Fantasy The Last Necromancer

[aranafco]

The thread: Deadman Express [Always Open]





The story:


From his fortress hidden deep in the northern reaches, the infamous warlord and rumored necromancer Biess Leudrant has issued a challenge: Whoever can first bring him the remains, complete or partial, of the legendary war hero Elassi Nuver will be rewarded with a new body, young and immortal.


The world:


Magic long ago left this world, but the remnants of it still live on, bodyguards who can spit fire, assassins with pit eyes and poisonous fangs, cat eared waitresses, etc. In some places half-blood humans are outright hunted down, but in most nations it is only the one's whose mutations make them too specialized for war who are shunned. Besides the different geography, it is mostly the same as our world during the pre-modern era.


The RP:


The RP would begin on the south of the continent, initially the corpse will be in two pieces, the skull and the skeleton/everything else, who will be carrying these at the beginning will be picked at random. I'd like to get characters with varied motivations, people who are in for something other than inmortality, to be able to make teams. It would be always open, with people and characters able to join the race at any time.


What do you think? Suggestions? What other info do you consider important?

 

[Soviet Panda]

This seems interesting. Can you explain the whole magic thing a bit more in depth?

 

[aranafco]

This seems interesting. Can you explain the whole magic thing a bit more in depth?

There was once magic in the form of witchcraft and shamanism. During a particularly drawn out and bloody war, sorcerers employed by both sides started using reanimated corpses to pad their numbers, and later they started mixing human and animal parts to create supersoldiers.


Believing this to be an abomination and seeing no end to the war a shaman sacrificed himself to create a barrier preventing communication between the spiritual and mortal realms, essentially rendering magic knowledge useless. Stripped of the possibility of creating a new wonder weapon the side which was at that time in an unfavorable position decided to yield and sign a peace treaty, giving up all of their lands in the mainland. Not that the political side matters much, since both empires have dissolved by the beginning of the story.


These supersoldiers mixed with the general population and now every once in a while a child is born showing these traits, these people are known as half-blood, implying they are half-human and half-beast. It is all a way to handwave everyone making up their own superpower.


How Biess Leudrant manages to keep practicing necromancy is a mystery for everyone but his inner circle.

 

[Soviet Panda]

I'm going to give this a bump, because as soon as it goes to page two the chances of people joining will drop.

 

[WrightyNo1]

i'm into it, i'll give it a go

 

[Neddeia]

I'm interested. Particulary cause I could join a team, as a noble of the territory that had to yield the war? He thinks Biess will indirectly cause trouble, that could create a new war.

 

[aranafco]

Ok, I'll wait for a few more people before doing the the thread. Do you have suggestions for a name? The one right now is sort of a placeholder.

 

[Neddeia]

The dead war hero's decrete? The Secret of the Legendary Deceased War Hero?

 

[aranafco]

The dead war hero's decrete? The Secret of the Legendary Deceased War Hero?

Something along those lines, too bad Dead Man's Run is already taken. Maybe Hunt for a Dead Man?

 

[Soviet Panda]

Dead man postal service. I say jokingly, of course.

 

[Captifate]

I'm curious. I have an interesting motivation for a character I just thought up that'd suit this premise. I'll save that for the sign up, but as for titles...


To Cheat Death ?

 

[Neddeia]

Beyond Death? Death Boundaries Game?


Yeah join us and see~

 

[aranafco]

Dead man postal service. I say jokingly, of course.

I actually think Deadman Express sounds pretty cool, but probably gives off a wrong idea of what the RP is about.


Thanks everyone for showing interest! I'll put up the thread tomorrow night probably, I have an entrance exam and gotta study rn.

 

[aranafco]

@Shay Wright


@Beowulf


@Captifate


@Lir


@Neddeia


Ok everyone the thread is up, I couldn't get Deadman Express out of my head so that's what I ended up calling it, but I'm still open to suggestions really.


Deadman Express [Always Open]

 

[Neddeia]

Seeking fot roleplayers, to get me this immortal body!

 

[aranafco]

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