World of Aztersil

Now, Dhia’s history strikes me as a bit over the top at the moment. She gets orphaned at an early age, gets adopted, messes things up and runs away, ending up an orphan once again. Considering the Sorcarts are just about ready to accept her as a part of their family, the repetitiveness of the whole thing is getting a bit silly. I have no way of fixing that, as of yet.

Anyway, we start off in Alka, where Dhia is born a second child to a very powerful wytch - a leader of the Mysterial Hand order, and a mayor of a bustling city in the colonies. The Mysterial Hand is not a very stable order; there are various factions that constantly quarrel left and right, and Dhia’s mother was one of the rare ones that was trying to calm things down.

I have to note that, for now, Dhia was born with her mysterial-draining (dis)ability, but I am aware that that might be going against the forum rules, and that I should think of something else.

Shortly after, the Almathea family gets attacked. I’ve had different culprits in mind for this, including the Silver Feathers (who for some reason believed Dhia was going to end the world or some bull. It’s possible that one Kayanna Augherow might’ve helped with that), one of the rival factions, or maybe even Ny had something to do with the attack. It could have been a combo of all three.

Dhia’s father fled the continent, with the newborn kalus, while the mother stayed behind and got killed. It’s quite possible that Neferii helped the escape, in one of her token rebellious moments against Ny.

The father fled to Chesolar, Zemok(I need to check if Chesolar and Alka are actually close), where he left Dhia in the care of some old and relatively good friends(or, yknow, they just owed him their lives and he saw fit to blackmail them). Dhia’s new stepmother was a Dresall, a Drasillian (which makes me wonder whether Dhia would technically be a Drasillian herself), but the actual mother figure turned out to be a dvergr servant, who we know as Naskett. Some of the other important characters are the local wytch, who taught Dhia her “healing” ability, but who also gave her the cursed arm and(indirectly) triggered her berserking for the first time; and then there’s the local hunter, who taught Dhia basic fighting and wilderness survival. I should note that Dhia was treated barely better than a mangy stray dog around the Drasillian village.

The mess Dhia made was the following: she beat up a couple of Drasillian kids that were picking on her (possibly breaking some fragile Dresall bones), and fled into a nearby forest. Having earned a burn on her right arm out of the tussle, she went to see the wytch(who had promised her healing lessons beforehand, hence Dhia’s thinking she should go to her - childishly hoping that if she managed to get rid of the burn, she’d be able to claim innocence if Naskett or anyone else ever finds out about the fight).

The wytch, seeing an opportunity, sedated Dhia and began the ritual that would allow her complete mental control over the kalus. It backfired when the hunter came along and interrupted the process, and as a result the wytch was killed by berserking Dhia, while the hunter himself got mortally wounded. The kalus got a frightening new ability, as well as her cursed arm.

Frantic, Dhia dragged the hunter back home, where Naskett attempted to help him, with relative success(I’m still hedging on whether he should live or die). In the meantime, some of the townsfolk have gathered into something of a mob (though far more civilized), to try and chase Dhia away. Long story short, the Dresall stepmother offered Dhia a choice: to either answer for what she did and accept the consequences, or to get out of her sight permanently. The kalus chose the latter, and fled. Keep in mind that at the time, Dhia was the kalus equivalent of a thirteen year old.

Since then, Dhia has been wandering the world aimlessly, and over the course of several decades has grown into Dhia we all currently know.

Firstly, I’m considering changing Anette’s name to Allette, a similar, but less common and less generic name. I might also change her last name, as it seems somewhat too fitting for her race at the moment.

Secondly, I might involve her with the Faceless, to give her more depth. With that, I’d add an addiction of a magical nature, which would give the Faceless leverage over her. It would also count as a weakness on its own. Her loyalty towards them is something I still have to think about - whether she wholeheartedly believes in their cause, or is simply doing as she is told because she’s being blackmailed.

