Reign of Anarchy - Interest Check

Oh no, it'd probably be good to have a tough antagonist like that—certainly would be a challenge. Although if you end up focusing on Geoff a lot more, that's cool too.

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me

Very well, I'll swap clairvoyance with something else. And done.

@KSPAM. We can always have one love-hate cooperation. And in any case, Sheva's too concerned with the big picture to do many direct things.

edited 10th Feb '13 12:03:09 PM by AtomicNut

@ aevum: I don't that it's possible to be a proper GM without having some murderous tendencies towards the characters.

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me

Sometimes I find death a nice touch in a character's journey... err, at it's end. All for the drama.

Sort of Fixed Ripper.

Good to be back

Oh gosh, i'm kinda worried about my character in comparison to everyone else's. There's all these fallen angels and demons in here and mine's like "I can play the lute. T-that's cool, right?"

Well, our chars can make a stand if they use their skills cleverly, at least... Also, even though my char's a demon, all he's got is stats above a human, nothing else. :/

And if the party gangs up on you, I can give'em the stink-eye and send them into a coma.

To the law and for the good of man. All I need to live by.

"I can play the lute. T-that's cool, right?"

lol, oh man, that made me feel so bad for you. If it's any consolation, I don't think you'd have to worry about a big, bad Dragon wanting to squish the itty-bitty Faerie. Hopefully. ^^'

(By the way, am I only one here that ever gets excited over the prospect of getting to use some Steampunk-eque clothing? Yes? Okay.)

edited 10th Feb '13 8:25:24 PM by NaomiHansen

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me

Its not only you. :3

... Though I will use a Nature Hero so no steampunk-esque clothing for me ):

I get to make some steampunk things if necessary, alongside normal smithing stuff.

And no, you aren't the only one. Where did I put my goggles...?

"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The Doctor

Gray won't mind about the Lute, after all, she's over the whole kill-crush-destroy-defile deal. She'll probably let her hang around to entertain her.

Oh, I'd very much like to join!

• Name: The Green Paladin (Real name unrevealed to all but his closest allies.)
• Age: 75, but still able to keep up with the best of them, thanks to his healthy lifestyle.
• Race: Troll
• Alignment: He fights solely for the Nættir, and won't be swayed by money or affection.
• Appearance: Incredibly tall, The Paldin towers over most he meets, coming in at about eleven foot tall. He is slightly hunched over, and uses a long wooden staff to support himself. His skin is stained a light green due to his years working with plants, and two large, formidable tusks emerge from his mouth. He dresses solely in animal skins, prefering to use nature and magic to protect himself.
• Personality: A gruff and grumpy sort, The Paladin never really got along with others of his kind, or in deed others in general. When he was younger, he had sweetheart who was taken from life far too early, leaving him bitter and resentful to those who are lucky in love.
• Like: Plants, Shrubs, Trees, Rivers, Mountains. Basically anything to do with nature or the outdoors. He loves all animals, but takes a special interest in Ornithology. He's also fond (not romantically!) of his travelling companion, Katerina, willing to do anything to protect her.
• Dislikes: Machines and technology, which also leads him to have a disdain for Dwarves and Gnomes. He's also not find of those that believe themselves better than others, as he thinks that everybody is equal.
• Racial Traits: His Troll heritage has given him the control and empathy towards nature his forefathers had.
• Goals: The Paladin acts as an enforcer of the White Stag, and does whatever is asked of him by it.
• Dreams: To see a world governed by nature and free of machines.
• History: In his early life, The Paladin served as a disciple of the White Stag, carrying out his laws. However, when the Stag left, The Paladin swore against his kind who set up tribes, and headed deep into a forest, trying to conserve the forests life force and energy. During this time, he became a master at nature magic, able to bend the will of plants and animals, and call upon the spirits of rivers to grant him speed, or mountains to grant him strength. However, he wasn't happy with this way of life, and prayed everday for the return of the Stag. One day, while patrolling the forest, he came across a young girl being attacked by demons. Calling all his power together, he fought back the demons, taking the girl back to his shack, where he nursed her back to health. When she was fully recuperated, she revealed that she was one of the Sacred Beasts, a Phoenix, in her human guise. She informed him that the Stag had returned, and had sent her to re-recruit him, due to him keeping up his service to nature, even while he was gone. Teaming up with the creature, known as Katerina, he set off to serve as an enforcer of the Stags laws.
• Skills: He can use potions and magic to gain the upper hand against his enemies.
• Equipment: A long wooden staff that doubles as a walking stick, animal furs, and a mortar and pestle.
• Assets: He can make medicinal potions using herbs and plants, and use a wide array of nature magic.

