Eidolon's Chains

Eidolon’s Chains

Story:

In Lindblum, an eidolon commits a terrible crime when she steals a powerful artifact from the King’s Chambers. The eidolon is a near immortal being that looks exactly like a human, ages slowly and possesses enormous magical powers. As their numbers are few, it is believed that these beings are remnants of the demi gods themselves. To avoid getting captured, the eidolon decides to escape into the human world.

At this time, two parties have been deployed to track down this eidolon. One party belongs to the King’s Royal Guards and they were given the job to capture the eidolon and to bring her to justice.

However, the other party are black mages that work for a dictator in the neighboring kingdom, Palmecia. This dictator secretly plans to use the eidolon and the artifact that she possesses to further the research into advanced magical weaponry and to one day threaten the other kingdom for power in the hopes of ending the depression.

Should the time come, the two factions might find themselves fighting for their kingdom and their beliefs. But the eidolon doesn't care either way.

She simply wants to entertain her audience by destroying Lindblum with the fires of hell.

Setting:

The magic world (steam punk) and the human world. Your first task is to narrate events leading both parties to meet up at the Aquarium. This is where the first battle will start. Other locations will be available as we discuss them further in the discussion thread.

Current mission:

It is 2 days till the first battle at the Aquarium. All parties have just been deployed.

Concept and rules:

The premise of this storybook is rather simple. Instead of focusing on the main character (the eidolon), the storybook is more focused on the struggle between the two parties, relationships between the characters and the parties and their thoughts of this conflict.

When you make your character, you can choose from three groups:

-Royal Guard party
-Black Mages
-Witnesses (by witnesses, I mean people from the human world that has witnessed the event)

Character profile template:

Name:
Age:
Description of appearance: (not just hair, eyes, skin etc but clothing too)
Alliance: (choose from one of the three that I’ve mentioned earlier)
Personality:
Job class:
Abilities and weaponry:
Character background: (Please try to be as detailed about this as much as you can)
Please also include a song that you think suits your character (like a theme song). It would help greatly.

Standard rules also apply:

1. God-Moding. Just use common sense here lol.

2. Do not make your character powerful or a mary-sue. Treat them like a real person.

3. Try to include other characters. This will allow for character relationships as well as character vs character conflicts.

4. Writing style: You may write in any style you like.

5. Please ensure good spelling and grammar rules are applied in your posts.

6. No killing off characters. You are allowed, however, to fight each other if needed.

7. All discussions related to this story book are to be done on the discussion thread.

8. I have the right on approving posts. If I think a post or character profile is not acceptable, I will inform you about it.

9. Love relationships are allowed, but you can't have explicit sex scenes. Basically put, make it tasteful

Oh and lastly, please try to be committed to this as possible. I know I’m a bit of a slacker when it comes to storybook commitment, but I would really like this to work out for everyone so that we can have heaps of fun. I’ll try to be committed to this, but I can’t do it without your help.

Alright that’s all the admin stuff out of the way. Let’s roll.

Edit: This is very important. Can all pictures of characters actually reflect their age + persona? And also, can pictures not be pictures of real life people? I just find it off putting. Thanks.

Current Roster:

Royal Guards:

Name

Maya -lavabubblingout
Refina -Firearris
Claren -Squall
Jason -Elinor Brynn
Captain Aurelio -Buscador!
Harley -Kara Haragreaves

Royal Guard (outcast):
Andrea -LastPaladin

Black Mages:

Name

Chashina -irishfire
Amanda -Nutty
Lorcan -Kitty15
Danya -Dreamer
Jackie -Tenyo

Eidolon's witnesses:

Maria -ScarlettFire
Ash -Firearris
Sammie -Lindsaroo
Jackson -Unsquishable

The eidolon:

Aimee -Squall

The graveyard:

Arianna -pudin.junidf (killed by LastPaladin for inactivity)

Dun Dun Dun! My char is here! XD
Anyway,

Name: Nizara-Maya. (called Maya)

Age:20

Appearance: She is quite tall, 5'7", and of normal build. She has silky, straight, long dark brown hair, which is always braided and tied with a flower at the bottom of the braid.
Clothes generally involve blue jeans, bold print T-shirts and slippers.

Alliance: Royal Guard.

Description: She was born to a nobleman belonging to the Royal Guard. Her mother's ancestry is unknown but is suspected of having magical powers. Maya is named after her mother Nizara and her dad's mother, Mayavati who held high positions in the society.
Her initial life was tough when her dad refused to acknowledge her. She lived with a caretaker till then. However an unusual incident involving her dormant magic interested her dad and he brought her into the family.

The eight years with the caretaker has taught her to be gentle with animals and plants. Once she moved into the high society, she was taught like all other kids. She was fairly good at combat skills and extremely talented at history, geography and languages.

