In the year of our Matron Mother; 1801, life for the residents of Vashka is peaceful. The humans that inhabit the five nations that make up Vashka are flourishing under the Peace Treaty that the nations' ruling councils signed just 5 years ago. But all is not as it seems. A secret war is being fought in the background by two powerful, but hidden, races. A bloody struggle for supremacy blossoms in the underground of the nations' sprawling metropolis'. Who will win in this fight for dominion?




Lifespan: 100 yrs
Physical Traits: The humans that inhabit Vashka are pretty much identical to the humans that inhabit Earth. There is a large variety of physical traits, such as body type (muscular, lean, skinny, etc...), hair and eye colour, and so on.
Abilities: Humans have no special abilities.
Extra Info: N/A


Lifespan: 150 - 250 yrs
Physical Traits: Daemos have two physical appearances, human and animal:
~Human appearance: Daemos are much like humans in regards to physical traits. The only difference is that their eyes are either red, orange, amber or black, no other colours. They also have fangs, which can extend and retract. They usually only extend when angry or aroused, or if they wish to bite someone and infect them with the daemon-taint.
~Animal appearance: Daemos can take the shape of their daemon (animal spirit). The daemon can be any animal, even extinct, mythological or prehistoric creatures. While in this form, Daemos can still talk.
Abilities: Daemos are much stronger than humans, with a longer lifespan. Their senses are also more acute. As they age, their abilities grow. They start to develop the ability to control certain aspects of nature, and even the elements. They also have some innate abilities, such as shifting to their daemon shape, infecting a human with the daemon-taint, and materializing clothes on themselves when they shift from animal back to human.
Extra Info: The daemon-taint can be passed on in two ways. One is through recessive genes, but this makes a born daemos a rare occurrence. The second is infecting a human through a bite. A daemos doesn't begin to shift until it hits puberty, at about 15 yrs of age. At about 20 yrs of age, a daemos' powers begin to stabilize, and shifting comes naturally to them. It's also easier to control their animal instincts. Also, the daemon shape of a Daemos isn't passed on from it's parents, or through infection. Instead, the daemon-taint chooses a daemon shape that suits the person.


Lifespan: 100 - 200 yrs
Physical Traits: Angeleus are like humans, only they have wings. The wings themselves can be retracted into their back, so they can walk among humans without fear. The wings can have any type of colouration of any bird species.
Abilities: Angeleus are stronger than humans, have keener senses, and a longer lifespan. They also have a few innate abilities, mostly flying, and retracting their wings. As they get older, they begin to be able to control the winds' movement, and weather patterns.
Extra Info: Angeleus are born, not created as Daemos can be.





Vashka is divided into five nations, that surround a large city called Sun City. Each nation has a founding city (a capital city of a sort), and in the founding cities, a council resides. Each council has five members, called Nobles, from the aristocracy of the nation. The councils meet once a year in Sun City. Sun City is home to the King and Queen, and the five royal families.



The culture of Vashka is much different than what you would expect on Earth. For one, Vashka is still in the 1800's. The garb of men and women in Vashka is much like traditional Romanian clothing. The men wear shirts, vests and trousers, with sturdy boots. The women wear blouses with vests, and either skirts or trousers.

The religion of Vashka is a bigger issue. No religions that are found on Earth exist in Vashka. The people of Vashka worship a deity called Gaia. She is a sentient being that lives in the very core of the planet. Because of this, all of the temples in Vashka are underground. A small temple will go 2 or 3 levels below ground. The main temple in the founding cities are five levels deep, and the royal temple in Sun City is 10 levels deep. When referring to Gaia, the citizens of Vashka call her Matron Mother, Matron, Mother, Mother Gaia, or just Gaia.

The Daemos and Angeleus are not known to most humans, and they try to keep it that way. They blend in with the humans and follow the human customs in public, while practicing their own in private. In Daemos culture, the females are dominant. Angeleus is the opposite, the male being dominant, like in human society.



Humans have customs much like the humans of Earth. Daemos and Angeleus, however, have their own customs.

