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[10ebbor10]

Dolusil. A continent steeped in magic from the cold Northern Mountains to the fertile riverlands in the South. A continent teeming with live of all sorts, magical and mundane. Many nations have arisen upon it. Some have called themselves mighty, and a precious few could call themselves Empires. But no nation ever succeeded in establishing it's dominance.

Dolusil remains as fragmented as it ever was, with constant brushfire wars and rampant. In the North, the mages fight among themselves, organizing only when faced with grave external threat. In the South, a patchwork of hundred Kingdoms divide the riverlands between themselves. Whether it's in the forests of the east, the stormwrecked coasts of the West, or any other place upon the continent, there's no unified empire.

A target ripe for the taking then. An evil has sensed opportunity, and is preparing to move.

You are it's inner circle, it's most trusted confidants. You are the generals, the governors, the archmages and coinkeepers. Each of you will manage one part of the Empire, gaining trust, undercutting your fellow council members, and furthering the cause of the empire. It will not be an easy journey, treachery will be present at every point. You will be resisted by sword and spell, and even your powers may turn against. The darker arts are powerfull, but none say they are trustworthy.

Spoiler: What is this (click to show/hide)

What the description says it is.

A semi-competitive game, where each of you is one of an evil's villains most trusted commanders. You must leverage your resources to further the empire, gain more power and influence, and above all, ensure that you're not killed. Certainly, people both inside the empire and outside it will come after you.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

I intend, for the moment, to keep the game quite simple.

Each player has a character.That character represents them. If they get themselves killed, they may be out of the game. The character has 5 stats, resembling their basic competencies in an extremely broad manner. Various abilities provide specific changes. The stats are as follows:

Martial : The art of fighting in war and in person.
Intrigue : The art of manipulating events from the shadow
Stewardship :  The art of dealing with the power of coin
Magic : The art of dealing with the esoteric arts
Diplomacy : The art of manipulating others to do ones bidding

Characters, and especially their interactions, will operate largely on narrative. Don't expect to roll a few dice to backstab your friends, you'll have to come up with a real plan. To use in those plans however, you have various things. Aside from your stores of gold, you have Holdings, armies and assets.

Gold For simplicities sake, golden coins are used as an abstract resource for most purposes. Coins can be looted, stolen, extracted or gathered in numerous ways, and spend in just as many.

Holdings : Holdings are positions of land and material, that can provide you with wealth and other resources. Cities, villages and other land you conquer will be your most prominent assets. Assets do not provide a consistent income. Rather, during your turn you will need to send out forces to gather anything you want from assets nominally under your control.

Armies: The military forces and mobile assets under your control. Used to fight battle, plunder and forage income, and maintain order among your subjects. What armies you can recruit will vary depending on your situation, ranging from human conscripts to various Monsters.

Agents: Agents are characters. Spies, mages, defectors. Far less versatile than a character, they're still powerfull, and quite disposable.

Spoiler: The world of Dolusil (click to show/hide)

Dolusil is a continent with a varied population of many fantasy races. Magic is powerful, but largely untamed and dangerous to use. Technologically, the various nations find themselves somewhere in the middle ages, before the invention of gunpowder. Sword, spear and cavalry dominate the battlefield, as long as no mages or monsters are present.

Trade is done in golden coin or wares, cities are protected by tall walls, and villagers huddle in their huts from the dangers outside. Farming remains the dominant occupation for the vast majority of the populations, though there are plenty of craftsmen in each villages and in the big cities.

Spoiler: Sign up Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name :
Description :
Introduction : A short text which should allow the GM to analyze your specific traits, stats and initial assets. Make certain that your character is actual someone or something you'd expect to fight for an evil overlord.

Empire : This voting section concerns what empire you'll fight for.
Name :
Name of evil :
Select Aspect : FORCE | CUNNING | MAGIC | WEALTH| CHARM | MONSTROUS  (All these aspects are combined, each player choosing one)

[Strongpoint]

Is minimum for a stat 0 or 1?

[10ebbor10]

Neither. They can technically go negative, but at that point you're dealing with some serious issues, for example being cursed by magic or something.

Your average human peasant has a potential of 5 in every stat, with the exception of magic which is highly variable.

[Supernerd]

I might be willing to go through the trouble of filling out an application, but first, what is the difference between description and introduction, and what are aspects?

[10ebbor10]

A description is the description of the character. What they are.

