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[chubby2man]

Across the great nations of Panem, there are some that rise above the others. And these nations attract the attention of the powerful. Beings who can shape the very fabric of reality with their thoughts and more than a touch of magic.

Beings called Wizards.

Now of course, there is more to being a wizard than merely reality altering power. They MUST have a quest, a dream of impossibility that consumes them. These dreams often require a vast amount of resources and protection, which only a king or nation could provide.

And so it is known that a wizard will seek a nation, and a nation will buckle down and try to take advantage of the situation while they can, because it is better to be on the right side of a wizard than the wrong one.

Your a Wizard!
Name-
Appearance-
Speciality-  What spells does your wizard tend to cast? Examples include: Destruction, Configuration, Nature, Divination, Space. Time is an exiled option.

Now a proper wizard has a nation to serve and guide! Create a Nation!

A Nation Calls!
Name-
Description- Short description of what the nation is like, if other than human what race makes it up.
Traits- Give two words that describe this nation (Industrious, Warlike)
What problem is it facing?-Give a short description of an issue this nation is facing.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Give a reason why it hates one of its neighbors. Can be like stolen land or rival families or something.

However! This nation you create will not be the one your wizard joins! You will be assigned a random other nation, and yours will be given to someone else. Keep that in mind during creation!

And while advancing your nation's goals, you have your own goal to pursue as well. a wizard's goal is never easy. Simple, maybe, but never easy.

Spoiler: Goals (click to show/hide)

Here is a list of goals that you can be assigned.
-Install the [secret] Dynasty across the majority of thrones. Monarchy Reigns! First you'll have to find them. But there is something special about their blood and fate.
-Kill God. If they're out there....Good Luck.
-Create the prefect [thing]. Again, good luck
-Steal the Black Library and discover its secret. You hear the elves might have it, or in a strange god's workshop.
-Create God In an act of ultimate hubris, forge a new god
-Make your nation the best place to live on Panem! You just really want to make the happiest place on earth, all of the time.
-Find the Toad Lord. When you were a child you heard stories of the wisest of all creatures, the Toad Lord. You swore to find him when you grew up and amassed unbelieveable power. Well, guess what?

Goals will be assigned after Character Creation. We can modify your goal to suit your character better if you so desire.

Actions:
Turns will take place over a monthish. You can take actions where you do something, like Assisting your nation or delving into a ruin. However, describe what you are doing. Do not just say "I assist my nation". You can say, "I accompany a diplomatic trip to [here]" or "I support these conquests" or "I seduce and fall in love with our rival power's Queen."

You can research a spell. Spells are codified magic. They just cost time to create, usually just one turn, but more powerful spells can take 2 or more. Spells are more directed and thus more powerful than regular, unspelled casting.

You can perform rituals. You can make public rituals where everybody knows what you are doing or you can say Ritual and just tell me what you did. Some rituals require reagents, like a locke of your target's hair or a dragon's heart. Rituals can cause world changing effects, and are the most likely way for you to destroy the world.


Games ends with either the achievement of a Wizard's goals, the dissolution of all the nations, or the destruction of the world.

The secret communications and stuff will be done over discord (I never notice the Bay12 messages).Let me know if you have any questions.

[chubby2man]

Reserved for whatever reason.

Trust

Trust is the mechanic by which you can call upon a nations resources for your own purposes, or even adjust their own goals.

You earn Trust by assisting a nation, particularly with its goals. Blessing their land, helping their people, and improving the education of their populace; those are good ways to earn a +1 Trust point. Defeating their enemies and improving the ruler's power and wealth, that is a good way to earn multiple points of Trust with a single action!

1 point of trust can get you minor resources, minor goal shifts. This could get you a company of troops or control of a small village. 3 points gets your regiments, lords pay attention to you sort of deal. 5+ points is the range you'd expect for armies to be redirected, significant resources devoted to you, that sort of deal.


Rituals, Connections, Sources, and You!

Rituals are your big workings of magic, permanently changing the world. The scope of what you can achieve is vast, but not always predictable or controllable.

A strong, successful ritual needs four things. The Magic, the Source/Sacrifice, and the Connection to the Object you are working a ritual on.

As a wizard, you have access to the flow of magic, that power which allows reshaping of the world. No more needs to be said here, you have power enough for most rituals.



The Source/Sacrifice. This refers to what you are taking a quality from, a metaphorical counterbalance to what you are trying to achieve. You are sacrificing the potential of a thing to bring about the actual. Magic always demands a price, and as a wizard it is your responsibility to find payment. Magic can be fickle in demanding a price when left to its own devices.

A life is of course a classic payment, but you should not rush to the knife at the first opportunity. A wedding band could be sacrificed to reinforce the bond between two things. A dragon's scale to grant impossible hardness. A wizard's eye to gain knowledge.