The most important custom for Daemos and Angeleus are mating rituals. They are held in high regard. For Angeleus, the mating ritual is a complex but beautiful dance-like flying maneuver. The female and male Angeleus must complete the maneuver in perfect harmony. Doing so shows that the two Angeleus are soul-mates, and deserve to be together. For Daemos, the female is the one to chose a mate. The male must do something to show it is worthy of being the females mate. This can be anything. The female may ask the male to do a task, and if he completes it to her liking, then she will chose him. It may even be that a male shows certain traits the female is looking for in a mate, so she will choose him.



This is a 'kinda' war between Daemos and Angeleus. There is also a newly made organization of humans called The Grey Brotherhood, whose purpose is to wipe out all Daemos and Angeleus. There will be some fighting, but I want lots of character interaction instead of all-out fighting, k? The purpose of this roleplay isn't just to fight.

Affiliations: These are what you will put in your bio sheet. I will explain them now so you know what each means.
Daemos- on the daemos' side
Angeleus- on the angeleus' side
Neutral- on neither side
Oblivious- doesn't know of the war (a human who doesn't know of the other races would have oblivious as their affiliation)
Brotherhood- on the Brotherhood's side



The general rules of RPGateway apply here, please follow them.
Here are the main rules I wish to enforce, as well as some of my own:

-No Godmodding!!!!
-No cybersex. Romance IS allowed, but keep everything PG please.
-No 'txt tlk'. It ruins rps.
-No OOC in the IC thread. That is what this OOC thread is for.
-In regards to the history/culture/customs section above, please make sure that your posts don't contradict it. For example, if someone had a daemos character, and they said in a post that a human called them a demon. This is wrong. There is no such thing as a demon in Vashka. They don't exist in the religion, so people wouldn't know what a demon is. Same goes for God. He isn't a part of Vashka's religion system either.

Please be advised that I may add more rules at any time.



A map of Vashka, showing the nations, their founding cities, and Sun City.




Name:
Age:
Race:
Species: if daemos- animal species, if angeleus- bird species that their wings take after, if human- leave blank
Affiliation: as spoken of above in statistics of warfare
Appearance: if daemos- both human and animal, if angeleus- human plus wing description
Abilities:
History: be brief, please

All bios must be posted here. I will look over them, and the roleplayer. If you are accepted I will place your name here. I will put down the character name, followed by the roleplayers' screen name.

Nathanial and Sasha Havitz - Myth
Thatcher - Hallik
Damien Moroes - Viktor Lefte
Thanor Rowland - Blazingstar
Elise Aotali - Akeiko94
Elrion Nightfall, Alexander Grey - Tarmo
Miles Broaden - Sneakers
Sandi - S.I.L

My characters

Name: Nathanial Havitz
Age: 24
Race: Daemos
Species: Saber-tooth Tiger (Smilidon)
Affiliation: Daemos
Appearance: Human - 5' 10'', dark brown hair, amber eyes. Animal - Large tawny cat, about the size of a tiger. Amber eyes, large frontal fangs. Light brown markings, only slightly darker than fur tone, stripes near head and along spine, turning to dots elsewhere. Short tail.
( http://agentdiego007.deviantart.com/art ... E-91960342 )
Abilities: Besides the innate abilities of Daemos', Nathan can cause low level earthquakes.
History: When Nathan was only 6 yrs old, his father ran away, leaving him, his 1 yr old sister and their mother to fend for themselves. Their father was a Daemos. Nathan was born a Daemos, while his sister was not. When he was 17, he lost control of his powers and bit his sister, passing on the daemon-taint to her. Now, he and his sis are living on the streets, looking for their father.

Name: Sasha Havitz
Age: 19
Race: Daemos
Species: Fox (Vulpes)
Affiliation: Daemos
Appearance: Human - 5' 6'', dark red-brown hair, orange-red eyes. Animal - Fox with dark red-brown fur. Black fur from her front paws to elbows, and back paws. Black-tipped ears. Black-topped snout, white chin, white belly. White-tipped ankle-length tail.
Abilities: Besides the innate abilities, Sasha has some control over fire.
History: See Nathan's.

