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Please read!!! I want people's honest opinion of both the world I have created for this rp idea and their input on what we could do with it.


Backstory

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There is a legend of a place called Avalon, which was once the home and source of all the arcane forces in the world, collectively known as magic. This place was very real in the hearts and minds of the people of ancient England, and under the guidance of the old religion, people lived simple yet happy lives. However, the sands of time wore at the fabric of the people's beliefs until nothing but tales remained. Avalon was no longer needed and soon became lost to time.

Centuries later, during a time of scientific enlightenment and logic, the arcanic forces finally returned to mankind. This caused many people to gain abilities that had not been known since the time of the old pegan religions. However, humanity greedily took these gifts bestowed upon them and used them for their own means, which, through a series of cataclysms caused by failed experiments, all but wiped out the human race. Chaos ensued, and the world fell into darkness.

However, one glint of hope shone through these dark times. The world put itself back into check, as it had done many times previously, and left a new world, one lush and green. It was up to humanity to use this clean slate to create a better world for itself. A new empire rose out of the ashes of the old, one of honor and glory, that ruled over its sovereign lands with the same serfdom of ancient England. This new empire, lead by one dynastic line that were called the Angelo family, eventually christened itself "New Avalon."

However, outside of the capitol city of this land, rouges continued to plunder the countryside, unhindered by the townsfolk and the dukes that controlled their small city-states. Cries for help from these small communities were left unanswered for years, leaving the border country in shambles and the infrastructure of the entire empire in risk of collapse.

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General

This is a general history that I compiled in order to create a roleplay called the Knights of the Round. This is an idea I have had for quite some time, but every time I have tried to write down something that I can use for this new RP, I end up with a world that is not how I imagined it. However, now that I have something put together (after what seemed like forever), I want people's input on how you think the story should go.

My general idea is for the Angelo family to order the rounding up of children from all over New Avalon with "potential" and bringing them to the capital city, where they will be trained to become the "Knights of the Round," a force that is going to be trained to fight on the front lines in the war-ravaged countryside. Of course, that is not much of a plot so far, but It is enough to get people thinking.

Rules

• No Godmodding.
• Respect others. If you have a problem, take it up with me or anyone assigned to moderate.
• Be at least semi-literate. None of us are in fifth grade (If you are I apologize.).
• Have fun!!! That is what roleplaying is about.

Character List

• Alexander "Alex" Huber- Pioneercadet- 1
• Lily Evans-Lily Evans- 1
• Lucas "Soki" Leingod-Soki- 1
• Merlin "Elder" Pendragon- Joshua Dawn- 2
• Sonja "Kitten" Shadowcat- Citizen Princess- 2
• Jericho Kabul- Kumiko- 2
• Rala Sakora- Kiwawa- 2
• Ricky Likeless (Aka: Devon Creed)- TheunholybondZ- 2
• Nym Valentine- Valor- 2
• Chaild Umgara- Drakma-ShadowAngel- 2
• Aura- SleepyShadow-
• Elyk Standforth- Nafolah- 4

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Character Skeleton


Name:
Gender:
Age:
Personality(2-3 Sentence minimum)
Bio:(1 small paragraph minimum)
Appearance:(Pic or Description. If pic, it may be moved under the "nickname" field.)
Weapons:
Abilities:

Magic Type List (does not include all types of magic that you could use. this is just a guide, so be creative with your abilities!):

Basic:

• Pyromancy- Magical control of the element Fire.
  
• Aeromancy- Magical control of the element Wind.
• Aquamancy- Magical control of the element Water.
• Terramancy- Magical control of the element Earth.
• Glaciomancy- Magical control of the element Ice.
• Scrying- The ability to use a map and a crystal pendalum to find people and objects.

Advanced:

• Telepathy- Using Magical ability to read the thoughts of others+send thoughts to others.
• Necromancy- Magical resurrection of spirits and the dead.
• Artifice- The magical ability to infuse a mock life force into machines to make them move.

very interesting, all you need to do now is Advertise and get people joining ^_^

Interested but I was wonder about the time frame, you said this was after the Industrial Revolution? or is this still in Medieval times? im some what confused.

and Abilities, what does that entail?

Well Xersist, the time frame may be confusing, but this might help you. This story is about a second "Dark age" centuries after the fall of modern civilization. So think of it as a medieval if you want, but with legends of things that we have today "Flying machines" "great metal spires" and the like.

And by abilities, I mean that there is a return of "Magic" to the world, giving some people the possability of untapped potential. I do not mean flying or something super powerful, but I am keeping the idea of some kind of ability open (ie basic elemental control, restricted telepathy, stuff like that).

