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King Lucian is an intemperate and capricious man, a narcissist drunk on his own power. He believes himself untouchable. His courtship of the Lady Evangeline blew hot and furious, he would not accept no as an answer, he had to have her as his Queen. This brought her low ranking family great prestige very quickly, one minute they were nothings, the next, part of the royal family. During the pregnancy of their first child the King began to take mistress after mistress. This embittered the Queen but she carried on and gave birth to a Princess. The affairs continued and whenever she caught him, which was often, there would be yelling and screaming all throughout the castle. Many a poor Lady’s life has been ruined coming between the two rulers, and due to the constant stresses of her life the Queen miscarried four pregnancies, at great expense to her health. Finally, seven years after taking his first Queen the King divorced her, an uncommon but allowed scandal, especially when you are a King. The Queen, now only a Lady, was stripped of most of her properties and riches, and tossed aside, not even allowed to take her daughter with her. To make matters even worse, the King’s next choice of Queen was a mere maid, from the Queen’s own bedchambers. This sort of thing was unprecedented in the history of the Kingdom, however it has lasted the test of time, and though the King carries on having affairs the castle is peaceful and quiet with its new obedient Queen. The Queen, Freya, has provided the King with two Princes and a Princess.
During the long and harsh winter, the longest that the land had gone through in years, there was a revolt against the King, someone reached for Lucian’s Crown, a mistake that cost an entire noble family their lives. It is lucky that those who joined this family’s cause are spared, for the most part. The frost has melted and the flowers are blooming once more, the bitter skirmishes are ended, and in an effort to heal his Kingdom, or rather forcefully seal the bonds and loyalty his nobles hold to him, the King is holding court again. This time, with the aim to marry his royal children to advantageous marriages, and to see his eldest children begin making heirs. But who is heir to the throne? Is it the first Princess, who is beloved of the people and already an expert diplomat whose lineage is noble through and through; or his eldest Prince, as is more traditional and yet whose lineage includes a former maid as a mother?
And with the blooming flowers there awakens forces which have hibernated for too long, who are coming back to the land whether people believe in it or not. Magic is coming to the mortals once more, and bringing with it all of its horrors.

