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The Proletariat Robot
"Long ago this land was called Acadir, now they just call it the wastes. See, this place used to be a thriving set of kingdoms, the people were rich and healthy, the kings were fair and just, life was easy in the kingdoms of Acadir. Now look at it, where there were once cities now stand ruins, where there was forests there's now wasteland, where there used to be people there's now graves, hell, even the animals are gone, replaced with magically warped monstrosities and packs of the damn Drakebloods. Anyone who goes in there is a dead man walking, anyone dumb enough to live on the outskirts isn't much better off. You want my advice? Run, run as fast as you can and get away while you still have all of your limbs."
Narrative fantasy roleplay for four to eight players, players will be taking the part of mercenaries hired to escort a mysterious employer into a magically devastated badlands. Thus ends the concise outline.
Gameplay will largely consist of players traveling through the Wastes, defending their employer from the local wildlife and astral phenomena with a heavy emphasis on character interaction and development.
Character Sheet;
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Race:
Appearance:
Personality:
Equipment:
History:
The only requirements are that players commit to being able to regularly post, maintain a readable level of grammar and spelling, refrain from using fancy formatting on their posts and enjoy themselves. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Narrative fantasy roleplay for four to eight players, players will be taking the part of mercenaries hired to escort a mysterious employer into a magically devastated badlands. Thus ends the concise outline.
Gameplay will largely consist of players traveling through the Wastes, defending their employer from the local wildlife and astral phenomena with a heavy emphasis on character interaction and development.
Character Sheet;
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Race:
Appearance:
Personality:
Equipment:
History:
The only requirements are that players commit to being able to regularly post, maintain a readable level of grammar and spelling, refrain from using fancy formatting on their posts and enjoy themselves. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
The earliest known records of Human habitation in the Acadir region date from the early 15,000s EC, when a group of researchers from the city of Eshan made contact with a number of primitive tribes of hunter-gatherers. The details of the Eshani uplifting of the early Human civilizations are well recorded elsewhere, suffice to say that they were able to successfully convert the Human tribes from Hunter-Gatherer's whose most significant technological advancement was the discovery of flint knapping into a collection of thriving kingdoms in a period of around 1,000 years.
By 16,500 EC the Humans had been developed into eight small, but wealthy and peaceful, nations;
Akan
Ter
Micara
Vica
Ysiv
Icad
Toj
and Ordanal, these nations benefited well from an early introduction to the concepts of diplomacy and equality. Raising large and thriving mercantile and artisanal classes. The Human kingdoms traded goods far and wide, using a large share of the profits to raise the living standard of the labor class, crime and warfare were practically nonexistent. Obviously something had to go wrong.
Three events marked the fall of Human civilization, the first event occurred in the year 17,000 EC. The events of the Dragon War are well recorded elsewhere, suffice to say that at its conclusion the surviving dragons felt it necessary to migrate, one such dragon, Azzathus the Bloody One, elected to migrate to Acadir. Azzathus proceeded to do as dragons do and rampage across Human territory, utterly devastating the defenseless kingdoms. The Elven city of Eshan came to the aid of the Humans, teaching them the ways of the warrior caste. The combined Human and Elven forces were able to defeat Azzathus after more than seventy years of senseless slaughter. The effects of Azzathus' attack were severe, the Human settlements were devastated, there wealth was gone, there cities damage beyond repair. Our people helped where we could but the damage was simply too much. Additionally, the Humans suddenly found themselves with an abundance of warriors and no means by which to pay them. Thus, desperate for resources, the Human kingdoms abandoned the diplomacy and equality the Elves taught them and turned upon each other. Massacring thousands more of their own in the wake of the terror of Azzathus' assault.
The second event took place forty five years after the death of Azzathus. Details on this era are unclear, but from what we have been able to gather it seems a Human sorcerer was somehow able to infuse himself and his minions with the power of Azzathus, theories on how this was accomplished are far to varied to start listing. The important part is that this turned himself and his followers into what the Human's call "Drakebloods", the sorcerer indeed gained the power of the dragon, however he also gained its unquenchable greed and insatiable lust for violence. Acadir was further plunged into warfare and chaos as the Drakebloods launched their attack upon the surviving Humans. In desperation the Humans rallied together, but even their combined efforts were not enough to best their foes, and so they did what is popularly considered to be the single worst thing they could have done: They paid the Dwarves for their military techniques.
And just like that the Humans were able to turn themselves from a loose collection of warriors into an army. Two hundred years after the Drakebloods rose the Humans scattered them to the wind, which of course leads us to our third event.
It was the year 17,315 EC, three years after Humanity was able to defeat the Drakebloods and scatter them across Acadir. The Demon Lord Cazathar and his legion simultaneously possessed over two thirds of Humanity's battlemages, the slowly rebuilding Human's were once again plunged into a massive war, a war big enough to draw in armies from nearly every city of every civilized race, and more than a few outskirt tribes as well. Estimates place the death toll between ten and fifteen percent of the world's population. Details on what actually occurred are even scarcer than that of the Drakeblood's rise, but at the end of it all Cazathar and his forces were defeated and banished. The devastation however, remained. The land of Acadir was utterly ruined, turned into a desolate wasteland, even today, five hundred years after the defeat of the Demon army, it is still a ruined land.
The Human's, left with no skill or traditions other than those pertaining to warfare, scattered to the wind, selling their skills to any nation that would take them. The rise and fall of Human civilization is one of the most unique events in our history, in the span of a mere 2,050 years an entire race was raised from tribal savages little more advanced than beasts, to a thriving civilization before being cast down into nothingness. Modern Humans are a migrant race, their great leaders are long dead, their lands still smolder from the fires of their past, they live in small groups if in groups at all, wandering from place to place, doing the only thing they know how to do, fight.
-Edrin M'kar, Elven Historian and Philosopher. A Brief Account of Human History, 17,850 Elven Calendar.
