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[Xorlak]

Welcome to Dark Age Legends, chapter 4 sign ups! Chapter 4 will pick up where chapter 3 left off, but due to the break in the action, this is an excellent point to jump in if you haven?t already. If you haven?t been following the story the entire way through, don?t worry. You are not expected to read the entire RP-- just the summary and guidelines below. However, if you never played in a forum RP before (particularly this one) you may want to read a random page or two in the middle to get a sense of how everything works.  Current players should also read this, as the new rules as there are some rule modifications.

Theme

A fantasy medieval type deal. Magic is encouraged. Technology should be low (but a few weird inventions are okay). Guns are permitted if you really want them, but they shouldn't be too effective.

Archives

The automatically updated <a href='http://darkage.mysticsoftware.net/dal/viewer.php?id=472' target='_blank'>DAL Archives</a> might be easier to read than the topic on this forum if you want look back at the story (it?s just a script that reads from the forum database and strips off all the signature, avatar clutter, etc.) This is useful if you want to save some pages to your harddrive.

You can also download the entirety of chapters 1-3 in a <a href='http://darkage.mysticsoftware.net/dal/DAL.zip' target='_blank'>single ZIP file</a> (415 KB), which include a list of all the past characters and bios.

Background Story (Chapter 4 prelude)

Romme has disappeared into nothingness, along with the Dark Emperor Retan, his own son-- the only heir to the Dark Empire, the two other highest ranking officers, and countless others?  In but a flash the entire ruling class of the sprawling militant nation has vanished in a spell gone awry.

One month has passed since the events at Romme. The endless battle for territory has ended.  Without its leaders, the Dark Empire, encompassing nearly half of the world, ceased its wars on its neighbors.  Finally peace was at hand, for those battling against the empire, at least? for a new sort of chaos erupted within the once powerful nation?s borders.  Without a clear heir to the throne, the minor officers began to bicker. Massive civil war erupted.  The sprawling mainland of the Dark Empire-- Terius, a continent spanning nearly 1,000 miles across, has literally been split into hundreds of  tiny factions, the former officers now assuming the roles of local warmongers, each grabbing a city or two for themselves.  It is a time when only the strong survive?

The city of Laus, located at the very southern tip of a peninsula of Terius, was the only stronghold against the Dark Empire on the entire continent one month ago.  Now with the threat of invasion gone, pirates and thieves from across the world are flocking to this city, anxious to trek northward into the former empire?s mainland and take advantage of the chaos, lured by the thought that it is impossible for such a conquering nation not to have vast reserves of gold?

Chapter 1 and 2 summaries can be found in the chapter 2 and 3 signup topics (just increase the topic viewing cutoff date to see them)

Chapter 3 summary -- coming soon.

Dark Age Legends Rules v1.4

There are two types of people in the RP: characters and NPCs.

You can have up to four active characters (who you'll set up here). These are your characters and your characters alone. No one can control them but you.

Creating Characters

In an attempt to avoid stalemates and regulate battles better, characters are created a bit differently this chapter.  Every player has 4 character points.  Each player can use between 1 and 3 points to create a character.  The amount of points used corresponds to a character?s level.  The higher the level, the stronger that character is (but, the stronger your characters are, the less characters you?ll be able to make, since you?ll use up more points).  For example, you can have two level 2 characters, one level 3 and one level 1 character, or four level 1 characters, etc.  As long as your characters? levels add to 4, you?re fine.  You don?t have to use up all your character points.  How levels effect battles is explained below.

NPCs

NPCs are more flexible. Often you?ll see some soldiers, villagers, monsters, or other non important characters. Generally, anyone can create and use these characters. But if someone is using a NPC in a character like fashion, it?s probably best not to control it for them. Generally NPCs die off or leave the story in some way after a few posts, so posting them on the sign-up isn?t necessary.

Levels don?t apply to NPCs.  Use your own judgment in determining how strong a NPC should be relative to your character.

Levels

Before, the results of all attacks were determined by the target of the attack.  But in the event that two players both thought their characters should win, this lead to extremely drawn out stalemates (heh?).

The rules on the results of attacks remain the same, but these level rules affect the end result of battles.

In a battle, the character with the higher level has the right to win.  The lower level character should concede after five or six posts (note that losing a battle doesn?t mean your character has to die).  The levels are additive in handicap battles (battle of 1 vs. more than 1).  The side with the highest sum of levels has the right to win.  For example, a level 3 character should win against a level single 2 character, but should lose against four level 1 characters.

