Inhabitants of the world. Any need for illustrations?

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Name: Malik Al'Wathar
Race: Human
Location: Calishem

Once a simple guardsman for the city of Calishem, Malik has quickly risen through the rank and file to first an honorary guard of the Calishem family and recently to a special unit called The Desert Shadows. The unit comprises of 30 distinguished warriors of proven Calishem descendance and they can only be commanded by members of the Calishem family. The Desert Shadows are a sort of honorary guard unit but their fields of responsibilities entail much more than simple guard duty. Most Desert Shadows are permanently attached to provide security to certain members of the Calishem family - with or without their knowledge. Malik has not been associated with any particular family member yet. Instead his main responsibility for now is organising protection and safety for the Calishem treasures around the country. He has free access to most treasure chambers all over the land and he has the authority to order and command local captains to give warriors for any tasks he dare ask.

Malik is a person of thoughful calmness. He never loses his marbles and has the patience of a lion. These attributes were the ones that awarded him the attention he has gotten from the royal family. He is in good terms with pretty much everyone he has ever known and apparently has no enemies at all - living enemies, that is. Malik has become friends with a few of the members of the Calishem family including one of the princesses, Khalida Calishem, with whom he has been on many missions under her command. Malik has great respect for Khalida and most obviously is also quite fond of her. It's uncertain whether Khalida has noticed this affection or whether she has similar feelings. In Calishem, there are no strict codes of behavior to follow regarding socialising between members of different social backgrounds.

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Name: Evan Chiesa
Race: Human
Location: Tavor, Voran or Raedis; Akron

Evan Chiesa is a brother to one deceased Maria Chiesa - the former wife of Baron Dunden LaFleur of Raedis. Dunden murdered his wife Maria by pushing her off of a balcony at LaFleur Mansion. The act was preceded by intense quarreling, shouting and yelling mostly originating from the Baron. The murderous act changed Evan's life forever. He swore he'd devote his life to serving justice to Baron LaFleur (the murderer himself), to LaFleur family (who let the whole tragedy unfold and who covered up afterwards) and to the city state of Raedis (whose officials and rulers didn't have enough moral balls to serve any kind of punishment to Dunden).

Evan has transformed from a furniture carpenter to a full-fledged and versatile combatant who is now a leader in an underground and rather small resistance group. The group see Raedis' officials as corrupted and immoral and their goal is to get rid of both the influential power blocks that actively shape the city-state's decisionmaking and also to replace Raedis' leaders and their most devout supporters. The existence of Evan's group has by no means escaped the radar of Raedis' informants and spies and Evan Chiesa is currently carrying a price on his head - a hefty one too - that has forced Evan to become more careful and less trusting of strangers.

Now Evan has started harrassing Raedis' official business. He ambushes merchant convoys. He interferes with the duties of city officials and has interrupted the city-state's tax collection and census collection groups on several occasions. The wealth he gains by robbery he distributes to impoverished families around Tavor and Voran. Evan and his group now mostly live out in the woods or in remote farmhouses and barns of sympathisers to their cause.

A fiery passion fuels Evan, but his group has close ties to a few persons of Aldamar's persuasion. Those who follow Aldamar do not condone Evan's radical approach per se. Aldamar's followers are extending their helping hand to Evan by trying to initiate negotiations with Lord Roberto Romano in order to both avoid escalation of the conflict and to generate a punishment for Dunden LaFleur. Lord Romano has not been interested and in fact doesn't think Evan Chiesa and his miniscule group of ingrates presents any real threat to Raedis. So no discussions and negotiations have taken place and the fact that Evan is not taken seriously has only further infuriated him.


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[Marken4]

Nice pose! Impressive as always

[Steel General]

More cool stuff 12Rounds!

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Name: Elisabeth Lukas
Race: Human
Location: Port Magalie, Witchlight Strand

A witch in town? Elisabeth has either heard of it ... or has already disposed of the foullness that is witchery. She is probably the most famous witch hunter of Witchlight Strand and it surely seems she is busy. She resides in Port Magalie - not far from the city central - but it's equally likely to meet her pretty much anywhere in Witchlight Strand since her profession often force her to pursue identified witches on the run for long periods of time. And witches seem aplenty in the Witchlight Strand. Go figure.

