Waif Weapon: the Edge Wars

In the Third Age of Flight, phraxships plow across the skies of the Edge, and phraxweapons abound, but this world is still as dangerous and full of intrigue as it ever has been.
In the mighty city of Great Glade, sky pirates have sprung back into existence, and with their phrax-powered machinery, they're more wily and successful than ever before. They patrol the skies, fighting the New Leagues of the goblin city of Hive, plying a lucrative trade of timber and other goods, and always ready for a fight. The New Leagues and the sky pirates have a delicate balance: the pirates can be invaluable if the Leagues attract unwanted attention in their nefarious dealings, and the Leagues also have enough power to make life very difficult for anyone caught helping a pirate without their permission. Tensions are building, but, as of yet, have not come to anything.
However, something is brewing that will utterly destroy this carefully maintained relationship: In Riverrise, the City of Night, the waifs have been making something, something terrible. Beyond their dark city, using a mixture of the Waters of Life from the Riverrise spring and stormphrax, they have built a weapon of terrible magnitude. A weapon that they can use to take over the entire Edgeworld. And they will use it, at any cost.

As the strained relationship between the New Leagues and the sky pirates reaches a breaking point, two phraxships, one pirate, and one league, are blown over the treacherous Night Woods into Riverrise, and unwittingly discover the waifs' plans. They are the only ones who know of the coming attack. They are the only ones who can stop it. If they don't, a war like no other will be let loose.


Okay, if you've never read the Edge Chronicles, then don't worry! I'll explain everything below...

First, the races. On the Edge, there are some main groups: Goblins, trolls, trogs, waifs, shrykes, and fourthlings. Below is a description and (hopefully) picture of each:

Goblins: There are virtually infinite varieties of goblins (flathead, hammerhead, webfoot, long-hair, and mottled, to name a few). The main features that they all possess are sharp teeth, and large-ish ears. Some are very war-like, and some are peaceful. Below is a picture of a hammerhead goblin:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1

Trolls: Trolls are also extremely diverse, although not as much so as goblins. Woodtrolls, gabtrolls, and lugtrolls are the most common. Woodtrolls are excellent woodsmen, and are stocky, with curly hair, and wide features. Gabtrolls are squat and have long eyestalks that they constantly lick to keep moist. They are amazing apothecaires. Lugtrolls are also very squat, with large, lumpy faces. They are very strong, and often "lug" things, hence the name. Here are pictures of a gabtroll and a woodtroll:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... 8%26um%3D1

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... n%26um%3D1
(The woodtroll is the one with the ax )

Trogs: Trogs are huge, with sometimes brutish features, but can be excellent individuals, when given the chance. They are strong fighters, and they can be brutal. They are favored workers in all types of industry, and are found all over the Edge. Cloddertrogs are the most commonly found. Here's a picture:

http://www.weirdnewworlds.com/blog/wp-c ... ll-054.jpg

Waifs: Waifs are tiny creatures, spindly and delicate. They come from the Night Woods, where sight is limited, so they have a huge distinguishing feature: their ears are gigantic. They can hear anything and everything, including thoughts. Because of this, they are not to be messed with. Not all of the waifs are trying to take over. In fact, the majority aren't. There are various types, but they're not that different, so here's a generic picture:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... n%26um%3D1

Shrykes: These are vicious bird creatures who live in matriarchal societies, with the female being much more powerfully built than the male. They are, for the most part, warriors, but some have become successful in the bar business, and often do deals with both sky pirates and the New Leagues. Here's a picture:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... AA240_.jpg

Fourthlings: Fourthlings are essentially humans. They have ancestors from all of the other races, and all of them look different, depending. This is the picture of a young sky pirate fourthling:

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/systempic ... 611688.jpg

Now that's out of the way, here are some of the other creatures:

Prowlgrin (the white beast that he's riding):

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... AA240_.jpg

Banderbear:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... G%26um%3D1

I couldn't find a picture of a phraxship, but they are flying boats, essentially, powered by stormphrax, which is solidified lightning. It is the fuel of the Edge and is one of the key components in the weapon of the waifs.

As for the rest of the Edge, there are three main cities: Great Glade, Hive, and Riverrise, or the City of Night. The are spaced far apart in the endless Deepwoods, a forest of endless beauty and danger.