And I am working on that Goth_Loli, it just takes time.

its a good idea that when developed i would be interested in joining.
You say children are rounded up to become these knights? Have you seen the film version of king Arthur set in Roman times? Is it like that? Do we start as the children or as the grown knights?

I too am interested in this. Good to see you again pioneer - shame about dream guardians. :/
Are we going to be playing both these children and the people that train them into these knights?

I guess we will play both knight and children, though the knights themselves should take the backburner to the children in the story as they grow and develop. And, of course, we will soon need people play bad guys too. It is hard for one person to play them all .

I mean ultimately the plot is up to all of us, so I guess we can go any direction we want to with this. That is why I left the backstory where I did.

So, what do you all think about the rp? Where do you want to go with the plot? I mean, we can make training itself a big deal or we can start quickly into the duties of knighthood, whatever we decide those to be exactly.

Edit: I think I have the first completed character .



Name: Alexander Huber
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Personality: Alex considers himself a righteous person who always tries to do what is right, no matter what the cost. However, he is a little naive in his views of the world and treats his ideals as the law of the land.
Bio: Alex is the son of farmers who served under the Duke of Salisbury in the eastern region of New Avalon. He had a good childhood despite being so poor and was happy to serve under the humble duke. As a boy, Alex often found himself alone in the forest after his chores, becoming more and more in touch with the land. However, 4 years previously, his small yet pleasant world came tumbling down when the small city-state of Salisbury was attacked by a gang of roving bandits, leaving many people dead. Both of his parents were killed in the attack, leaving Alex pertinently scarred and alone.
Weapons: Alex wields a large broadsword, a weapon he chose for its history of being used to protect others. He calls this blade the Claymore after the legend of the Scottish blade.
Abilities: Alex has the ability of Aeromancy, or using magic to control the winds around him. However, he is not very practiced in this ability and often finds the winds doing things against his conscious will.

Ooh! Rave Master! I love him. ^_^ Hee hee, we meet again, ze Pioneercadet!

Lily Evans


Name: Lily Evans
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Personality: Lily Dawn Evans is a happy-go-lucky type of girl with a great disposition and a sweet temper. She's usually the optimist in the crowd, always one with a smile on her face. She has a passion for joining causes and helping people, as well as her love of gymnastics and dancing, particularly ballet, since she took it at the age of five. She loves to be active and has a deep love of horses and playing games, chess being her favorite. On the down side, she is a little hyper, which ends up getting her into difficult situations, and either making new friends or enemies.
Bio: Lily Evans was born on November sixteenth, or so that's what the shrine priestess told her when she came to live with her. She was lain in a basket at the door of the temple in order to save the baby who had the power of fire, before her parents were killed when rogues entered the city. The young girl trained daily in the way of a priestess, and used her abilities for good, but eventually, when her power went out of control, she was pushed away by the towns people, causing her to say a tearful goodbye to the old priestess who had taken her in.
Weapons: Bow & Short Sword she calls Excaliber after the original sword.
Abilities: Lily is an pyrokinetic, though her skill is very basic at the moment. It spikes up and down when her emotions play out. If she's upset, scared or angry, the power may get the best of her.

I will summon a mod soon to ask someone to move this thread to general OOC since this seems to have evolved from an interest check to "something else".

You get your pic or description and I will be sure to accept you Lily, and welcome to Knights of the Round. I hope this thread has more success than the last one...

This rp sounds like it'll be a blast I've always enjoyed these types I hope you don't mine but my characters always have some Orient History and background so i hope this works out and if it doesn't i'll fix it.



Name:Lucas Leingod
Gender:male
Age:appears 16 (Real age entirely unknow)
Personality:He never really talks much and if he does it isn't more then a few words. He is quiet and calm a perfect person to have in any stressful situation. He can be sweet but that's only after he trusts you.
Bio:He Was an Orphaned child once his family was in a village that was plundered luckily he was saved by an old Soldier that raised him and tought him quite a few things of survival. Though he never truly used them and he always tried to keep away from anything and everything dangerous. The memories of watching his family be murdered Stirred him to learn and now he accepted his savior and mentor's trainning learning the arts of to survive. He finally accepted his inborn battle reflexes and now uses them for good.
Appearance:Lucas has shoulder-length black hair and mismatched eyes of Gold and Blood red Left is gold right is blood red. He wears what his father had before he died his father being of great height and build left Lucas with that same. He stands at 6'3 and his Physique is in perfect form. Because of his constant training. His clothing from his father is a tunic with his family's crest on it along with leather studded pants and hard leather boot.
Weapons:He made his own blades in the form that his father had mounted on his mantle. They were called the Great Twins Masamune and Nagakura Shinpachi (They are famous Katanas ^^)
Abilities:Glaciomancy-He Has control over ice so he guesses that even in hard times he's always had a cool head because of these powers. (I'm adding another power that's more made up and not in your ideas GM X3) Soki also had a power that he barely knew of, when he was younger when he blacked out things would happen. He'd lose track of the people that picked on him and then they'd be found dead a few days later. Soki didn't know it was him but this power was more of a Demonic power that Soki controled and his parents knew that once Soki reached a certain age he'd realize this power.