In a battle of equals (i.e. a level 2 character vs. another level 2, or one level 3 vs. three level 1?s, etc) there is no clear-cut winner.  These battles will probably resemble battling in previous chapters more.  Note that someone else jumping in  on one side will definitely sway the battle in that side?s favor, though.

Your character?s abilities and description should correspond to his/her level.  Some rough ideas of what a character of each level is:

Level 1:  The most realistic characters.  They probably know a few good spells or techniques, but have a lack of supernatural strength and powers.  These characters are most likely going to want to avoid battling alone and seek out others to team up with (RPG party, anyone?)

Level 2:  Members of this class usually have attained some powerful skills and are much more effective warriors.  Perhaps there is some supernatural element in their strength or maybe they have much experience in the battlefield.

Level 3:  The extremely destructive villains or the untouchable heroes.  They have mastered many techniques and are extremely strong. They are nearly invincible in one on one combat.  The only sure way to take them down is to overwhelm them with numbers?  Still they should have a weakness or two, although what it is is not always obvious.

Remember: This is a story, not a game, and there are no winners or losers!

Increasing levels

You can increase your character?s level (up to level 3) if you have enough character points in reserve.   For example, if you only created one level 2 character (keeping 2 points in reserve) and want him/her to become a level 3 at some later point.  If you want to increase your character?s level, please do it in an interesting way (i.e. the character completes some sort of quest, etc.)

Beyond level 3

I will consider allowing a character to grow to level 4 on a case by case basis.  The requirements for leveling up beyond level 3 is 1) The character must have existed for a full chapter beforehand and 2) The character must have successfully completed some sort of quest involving other players? characters as opposition.  If you think one of your characters qualify, PM me an application stating why you think your character qualifies.  If I approve it, I will then post those reasons for other players to consider along with a poll.  If 75% of the players approve it, your character will be granted the extra level.  Characters above level 3 still only count for 3 points in your character point total.

Swapping

You can make any one of your characters inactive at any time.  Making a character inactive means that that character?s level points become available for you to either make a new character or make another one of your inactive characters active again.  Remember that the sum of your active character?s level can not exceed 4.

Note that a character can only be swapped out and brought back once per chapter.  After that, if you want to make that character inactive again, you can do so, but he/she will have to sit out for the rest of the chapter.

Methods of making a character inactive include making them fall unconscious, having them go to sleep, leave the action, etc.

Actions

Each character is limited to two "actions" per post.  An action is something your character does. Some examples:

- Attacking another character
- Defending an attack
- Preparing an attack (i.e. for bigger than normal spells)
- Starting to walk/run/fly from one place to another
- Arriving on the scene
- Picking up an item

... etc. Basically use your own judgment. Conversation with other characters doesn't count (so you can talk as much as you want).

Charging Techniques and Levels

If a character takes more than one post to perform an attack, spell, etc., the number of posts taken before the attack is launched should be taken into consideration along with that character?s level.  I.e. If a level two character prepares a fireball for 2 turns before launching it, it should not be blockable by a level 3 character (level 2 + 2 turns = 4) unless the level 3 character spent the previous turn preparing some sort of defensive technique (level 3 + 1 turn = 4).

Story events and nature of actions

As far as the story goes, anything can happen as long as it's in good taste and doesn't disrupt the flow of the RP. The only restriction is that you don't control other players' characters. i.e. If you throw a fireball at someone, you let them decide whether they get hit by it or not.

Travel

Try and be realistic in the amount of time it takes to get to one place from another. You should never leave one area and arrive in the next in the same post. Places that are farther away should take more posts to get to. I'm not going to spell out the distances between each place we've been to so far, so use your own judgment.

Be descriptive! Especially when you're entering a place of your own design. Try and build off of other posters' descriptions as well. This is important, as it?s easier to tell what?s going on if you know where you?re at.

Posting

There is a limit of two 'updates' per day.  An update is a post that contains any actions for any of your characters.  The only exception is a post that contains only dialogue,  i.e. if your character is just talking to another character.

On the other hand, try and stop in to update at least once a day!

Three day rule: If you are fighting someone and your opponent doesn?t post for three days, assume they were hit by your attack and knocked unconscious (heh?)

If your character performs an action that demands a response from another player's character (i.e. perform an attack, ask a question), do not post an update to your character until the other player updates his/her character. Some exceptions obviously exist (see the 'three day rule', for example). If you do something that might elicit a response from multiple characters, use your own judgment. If you are unsure, put yourself in the other player's shoes and ask yourself if you would want to respond to your action.

Limitations

No unbounded instant teleportation.  If they have the ability, characters can only teleport for short distances, and even that should be used sparingly.  No instant transmission from one place to a totally different one.