Abilities and Weaponry: Not very fast, but has good precision with a bow and arrow. Her skills at martial arts is quite impressive.

Alright. Here's my profile.

Name: Maria Sullivan.

Age: 17.

Description of appearance: Black hair, green eyes. Clothes-black jeans, black skate shoes, dark red t-shirt.

Spoiler

~Her eyes are green, not brown and she always wears an ankh on a chain around her neck.~

Spoiler

Alliance: Witnesses.

Job class: Warrior/Bodyguard.

Abilities and weaponry: Martial Arts/Self-defence. Archery and fencing. (the sword fight not, fence building).

Character background: As the youngest daughter of a rich lawyer, Maria tries to live up to her father expectations and fails spectacularly at everything she does--even when she was going to an all girls finishing school in England (expelled on the first day, how is that possible?). Now she's going to public school like she's always wanted and is just trying to pass while she cause as much trouble as she can. Unfortunately, the headmaster was told (cough, paid, cough) not to expel her yet and she's stuck there, no matter what she does.

Please also include a song that you think suits your character: Beautiful Thieves by AFI.

*Spot Reserved*

Name: Refina

Age: 22. Nearing 23.

Description of appearance: Black mid-back-length, straight hair. She has high cheek-bones and somewhat broad shoulders. Has blue eyes and is approximately 5’5. She normally wears faded black jeans with hoodies or long-sleeved shirts; she also normally wears black Convese.

Alliance: Royal Guards

Abilities and Weaponry: She is lithe and moves fast, making combat somewhat easier. She also has had training most of her life, and specializes in hand-to-hand combat. She is also good with swords, but is better with martial arts.

Character background: Her mother’s side of the family had always been somewhat higher class, and were Royal Guards. Her mother managed to get Refina’s father to train as a Royal Guard also. Refina spent most of her life training to be one of the Royal Guards, though she didn’t expect to be sent on the mission to retrieve the thief and the artifact. Most of her family is Royal Guards (Her father, her cousin, siblings…) which is what encouraged her to also train as one. She also spent a lot of time reading about the different kingdoms and learning about the different historical events; she did this while she was working as a librarian. When she was somewhat younger (early teen through mid teen) she enjoyed basic sparring matches with both minor weapons and hand-to-hand combat; which assisted her later on in becoming a Royal Guard.

Please also include a song that you think suits your character (like a theme song). It would help greatly. – Don’t Give Up – Noisettes. (That was the best I could come up with. xD)

I'm in!

Name: Chashina

Age: 20

Apprerance: http://www.hairtech.com.au/images_new/i ... _brown.jpg
Is wearing: http://www.inspiredinsanity.com.au/imag ... ed%206.JPG (without the necklace)

Alliance: Black Mages

Character background: Has been in the Black Mages all her life and feels they are the only option and is incredibly loyal to them. Her mother died when she was very young giving birth to her brother who died years ago. (Thats all I can think of...)

Theme song: Errr My world - 3 doors down?

I'll join, this sounds interesting.

Name: Arianna "Ari" Kerr

Age: 18

Description of appearance: She's quite short, almost 5'4, and thin, with beautiful brown eyes and brown hair. She has a quite prominent chin too. She usually wears loose stuff, kind of boho style, earth colors with lots of bangles and headbands. She usually wears boots and lots of necklaces.So she basically is a combination of hippie and boho.

Spoiler

Alliance: Eidolon's friends/Cohorts

Character background: She's an orphan, her parents died when she was three years old. Six months later, after living in an orphanage, she went to live with her aunt and her uncle. Since her uncle and aunt didn't have children, they took care of her as if she was their own.Two years later a boy was borned to the couple which meant little attention to her now. Unfortunately, about two or three years later, her aunt died of breast cancer, the whole two years since her cousin was born had been a torment because her aunt had been in quimo.
Unable of taking care of her, her uncle decided to send her to an orphanage again. Her life was miserable since then, no one took care of her, no one loved her, no one really cared if she was alive or not.She pent about five years of her life locked inside that place, becoming a little more rebel by the second to the point where she stopped eating just to show her aversion to that place and the people in that place. But thanks to a fateful visit of a rich family to the orphanage, a young couple who already had a little girl decided to take her in and adopt her.
Ever since the first time she arrived to their home, her life changed completely. She was taken care of( she suffered from asthma and malnutrition). and most importantly, she was loved.

Name: Claren Espmer

Picture: http://iumazark.deviantart.com/art/FEM- ... a-83151966
http://iumazark.deviantart.com/art/FEM-TSC-83454755

Age: 21

Description of appearance: She has blond hair that’s mid-neck length, almost looks like a grown out A-line, fair skin and under medium build. She wears boy shorts torn at the edges, white tank top, boots and an amulet, a crystal on a string.