Maybe, maybe not… I’m realizing the addiction might cause problems with purified areas.

As for her history, it stays the same, more-less. She’s a klavden born in a noble Rozian family with a couple of siblings. She was raised well, and married off to another noble family as the first wife.

A few years after that, due to curiosity, boredom and her husband’s sudden need to marry a new wife every other or third year, Anette turned to her siblings(most likely an older brother and a younger sister). She had no idea what she would be getting into when she started supporting them. Gradually, the dealings of the trio got more shady, and before Anette knew what happened they were murdering random people right under her husband’s nose.

Eventually, she got betrayed by her siblings. I can’t decide yet whether she gets addicted, kidnapped or what, but its enough to piss her off into murdering the brother. After covering that up, Anette then started offing people that stood in her way - her sister, husband and eventually father as well. Naturally, she did it more covertly than I’m implying here - she was never suspected of having a hand in any of the murders, and most of them seemed like accidents or natural deaths.

Thus, she inherited a lot of money from both her late husband(though she shared some with the other wives), and her father; or at least I hope that’s how it would work.

Since then, she’s been living the high life, enjoying the reputation of the Widow with a Golden Heart. I know that divorced wives aren’t allowed to be re-married, but I’m not sure about widowed ones.

Alright, Greck is pretty easy. He fell out of his nest at a very young age, and was picked up by some Askyrians (I’ve actually decided that on the fly just now. I need to remember to change his collar to be in Askyrian. Also, I’m changing it’s material to something other than silver; for some reason, sandalwood comes to mind).

Some weeks, maybe a month later, Greck wandered away from his master(s), and has been wandering ever since.

I’m still not entirely giving up on Greck as an undead. He couldn’t be a zombie, because they don’t have a personality. He could be a ghoul, but then he’d have to have limbs and organs replaced on a regular basis. The last option is a nythren, but random nythrens are an extremely rare thing, and the sure-fire way to make one has been lost.

So yeah, that’s still up in the air. So is the grownup version of Greck, which I no longer see a point in making since he wouldn’t be that much different.

Joe was born and raised on Alka, as part of a bandit group. I imagine they’d mostly be made out of kalus, but there could be other races as well. At any rate, he had spent about a century on Alka with his rogues.

Yet, every once in a while he would travel away, working with foreign thieving crews and whatnot. On one such occasion, he stole a necklace from a noble Drasillian. Hoping to hide it and get it back to Alka safely, he gave it to his sweetheart.

Not days later, he was caught and brought to Drasillian justice. As punishment, he became a slave to the very man he stole from (I’ll have to think of a reason why they didn’t just chop his hand off or something. Maybe the Drasillian authorities weren’t involved at all).

What Joe found out some time later, was that his master was just about going bankrupt(its very possible that selling the necklace was the master’s plan - a last ditch attempt to revive whatever business he had). The Drasillian owed a lot of money left and right, most notably he owed a lot to a certain slave-trading gentleman.

Joe was sold to this man, or rather given away, and turned into something of a gladiator - fighting for his life for entertainment of a crowd. However, it wasn’t long before his old master joined him, as his warden. By that time, the two were bitter enemies - the dresall did everything he could to get Joe killed, without making it obvious (because the aforementioned gentleman would not like it if someone killed off one of his best fighters); while Joe was trying his best to make the dresall’s life miserable, while still surviving.

Eventually though, Joe broke out, with help of some other prisoners. Not believing that there’s anything wrong with revenge, he found his former warden shortly after, and did unspeakable things to him, and anyone caught around at the time. After that, he took his brand new bandit crew, and fled for the Drasillian border, where he continued committing terrible crimes against the Drasillians, especially the dresell.

Years later, Joe realized that the founding core of his crew was all but gone; most were simply slain where they stood, but some even got caught and executed. As time went on, their numbers simply dwindled. Despite there still being fresh blood in his gang, Joe grew tired of seeking revenge, and decided to go back to Alka and his roots.

