Fantasy The Return of the Mages

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The world was in despair and darkness flooded the land. Mages of terrible and dark magic, creatures straight from myth and ancient species tormented civilizations. Kingdoms offered sacrifices to this threat. Kings offered their daughters and their eldest sons to end the violence. Nothing that they did could stop this terror. Had this dark cult succeeded in its goals they would have summoned the thirteen demons of destruction that would have destroyed the world. However, Mages of purity gathered in the worlds time of need and pushed back the evil that threatened to destroy it. Together they forged a long-lasting order to ensure that evil would never come so close to destroying the world ever again.


However, as the order was seen less important they disbanded and the evil that was fought back for so long found its way into the hearts of man. Now the world is once again in need. While the enemy may seem small and powerless now, they will grow in power and they will once again attempt to summon the thirteen demons of destruction. Do you have what it takes to save the world or destroy it?


You must gather a band of heroes and do everything you can do, everything in your power to stop the threat, or if you are evil you must find mages that share your values and strike down those in charge. Some may even follow after the original dark ones and wish to summon the great demons. However,


the only way for the great demons to be summoned is by using the Book of Chaos, which was lost in the great fight between the Order and the Dark ones.


Some back ground info on the order:


The order of white mages had pure and primal powers; light, darkness, water, fire, earth, wind etc.. The heads of the order, the riders as they are called, each look after the lower parts of the order to make sure that everything is running smoothly. The members contacted each other in the plane of the mind, and held their meetings telepathically so that their enemies didn't learn any important order secrets.


Some back ground info on the dark ones:


The dark ones were anyone and any species, they wished to summon the demons to remake the world in their image. Nothing could get in their way, and nothing could stop their dream until the arrival of the order. They hated the morals and laws of the world and they believe the only way anything could be solved was by remaking the world in their image.


Current Info:


Lady Grey is the new leader of the Dark One's, and her stated goal is to find the Book of Chaos so she can summon the 13 Demons of Destruction. She also claims to desire the deaths of all the Mages of Purity. To this end, she set up a Dark Citadel atop a mountain where all the Dark Mages she finds will want to gather, and where the Light Mages will focus their attacks - to their demise. To find the Book of Chaos, she must enlist an army to scour the world. This involves summoning magic-sensitive creatures, creatures of myth and legend. Summoning each creature requires a small quantity of human blood, preferably the blood of mages for best results.


The role play will be driven by the community and will have arcs for the plot suggested by people with in, as long as they are appropriate for the game.

 

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Arcs:
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Current arc:

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Spoiler

The Mages of Purity are summoned by the last leader of the Order. He has become aware that Lady Grey is capturing mages and drawing some of their blood, and he wants the other mages to 1) put a stop to it and 2) find out why she's doing it. Important to note is that she is not killing these mages. Those who escape often try to fight her afterwards, only to discover that she is too powerful and too well-guarded by the fortress to be directly challenged. These individuals returned to the Order and reported their findings to the order.



Dark Mages are finding a message in a bottle naming them by name and requesting their presence at Grey Citadel. A map is provided to show them how to reach it. Any one who reaches the citadel is given a luxurious suite to live in until the others arrive. Once they are all present, Lady Grey will hold a council meeting to discuss summoning the 13 Demons


Next Arc:





Next arc is the opening stages of military warfare. The intel team has discovered the location of Grey Citadel (which wasn't exactly a secret, being built on the legendary Mount Horror for crying out loud), and when they got there, they found the enemy amassing a vast army of goblins. They return and report their findings, prompting William to begin recruiting an army to fight back. Lady Grey has put her allied dark mages in charge of her armies, but leading minds on both sides know that the fight won't be straightforward



Spare Arcs:

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There has been rumors that some members of the Dark Ones have been creating demons (puppets/automatons/ etc basically not the real things) in attempts to find other ways of summoning the demons without the book. The order must find where they are performing this research and put a stop to it.

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The key to the Book of Chaos was guarded by mages/some other celestial/mythical being. The dark mages managed to destroy the Creature but before they could make off with the key, the Order arrives and the battle for the key erupts.

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