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[Haspen]

Year 1900 of Equal Calendar, Continent of Belegia

The Sixty Years War that ravaged the continent has come to a close... 43 years ago.

Since then, the Kingdoms of Belegia - Aquileia, Aquitania, Estphal, Gellia, Nordgart and Westphal - have been working alongside each other to repair the tremendous damage and restore the population to high numbers. But that's only in the capital regions; bandits, monsters, cultists and warlords skulk about the countryside, usurping the righteous and oppressing the innocent.

Enter, dear player, the Continent of Belegia, and, alongside a young noble of a Kingdom, shape the future and history of the Continent...

...on a miniature scale!

Welcome to Belegian Emblems on Forums! A new series of short games meant to bring you close to the hand-crafted world of Belegia, rich in lore and history, which you can actually sample through roleplay, lore books, and ultimately shape it 'on a miniature scale' by resolving problems of one region after another. Little conflicts, little dramas, but I hope, lots of fun.


HANDBOOK: We will be using 3.Elf.15 Handbook without Weapon Experience module.
HOUSERULES:

• Tarot Affinity System: Once your sheet is accepted, I will use the mystical cards of Tarot to determine your two choices of an elemental Affinity. You will be able to pick either of these, or decline both. I will roll a third one for you, but that one's final.
• Map Objectives Level Ups: Each Battle Map in a Chapter will have few Victory Conditions. Each fulfilled Victory Condition grants 1 Level Up for all participants at the end of current Turn. Once all Objectives are complete, the Battle Map for that Chapter is finished.
• Loremasters: They are renamed to Loresingers because it sounds much cooler and is coherent with in-game lore, too.
• GM-assisted Character Bios: Unlike other FEFs, you don't need to write your bio outright (just a choice of your Dramatis Personae slot will do), and I invite you to write it after you get accepted. Your character's bio is tied-in to the Dramatis Personae of particular Belegian Emblem and the amount of Lore material a Player Character might get.
• Starting Levels and Classes: All characters, except Captain of the Guard, will start at First Class, Level 1. CotG Character starts as First Class with 5 Level ups for free. Starting Boni are increased, check within example character sheet below.
• +DMG from Affinities translates to +MAG when using Staffs.
• 0% progression in non-HP stats allowed.

MAP OF BELEGIAN CONTINENT: Warning, it's quite big! And drawn in monochrome! Just like in ye olde thymes!
COMMON LORE OF THE CONTINENT:
*Cult, Pantheon, Church: Slightly outdated histories and descriptions of the three Belegian religions
*On Great War: A brief summary of the Sixty Years' War
*The World-Egg: Creation myth
*Twelve Parts of the Year: Division of a Equal Calendar's Years into months, weeks and days
*Words for the Children: An alphabet book
BELEGIAN EMBLEM EXAMPLE CHARACTER SHEET: Click here to get it!


EMBLEM OF ESTPHAL: IC Thread is here!
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Richart of Farfield: (NPC) A middle-aged mercenary recently ennobled as Lord Ravenkeep for his heroic deeds (which included saving the young Crown Prince from certain death). Has a very persistent, and a very worrying, cough.
Merewin, son of Richart: (NPC) Richart's only son, raised as a swordsman, and going to eventually inherit his father's noble title.
Captain of the Guard: (PC) Markus of Farfield, Mercenary (Solymr)
House Priest/Healer: (PC) Aras of Farfield, Priest (Caellath)
House Scholar: (PC) Lilinoe of Watercastle, Necromancer (rustytengo)
House Bard: (PC) Andrea of Blackforest (GodofGamingRWBY)
Bodyguard A: (PC) Emilia of Redflow, Pegasus Rider (ctsun)
Bodyguard B: (PC) Sebastian Aurel, Ascetic (ElfCollaborator)


Timetable for Emblem of Estphal:
6th September: OOC Thread is created and recruitment opens.
20th September: Final day for submission of character sheets before I start accepting them; accepted Players will be given lore materials to choose from and build their Character biographies on.
27th September: Ideally the day IC Thread is created and Emblem of Estphal begins at Prologue.