There will be a couple of changes for Lad’v.

Firstly, I’m trying to make Lad’v look less like a siereel and more like a genuine nythren. I’ve thought of adding protruding spikes of ice to him, as well as noting that they can be seen through (yay, guts!). I might also give him a milky eye, but I’m not too sure if I want him to be half blind. Naturally, the spikes would melt at warmer temperatures, which could help me explain why warm weather bothers him so much(eg he keeps trying to regenerate the icicles, wasting mysterial and thus growing hungry more often and so on so forth…).

Not sure what to do with his flying in that case. He wouldn’t be able to fly with so much ice attached, yet he does have that ice-lifting ability; so it might even out, but I’m not sure.

His personality might suffer some changes too. I no longer see him as a cool businessman who’s willing to deal even with Rozians. He’s becoming more of a mindless monster, barely controlled by his fear of Nyron.

As for his history. He grew up in a poor family in Sharaden. His talent with air earned him a teacher, and eventually he even got into the university. There, he met and befriended both Nyron and Neferii.

As time went on, both Ny and Nef became more nervous, distant and secluded, making Lad’v chase them down in the halls of the university just so he could talk to them. One day, they simply vanished(literally, thanks to Neferii) and the next thing he knew, he was knocked unconscious and kidnapped.

Some days (weeks?) later, what was left of Lad’v was deemed a failed nythren experiment, and was tossed to Alka, where hopefully nobody would find it. He laid in ice for years, only to wake up and find that he’s being chiseled out of the ice by Nyron himself, and the accompanying lackeys. At first, the myst kept him locked up like an animal, not offering much in terms of “food”. Lad’v was deranged for a long while, and Nyron got him the collar he wears now only after he had broken out of his cell for the first time, dealing immense damage to his servants. Slowly and patiently, Ny got Lad’v back to some semblance of civility, and began to train his obedience and mysterial skills.

Couple of years later(maybe even a decade or two), Lad’v was out and about in the world, doing his master’s bidding and mostly killing or torturing people. If allowed, he also did it for his own kicks, as all he knew was how to kill and maim.

Hooboy, this one’s got fingers in so many pies.

For starters, he was born in Sharaden. His father was one called Wren(Kitten’s character), yet despite him being around, Nyron was raised by his older half-brother Matthew. Ny’s mother was around for a short period of time, before she decided being a mother was too much work. She dumped Nyron in Wren’s lap and left. But, before that she did manage to mess Nyron up, as it was on her watch that the toddler wandered away and witnessed a body being torn apart by a korlx (its a real wonder that the said korlx didn’t eat him alive). However, when he ran back to his mother to tell her what happened, she misunderstood him and told him it was not a big deal. Nyron, understanding that wrongly, gained an early, gruesome fascination with what was on the inside of a person.

Growing up, Nyron was somewhat a fragile little myst, constantly picked on and in need of his older brother’s protection. From Matt, he learned almost everything he knows, including that its not a bad thing to drown those who pick on your family.

Neferii, who complemented him so well later in life, he actually met in Wren’s glass shop in Sharaden. They were rather young back then, and it was the first time Nef vanished from his life suddenly. Though, he found her again when he enrolled the Sharaden university.

Oh, and there was this tall fellow by the name of Lad’v that constantly tailed Ny and Nef while they were at the university. Slightly annoying, that one.

At first, Nef didn’t recognize Ny, but once she did she became rather twitchy. Deadly curious, Nyron decided to investigate. He spent every spare time he could, plotting and trying to find out what was the matter. Eventually, Neferii coughed up the answers. Apparently, she had been working for some men who had a bad habit of experimenting on people. Her job was to find the next guinea pig, and she pointed Ny out even before she knew who he was (her life was kind of on the line). Luckily(as Ny thought), they didn’t know about Matthew.

