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The sun sets, and a fire seems to ignite over the land. You shield your eyes against the blaze, and ahead of you looms something hugely vast: you think to yourself, Is it a mountain, a mirage, or has the sunlight hardened into stone before me? For what you see certainly looks as though it was built from dull sunshine. However, it is none of these things. It is a city.
Yes, a city, one created almost entirely from smooth desert-yellow stone that seems to drink in the sunset. It is tall, impossibly tall, but that it because it is built upon tiers that are each maybe a mile or half long. You try to count the levels, but you lose track. Eighteen, twenty, twenty-three? Somewhere around that.
Here and there, from close-set buildings, a tower will rise, and at the top, what must be a palace sits like a crown. Amidst the dusty gold stone are snatches of lush green, showing that there are, in fact, trees and other plants.
Outside of the city, people are gathered near the river that passes by, doing this or that while watched by a peaceful herd of horses- or are they gazelles? –in the distance. But now, everyone is hurrying to get back inside. Here, apparently, it isn’t good to be out after dark.
What the city itself lacks in color makes up for it in the incredible variety of its people. A cacophony of languages and a muddle of faces make up the population. And despite all the hustle and bustle, it seems to be relatively peaceful, happy; and yet you are warned, even now behind the sturdy walls, to find a place to stay during the night. And this seems odd, for what could be so dangerous here, amidst music, magic, and laughter, in- where are you?
Welcome to the Golden City of Ledonaath.
+[Recap]
Yep, that’s the plot right there. Nice, free-form, character-driven. Here your creativity can go nearly unlimited. Within reason, I’m giving you free rein over everything from flora and fauna to culture. This city is a melting pot, if you haven’t realized.
But just because I didn’t strap you down with a set of storylines doesn’t mean that it’s totally lazy. No, lots of things can and will happen, and you can make them up too. Just remember to read the rules!
+[Setting]
I explained some in the opening. Ledonaath is more often referred to as the Golden City because of its darkly-gold color. Like I mentioned, levels, twenty-eight of them to be exact, build it up. They connect to a tall cliff behind it. The terrain is a grassland/savannah type. The Windlewyth River runs past the city on its right side, continuing further on to the ocean, several miles away. Ledonaath has several parks built in it, a couple taking up entire levels. This has attracted its own animals, though there are menageries that keep most of them. Stables are built on every level for ‘beasts of burden’ that make travel in the city possible.
The city is peaceful. Yes, there are rogues in it, and people can and have been stolen from and murdered, but the crime rate is lower than most places of its size. Legend has it that the city was made, hundreds of years ago, by refugees from many different nations fleeing from war. And since then, the tradition of being a nexus of myriad different ethnicities has continued. Surprisingly, there’s a good amount of tolerance, yet race crimes are not unheard of. Temples for nearly every different religion you could find have been built, and a royal council runs the city accordingly, allowing proper representation for each city level.
But, there are problems. Being a melting-pot for culture also means being one for magic. Whether or not magic is the cause or merely a magnetic attraction is unsure, but many a strange thing happen there, and it can even be dangerous after sunset. People have reported seeing wraiths wandering around at night, or been confronted by talking statues during the day.
Remember to be on your guard.
+[Non-Playable Characters]
The Watchers: Now, these are perhaps the most peculiar things about the city. No one quite knows what they are, but luckily, they don’t seem to mean anyone harm- they’re actually helpful at times. People speculate that they’re protective spirits who watch over the Golden City and its inhabitants. They come in the form of usually small, strange animals. And most often, you’ll simply catch of glimpse of glowing eyes or a shadow out of the corner of your eye. There have only been a few reported times in history that one of them has spoken to someone, and only to warn of great danger for the whole city.
The Plague: One of the several malevolent spirits that haunt Ledonaath. If it has a name, no one knows it, and for the most part, people are even afraid to name it at all. It comes in the form of a tall, too-thin man, with ashen skin, diseased orange-red eyes, and dark blood-red hair. It slips into houses during the dark of the moon and selects a victim, causing them to instantly turn feverishly ill. Death is always within a few days, and no one has yet found a cure.
The Plague seems to be related, in some way, to the four other malicious spirits that roam during the days when the moon does not show. They are listed immediately below.
Insanity: The spirit that comes in the form of a short, feral-looking black-haired woman with yellow eyes and fangs. When seen, it is most often laughing or smirking. As the name implies, it induces madness in people, and generally likes to create chaotic situations.
The Elements: A trinity of beautiful sisters that are made from the essence of fire, water, and air, and have some control over such. They cause destruction when they can. Fires, floods, dust storms, if they come during the dark of the moon, you can bet your life that it’s caused by them. Clicky clicky, I found a reference pic!