[Solymr]

Post to bless and in future apply as Richart's right hand man and new Captain of the Guard ;v

[IamanElfCollaborator]

wao yis am post as either bodyguard

[TricMagic]

Healer Healer, I like my healers.

Spoiler: In Progress House Priest/Healer, Please Wait Cultishly (click to show/hide)

Name: Mattias of Lastpoint
Class: Butler
Character Specific Skill: Sol
Elemental Affinity: (leave this blank for Tarot affinity System)
Religious Affinity: Cult of Four Gods 
Personal Fault: Forlorn Light: When fighting foes equipped with Light, Cannot Double.
Personal Skill A: From the Far Reaches of Estphal: When fighting foes equipped with Dark, +15 Evade.
Personal Skill B: Repeat Treatment: When healing the same ally as last time, +5 HP Restored.
Personal Skill C: Last Point: When below 50% HP, +5% Sol Activation

Preferred Stats: Magic, Luck

Weapon Profs: Staff (D), Hidden (D)

Level: 1

Progression Spent: 42+45+46+47+38+23+50+44=335%, or (40x5)+(30+20+50)+(2+3+4+5+6+7+8)=200+100+35.
Mattias is a bit unhinged with growths... So split the math up.

HP: 16 (42%)
STR: 3 (45%)
MAG: 4 (46%)
SKL: 4 (47%)
LCK: 4 (38%)
DEF: 2 (23%)
RES: 5 (50%)
SPD: 5 (44%)
 
CON: 5
AID: 4
MOV: 5

Character Creation Boni:  2 Speed, 2 Skill, 2(percent power of will) Strength.

Inventory: Mend (D)

Bio:
Dramatis Personae Slot you want + why your character and not others. If you think its like a job application... well, technically, isn't it?

[GodofGamingRWBY]

Posting to ensure that people are aware that ya boi is applying for House Bard. Spooky times are incoming.

[Lightbringer28]

I'll be applying as a bodyguard.

[rustytengo]

Hello me thinks I will apply for the house scholar.

[Haspen]

A religious lore has been added for all to read on. This should make it easier to make a choice!

[Haspen]

Link to the handbook has been edited, it should work without issues now.

[ctsun]

"Reporting for duty, in the name of justice!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Emilia of Redflow
Class: Pegasus Rider
Character Specific Skill: Resolve
Elemental Affinity: (leave this blank for Tarot affinity System)
Religious Affinity: Church of the Goddess
Personal Fault: Bridle of Faith: Cannot attack weaponless staff users.
Personal Skill A: Angel's Outcry: Deals 2 extra damage against any enemy that has downed an ally the previous turn.
Personal Skill B: Guardian Knight: +2 to Defense when within 2 squares of an ally that currently has staves equipped.
Personal Skill C: Not necessary, can be filled upon Class Change to Promoted Class later in game.

Preferred Stats: Speed, Resistance

Weapon Profs: Lance (C)
Level: 1

Progression Spent: 305%

HP: 18 +2(4) = 22 (50%)
STR: 4 +2 = 6 (45%)
MAG: 0 (10%)
SKL: 4 (20%)
LCK: 3 (40%)
DEF: 2 +2 = 4 (40%)
RES: 5 (45%)
SPD: 6 (55%)
 
CON: 7
AID: 6
MOV: 5

Character Creation Boni: 6 Stat Points, no more than 2 Stat Points per Stat (HP bonus is doubled, so 1 point = +2 HP). Along with bonus 5% in Progression Spent, this is to emulate Traine Class varied level ups.

Inventory: Iron Lance + Vulnerary

Bio:
Bodyguard. Devout believer in the Goddess' mission. Travelled to Eastphal to train herself and help defend the Assembly's mission. Silly and impulsive. Quite frankly, she doesn't have the brains for the others.