Whew! That was a lot of info, but here's the character template! You can be a Leaguesman or a Pirate, but lets keep it even, folks! I'll play the mastermind of the waif plan, and the captain of the sky pirate ship. You can have two characters.

Name:

Race:

Age: (13-25)

Appearance:

Personality:

Profession: (Leaguesman or sky pirate)

Background:

Secrets:

Other:

Rules:

All YWS rules, of course...

There will be a fair bit of violence, but no super gory scenes, please...

No sex scenes

Have fun!


PM me if you have any questions...I'll post my charrie in a bit.

**Well, I've never read the Edge Chronicles, but there are sky pirates, so I'm in. I'll have to post my profile a little later, though.**

Okay here goes nothing my profile!!!! If you don't like it I will get rid of it. I hope you don't mind I added more to your character Palette.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Character Profile

Name: Abel Scyth

Nickname: Bell

Race: Fourthling

Age: 16 and two days old.

Gender:Female

Appearance:

Hair Colour and Style-She has dark brown hair that often knots up. It is very long coming to her waist in a rather straight way. The top half of her hair has shorter layers which wing out having a more golden tip then the rest. She has thick bangs that come down stopping just past her eyebrows.

Eyes-Deep brown eyes that seem to go on forever. She has black-brown eye lashes that are rather short yet still darken her eye colour.

Build- Slim build.

Skin tone-A creamy tan.

Other- She usually wears an olden day aeroplane hats though the goggles are always up. Her clothes are usually a pair of black pants with black boots coming to the middle of her shins. She wear a long white shirt that looks more like a dress than anything else, the sleeves are pushed up past her elbows with a blet hanging from her waist.

Profession:Sky Pirate

Background: When she was younger her father, a famous sky pirate, was murdered in front of her eyes giving her his sky pirate hat. Her mother, a person from noble status, married a year later pulling her into a rich household. Abel had always had her fathers passion for flight and adventure. She would always pretend to be her own sky pilot. Her mother would always threaten to disown her if she didn't stop her foolishness though she never did.

Her step father would always abuse her because she acted so stupidly, he hated the fact that Abel was a better fighter than her step brothers.

When she was thirteen Abel ran away unable to stand it anymore. She went looking for her fathers killers though never found them. Instead she found Sky pirates who were close to her father. Seeing the hat, her father had given her, they invited her on as one of their own.


Secrets: A year after joining she found out her mother had hired people to kill her father because she was having an affair with a leaguesman who had blackmailed her into it.

Up for love:Yes.

>>>Your character's fine, Apple!<<<


Name: Isticulus Gallistix, called Stic



Race: Waif



Age: 15


Appearance: Like all waifs, Stic is tiny, which make his huge ears the most obvious thing about him. He has refined hearing, even for a waif, but he is always polite and tries to keep out of other people's minds. He has bright blue eyes, and dark skin. He usually wears a typical pirate coat, and always has his sword and phraxpistol at hand.



Personality: Unlike most waifs, who keep to themselves, Stic isn't sullen. He's almost always cheerful, and loves to be with friends and his crew. Fiercely protective of both friends and his phraxship, the Foglifter, Stic is also not one to get in a fight with. He can use his hearing abilities to predict any move an opponent makes, and has yet to lose a fight. He's always fair, though, and never kills unless he has to. He has no love of the New Leagues.



Profession: Captain of the sky pirate ship Foglifter, the youngest, and only waif to ever captain a sky pirate ship.



Background: Stic left the City of Night when he was a young boy. He wasn't orphaned, but his parents were strict and stuck with old waif ways. They hated any outsider, which Stic resented. So he ran off to Great Glade, and found himself on a pirate ship.



Secrets: Stic is an insomniac, because he can't get the incessant noise of everyone's thought out of his head. He also secretly trained as a League assassin, but, after getting insulted by one of the Leaguesmasters, he left. He holds a grudge still and can't wait for the day when he can kill the Leaguesmaster.



Other: Up for love.

We need more people, so please join!