While at Port Magalie, Elisabeth spends a lot of time at The Wyvern's Nest - a local inn just around the corner of where she lives. Some might say she is more likely to be met at the inn than her home, but then again she is a good friend with the owner of the inn, a halfling named Tylla Redleaf, and the inn is pretty much the best place in town to catch gossip about suspected sightings of witches and witchcraft. She is a tall woman standing a good deal above 6 feet and she also carries her height with proudness and self-awareness. She is playful and loud, but not overly arrogant. She can take a good joke even if it's on her and she doesn't hesitate to throw one back. In fact she is quite witty and clever with words.

Elisabeth knows pretty much all the gossip there is to know in Port Magalie. She isn't really interested in anything not related to witches and witchery. On subjects other than those she often remembers things wrong or just doesn't remember at all but makes up something from her mind to patch the holes. As a result she is an invaluable source of information about witches but on other subject matters the information she splurts is less than reliable. There is, however, an item of interest that has caught her attention. And that is the rumors that a Plague Knight from Groam has been sighted up north. It certainly seems like a remote possibility that those dreaded servants of unspeakable terror have spread terror in the mystic lands of Gallant Coast and have advanced all the way to the borders of Witchlight Strand. Then again it might just be a false positive since the presence of a Plague Knight is usually reported only way after the plague has wrecked havoc and so far Witchlight Strand has been saved from the disease. In fact most Witchligth Strand scholars now believe that the plague itself has run it's course and is now mostly just a terrible chapter in the history books.


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[Diamond]

I just spent the last hour+ looking through this thread and alls I can say is:

W O W ! ! !

Keep up the awesome work, 12rounds.

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Thank you Diamond for your kind words.

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Name: Milja Markovec
Race: Human
Location: Port Magalie, Witchlight Strand


A long time employee of Tylla Redleaf, Maria started her work as a waitress at The Wyvern's Nest only a couple of weeks after Tylla established the place quite many years ago. Maria is well liked by the regular patrons of the inn as well as the more random visitors that set their foot in there. Much of the success of The Wyvern's Nest is because of Maria's hard-working attitude and her amazing ablility to make everyone feel warm and welcome. She is socially talented and has a cunning ability to sense the mind set of the customers and adjust her demeanor accordingly. Asking Tylla about what she thinks of Maria will just result in a seemingly endless narrative on Maria regularly dotted with positive remarks. A more cynical listener might even think Tylla has the hots for Maria.

Every tuesday is a day of entertainment at the inn. Tylla regularly hires talented local people and groups to perform at the inn. Maria Tessa has a divine and smoothly soothing singing voice and she regularly performs both heart-breaking sentimental ballads and hosts more rowdy and cheery sing-a-long events. Needless to say The Wyvern's Nest is simply crowded each and every tuesday night.


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[industrygothica]

I like that one. I could have used her back at the start of this adventure. Keep it up!


-IG

[Jaxilon]

I haven't been in here for a while, these are great 12rounds! Makes me feel like writing an adventure myself.

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Name: Cycopsilus - The XVII Plague Knight
Race: Human
Location: border area of Gallant Coast and Witchlight Strand


The presence of a Plague Knight is never a good sign. First an area is ravaged by the plague leaving misery, orphaned children, terror, death and despair. Then arrive the Sect of Flagelmus - a group of self-punishing people who have survived the plague's initial onslaught on the body. Some of these grow mad, some die of self-torture, violence or self-mutilation or of infections or malnutrition. A select few return to Groam to later appear as the dreaded Plague Knights. Most Plague Knights are quite slim or even skeletal due to their ravaged and withered bodies, but fragile or weak they are not. Instead their bodies can apparently withstand much more punishment than the average human can. In fact some rumors exists that claim the Plague Knights are no longer alive, but kept in motion by some evil force or entity - like the feared powers of the necromancers of Cult of the Blackflame.

Cycopsilus leads a group of 80. They are all members of the Sect of Flagelmus and servants to Cycopsilus. The numbers flail since some die and some join the group. Cycopsilus' group has appeared seemingly out of nowhere and wrecked havoc on a small farming village some miles north of the Witchlight Strand's border. The group killed and maimed dozens of innocent victims and purposefully let some get away after polluting their bodies with the seeds of the plague.

Cycopsilus is surely on some mission, but what he is after, noone knows.


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