Twisted Oaths ~ Lake Celestine: 9:43 Dragon (OOC discussion) *full group*

Since the people contributing to this discussion on a regular basis so far seem to like the chantry scandal idea, let's go with that.

I think this should be a small village chantry at some sort of crossroads that sees lots of travelers, but not many permanent residents. One of the sisters is alarmed by reports of travelers disappearing after arriving in town.

Do we want to ultimately discover that they are being kidnapped by another sister and sold to slavery? Or do we have a garden-variety murderous chantry sister here?

I'll be using Elaith.

BASICS





Name: ELAITH



Age: 22



Gender: Female


Class: Rogue


Race: City Elf


CHARACTER BUILD-UP



General Appearance/Physical Appearance:


An attractive woman even by Elf standards, Elaith stands around 5'4 with locks of straight long brown hair that falls beneath her shoulders, brown eyes and fair skin. Her face in particular is pale as though she lived most of her life indoors (which is fairly accurate). Elaith's possesses an athletic build making a bit bigger than an typical City Elf but on par with Dalish with a fair bit of scars from her scraps as a mercenary. Her hands are hardened, full of callouses from years of training with a sword and a bow. Elaith's mouth somewhat thin and slightly crooked. She wears ancient Dalish armor that was given to her by her father when Elaith turned 18 along with Dalish greives and boots. Her weapon of choice is the longbow: Telanadas meaning nothing is inevitable in the Elhven language and her longsword: Girl's best friend which is a Silverite long sword. Also wears a Dalish tiara of some kind which found while scavenging an Dalish ruin.



Personality:

At first glance Elaith may look like an innocent and delicate Elf, but it only belies her fiery demeanor. Elaith is stubborn, strong-willed and has a short temper. Described as a "wild thing" by observers, Elaith is brash and confident in her abilities to the point where she'll charge head on when others will not. This unpredictable behavior often gets her in trouble with others and more often than not, Elaith gets into fights with mercenaries and clients. Despite it all, Elaith is a caring figure who will risk her life to help the helpless especially her own kind. She admires friendship, but her volatile and stubborn personality may wear thin on those who are impatient so she is often alone. Elaith enjoys hunting, drinking, fighting and cursing (XD), however she does have a soft side and is fond of flowers and jewelry. Elaith also likes sewing something she got from her mother.







Skills/Abilities/Weapons/Powers:

Trained by her father (and self taught.) Elaith fighting style is strong fast and pragmatic. She relies mostly on her bow, but is willing to use her Longsword if necessary. Elaith is a capable hand to hand combatant who is not above dirty tricks meaning expect a lot of groin attacks! XD However Elaith is reckless and possesses a weak defense which more capable warriors use to their advantage.


Telanadas

+3% Critical Chance
+3 Dexterity
+8% Guard Damage Bonus
10% chance to inflict Immolate damage at 50% weapon power

Girl's Best Friend:

+13% Armor Penetration
+14% Critical Damage Bonus
+10% focus gain

Skills:

Improved Coercion
Dirty Fighting
Below the Belt
Eagle Eye
First Blood
Death from Above
Leaping Shot
Explosive Shot
Full Draw

Strafing Shots
Pincushion



History:

Elaith hails from Denerim, to a Dalish father who abandoned his clan to be with her mother: A sewer for the King. Elaith's mother died in an Elven riot when she was six years old. Fed up with the racism, Elaith's father took her out of the alienage where she spent most of her life traveling from village to village. Elaith's father taught her about the Dalish and the Elven gods and some of the Elven language, in addition he taught her how to fight and how to hunt. Though Elaith loved her father, she ultimately disagreed with his views of the Shemlen, considering how she easily made friends with the children (though she endured racial slurs from the adults.). When Elaith turned 18, she left her father in search for an adventure and has been traveling ever since.

I like it, although surprising to see devout Chantry beleivers breaking the rules.

...is that sarcasm? 

have we figured this out yet?
Is this even a thing people would be hired for?

Wait-- what if everyone involved were personally conected in that their mage friend/lover/family member are one of the ones gone missing, and they all find themselves demanding answers from the very wo/man who can send them searching in the right direction?

I'm not a part of this group (wish I had the time and skill), but I like reading these RP threads and I like this plot.

It reminds me of the 40k Inquisition, where Inquisitors can be anything from a "puritan" who does everything by the book to a "radical" who just fights fire with fire. 

Good stuff!

Personal connection won't work for my character.

I think our characters should meet by chance because they all get involved in this somehow. Mine will have been contacted to track a lyrium shipment that went missing. Others will end up at the chantry demanding to know what happened to a loved one. Still others could be hired by the chantry to investigate after all these people show up to complain.

In any case, each person's first RP post should explain the person's involvement and involve contact of some kind with the chantry sister who ultimately orders the investigation.

My suggestions:
Title: idk, I'm not clever with this sort of thing

Date/Time: pre-Trespasser (9:43 Dragon) in early spring

Location: maybe a rebuilt Lothering? If I remember correctly, Lothering got traffic due to its location, but would have few permanent residents to keep an eye on things due to three town's destruction. Perfect for random disappearances. Circle disappearances could be from several circles across Thedas.

World state: mages allied with Inquisition, Lavellan mage, murder-Pope Leliana. All designed to give mage-hating Templars more reason to get angry and act.

Orlais is fine with me since my character is a wanderer anyway. If that location isn't problematic for anyone else, we can choose a good Orlesian town.

Barring that, we could also go with that old standby for craziness and corruption, the Free Marches. There are at least two circles there as well.



Can everyone please comment whether they prefer Orlais or Free Marches for their character? @tzeenchianapostrophe phoray smilesja GoldenGail3 mousestalker

Jainen (I think) has a circle. It's near Highever.