>>>This is the mastermind of the waif plot<<<

Name: Thaxforth Ereall



Race: Waif



Age: No one knows



Appearance: He's old, that's for sure. He's got super light skin, and completely black eyes. His ears are huge, bat-like, and hear everything. He always wears a hooded cloak, which conceals his dart-pipe.



Personality: Bad-tempered. Not someone you want to cross. He's exceptionally clever, though, which is why he is leading the waifs on their dominion mission.



Profession: A politician of Riverrise.



Background: He was abused as a child, orphaned, and ridiculed by his adoptive family of flathead goblins. So he killed them all, and disappeared for many years before reappearing, successful and full of wrath.



Secrets: Many, the most prominent of which involving his dominion plans and an illegal stormphrax trade.



Other: Nada

Can I be an evil waif in denial? Like one who is struggling between breaking the peace and the fight for power. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. Like one of the Evil Waif committee's daughter or are there only Sky Pirates and New Leagues allowed? I even have the perfect thing to write.
"I swear to stay loyal to the committee at all costs even if it may very well be my very life at hand."
Would it mess up the plot line to have someone on the other side?

Name: Jakys Heron

Race: Fourthling

Age: 18

Appearance: http://fog-mire.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-109777244

Personality: Jakys enjoys flashy and exciting things, such as piracy, flying ships, and stormphrax. While somewhat immature, and maybe a little too jovial at times, he knows when to take things seriously, and how to keep a cool head at all times. That said, he will throw caution to the wind if he believes he has a chance of surviving and looking great at the same time.

Profession: Sky pirate

Background: He doesn't talk much about his past life, and a great deal of it remains a mystery. No one, not even he, knows how Jakys himself came to be on a sky pirate ship. All that is known is that mid voyage, he was found asleep in the hold, resting against two containers of stormphrax that weren't supposed to be there, and clutching a bottle of whiskey.

Secrets: His father is a prominent leaguesman captain, who believes his son was kidnapped by sky pirates, and is trying to find out what ship he's on so that they can be hunted down.

Other: Up for love.

>>>No, crescent, that's fine! Only, if you do another character, lets have it be another race, 'kay? We have a lot of waifs...<<<

Here's a link for more on the Edge Chronicles...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_Chronicles

I know there are a lot of sky pirates already, but...

Name: Lagtal Dunn (Lag)
Race: Gabtroll
Age: 17
Appearance: light brown skin, eye stalks that are longer than normal, wears a beaten leather coat. Eyes are very large and black.
Personality: Lag is often enthusiastic and energetic. This proves to be a downfall, as it often leads to blunders of varying severity. However, Lag can be very serious when at work.
Profession: Sky Pirate
Background: Growing up in faraway Riverrise, Lag was always bothered by the Waifs and their odd ways. Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore and stowed away on a sky pirate ship. When they found him, instead of throwing him overboard as he expected, he was taken in.
Secrets: Lag is often shunned by other Gabtrolls for his strange way of never moistening his eyeballs.
Other: As the medical care on the ship, Lag has a lot of responsibility. He likes to join in the battles with the Leaugesmen, but is often turned down because if he were to be hurt, nobody could be healed.

Name: Vactav Onitrax
Race: Flathead Goblin
Age: 25
Appearance: Tall, green skinned, wears fine clothes and a huge hat upheld by a servant with a stick (as is customary with Leaugesmen), has brown eyes and a pointy nose.
Personality: Vactav is condescending. he is a Leaguesman and believes he reserves a right to everything. e can become very angry when things go wrong...
Profession: Leaugesman
Background: As with most Leaugesmen, Vactav was raised in a rich family. He learned to lie and device and earned his stature.

We need more people! Don't be put off if you haven't read the books!

Alright, we might start soon, since it looks like no one else is joining...

Okay...We're starting, but you can still post profiles!

Stic, waif,

I stare out at the endless expanse of the Deepwoods, soaring beneath me. My hands fly expertly over the flight levers, keeping the Foglifter chugging steadily across the sky. I let out a breath that I didn't know I'd been holding. Flying was the one thing that kept the whispers of the thoughts of my crew out of my mind.

"Night Woods ahead, Cap'n!" shouts Abel. I start out of reveries.

"Alright-" I begin, but Jakys cuts me off.

"The weather's turning, Cap'n,"