Name: Thatcher
Age: 46
Race: Angeleus
Species: Ferruginous Hawk
Affiliation: Angeleus
Appearance: Angeleus- Wings Thatch
Abilities: Flight, duel weapon specialty and bows
History: Thatcher still has yet to find a mate, and is starting to wonder if he will ever find one. He is in the Angeleus army he is ranked as a captain, best of the best. He follows under his commanding officer without question, usually, unless he brings up another option. One that his superiors usually like. His father was killed in a previous war and Thatcher is following in his footsteps. His mother was a doctor, one on the neutral side. A quote that she always told Thatcher was "there are no sides, only patients." this got her killed by her own race. Thatcher doesn't know who it was that killed her.

Name: Damien Moroes
Age: 18
Race: Human
Species: None
Affiliation: Oblivious
Appearance: Damien Moroes stands around 5'9" tall with a weight of 118 pounds. Also his hair is white with dyed light blue streaks that is parted on the left side. Damien wears a jet black trench coat following along with black buckled pants. He also wears black gothic boots that has steel toes. Damien does not wear a shirt leaving his chest. Damien also has three somewhat small silver hoop piercings on each ear.
Abilities: None
History: Damien was a foster child having a lonely life. Few years went by and the foster home was soon demolished to make way for business and other things. Having the foster home destroyed left many like Damien homeless on the streets. But strangely most he knew in the foster home soon disappeared in months not being heard from again. He now lives in shelter of a small abandoned and run down house not to mention fend for himself in Raa city.

Name: Thanor Rowland
Age: 28
Race: human
Species: ---
Affiliation: Grey Brotherhood
Appearance: 7', 325 pounds. Thick build. Silver hair (premature aging). Shoulder length. Ice blue eyes. Thanor wears a leather vest that he normally leaves open, he wears no shirt, prefering to leave his muscled form open. He wears thick leather, steel-toed boots. He wears a pair of tan pants that he tucks into his boots. The belt is thick leather with an ornate silver buckle. He keeps his hair out of his eyes, pushed back behind his ears. He has a scar that runs down the left side of his face, straight through his missing left eye. He sometimes wears an eye patch over it, and sometimes doesn't.

War Gear- As a member of the Brotherhood, Thanor's profession is that of a soldier and knight against the taint of Daemos and Angeleus. I appologize for the lack of picture, but not many swords exist that could be exactly like his blade. The idea is off of a Japanese weapon known as an odachi, which is any greatsword with a katana-like appearence on a larger scale. The minimum blade length for an odachi is 3 feet. Anyways, the sword's name is Gorric and is forged out of normal, good ol' steel. However, it is also forged by folding and layering the steel for strength and sturdiness. The blade contains a softer steel alloy for the core, to resist the blade shattering upon impact and give it resistance, and a harder steel for the outside of the blade. It is indented on both sides to reduce the overall weight without subtracting from power. The edge is incredibly sharp, said never to dull. The blade curves more severally than a katana does, causing it to differ from many weapons of its kind. The overall length of the blade is 5 feet, but the weight isn't significant to Thanor. It lacks a handguard. The hilt is a 1.5 feet peice of Daemos bone (Nazi much?), likely a femur. It is wrapped in cloth bandages that form a tastle off of the end. The shath is solid black, and is slung over his back and attacked with a cord that goes from his right shoulder to his left hip. It is a simple peice of cord actually. It is flexible enough to allow him to draw his weapon faster than most would assume.

