Introduction
It was also during this darkness that thousands of people learned that they had become inhuman monsters. Many of them were killed before they knew what had happened to them. Some were killed by mobs of terrified humans, others took their own lives. Those that survived learned that they could return to their human forms. These shapechanging beings are called the Nightbane, for it was at night that they become monsters.
The Nightbane are people who discover that they not entirely human. In fact, they are shape-changers who possess a comparatively frail, human "facade" and a supernatural, superhuman "morphus."
The morphus is said to reflect the person's personality or subconscious fears, desires and self-image. Thus some are exotic and beautiful, while others (most) are misshapened monsters. No two appear exactly alike and even the most hideous can have the spirit of a saint, while the handsome and beautiful may be evil incarnate.
Whether hideous or beautiful, cruel or kind, the Nightbane are feared and slaughtered by most humans who see only a monster. Creatures of shadows, when slain, they disappear like the morning mist, as if they never existed (and leaving no evidence of their existence).
A surprising number of Nightbane cherish and cling to their humanity. Many of these become secret protectors of humankind and champions of good. Yet even these misbegotten heroes must operate in secret lest fearful, evil or misguided humans torment or destroy them. But there are far greater horrors loosed in the world than this. Evil Nightbane, vampires, human sorcerers, supernatural predators and other dark forces all busy building their petty power structures, preying on the weak and innocent, or engaging in foul pursuits. Worse, the Nightbane are hunted and slaughtered without just cause and without mercy by the Nightlords and their minions.
The Nightlords plan to quietly seize control of the world! They have already secretly infiltrated the highest levels of world government and business, and have begun to manipulate and enslave humankind. Their only opposition: humans who have uncovered the truth, vampires (rivals for world domination), and the Nightbane who have elected to fight their own kind to save the human race.
There are many organizations in this world. Some good some evil.
The Resistance
The Resistance is the largest Nightbane Faction, with members throughout the world and in nearly every city of the United States. The goals of this group are simple: To organize the Nightbane and oppose the Nightlords everywhere, by whatever means necessary.
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is the oldest Nightbane organization. Like the Civil War organization who's name they share, the Nightbane version offers protection and shelter to their kind, while teaching them about their nature, talents, and how to survive humankind. They seek to provide Nightbane guidance and safe places to learn about themselves and how to survive in a dangerous world. Some, who felt the time for hiding in the background was ended, broke off to form the Resistance.
The Lightbringers
The Lightbringers are one of the strangest groups in the Nightlord-ravaged world of Nightbane. Their membership includes both Nightbane and humans, but the group is believed to be led by the mysterious Guardians. The mysterious beings are appearing in ever greater numbers, attacking the minions of the Nightlords, the growing vampire population, and those Nightbane who try to abuse their powers.
The guardians are an enigmatic group. Most guardians don't fully understand who or what they are. From what is known, they seem to be normal men and women that have been transformed into supernatural beings with an instinctual desire to help humankind and destroy evil. Most of them remember little or nothing about their previous lives.
They resemble normal humans, although are typically much shorter. They have smooth white skin and hair, and translucent eyes, which often gives them the appearance of being albinos. They have incredible psychic and healing powers, but their most interesting characteristic is their ability to create light that can be used as shields or even blasts of energy that can inflict massive damage on supernatural creatures.
The Warlords
The Warlords are nothing but a Nightbane-dominated street gang that has spread across North America. They have no care for the war against the Nightlords, the vampires, or much of anything else. Instead, they control their streets against all comers. Heavy into crime, drugs and protction rackets, and other shady activities, this faction is mostly bullies and thugs, with a few heroes in the rough hidden deep within.
The Seekers
Magic and the occult are thought of as mere fantasy and superstition, at least before Dark Day. Unknown to the world at large, sorcerers and arcanists had been practicing the mystic arts in secret. The Seekers are an ancient organization of sorcerers who are becoming active in world affairs for the first time in centuries.
Spook Squad
Special agencies of the government like the CIA, the NSA, the Secret Service, and the PAB (the very secret Paranormal Activities Bureau) have been forced underground by the machinations of the Nightlords, and are now fighting against them as a faction known as the Spook Squad. These former spies, law enforcement agents, and soldiers know that alien beings have taken over the United States and other global governments. They know very little about the supernatural forces they face.
The Nocturnes
The Nocturnes seem to have existed before Dark Day, and are enemies of the Nightlords. The Nocturnes claim to have been founded by an ancient Wampyr called Iosef Pendragon, who was able to magically sever his link to the Vampire Intelligence and slay his former masters. The Nocturnes fought the encroaching Vampires in centuries-long battles. Many were killed during Dark Day, but their secrecy preserved them and led them to rally in order to subvert the Nightlords.
