Sooooooooo, much has happened and I need to update the information page, however, I'd more of an advocate for actually working and doing plots atm than playing catch up on background information that already occurred (but I promise I will get to those updates at some point, it just might not be until the summer D: or when I have more free time.. aka- no evening classes)
Anywho, that being said I've already started plotting NEW things and NEW events to take place after Blaith conquers Ahjfeld; so I think it's more or less appropriate to establish a plotting thread for this year's event.
As it is mentioned here: http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=14741.msg148391#msg148391 ; I'm thinking Hellvion will have a show for a fall of power (and grace) when it's one small event goes on where the Duchess, Melora, and a lot of her supporters, dies (or disappears, etc) during the super ship she spent to built that sinks far out at sea during it's main voyage (SotE's Titanic, anyone? XD )
That's an event in itself, and I'd be up to more plots with that, currently it just has the duchess of Folkvar on board having an awkward reunion with her lover from her youth (and potential father to her eldest, Sunniva).
As it stands,
@Whim and I are plotting for his character Wylie to be taking some form of Duke like control of the duchy of Ahjfeld that is now conquered (as to be plotted/ promised via Blaith- we are working on this via PM)
Katahnia Harmond, a known figure countering the war with peace, is gathering her own set of followers (some of it being a large gathering of soldiers in their own right) while another mass is gathering to become active by other means (I'm plotting with
@Wycliff on this one- but I'm seeing this as a potential multi-year effect/ event, maybe)
The Grand Duke himself is going to start appealing more towards the working class, by a potential 'baby mama' (or second wife, as it were) with the woman, the commoner, who gave birth to the famous baby (and his (KNOWN IN SECRET, ONLY)) , his only son! The baby's name is Hope and right now, he's becoming a symbol for that as the draft is unfolding, forcing more soldiers into the war.
Supporters of the war or waning, but Fokvar is one of the many duchies remaining strongly supportive, due to their close connection with the crown. That being said, the current duke their (rped by
@Draconian ) is a power hungry Duke hoping to secure more and ample power and wealth for himself. He has no heirs, but he proposed heir he plans to use as a puppet to marry off to Blaith Harmond's sister , Kella, whom ends up being hunted after by many, many seeking her as a big game changer in the war. She is, after all, Blaith's twin sister, and seemingly the main reason he goes off the deep end to storm across Connlaoth to the mage camps in the north and
destroy them. Kella will, at some point (that has been somewhat plotted!) will be married off to the heir of Folkvar in an attempt to gain an upper hand on BOTH sides of the war- one effort to bring Blaith to their knees bfeore Folkvar and in doing so, making Folkvar become the 'hero' of this war (for surely the war will end when Blaith is taken out!- never mind the resistance before he even dragged out his army to conquer)
I'm sure there are other ideas, but I'll keep posting them here as I remember them or if I forget them, please tag me and our thoughts and we can keep an open discussion on the year ten events, here!
I know
@Lion your one duchy is going to change heirs, so maybe you can explain that more in detail here.
SO, Falkenrath will be experiencing a power vaccuum of sorts. I'd think by this point in the war, Falkenrath has been overextended in the war-effort, standing by the Grand Duke, and as a result, much of it's territory has been destroyed from both sides. With such a large territory to cover, and much of it's resources destroyed or pillaged, Falkenrath has become something of a ghost province.
The Brennick family has been broken with Duke Michael dead, Brandur missing, and Willian deceased as well. Charles, the heir, struggles to keep the province together.
Roland Harker sees this as an opportunity to possibly aid Falkenrath, although many are hesitant to allow him to give aid, and restore the land to it's people. He makes it pretty clear he is marching against the Grand Duke's forces, and seeing as Falkenrath has a pretty loyalist population, many are resistant to the idea. But people are also starving soooooo *waves scale around*
As an aside, Oakley Brennick and his lover Renna attempt to leave the borders of Falkenrath, just to find some peace, but are probably captured by Roland and maybe he sees them as a bargaining piece?
Just thoughts!
@GoblinFae - this is the year in the war in which Melora (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=13800.msg116772#msg116772) (and family) will most likely lose their reign of power (potentially cause she's going to lose her life, and her husband has been sickly, it might be presumed he's dead at this point). So there's always the potential for your character to step in to make his claim at this point (and I'm sure Davina, of all people, would despise this beyond belief)
This year, or the previous, Melora's daughter Aella (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=13794.msg116711#msg116711) would have been married off to
@Moonie 's Duke Micah of Orchy.
KEEP IN MIND NEW AND OLD MEMBERS ALIKE ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO BRING IN IDEAS AND JOIN IN ON THE MADNESS! :D
That being said, it seems year ten is a big power shift year and two other duchies, Vythe, and Ardal, might become open for potential plottings on a new family of power- so keep this in mind! Allar might as well but I haven't gotten to think too far into Allar at the time, since I'm probably going to have it become a consequential fall once Blaith goes on another crazy war path when he realizes someone is using his sister against him :|
So I'm done and forgot that
@DragonSong and I created a new set of characters as the siblings to the new Duke of Allar looooooooooool go me for forgetting this XD
that, however, does not mean power can't change again since there's only one heir and crazy-ness and war. but I figured I'd put this here since I totally forgot that, Dragon, that Gavriella (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=20883.msg310845#msg310845)'s brother is an heir hahahaha
Oh yeeeeeaaahhh...
