Post by Docer on Aug 20, 2007 19:21:36 GMT
I'm just gonna keep this in OOC rather than spending the time to write the in-character story in full. Mainly because this has been under some planning for a while and now that I've got the go-ahead, I want to get it moving as fast as humanly possible. In short, the IC story is this:
"The collapse of the Council of Mages was a serious blow to the magical community. The corruption of its leaders in Lady Axio and Kesthor Griff was ironic considering the Council's main task of reigniting the noble, traditional path of magecraft and battling the power-seeking corruption of warlocks and shadow magic. And with its collapse, it seemed the shadowy threat grew larger: the sudden appearance of an organisation rumoured to be known as 'The Hand of Nightmares' and the Eye of Kha'lal highlighted to the Kirin Tor the need for some kind of intervention in Stormwind's affairs. Naturally, Dalaran was busy rebuilding and aiding the upcoming war in the North. Enter Archmage Uruto, who himself had been responsible for the Council of Mages.
Rather than instating another debating body, Dalaran wanted action. And with the permission of Bishop Fortesgue and the Disciples of Light's Aarian Northlight, a new body would rise up the battle this rapidly spreading shadow over the human capitol. A taskforce of mages, sorcerers and wizards to battle the cultists. By taking those gifted with the Arcane in these light-based organisations and putting them to use under the training and the command of Archmage Uruto, his deputy Terenor Tomebinder and a reputed Disciples mage, all three organisations hope that the cultists activity can be carefully monitored. But more to the point: defeated."
So, hello, and welcome to the new mage venture in The Shining Strand. We'll be pairing up with The Disciples of Light and essentially focussing a great deal of roleplay on the battling of the cultists, The Hand of Nightmares and the up-and-coming Black Ring. If all goes to plan and everybody reacts well, the roleplay simply will not stop. I'm planning expeditions, researching, patrols and fights, training sessions and debates and all sorts.
There will be room in the branch for non-mages and non-warlocks of course, because we want to let everybody get involved. But the emphasis will be on magic for the most part because Uruto believes that the threat coming from these cultists, especially with his suspicion of an uprising Melnerag, will be a magical battle as well as one between Light and Shadow.
So I want people to register their interest here. If there's a certain role you think your character will fit into, post it here; if you want to be the Coalition Herbalist, for example, and you want roleplay duties to that end, everything should be posted here and I'll make a note of it. If you want to be a Coalition Soldier, or Coalition Scholar, again, this will help me know what kind of duties to give to people. And also, I just wanna know if people are as excited about this as I am. Since the Council of Mages is gone, I'm going to be pouring a lot of my WoW time into this AS LONG AS you guys are participating.
So here we go. Maybe Fort has some other stuff to add. Maybe Terenor is surprised at his position of deputy. But whatever the case, hooray, yay, mage roleplay FTW.
Hopefully we can the Disciples of Light to come here and pay some attention. 'Cause I'll be announcing events very soon.
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ARCHMAGE URUTO
Taskmaster of Dalaran.
"The collapse of the Council of Mages was a serious blow to the magical community. The corruption of its leaders in Lady Axio and Kesthor Griff was ironic considering the Council's main task of reigniting the noble, traditional path of magecraft and battling the power-seeking corruption of warlocks and shadow magic. And with its collapse, it seemed the shadowy threat grew larger: the sudden appearance of an organisation rumoured to be known as 'The Hand of Nightmares' and the Eye of Kha'lal highlighted to the Kirin Tor the need for some kind of intervention in Stormwind's affairs. Naturally, Dalaran was busy rebuilding and aiding the upcoming war in the North. Enter Archmage Uruto, who himself had been responsible for the Council of Mages.
Rather than instating another debating body, Dalaran wanted action. And with the permission of Bishop Fortesgue and the Disciples of Light's Aarian Northlight, a new body would rise up the battle this rapidly spreading shadow over the human capitol. A taskforce of mages, sorcerers and wizards to battle the cultists. By taking those gifted with the Arcane in these light-based organisations and putting them to use under the training and the command of Archmage Uruto, his deputy Terenor Tomebinder and a reputed Disciples mage, all three organisations hope that the cultists activity can be carefully monitored. But more to the point: defeated."
So, hello, and welcome to the new mage venture in The Shining Strand. We'll be pairing up with The Disciples of Light and essentially focussing a great deal of roleplay on the battling of the cultists, The Hand of Nightmares and the up-and-coming Black Ring. If all goes to plan and everybody reacts well, the roleplay simply will not stop. I'm planning expeditions, researching, patrols and fights, training sessions and debates and all sorts.
There will be room in the branch for non-mages and non-warlocks of course, because we want to let everybody get involved. But the emphasis will be on magic for the most part because Uruto believes that the threat coming from these cultists, especially with his suspicion of an uprising Melnerag, will be a magical battle as well as one between Light and Shadow.
So I want people to register their interest here. If there's a certain role you think your character will fit into, post it here; if you want to be the Coalition Herbalist, for example, and you want roleplay duties to that end, everything should be posted here and I'll make a note of it. If you want to be a Coalition Soldier, or Coalition Scholar, again, this will help me know what kind of duties to give to people. And also, I just wanna know if people are as excited about this as I am. Since the Council of Mages is gone, I'm going to be pouring a lot of my WoW time into this AS LONG AS you guys are participating.
So here we go. Maybe Fort has some other stuff to add. Maybe Terenor is surprised at his position of deputy. But whatever the case, hooray, yay, mage roleplay FTW.
Hopefully we can the Disciples of Light to come here and pay some attention. 'Cause I'll be announcing events very soon.
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ARCHMAGE URUTO
Taskmaster of Dalaran.
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