Character Primer

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Character Primer

This Character Primer will provide all information needed to create a character as well as the information for character growth, roleplay, and participation in quests/myths. Each main category will be broken up into its own post in this Primer.

Characters and Ranks

Character Rank

Characters possess a rank, determining the absolute magnitude of their character including their Path, Skills, Supernatural Abilities, Magic Powers, and Styles/Forms. The character's rank also determines the degree of either laborious training or natural talent which the character may currently possess and presents one possible path of forward momentum out of many which the character may possess.

E-Rank: Characters that are just beginning their journey and haven't experienced true power whether common-ranked adventurers, commoners, or untrained nobility. These characters tend to have potential however it is simply untapped.

D-Rank: Characters that have begun journeying towards either magical power, physical excellence, or exalted piety. These characters are most often seen as iron-ranked adventurers and members of the middle class, and have begun apprenticeships.

C-Rank: Characters that have come into their own right regarding magical power, physical excellence, or exalted piety. These characters are usually steel-ranked adventurers, minor nobles, and clergymen, and have made a name for themselves.

B-Rank: Characters that more easily utilize magical power, physical excellence, or exalted piety to their own purpose. These characters are usually damascus-ranked adventurers, major nobles and royalty, faction leaders, and bishops or prelates.

A-Rank: Characters that now utilize their magical power, physical excellence, or exalted piety as an extension of themselves. These characters are usually leaders of kingdoms and/or empires or the rare platinum-ranked adventurers.

S-Rank: Characters of legendary stature that have only shown to appear once every hundreds of years, and are known to be powerful enough to conquer a town solely on their own.

Rank Allotment

Rank E - The Common

+ Two Vocation Skill Point
+ Two Path Traits
+ First Style and Form
+ First Supernatural Ability Slot
+ One Magic Power Slot
+ Basic Element Affinity

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Rank D - The Apprentice
+ Two Path Traits
+ Basic Element Affinity

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Rank C - The Journeyman
+ Two Path Trait

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Rank B - The Adept
+ Two Path Traits
+ Basic Element

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Rank A - The Expert
+ Two Path Traits

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Rank S - The Master
+ Two Path Traits

Rank Growth

Once your character has reached the rank Growth Requirements as listed below for the next rank of your progression, your wish to continue progression may be met in one of two ways. Either by posting a character update listing roleplay threads and quests showing the character has gone above and beyond; or taking the Trial of Marque. This trial is simply undertaken by completing any quest one rank higher than your current rank and having a moderator sign-off on your quest once complete.

• To advance from E to D, you must complete any D-rank quest.
• To advance from D to C, you must complete any C-rank quest.
• To advance from C to B, you must complete any B-rank quest.
• To advance from B to A, you must complete any A-rank quest.

Important: Please note that undertaking either method will only progress as high as A-rank and one must consult one of other potential paths for further growth to S-rank.

Furthermore for characters increasing their rank at creation through other methods not listed, will begin with all rank growth requirements in-place and learned for their particular rank.

Rank Growth Requirements

Rank D - The Apprentice
+ Two Paths
+ Three Vocational Skills
+ Three Styles/Forms
+ Two Supernatural Abilities
+ One Basic Element
+ Three Magic Powers

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Rank C - The Journeyman
+ Four Paths
+ Four Vocational Skills
+ Four Styles/Forms
+ Three Supernatural Abilities
+ Two Basic Elements
+ Five Magic Powers

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Rank B - The Adept
+ Six Paths
+ Five Vocational Skills
+ Five Styles/Forms
+ Four Supernatural Abilities
+ Two Basic Elements
+ One Advanced Element
+ Seven Magic Powers

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Rank A - The Expert
+ Eight Paths
+ Six Vocational Skills
+ Six Styles/Forms
+ Five Supernatural Abilities
+ Three Basic Elements
+ One Advanced Element
+ Nine Magic Powers

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Rank S - The Master
+ Ten Paths
+ Seven Vocational Skills
+ Seven Styles/Forms
+ Six Supernatural Abilities
+ Three Basic Elements
+ Two Advanced Elements
+ Eleven Magic Powers

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Rank S - Maximum
+ Twelve Paths
+ Eight Vocational Skills
+ Eight Styles/Forms
+ Seven Supernatural Abilities
+ Three Basic Elements
+ Two Advanced Elements
+ Thirteen Magic Powers
+ Character Relic

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Character Advantages

Advantages are set guidelines to the apex potential of the character and by no-means a replacement for quality roleplay, meant to perform certain actions or in combat with other player-characters or quest/myth combatants. Advantages are also meant as a system of progression, but are not the be-all fast rules when it comes to who can win a fight.

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Strength Advantage: Representing massive force in all forms, the strength advantage gives an advantage to the character’s damag yield whether from melee. ranged. or magical attacks.

Agility Advantage: Representing both speed and reflexes, the agility advantage gives an advantage to the character when moving quickly, avoiding attacks, or making quick attacks.

Endurance Advantage: Representing the amount of strain and pain one can take before they expire, the Endurance Advantage acts as a level of defense by ignoring one strength/attunement advantage of the enemy, per endurance advantage.