The Nightlords
What most people don't know is that "Dark Day" was an event used by a race of beings from neighboring dimension to invade our world. These beings are known as the Ba'al-ze-neckt (Lords of Night), or simply, the "Ba'al". The Ba'al are a race of psychic vampires that feed on the life energy of both humans and Nightbane. Their true origins are a matter of debate; some accounts say they were sorcerers whose cruelty and demand for child sacrifice caused their subjects to revolt, while others claim they were always alien in origin. Whatever the case, it is known that they were banished to the Nightlands thousands of years ago. Now they have successfully weakened the barrier between Earth and the Nightlands and can come and go as they please. The Nightlords possess the ability to manipulate matter for various purposes (their greatest achievements being the creation of their vast fortresses).
As for you, the world has never quite been the same since Dark Day. The day there was no sun rise β no moon or stars for that matter β only absolute darkness and hysteria.
It is your seventeenth birthday when "The Becoming" changes your life and your world view forever. That was the day you discovered there were two of you, your human-self and the inhuman creature you can become at will.
You quickly learn there are "monsters" in the world, both human and supernatural, evil and good. The question is, which are you?
Character Sheet
As this is mostly about the Nightbane I would like a majority of the characters to be Nightbane. However, I am going to allow two Guardians, humans, and a vampire.
Name:
Nickname: (If any)
Height:
Weight:
Race: (Nightbane, Human, Guardian, or Vampire.)
Age: (Nightbane start at 17, for Vampires give actual age and appearance age.)
Appearance: (Pictures or a description is fine. For Nightbane give a picture or description of both your Morphus and your Facade. Remember, Nightbane are more often then not monstrous in appearance so don't fall back into angels and demons. Yes, your character can be supernaturally beautiful if you want, but I don't want a bunch of Superwomen running around. Be creative. Your Nightbane can look like anything!!!)
Personality: (What is your character like? How does he/she act? How does he/she feel about his/her transformation? Try to be as detailed as possible.)
Likes:
Dislikes:
Biography: (Tell me a little about your character. What has he/she done with their life up until now.)
Talents: Not human talents, but what can your Nightbane do. Nightbane have magic like supernatural abilities. They can do things like suffocate people with shadows, produce shadow whips, see glimpses of the future, scry, control the weather to an extent, convert themselves to electricity to travel through power lines and even hack to an extent. Be creative with it, but don't go overboard. Also, if it doesn't make sense for your character to be able to do it then don't. Also, all Nightbane have the ability to cross into the Nightlands through mirrors, the home of the Nightlords though this is very dangerous and unless your very experienced you won't last long. Nightbane can also innately sense other Nightbane. All Guardians can control Light and all of them get visions. They use these visions to guide them on their mission to destroy the Nightlords. However, no one knows where these visions come from. Whew, sorry thats so long.)
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With a sigh and a slight yawn, Knoll continued his walking. He came across a few students, trying to figure out some work that a mage had assigned the,. He didn't do the work for them, he he showed them some runes that may come in handy. He nodded when they gave their thanks, and he continued. He loved it when little kids were eager to learn. It meant that this world havea better chanc, once they stopped the nightlords, and returned the workd to peace.
Knoll entered the library, and checked out a few books on chemistry, and began reading them intently
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Staying safe and mastering my abilities, Ivan thought to himself, sounds fair. Though he still didn't trust the problem she had referred to earlier to be as simple as a communication problem. When she asked for his name, he hesitated again. To join up with The Underground Railroad, though safe, still meant he had to get far more involved in all of this than he felt comfortable with. And if he regretted his choice - what was he then left with?
"Ivan," he said, at last. "My name is Ivan. I would consider it an honour to join your organization."
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After about thirty minutes of walking, Ciel stopped in a alleyway scanning the surrounding area to make sure there weren't any witnesses. She stopped at what looked like an ordinary deadend, but it held a secret. She pushed a brick further into the wall, and whispered a passcode to a guard on the otherside. The guard, using his powers, moved the bricks aside to reveal a hidden tunnel leading somewhere underground. Ciel turned to Sapphire and Ivan. "Come on."
Ciel led the group down the winding and mysterious tunnel for a good while with a flashlight till finally the tunnel began to change. It started to branch off into crystalized tunnels, and further down it, the tunnel branched off into caverns. The whole base of operations was a huge secret underground cave system with natural air venting in and out. The largest natural cavern even had a one hundred foot waterfall with pure clean freshwater pouring in from the local river. The great thing was no one knew it existed, and with the combined powers of several Nightbanes, the whole place is shrouded with a barrier to protect it from detection. It was also very beautiful. The crytals as well as the stalagmites and stalagtites, all ranged in a huge variety of colors. Ciel absolutely adored the place. She did grow up here after all. She called over some attendants to help Sapphire and Ivan get settled. "Well, I'll come back to check on you guys later. Bye~" she said with a wave. "Now, to figure what's going on."
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"I-I'm sorry sir, I got the information from a reliable source!" the intel officer squeaked as Jason's grip tightened.
"Sorry! Sorry doesn't bring back the men I lost cause you told us there was a Night Prince there and we ended up getting our asses handed to us by an Avatar!"
