LilMissSunshine
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Alright, I've edited the sections that needed it. I hope everything is in order now! Please tell me if there is anything else I need to fix. Thanks!
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Fantasy Visian Academy OOC
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I'll have to drop out of this one after all. u-u Sorry for the inconvenience.
darkborn
Senior Member
Uhm, so, here's what I have for my race so far. Posting it here, because, uh... I have no idea where else to post it? xD?
So, here we go:
Lore of Shade Race: Shades are… almost like ghosts, in a way. No, more like vampires. Consider them pseudo-undead.
Shades appear like humans, albeit with deathly pale skin, blue eyes and black sclera, and black hair that fades like shadow dissolving like mist at the ends. Aside from these universal traits, shades look almost human, with all their differences and quirks.
How shades come to be is a mystery; it’s universally agreed that shades used to be… normal people. They have the appearance of their ‘past’ life; however, they have almost no memories of their previous life, aside from how they looked originally, and sometimes their first name. The rest is cloaked in a literal wall of shadow; in a shade’s mind, their past life is blocked by a black fog. From time to time, glimpses of their past life can happen, but most of the time, it is a frustrating glimpse of what they ‘were’, or more morosely, what they ‘maybe were.’
Shades are classified as pseudo-undead, and not undead, because of a variety of reasons: One, every divination spell or necromantic spell never identifies them as their original self. Two, while holy magic/positive energy doesn’t exactly harm them, nor does it help them, like what it does with most living beings. Furthermore, they can hold silver, and silver doesn’t harm them like it does with undead. Thirdly, and most importantly, they don’t register as undead to divination spells.
Shades have a variety of abilities, though many of these abilities are considered… tiered.
For example, EVERY shade, even newborn shades, have three abilities: The ability to assume the form of their ‘past’ life (Aka, changing skin color, eye color, and hair color.); the ability to manipulate shadow, albeit in a limited form (Namely, forming weapons of darkness.); and being able to blur with shadows.
So, here we go:
Lore of Shade Race: Shades are… almost like ghosts, in a way. No, more like vampires. Consider them pseudo-undead.
Shades appear like humans, albeit with deathly pale skin, blue eyes and black sclera, and black hair that fades like shadow dissolving like mist at the ends. Aside from these universal traits, shades look almost human, with all their differences and quirks.
How shades come to be is a mystery; it’s universally agreed that shades used to be… normal people. They have the appearance of their ‘past’ life; however, they have almost no memories of their previous life, aside from how they looked originally, and sometimes their first name. The rest is cloaked in a literal wall of shadow; in a shade’s mind, their past life is blocked by a black fog. From time to time, glimpses of their past life can happen, but most of the time, it is a frustrating glimpse of what they ‘were’, or more morosely, what they ‘maybe were.’
Shades are classified as pseudo-undead, and not undead, because of a variety of reasons: One, every divination spell or necromantic spell never identifies them as their original self. Two, while holy magic/positive energy doesn’t exactly harm them, nor does it help them, like what it does with most living beings. Furthermore, they can hold silver, and silver doesn’t harm them like it does with undead. Thirdly, and most importantly, they don’t register as undead to divination spells.
Shades have a variety of abilities, though many of these abilities are considered… tiered.
For example, EVERY shade, even newborn shades, have three abilities: The ability to assume the form of their ‘past’ life (Aka, changing skin color, eye color, and hair color.); the ability to manipulate shadow, albeit in a limited form (Namely, forming weapons of darkness.); and being able to blur with shadows.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
First off, we love the concept you got going here. I actually never heard of a shade before, so it's a pretty novel idea. That being the case, I'm curious how they're usually created? Like, is it some sort of ritual or is it a natural occurrence? If it's natural, how do they usually form? I'd love to know additional lore on this. Oh, also, we like the abilities you've shown us, but be sure to include their weaknesses! We've gone ahead and thought up some of our own so that maybe we can help guide you before you submit your sheet. I'll keep them in order with what you have.
First ability: Actually don't have much of a weakness for this one lol. I think it's pretty cool that they can still take the form of a sexy anime boy.
Second ability: For the weapons of darkness, we did want to bring up a few givens for it. One, this ability won't be possible if it's pitch black out since, well, there are no shadows. This can be undone by a light source, but that also means someone can destroy that light source, too. Also, we'd like to have a cap on how many times this can be used. The beauty of shadow weapons is that you have an arsenal of a variety of weapons without needing to carry them. That being the case, we don't want your beautiful shade boy pulling weapon after weapons out of his bum.
Third ability: I'm assuming blur with the shadows means hiding in the shadows. This is fine since shades seem to almost be like assassins in this sense. I guess the weakness I'm thinking of is that they can still be tracked through things like magic sense or something?
If you don't mind some of these limits and with us being a little inquisitive of these neat ideas you've cooked up, we'd love to see you get that CS up ASAP.
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Silvis
Member
VomitIcicle
Hey to start I wanna say thanks for joining us! So I had some things I wanted to go over with you about your character. I'm cool with him having all the equipment but wanted to make sure that we were on the same page that it will be tiring to be decked out in all that and it will definitely slow him down. In regards to the magic resistance tattoos I wanted to touch bases with you on how powerful they are. If they block all hostile magical effects I'd want them to block all beneficial ones too. So he'll end up having human abilities only but still be protected from magical abilities in return. While I don't think they sound like they have an effect on magic items in general from what I'm reading I think it should stop magical items from having effects on the character either way. I'm open to discussing modifying it with you if you like too. I love the character and want to see them in Visian.
