OOC The Time of the Ancients

[Mini Mongo]

Sorry I haven't replied, cut my finger pretty badly

 

[Mini Mongo]

I just read the post but I gotta point out something that everyone is doing. Why is it that all of the Factions seem to know exactly what everyone is? On my post I said that there are rumors about them, but no one knows what they are (the atmorans) but with everyone else they seem to suddenly know everything about each other.
And bout Morgans post, which was bloody brilliant but annoying. We are trying to stick to as much lore as possible, and then Pelinal attacks Dwemer and knows what they are???? Please could you edit out the attack, and make it seem like you don't know what they actually are or perhaps not event their name.
P.S the Snow Elves are referred to as Falmer during this

 

[Morganatic]

Attacked Nchadahrk, a Dwemer enclave, and left messages that the Dwemer would find implicating the Falmer in its destruction. Pelinal's main plan isn't to Kill All Elves, at least not for a good while yet, but the more that the the Merethic Elven civilisations distrust and fear one another, the better it is for him. Note also that he's been at pains to isolate himself from Atmoran high command, by being a colossal jackass and alienating all of them to the point where they basically send him off scouting to make him go away. He's basically acting as a privateer in this capacity - working with Atmoran interests (loosely) at heart, but not actually involving them in a formally constituted war, because he's a deniable asset.

I can certainly change it, if that's still right for your vision of the game, though.

 

[Mini Mongo]

Yeah it kinda doesn't seem right that these Amotrans, knew to what was supposed to be an unknown land have just arrived at this place, and are already causing plops. Perhaps later on but leave it for the moment please, sorry if I seemed ratty btw.
And yeah please do change it, awesome post though

 

[Morganatic]

I just read the post but I gotta point out something that everyone is doing. Why is it that all of the Factions seem to know exactly what everyone is? On my post I said that there are rumors about them, but no one knows what they are (the atmorans) but with everyone else they seem to suddenly know everything about each other.
And bout Morgans post, which was bloody brilliant but annoying. We are trying to stick to as much lore as possible, and then Pelinal attacks Dwemer and knows what they are???? Please could you edit out the attack, and make it seem like you don't know what they actually are or perhaps not event their name.
P.S the Snow Elves are referred to as Falmer during this

Ah, OK, I'll have to re-think the post considerably then - deleting it, then rewriting it (probably some time tomorrow, since I'm not up to another all nighter right now). I'm not sure the post breaks lore in any practical way - remember that this would not be the first time Pelinal uses words and anachronistic names for things (see the bit about Reman Cyrodil) - but I'm sure I can come up with something.

Many apologies to Conquers too, in that case, since his post was reacting to mine!

 

[.ol0w0lo.]

Am I guilty of this too? I only mentioned that Yngol had glanced at a hill and noticed a few of the elves Sky had implemented.

 

[Mini Mongo]

No that's totally fine, you didn't say you knew exactly what they were. It's just if you're gonna do a post like that, tell me please! I feel kind of bad saying this but it doesn't seem right sorry

 

[Morganatic]

Actually, to be honest, I think I'll probably be redoing with a new character (still Atmoran, though, so we don't unbalance the numbers). Pelinal's shticks (as I described in the character card, and in the Song of Pelinal) are his madness-inspired future visions, and his 'bigger picture' loathing of Elves of all kinds that drive him to join his cause with Mannish wars against the Mer (the 500 Companions, and later the Alessian Revolt/battle between the Knights of the Nine and of Umaril). Since both of those seem to be wrong for this game ...

Don't worry, I'll come up with something more fitting tomorrow!

 

[Mini Mongo]

Okay that's totally fine.
So honestly guys remember the natives of Merath (Dwemer, Chimer and Falmer) no nothing about the Atmorans, and they no nothing about the natives.
Not there names, tongues, even if they actually exist so please in your posts say that it is all led by rumors if they exist.
The only Factions that know each other are the Falmer because they spied on the Atmorans, but they think they are just Colonists, suspected to be Atmorans but no proof.
And the Atmorans saw the Falmer, but had no idea who they are

 

[.ol0w0lo.]

I really wanna see Ysmir in this. (Hint hint wink)

 

[meben15]

If anyone knows anyone invite them to be a Chimer with me Also CHIM post plz?

 

[Morganatic]

OK, new character concept forming. Mongo/Cazzer, which Atmoran clan is most associated with trade? I imagine that even if you don't know what people are like on the other side of a great ocean, one of the first human impulses (judging by Earth's history) seems to be to try to sell them junk (me, I call it treasure) at the most exorbitant prices, and pillage them in the marketplace, rather than on the battlefield - got a character idea who ought to work with that.

And, as for the obligatory bit of obscure elder scrolls background I must include in each character? Well, let's just say that, by lore, one of the first things that the Atmorans and Ysgramor do on arriving in Tamriel is bury a rather disturbing, dream-influencing artefact, that has rather an interesting background lineage. May or may not have anything to do with the avatar change.

 

[Mini Mongo]

You mean the eye of magnus? And perhaps Clan Selid could be your choice?

 

[cazzer14]

I'd have said either Clan Selid or Clan Enylin.

 

[Morganatic]

Whoop whoop, here's the new character - hope she can play more nicely with the RP! And yeah, Mongo - the mysterious thing that's drawing Kinei southwards is what the Winterhold College of Mages would later identify as the Eye of Magnus. Quite what it is is unclear, and we're unlikely to get to the point in the chronology when Ysgramor does seal whatever it is under Saarthal, but this works as an interesting point from which to start looking, and makes an interesting place to start patterning her abilities off. First post will be coming up pending approval by OP!