His armor is easily explained...a simple set of steel plate that covers his entire body. The only difference is that the armor is made to not restrict any momentum; this includes the gauntlets, arms, and legs. The only unique thing about the set is the lack of a right shoulder plate (straps of leather connect the right side of cuirass to the armor on his right arm. Leather straps connect the peices. There are opening on the joints due to the reduction of movement impairing.
Abilities: None. Normal physical stamina and strength due to his massive form and size. Skilled with massive greatswords and claymores.
History: Thanor grew up with a great relationship with both his parents. Due to their hatred of anything other than a human (ie Daemos and angeleus), he inherited this as his philosophy. Even as a young child, he was huge for his age, an able fighter who frequently got into brawls with the neighborhood kids. He worked as an apprentice blacksmith to his uncle, learning how to forge weapons and armor with impressive skill. At the age of 18, he entered the Grey Brotherhood and brought his massive strength against the hated Daemon and angeleus. He was cut in a fight with a daemos, who caused the loss of his left eye.

Name: Elise Aotali
Age: 23
Race: Daemos
Species: Wolf
Affiliation: Daemos
Appearance: Human- 5'8", brunette colored hair, red eyes. Animal- all white wolf except for long black stripe that races down from the top of her head to the tip of her tail, red eyes.
Abilities: Elise has learned to control the weather around her to some degree.
History: As Elise grew up she lost her mother at a very young age. For a while she roamed the streets until a woman saved her, but at the same time infected her with the daemon-taint. Since then she has been traveling from city doing what she can and fighting the war, but at the same time trying to save herself from The Grey Brotherhood.

Name: Elrion Nightfall
Age: 20
Race: Daemos
Species: Wolf
Affiliation: Daemos
Appearance: Elrion (Ignore the gun, he also has amber eyes) Animal - Fur is completely black save his paws and floor-length tail, which are white. The wolf's eyes are actually Amber, a change from his human to animal form.
Abilities: Besides Daemos abilities, he has some control over lightning and fire.

History: Elrion was born, a Daemos, his father and mother were both one. At age 10 his mother died of an illness contracted through unknown means, sending his father into a state of depression. Eventually his father disappeared mysteriously, leaving behind a note telling Elrion just to forget the two ever existed; to live his life as if there were no parents for him to call father or mother. He was fifteen when he received the note, confused about the circumstances his life was about to take from these events. He would have eventually fallen under the care of an elderly woman, helping her around the house in exchange for a place to sleep and a meal on the table; she was like a grandmother to him and overlooked the fact he was a Daemos and not human unlike herself.

Everyone is accepted so far. The IC is up, so you can all go post.
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:3

Yay, I didn't mess up on my profile =3

*Hides the chocolate bribe and runs to post in the IC*

The first rule of fur faggotry... YOU DON'T RECOVER!
"Well technically I'm a bird... so I guess that makes me a feather fag."
Posted last night

Feather fag... XD
Now... if only Vik would post...
-.-

Name: Sozin
Age: Unknown
Race: Daemos
Species: Dragon
Affiliation: Daemos
Appearance: Human, Dragon
Abilities: Mastered the arts of Fire and Lightning
History: Origin Unknown, Sozin is referred to as the "Dragon Emperor." He is as bad as any Daemos has ever went, his rage has tooken control of him, and his power has got more stronger over the years . Most see Sozin as a Warlord, a Master in the art of Battle, he shows no remorse, and when he has his eyes set on something, he makes sure it is done. His history is not really known, he came out of nowhere, and began to set his destiny very quickly, making himself known. Sozin at this time has hundreds of followers possibly breaking a thousands, most of them hiding throughout the darkest reaches of Vashka. Most have found themselves to find him a powerful force, and not a man has been said to have tempted this crazed warrior.

I'm sorry, but I can't accept your character, Aang.
For one, the Daemos' don't have a leader... and especially not a emperor...
if they did, they would have to have their own society and government...
and if that was so, the humans would know about them...
no way that it could be kept secret...