Comments

Comments not part of the flow of the RP should be made obvious by placing them in between parentheses or slashes, etc.  Try and keep commenting to a minimum.  Major questions should be asked on this topic, rather than in the middle of the RP.

Try and refrain from quoting other posts unless absolutely necessary, since they just look bad and disrupt the flow of the RP.

Reading

It is important to read every post of the RP since your last post, and perhaps a page or two before the current  point if you?re just signing up.  In order to create a coherent story and world, we all need to know what is going on with everyone else, even if what other characters are doing on the other side of the world don?t immediately affect your own.

Though the above rules are long, they are certainly not as long as the collective posts the RP receives on a good day.  <span style='color:red'>Chances are if you?ve just skimmed though the above rules and  jumped to this line you are not cut out for this RP.</span>

(Heh?)

Character signup

To start, post your characters in this thread. Continuing chapter 1 - 3 players should repost their characters as well and fit them into the new leveling system.  Include the following information:

Name:
Level:
Gender:
Race: Can be pretty much anything
Age:
Job:
Weapon(s): plus a description, if necessary
Alliance: Could be a kingdom, tribe, cult, etc. (or no one at all!)
Description: Physical appearance
Bio: A short background. Perhaps just his/her immediate past, but can be more in depth if you want.
Chapter 1, 2, 3 Bio: If your character was in any previous chapters, give a short description of what he/she did in each.


Just one for me this time around:

Name: Lars
Level: 2
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: ??
Job: Prophet
Weapon: A broadsword, hidden under his cloak.
Alliance: none
Description:

Lars is completely covered by a black cloak, his indistinguishable face hidden under the darkness of his hood.  He stands at 5? 11? tall.

Bio:

Lars is a man of mystery.  Claiming to be a prophet, what he is up to is unknown.  He has arrived at Laus as the influx of foreign treasure hunters and fame seekers peaks.  He is looking for something? or to do something?  His is apparently skilled in wizardry and he can levitate himself by forcing his energy downward, as is common among sorcerers.


Chapter 4 begins in a week or so!

[Cesque]

God damn it... get's a bit complicated, doesn't it? Hope you will be standing guard in case Haraldur's level 1 character (that was a joke, we all know Haraldur will use level 3 character - as well as PM Xorlak every week asking for level 4) refuses to fall/escape after a week-long battle with my level 2 character Wink

(Lars Ulrich, huh... Wink)

Anyway... my characters:

Name: Cheetah Citra
Level: 2
Gender: Male
Race: Gepardi
Age: 22
Job: Shapeshifter / Adventurer
Weapon(s): None, abandoned the spear, usually fights in his transformed shapes
Alliance: None
Description:

Cheetah has short beard, long hair and wanders dressed in light leather armor made from animal skins.

Chapter 1, 2, 3 Bio:

Cheetah has left his island homeland of Samudra in attempt to seek for adventure and learn new transformations. He acame across the island kingdom of Romme at the time it was attacked by Dark Empire. He aided the "good" side, but as he realised Retan wanted to use a devastating spell, he fled and since then resided on a small island archipelago north of Romme.

Bio:

As he spent time on the island hunting and meditating over matters totally insignificant he suddenly noticed a wyvern on the horizon. To his amazement, the wyvern transformed into his old friend, Talon, who informed him about the situation. The Samudra Gepardis, living in isolation and even shunning other Gepardis, were attacked by pirate fleet, who pillaged the islands and during an attack, heavily wounded the old leader, Muni. He, dying, installed Talon as the new leader, but first he ordered him to seek out Cheetah and delivered him a small, wooden box he was told never to open.

After spending few days on the island, Talon said goodbye and left back to his homeland to begin his rule as the first leader of the new dynasty.

After his friend's depature, Cheetah opened the box, and, to his amazement, inside was an ornamented flask, liquid inside was clear like water, but rapidly moving, as if a seastorm was happening inside. Hew knew the sight of such flasks that old Muni used to store. These were actually the essences, captured, yet not consumed. What type of essence could this be?

As he opened the flask and drank the liquid, he could feel himself changing - he grew scales and his body turned into serpent-like one, he suddenly began to feel uncomfortable on land. He became a small-size Posidon, the water dragon.

"Excellent." - said Cheetah, transforming back into human form, since now remembering the new form. - "Perfect gift from the old Muni. I guess he either cared about me a bit, or went mad to send me this. Either way, he propably knew I'll need some aid on my adventurous life, hehehe."

After hearing about Dark Empire's fall from Talon, Cheetah turned into his new form and began to transverse the waters in search for the continent he could do something interesting next. It didn't took too much time before Cheetah arrived at the city of Laus.