As for Katerina:

• Name: Katerina
• Age: Depends how long the White Stag has been around. Ideally, she'd be around since the Stag returned.
• Race: Sacred Beast, more specifically, a Phoenix.
• Alignment: She also sides with the White Stag.
• Appearance: While she normally takes the appearance of a Phoenix, which has red and orange plumage and long tall feathers, in which she comes in at about three foot tall, she can also adopt the form of a child of about ten years old, which she uses when secrecy is required. In this form, she wears a frilly orange and yellow dress, and has long red hair.
• Personality: She's quite hot headed, and angers easily if nature is being destroyed. She can also be childish and immature at times. However, unlike the Paladin, she's very friendly, and willing to help anyone she has no reason not to trust.
• Likes: Fire, parties, food, friends.
• Dislikes: The cold, people harming nature, people bullying the Paladin for his appearance.
• Racial Traits: In her human form, she has an excellent grasp of fire magic, and can run incredibly quickly. In her true form, she has all the abilities of her human form, and can also fly.
• Goals: To support the White Stag and all of nature.
• History: One of the sacred beasts that returned with the White Stag, Katerina was sent to recruit the Paladin to the Stags forces, due to his keeping up of the Stags laws while he was gone. On the way however, she was attacked by a group of demons, and only survived thanks to the Paladin. She convinced him that the Stag had returned, and that he wanted him back in his forces, and the two headed off to enforce his laws.
• Skills: The ability to fly as a Phoenix, and a mastery of Fire magic.
• Equipment: None. She relies purely on her magic and speed.
• Assets: Her magic.
• Other: In her bird form, she perches on the top of the Paldins head when they are travelling.

So, there's my two characters I'm considering.

edited 11th Feb '13 4:10:03 AM by MusikMaestro

How long did the war go for? Just to get a rough idea what my characters age is.

This is not a signature!

Thiw White Fang plot is making me want to think about a sign-up for a Sacred Beast character... I think I just like revolutions/alliance groups, and they remind me of the Laguz from Fire Emblem.

We're starting to see more Nættir characters pop up. I've sort of been tempted to create my own, but one that's not as…

Well, let's just say that besides the Lady of War types, I'm a big fan of AntiVillains. And that the new Cyber Arts update has given me ideas for her.

But I think that if I'm gonna do that, I'll write something a little later, once we actually get started on this—I wanna see how things go, and I wanna focus on Vesper for a bit.

(EDIT: I said that I wasn't going to think too much about this character, but that was before my drive over to my community college, where she decided to show me what species she is, give herself a name, and proceeded to drag her family along with her. In other words, Victoria appears to be adamant about coming to life here. Oh dear…)

edited 11th Feb '13 11:30:26 AM by NaomiHansen

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me

• Name: Lesnaya Tsarevna
• Age: She has not kept count of the years.
• Race: Human-like Vapnir
• Alignment: Chaotic Good
• Appearance(s): [["Mother, I swear I'll be back with the key to saving the forest." http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=970278]]
• Personality/Behavior: Lesnaya is distrustful of nonnatives to the forests such as humans, demons and the like. Due to her rather isolated upbringing she is unused to most commons, such as not understanding what money really is. She also actually dislikes killing, prefering to just disabling her opponents.
• Likes/Dislikes:
  • Likes: The wilderness, the songs of birds and other naturey stuff. Also cake.
  • Do not want: Urbanization, cutting down forests. beer.
• Racial Traits: Because of being a Vapnir Lesnaya has super-human strenght and agility which allows her to use her bow without the aid of a lever or other assistance. She does not know what her Ace in the Hole is. She has also been bestowed the gift of speaking with animals by her "Mother"
• Goals/Motivations/Dreams: She wants to kill the Overlord because she thinks he is the reason why the Iron Forest is being cut down. In reality her "mother" has sent her to kill the overlord so a proper king can be put on the throne so the forest can be protected also by law.
• History/Background/Bio: Soon after her creation she was put in care of the Naettir Koroleva Volchitsa, the Queen of Wolves, a retainer of the White Stag ruling the northern woods of the Iron Forest whose trees are said to be strong as steel or atleast the strongest wood available in that part of the world. Koroleva raised Lesnaya as a member of her own pack and a daughter and once she deemed Lesnaya old and wise enough she commanded the trees to grow a bow and a spearshaft for her daughter while she herself prepeared stone into perfect shapes for arrowsheads and the spearhead. Now, Lesnaya has spent several years, aiding in guarding the forest against those who would like to cut it down without paying the proper respects and undoing their harm.
• Skills/Abilities: Lesnaya is a master archer, able to hit a squirrel running at full speed in the eye. Other than that she is a survivor, having lived in the forest all her life. She is also proficent fighting with her spear and "knife".
• Equipment: Lesnaya wields a bow made from Iron Wood and it is three times as strong as a longbow, having a pulling power of 600 pounds in difference to the regular longbows 200. She also carries around a spear whose shaft is made from Iron Wood as well and a broken sword that she uses as a knife. She also of course have 20 arrows, they too made from Iron Wood. Everything that she owns that is made from Iron Wood was grown by her "mother" and thus caused no harm to the trees. She also carries around a tooth necklace and a fur cloak.
• Assets: Her clothes and weapons.