The introduction is who they are, what they accomplished, and why they're were they are.

Aspects are used to generate the evil overlord you're serving. I combine all the aspects, then make something based on the result.

[Roboson]

PTW

[NUKE9.13]

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Name : Thead [...] Shadowcaller
Description : An elf, of a seemingly typical appearance, though disfiguring scars are concealed beneath his robes. A century or two old- in his prime, in other words. Dresses in black, accented with black, adorned with black. Occasionally goes wild and wears dark grey.
Introduction : Cursed from birth with an unusual aptitude for magic, Thead was for many years locked away in a nullstone prison, where his wild outbursts of raw magic could do no harm. Eventually he was released into the care of a master wizard, who taught him to control the vast magic flowing through his body. Unfortunately, being locked in darkness for a decade or two had a slightly damaging effect on Thead's psyche. After learning all the wizard was willing to teach him, Thead calmly, with no trace of emotion, slit the old man's throat as he slept, and disappeared into the night.
Secluding himself in the wilds, Thead experimented with the darker aspects of magic, seeking ever greater control, determined to forever be the master of magic, and not vice-versa. Over many decades, his efforts saw him gain an understanding of black magic the likes of which were unheard of in Dolusil. In particular, his mastery over the enigmatic shadowbeasts drew the attention of greater forces. Heroes converged on his mountain hide, seeking to destroy the dark sorcerer and his shadow minions. Thead broke their minds, turning swordmates against one another, and struck down those who remained with blasts of raw magic. Yet in facing this horde of do-gooders, he expended more magic than he had ever before, and for the first time in many years, he lost control. As the last hero fell to the claws of a shadowbeast, his minions turned upon their master, tearing into his flesh before he managed to banish them.
After recovering from his injuries, Thead decided the solution to this issue was yet more magic. He sought the court of [EVIL EMPIRE], offering his services, in exchange for troops with which to scour the lands for artefacts of power and tomes of sorcery, and all the resources he needed to further his studies.


Empire :
Name : The Bloodrealms
Name of evil : Nxtgrlax, Greater Demon, Drinker of Blood.
Select Aspect : MAGIC, I guess.

Am I doing this right?

[10ebbor10]

Yup

[Ghazkull]

Spoiler:  Application (click to show/hide)

Name : Threx, the Undying
Description : Formerly some primitive sort of Human, now a dessicated husk, parchment like skin is thinly stretched over bones and sinews.
Introduction : Threx, the Undying is the Warlord of the Husk, a host of undead, unbound by any master. At one point the Husk might have had a purpose, might have had a goal, might have had a reason for existence...if so they keep it to themselves, nowadays they serve the Dark Lord willingly. He like many of his kind are expert necromancers, and the experience of millenia makes the Husk dangerous in battle. Over the millenia losses forced them to replace fallen Warriors with others, but to create a new Husk Warrior is time and resource-intensive and so instead their forces are augmented by more disposable kinds of undead.

Empire : This voting section concerns what empire you'll fight for.
Name : Caladan Empire
Name of evil : Empress Calada I.
Select Aspect : FORCE
((Basically a mundane mortal empire awakening all kinds of evil to achieve world domination))

[Supernerd]

Here is my application.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character
Name: Beastmistress Aletta
Description: An adult woman with light brown skin, clad in black and red leather armor, wielding a menacing whip.
Introduction: Aletta was born to a low class family in a small town in a civilized land. She was by nature with psionic abilities that allow her to influence the minds of other people. These powers have limited effectiveness against intelligent creatures such as (most) humans, but less self-aware beings such as animals and monsters can be controlled completely and almost effortlessly by her.

Her abilities became apparent at the young age of 12, and her community was less than supportive. More accurately, they feared her and chose to deal with her in a decidedly non humane manner. Soon after, the town fell under the control of [EVIL EMPIRE], which decided to turn her abilities to more practical purposes. These days, her mere presence can spell the demise of even the mightiest cavalry units, and she made a few new friends with a taste for human flesh.

