The gist is simple. There is an old family full of powerful and great people. They are renowned for their many and varied abilities; they boast the most valiant warriors, the most mighty mages, and the most impressive professors and engineers. The history of the family is long, as long as recorded time, and the elders have passed down the wisdom of the ancients. They have long been steady, but discord has brewed unchecked for the past fifty years. The people with the white hair, with their history so great, have now fallen into disarray and ultimately decay.
It began with brothers, the sons of a man named Hadad. Twin boys, dual heirs, born to be the future leaders of the family. But there was a problem. No one knew which child should take his father's place with absolute certainty. The issue was decided when the twins turned nineteen and the slightly elder boy, then a young man, slumped dead during the festivities of their birthday celebration. Whispers grew that the other twin had murdered his brother, but the snow haired boy quelled the rumors with a fist of iron and the swift removal of his adversaries. This man grew to power in the family and took Hadad's place when the time was right.
But he was not a good leader. He destroyed the solid foundations on which the family had been built along with the rest of his lost, misguided generation, their power hungry souls driving to them to a new profession. Under his guidance, the family became a band of ruthless mercenaries and cutthroats. They have formed a crime syndicate and are now quite literally on the run from almost every government their world knows, except those shady enough to hire their services. There is danger around every corner for these people now, this family who was once so great. They've fallen so far in a handful of decades, but there are those who push for a restoration.
But for all the celebrity of the white haired family, more than half of its members have hair the color of blackest night. These are the persons who have suffered the most in the family's decline, their position as lower classed members of the family dropping to a slave-like oppression. They are expendable mercenaries in the armies, sent on missions of suicide. They are workers in the undercroft, made to toil for their kinsmen. They are angry and they are ready to retaliate.
A small scale civil war is coming to a head; brother pitted against brother.
- - I see this RP set in a world that is a feudal pseudo-Japan, but that's changeable. I just liked the idea of far eastern elements in the RP.
- There's kind of a strict no romance rule. The RP is solely based upon a family and though it is a generally large family, closer to a clan, it uh... wouldn't do for romances within the fam, if you catch my drift.
- I'll add more notes here as I think of them, but please contribute ideas and junk here! :D