Ny couldn’t bear to bring his brother into yet another one of his messes. Instead, he took Nef and vanished, under the guise of her magics. The pair roamed around for a while, until they ran into a very interesting group, composed of a dresall(Naskett’s future master), a dvergr(Naskett), a kalus(Dhia’s father) and perhaps few others. With their help, Ny managed to procure a one-way ticket to Alka for him and Nef. There, he was sure nobody would bother to look for him, as he had no ties there - meaning no reason to be there.

Once he got to Alka, however, he was met with a very unstable political situation. His brother Matthew may have taught him the basics of reading people and using them for his own ends, but it was here on Alka, in the city where the Almathea family resided, that the myst truly learned the trade.

Years passed, and Nyron established himself as a friend of the Almathea family - an eccentric that could make anything happen, but nobody knew how. He even built his own manor, half building it and half chiseling it from the ice. Mostly, it was thanks to him that peace began to reign in that particular city on the frozen continent.

During that time, Nyron ran into an interesting bit of information. He found out that the young man who had followed him around the university years ago - Lad’v, went missing on the exact day Nyron skipped town. The myst became curious. How did such an oaf manage to not only find out about the experiments, but evade being a guinea pig as well?

He found out soon enough that Lad’v didn’t dodge the bullet at all. Considering himself powerful enough, Nyron went to find out what happened to the man. Eventually, he found the culprits involved, and from one of them he procured where they stashed the bodies of failed experiments - right there on Alka.

He found it. Countless bodies buried in the ice, along with Lad’v. Ny got him out of there, and brought him back to his manor.

More years have passed, and his relation with the Almathea family grew strained (somebody found out about Lad’v?). Before they could make a move against him, he made a preemptive strike(not sure what he did exactly… perhaps pinned something on them?). The city rumbled with unrest in days, and days later the family was attacked.

As far as Ny knew, they scattered. He had hoped he’d be able to get his hands on Dhia, so he could raise her as his own and thus rule the city. Sadly, she was gone. However he still knew where the oldest of the children was - abroad getting schooled in Sharaden. He laid low for a while, and once he found out that the rest of the family was presumably dead(and after burying them), he contacted Sirenia.

Eventually, he convinced her to come back home, and he began grooming her to become the next big force on Alka(family is a big thing to Mysterial Hand, and they would not accept Nyron unless he was married to someone from the order, or was otherwise blood-related to one of the factions). Then, Nef suddenly found the other child, and brought her back home. What Nyron didn’t suspect for a while, is that Dhia was an illusion.

Once he found out, he convinced Nef to turn Dhia into a brat, so that Sirenia could be under pressure and distracted. The plan was going smoothly for a while - the Almathean family was climbing back up, and once again Nyron resided in their shadow.

But then, Nef up and suddenly kicked the brat Dhia into overdrive. It drove Sirenia mad, and the young kalus conquered the Alkan city all on her own, through lots of bloodshed. Nef vanished, while Ny was left to deal with Sirenia. Eventually though, he too went away from Alka, on a long vacation away from the lunatic.

(Naskett provided him with Lad’v’s collar)

Ciss is a very laid back, spiritual guy. He smokes, and is addicted to it. He’s Joe’s twin brother - looks just like him, with some differences(mostly yellow teeth, eye-gouging tatoos and a different wardrobe). Has tatooes all over him, a magical coat “made” of water(just to keep him decent when he goes kalus torch). Lots of tribal stuff like feathers.

He was stolen from Alka as a kid (or maybe he wandered off), he spent a small amount of time on Blackrunners islands, before the Askyrians that brought him there took him to the new lands. He grew up on an Askyrian skyship, but he picked up a religion from one of the tribes in the new lands.

That’s how he learned about fire, and how he got addicted, and how he has his many tribal baubles as well as tatoos.

Oh, he also met Nef at one of his travels. They became great friends.