+[Rules]
-Be LITERATE. If you can't post two paragraphs or more, including satisfying grammar and spelling, I don't want to see you. Don't worry though; I won't bite your head off if you missplace a comma or don't get a word or two right. But there's no excuse for your posts looking as if you typed blindfolded.
-Follow the general KHI rules, and remember about power-playing and god-moding. Common courtesy, ya know.
-Keep stuff PG-13.
-R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respect me, respect your fellow RPers, respect yourself. I don't want any flaming in my thread. It's so pretty. Do you really want to make it ugly? If you feel the need to argue with someone that bad, please use the PM system.
-No Mary-Sues. If you don't know what a Mary-Sue is, then basically, it's a two-dimensional character. Flat. Boring. Too damn powerful or cliché. I love originality to death. You don't need to have a tortured past to be interesting.
-As the city is diverse, I adore introducing new races and cultures. So go ahead. But I don’t want you to be a 700-year old elf or whatever. And for my remaining sanity, please, no angelic or demonic characters. It really doesn't make sense.
-I uphold the right to boot you out if problems arise or if I feel that your profile isn't up to par. And if I don't accept you, don't you dare post {after I will specifically ask you not to} and ask "y wasnt i excepted??" I swear I will gouge your eyes out.
-Be involved. I will allow absences as long as you give a notice. Upon your return, you will be given a summary and allowed to hop back in. Yay!
-Being involved does NOT mean rapid-fire posting. No one likes to come back after ten minutes and see twenty pages that weren't there before. Please don't do that. I'll cry. And kick you out.
-Have fun!
I love fun. I love whoever invented it too.
-Just an added thing … I swear that, out of sheer happiness, I will rep anyone who recognizes and figures out where I got the name for the Windlewyth River from. {PM me}
+[Profile] ~finally
Name:
Age:
Gender: {because sometimes, I do actually need this option}
Race/Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Level you live on: {1-25}
Personality: {how do they act? Quirks, habits, nature? I’d love to know. Make this longer than two sentences, though.}
History: {you’re okay to have fun with this}
Weapon/s: {make this logical. That's all I ask.}
Power/s & Abilities: {again, logic. you can have a specific power or just be able to use magic like a sorcerer, I don't care, as long as you're not too powerful. Get me?}
Appearance: {either a description or a non real-life picture and description. Because sometimes I wonder; Does that girl really want her character to have purple hair ... ? But links only please}
Theme song/s: {it’s fun. =D}
Other: {the place for anything else that needs saying!}
Yes, a city, one created almost entirely from smooth desert-yellow stone that seems to drink in the sunset. It is tall, impossibly tall, but that it because it is built upon tiers that are each maybe a mile or half long. You try to count the levels, but you lose track. Eighteen, twenty, twenty-three? Somewhere around that.
Here and there, from close-set buildings, a tower will rise, and at the top, what must be a palace sits like a crown. Amidst the dusty gold stone are snatches of lush green, showing that there are, in fact, trees and other plants.
Outside of the city, people are gathered near the river that passes by, doing this or that while watched by a peaceful herd of horses- or are they gazelles? –in the distance. But now, everyone is hurrying to get back inside. Here, apparently, it isn’t good to be out after dark.
What the city itself lacks in color makes up for it in the incredible variety of its people. A cacophony of languages and a muddle of faces make up the population. And despite all the hustle and bustle, it seems to be relatively peaceful, happy; and yet you are warned, even now behind the sturdy walls, to find a place to stay during the night. And this seems odd, for what could be so dangerous here, amidst music, magic, and laughter, in- where are you?
Welcome to the Golden City of Ledonaath.
+[Recap]
Yep, that’s the plot right there. Nice, free-form, character-driven. Here your creativity can go nearly unlimited. Within reason, I’m giving you free rein over everything from flora and fauna to culture. This city is a melting pot, if you haven’t realized.
But just because I didn’t strap you down with a set of storylines doesn’t mean that it’s totally lazy. No, lots of things can and will happen, and you can make them up too. Just remember to read the rules!
+[Setting]
I explained some in the opening. Ledonaath is more often referred to as the Golden City because of its darkly-gold color. Like I mentioned, levels, twenty-eight of them to be exact, build it up. They connect to a tall cliff behind it. The terrain is a grassland/savannah type. The Windlewyth River runs past the city on its right side, continuing further on to the ocean, several miles away. Ledonaath has several parks built in it, a couple taking up entire levels. This has attracted its own animals, though there are menageries that keep most of them. Stables are built on every level for ‘beasts of burden’ that make travel in the city possible.