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æsthetic













Byte




















↠ I expect posting of at least once every five days, more is great but I won't hold you to more than five days in between posts. Since we're doing joint posts in the future posts might take a bit longer, which is entirely acceptable, you just need to be actively working on something and keep me in the loop about it. You get two warnings two days apart before your character gets written off as "deceased" or otherwise for inactivity. Should you want to quit the roleplay for whatever reason, and I won't press you for one as that is your business entirely, please either pm me or leave a message in the ooc.
↠ Seriously, doesn't even matter if the reason is as simple as "I no longer have a muse for this rp." - that's entirely valid and I won't hold it against you at all. Nor are you required to even tell me a reason. What I will hold against you is dropping off the face of the planet and not letting us know if you're still in the rp. It holds everyone's posting up.
↠ I will be throwing events at both the whole of the court and at particular individuals or groups of people. Like a tabletop game master of sorts, I’ll be keeping people on their toes. These events will be announced via the ooc. If these events interfere with an important plot device you have planned, let me know so we can see what can be done about it. The last thing I want to do is mess up your plotty things.
↠ Posts should be no less than 500 words.
↠ Expect joint posts, using a writing pad of one form or another. Joint posts are a great way to get interactive scenes out there without 50 posts involving 300 words of filler per post because there really isn't more to say than a few lines of dialog in the given situation. This will allow us to play this as more of a book than a video game.
↠ Humans are the only playable option, though you will notice that some have "abilities" magical or otherwise hinted at. Magic will be a theme in the rp, as it is reawakened in this particular realm.
↠ "Character sheets" if you can call them that, are located in the ooc. These set-ups are much shorter due to the fact that people applying to this roleplay will be applying for a whole family unit, rather than an individual character. Don't ask if you can play only one character,
you can't. What you can do however is apply for a smaller family unit and consider the parents NPCs that you occasionally use in your posts, with the children being the main characters that you post for. While the children of the household will probably be considered the mains in general I personally will be taking full advantage of the parents as characters in house[s] I play, because I think they're interesting in and of themselves too. Be sure you ask if you want someone else's NPCs/Character in your post, lets not godmod or step on any toes here! There is actually a bit of wiggle room when it comes to adding and subtracting family members here, so keep that in mind if you see something you like but want to tweak it.
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If so, by all means, a sample from any roleplay will do.
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I look forward to working with you!
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@Byte: It's perfect, precisely what I had in mind.
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- Madame; Forgive me but I think I am going to drop this roleplay. :( I've bitten off more than I can chew here and I am terribly sorry to drop.
The roleplay really does look amazing though and I wish you, along with everyone else the best of luck with it.
Thanks anyway. :)
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I promise not to backstab the crown!
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On a more serious note; Lord Byron is Alan Van Sprang and I used his appearance in Tudors as Lord Frances Byron, the late Lady mother of the children's name is not spoken because their father would go on a mad rampage if he heard her name (thus the children out of habit no longer speak her name, and hardly of her at all - it was traumatic) but she is portrayed by Maimie Mccoy as Milady de Winter in The Musketeers, Lady Beatrice is Clara Paget and I used her appearance in Black Sails as Anne Bonny, Sir Sebastian is Colin O'Donoghue and I used his appearance in Once Upon a Time as Hook.
This family is super dysfunctional congrats on your fine taste for bitter wine. And I don't really need samples from you considering I already know you're literate enough to be in any of my rps,
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Well, well, well... Ehm... I guess I'll have to pick a house now. I think I'll go for the Blacklace family, because why wouldn't I play a disfunctional family of reavers, schemers, murderers and mental nutballs? So, yeah, those please!
I'll send in a character thingy as soon as I've got 'm. And that mandatory writing sample, of course.
EDIT: Oh, right, I'm one of those weirdos who's got no idea what face claims are, so a little nudge in the right direction of who the buggery hell these faces are that I'm supposed to be claiming (you psycho) would be nice. Cheers.
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No but for real choose a House before they all get snatched up Byte!
aesthetic has been approved to play the Stoneways~
And welcome Sunshine and Whiskey: Lord Goodwin is Craig Parker and I used his appearance in Reign as Lord Narcisse. Lady Goodwin is Bridget Catherine Regan and I used her appearance in The Legend of The Seeker as Kahlan Amnell, The Mother Confessor.
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- Madame; This roleplay looks absolutely amazing! :D
I'm definitely interested in The Goodwins House, please. I am familiar with Adelaide Kane face claim from Reign but a little unfamiliar with the parents face claims. :/ Mind helping me out there?
Also, I will send you a writing sample whenever I get the chance, too and find a good one. :)
Thanks in advance!
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I just pm'd you a writing sample (a favorite out of many), if you need another feel free to let me know.
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I'm just going to leave my interest here for now, so take good care of it.I'll be reading this over again in more detail and most likely throw a few ideas around once I've found the time.
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@TheNewB08: Lord Ulric is Clive Standon and I used his appearance in Vikings as Rollo, Lady Ravenna is Eva Green and I used her appearance in the TV series Camelot as Morgana. As for the sons, the first left to right corresponds to the order of the names, or not up to you really it isn't that important which is which when it comes to FCs now that I think about it. It is also up to you on which is older than the other etc. Anything I didn't dictate is pretty much up for your interpretation. And what I mean by battle being a regular occurrence fore them is that since they are the border that protects Theren from its neighboring countries they frequently participate in and quell border skirmishes. There hasn't been an all out war with Theren in quite a while but there are always border skirmishes and raids. While in general the rest of Theren lives out in peace.
I haven't received any sample posts from anyone so whenever you have those ready send them on in so I can approve you! (PS: they do not have to be IC for this roleplay, they can be from some other rp too)
Let me know if there are any other questions
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