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Leylines Characters
Alright for all of you that were coming up with concepts for this summers leylines camapign, I feel now is the best time to start refining that so I can have a good idea of your chara, when we start. Again, the best idea is to decide what you want to do, or rather what you'd like the character to do, again you can almost literally do anything.
Here's the basic world information, this is basic knowledge that most all character should know:
THE WORLD
As far as known history is concerned in the year 2024 the world was flourishing. The advances in technology at the time we’re making life easier day by day, and man kind was advancing far further than many had dreamt. However whatever dreams mankind had for the future, were brought to a halt.
Be it gods retribution for mankind’s diabolical machinations, a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong, or even extraterrestrial influence; mankind paid dearly during the event that people have come to call Catastrophe.
The most popular theory today is that a still unknown scientist was experimenting with odd pagan and occult rituals, but at some point, whether by mistake or on purpose, this man made a mistake and humanity fell victim.
Whether this story is true or not, what is true is that the once dormant lines of energy erupted and changed that magnificent age of humanity that of all insignificant animals: survival.
In this overabundance of energy nightmares became reality and comfort and peace were things of the past. Monsters previously only known in legend took corporeal form and began to terrorize the now chaotic world.
Humanity took a step back over the next century and a half as the world around them changed and formed into a new of powers, once beyond imagination. But during this time humanity soon learned to harness the overabundance of energy around them, which they had dubbed, the Leylines.
Humanity now possessed abilities beyond their wildest imaginations and within the end of their century and a half of torment humanity took back the world that once belonged exclusively to them.
Though humanity is no longer the only presence of power on this deranged world, through the formation of the Leylines a variety of other races and creeds have appeared and taken their rightful place along with humanity above the mindless beasts that still own a majority of the earth.
Mutants, mutated form of humans and beasts, some claim they used to be human, while others just believe its some odd mixture of evolution with coinciding with Catastrophe. Vampires, the walking dead that feast on the blood of humans also have their shadowy hands dipping into the civilizations of humans, slowly manipulating them behind the scenes.
In the year 2237, Many of the old cities are slowly trying to be built across the world and throughout the continents of the earth. Many of these places are in a form of reconstruction as humanity weakly tries to recover their lost legacy.
In North America the United States has managed to carefully take back a hold of their former nation. They have “claimed” all of their old land mass, but only truly have control of the eastern seaboard at best. Their safe control extends slightly further west to Chicago the largest city in the nation. The once large cities of New York and Boston have been taken by creatures and destroyed almost entirely. The central areas are hollow wastelands and large deserts in the south where little life remains. On the west coast the city Portland, now a lawless home for pirates and hell raisers, still remains among the never-ending forests. The tall Rocky Mountains have become even taller near the former locations of Las Vegas, and a new town has formed over its remains, Elysiun. To the south Mexico City still stands now home to Reptilians and the followers of Dehza, their wicked goddess. Even further south untamed rainforests hide barbaric vampire tribes. The north contains nothing but endless fields of ice and snow.
Europe is a land covered in ruins and shrouded in darkness. The continent is almost entirely covered in darkness after Vampires eternally blackened the skies. The residents stay resilient though, and remain in the dark lands despite the Vampires wicked clock, fighting back whenever possible. London has slowly been rebuilt by determined survivors fighting horrible odds. The northern section is a massive ruin, a testament to the horrors of Catastrophe, but in truth it cannot be rebuilt due to a draconic nest a little further north, a barricade of experienced warriors guards the cities northern border day and night against common attempts of raids. The German city of Frankfurt stands nearly as strong if not stronger than London itself. The city stands against vampiric influence as much as possible, a friendly rivalry has spawned between the two countries. To the south beyond the borders of the vampires Dark Shroud, small communities exist in Spain and Italy where science and learning blossom.
Asia remains mostly a huge desolate span of desert, forest and ice, very little of the western part of Asia is habited by anything other than mindless beasts. The Eastern edge of Asia bustles with signs of life in comparison to the mass of endless nothing. A small branch communist branch of Russia has cut itself off from the rest of the country claiming independence. Tokyo is the only remaining center of life on the small island of Japan. The city harbors about fifteen percent of the known world population, an estimate that cannot be proven. The city rises high off the ground splitting the city into a multitude of levels and sublevels ranked by social status. Not unlike London, the outer edges of Tokyo are in uninhabited ruin. Some Chinese and Indonesian cities also “flourish”.
Australia was destroyed in a bout of power during the early years of human control. South America is uninhabited and run over by powerful monsters, possibly the most dangerous region in the world today.
Alright secondly for newcomers (mike?/tim) these are the generalizations of the classes and what they are:
Arcanist - holy warrior, specializes in healing and their own personal weaponry.
Channeler - warrior that uses leylinic energy to form weapons and armor.
Hacker - trickster that "fools" "hacks" or "abuses" leylinic energy to break physical laws and alter their own abilities as well as reality (loosely matrix)
Manifester - spellcaster, uses a completely different spell casting system based around spontinaity.
Scout - rouge/ranger mix, based around sneakyness and ranged attacks. Using the leylines to enhance this
Warrior - Combat focused fighter, uses the unique abilities of normal weapon or their own physical ability enhanced by the leylines.
Again sorry for the dealys ye guys, I do hope to finish Channeler this weekend if all goes well. I'll be back the first weekend in May, and hopefully all should be finished by then.
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