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Sword of truth-The Great War

Sword of truth-The Great War Open

The wizards of the New world unite in an epic struggle to keep themselves free of the oppression of the wizards and people of the Old world. Would you see magic banished and locked away, or will you fight for the freedom of wizards everywhere?

Owner: Veld
Game Masters: Veld
Tags: fantasy, magic, sword, truth, war, wizards (Add Tags »)
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Introduction

The wizards of the New World firmly believe that people with the gift of magic have a right to live in peace and harmony with the world. The New World wizards believe that magic, when used responsibly, was a tool of good. On the other hand, the wizards and people of the Old World believed magic was a destructive tool, that gave those who possessed it power over others that no one had a right to. Tensions began to build between then the two nations, creating a rift between the peoples of the New and Old worlds. People of the Old world began to lash out at what they seen as their oppressors, the free peoples of the New world will answer in kind.

Each side of the war, is continuously looking for breakthroughs in magical warfare. Even the Old World wizards, who despise the very magic they are gifted with, make use of their skills to cause their enemies harm. Experiments on other wizards or human beings are seen as an effective way of creating new weapons to use against the opposition. Additive Magic is used to add to or create the traits or skills that would be required for the desired weapon and Subtractive Magic is used to take away those traits or skills that were not required. This is a very painful experience for the participant and in many cases they died. However, when successfully altered into a weapon, these enhanced wizards or people could be an incredible menace to those fighting on the other side of the war and in many cases are quite deadly. (As far as characters I will allow, I don't have any specific requirements. Be creative and if it's not too powerful that it would throw off the storyline I will accept it.)

The war has not yet formally begun, but conversations as to a peaceable ending have ceased. Both sides see themselves as being right and will fight to the death to prove it. This is where you will be thrown in. You will start as a simple soldier, or wizard in the battle. If anyone really wants to play one of the main characters of the story, such as Baraccus the first wizard at the time, let me know and we can discuss it. I would like everyone to make their own characters though, you could always play two if you wanted and have the time!

I would like to keep the list of people on each side no more than five player characters per side. If we get more exceptional players, I will add more slots.

Default types of characters.
(War wizard) Can use both additive and subtractive magic.
(Trained wizard) Not born with the gift of magic, these people were trained to use it by those who were born with the gift.
(Sorceress) A female class of wizards. They hold many of the same powers but can only harness additive magic. (unless the forsake the creator and sell themselves to the keeper of the underworld.) Most reside at the palace of prophets, where a spell cast over the building lets them age at a very slow rate.
(Dream walkers) Can enter the minds of people and control them, unless they are devoted to Alderic Rahl
Soldier- Duh
(Mord-Sith) New world/female only. Fierce warriors, VERY skilled in the arts of torture. Use a magic weapon called an Agiel, in addition they are immune to magic. If magic is used on a mord-sith she can capture it and use it to defeat the caster.)
(Confessor) Confessors are a race of people, restricted to the female gender, with the power to destroy a human soul and give them only the desire to serve the Confessor who took them. Anyone taken by a Confessor's power finds delight only in serving the Confessor's desires, to the extreme that if a Confessor asks a person she took to die, they would fall dead that instant. (Check OOC for more information on this character type.)
-Any good concept that you come up with can be added. Just be creative and keep balance in mind.



Character Skeleton.

-Name

-Age

-Gender

-Specialization (What class is your character?)

-Powers (Only needed if you plan on making an experimental type character.)

-Appearance (Pictures welcome, description would be better. No anime pictures!)

-Personality (At least one paragraph, please. No "will be shown through role play".)

-History (Please try and make this at least two paragraphs. If you cannot it's fine, but do try.)

-Motivation (Is there a reason your character is fighting? Please put it here if there is.)

-Equipment (What do you carry with you? No overly powerful weapons or armor. You can have something enchanted, if you do it MUST have a back story. Wizards of this time do not take things such as that lightly.)

