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The Plaguelands; Rise of the Scarlet Crusade
Topic Started: January 27, 2017, 12:53 am (261 Views)
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"We should circle back," The paladin urged as broken homes creaked around them. "We've been separated for too long, commander."

The party he was leading was frightened, that much was obvious. In truth, the old commander was scared of this place as well. Once this city, Stratholme, had been the greatest city in the northern province, second only to the capital itself. Now, it was a bastion of the dead. The cobblestone streets were stained with blood, and each footstep sent an echo that shivered down the commander's spine. "Afraid of the dead, Willem?" Saiden remarked.

"No, sir." The soldier retorted. "Bu-

"But what?" The commander turned to face his battalion. Instinctively, he took a head count of his troops. One. Two. five. Where's Marcus? He tightened the grip on his hammer and began looking about as his confused men looked to him.

"Sir?" The same soldier said.

"We are short a man, soldiers." Saidan declared. "Do I need to make you hold hands?! Light give me patience." He pointed to his men, ordering them into a new position. "We're circling back for Marcus. Congratulations, Willem, you get to take point."

The grunt gave a stern look before falling to position. Saidan would discipline him once they were safe at the Silver Hand Bastion, the barracks of their former order. It was the only base the remnants of Lordaeron held within the city after the fall of their kingdom to the Undead Scourge.

Saidan had walked this street a dozen times a day, before, when he was commander of the Bastian. Second only to Lord Uther himself, but the traitor prince had slew him six months prior, with the blood of his father fresh on his blade. The walk would never be the same. Once the city was reclaimed, the lives lost would still haunt these streets. And Saidan. I should have done more. His mind screamed. We should have gutted the prince after what he did here.

The men ahead stopped. "Whats wrong with you all?" Saidan roared from the rear. The men stepped aside, revealing the head of Marcus and a trail of blood leading into an ally. "Forward!" he commanded, charging into the alley. "We'll kill whatever monster did this."

Reluctantly, the men obeyed their enraged commander, following him into the alley. It was dark, but the undead were incapable of traps. Such behavior was unheard of, for they were ignorant, clumsy creature, and their master had fled far from this place. This was the work of a ghoul pack. The commander had seen this behavior a dozen times.

"Stand strong, we are the chosen of the light!" Saidan encouraged his men. Instantly, debris from a near building began to fall, crushing his batallion. Falling forward, the commander was pinned below a singed support beam, struggling to move.

"Is this the best the light can do?" A sinister voice whispered from the shadows, followed by a hoof stomp. A massive creature of demonic might emerged. Saidan knew it as a Dreadlord. They commanded the Scourge during the fall of Lordaeron, but the Prince had betrayed them, too. They were without allies. What cause would it have to be here?

"Monster," Saidan whispered, struggling to get free. The demon was on him in an instant, pulling him from the debris, and slamming him onto the pavement. The paladin struggled to move, yet the demon grasped him yet again, this time by the throat. "Your kind will never defeat us!"

"No," The dreadlord answered. "You will destroy yourselves. Know that I am Balnazzar. Know, as I drink your life, that I will take up residence in this weak shell your soul calls home. Know that I will corrupt and destroy everything and everyone you have ever loved."

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Saidan screamed in pain. He could feel the demon within his mind, penetrating his most protected corners. "You will never. The light will destroy you!"

"The Light will be my shield, Paladin. Your light is my shield."

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Edited by oniskieth, January 27, 2017, 12:58 am.
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While I am not around much anymore, I would unquestionably read it.
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Do we need to know anything about World of Warcraft in order to have fun? I don't know anything about it at all. >__<
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January 27, 2017, 10:49 pm
Do we need to know anything about World of Warcraft in order to have fun? I don't know anything about it at all. >__<
Not at all! Chronologically, the story will fall before WoW on the series' timeline, so you won't need to know anything. I'm also going to attempt to explain certain background events from the warcraft series in the RP so no one will have to do research on the story if they don't have the desire.

I'll go ahead and make a character sheet.

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Judge me, senpai.

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oniskieth
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@Sin

Everything seems mostly in order. I do have a few things I need to mention. My primary point is your character's eyes. Blood/High elves have glowing eyes of a singular color. (Shades of green for blood elves and shades of blue for high elves and titular blood elves.) I don't expect you to change the eyes on the artwork or anything, just mentioning it on the spoiler tab would be enough for me.

My second mention is your character's race. While Blood Elves are playable, your character's origin story and class would point towards being a high elf. The blood elves with green eyes have feasted on fel (demonic) energies, and titular blood elves adopted the name in memory of their fallen race. If your character did one or the other, that's fine. It's just worth mentioning which lead to her being a Blood Elf.

Also, Shamans aren't really a race that blood/high elves are by culture, but since your character was raised by a dwarf in dwarf lands I'll allow it, no problem. However, It's worth mentioning that in Warcraft, Shamans literally talk to elementals, and they in turn lend them their powers if they're kept happy. If you were going for a more scholarly mage/witch character that shoots fireballs/lightning you might be better off as a mage or warlock. Just making sure you know how shamanism works, but I'm not opposed to an elven shaman.

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I'm fairly interested cause between fruitlessly searching for a meaning to life I'm bored as fuck, but in doing research about how the Warcraft universe works and what kind of characters would be possible, I'm not really sure how to "get into" it. It seems like the only draw of the franchise is literally in the name--the war-craft. There's NOTHING but war. In the birth of the cosmos, Light and Void went to war. The Light made the Titans and the Void made the Old Gods or the Demons and then those guys went to war. One of the titans turned evil and then he went to war with his former buddies. Then everybody discovered Azeroth, which was home to a variety of races...that were always warring with each other. And because this wasn't enough, they brought some MORE races from other planets for an even BIGGER war!

And then somebody decided that even the dead shouldn't know peace from war, so they started bringing back the dead to fight in a big war with zombies.

Is there ANYTHING to this universe besides just fighting? Don't get me wrong, fighting's important. You gotta have conflict in any kind of story otherwise there's no point to it. But it's like...how am I supposed to create a character outside of it? How could there even BE peasants and farmers if the earth has constantly been scorched and salted by every race that has trod upon it? How could any of the races develop culture and science or religion and magic when there's always some new enemy bashing in the door or a new objective to go try and capture and destroy? It doesn't even seem like they could have strategy, tactics, formation--between the time you sent out the scout and the time he came back with the information, three more wars got started!

I'm struggling to come up with a character idea and a character personality that would actually fit and work within the context of the universe, and it's hard because I as the author of the character can't divorce myself from how silly the setting seems to me.
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The entire planet isn't at war at once. Just warring countries. Most of the land is enjoying a relative peace.

Most of these past wars have been hundreds of years apart. There are long periods of peace, then periods of war. Short periods of peace followed by a war. Peace. War. Peace. War. Long peace.

In ancient times, Europe was at war all the time, but vastly different cultures and languages still emerged within defined borders.

There is plenty in the setting besides fighting. Maybe I should ask what you're looking for in Warcraft?
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