Sometimes you can use your subject as the Source, refining away “impurities”. Removing one’s fear to strengthen their resolve, would be one example.

No all rituals need a source. Offensive magic, bringing ruin and dismay, often does not need such, relying on the harmful effects of the magic itself. In such cases, however, the Connection is most important.



Connection is how you "connect" your ritual with the Object of said ritual. Physical distance is a big one, the closer you are the stronger the magic. In lieu of being physically present, having a piece or body part of the Object is valuable as well, allowing a Connection to form so that the magic might flow. A lock of hair can be used, or a favored piece of jewelry. The more Connections you layer, the easier the magic will flow.

Rituals are an art. A sometimes expensive art as well. You can expend Trust to have your allies gather reagents for you. Keep in mind the effectiveness of your ritual can depend greatly on the Sources and Connections you gather. A blessing on a kingdom would be far more effective with a king as a sacrifice than a random peasant.

And remember wizards, these are guidelines, not rules! Some rituals won’t need a Connection, and sometimes you won’t need a Source. Go with what feels symbolically good!

[Maximum Spin]

Wizard
Name- Haukr Loptulfr
Appearance- Older than he looks, but not much. Wears a lot of grey, the wizard equivalent of being a goth. Carries a pair of magically animated guns named Myth and Swesson.
Speciality-  Mainly interested in animation, the domain of making friends, from scratch.

Nation
Name- Pergamon
Description- Known to history as the Kingdom of Birds, ironically inhabited mainly by fish. A land where magic is treated with suspicion.
Traits- Honorable, mercenary
What problem is it facing?- Most of Pergamon's buildings and infrastructure were built in some kind of precursor era, nobody understands how to maintain them, and the whole place is slowly becoming unliveable.
Why does it hate its neighbor- One of its neighbors once refused a diplomatic envoy offering alliance with an extremely insulting and lengthy letter; the Pergamonese have been nursing the grudge for generations since.

[Glass]

Spoiler: Yer a wizard (click to show/hide)

Name- Invokana
Appearance- One would assume that a mage wearing an all-covering robe that shimmers like liquid copper, and whose head is orbited by a number of metal spheres, must be hiding something odd underneath the mystery. The truth, however, is that Invokana is rather pedestrian in true appearance. Her brown hair and eyes are unremarkable, and while her clothing under the robe is made of fine materials, they are simple in make and lacking in further decorations.
Specialty- Ferroturgy. Cuprumkinesis. Aurumancy. Whatever you care to call it, the underlying concept remains the same: the arcane domain reigning over metals.

Spoiler: One nation, under... (click to show/hide)

Name- The High Republic of Aneberis
Description- Aneberis is a metropolitan nation holding people of many races, though not by the choice of anybody living in it. An expansionist empire, their 'republic' only truly represents those who live in and around the capital, with outlying provinces given paltry amounts of representation that is typically suborned by bribery and other sorts of corruption. Nonetheless, their military is potent enough to keep things stable... for now.
Traits- Powerful, Overextended
What problem is it facing?- Most of the country does not actually want to be part of the country. These movements are weak compared to the nation's power, but they still cannot be ignored, lest the nation truly fracture.
Why does it hate its neighbor- They've been supplying the rebellions!

[Megam0nkey]

Name- Myrkul Borath
Appearance- In hooded robes of red covered in golden patterns that some swear can move, he has a somewhat bushy grey beard. He looks and is rather old, but is surprisingly spry, though tends to take advantage of his wizened appearance when he can.
Specialty-  He tends to be focused on transmutation, of both creatures and objects, reshaping, changing, and mutating their forms to his whims. His philosophy is that with enough magic applied with the right rituals, you could turn an earthworm into a Bag of Gold, or other such fantastic results.


Name-The Kingdom of Riverwood
Description- A massive stretch of Forests and hills, covered by a massive river that runs between most of its major cities. Though mostly governed by humans, there is a smaller, halfling and wood elf population within.
Traits- Paranoid, Foresters
What problem is it facing?- There are rumors of strange beasts in the woods, and more and more travelers and traders are lost within it each day. The very same massive stretches of wood that they take their lumber and hunted foods from. If nothing is done about whatever creatures lurk within, the Kingdom may be doomed.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Their region is absolutely filled with trees for good lumber exports, and a rising suspicion has led them to believe that their neighbors wish to steal it by force, rather than pay their prices for it.