Alliance- (Do you fight for the New or Old world?



New world.
-Slot 1~ Taken
-Slot 2~Taken
-Slot 3~Taken
-Slot 4
-Slot 5

Old world.
-Slot 1
-Slot 2
-Slot 3
-Slot 4
-Slot 5

Rules

Rules are the same as always.
No god modding
No being a prick to other members OOC
Keep OOC where it belongs.
Posts should be at least one paragraph long. Please try to be descriptive.
My grammar is not perfect and I don't expect yours to be either, I do expect you to try.
HAVE FUN!

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Re: [OOC] Sword of truth-The great war.

roleplay/the-darkest-dawn/

This is my Sword of Truth Role play. I have two people not including myself interested in starting it, and I'm not going to back out of it. So come check it out.


Re: [OOC] Sword of truth-The great war.

Well, gee...

Since no one else is really doing anything, I think I'll start up my own sword of truth rp.
And really start it.
If you're interested, send me a message and I'll link you.


Re: [OOC] Sword of truth-The great war.

Just in case something happens and we start playing next week, I wanted to tell you guys that I'll be celebrating Mardi Gras all next week. So I'll probably not be on.


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I'm realy sorry everyone. I have been supper busy with work and getting things set up back home. I'm not realy able to get on regularly at this point but I should be able to soon. i will let eveyone know as soon as I know when I can be on more often so we can get this started.


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The GM has been away for a couple days. I imagine he'll be back soon. He told me a few days ago that he would be unable to post for a while.



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I'm really interested in this, is it still going to happen?


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Lol, yes indeed it will.
I started Faith of the Fallen this week and I haven't been able to put it down XD

*EDIT: Well, well, well, it looks like we have the ever-so-classic arrangement of Kahlan, Richard and Cara XD now all we need is a Zed!


Re: [OOC] Sword of truth-The great war.

We have three great characters.

I am going to set up the introduction for the start of the role play. I would like to wait for one more person to actually set out but we can make our first few posts and have our characters meet up while we wait.

You are summoned by your leader. (Mord-sith are commanded by Lord Rahl, Confessors by the Mother confessor, wizards by the First wizard... on and on.) It is well known now that the war is reaching a boiling point, there has yet to be full scale outbreaks of fighting. There has, however, been several small skirmishes along the border lands between the two nations. Neither side is ready to give the order to an outright attack, yet. Being the strategists that they are, the combined leadership of the New world has devised a plan to cut short the chain of command of the Old world. You will be ordered to venture south and do your best to infiltrate and eliminate enemy superiors. I will leave up to you how you intend your respective leader to tell you this. Once the orders are given, you are then to meet the rest of your contingent at the people's palace in D'Hara. (For the mord-sith it will be a very easy trip...haha.)


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Character skeleton is now up! Hope to see some characters coming in soon!


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Confessors are a race of people, restricted to the female gender, with the power to destroy a human soul and give them only the desire to serve the Confessor who took them. Anyone taken by a Confessor's power finds delight only in serving the Confessor's desires, to the extreme that if a Confessor asks a person she took to die, they would fall dead that instant (assuming the Confessor was sufficiently powerful). Their magic is only usable through touch, and it takes a day to regenerate. (save for the mother confessor, her takes merely hours.) They were created to question prisoners, and gain the full truth of many different situations.

Confessors are only female due to the psychology of the feminine mind. Male Confessors lack the sympathy necessary to consistently exercise the ideals Confessors are required to follow. The lack of strength and empathy in a male Confessor is supposed to visit horror on the world, in the form of tyrants of unbelievable power. It is now law that all male confessors be murdered at birth. One may be able to slip through the cracks, given that you give me a good storyline behind it.


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It sounds interesting and I might just decide to join. But what is a Confessor?


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Surely.
Guess I should have posted a skele up.


Re: [OOC] Sword of truth-The great war.

Ooh, interesting, this. Allow me to get a skeleton together.


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