Elven Empire Quest (CK2)
- Thread starter Powerofmind
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Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
How do you think a just, rule-oriented person looks to Aldegard?
- Location
- PA
Gotta love unreliable narrators!
And to be honest, I find it telling I had to stop and remember she's a little magic-mad according to her character sheet- I straight-up thought the swerve away from Just was down to sheer personality clash. D'oh!
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
That's technically not yet the case. But she is arrogant, ambitious, and ruthless. Personality clash is enough that not every good thing looks good outright.
Kir the Wizard
The Sun King
- Location
- Ukraine
Well, you are dealing with a third person narrative, so it may not be inevitably obvious that Aldegard was the narrator.
Even if it was a second person narrative ("You felt like he was becoming increasingly annoying"), it'd be easier to understand that perspective.
From a third person perspective, it might as well have been "he's becoming generally annoying to everyone with his rules lawyering".
Anyway, so the kid's up for Arbitrary? Joy. At least there will be hilarious event chain choices to pick up!
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
While mostly a fair critique, I've already been showing some sense of unreliability in the narration of Aldegard so far. Yes, I'm not entirely sure why I opted to do third person, maybe it's the old formal school influence in me rearing it's head, but it's not as if I gave no indication there's some unreliability in a narrative focused around Aldegard, in a way that only shows her own private emotions or thoughts on any given matter, no other characters.
And, Arbitrary is an unlikely result. He's more than likely up for compassionate to your ruthless, as well you might have spotted the diligent out of the wroth.
Little delay, have one last final project by tomorrow and it's a doozy. Damned fool professor throwing some half-assed game dev project on a slapdash team due in a week with only his day late hour-short VODs for instruction.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
That bitch! ...Wait, we're that bitch.
We must remember this in the future.
The Twentieth
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
Personality Traits:
Bossy - Logon can, and will, get what he wants, when he wants it. And he knows it. Has a gift for forcefulness and reason.
Diligent - Logon is conscientious, capable, and exacting. He is less likely to fail any task, but takes longer to complete them.
Compassionate - Logon is keenly aware of the lives of others. Certain intrigue actions are restricted, other characters have higher opinion of him.
Genetic Traits:
Sylvan Beauty - Logon is an Elf, a supernaturally beautiful race blessed by the god of the Elves, Sylvas.
Genius - Logon is possessed of almost supernatural intellect and capacity to learn. +5 to all non-magic skills, +3 to all magic skills, improves chance of gaining skill points.
Hale - Logon is healthy and strong of body. Less likely to succumb to illness or suffer injury. As an Elf, his longer lifespan is hardly noticeable.
Other Traits:
Son of Venar - Logon's blood ties with the father are considered non-existent, preventing hooks or secrets through parentage. Some elves find this distasteful.
Skills:
Diplomacy 7
Martial 9
Stewardship 9
Intrigue 6
Discipline 6
Prowess 6
Incanti 3
Forma 4
Arcana 4
Sanguis 3
Lux 3
Bossy - Logon can, and will, get what he wants, when he wants it. And he knows it. Has a gift for forcefulness and reason.
Diligent - Logon is conscientious, capable, and exacting. He is less likely to fail any task, but takes longer to complete them.
Compassionate - Logon is keenly aware of the lives of others. Certain intrigue actions are restricted, other characters have higher opinion of him.
Genetic Traits:
Sylvan Beauty - Logon is an Elf, a supernaturally beautiful race blessed by the god of the Elves, Sylvas.
Genius - Logon is possessed of almost supernatural intellect and capacity to learn. +5 to all non-magic skills, +3 to all magic skills, improves chance of gaining skill points.
Hale - Logon is healthy and strong of body. Less likely to succumb to illness or suffer injury. As an Elf, his longer lifespan is hardly noticeable.
Other Traits:
Son of Venar - Logon's blood ties with the father are considered non-existent, preventing hooks or secrets through parentage. Some elves find this distasteful.
Skills:
Diplomacy 7
Martial 9
Stewardship 9
Intrigue 6
Discipline 6
Prowess 6
Incanti 3
Forma 4
Arcana 4
Sanguis 3
Lux 3
It is a hard and difficult thing to convince Logon away from his behaviors, and frankly goes much worse than Aldegard initially hoped. He had been getting old enough to see beneath the surface of things, in his second decade, and Eris must have taught him how to moralize at her instead. Aldegard tried to pull back, but, alas, she was too late.
It was only to her great fortune that her son was coming up to the age he would first be apprenticed, and she had a serious consideration to make regarding the choice. While any centurion elf could choose for themselves what to pursue, their first craft was the responsibility of the parent. Aldegard would have to choose the color of the glass her son would view the world with for much of his long life, and it would be terrible if she were to judge his aptitudes poorly...
[] He will apprentice himself to the Foreign Ministry, tasked with negotiating with humans, dwarves, and the other lesser races.
[] He will apprentice himself to the War Office, tasked with supplying, leading, and training the armies of the empire.
[] He will apprentice himself to the Bureaucracy, tasked with managing the flow of coin, elves, and goods.
[] He will apprentice himself to you, and you will show him the fine art of schemes and insight into the minds of one's enemies.
[] He will apprentice himself to a low trade, to teach him diligence and frugality.
[] He will be apprenticed to an Enchanter. (Incanti, Arcana, Sanguis - if compatible)
[] He will be apprenticed to a Lifeshaper. (Lux, Forma)
[] He will be apprenticed to an Artificer. (Incanti, Forma)
[] He will be apprenticed to a Magus-Scholar. (Forma, Arcana, Sanguis - if compatible)
[] He will be apprenticed to an Arcanist-Scholar. (Arcana, Lux)
(Thus ends Logon's youth, we return to your regularly scheduled Aldegard shortly)
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Foreign Ministry, tasked with negotiating with humans, dwarves, and the other lesser races.
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Foreign Ministry, tasked with negotiating with humans, dwarves, and the other lesser races.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
In the end, pretty good traits.
Huh, interesting.
You know what, this is good.
@Powerofmind
Is elven supremacy ideology like this common amongst elves?
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Foreign Ministry, tasked with negotiating with humans, dwarves, and the other lesser races.
- Location
- Iceland
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Bureaucracy, tasked with managing the flow of coin, elves, and goods.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
It is. Elves, barring a few very rare instances thousands of years past, have been a unified, world-dominant empire since time immemorial even to most of their own race. Beren was ancient, even to elves, having lived for several millennia. In the time he's ruled, the rise and fall of hundreds of human bloodlines and dynasties has happened, and even the dwarves have seen significant turnover in their leadership and many periods of internal strife.
To the elves, the rest of the world lives in squalor and primitive infighting that most of them can't even remember in their own race, and stories of the period before unification are sparse and quickly dismissed as irrelevant.
That said, without Beren for the last hundred years, and with the vast decrease in fertility among elves (even the most enthusiastic couplings have been considered exceptionally fortunate to have had a child at all since the Catastrophe), things are looking down, and the farthest reaches of the empire have begun to collapse in the face of settlers from other races, and Mava does not have the same force of will and cult of personality that her husband had to keep things running smoothly.
- Location
- Czech Republic
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Bureaucracy, tasked with managing the flow of coin, elves, and goods.
Rolen von Keng
Sleeping Green Bear
- Location
- The Wilderness
[X] He will apprentice himself to the Bureaucracy, tasked with managing the flow of coin, elves, and goods.