(Cheetah's transformations now include: grey shark, barracuda, cheetah, wyvern, ice serpent and water drake)

Name: Kismet
Level: 1
Gender: Male (as all my characters, heh...)
Race: Generally, human (altough he claims to be the "chosen one")
Age: 18
Job: Warrior Priest
Weapon(s): Firebrand sword (burning with flame)
Alliance: Milintica (a religious sect)
Description:

Absolutely void of all facial and body hair (which is believed to be imperfect and burned out in a ritual for those entering Milintica sect), wearing white clothes and white cape with red fire symbol on the back.

Bio:

Kismet was an orphan, who as a baby was found in a basket left before the Milintica sect headquarters' doors (the headquarters were forged undeground, in natural cave system somewhere in the maindland). Milintica, who criticised Dark Empire's world conquer, was working in conspiration. Now, when news about the fall of it spread, the great priest of Milintica decided it'll be better to send away the young Kismet (who finished his warrior-priest training not too long ago) to Laus to explore the world and teach the word the words of the cult. He was never of any bigger use at the headquarters anyway (always wanting power but never wanting to work for it), so great priest delivered him his firebrand sword and sent away...

As a priest of Milintica, Kismet has natural resistance to fire and can use fire and holy spells as well, altough his level of skill is not really anywhere near expert. Trademark spell of Milintica members is temporary spontaneous combustion, which engulfs themselves in holy fire, harmless to them, but deadly against opponents, mainly undead and all true evil.

[Zeros']

Name: Zeros'
Level: 3
Gender: Male
Race: Demi-Human
Age: N/A
Job:NA
Weapon: Long Katana
Alliance:None

Description: Refer to avatar. Also height is about 5"4. He has a scar  on every inch of his body, everywhere you look there is a scar. He perfers to keep his trench coat on as to not reveal his scars.

Bio: A lone demon and the only heir to master Genma's style of martial arts.  

During one of there training exercises, Zeros' fell his old master with a swipe of his swords. He is overcome by greif and further pushes his techniques and training, trying to become the strongest as his master wishes.

After the felling of his master, Zeros' sets off to find the weapons of legend, his masters last words still in his mind.

Now as the turmoil of Romme's destruction is starting to come to the surface, it is time for Zeros' to return. He still carries the burden of the one to protect Iduran's legacy.

Chapter 1: A mysterious warrior who appeared when the Dark Empire started its invasion on Romme. He disappeared, and reappeared in chapter 2.

Chapter 2: Reappears when Haraldur destroys a village. He started a long fight agianst the two Dark Empire generals, Nex and Draven. He slain his own kind, later Nex was buried by Duilin.

Chapter 3: He returns to the struggling island of Romme to seek out his enemy he made in Chapter 2, Draven. He finds Draven, only to find him accompined by the mysterious man Jayce. A long battle brings his  old master Genma into the mix as he confronts Draven. Genma fights off Draven to a standstill and proceeds to kidnap the hero Iduran to bring him to the emperor for questioning.

Zeros' proceeds to fight Nex once again, onyl to find him zombified. Nex is faught to a stand-still and effectively disappears. Zeros' then wants to seek out Draven to finish there battle, only to find the Zero Weapon. He proceeds to fight the Zero Weapon to another standstill, it becoming incapacitated for a time. He sends the revealed forms of Qeni and Zev back to heaven.

Zeros' finds Jayce near the area where the three Arstian warriors once werem smirking his smirk. Zeros' proceeds into another fight with the heir to the Dark Empries heir to the throne Jayce. Jayce's first attack fell Zeros' sister Qeni, releasing his swords true power. Jayce reveals his true form of a shadow draken to his opponent. With the help of Tsu, Zeros' fights with Jayce until the emperor shows.

The fight with the emperor was long and tedious. Neptra dies in the confrontation with Genma and Retan proceeds to destroy the island, only a  few heros living.

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Name: Kami-ryu
Level: 1
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 19
Job: Ninja.
Weapon: Two dragon swords, kunai and various other ninja items.
Alliance: Zeros'

Description: He wore an elaborate cloak over himself, drapped in the darkest black ever imaginable. It reached to his hands, covering them when he stood in a neutral stance. The cloak also reached to his feet, where there were no shoes. His face was made non-existant as thehood covered the top of his head, while a shadow cast across his face.

Two swords hung, strapped on the left side of him. Both swords were equally long and slightly curved, the shape of the standard katana. The hilt consited of a black roaring dragon on either hilt, one with sapphire eyes, the other with ruby. The sword guard consited of pure gold, as well as the end of the sheath- which was also black.

