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[Ghazkull]

@Rockeater: You could play a thrill-seeking mage if you really want to. The problem is, thrill here means suicidal rituals which summon things from the depths of whatever godforsaken underworld exists making pacts with them and/or trying to dominate them. If you fail pretty much the mildest thing that can happen is crippling injury. the worst is a full blown End of the World Scenario.

Generally mages make for interesting sidestories or new plots, but fact of the matter is, that if you survive beyond your first spell you are already ridiculously lucky. Alternatively you could spend in-game decades on studying and gathering magical knowledge and tomes to ensure that you actually know what you are doing. The latter route of course bears immense powers beyond mortal ken. With the caveat of decades of studying and constant threat of demonic possession.

In general magic is something that exists but is rather rare and most of its practitioners are barely scratching the surface of what can be done.

tl;dr: Dark Souls only unfair.

[Rockeater]

Ok, I won't I will see what I can be later

[Glass]

I was actually considering signing up as the Court Mage. Or... a variant.

The name's Erin Quill, magitechnician and arcanaturge. I'm skilled in artifice and magic theory - yes, what do you mean? What, is it a problem that I'm eighteen? No, I didn't think so.
Anyway. I'm here because I need a job and neither the Mages' Guild nor the Mad Scientists' Guild want me, because I apparently go against both their ideologies at once. I'm not entirely clear on how that happened. I think the mages don't really like that I was studying their rituals, and the m.s.'s were unhappy that I gave the mages any credence at all.
It's probably not important.
For the most part, I make magic items, not cast spells. I can make the farms plow themselves, and... you want an example of my work? Ok. Go look out the window.
You see the ship hovering in midair with a bunch of balloons strapped to it? That's mine.

[Rockeater]

Well, this gonna end badly, I take doom prophet.

[Ghazkull]

Idea is good but runs into some problems. Magic, again, is rare, so Mage Guilds are not really a thing since the number of people mad enough to practice it are a) far and few inbetween and b) because its so bloody dangerous mages are by and large distrusted and disliked by everyone.

Think 16th Century Witch Hunts, only with a good reason for them. So while a court mage is certainly possible, prepare for general fear, disgust and hate and a general public relations disaster for whoever decides to employ you. On the other hand if you manage to somehow convince people differently, then you are made.

[Rockeater]

As I said, doom prophet

[Glass]

:/

Fine. Gimme some time to set up a different iteration of Erin, that goes all the way up to tying physics into knots without actually breaking its laws and using magic.

*cue the Renaissance*

[Kansa]

I'll make a spymaster

[Ghazkull]

I've decided to post a description of the various duchies and regions of the kingdom as they come up so we know what we are talking about and where things are situated. Also to give a feel of the regions.

[Ardas]

Name: Lord Alexei Riskov

Bio: Lord of Risfurt at the confluence of Arngar and Argr, the city is the capital of the Arnmarch. With his family holdings remaining static over the recent years, the changing conditions have reduced the once powerful house to search other ways to gain wealth. With recent change in the leadership of the duchy, Lord Alexei is pouring his wit and skill into making his part of the kingdom prosper, and through that, the kingdom.

Arnmarch: A duchy in the south-west with borders stretching to the capital, the land is one of plains and hills, with the river of Arngar which flows out of the western mountains beyond the kingdom's borders, being its key feature alongside Argr itself. With trade that flows along the rivers, the town of Risfurt is ideally-situated to gather profit from the trade that the kingdom desperately needs. This is bolstered by the Riskov dynasty's predilection for business, which other nobles would find distasteful.

[Kansa]

Spoiler: Spymaster (click to show/hide)

Your Name: Lacie Illiaven

Appearance:
Lacie is a woman in her late twenties, she stands around 5’11”. Her red hair is cut short and her eyes are a bright green. Across the right side of her face she has a burn scar, though she usually wears a mask to cover it along with the rest of her face. She usually wears masculine clothing and gloves.

Background:
Lacie was born to a poor family, with barely a penny to her name. She lived a life of squalor but they made the best of it nonetheless, however Lacie had a curse that she could not hide. She was born with a natural talent for magic, so much so that she couldn’t control it. It would come bursting out of her, often with destructive consequences.

Her family did the best they could to keep her safe, but it wasn’t enough. On one of her more severe outbursts she set their house on fire, she managed to escape but her parents were not so lucky. They perished in the flames. The young Lacie was now on her own without a friend in the world, she was forced into stealing and begging for her food and trying not to be killed when magic burst out of her.

She probably would have died if she hadn’t captured the attention of Glen, the spymaster of Argas. He secretly took her in and managed to teach her to keep a lid on her magic, she still wasn’t able to channel it safely but she at least could stop it killing herself and everyone around her. After she had this basic level of control she was allowed to join Glen as one of his spies, on the one condition that she never tell anyone else about her magic. She gladly accepted this offer.

She took the work like a natural and managed to work her way up to be Glen’s most trusted spy. So much so that when Glen fell ill he chose Lacie as his successor for the spot. It’s been a year since this appointment and although she has faced opposition she has firmly stationed herself in the court.

[Ghazkull]

Okay then. A Description of Yshuis is out, i hope i didnt make it sound to miserable

Ardas you are accepted i will write up a bit about the Arnmarch next.

and since Kansa posted his/her app i think we need some more clarifications about magic:

Magic is not a gift one is born with. Everyone could potentially cast magic, it is something that has to be deliberately sought ought and claimed. It requires much study and with it pacts with certain beings, or the possession of certain artifacts to allow a mortal human to cast magic.

In short, you need to possess the means or the sheer will to get your hands on things which allow you to even get into magic.

Otherwise your character would have been fine. So throw in some changes and you are good to go. Your character could have started studying it under that spymaster for example if you really want a mage spymaster.


Also so we don't get flooded by mages (considering we have 3 Nobles and 3 Potential Mages at the moment) i will cap the number of existing mages at any given time to 1.

[Haspen]

I will lurk in this thread to steal ideas watch the proceedings ;v

[Kansa]

Ah I thought that might be a problem, I'll change up the backstory slightly.

[Glass]

Here goes Erin Quill, attempt 2.

As far as anyone can tell, he showed up one day with a trade caravan from the East and just stuck around. He's friendly, if awkward; cheerful, if a bit unsettling sometimes.
He set up his workshop in an abandoned barn, slowly but surely filling it with an assortment of odds and ends that did things. Not anything in particular, just spinning and churning and all sorts of things that things that don't do anything do when they're just lying around being things. But occasionally, something extraordinary would come out of the barn. Like the one time he built a man made of metal and clockwork that could plow a field. Or the time when he strapped a balloon to an old sailboat and drifted above the houses. Or that one time he accidentally caused someone's cow to explode.
Nobody's quite sure if he's all there, or if his wonders are quite real. After all, he does seem to engrave them all with his own peculiar brand of rune, though a travelling wizard assured everyone that none of them actually meant anything. And he'll talk to himself while working sometimes, as if there were someone whispering ideas into his head.
But that's nonsense. Pure speculation. Absolute balderdash. And it's not as if he's not able to make himself useful.

Erin Quill, tinkerer and engraving enthusiast. How may I be of assistance to you?