Witch_King_of_Angmar wrote:
I have a character!
Name: King Turin IX
age: 54
hair:white(long, also has long beard)
eyes:ice blue
kingdom: The New Holy Romman Empire(central europe and parts of war-torn france)
clothes:kingly robes and a gold/silver crown
history: born into a kingdom torn apart by warring lord, he seized what little power the monarchy had and used it to forge the new Holy Roman Empire, which barely has survived through the strife-torn dark years.
No, no... sorry if you misunderstood me... I didn`t say actually a word about europe, I`ll kinda create a world of my own or just find a map we can use
the word medieval hinted that way, sorry, but create your characters that they would be kinda realisticly able to take power or just serve the king or whatever. but notice that there are only small kingdoms and they are being rebuilt after the successors wars, the king were puppets before but now they are free for their own regime...
I actually found this, it doesn`t say that it would be any particular map(God bless google so I suggest we use this...)
http://www.kephra.com.au/pics/map1_detail.jpg
My Character:
Name: Aver
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Race: Human
Occupation/Position: Mage/None
Family: None, they all died in the successor wars
Appearance:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kevinpo/art/mage.jpg
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kevinpo/ ... faces2.jpg
Equipment: a staff with a blueish orb at it`s head, his few magical items and ingredients, a short sword hidden in his odd robes.
Personality: Quick to anger, impatient, but also quick to act in times of need and can make decisive decisions. Usually takes the quickest way to victory, but still sometimes holds his mind.
History:
Aver was born at Pataos to a silent fisher vllage, the island had one mage on it whom was quite powerful and one day Aver couldn`t help his curiosity by sneaking into his tower or he would have unless for the magic protections. The mage seemed first mad, but then calmed down slighltly amused by the boys curiosity and showed him few things. To his parents greatest concern Aver took great joy from learning these things, they tried to talk him out of it, but Aver refused and already at the age of 13 moved into the mages tower.
In many Aver learned more and more as the mans apprentice, wars came and went without affecting Pataos greatly until the day of the greatest naval battle ever seen on the waters of the mesoanic ocean. Two successors began fighting for the island and many died during the proccess, eventually the battle was over with a phyrric victory to the other. So they both left the island leaving it ruined, Avers master had protected some civilians, but in secret Aver had been given a proposition that he could take his masters place and rule the island. In his greed Aver said yes and killed his master quietly, but he was left with survivors on Pataos. He never gained power nor glory only shame, that is why he has developed a bad temper and now tries to refuge anything he can out of the ruins of the badly crumbled tower.
(lol I just realised that my chars story is sort of like in the icewind dale trilogy`s first part... well anyway...)
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Pataos, At The End Of The Successor Wars
Aver`s hands were sweaty, he grinned as he stepped into the room and with silent steps approached the figure in the chair. The figure was nursng a wounded chil whom was asleep, better that way Aver thought. He then grabbed the older man by his mouth and thrusted the dagger in his chest several times, he grinned as his masters blood spilled over the child and his head notched dead to his right. Aver pushed the body aside, he looked at his master with sad eyes and then looked at the child. He had actually had the courage to sacrifice his loved ones for power, he couldn`t actually believe it, but he snapped out of it as the child awoken seeing the body and Aver with the dagger.
The child began to scream, Aver already raised his hand to strike without a seconds hesitation unless the door would have opened with the childrens parents rushing in. Aver turned around and grinned as the man looked at the body of the older mage, he didn`t seem too happy about it.
"What have you done fool?! Do you realise that now we all are without protection, he was the only one stopping the invaders coming inside."
"Exactly, that was the deal and now from now on I rule Pataos..."
"What?"
"Yes... in return I received power over thi.."
Then something hit the tower throwing them all off balance, the man rushed towards Aver as the child cried and mother ran for her child. Aver fell down to the floor and the man grabbed his hand, Aver smacked the man in the face wit his forehead and then freed his hand to stab the man in the chest. Outside the vllage was in flames and soldiers were fighting, villagers got killed by arrows and swords. The mother and child escaped the tower only to meet death, Aver crumbled up and looked outside in slight horror. This wasn`t what they agreed on! The villagers were to be left alone and the enemies pushed back to their ships, nothing was going according to plan except his actions. Aver sat down into the bloody chair in shock, he just sat there staring at the fire quietly.
Pataos, After The Successor Wars
A lonely figure cleaned the final room putting everything in order, he had his hood on and the candle was the only source of light. He then walked out of the library, he walked the spiral stairs down muttering something to himself. He opened the gate looking at a group of people, he had a faint of saddness in his voice as he closed the gate.
"As you know my master is dead, the war is over and we are here alone... as what happened to lord Arigof is unfortunate..."
"Any suggestions of what we might do now?"
One woman asked and Aver threw a gaze at her, perhaps his efforts were not in vain and the only witnesses of the murder were now dead by the gate. He looked at the bodies quickly and then turned back.
"We rebuild dear people, we rebuild Pataos bigger than ever and more glorious that it ever was. You see what happened to a simple fishermens village, the world is crippled by the war so now we are at an end and a new beginning. We create a city out of this place, not a village because a village can be burned down as you see. A city with walls can be saved with courage..."
The crowd was silent, this mages words were strange, but made sense. They could be prepared the next time, if anything like this would happen, but one man managed to cut that way of thinking.
"Who will lead us? I believe we need an election!"
"Then I will step up to be a candidate, anyone else except normal fishermen who haven`t really even read books in their whole lives, just fished their whole lives without knowledge of the outside world or organisation?"
The crowd was silent until a man stepped out of the crowd throwing his hood off.
"I will, I am rightful heir of my father!" The man declared.
Aver grinned as the crowd nodded and whispered, the man wouldn`t even want any elections and Aver knew that this man might be the same as his father. Aver laughed outloud at the man.
"You are even younger than I young lord Arigof, but tell me would you change Pataos as I would suggest or do you think that one mage such as would be enough to protect the people of Pataos?"
"It surely did for a long time and I dou..."
"You doubt that there will not be new successors? Oh believe me, they are still there and new are arising. Powers that have more than men at their service! Orcs, Gnolls and other beasts! They will come and devour us all unless we do as I say!"
"How could you even know such things?" Arigof protested.
"I am a mage remember, my master has seeing spells and had many spies at his service even small birds. I have managed to have few serve me, but many are still missing..."
Aver threw a map onto the ground.
"Open it Lord Arigof and show the people what Pataos looks like on the map..."
Arigod opened it and showed it to the people pointing a rather small islands near the main continent, Aver couldn`t help smiling and then stepped up.
"Will you now do as I said? We are pathetic now, but tommorrow we can be something, if we begim to rebuild today. Lord Arigof is the rightful ruler that I admit so I pledge my services to him as an advisor... what do you say my lord?"
Arigof looked at the crowd and it even seemed sense to him, after being proved that Aver had a point he shook Avers hand as an agreement. That day Pataos started building itself again to a greater glory it ever was, Aver advised Arigof to spread word of a new safe nation to the coasts to gain the peoples trusts and have refugees come in. Aver knew that a fleet would be the greatest basis of their power for the enemy should beat their navy first in order to destroy Pataos itself and he went even farther in his ambition as he took many new apprentices. Arigof began gaining self confidence and began making own decisions the way Aver wanted, Arigof would addapt Avers way of thinking, which was perfect. Aver himself would assemble a mages guild on Pataos that would be greater than any ever created or that were at least Avers plans that was yet to be completed.