Lol, they're so angsty, I kinda forgot they actually have like important duties and stuff 0.0
maybe we should plot something haha
Sure!
Other than their awkward incesty-ness, I don't remember if we had a real plan for them haha
@DragonSong it might be interesting if they had to fight off a siege or something in their own home town, from like within their castle, or somethin' :T
Alright, I can definitely run with that!
Just putting this out there as a potential year 10 (or 11) event; but due to Calent's growing relations with a common woman, he's going to find a way to make a connection with the nobles and common working class by creating a Mirror/Candle lighting kind of ceremony to be held at a newly created 'Light House' by the huge lake (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=14741.msg148390#msg148390) located in Matron's hallow (who for the life of me I can't recall the correct spelling of ;_;
@Viscount Rhi-Rhi )
The idea is to create a hall full of mirrors, one representing each duchy, and then the entire wall has recesses that any and all visitors can come in and place their own lighted candle within, to show their unity and support and pride for their country. This is also a potential located for if/ when Calent ever gets remarried, as it's going to be announced his wife has recently passed (though truths behind it will be shrouded at best).
Along with this grave news, Calent is going to try to appeal more to the commoners, taking up a commoner as his new 'wife' and adopting her son in as his own, and hoping to use this as a card to appeal more to the people moving forward with the war; since support dips drastically along with the draft, which is instated during year 9.
More secrets are going to be revealed about these mirrors, which were designed upon a dream Calent has now that's he's having more normalized sleep (after decades of barely sleeping an hour nightly). But that's all to be revealed for now :D
But little adopted baby 'Hope' is going to have a pretty big role for how baby he is lol
Lemme know your thoughts and ideas!
I'm working on names for this candle/ mirror house, thinking about 'Hall of Pride' or something to that effect (a short but potent title)
Tagging
@Draconian since this effects her character Medina XD
Also, just tossing out an idea, the building could be an open air one perhaps? And have some gardens interwoven into its design,- making a parklike setting for those living in the city; and it could be called like 'Garden of Hope' or something- named after his 'adopted' son or something.
Thoughts! *awaits*
Oooo.
That also sounds super spooky. Or has the potential to be super spooky.
I like. : D
<3 yep
thinking about connecting this also with some of Calent's OTHER secrets >D
and you know, his time traveling son 8D
Gotta work on Hope's profile at some point >_>
He can't be baby forever!
Oooo do it.
Do it. I need to see. Also I need to know all the secrets. -impatient-
I'll get his profile up once I finalize just HOW babu can time travel lol
Got ideas but you know, things gotta be finalized and make cents. Baby gotta make me some money lol (okay I meant sense but yeah...)
Well.
Hope's mom is a mage.
And his dad is a Mage That Doesn't Know He's A mage. So, I assume that'd mean Hope has potential to be a pretty powerful mage. =D Maybe something to do with the mirrors or reflective surfaces or something Super Creepy like that.
His father *is* a mage, and a corrupt one (since journey to the Fell and all 8D )
MAYBE HE IS ALSO CORRUPT DUE TO ASSOCIATION OF JUST BEING BORN FROM HIS SEED or something lol
That's a good thought though lol
I hadn't assumed he'd jus tbe able to 'do that' 8D
but yes.. hrmm, I'll think on that :D
Thanks spicy! *late in replies* Sounds perfect
Quote from: Spicyspice on February 25, 2017, 04:15:29 PM
KEEP IN MIND NEW AND OLD MEMBERS ALIKE ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO BRING IN IDEAS AND JOIN IN ON THE MADNESS! :D
@Draconian - Hope got his profile, finally! http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=23328.msg348001#msg348001
Should be interesting to see what trouble Connlaoth will get into because of Calent's 'from the future!' off-spring XD
hrmm- one thought for Hope I have that might be interesting to play with it is if Hope becomes kind of like an introverted book worm, and maybe some girl with a sad tail that becomes a bit of a myth/ fantasy story resulting from the war gains his interest and is like his first 'crush from a book'- but he should totally meet her in the past time (well, our present time) Connlaoth XD
Quote from: Lion on February 25, 2017, 04:01:56 PM
SO, Falkenrath will be experiencing a power vaccuum of sorts. I'd think by this point in the war, Falkenrath has been overextended in the war-effort, standing by the Grand Duke, and as a result, much of it's territory has been destroyed from both sides. With such a large territory to cover, and much of it's resources destroyed or pillaged, Falkenrath has become something of a ghost province.
The Brennick family has been broken with Duke Michael dead, Brandur missing, and Willian deceased as well. Charles, the heir, struggles to keep the province together.
Roland Harker sees this as an opportunity to possibly aid Falkenrath, although many are hesitant to allow him to give aid, and restore the land to it's people. He makes it pretty clear he is marching against the Grand Duke's forces, and seeing as Falkenrath has a pretty loyalist population, many are resistant to the idea. But people are also starving soooooo *waves scale around*
As an aside, Oakley Brennick and his lover Renna attempt to leave the borders of Falkenrath, just to find some peace, but are probably captured by Roland and maybe he sees them as a bargaining piece?
Just thoughts!
@Lion- instead of rping this out, I'll jsut have it implied in one of my threads- being that Falkenrath will be a consequential result of Blaith pulling out of Ahjfeld in a timely manner and just barreling his way west towards Orchy to meet up with Micah to make an alliance (and you know, let him know his daughter is safe and okay- albeit it a little bit married now XD )
also
@Moonie .. cause!
Das fine!
8D
|8* good