His face was definitly American. He had dark green eyes, although only one was shown, his right eye. The left side of his face was covered in clean bandages, starting just below his left ear, going diagnolly up to the right to his forehead, stopping in the middle. His hair was a short brown, spiked ever so slightly, as to add to the indimidation. His mouth had a scar starting at the bottom of his nose, across his lips and ending at the cleft of his chin.

If the young person extended his right arm, he would reveal a metallic arm. The arm  might have resembled a real limb, if the right color, except for places where the metal work was obvious, such as bolts and some places where there needed to be gaps in the metal work. If he extended his left leg, it revealed a metallic leg, looking exactly like the other metallic limb, shined to perfection.

If the young man turned around, he would reveal a spetacular golden dragon symbol, ragging and twisting on his back. He also stood about 5 feet.

Bio: Kami-ryu is a young ninja, who swore alligence to his master. Recently, hositlites between two clans. Kami was the head ninja of the clan he swore alligence to, he would do anything; the opposing clan happened to be one that his first love resided to. The day before, he had proposed to his love and she greatfully accepted.

The following day, his master swore war to the other clan. Kami-ryu was struck with greif, not wanting to destory his true love. His master threatened him with the acts of treason and sepukku. Kami reluctently agreeded and so continued the battle.

A long a arduious battle took blace betweem the to clans. A long and bloody battle raged on for hours, the last two members of each clan left to battle; Kami-ryu and his true love.

Both were struck with greif, but they reluctently battled agianst each other, Kami-ryu winning in he end, but not without his own injuries. The battle cost him his right arm and left leg. Zeros' managed to come by just in the nick of time and managed to craft the metal limbs and bind them with magic to Kami's body. After that, Kami took what he could scavenge from the battle, his cloak a reminder of his pain and the swords a family heirloom.

Kami kept his ninja heiratige, he swore he would never alliance himself with another, expect his current master and his family, Zeros'. He took up another postion of a long forgotten trade of alchemy and soon became the only living master.

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As for anyone wondering about the weapons scattered at the end of Chapter 3, I'm leaving that up to Xorlak to decide if Zeros' holds any, except for Iduran's.

[Dude Man]

Hoo Hah! Let's party. (Didn't I say that last time?)

Name: Grant "Frost" Glaceus

Level: 1

Gender: Male

Race: Humen

Age: 22

Job: Ice Warrior

Weapon(s):
Ice Sword
A sword made of extremely strong solid ice, more powerfull then the average sword, but can be broken easier, and can be melt by fire, but not quickly.

Pick Axe
A simple pick axe, he uses it when battleing enemies who use fire. He useally uses it to break away terrain

Alliance: The Ice Warriors - A guild, who live on some moutains near by the island

Description: He is about average height. He has light brown hair, tied up at the back. He has an expentionally wide mouth.

Bio: Frost, was raised in Laus, but he ran away when he herd about the Dark Empire comming. He ran off into the moutains along with his brother and they found a guild called the Ice Warriors and they have served them ever since


Name: Brant "Bite" Glaceus

Level: 1

Gender: Male

Race: Humen

Age: 22

Job: Ice Warrior

Weapon(s):
Ice Thrower
An item totally power by magic ice crystals, that are mined in the moutains by the Ice Warriors. It's blasts beam simular to ice magic. It a farely large weapon, and powerfull weapon, so that's he uses. He also uses it to repair frost's sword.

Alliance: The Ice Warriors

Description: He is about average height. He has light brown hair, tied up at the back. He has very gnashy looking teeth

Bio: Bite, was raised in Laus, but he ran away when he herd about the Dark Empire comming. He ran off into the moutains along with his brother and they found a guild called the Ice Warriors and they have served them ever since

<span style='color:blue'>The Ice Warriors</span>
The Ice Warriors are a secret guild hidden in the moutains, the way to join is only to find the place on your own and then your qualify for the test (my varry) and then you can join. There basically a band of run-aways and wanders. The started out theifing and terrorizeing places but now there abit more peacefull, yet they still have the habbit of there old deeds at very rare times, just stay on there side and they shall stay on yours.

Name: Duilin Talonscar

Level: 2

Gender: Male

Race: Demi Humen (Half Deamon)

Age: 31

Job: Travler

Weapon(s):

Mallet
A very large wooden mallet. He only needs this since he's now trying to improve his skills

Alliance: Undecieded

Description: He is average height. He has very light skin, and a useally a sad look on his face. He has long hair, for a guy, and it's very dark. He now wears along black jacket, and dark grey shirt and pants, and leather boots. He got rid of his old armour, not needing it, because of his newly found deamon abilities. He still wears his back pak, and his wings seem to be missing.