His powers when Emotionally distressed or seriously Angry: He tends to lose it when angry and begins to go on a rampage his powers seem to almost dominate him and he begins to surround him and his weapons in a large coat of ice giving him natural armor but also giving him something to launch at his enemys when he's through with it.



(hope this works I'm kinda running on empty with ideas XD Later on in the rp Soki will realize his second Power and it will take a physical affect on him basically he'll have a demonic right arm that goes up to his forearm and he'll hide it in a metal gauntlet XD)

I would double check your grammar and add a description of that family crest if you can manage it (unless of course you are going to reveal that in the ic). Otherwise, I can not find a particular problem with it. I mean, even if society fell, there is a chance that the katana could survive in Europe for several hundred years. Welcome to the Knights of the Round Soki!

Alright I was thinking about revealing it in the IC XD I'll go over the grammar though thanks ^^

Picture updated. ^_^

Awesome Lily . Thanks for updating that for me, and while you did that, I did a little project of my own.
I made a list of basic and advanced magic types for people to use. Advanced magics are very rare and will be allowed only at the disgression of the mods.

Basic:

• Pyromancy- Magical control of the element Fire.
• Aeromancy- Magical control of the element Wind.
• Aquamancy- Magical control of the element Water.
• Terramancy- Magical control of the element Earth.
• Glaciomancy- Magical control of the element Ice.
• Scrying- The ability to use a map and a crystal pendalum to find people and objects.

Advanced:

• Telepathy- Using Magical ability to read the thoughts of others+send thoughts to others.
• Necromancy- Magical resurrection of spirits and the dead.
• Artifice- The magical ability to infuse a mock life force into machines to make them move.

alrighty i fixed my post and i guess Glaciomancy is my characters ability XD ^^ thanks for accepting me into this i'm sure this will be a blast for all of us and hi Lily it's been awhile since we've been in an RP together XD

Thank you Soki for looking over your profile for me. I can tell already that I will enjoy roleplaying with you .

All we have to do is wait for another person or two to create characters and I will start the IC, unless of course both of you think that 3 characters is enough to start an rp.

hm honestly it doesn't matter to me i think we could start it now because I know lily is a good Rp'er this will be my first Rp with you but you already seem to be good ^^ and well I'm not trying to mark my own skills but i can handle my own as well ^^ so it's up to you i could care either way.

Ok the IC is up. Click the In Character link at the top of the first post and start your adventure!!!

Hello. I am interested in joining. Soki recomended me here ^^.

Name: Damien Silverwing (Actual character name)
Gender: Male
Age: 17

Description: Damien had medium length raven black hair. One the left side his bangs go down to his chin to hide the scar that starts from his templed and goes across to his right cheek. The scar goes through that eye causing him to blind. His unharmed right eye is a peircing blue. His stands at a height of 5'9 and weighs about 187 pounds of lean muscle thanks to his sword training and eating habits.

Personality: Damien is an eager learner and also a quick wit. He has a gentle soul and kind heart. If someone is in need of some help, he would risk life and limb for them. In battle however, he shows little mercy to his enemy for they would show him none. In general conversation is tends to by shy at first until he knows the people around him. Once someone gains his trust or respect, he will gladly join the conversation and even offer jests to lighten the mood. His gentle and joking deemener can quickly become deadly when the time calls for it however.

Bio: Damien had been part of a poor family with two elder brothers. His family had owned a ranch and breed pure blooded stallions which they trained without ever breaking the spirit of the animals. His eldest brother by the name of Baer had been part of the army and often taught Damien the skills needed to fight with a blade. When Damien turned ten, they recieved news that Baer had been killed in battle. Soon afterward, his mother and second brother died in a fire that cost them their property and home. Since then, Damien has been roaming the roads as a fighter for hire to anyone who can pay for his service or to those who need him. He plans on rebuilding his home with his father.

weapons: He carries two long curved daggers attached to his arms that he can use to quickly defend himself from an attack. He also carries a long curved blade that was given to him by his brother before he was killed. The hilt of the blade his bland but the blade his blue with the words: Guardian engraved.

Ability: He has the ability to scry any object and person if he has seen or had contact with it.


Hope that is enough! If not, I can easily add more ^^

WOOT SEE I FOUND PERSON ALREADY YAY ME!! *runs off at lightspeed to find others*