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There's two primary sources of Keidran slaves: Breeding and raiding. The first goes exactly how it sounds and happens safely inside Templar guarded areas. The second also goes exactly how it sounds. A team of slave catchers hit a village near Human/Keidran borders or near unclaimed zones. Once slaves have been caught, it's a simple-sounding job of getting them out. The problem, is that Keidan don't take kindly to their race being enslaved.

One of the best slave-raiders, Aleksander Vorns, just made a successful raid on a Keidran village tucked far away from Human borders with a large gap of unclaimed zone in between them. It's about three months worth of merchandise to Aleksander and his men. It's an unacceptable number of future slaves to a caravan-killing gang of Keidran that call themselves Freers in the area. There's a lot that can happen on the way to the Templar lands.

Character Sheet:
Race: [Human, Keidran, or Basitin{Basitin can be easily mistaken for Keidran, so watch out}]
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Height:
Weapon: [Fill one or both Weapon slots in]
Weapon: [Magical skills take up a Weapon slot]
Group: [Slavers, Slave, or Freers]
Biography:
Appearance:
Personality:

Sample/My characters:
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Name: Aleksander Vorms
Age: 40
Height: 6' 4"
Weapon: A longsword with a wavy, kris-like blade. Kept in a back sheath.
Weapon: A plain leather whip
Group: Slaver
Biography: Aleksander was born in a pretty backwater family. Their primary source of income was the slave trade. His parents never wanted him to join one of the risky Slaver raiding parties, but slaves became so scarce on the market that he had to. He's never looked back. He's one of the most efficent and sucessful raiders operating. Along the way, he's learned the Keidran language and how Keidran freedom fighters think.
Appearance: Aleksander has long, curly black hair that hangs down to his shoulders and flows with an equally black goatee. His eyes are a pine-needle shade of green. He's powerfully built, with thick legs and muscled arms. He's missing the tip of his right ring finger. Four rows of scar tissue on his face mark where a bold slave got him. He wears cheap, but durable well fitting full length clothes, often pushing the sleeves of his shirt up. Over that he wears a weathered cloak.
Personality: Aleksander is, oddly enough, probably the best master his captured slaves will ever have. He doesn't overwork captives on the way back to Templar lands, doesn't like beat slaves, and pays his men good to leave the merchandise alone.

Race: Keidran
Name: Jayonois
Gender: Male
Age: 29, Keidran eqivalent age(NOT IN HUMAN YEARS)
Height: 6'
Weapon: A triangular-tipped spear
Weapon: Magic
Group: Freer
Biography: Jayonois lost both his parents to slavers, and was more or less passed around the homes of his village, watching more and more homes be without occupants. Slavery whittled down his village into a small dozen, and soon those were taken. Jayonois took to fighting, earning money to buy weapons and mana crystals. He's not the first angry Keidran to start a gang of slaver-killers, but he's probably one of the most annoying. He doesn't have a 'stomping ground' that slavers learn to stay away from, instead hopping all around Keidran territory.
Appearance: Jayonois is a crimson-furred fox Keidran, boasting his fur is red from the blood of slavers he's killed. The usual dark and white bands on his limbs have streaks of red running through them. His eyes are a golden tone. His long tail isn't as fluffy as some Foxes. He usually wears brown and green clothes to blend in with the forest.
Personality: Jayonois has a near irrational anger towards Slavers, and maybe with good reason. However, this anger has blotted out most of his other emotions. He doesn't have any real friends, just people he trusts. He also considers other Freers to be somewhat expendible, and often throws everything he has into one unorganized attack. If it weren't for that anger and what he learned in street fighting, he would have been killed by Slavers already.

Yay! But first, two things. It's spelled "Basitin." And also, I'm pretty sure 29 is extremely old for a Keidran.


But enough with the nitpicking, and on to the charactering!


Race: Keidran
Name: Chankalis
Gender: Female
Age: 9
Height: 5' 1"
Weapon: Fire magic
Weapon: Healing magic
Group: Slave
Biography: Chankalis, or Chan for short, trained in the small village where she grew up as a future healer/mage to help defend Keidran land against human raiders. At the point of her capture, she was rather naive as to the true severity of the conflict between races, and when the slavers raided the village, it was the first time she had seen violence on this large of a scale. Chan's skill with magic is in no way impressive, but she has proven adept at controlling flames, as well as a passion for helping others through magical curing.
Appearance: Although short, Chan is brimming with energy, and it shows through the twinkling of her sapphire blue eyes. Chan is a leopard Keidran, and her fur is mainly a light tan with white on her belly and throat, along with black spots covering most of her body. She has long dirty blonde hair that goes past her shoulders, and her ears can be seen sticking out of her hair, one completely black and one tan.
Personality: Chan used to be a very serious person who was very energetic about everything she did, especially her never-ending goal to improve her magical abilities. But that was before the raid. Now, she simply cannot believe what has happened to her, and is still in a state of shock.