Empire
Name: The Cult of Sin
Name of evil: The Grand Necromancer
Select Aspect: CHARM

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Name: Zoracio, the Forsaken
Description: A previously cocky white-skinned human warlock who made sacrifices and raided peasant villages for human experimentation. Now after the experiments has a red-crystal silicon skin with spiked and chained arms and other demonic appendages, is also a great deal larger at about 9 ft in height
Introduction: Zoracio, the Forsaken was a Warlock of Chaos, a humanoid who made deals with demons to gain stronger arcane knowledge in exchange for his own soul, he thought he could out-clever the devil lords and to keep his own arcane knowledge. However, the contracts he signed made him trapped to his own master and driving him into insanity, as a punishment for trying to exploit his demons. His insanity drives him to convert a group cultists into a blood cult and performing human trafficking and such to keep promise with the demonic contract

After multiple human experimentation and lore-seeking for demonic power, the unconscious mind of Zoracio finally made a breakthrough in metamorphosis to have the power and arcane strength of a demon lord. The experiment and research-gathering went smoothly until he dreaded part of learning of the conversion was unleashed, multiple cultist souls were all sacrificed as well as some peasants to complete the metamorphosis. The finished result was that Zoracio had a thick layer of red-silicon crystals replacing his entire skin layer and chains and spikes surrounded his body. His mind was warped into a corrupted and horrific variant that made him seek his foes to suffer as he did, the unconscious mind agreed with the new demonic one, and until he can over-trick the demon lords into their own games he can never reach atonement. Zoracio than with his new-found power circumvented his own consciousness and resources into the effort the [EVIL EMPIRE] with the contract that he would receive soldiers and resources to slaughter the sheep that inhabit this mortal world

Empire
Name: The Dominion of Sacrifice
Name of Evil: The Great Demon Lord, Y'Sharij, The Eternal Contract Keeper and Betrayer
Select Aspect: MONSTROUS

[Roboson]

Name : Moralith
Description : Moralith is a quiet human. He does not worry much for appearance, and typically wears all black. This contrasts against his sharp jawline, blue eyes, and light brown hair. His eyes are odd. Not because they look strange, but because when they look upon you, one feels as though they are being truly seen in a way that most people don't bother or know to do.

Introduction : Moralith quietly rose through the ranks. No one remembers him not being around, through they can hardly remember him being there. Yet as time passed he quickly and quietly rose to importance. He seems like a nice fellow for such an evil endeavor, though it seems its his ability to manipulate those around him that has ensured his rise to power. For one reason or another, he has no enemies, and prefers to keep it that way.


Moralith doesn't care which empire wins, he's fine working for any of them.

[RulerOfNothing]

Posting to watch.

[chubby2man]

Name: Martias Arthrin

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Description : A middle aged human, Lord of a noble family. Is a fine commander in battle, though his favorite arenas of combat are in smoky back rooms, and in the courts of kings and high Lords. He has a distrust of magic, though he recognizes the advantages it can bring.

Introduction: Martias was the heir to a powerful Lord, who raised him to master the courtly intrigue and backroom politics that dominated the Kingdom. He proved to be a natural in this field, and with his father maneuvered their family a step from the throne. They celebrated, a grand feast in the glory of the Arthrin family and the kingdom. His father went to sleep, and never woke up. Martias never spoke if he was the one who poisoned his father, but he had no problems overcoming his grief and taking control of the family.

Unfortunately, his ambition attracted the attention of the King, and a shadowy war of assassins took place between the Royal family and the Arthrin. The pressure of this lead Martias to enter into a dark bargain with a witch. A dark plague and a decimated county later, Martias was on the run north, away from the plague, a new vengeful king, and his fallen fortunes.

In the north, he quickly found a place in the ranks of the evil empire. Becoming a general in his new lord's armies, Martias lusted for his lost lands, and for vengeance against the ones who forced him away.

Empire :
Name : The Bloodrealms
Name of evil : Nxtgrlax, Greater Demon, Drinker of Blood.
Select Aspect : Cunning

Looks fun!

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name : Austurus
Description: (Click to expand)

Introduction: Austurus is, was an angel forged by an obscure god of death, who had only one slight issue: he was a bloodthirsty sadist. His master, was a pacifist who prefered to let those who needed to die die of old age, a rather horrific problem for the angel who solved it thirteen centuries into his life by slaying his master. With his former master's death he was freed to cause destruction as he sees fit, but there was an... emptiness left in his heart, a hole that could only be filled by having a master, thus he seeked out and pledged his life to the greatest evil he could find, Landing himself a role in leading his new master's forces as well.

Empire : This voting section concerns what empire you'll fight for.
Name : The unending hoard
Name of evil : Distriasst
Select Aspect : Force