Aldebrandi's Gathering: More than a Mirror

It Is 1857 In Austmark (this world is not dissimilar to our own). It is dark times, the king, Alfonse is sickly, possibly by poison or witchcraft and his youngest son, Caspian wishes to take the throne over his brother, Alwen, the crowned prince. Caspian will use whatever means possible to take the position of power over his two brothers, the aristocrats of the realm have been gifted, bribed and blackmailed into alliance with him.



A troupe of carnie folk have taken up residence on the ouskirts of the poor sector of the kingly city of Bergue and the country is going into a state of decline as the country looses its leader.

Within this quirky and confusing counrty there are many movements in the advance of science, creating rumors of raising the dead, mixtures of sciences with religion, creations of new weaponry, revolution in black powder technology and electricity.

As science advances magic is not declining, there are elementalists, described in the orient as Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and rarely Wood.

Ignatius Aldebrandi has been hired by a dying king to rid the kingdom of its supernatural beings and he needs a following....

This RP has all of the characters developed by me and you will RP them, this is a RPing experiment so that you control characters you cant change too much to suit yourselves.

This is a tale in quirky gothic times, humor is acceptable but please no slapstick.

The general rules apply, if you have questions PM me.

Characters

Sylverstalker
Name: Ignatius Aldebrandi
Age:???
Afflictions: None
Element: Fire
Effects: A pistol wrought in silver.
Description: Almost always wears a ¾ length black woolen coat, with a deep red lining. Ignatius is wealthy and has a range of formal clothing and several hats.

Personality: Ignatius is a bit of a showman from his fame as a vampire slayer, he loves to joke and tease with his ability to control flames.
History: Ignatius has appeared in the kingdom, no one knows anything of his past.

TheGriffin
Name: Alexander Luther ‘The Old General’
Age: 67
Afflictions: none
Element: none
Effects: Carries a rifle and a saber.
Description: An old man with an enormous white moustache, he always wears his blue military coat with a red strip and gold tassels.
Personality: Stubborn but very loyal to his king, likes poor jokes and doesn’t like funny magic business, nor illusions! Likes to tell tales of his childhood.
History: At the age of 13 Alex joined the army of the king and quickly rose in the ranks till he became directly responsible for the king, as the king is dying he feels less welcome in the palace and has been sent to help fight the supernatural in the kingdom, and keep an eye on the king’s youngest son.

Ragnant
Name: Eugene Charlotte ‘The Illusionist’
Age: 27
Afflictions: Enormous ego
Element: Wind
Effects: An amazing pack of purple, blue and gold cards that have both the ability to trick people and cut things with their razor sharp edges, Eugene carries many more illusion props.
Description: Thin tall dark haired man with pronounced cheekbones and a definite presence, Eugene wears a suit of dull purples and greens.
Personality: Egotistical, loud and attention seeking, Eugene is well spoken and knows every trick of hand and can divert almost any audience’s attention.
History: Eugene has travelled as far as the orient in research of his skills and has recently caused trouble in the kingdom, thus looking for alternate employment.

Uber-Gam3r
Name: Aiolos Drake ‘The Assassin’

Age: 18

Afflictions: Stunted Vampirism

Element: Subtle control of the rare wood element, this only extends to the gauntlet and other objects he touches.

Effects: A repeater crossbow that is a part of an ingenious gauntlet on his left arm, the crossbow and retractable blade is all controlled with Aiolos’s fingers.

Description: A slight man with wiry muscles and not too much height, his eyes are black and his visible skin is pale, he wears tight fitting dark hide all over his body, a cloth hides his lower face and a dark cloth hood his hair and upper face, only his eyes are visible.
Personality: Aiolos is a sharp tongued man who will taunt with no thought of punishment, as few in the realm could catch him and his super-human acrobatics.

History: As Aiolos tells it he was bitten the previous winter, close to death a vampire came and fed on him leaving little blood as the vampire was chased out of town by a silversmith, the smith, knowing the thirst of vampires slaughtered a pig and fed him the blood, mixed with silver powder from his workshop and several other concoctions. The smith gave Aiolos his life and suppressed his vampirism to a large extent. Aiolos has joined to use the strength imparted by the creature of the night against its kind and thus stop more humans being infected.


Happy Rotter
Name: Lloyd Whelan ‘The Blacksmith’

Age: 32

Afflictions: Werewolf

Element: Earth-metal major- None in wolf form.