Race: Human
Name: Fengxian
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Height: 5' 10"
Weapon: A Halberd named Sky Scorcher
Weapon: Wind Magics
Group: Slaver
Biography: Fengxian has a checkered past from which he distances himself and prefers to not talk about. He joined the slave trade only recently, and the raid into the Keidran village around which this RP will center is only his fourth such raid. He looks forward to working alongside Aleksander, who appears to be a true professional, as opposed to the cruel barbarian he had tolerated as his superior for the first three slave raids.
Appearance: Fengxian has brown hair which he know lets grow between times he remembers to cut it off with any blade he can find.. Under his bushy eyebrows he has piercing brown eyes as well as a scar that runs from just under his right eye back almost to his ear, a reminder of an incident he had almost lost an eye in. When he smiles, which he seldom does anymore, he has a large dimple on his left cheek. Fengxian is in good shape; strong, fast, and flexible, but a supposedly healed injury to his right leg still gives him problems, and he can't run as fast as he used to be able to.
Fengxian wears a light suit of plate armor, but it has obviously seen better days. If ever a cape, blue or not, adorned his back, he ditched it long ago.
Personality: Fengxian is very quite and serious, at times almost to the point of unintentionally appearing threatening. He has no close friends, and he doesn't trust anyone. Although ruthless in battle, Fengxian believes that harming prisoners is wrong, but he also feels slavery is a despicable trade. The only reason he works as a slaver is because he can find no work elsewhere that requires his set of skills. So he became a slaver, but vowed to never treat a Keidran cruelly, even hostile ones. Of course, Fengxian believes that defeating a person in battle is not cruel, but although he would kill a Keidran trying to stop them from completing their task, he takes no pleasure from it.


Just a question, are we going to stick to the Keidrans must have mana crystals in order to use magic rule?

Oops. Those were wee little frak-ups. Let's call that the Keidran equivalent of 29(whatever that is) and then quietly drop it. The Basitin bit has been corrected. I guess I always read it as Bastain. As for the mana-crystal thing, if you can think of a real good reason that the Keidran can draw mana from the land like Templars, by all means do it.

Other than those forgettable little bits, all looks well and good. Accepted.

Race: Human
Name: Edward Bethesda
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Height: 5'11
Weapon: Green club, electrical charge
Weapon: Blackout, blunt long sword, stronger electrical charge
Group: Slavers
Biography: Edward grew up in the city, but that in no way made him soft. He mother died in childbirth and was raised by his father, and his father was hardest to keidran, thankfully Edward didnt get his father's pregidice. His father made Edward take up the family tradition of being bounty hunters, specificly catching escaped keidran. Edward didnt fancy this job, but it was high paying, and for the most part, he didnt have to seriously hurt anyone. He was hired by Mr. Vorms to assist him in his plans, it cost the man a king's ransom to hire Edward, but it would be worth it.
Appearance: Edward is a scrany man, but very tall and quick, he wears a vest made out of bear, and leather pants. But he refurses to wear keidran. He wears heavy boots and wears black sunglasses. He now also wears a set of magic gloves that sometimes glow white, and Edward's hands dart about with lightning speed.
Personality: Edward's a fun loving guy. Is calm in most any situation, and in a fight is always thinking 5 steps ahead. He jokes with his friends and taunts his enemies. He shows restrant if he uses lethal force, but is quick to fight on a pin drop.

I thought of a pretty good one, please criticize :)

Race: Human
Name: Dan
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Height: 4’ 7”
Weapon: Sharp one-sided shortsword
Weapon: Sharp dagger that has a scimitar-like shape
Group: Slaver
Biography: Dan grew up in a small town which both humans and keidrans lived in peace. As he grew up he had a friend named Goro that was a wolf-keidran, he was kind-hearted friend that saved Dan‘s life a couple of times. Goro was 15 and was killed by another wolf-keidran, he died when Dan had turned 17. Dan was in shock and hated keidran ever since. He left the town to go to bigger cities to try to go into the slaver business. He joined a business pretty easily after performing his skills at sneaking and tracking keidrans. Dan is extremly fast with his dagger and can parry almost anything with his shortsword.
Appearance: He is easily mistaken for a child if he doesn’t have his sword with him. Usually the people that make fun of his size aren’t ever found again, human, keidran, basitin it doesn’t matter. He wears a green buttoned long-sleeved shirt, brown baggy pants made of keidran, pure dark-brown leather boots, keidran gloves with sharp tips at the edge of the fingers and a hooded hunter-green cloak
Personality: He is as short-tempered as his size, and he hates any keidran on site. He isn’t a social person, but if you prove yourself to him he might consider a friendly conversation (if your human). He only respects his higher ranks, and ignores lowers, but usually helps his peers only if it has anything to do with hurting, killing, tracking, or enslaving keidrans.

I would like to join this one too.