Secondly... your character seems a bit too powerful for my tastes...
'unstoppable power' sounds like godmodding to me... <<;

I'll fix it. :p I didn't plan him to be that powerful either. :p

Here you go Myth, a brotherhood member =D


Name: Alexander Grey
Age: 16
Race: Human
Species: Chocolate Bunny (Just Kiddin’)
Affiliation: Grey Brotherhood

Appearance:
His hair is almost a pitch black, his eyes are grey and he stands at about 5’8 and weighs about 180.
Alexander wears a loose black linen tunic, bound by a belt of ragged rope at the waist and wrists. Over the tunic he wears a black leather chest piece, specially made for moving quickly and silently. Alexander wears shoulder pads made from the same leather as his chest armor, there are two segments to it; The top overlaps the second in an arc, it spans out to 1” from his shoulder; The lower piece is in an arc as well, extending ½” from his shoulder. The pads are bound by light brown leather to the chest piece. He wears black leather leggings that have plate armor forged onto where the knee caps and shins are, the plate is surprisingly light The plate is held together by leather straps as well, it is flexible as is the leather. The leather seems to be ‘younger’; as if it was made yesterday. But the fact is, the leggings are older than the chest and shoulder pads.
On his back is a pair of blades, one named Estan which he wields in the left hand while his right hand blade is named Andar

Abilities: He moves faster than normal, and is skilled with two blades.

History:
Raised upon the foundation to live in peace with the Non-Humans as they were called, Alexander started to defy his parents, disagreeing that non-humans should be allowed to live. He wanted to see every last one of them on the ground begging for their lives, much as the humans did when fighting against them. Eventually this disagreement came to a head when Alexander turned Fourteen, and on that day he left his home behind to burn in a fire he had started in the cellar; soon it engulfed the entire home as his parents slept through it.

Since then he came across the Grey Brotherhood, being a young and inexperienced member of the organization he was placed under a master to learn the way of the blade. He was assigned to, much to his disappointment at that time, the human giant; Thanor Rowland. In the two years serving Thanor he has abolished his fear and disappointment of being assigned to Thanor, learning to respect the man for his views on the Daemos and Angeleus.

Sounds good to me, Tarmo
:3

Yeh, just posting to tell you guys that I updated my profile to include the basic armor that Thanor wears on some occasions. Also, his weapon is described there. Neither are anything special, just the tools of a knight-like character. Anyways, just though I would inform you guys and gals of that information incase you notice that Thanor can be wearing his armor at certain times.

My post... Classic: I don't need no sticken badge!
also a classic villan move right thar Blaze you planning on doing anything about this?
Post in the IC you!! After Vik or something

What can I do, Hello? I can't fly...I can end up seeing you, chasing you down and like, totally crashing your fricken party just to save a Daemos I would rather kill personally. Or I could kill your fricken archers...I don't know, I wasn't expecting on you doing that.

Room for one more?


Name:
Miles Broaden


Age:
23


Race:
Angeleus


Species:
Peregrine Falcon


Affiliation:
Neutral


Appearance:
Kris stands at an average height of 5'4. He's really thin, you could call him skinny even. He has light brown hair that reaches till his shoulders from behind while his bangs are quite messy and reach till his green-colored eyes. Kris has creamy soft skin, you could tell by looking at him that he's taken good care of his skin and there are no signs of facial hair either. He has a pointy, straight nose and thin naturally colored red lips. His wings are big and are all-white, so when he spreads them and flies above he looks like an angel going through. He's wearing a light blue shirt, with the sleeves folded till his elbows and two buttons from the top un-buttoned. He wears cream-colored pants with a brown belt holding it. And lastly, his outfit contains of plain dark boots.


Abilities:
Before stating his actual ability, I would like to explain what his wings can actually do. Falcon wings are mostly shaped like a scythe and are as sharp, too. Kris' wings help him in combat, he can slice rocks in two halves. Other than that, Peregrine falcons are known to be fast, really fast. Kris' actually ability is to make clones of himself, so he can confuse his opponent. But the more clones he makes, the more energy and power it takes to make them and that makes him weaker.


History:
Kris belongs to a noble family. Ever since he was little, he always thought that all races should be equal and they should learn to live with each other in harmony. Now, what he was oblivious of was that his father was with the Angeleus and aided them with money and war supplies. His father did not want his son to know because he knew Kris would try to stop him. So one day, Kris overhears one of his maids talking with each other about what Kris' father is doing behind his son's back. Kris finds himself not being able believe all this and decides to run away from home, gather information, and find out the truth behind what his father is doing.