The daughter of a former Knight and Fine Lady that had settled into the Sudfeir Valley at the end of their respective missions. Well, it was less of a deliberate decisions and it may have been more accurate to say she was an accident and the cause of the end of their respective oaths. They loved her and all of her younger siblings with all their heart but more often than not, there was an absent gaze in her eyes that she couldn't quite place. Eyes of regret, perhaps?

So, as the eldest daughter, Emilia had decided to accomplish their mission for them. With the child of her father's old pegasus by her side, she was ready to take up the lance and become a Squire and then a Knight...since she'd oddly had barely any magical potential herself so a Fine Lady was apparently out of the question. But, first, it had served to find herself a local lord to train herself on. And the son of Captain Richart, a friend of her father's and a newly minted noble, was apparently just the mission for her.

[Haspen]

Merewin's (NPC) Fencer character sheet has been added, with a little bit of lore for him and his father in there.

-Emilia of Redflow-

Seems that everything is OK. Approved for 20th September!

[Solymr]

Spoiler: Markus of Farfield (click to show/hide)

Name: Markus of Farfield
Class: Mercenary
Character Specific Skill: Armsthrift
Elemental Affinity: (leave this blank for Tarot affinity System)
Religious Affinity: Divine Pantheon
Personal Fault: Close-minded: -2 RES when attacked with Light or Dark magic.
Personal Skill A: Army Man: +2 AS when within 2 spaces of 3 allies.
Personal Skill B: Practiced Technique: +10 Hit and Evade when Alpha Strike is active.
Personal Skill C: Voice of Command: +2 DMG for 1 turn after using a Rally.

Preferred Stats: SKL, STR

Weapon Profs: Sword (C)

Level: 1

Progression Spent: 335/335

HP: 22+1*2 (60%)
STR: 6 (45%)
MAG: 0 (25%)
SKL: 6+1 (60%)
LCK: 2 (30%)
DEF: 2+1 (40%)
RES: 0+2 (20%)
SPD: 5+1 (55%)
 
CON: 8
AID: 7
MOV: 5

Inventory: Steel Sword

Bio:
Born in Farfield a year after Richart, Markus knew him as a friend since childhood. The eldest child of his family, though Markus was lucky enough to be taught how to read and wield a sword, growing up with stories of Konrad, the family tradition called to him: as his father, paternal grandfather, and three of his greatgrandparents, he was recruited into the Estphal army when he was of age, while Richart became a mercenary and lost contact.

With the Sixty Years War over but still fresh, Markus quickly became a much needed trainer for new recruits, thanks to his childhood training. Emboldened by having listened to so many war stories of bravery and chivalry, he tried to instill a sense of discipline into the new recruits, however the poor draftees brought in to replace the casualties of the war, even 20 years later, left much to be desired. And when by chance Richart found him and invited him to his mercenary band, Markus decided to retire from the army after 5 years of service.

After several more years of mercenary work, during which Markus became Richart's right hand, Richart decided to retire for a while and return to his family. Markus continued working as mercenary taking jobs nearby, returning to Farfield to visit his parents and siblings often, meeting Richart's son Merewin and helping him learn how to use a sword like his father and himself.

Following the Pinewell Riot, Markus accompanied Richart and Merewin to Eastfall for the former's lording ceremony, becoming the Ravenkeeps' new Captain of the Guard. After gathering retainers to perform the functions now required from a lord's retinue, they head to the new Lord Ravenkeep's domain.

[Haspen]

Considering the small amount of allies, most of y'all will be grouped together, so Army Man feels a bit too easy to trigger.

Would you consider 'within 2 spaces of 3 allies' instead?

[Solymr]

Shur, edited.

[Haspen]

-Markus of Farfield-

Everything checks out brother. Approved for 20th!