Effects: Lloyd carries a large blacksmiths hammer.

Description: Lloyd is a thick wristed, dark haired, giant of a man. Lloyd looks as though he was once talkative and friendly, he now is cold and mean although never physically cruel. Lloyd wears fur boots and a fur coat over a simple pair of breeches and a shirt

Personality: Depressed and bitter about his affliction, bent against Lycans.

History: Lloyd used to be a blacksmith but after being bitten by a lycan, when the moon was its strongest, he lost control of his wolfishness and murdered his family.

Elliearna
Name: Claude Acerbi 'The Northern Casanova'
Age: 24
Afflictions: Heartlessness, oddly enough Claude was born with no heart, yet he is still alive due to a side effect of a family curse, he assumes. Claude has cold skin to touch, but has no problems with bodily functions that generally need blood…
Element: water-ice major
Effects: a walrus ivory cane with an enormous ‘diamond’ on top.
Description: Blonde hair, fair skin, bright blue eyes, wears a short white coat over fancy white attire. His boots are also white.

Personality: Claude is a charmer, he is very good with the ladies and has no shame, but his superiority complex causes many males to dislike him. In combat he is smooth and collected as he cannot panic, ever.
History: Claude comes from the north, his family had a curse put on them by a , Huldra, a ‘loop hole’ in the curse allowed Claude to live without a heart, Claude has moved south to seek the company of women, lots of women.

Sora
Name: Asmodeus Abadjiev 'The Daemonspawn'
Age: 66 (looks 30 at the most)
Afflictions: Demi-Daemonism
Element: He can BEND fire in ‘daemon wrath’ but generally cannot use any.
Effects: when on a mission he carries a very large axe
Description: Wears a top hat to hide his horns and bald head, his skin is almost transparent and the veins are visible. He wears a black tailcoat over a suit. All of his clothes seem just a bit too small for his huge figure.
Personality: A freindly guy, despite constant judging and looks that he receives due to his appearance, Asmodeus is scarred by the fact that he is the son of a daemon and would stop at nothing given the chance to slay his daemonic father.
History: A daemon raped Asmodeus’s mother leaving his seed in her, after the bloody birth his mother left him on the street in a hope that the evil being would die in the bitter cold of the winter, a young tailor found the baby and saw him, not as daemon-spawn, but as a defenseless child. This tailor raised him he aged very slowly and eventually Asmodeus was able to care for his adoptive father, this caring young man never had any biological children and is now old and arthritic.

Ignatius Aldebrandi was standing by the well in the market district of Bergue as instructed by he kings emissary, it was midwinter and muddy snow covered the cobblestone plaza. Ignatius waited patiently for anyone who seemed attracted to his presence or had come to meet him from the posters that were placed in some taverns and leaflets delivered to some houses. No one had come so Ignatius flicked flames between his fingers in impatience, a few children in the crowd watched to see the fire show, but none of them were the kind that Ignatius was watching for, the age was the general give away. Not that appearances are everything, the amount of people that new Ignatius's age were fewer than the fingers on his now flaming hand. Ignatius was growing tired of the public eying off his expensive attire and his fire and was seriously hoping that someone would have seen the poster and come, he was paying well....

OOC: remember people to stick to your character as much as possible, if you have a Q ask me. If you feel like a different entry, uber I'm looking at you you may, not everyone needs to meet him at the well, i want to keep this RP real-ish so keep your characters to their psychology don't wait for prompts or for me to make decisions. Characters can and will die throughout the story.

"Your, wolfish-ness? is it controlled or will you be taking a couple of nights off work a month?" Ignatius asked casually predicting the answer "you say your a blacksmith? This is an interesting career change. When more gather i shall get you to sign the contract, and believe me it is a contract that works well for you" Ignatius smiled once more hoping that he wouldn't be just a duo with this begrudged wolf man.

OOC: you can have your character just walking around and be approached if you like i cant wait to get this on the move.

Ignatius chuckled in a controlled way at the practiced drama of this man "Your slight of hand could be useful to me and your showmanship could be entertaining..." Ignatius paused waiting to see if anyone else would join the bizarre assortment of men that had met at the well "What do you all know of vampires, lycans, trolls and the like?"

OOC: not everyone has to know everything as a good rule of thumb "needs one to know one" but you don't have to tell the whole group that you carry an infection.