Alliance: Royal Guard

Job class: Cleric

Abilities and weaponry: She is capable of both magic and melee combat to a certain degree. She uses a mace that can be imbued with holy energy. As her mace also has some properties of that of a wand, she can also cast support spells such as healing and buffs, or offensive spells like turn undead (ward off undead creatures like skeletons, zombies and ghosts). When confronted with the eidolon, she must resort to using her moderate physical strength to take down the criminal.

Personality: Mostly a serious and methodical person, but retains most of her teenage mannerisms and habits (such as occasional smoking and drinking). Stubborn at times and can be a bit ignorant, as she believes that the people around her do not know much about the world around them nor are they as knowledgeable as her. This attitude was brought on during the war where people's opinions and behavior were mostly influenced by fear and social pressures. She chose to become a cleric and a member of the Royal Guard, because she wants to make something of her life and actually feel alive, not like her parents who worked for long hours at a government research facility and know little of the world around them. She believes that if she doesn't become part of the Royal Guard, then she will end up like the rest.

Character Background: Long before the depression and the War, there were many young geomancers such as Claren’s father who ventured into the mysterious world of the humans to charter new areas and to discover minerals which they can bring back and use as an energy source. When he was on his year long research, he found himself being in an intimate relationship with one of his female colleges.

On the day that he had to return to the magical world to present his findings, he confessed the secret of his origin after much hesitation. The woman decided to abandon her life in the human world and followed him back through the portal. They eventually got married and gave birth to a girl by the name of Claren (given by her mother).

In her teenage years, Claren was a rebel, despite doing well in wizarding school. She often head down to the local pub with her friends and get drunk and has engaged in sexual activity despite being underage. But at the same time, the political world was slowly shifting in its nature until one day, war broke out. When Claren’s mother was killed during a battle that took place in the city, her life changed. Her father started heading for the pubs more often in the hopes of drowning his sorrow and reflecting on his once happy go lucky life.

Her mother’s death however made her realized just how important the lives of people really are. When she was old enough to become a part of the armed forces, she decided to head into enemy kingdom to build on what she learned in school and started to learn complex healing and support spells.

Following this, she joined the Royal Guard, not only to aid and re-secure the lives of people that had been shaken by the war, but to take care of his father, now a depressed hermit.

But secretly, she desires to one day escape into the human world once peace has been restored, even though the only knowledge she has of the human world was from her mother herself and the photos and diaries that she had left behind. She knows that things will never be the same again, even if peace was truly restored.

Character themes:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
Dido- White Flag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwT2wiZsg0

Maria

I left the school at a run. I was supposed to meet this girl in an alley a block away. Hey, I don't know why! She just asked me to meet her there and being me, I agreed.

So here I was, running through the crowd to reach the damn alley by four pm.

As I pushed through the last of the crowd, I saw Arianna Kerr slip into the alley. Wait... I shook my head and looked again. Yep, that was Arianna. What the hell?

*Scarlette, am I the one who told you to go or is Arianna just finding you there**
Arianna Kerr

I was alone, walking through the street, trying to get away from all the noise of the recently finished school day. It was all good, nothing too weird, my life went as usual as always. What could I expect but to be sitting in the lunch room alone with very few people noticing me? But then there was this girl that talked to me that day and told her to meet her at an alley. I didn't know her much, I had seen her around but never really talked to her before.

So I was making my way to the alley, letting my mind fly to some other parallel dimension inside of it. I was used to doing that, I did that often when I was in the orphanage. But as my mind became more conscious and the memories started coming, I pushed the thought of the orphanage away and focused on getting to the alley.

And all of a sudden, who did I see? Maria, I knew her, I really did, but what was she doing there.
"What...are you doing here?" She asked me when I bumped into her.

"I think I'm doing the same as you do," I answered not sure of what that meant.

No, we're off to meet the Eidolon.

Maria

"What...are you doing here?" I asked when I bumped into Arianna. She stared at me for a moment.

"I think I'm doing the same as you do," She replied sounding uncertain.

I nodded to Arianna and we both entered the alley. There she was, the girl who had spoken to me the other day. She stood with her back to us agruing with some weird old guy. When he saw us he yelped and ran off, and then she turned around.

Name
Jason Ridley

Age
24

Appearance
Jason is about five foot eight, with tanned, muscular skin, His ash-caked blond hair hangs over his over his face in loose strands. His wide, intense eyes are a silvery-blue, and his face is toned and carved. Jason can typically be found in racy clothing-leather jackets, muscle shirts, combat boots, and bermuda shorts-because he believes these things compliment his figure and attract women.

Alliance
Royal Guards


Personality
Jason is extremely cocky. Although he has great talent in battle, he only uses it to attract women. He's constantly flirting with them and showing off. Although he pretends to be polite, he only really cares about himself, and most girls hate him. When he does have a girlfriend, it only lasts for a very short time. Besides that, he's a total wimp and is self absorbed, constantly whining about things like his hair.