The tribe he befriended(and eventually became a part of), has one chief, and three counselors - each presenting an aspect of existing. Counselor of mind, body and spirit. Ciss became the third. Though, he had to hand the title over temporarily whenever he traveled(its almost expected of a spirit counselor to roam a lot, so he has to appoint deputy/ies). Every counselor has some magical ability, and each one gets unique tatoos done. Ciss’ was fire abilities and well… fire tatoos.

As for the magical coat of water. He got it from a duel to death, where he scorched his opponent - a water mage. All that was left of him was ashes, and the said coat. Its pretty much fire-proof, though it has to regenerate by sitting in water for hours. Also, it feels quite odd on the skin, like wet cloth. The coat does appear like any normal coat though.

He’s an odd kalus - one that cannot stand cold weather.

She’s a very plain looking woman, but under the guise of her illusions she looks rather colorful. Even her voice is dull, but with illusions its cheerful and full of energy.

Born in a rich family, with boatload of children. They all looked very dull and very alike. As a small girl, Nef was brought to Wren’s shop of enchanted glass and baubles. There, she saw a prism that refracted light into a breath-takingly beautiful rainbow. It was then that she fell in love with anything colorful.

Briefly after that she found a teacher all on her own. Her family didn’t like that, as they thought it too advanced for their daughter, and they had issues with the teacher’s past and financial standing. Eventually, they forbade her to mingle with the common folk again, including Nyron and other streetrats she hung out with. Still, she kept training and eventually could turn invisible. They couldn’t control her, and she refused to be a part of a match set her family was.

She got into some nasty crowd. By the time she got to the university, she was already under their thumb. She picked out Ny as their next experiment, but when she found out who he was, she stressed over it. She eventually admitted to him what happened, and they fled to Alka. There, she committed shenanigans until Sirenia snapped. Oh, she helped Dhia’s father escape.

Then she fled for the second time(she likes the whole vanishing act)and met Ciss.

Family name is totally going to be Squawkbeak.
First name might be Rachkin.
Mother’s name: Xinavs
He’s missing his father’s name.
So, Rachkin Xinavs Squawkbeak. Probably wont give him a hero’s name either.

He grew up on Chesolar - a bastard son of a maid and one we know as Sanger de Gerscan.
He is working as some kind of a guard captain, and is obsessed with finding and apprehending his father, the man who caused so much trouble in Drasign. He’s scrawny-looking, grumpy kalus or half-kalus(half klavden? Savvendreel? Think imma roll with a Savvy).

The position he has is high for a second-grade, ashamed citizen, but low for someone who works as hard as he does(he’s pretty much twice as efficient as his superiors). The said superiors hate him, and so do the guards working under his command. Even his family(on the mother’s side at least) hates him.

He hasn’t met his father’s side of the family as of yet.

Zisver(first name), Itzentur(father’s name) Crilca(mother’s name) O’tust(hero’s name) Curledclaw(family name)

He is a dresall that hardly, if ever left home in his life. Both of his parents were scholars, and his life was quite secure. He was always happy to stay home and read up on his family’s hero, who traveled all around the world and made note of many of its people and occurrences.

One day, his family left him for a longer time - both parents got delayed on their trips. It was then that Zisver got a brilliant idea to try to be just like his great grandfather and, despite his servants’ pleas, set out into the world for the very first time.

Granted, he probably got robbed around the first bend but hey, that’s all to be RPed.

Mother’s name: Farissa
Her name: Klerril
Last name: Lawerton

Klerril here is a toddler, living in Sharaden as a streetrat. Both her and her mother are dvergar. Her mother is a mute due to terrible throat injury. I might make her a former teacher of some kind. At any rate, the woman moved to Sharaden after her husband got killed(Possibly by Lad’v, which would explain her need to be in the middle of the freaking desert).

As for Kler, she’s a kid like any other, though she has developed some bad habits(like stealing anything shiny). She also adores to be the center of attention.