[Kashyyk]

Spoiler: Wizard: Wavernly Wose (click to show/hide)

Appearance: Easily mistaken for a walking hedgerow, due to the large amount of stray greenery hanging off of the grass-stained robe he wears. Wild and unkempt hair is partially hidden beneath the wide brine brown hat.
Specialty: Druidism. Anything to do with wild, uncontrolled nature

Spoiler: Free-States of Aagon (click to show/hide)

Description: A collection of nominally independent, bickering city-states, that rapidly close ranks the moment any outsider threatens one of their number. The cities are predominantly human, but most cities have at least a moderate presence from the other races. Despite their problems, they always seem to gain new citizens, be it through natural growth or immigration.
Traits: Breeders, Loyalists
Problem: The land of Aegon is poor, and the population is many. There is not enough Food to go around, and the portents suggests a bad harvest is coming.
Neighbour: They're trying to drive a wedge between the cities, so that they can be gobbled up piecemeal!

[Rockeater]

Spoiler: Wizard :Jonathan Dobert (click to show/hide)

Name: Jonathan Dobert
Appearance- A short hunched figure, covered with thick robes and wearing a full faced mask
Speciality- Scrying and various other methods of gaining information of present and past events

Spoiler: Kingdom of the Blue sea (click to show/hide)

Name: Kingdom of the Blue sea
Description- Named after the sea which it surround, the kingdom of the Blue sea is mostly composed of a collection of port cities and towns  and inhabited by elves and merfolk living in the shallow waters.
Traits- Mercantile, Quarrelsome.
What problem is it facing?-After a solution to the problem of pirates in the Blue sea could not be reached, the pirates have grown to a scale it would be difficult to them to handle alone.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Have consistently intervened in internal conflicts.

[Egan_BW]

Name- Dame "Old Lizzy" Elizabeth Quannumstone, Esquire, the Streaks of Light and Ice, Cloudslayer, Tempestuous Pyroclast, Lady of the Seven-Pointed Flower, the Elder of Old Nolm, the Gracious
Appearance- Physically, a quite young woman, pale and shriveled with hardly any life in her, wearing a deeply unfashionable navy and maroon trimmed robe made from rough, uncomfortable material, wearing a pointy wide brimmed hat with a pattern of ducks upon it.
Specialty- Elemental Channeling


Name- Gruggunium Empire
Description- Gruggi are large, strong green creatures. Their Gruggum society is based around the city of Gruggunium, where state decisions are via a system of nearly-functional direct democracy where practically everygrug can vote or theoretically propose legislation. The greater empire administered by Gruggunium consists of client states which contribute valuable food, sheep, soldiers, and voters to the core Gruggum city.
Traits- Democratic, Muscular
What problem is it facing?- The Floofugrott plague is killing all the sheep.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Their diplomats were rude and called us stupid barbarians.

(Grug = singular grug
Gruggi = plural of grug
Gruggum = possessing gruglike qualities
Gruggunium = city of grug
Floofug = beast of floof, IE sheep)

(so mannium = city of humans, oinkug = pig, etc)

[Sudurandom]

Your a Wizard!
Name- Rita Lin
Appearance- A perky young girl fond of colourful dresses. Her long pink hair blows in a wind that isn't there.
Speciality- Space warping

A Nation Calls!
Name- Forest Guard
Description- Located at the edge of the Creeping Wood this kingdom has held back the magical forest for generations.
Traits- Desperate, Guardians
What problem is it facing?- The Creeping Wood is advancing.
Why does it hate its neighbor- They refuse to meet their ancient promise of support.

[Madman198237]

Spoiler: Wizard (click to show/hide)

Name- Teleniar the Entirely Sane
Appearance- He's got the robe. He's got the hat. He's got the insane look. The only thing he's lacking is the marbles. He's lost his marbles, long ago, and the look in his magic-blasted eyes and smile on his cracked lips and the un-managed state of his singed beard informs you immediately that this walking force of nature (as all wizards are) has far too much magical power and not nearly enough (remaining) brainpower.
Specialty- Enchantment. An unfortunate predilection for unfortunately permanent magic rather than that "weak and unimpressive temporary stuff" has left Teleniar with a tendency to cause unfortunately permanent issues for his unfortunate self and the unfortunate places he visits.

Spoiler: Nation (click to show/hide)

Name- The Old Mountains
Description- Stone walks, and the earth quakes. The stone-giants still live in a few mountain ranges, and the range they call the Eldest is their greatest bastion. Stone-giants are not fast thinkers, or fast movers, and they are very, very slow to forget an insult. For as long as they can remember (and they can remember more than most) the giants have kept to themselves...but even they cannot readily ignore a wizard. They will go on as much as they can, tending to the (highly edible) rocks and collecting gems and ores for trade or for display. There's not enough of them to truly have a government, but with wizards interfering everywhere one can see, they have banded together to try and protect themselves, their mountains, and their wealth from being blasted off the face of the planet. Perhaps an alliance with one of these wizards?
Traits- Physically powerful, Grudgebearers
What problem is it facing?- Giants treasure the mountains they live in, but recently there are pests that have begun to infest the outer edges of the mountain range. They are even shorter than the normal pests, and these dwarves are digging great holes in the giants' territory, to live in, as if they own the place. Unacceptable!
Why does it hate its neighbor- Have you ever been woken up by a pesky dwarf or greedy human hitting you with a pickaxe in a most unfortunate places? Just because you look exactly like the mountain you were curled up against and are covered in gems and gold and haven't moved in two centuries doesn't make you a valid target for a mining operation! These insults will not be born!