Bio: As he flue of to his home land, he found it being totally wiped out. But there were new near by places. He then is trying ot decieded were to go and what to do.

Chapter 1: He was a Lutenaut in the Dark Empire. He was forced to join against his will, but he never had the courage to turn against them untill his Commander Darion framed him of betrayle. He joined Romme and helped out an old Soilder Iduran, and told him about the Dark Empire and Draven, Cheetah, an ex-dark empire commando, who he was never quite fond of, and a shape shifting Gepardi.

Chapter 2: When he went with Iduran and Cheetah to a Romme outpost. That's when he was initated as a Romme soilder, he changed his armor, and weapons. However he still had bits of his old Dark Empire armor on him. He joined up with Seth and he went to go take Iduran's sword to the Dragons Den, but he later gave it Zeros', who later defeated Nex.

Chapter 3: Duilin grew very tired and upset and spent most time inside the cave outpost, untill wile standing on guard he was kidnapped by his old rivals, Pophin and Veronika. Eventually he bull s--ted himself to join the Dark Empire, but just used it to escape. Later he learned that Iduran was captured and taken to Retan's Vessel, he went there with Cheetah and Seth, but was stoped by one of Retan's elite guard Genma. Veronika was also there. He fought her untill he KOed her. Then by a spell that Retan caused the ship became invisable. Later Nex was revived but was weakend by Zeros' again, but he had new powers, he revived Darion. Nevina defeated Nex but he revived again in the body of Pophin gaining new powers but looseing fire imunaty. Nex told Duilin he was deamon, and proved it. He was able to defeat Nex by conter attacking a huge Fire Ball of Death.

[Kahn]

I'll join this one
one question: can you move up a level and then move back down?

Name: Kahn
Level: 1
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 21
Job: Pirate
Weapon: Dagger for short distance and pistol for long, both in holster.
Alliance: none

Description:

5'10, clothes like this <a href='http://img126.exs.cx/img126/8344/thief.jpg' target='_blank'>http://img126.exs.cx/img126/8344/thief.jpg</a>, black bandanna covering hair.

Bio: having been on his own for most of his life he became a pirate in order to survive. He works for any pirate crew willing to take him for short periods of time.
Although he never believed in magic, he's been told his dagger may contain some.

[Zeros']

Hmm...I'm guessing your using a "Mage Knight" figure as a reference?

[Haraldur]

Name: Haraldur/The Bitter One
Level: 3
Gender: Male
Race: Human... shaped. Race unknown.
Age: 1 month
Job: Unknown, except for a very old and little known prophecy...
Weapon(s): None, exept himself.
Alliance: See Job.
Description: Long blond hair which is almost white. A beard and moustache of same colour. Northern European like skin. Blue eyes, in which a stange fire seems to burn in malice. Dressed in the skins of black bears. A swirling, dark black, red, green and blue aura surrounds him, but is predominantly black.
Bio: The god Melkoth, then lord of the earth, who covered the the world in a silent darkness, and brought great suffering to all the peoples of the world, once looked upon the most beautiful face in the world, and his hard black heart softened a little. He had seen the last surviving of the previous house of gods, the goddess Henna. With her he had one child: but at the birth the child split into three, and disappeared from their sight. What became of the child, nothing is known but a prophecy.



Name: Ellenna/The Light
Level: 1
Gender: Female.
Race: See Haraldur.
Age: 20
Job: See Haraldur. Mage.
Weapon(s): A blue staff, with mystic runes written on it. She has had it as far as she can remember. She has a faint glow.
Alliance: See Haraldur. Laus.
Description: Dark long hair. Blue eyes. Dressed in a black silk dress. Brown skin.
Bio: Was found in a field near Laus, with a staff, and nothing else, by a priest of Kala, the goddess of light. He noticed she had a faint glow, and took her to Kala's temple in Laus. He named her Ellenna, and raised her in the temple. Kala is also one of the many gods and godesses of magery, and Elenna was trained in the magic arts, specialising in magic of the the Light, doing good to people in Laus. Of her heritage she has only been told she was found in a field with her staff, for that is all that is known, apart from the aforementioned prophecy.

[Cesque]

Level: 3

"Obviously", you should have added.

[Xorlak]

Looking good!

As a bit of clarification: I'm not going to grant level 4 increases before chapter 4 starts, since I want everyone to start off on the same ground with this level thing.

Kahn:  That's fine.  I don't see anything wrong with moving down a level.