Attunement Advantage: Also known as the 'Magic Advantage', the attunement advantage gives an advantage to the character when casting magic.

Other Advantages: Other advantages may be created at the prerogative of the content owner, through supernal abilities and forms. Full creative liberty is given to catalog what effects are given to these advantages.

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Advantages from Supernatural Abilities: Supernatural abilities allow the creation of new types of advantages known as Other Advantages, however they are limited to giving three such advantages or equivalent abilities. All advantages must be accurate in their lore and effect, for instance an SA named warrior's eye cannot give a strength advantage.

Advantage Restrictions: With the synergy of the advantage system, the light-structure releases some limitations which a heavy-attribute system may carry, however no person may gain more than ten advantages in a single category. To restrict the flow of overwhelming advantage it has been limited so you can only ever stack advantages within exterior methods, such as a Style and Supernatural Ability stacking.

Through this restriction, a Supernatural Ability and a Supernatural Ability overlap rather than stack. For instance, two Supernatural Abilities which grant strength advantages will not stack, instead the highest category advantage will apply. An example, one S/A grants two strength advantages and another grants an endurance advantage and a strength advantage; instead of gaining three strength advantages the character would have two.

Elemental Control

Users gain the ability to exert control over the element in its natural state up to a number meters from them. Mana is consumed when manipulating based upon the size of the area/amount of matter being manipulated. When controlling an element the size of the area being manipulated determines the skill rank of and amount of mana used to do so.

- 1 meter area manipulation– E rank Mana cost
- 3 meter area manipulation - D rank Mana cost
- 5 meter area manipulation - C rank Mana cost
- 15 meter area manipulation - B rank Mana cost
- 25 meter area manipulation - A rank Mana cost
- 35 meter area manipulation - S rank Mana cost

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Experience Training

Beginning with one power, you will eventually create and seek to fill your available slots to rank-up. There are multiple methods for doing so, however the basic method is known as ‘Experience Training. Experience Training requires effort in roleplay and a certain level of plot, known as Grading Points. A moderator will give each post a grade from zero to fifteen depending on a number of factors; post quality, creativity, and relevance of training. Once your combined grade is equivalent to the value listed below, you have learned the ability/power. Other ways to learn these include certain quests/myths and events.

Magic Powers

• Learning E-Rank Magic: Three Point Grading
• Learning D-Rank Magic: Five Point Grading
• Learning C-Rank Magic: Seven Point Grading
• Learning B-Rank Magic: Nine Point Grading
• Learning A-Rank Magic: Twelve Point Grading
• Learning S-Rank Magic: Fifteen Point Grading

Supernatural Abilities

• Learning Supernatural Ability: Nine Point Grading

Combat/Magic Styles

• Learning Base Style: Four Point Grading
• Increasing Style to Expert: Eight Point Grading
• Increasing Style to Master: Twelve Point Grading

Transformations/Forms

• Learning Static Forms: Nine Point Grading

Advanced Elemental Affinities

• Learning Advanced Elements: Seven Point Grading

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Mana and Characters

Each character is born with only a portion of their spirit fulfilled with useable internal energy (Mana) that may be consumed to cast Magic Powers, this amount increasing with increases in rank as the character trains their mind to handle more of their Mana until finally they can use their entire spiritual source of Mana. This pool is represented as a percentage that is consumed by a portion when casting magic, depending on the rank of the power. As the character gains Intelligence Advantages they will notice an increase a character's Mana Pool, by +5% per Advantage up to a maximum of +40%. Mana may regenerate each thread if one has a form or ability which allows for such, but otherwise refreshes from thread to thread.
E-rank: 20% Mana Pool
D-Rank: 30% Mana Pool
C-Rank: 45% Mana Pool
B-Rank: 60% Mana Pool
A-Rank: 80% Mana Pool
S-Rank: 100% Mana Pool

Cost:
-5% per E-Rank Spell, -10% per D-Rank Spell, -15% per C-Rank Spell, -20% per B-Rank Spell, -25% per A-Rank Spell, -35% per S-rank Spell


Damage Scale (Magic Powers & Secret Techniques)

• E-Rank: Can Cause a Minor Injury (Shallow Cut/Stab/Abrasion, Out of Breath, Bloodied, Bruised)
• D-Rank: Will Cause a Minor Injury (Shallow Cut/Stab/Abrasion, Out of Breath, Bloodied, Bruised)
• C-Rank: Can Cause a Moderate Injury (Deep Cut/Stab/Abrasion, Missing Fingers/Toes, Impaired Vision or Movement)
• B-Rank: Can Cause a Major Injury (Missing Limbs, Unable to Breathe, Internal Bleeding)
• A-Rank: Can Cause Death, otherwise Major Injury (See Below)
• S-Rank: Will Cause Death

Force Scale (Magic Powers & Secret Techniques)

• E-Rank: Can Break Skin
• D-Rank: Can Break Bone
• C-Rank: Can Pierce through Stone; Break Apart a Hut
• B-Rank: Can Pierce through Iron; Break Apart a Small House
• A-Rank: Can Pierce through Hardened Steel; Break Apart a Large House
• S-Rank: Can Break Apart a Minor Mansion