[BlackPaladin99]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name- Horilorkius
Appearance- Tall, thin figure in long black robes and a white skull mask with red markings.  Seems to be constantly hobbling.  Has a long, crooked staff with three skulls on the top
Specialty- Necromancy. Duh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name- The Rotten Lands
Description- Barren, green lands with skeletal trees and the skeletons of giant monsters rotting everywhere
Traits- Suffused with dark energy, which has the unfortunate side effect of raising random undead
What problem is it facing?- Nobody likes them.  Not like “cut off trade” dislike, more like “send huge crusading armies to kill you” dislike.  Which is a problem
Why does it hate its neighbor- Because the stupid snooty light elves keep doing things like “purifying the land” and “slaying foul undead” and all that crap.

[Strongpoint]

Spoiler: Wizard (click to show/hide)

Name - Gort, son of Daker
Appearance - A massive, hulking orc. He wears a suit of leather armor, and carries a massive battle axe on his back. He usually hides his magic abilities pretending to be a stupid brute, moving and speaking correspondingly.
Specialty -  Earth Elementalist. Gort is highly skilled in manipulating dirt, mud, stone, and similar materials. He can move, create, transmute, or destroy those with relative ease.

Spoiler: Nation (click to show/hide)

Name: United Tribes of the Red Drylands
Description: A loose confederation of orc, goblin, centaur, and human tribes.
Traits: Tribal, nomadic
What problem is it facing: Red Drylands are overpopulated and tribes are on the verge of starvation, a civil war for resources is imminent.
Why does it hate its neighbor: They drove the tribes away from more fertile lands and have built a wall to keep them out.

[a1s]

Spoiler: Wizard (sorceress?) (click to show/hide)

Name- Aywen Ayes
Appearance- Aywen is a tall redhead. Though physically a woman in her 4th decade, her eyes give away a creature of much greater age.
Specialty - Sympathetic Magic: the art of making great things happen by making them happen in miniature/imitation.

Spoiler: Nation (click to show/hide)

Name- Lettia
Description- A small semi-industrialized country which has recently gotten it's hard won independence from neighbors. It lies almost entirely on the sea coast.
Traits- Small, proud, multiethnic.
What problem is it facing: Between its small, but very ethnically varied (and equally disunited) population, large and scary neighbors (which are thankfully more preoccupied with each other to invade directly,) a young and inexperienced ruling class, and the absolute lack of natural resources (other than forests and peat bogs) it needs all the help it can get.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Most lettians are united by their hatred of Krovia (to the east)- their previous overlord for 200 years- whether because of Krovia's desire to reintegrate the run-away province, or because they themselves are kroians who were considered disloyal in the latest coup. Second on the list is Vatsia (to the west) whose militaristic tendencies leave no doubt whether Lettia is in their crosshairs. Plus they used to be lettian overlords at one point. Least hated of the three is the Poltvanian republic (to the south)- a down-on-their-luck state which used to be great (and in fact the Lettian overlord before the Vats and the Krovians) but now just a mid-sized neighbor that dreams of former glories.

[Crystalizedmire]

Name- Fariler
Appearance- A short women wearing a cloak. Upon close inspection, her long hair seems to be a really deep purple and her green eyes faintly glow
Speciality-  Illusion

Name- Sifeewan
Description- A nation composed of humanoid birds living high above the sky using magic to sustain their building's height.
Traits- Warlike, Magical
What problem is it facing?- Sifeewan is running out of magic rocks that support the city infrastructure.
Why does it hate its neighbor- Hates their neighbor for stealing some of the magic rocks.

[Quarque]

Spoiler: Wizard (click to show/hide)

Name: Mumo
Appearance: An ugly troll wearing rags and carrying a club that he calls a "bludgie" for some reason.
Speciality: Hitting things really hard with his bludgie. If he ever reaches level 7, maybe he will gain enough intelligence to cast a spell.

Spoiler: Miners of the Old Mountains (click to show/hide)

Name: Miners of the Old Mountains
Description: a few dwarves have started a small outpost in the Old Mountains. Their small settlement didn't attract a noble yet and even their expedition leader has died of old age.
Traits: they love hard work and absolutely despise friendship
What problem is it facing? : A goddamn aquifer. Also a lack of romance and dwarven babies.
Why does it hate its neighbor? : Why not? Murderous giants roaming further up in the mountains. Elves pestering them about eating vegetables. Human "bards" making noise and spilling perfectly good beer in the improvised tavern.