The city is peaceful. Yes, there are rogues in it, and people can and have been stolen from and murdered, but the crime rate is lower than most places of its size. Legend has it that the city was made, hundreds of years ago, by refugees from many different nations fleeing from war. And since then, the tradition of being a nexus of myriad different ethnicities has continued. Surprisingly, there’s a good amount of tolerance, yet race crimes are not unheard of. Temples for nearly every different religion you could find have been built, and a royal council runs the city accordingly, allowing proper representation for each city level.
But, there are problems. Being a melting-pot for culture also means being one for magic. Whether or not magic is the cause or merely a magnetic attraction is unsure, but many a strange thing happen there, and it can even be dangerous after sunset. People have reported seeing wraiths wandering around at night, or been confronted by talking statues during the day.
Remember to be on your guard.
+[Non-Playable Characters]
The Watchers: Now, these are perhaps the most peculiar things about the city. No one quite knows what they are, but luckily, they don’t seem to mean anyone harm- they’re actually helpful at times. People speculate that they’re protective spirits who watch over the Golden City and its inhabitants. They come in the form of usually small, strange animals. And most often, you’ll simply catch of glimpse of glowing eyes or a shadow out of the corner of your eye. There have only been a few reported times in history that one of them has spoken to someone, and only to warn of great danger for the whole city.
The Plague: One of the several malevolent spirits that haunt Ledonaath. If it has a name, no one knows it, and for the most part, people are even afraid to name it at all. It comes in the form of a tall, too-thin man, with ashen skin, diseased orange-red eyes, and dark blood-red hair. It slips into houses during the dark of the moon and selects a victim, causing them to instantly turn feverishly ill. Death is always within a few days, and no one has yet found a cure.
The Plague seems to be related, in some way, to the four other malicious spirits that roam during the days when the moon does not show. They are listed immediately below.
Insanity: The spirit that comes in the form of a short, feral-looking black-haired woman with yellow eyes and fangs. When seen, it is most often laughing or smirking. As the name implies, it induces madness in people, and generally likes to create chaotic situations.
The Elements: A trinity of beautiful sisters that are made from the essence of fire, water, and air, and have some control over such. They cause destruction when they can. Fires, floods, dust storms, if they come during the dark of the moon, you can bet your life that it’s caused by them. Clicky clicky, I found a reference pic!
+[Rules]
-Be LITERATE. If you can't post two paragraphs or more, including satisfying grammar and spelling, I don't want to see you. Don't worry though; I won't bite your head off if you missplace a comma or don't get a word or two right. But there's no excuse for your posts looking as if you typed blindfolded.
-Follow the general KHI rules, and remember about power-playing and god-moding. Common courtesy, ya know.
-Keep stuff PG-13.
-R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respect me, respect your fellow RPers, respect yourself. I don't want any flaming in my thread. It's so pretty. Do you really want to make it ugly? If you feel the need to argue with someone that bad, please use the PM system.
-No Mary-Sues. If you don't know what a Mary-Sue is, then basically, it's a two-dimensional character. Flat. Boring. Too damn powerful or cliché. I love originality to death. You don't need to have a tortured past to be interesting.
-As the city is diverse, I adore introducing new races and cultures. So go ahead. But I don’t want you to be a 700-year old elf or whatever. And for my remaining sanity, please, no angelic or demonic characters. It really doesn't make sense.
-I uphold the right to boot you out if problems arise or if I feel that your profile isn't up to par. And if I don't accept you, don't you dare post {after I will specifically ask you not to} and ask "y wasnt i excepted??" I swear I will gouge your eyes out.
-Be involved. I will allow absences as long as you give a notice. Upon your return, you will be given a summary and allowed to hop back in. Yay!
-Being involved does NOT mean rapid-fire posting. No one likes to come back after ten minutes and see twenty pages that weren't there before. Please don't do that. I'll cry. And kick you out.
-Have fun!
I love fun. I love whoever invented it too.-Just an added thing … I swear that, out of sheer happiness, I will rep anyone who recognizes and figures out where I got the name for the Windlewyth River from. {PM me}
+[Profile] ~finally
Name:
Age:
Gender: {because sometimes, I do actually need this option}
Race/Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Level you live on: {1-25}
Personality: {how do they act? Quirks, habits, nature? I’d love to know. Make this longer than two sentences, though.}
History: {you’re okay to have fun with this}
Weapon/s: {make this logical. That's all I ask.}
Power/s & Abilities: {again, logic. you can have a specific power or just be able to use magic like a sorcerer, I don't care, as long as you're not too powerful. Get me?}
Appearance: {either a description or a non real-life picture and description. Because sometimes I wonder; Does that girl really want her character to have purple hair ... ? But links only please}
Theme song/s: {it’s fun. =D}
Other: {the place for anything else that needs saying!}