Oh man, I figured I should mention: since Gnolls live in plains, tundras, deserts, and savannahs, they aren't Naettir. Just another sentient race mercilessly raping Mother Nature. How dare they try to thrive and live, you know? The best thing to do would be to lobotomize them and all the humans, removing all ambition or will to expand beyond a simple animal, living in perfect harmony with the world. As it should be.

Oh shit, here I go writing a Nætirr character of my own. Not the same one that I mentioned before, but she's going to be related to her in some way.

(Question, though: Are there any kind of airships in this world? Or could I mention an early prototype for one in my backstory?)

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me

So, I tried (Key Word: Tried) to draw the Green Paladin. If any of you are subject to Nightmare Fuel, avert thy eyes.

http://imgur.com/RP5E0wU

Oh god, the hair!

edited 11th Feb '13 11:51:05 AM by MusikMaestro

His expression makes me think he's saying "Gettin' real tired of your shit." Great job brah.

How can anyone think that's great?

I'm having nightmares tonight.

Anywho, I'll probably get around to drawing Katerina later.

Well she was raised by a spirit of the forest after all, although the spirit had more sense for longterm planning and accepted woodcutters aslong as they restrained themselves and did not cut down so much as to cause harm in the long run

Oooh, another Vapnir. I don't feel so lonely...

"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The Doctor

Sweet, not as many hot tips this time!

Name: Chiko

Age: 36

Race: Nættir; Snow Leopard (although commonly called a "Snow Lion")

Alignment: Neutral Good

Appearance(s):

• In her true form, Chiko looks like your average, grey-eyed Snow Leopard.
• Human form: Chiko stands at 5"4, with long, white hair; large, slanted grey eyes; an oval-shaped face; and pinkish pale skin. This appearance makes her look like an older teenager at times. However, due to vary rarely using her full humanoid form and being uncomfortable in human skin, when she transforms, she walks upright, but keeps her fur, long tail, and original head.

Personality/Behavior: Chiko, being a Nættir and a cat, has an innate love and curiosity for nature and grace. Despite growing up an orphan and being the only Snow Leopard traveling around with the White Stag's followers, she's a cheerful, often fearless character, although with some down to earth tendencies*

, and a deep adoration for her fellow Nættir. (Although the bigger creatures, like Trolls, can intimidate her at first.) However, being a Snow Leopard, a mostly solitary creature, she will occasionally like to step away from the group for her "quiet time," and use the time to ponder whatever's on her mind. She also becomes unnerved by the idea of "non-natural damage" being inflicted on the earth.

Likes/Dislikes:

• Likes: Snow, climbing, traveling with her "family," and napping in trees.
• Dislikes: The idea of flying, (large) fire, small bugs, Milvallen (at least based on the stories told by her), severe damage to the environment, and conflict.

Racial Traits: Chiko has senses greater than a human's, and can run faster than one, too. She also has a basic handle on Earth-based magic, although due to the empathy towards the Earth that comes with the power, she doesn't use it too often, at least for offensive purposes.

History/Background/Bio: Based on what she was told by fellow Nættir, Chiko was the third child of Dachen and Yuki, a pair of of elemental Snow Leopards, who were killed during an airship crash when she was about a year old. The same crash, as her adoptive family told her, also made her lose her two older siblings, leaving her in the care of a group of fellow Nættir creatures in Milvallen, who were forced to leave the country and became nomadic after the events of The Ragnarok.

During her mostly-nomadic life, Chiko, being an Earth elemental, aided in building fertility in the soils of the lands that they traveled in. When she got older, she often acted as a scout for her group—especially when they were forced to travel in more mountainous areas—which suited her curious nature, and helped to hunt for the few fellow carnivores in their makeshift "family."

Chiko's fellow Nættir hoped for the opportunity to return to Milvallen one day. However, due to the horror stories of the war and The Ragnarok told to her over the years, and despite a vague pull that she felt towards Milvallen, she was unwilling to want that, something she learned to keep secret after a group outburst occurred when she revealed these feelings to them. Three and a half decades passed with this, with one elder among their ranks dying along the way, and Chiko was feeling hopeful that they could keep traveling forever, which was when an aid of White Stag found their group, recruiting them to come back and retake Milvallen from anarchy. While she had no real memory of meeting the White Stag herself, Chiko knew that, as a Nættir, a call from the White Stag was not something to be ignored. That hasn't left her without some strong uneasiness about returning to her homeland, though…

Skill/Abilities:

• Speed/Agility: As a Snow Leopard, Chiko can run very quickly for a short time. Steep cliffs are not much of an issue for her, as she's built to climb—and hunt—on cold, rocky areas.
• Earth magic: Chiko could manipulate the Earth to a certain degree, but usually keeps this power to helping to tend soil.

Equipment: N/A (unless you wish to include teeth and claws as "equipment")

Assets: Her fellow Nættir, especially her adoptive, nomadic family.

edited 15th Feb '13 7:06:17 PM by NaomiHansen

"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me