The intel officer became visibly more shaken upon hearing this and continued to squirm in Jason's grip. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to look at Blue Leader Kyle Summers. "Come on Red, let him go. This was likely a set up. The informant probably didn't know he was giving bad info. Ruffing him up isn't going to bring back Grant and the others," Kyle said softly, but sternly. Kyle wasn't a big man by Jason's standards, but he was big enough at five ten and two hundred sixty-two pounds. He too was well built from years of fighting and was enhanced by his supernatural nature. His gear was similar to Jason's, but his face wasn't as stern with softer lines framing his face and light blue eyes complemented by blonde hair.
"Tch, fine," Jason growled dropping the intelligence officer and telling him to "beat it" before he changed his mind.
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Giving Ciel a polite nod as she left them, he turned his attention to admiring the place they found themselves within. A brief thought of 'would I even fit in here' passed his mind, but he turned it away. The answer was quite obvious, and he hoped he would be able to find an escape route when his time was up. For now, however, he stayed as calm as he could, casting nervous glances towards the blind girl every now and then, if only to make sure she was still there.
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"Sir, i-if you don't mind me asking... I-I was wondering how the m-mission went...." she said kind of quietly.
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Ivan Benjamin
"I've been through too much to see the world in black and white anymore."
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All the world is mine and you my entertainment.
Marlamin Urthador
"One day all this chaos will be over, and light will shine through!"
Ceil Cornu
"You can take everything away from us, but we'll never be silenced!"
Temperance Conners
"What do you mean I seem mad?! I am telling you, I'm freaking dandy you miserable, dark, lump of stupidity!"
Sapphire Castillo
"I...Cant see..."
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Ceil Cornu
"You can take everything away from us, but we'll never be silenced!"
Temperance Conners
"What do you mean I seem mad?! I am telling you, I'm freaking dandy you miserable, dark, lump of stupidity!"
Sapphire Castillo
"I...Cant see..."
Marlamin Urthador
"One day all this chaos will be over, and light will shine through!"
Moloch
All the world is mine and you my entertainment.
Ivan Benjamin
"I've been through too much to see the world in black and white anymore."
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Ceil Cornu
"You can take everything away from us, but we'll never be silenced!"
Moloch
All the world is mine and you my entertainment.
Sapphire Castillo
"I...Cant see..."
Temperance Conners
"What do you mean I seem mad?! I am telling you, I'm freaking dandy you miserable, dark, lump of stupidity!"
Ivan Benjamin
"I've been through too much to see the world in black and white anymore."
Marlamin Urthador
"One day all this chaos will be over, and light will shine through!"
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@Bones Your character looks pretty good, but you need more detail in his personality. Also, I'm not doing this as an actual Nightbane game. Its in roleplay format so there's no need to put dice damage for your weapons. Also, I'm not too informed about Geomantic Immortals as I've only read the first book and the wormwood expansion a bit. So because of this could you just make him a mage? You don't have to be a Seeker though.
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What do the nightlords think the guardians as? Threat-wise.
And approximately how many of each more powerful minions are there?
Sorry for so many questions!
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Minions
Night Princes: Ba'al-Zebul are the highest ranking minions of the Nightlords and are masters of illusion. 80
Avatars: The Ba'al possess the ability to create a being that is a lesser version of itself. These are very powerful and are usually loyal to the Ba'al that created them. 90
Doppelgangers: Supernaturally strong copies of humans, they dwell in the Nightlands and live their lives in a haze unless something awakens them. They are considered playthings for the Ba'al if actual humans are not available. They have lower Potential Psychic Energy and minor psychic abilities (but a low incidence of master psionics). They are usually the opposite of their human counterparts on Earth. 20
Ashmedai: Shapeshifting worm-like monsters. 30
The Hollow Men: Bug-like creatures that create humanoid constructs to move about in. 15
Hounds: The shock troops, these armored warriors are the core of the Ba'al fighting force. 40
Hunters: Winged versions of the Hounds. 60
Great Hounds: A twelve-foot high version of the Hounds. 70
Doppelganger Warlord: A more powerful version of the Doppelganger. When a Doppelganger proves itself to their Nightlord Masters, they go through an alchemical process to be transformed into a Warlord. 50
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As for where things can go, I'd like to find a way to get some of your characters together and eventually I'd like to have a final culmination of a fight with the Nightlord Moloch. This will come much later of course. I think I'm going to make some more NPCs for leaders of the Resistance and the like so you can have more to interact with. If anyone has any plot ideas I'm open for suggestions. Don't worry I don't bite.
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Oh, one things I forgot to mention. The hound isn't a Nightbane, though your characters might not know that. It's a minion of the Nightlords brought over from the Nightlands. It is and always has been a monster.
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I don't think I wrote too much, but I will write some more soon.
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@Timothy & Solana I'm gonna post a roleplayers wanted thread. I'll ask a few of my friends on here to.
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Also, to all of you, I'm sorry if my last post was terrible. English is a difficult language when your mind is tired :P