Zeros': Zeros' can find the weapons during the chapter, but starting out with any other than that sword wouldn't be fair (although it it possible that he has obtained information on where one is located during the past month)

Also, I updated the <a href='http://darkage.mysticsoftware.net/dal/DAL.zip' target='_blank'>ZIPed archive</a> with a complete list and bios of all the characters that participated in the first three chapters.

[Dude Man]

Hey Zeros' dosen't your character still have Nex's syth(sp)?

So Xorlak, I'm a tiny bit confused here,  Laus, is the good guy and Terius, is the bad guy, or is it the other way around?

<span style='color:blue'>I also did a small update on Frost and Bite's weapons</span>

[Cesque]

Errr... Dude Man, Terius is a continent and Laus is a city at southern tip of it. Unless there's something wrong with me, a mass of land can't be "good" or "bad".

[Dippy]

Name:Gungun
Level:3
Gender:Male
Race: Sasquach
Age:130
Job: Attack Beast
Weapon(s): One hand is a shotgun and the other welds an ice hammer
Alliance: Ice warriors
Description: a 13 foot, two headed Sasquach
Bio: He was found by frost and bite and they gave him a shiny coin in retern that he didn't eat them for dinner. He has been there humble servent ever since. he pulls wagens for Frost and Bite (Been aproved by Dudman)

[Cyber Wolf]

Ah... I guess I'll join this one. The level system makes this one worth partcipating in, So my characters don't get into 2 week long battles til I finally get pissed and give up..

Seth stayed on his little Island and called it home, btw, so he's not just lost at sea. He found some nice Islanders to live with.

Nevina returns! ^.^


Name: Nevina Seev

Level: 2

Gender: Female

Race: Jin Elf (A race I made up. She's the last of the species. They have a milienium long life span and never get old looking. They tend to be very proficient in White Magic.)

Age: 179 human years (Still very beautiful, Jin Elves stop aging at 17-23 human years)

Job: Jin Knight (A Lightly armored warrior who is proficiant in Curative/Holy magicks)

Weapon(s): A scimitar (The curved, arabic sword) and a Holy Dirk (A dagger), and a Holy Bastard Sword.

Alliance: Romme

Description: A Staggeringly beautiful Jin Elf. She is about 5 foot 6 inches and weighs about 102 pounds. She has Long, straight, Ocean Blue hair (Natural. Jins have odd hair colors). Her hair is about a foot past her shoulders and almost covers her eligant Elven Ears. Her Eyes are Silvery and beautiful, yet slightly creepy. Her skin is soft and has a light tan. She wears a white, tightly fitted tunic with no sleeves. On her neck she wears a silver chain with an odd looking pendant hanging from it. She wears a blue skirt that goes a little past her knees and from her waist hangs a bit of Red cloth with a golden crest in it. Under her skirt the Holy Dirk is tied to her leg. She wears wooden sandals on her feet.

Personality-wise, Nevina is very kind and consiterate. She hates injustice. She doesn't like to be under-estimimated just because she's a woman. She doesn't talk a lot unless she needs to, and she forgives people easily, if she feels they really are deserving of forgiveness, and holds very few grudges. A lot of times she likes to be left alone.

Bio: The Jin Elves lived on the Island even before the Romme Empire occupied it. The Jin Elves battled the Romme Empire when they found the Island, a very long time ago. The Jin Elves lost the Battle due to lack of man-power and shortage of resources.
Nevina was a warrior at the time of the war, and was a Well-Respected Commander. She was argueably the best warrior in the Jin Empire. She slew many Rommes in her days of service.
She holds no Grudges against the Rommes, as the 150 years of time has healed her emotional wounds. After the war, very few Jins were alive, and all of them with the exception of Nevina and two of the Jin elders were alive after a Plague brought over by the Rommes swept the Jin race. Even though the Jins are great white magicians, they did not know how to combat this plague. The Elders died about 60 years ago and since then, Nevina has lived alone. She did occasionally visit the Romme Villages, but kept to herself in the half-Ruined Jin Palace mostly, training her magic and physical prowess.
The Palace is to the far West of the island. The east wing is in ruins from time and battle, but The rest is intact and mostly good condition. The palace is made of Marble and closely resembles Arabic Palaces.

Chapter 2 bio: Nevina basically played Baby sitter for Zeros' children, Qeni and Zev. She has just resently joined with the Romme Resistance.

Chapter 3 bio: Didn't really do much, almost got killed, along with all of MotD's characters.
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Looks like Kahn beat me to the first pirate character. Oh wells, maybe they can party. =P

Name: Jakk "Ass" Tyric

Level: 2

Gender: Male

Race: Human (Yep, I made a human for once =P)

Age: 31 years old

Weapons: Carries 6 guns, all poorly crafted revolvers which, when fired, the safest place to be in front of them, cept' for one, which is completely identical in looks, but fires straight and true. Also has 2 black daggers, made of Shadamite, an unbreakable black metal, almost coal-like in appearance.

