hat, and during this time, no one is safe, so it's best to stay out of his way, or get a chunk bitten out of you.

Hero/Faction backstory: The Murder Gluttons, and James by extension, are simply a group of escaped maniacs who have held up in the poor butcher shops of Blackwater. They come in all stripes of insanity, with them being murders, demonically possessed, or just built with a few less cogs in the head. James himself was a serial cannibal, and was found gorging on his latest meal before being found and put in asylum. Then one day, a small group of them escaped, and began their own little gang.

Faction name (optional): The Murder Gluttons

Faction race: Insanity has no race

Faction type: Completely Insane (Occultist as secondary choice)

Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): None. They just left the asylum.

Starting holding: Food (Butcher shops)

Starting staff: The Insane

I'll take it. You're going to have an interesting time though. I'll have to think about what exactly your starting type and staff will get you.

[Salsacookies]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hero name: James "Man-Shark" Ray

Hero description: An ugly, fat bastard best describes this creature. He stands at around 5 feet tall, and has a girth of about 3 feet wide. His hair is oily and thin, and drapes itself across his face. He has a huge, Roman nose, and small, sunk deep, black eyes. His teeth are gnarly, disgusting, and sharp, thus giving him his nickname "Man-Shark".
His pleasant and creepy personality thinly veils the mind of an insane cannibal. He can become violently psychotic at the drop of a hat, and during this time, no one is safe, so it's best to stay out of his way, or get a chunk bitten out of you.

Hero/Faction backstory: The Murder Gluttons, and James by extension, are simply a group of escaped maniacs who have held up in the poor butcher shops of Blackwater. They come in all stripes of insanity, with them being murders, demonically possessed, or just built with a few less cogs in the head. James himself was a serial cannibal, and was found gorging on his latest meal before being found and put in asylum. Then one day, a small group of them escaped, and began their own little gang.

Faction name (optional): The Murder Gluttons

Faction race: Insanity has no race

Faction type: Completely Insane (Occultist as secondary choice)

Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): None. They just left the asylum.

Starting holding: Food (Butcher shops)

Starting staff: The Insane

I'll take it. You're going to have an interesting time though. I'll have to think about what exactly your starting type and staff will get you.

Sweet. Hopefully I don't get wasted the first turn I'm in

[Tack]

Any chance of me bringing in a clan of dwarven paladins?

[Vacio]

Is mine okay?

[Spiderking50]

Is mine okay?

Yes it is.

Any chance of me bringing in a clan of dwarven paladins?

Hadn't considered dwarves as a major player, but yes, fine with me.

[Spiderking50]

*cough* bump *cough cough*

So we are going to have humans, elves, dwarves, werephyres and the criminally insane.

One thing that I didn't really make clear was the fact that most humans don't believe in your existence. As a result, one of your main goals is to keep them in the dark. Now if we collectively decide that we'd rather just have the world be fantasy (ie. all races are commonly known) then I can do that too.