First name: Naskett
Last name: Jadean

She’s an Askyrian - Former Sailing Merchant and Ruin Delver. One of the rare ones that had contact with Mysterialite often, but never developed any magical abilities of her own. She knows a lot about said crystals, as she bartered them often.

Nowadays, she’s a retired adventurer living in Severall. Used to be a “servant” to a dresall by the name of Tzique(it was her original retirement plan, but it was botched).

First name: Mellem
Last name: Augherow

Born a gypsy, raised as one. Owns a crescent necklace with a crystal in it, that helps her sing and learn languages. She’s a linguist, and a very good rider.

Her sister has been kidnapped at a young age by the Silver Feathers.

Personality: *Optional* (How your character acts, reacts, etc)

He may not be much of a rebel, in a sense that he doesn’t flaunt his rule-breaking around, but Nyron regards rules as things to simply make life more complicated, in one way or another. If that makes things interesting, he will more than happily oblige, otherwise he’d gladly throw a wrench in the existing system and watch it fall apart with glee.

Nyron can be quite destructive at times. The man considers the whole world to be his playground, and much like a bad child he’d rather tear something apart(be it an item, person, or even a whole village) piece by piece to see how it works, rather than playing with it like any normal person. His point of view often makes him seem eccentric, even creepy, as he loves many dark, slowly destructive things. His personal favorites are the korlx, for example, though he oddly enough never had one as a pet.

Dark, perhaps, but the myst is anything but brooding. He is optimistic to a fault, since if he ever runs into a failure, he simply changes the definition of a failure and continues on merrily with his life. And should a problem arise, it isn’t treated as such; Nyron sees it as an opportunity to have fun, even if it may cost him more than he would like to.

Some people may find him frustrating, as he just adores dancing circles around his allies and foes alike, even in a simple chatting.

Reputation: *Optional* (How well known is your character? How is he seen by others if he is? This could be region-wide, village-wide, or empire-wide)
in Sharzak university he is vaguely remembered as a student who was greatly talented, but hardly bothered to show up on clases. On top of that he liked to play pranks too much. One day he simply vanished from the place.

Within criminal circles he is known as a man who can make anything happen, for a hefty price. He has similar reputation on Alka, though a little less prominent(mostly due to lack of a decent population to spread the word than anything), and certainly less vile. More accented is his political and non-political connection with Sirenia - the leader of the mysterial hand, as the man is something of a favorite uncle to the tyrant. As if she wasn’t frightening enough.
Culture: *Optional* You are allowed to make up your own culture (other than empires), or choose from our culture list. Orders your member is part of can also be listed here.
- recognized as a member of Sharzak
- ally of the mysterial hand, and treated as royalty on Alka
Languages:
all three languages to a degree, plus a native language on Alka
Abilities: *Required if you have any*  Abilities are defined as any kind of supernatural/magical ability.
- can raise the dead
- can cause numbness of limbs, pain and etcetera. Related to nerves.
- something of a surgeon
- can cause things to rot
Strengths: *Required* These are physical/mental/emotional/ any kind of non-magical trait. Please have at least three. *Required*
- quick of wit
- stable of mind (in most cases). Calm and collected
- better endurance than that of normal myst (after all, he lives on Alka)
Weaknesses: *Required* Please have at least three.
- a short fellow
- myst weaknesses
- far too gamble-prone, not in a normal sense
Beliefs: *Optional*
Class/Skill:
Necrourgist, Surgeon
Weapons:
Daggers?
History:
- raised in Sharzak capitol, with his half-brother Matthew
- got an unsuspecting siereel to participate in an experiment
- the said siereel was reported to have died
- Ny got word that it wasn’t so
- he sped off to Alka without a goodbye (with his mistress Neferii)
- he found and unearthed Lad’v
- he spent majority of the following century training the nythren and establishing himself on Alka.
Other Information:
- his alliance with many people (perhaps list them)
- Lad’v
- Matthew