Alliance: None

Description: A man with long black hair, braided in dread locks stands before you. He has several ear rings in both ears, and has haunting green eyes. His skin is darkened Tan, and he is quite lean. He wears chain mail under his dark, black coat, and over his coat sits 2 belts, crossing diagnally over his chest. Each belt holds 3 guns and 1 black dagger. He wears a belt, studded with valuable jewels, and baggy black jeans made of a fine satin material. The jeans over-lap the tops of his shiney black boots, made of the finest leather available. He also has a black pirate hat, though he hardly wears it.

Bio: An honest to God, true pirate, this SeaDog was born on a ship. His father was a reveared pirate, though his name forgotten, the mark of his ship still stands to frighten people. He spent 93% of his life on a pirate ship, which brought him to love the ocean. He worships the Ocean Goddess, Yunia, daily. Due to this deep faith, he has the ability to mainipulate water and harness it's power. Once he turned 16, he comedeered a ship, the Darkened Diamond, he named it, and left his father, who died in a bloody battle against the Navy of a nation he pilaged on a regular basis. Jakk soon became a feared Pirate, after he left his father's shadow. All pirates either feared Jakk, or felt extreme jealously towards him, giving the "Jakk Ass" moniquor. He sails his ship alone, due to the fact that, no person in his right mind would ride a ship with him. He is a master of blades, learning everything he could learn from the pirates on his father's ship, he needed these skills if he hada run in with a Royal Navy..

He is lured to Laus because of his horrible lust for money, and sets sail for the town, full speed, increasing the average speed with his power over water.

[Zeros']

If anyone is wondering, this is just a bio of Genma. He's not actually going to be included in the story.

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Name: [Late] Genma
Level: 3
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 1089 [Deceased]
Job: NA
Weapon: Staff
Alliance: Dark Empire

Description:  Old master of the martial arts. He stands about 4'9. He wears a black robe, with a purple vest over it. His right hand his covered in a black cloth, which raps around his hand and up to alittle less then half his arm, bald and has a long white beard. He gained carnines (fangs) for the top of his mouth, white wolf ears and long flowing white hair after murging with Zev.

Bio: A legendary martial artist, whos name has been passed down through the age. His skills were only passed down to his one pupil, Zeros'. He survived for more then 1000 years by using his ki to minipulate how his body functions, allowing him to survive.

He joined the Dark Empire roughly a few years before Retan took control and quickly advanced in the ranks. His main objective was to get close to the emperor enough to assassianate him. After the inital invasion on Romme, Genma's duties were called to order to help the Dark Empire.

He quickly found himself defending the Romme people from the likes of the head-strung Draven, and the water serpent, Neptra. He kidnapped the hero of Romme and effectively killed him, although indirectly. He quickly found himself fighting agianst the water draken Neptra.

He and Zion effectively managed to kill Neptra, much to Genma's displease. He gave Neptra a proper bural to where she was born. The destruction of Romme gave him time to train Zeros' in the last of his martial arts.

After a fatal mistake in judging one of Zeros' strikes, cost Genma his life.

"Find the weapons...keep...*cough*..them from the...*cough*..Empire..." Those were the last words he spoke to his only pupil before he lapsed into the eternal sleep. Now it was Zeros' burden to carry to stop the Empire once and for all.

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That's all for Genma's tale of woe.

[Aminaga]

I think I'll sign up for this one while I can.

Here's my characters:

Name: Litaku
Level: 1
Gender: Male
Race: Human?
Age: 30
Job: Supreme Warrior with Dark Magic on his Side.
Weapon(s): Golden Sword.
Alliance: None.
Description: Red glowing eyes. Grey. Redish Black Suit.
Bio: Little is known of Litaku's former past. This mercenary appears to have
the powers of darkness on his side. Which makes the others wonder...
"Can he be trusted?" ...
Chapter 1, 2, 3 Bio: This is the first chapter of Dark Age Legends that he's partisipating in!

Name: Thargole.
Level: 3
Gender: Male
Race: Dark Dragon
Age: 2961
Job: Gaurdian Dragon for Litaku
Weapon(s):
Alliance: None.
Description: Massive and Demonic Dragon with Dark Powers.
Bio: A hideous beast of destruction with a wrath of vengence.
This dragon dedicates himself to helping Litaku and his allies in battle.
Chapter 1, 2, 3 Bio: This is the first chapter of Dark Age Legends that he's partisipating in!