Job Class
Knight

Abilities and weaponry
Extremely quick and strong, he carries a gun, and a dagger which he uses to finish off kills.

Background
Jason was a homeless boy. Taken in by the king after a soldier saw great talent in him, he was brought into the castle and trained as a knight. Slowly rising the ranks, he was given this mission and feels great pride in it-telling himself that he we will not fail so he can brag about it back home.

Theme Song
Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd

Arianna
Deep inside of me I was shaking, not of fear, but of expectations. I barely knew the girl in front of me and was just acquainted to the girl by her side. What was I doing there? All of my life I had avoided mystery and suspense, especially if it was in real life. But for some reason she didn't reject this invitation to this place.

"Well, I guess you're here" The girl in front of me said with a big grin in her beautiful face. "I have to say I'm deeply sorry for what you just saw" She continued.

"I't's ok, just tell us what do you want us for" Maria said, a but rudely but direct.

"It's all very, very confusing and to be honest I barely know you, so this is a bit scary if you see it from my perspective." I said, a little too fast I knew, but slow enough for her to understand me.

"I will answer all your questions in a moment" The girl said.

Name: Amanda
Age: 43
Description of appearance: Dark brown hair, with greying streaks. Frown lines between her eyebrows, and a stern mouth. Her clothing is mainly grey and non descript, though she always has black, worn steelcap boots with scuffed toes.
Alliance: Black Mages
Personality: Think of that old school teacher that scared the shit out of you. She is strict, and is often accused of being stuck in her ways, but there is a reason for her stubborness. She's not often wrong.
Job class: Sorcerer
Abilities and weaponry: Natural affinity for magic, though she is physically weak. Strong willpower and not easily swayed by any means, magical or otherwise. She carries a small dagger used in rituals and for self defense.
Character background: Though she does not hold any technical power in the ranks of the Black Mages, Amanda has some sway. She's been around a long time and has seen more than her younger, more ambitious allies. Amanda always was interested in witchcraft, even as a child, and she was never the same as her peers. She always had an affinity for cruelty, torturing small animals and being feared by her peers. She most likely has some kind of mental disorder, but she contains it well, and her cruelty has been honed and controlled over the years of her life. Once she learned of the magical world, it was only natural that she fell in with the black mages.
Song: Good Day- The Dresden Dolls

Hey, how's it going? Seems to me you're lacking in an evil guy or two...

Name: Lorcan Derail
Age: 24
Description of appearance: Lorcan is a wild looking man with unkempt, dark red hair and stubble on his face. His eyes are dark green and give the impression that he is lost or perhaps was never altogether there to start with. He wears black jeans, a white vest top, a black leather jacket and gothic boots. He also has a silver phoenix hanging around his neck. Lorcan is handsome in an unruly way. He has a strong chin, a very firm, masculine figure.
Alliance: Black Mages.
Personality:There's something broken in Lorcan. He's a good man pushed to desperate measures but part of him holds on to his old beliefs. Lorcan has a lot of determination and is willing to do whatever it takes. He believes that the end justifies the means, hence his alliance. Lorcan sees a fast, brutal attack as the only way to end the depression. Lorcan spends a lot of his time feeling lonely and hating himself. He drinks and he throws himself into fights and danger because it makes him feel alive.
Job class: Necromancer.
Abilities and weaponry: Lorcan can raise zombies and ghouls, he can bring back the dead quite literally but not their humanity. The creatures Lorcan raises are no longer humans, they're just tortured souls with a fragment of memory set on replay. Lorcan has a moderate control over fire. These two areas are the extent of his magic. He doesn't wield a weapon but can fight well with his hands and is resourceful. He's good at turning objects into weapons and will use his surroundings to his advantage.

Character background: There was a time when Lorcan was gentle. He had a younger sister, Circa, and he couldn't save her. He was too weak, too unaware of evil. Naturally Lorcan blamed himself for her death and threw himself into Necromancy in the hopes of finding a way to bring her back to life. His goal led him down darker paths and right to the very pit itself. He raised her and she wasn't human and he couldn't stand the creature he'd given life to. Lorcan destroyed it. For a time after that he was empty. He felt nothing and he did nothing except drink. Then he rose, a broken but more logical man. He learned more about the dark arts and made several other attempts to raise his sister, each better than the last, each teaching him control and order. However, none gave him what he wanted.

Eventually Lorcan decided that he needed to make amends for the life he had led and he started to put his dark power to good use. He joined the black mages and is hoping they will find a way to destroy the other kindgdom, end the depression and bring peace. He is still working to learn more about Necromancy and his belief that he will one day have his sister again is what he lives for. There is always doubt though and regret.

Song: He's complicated. Here's a few:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReuJvHIQ-_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-55ZYpTwu1g