Character Sheet:
Race: Keidran
Name: Oreo
Gender: Male
Age: 3 Keidran years
Height: 4'6"
Weapon: Claws
Weapon: Has a fast regeneration ability
Group: Slave
Biography: He was born into a slavery. His mother died at birth of him. As stricken with grief he died soon after. His name was given to him by the kid that his master had. He quickly learn not to go against his master. One of the reasons is they could beat him almost to death and not show a mark 20 second later. Also because of his Regeneration ability his cells in the body get rejuvenated faster then most so he doesn't get as tired doing as much work. He is up for sell in the market because he was too much as a liability then as help.
Appearance: He is a spotted black and white cat. Dressed in ratty slave clothes. He isn't fully grown yet so he has another year or two to go for maturity but can lift his fair share.
Personality: He is very shy about his old master because he didn't like them but very out going to anyone that will buy him. He will follow any order given to him by his master because he was train that way.

Lord Moose: Looks good. Accepted.
Team_Rade: Also looks good. Expect some wee drama between him and Aleksander, but I like that. Accepted.
Snuggles: Looks good, but before I accept Oreo, I'd like to know why he's been (re?)captured and is in Aleksander's slave caravan.

woot, i expected that. :lol:

now to the question: how many people are you gonna let rp in this? :|

Finnaly! A way to Roleplay! Just a note, I mean him to be a midget.


Character Sheet:
Race:Basitin
Name: Chrome
Gender: male
Age: 16
Height: 3 ft 11"
Weapon: axe
Weapon: pyrokinetics
Group: Fresh slave
Biography: Chrome is a basitin that was hanging out with some Keidran who got caught and brought into slavery. The humans thought he was Keidran too, though he tried to tell them otherwise. So now he is trying to get away.

Appearance: See avatar

Personality: He is rather impulsive and will randomly do things. He hates going with society, and intentionaly differentiates himself from it. Being rude in most cases. But, he grew up with manners, and he does have them. Mostly he uses them, apart from around his friends. When you first meet him, he comes off as arrogant, loud, idiotic, rude, repulsive git who doesn't give a rats [censored] about you. And that's why he does it. If you can't get past his outer personality he won't be your friend. All his friends have gotten past that. When you do you find he is actually a good natured person, who likes to joke around. And he will help if you really need it. But he doesn't want to be relied on.

Well, we have five players now. 3 Slaves, 4 Slavers, and 1 Freer. I guess I'll run the sign-ups till Monday or Tuesday, depending on how many people sign up, then start. Probably close it around 15+ players.

Race: Human
Name: Nikolai
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Height: 5 foot 8 inches
Weapon: Glaive (Its like a spear, but designed for slashing instead of stabbing.
Weapon: None
Group: Freers
Biography: Maybe kinda long I apologize for you.

Nikolai was born and raised in a village along the border between Keidran and Human territories. His village was both a raid launching point and a raid target. Although not common, the Keidran would raid the villiage and take some prisoners for hostages and slaves. (I may be screwing with the universe a bit there). Mostly it was give and take, if a raid one side raided the other, retaliation occured.

Nikolai was about 7 years old when the Keidran attacked the villiage. Despite the best efforts of the Humans, Nikolai and several others were carried off. Much of what happened here is not known by many, Nikolai has yet to tell anyone of his past. From what people have assumed and guessed, they think he was a slave or at least, a servant for the Keidran. He speaks fluent Keidran, though his accent is not quite right.

After returning to the villiage about 18 years later, he promoted good relations with the Keidran and wsa exiled from his villiage by a Templar. He returned to the Keidran territory. He works with the Keidran to free slaves, though it is unkown why. There is some preculation that he has been brainwashed or is simply too stupid to help his own kind.


Appearance: His is a veteran of many battles and it shows. Of average height and build, only his eye shows his strength. His other is covered with an eyepatch, having been lost in some combat years ago. His dark brown eye also seems to hold some mystery in it. He only carries his glaive with him when he anticipates combat, but it is a simple wooden shaft with a razor sharp steel head. His face is weathered and at times he looks older than he is and perhaps even world weary. His greying hair differs only in its tone. Once a dark, deep grey, it has begun faltering into lighter shades.

Despite this, he can still fight with the best of them. He may be out of breath early, but he is experianced and bears the scars of many battles. It is rumored that underneath his omnipresent cloak he has a name tattooed across his shoulders. He teaches, or taught, Keidran how to fight which leads to various interesting situations. He won't tell, but a story his students tell, is that he lost his eye in a training dual and calmly proceded to win the match.

Personality: His moods flucutate. Sometimes he's carefree and light, others he is somber and grim. Despite this, he is typically serious and expects the same level of of seriousness from those around him. He doesn't ask for much other than that. He doesn't seem to care if he is respected or admired, as long as he can do his job. He lives a spartan life, though he could probably have more. Although he stands aside from any society, he is almost always willing to help and can be seen working with the healers and even teaching kids the Human language.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! DONE!

Well he wasn't captured he was born into slavery and now being sold because of the usual reasons you would sell a child that you had control over.

Snuggles, I think Evil Jenius means how is Oreo in the slave convoy if he is already a slave.

Maybe he is a slave to one of the slavers who brought him along as an attendant?

I agree

Slave Convoy... i am guessing that i don't know all of the story... Are we starting off as a group under someone or are we coming together and if the first one i guess that would be good for what Durandal said.