BASIC DETAILS

Full Name: Kinei Muna
Nicknames/Aliases: 'The Witch of Beaten Metal'
Sex/Gender: Female
Sexuality: Prefers women's company.

Race: Atmoran
Age: 29
Day of Birth: 16th of First Seed
Birthsign: The Serpent
Afflictions: Anaemia

Birthplace: Atmora
Current Residence: Hsaarik Head
Affiliation: The Atmoran Colonist Fleet, Clan Enylin
Occupation: Trade-Speaker for Clan Enylin; Witch

COMBAT DETAILS


Major Skills:
◦ Thaumaturgy
◦ Alchemy
◦ Speechcraft
◦ Mercantile
Minor Skills:
◦ Unarmoured
◦ Smithing
◦ Enchantment
◦ Restoration

Non-combat skills:
◦ Canny trader
◦ Linguist
◦ Student of exotic and esoteric mystic traditions from Atmora.

Gear:
◦ Literally thousands of small, valuable trade goods worked into her clothing and hair - easily enough to sustain a trade mission on what she carries on her person.
◦ blessed stahlrim dagger.
◦ heavy feathered robes.
◦ portable set of alchemy equipment.

School(s) of Magic: Thaumaturgy
Preferred Spells: Ghostly Form, Star-Curse, limited prognostication and divinatory ability. Her magic tends to manifest itself in strange ways, taking on odd, geometric forms and arcane shapes. Learned machinists might recognise them as gears, pistons, wire, and other machined forms, but to her, they're merely the geometric expressions of higher principles.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS


Appearance: Kinei is a short, dumpy Atmoran woman, who goes to great lengths to make sure that that's all she's ever seen as. Her heavy woollen outer robes are of common manufacture, and what small adornments she does adopt - braided hair, and a mantle of raven-feathers - hardly mark her out as a member of the Atmoran nobility. Indeed, the strange green-blude birthmark around her eyes, together with their worrying tendency to glow in the dark, would usually have got her exiled, sent to the Selidi, or enthralled at the lowest rank of Enyli society - they're not the kind of thing one would expect to see on a high-ranking Atmoran.

She can't entirely hide her nobility, though. With every step she takes, she jingles; a heavy metallic sound that can only betoken wealth. Beneath her drab outer robe, she is bedizened with a Jarl's ransom in treasure and trade goods. Fragments of top-quality soul gem hang from a shirt of electrum chain mail, each link a finely worked masterwork of the alloyer's craft; alchemical reagents and bone-shards from prehistoric hist-beasts are braided into her lank hair. This display of bling isn't deliberately ostentatious or gaudy, at least by Atmoran standards. Inter-clan negotiations value honesty and forthrightness, and, heavy-laden with treasures as she is, Kinei can certainly look the part of a trade-speaker for Clan Enylin. Besides, having so much wealth on her person is a safety measure - she's had to abandon enough caravans due to ambush or animal attack that she's learned the only way to keep her goods safe is to wear them - all of them.

Personality: It's the fluidity of Kinei's personality that makes her so dangerous, and has made her so successful as an Enyli clanswoman.

On the one hand, she is a mystic. Practitioners of the Art are usually scorned in Atmoran society, and exiled to the Enyli. Kinei has avoided this fate, partly by means of her skills at politicking, but mostly by speaking truth, intepreting dreams, and dispensing wisdom to those around her. She follows a subtle creed, barely recognisable to her fellow Atmorans, that hails ancient and future star-gods rather than Kyne, Jhunal, Shor and the other stalwarts of the Mannish pantheon; but her quiet way with words and flashes of insight are admired by the others of her clan, and have won her respect. She knows to be discreet with her magic, and as such, the witch hunters and inquisitors of the Enyli know to turn a blind eye to her work.

At the same time, she's a shrewd trader and negotiator - utterly ruthless and pragmatic in her dealings with the other clans, able to rake in more plunder over a market stall than a whole company of Ysgramor's finest thanes could take in a month's raiding. She has no qualms about swindling her rivals out of gold, cattle, and land, and is capable of doing so while convincing them that it's just what they want.

It's these two skills that have made Kinei Muna a well-respected member of the Enyli, and they only become more formidable when paired together. She can slip from truth-teller to trade-speaker in the blink of an eye and back again, and others can never quite be sure in which guise she approaches them. She joined up with the Atmoran colonist fleet not out of any sense of persecution - the growing civil war was the source of a tidy profit, after all - but rather because new frontiers meant new opportunities to trade. Beyond rumours of strange machinist-beings and golden-skinned volcano-dwelling humans, she has no idea of what she'll find, but she knows that whoever, whatever they are - she'll be able to make a profit off them.

Except - except that's not the only thing drawing her to Merath. Kinei Muna has only heard the voice of her gods in dreams, believes in them as abstract beings, beyond the stars. But that's not quite true. Beneath the ice of the Winter's Hold Glacier, a fragment of her god awaits. It slumbers, but even in its sleep it calls to her, drawing her inexorably to it. As she gets closer, it eats away at her mind, penetrating her dreams and drawing her into its spell. There are forces on Nirn beyond Aedra and Daedra, and they don't always slumber peacefully.

 

[Mini Mongo]

I like it, cool character, a trading Witch Noble badass XD
I shall add this character to the list

 

[Skyrimosity]

I like it, cool character, a trading Witch Noble badass XD
I shall add this character to the list

So... ummm... how long 'til that Falmer meeting of yours starts? 'Tis what I am waiting for to do my next post

 

[Mini Mongo]

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but is there only 2 Chimer?

 

[Mini Mongo]

Soonish XD

 

[meben15]

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but is there only 2 Chimer?

Yes... we neeed moar