VomitIcicle
Junior Member
The tattoos prevent beneficial magic from working, in addition to any potions he takes having a far slower effect than they normally would.
Hey to start I wanna say thanks for joining us! So I had some things I wanted to go over with you about your character. I'm cool with him having all the equipment but wanted to make sure that we were on the same page that it will be tiring to be decked out in all that and it will definitely slow him down. In regards to the magic resistance tattoos I wanted to touch bases with you on how powerful they are. If they block all hostile magical effects I'd want them to block all beneficial ones too. So he'll end up having human abilities only but still be protected from magical abilities in return. While I don't think they sound like they have an effect on magic items in general from what I'm reading I think it should stop magical items from having effects on the character either way. I'm open to discussing modifying it with you if you like too. I love the character and want to see them in Visian.
He'd only usually be decked out like that during something like a tourney, or actual combat.
Regarding the magical artifact thing, I was thinking that the actual effect it would have be negligible at best. Although looking over my sheet again I think I may have overdone his weapons effects.
Silvis
Member
Hey sorry it took a bit to respond. It sounds like we are on the same page then. I would like to see it mention buffs don't work on him in addition to the healing not working in the CS. That way it's established and people can know he will always be fighting at a human strength. I'm excited to see him joining us!
VomitIcicle
Junior Member
It's already there, its stated stuff like healing magic has no effect on him while potions take nearly twice as long to take effect and are not nearly as effective as they usually would be.
Is there anything else that needs to be edited, looking forward to the rp.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
The only thing we'd like you to edit is that magical artifacts, whether passive or active, can't be used due to the effect of the tattoo. Once you've done that, we'll approve your sheet immediately. Thanks for the cooperation!
VomitIcicle
Junior Member
No problem, I'll get right on it.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
Nessi
Hey, Nessi. I'm liking the sheet, but could I ask you to remove the weather manipulation and thunderstorm summoning? Once you do that, I think we'll be all good to go with your character.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
Phantomelda
We're also loving the sheep demon. All that we're concerned about is the hex bolts. Maybe we can keep it as strong magic but remove the curse on it? We're just unsure what this entails or how long it'd be active, so it's safer to keep it as a strong spell and that's it.
Nessi
slut for slushies
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
Thanks! I also forgot to ask you this before, but do you have the parameters of what her lightning is capable of? Like, when she shoots out a bolt, is it a straight-up lightning bolt, or is it weaker than that? Considering one shot of a high voltage could kill most people, we'd like to know what you had in mind for the extent of its power.
Phantomelda
your friendly neighborhood ghost
TheImmortalDeity
I removed the part about curses! Hex bolts only is strong magic and that's it.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
I actually can't see the sheet right now. Perhaps it's being revised by a mod. Once we can check it out and confirm all the changes, I'll send you that invite. Nice work!
Phantomelda
your friendly neighborhood ghost
TheImmortalDeity
It is but no worries! Thank you so much!
Nessi
slut for slushies
TheImmortalDeity
Sorry it took so long for me to respond to this, got a little caught up in some other things. As for your question for how strong her bolts of lightning are, I'd say much weaker then an average bolt of lightning. It would hurt like a bitch to get hit with but it wouldn't kill you. If Lia were to shoot a bolt of lightning powerful enough to kill someone, it would probably leave her pretty much out of energy for the day.
Silvis
Member
Heterological
Hey sorry it took a while to reply but I've looked over your character and had a couple questions. First one is if you can elaborate more on the buffs from cold and shadows. What do they actually buff and by how much. As for the other one, we've been asking people to put limits on the weapons/armor they can summon. How strong are they and how many can be summoned essentially?
Heterological
Search it up
I'll get on that.
Heterological
Search it up
I made a few adjustments.
Silvis
Member
Heterological
After careful consideration, we don't think this type of character will fit in. If you have a different character that you would like to try using we'd be happy to look it over.
Heterological
Search it up
I'll do that.
TheImmortalDeity
the greatest mule
Superfly47
Hi, Super. So we're loving the character you've made, but we have a few requests/questions on your abilities. I'll go over them to give you an understanding of what we're looking for in each one.
Freeze: We don't mind Eldiza having frost breath, but we can't say that melting people with it is something we want. If you can remove the melting part and say that it can cover someone in frost (but not freeze them solid) and only lasts 10 seconds before she has to take another breath. We also recommend adding that if she does it too much she gets a sore throat? Ice breath sounds like it can be painful to use a lot.
Snowman: Can we get an exact height and maybe an example of this creature's strength? Like, can it lift a car or something along those lines? Also, limit the number of times it can be summoned per day?
Ice: Can we change this to her only being able to freeze small surfaces? As an academy, every student should have room to improve, so we want to make her current ability limited and have her grow as she attends classes to help her learn to control her magic.
Also, one of our mods kindly asks if you would be open to changing your character's FC. It matches the picture of a discord bot we have, and they find it difficult to distinguish the two.
Superfly47
Hi
Updated, hope you like it.
