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You remember your first festival, where you first celebrated your Gods From birth, you remember seeing your Gods in your dreams, you remember thanking them when your magic finally roused in your body. Arriving to this festival, which may be your first, you might have plans of the God you wish for the blessing from. You may have considered each of the Gods heavily, or simply enjoyed the thought of them. Nonetheless, everyone knows them well.

The first is Fiorella, the goddess associated with justice and order, but most of all, unyielding power. Many pray that they're gifted with a fraction of her strength.

The second is Arlen, the god associated with culture and creation, but most of all, unending wealth. Many pray that they're rewarded by any of his wealth.

The third is Lyric, the god associated with identity and freedom, but most of all, unrelenting fame. Many pray that they'll one day feel some of their fame.

The way that the Gods’ magic affected you was unlike how it affected others. Primarily, it puts individuals into one of two classes.

Those who's attunement to magic allows for them to conjure spells akin to classic fantasy casters are called Enchanters. The bodies of Enchanters tend to be naturally attuned to manipulating the magic around them in various ways, by channelling their energy from their hearts all the way to their fingertips, they are able to control the wild energy that surrounds them, ranging from more offensive elemental blasts to magical regenerative rituals and spells, in can be everything although it tends to lean onto the more telegraphed side compared to their counterpart.
Despite of this, magic is still not fully understood, very complex and hard to keep attuned with, for this reason Enchanters tend to specialize in one type of magic they gravitated towards, attuning their body towards even more or to instead generalize and master a simple and albeit rather weak variety of spells.
Either way, Enchanters are often varied in their area of expertise and having a bunch to aid you in your adventures is considered a must.
(For example of what could constitute an Enchanter: D&D Wizards and Sorcerers, Catalysts from Genshin and Marcille from Dungeon Meshi)

Those who specialize in close range magic are known as Behemoths. In contrast to enchanters, behemoths wield their magic in a more bombastic and innate way, almost if it is an extension of themselves, specializing in close range bursts of magic or constant alterations of their very body.
Whether it’s by enchanting their arsenal of tools with the elements or by transforming their fists into magical weapons, the nature of a Behemoth’s power can vary heavily from person to person. The direct impact of the magic presents itself in the different ways each user’s body attunes to the power that flows inside them.
(For examples of what could constitute a Behemoth: Luffy from One Piece, D&D Monks, Jonathan Joestar from Jojo’s (this is basically Hamon), Benders from Avatar, Childe from Genshin and Genji(‘s Magic Dragon Sword) from Overwatch)

Feel free to be unique with it! Behemoths can instead be using wind magic and enhancing their legs to move quickly and quietly or an Enchanter could choose to follow a niche school of thought and use their magic in a non linear way.

The classes serve as a guideline, as long as it’s adjacent to either of the two and not too powerful, feel free to really push the limits and definition of each class and try to envision how your personal fighting style would affect the world or how it would affect your character and their body.

• This Roleplay is co-hosted by myself, Funkh and Sterg. We have collectively put a heavy amount of work into this plot, and consider it very different to your typical PHRP. The experience shall be comparable to DND, but should go as smoothly as other PHRPs do. We will be making minor characters together (who may be roleplayed by myself or my co-host) and writing characterless narration to help guide you! We both use European Timezones which closely align with PH's local server time (approximately +2 server time).

• By signing up, you agree to be added to a Palpad group chat where we can discuss plans for the RP ahead, ask questions etc.. You do not have to be active in this group, but we may ask questions directly to you!

• Only one character per person for now, but you may be able to add more characters in the future. We want to make it such that our characters all bond, in addition to us, the role players, getting more attached to each others' characters. Please ask us if/when you'd like to add more! Please do not post forms in preparation for this time without consulting us, first. Oh, and you're allowed to reserve a form if you'd like to!

• This Roleplay may contain themes of violence, religious trauma, body horror, derealization and similar ideas. It will not be explicit, and we ask you to abide by PH's rules when the time comes for these themes. Don't worry, you'll know when they're in play. If you are uncomfortable with these more mature ideas, please do not join. They will be presented in a PG way, but we still do not want anyone to be uncomfortable. Please take care of yourself and decide accordingly!

• The world has a variety of races which have been developed due to how magic affects the body, so the humans who lived here would have gradually changed into these races. You may make your own race, but standard DND races are our primary races. Do try to keep your races believable and not op!! We may ask you to tone it back if need be. Regardless, the whole idea is basically “humans but with a magical mutation/twist”, this however also means we want to keep everyone to be around the same “power level” of a normal human but with a sort of trade off or twist, we don't welcome the idea of “stronger races”, everyone should be more or less equal.

• We are semi-literate role players, but this doesn't mean you have to have posts with huge detail. Don't feel pressured into being flowery with your language! But we do ask for semi-literate writing which is formatted like your typical piece of prose. This includes making your forms look pretty, you don't have to edit it in any major way because the bare information is just fine, but we welcome anyone who wants to beautify theirs in any way!

• All of PH’s rules apply, as usual.

• Be kind to each other – respect each other in RP decisions and hate the character, not the RPer!

• As mentioned earlier, this is semi-literate. Do try to limit your posts which are only one sentence at a time, but we understand if you can't think of much in the moment!

• Please don’t make your characters overpowered! Throughout the Roleplay, the characters will get noticeably stronger, so it's very much expected that you'll start weaker. Look at the forms of me and my co-host as to how the power level of our characters for the start.

• Romance is fine but do try not to detract too heavily from the general plot. Passing remarks or the occasional slowburn scene is quite alright by us!
Additionally, please do discuss the concept with the player of whoever you want to attempt to romance before attempting anything of the sort.

• Try to not be TOO much of a lone wolf, a little angst and isolation is fine but you should never put the entire plot on pause because of people needing to somehow bait your character into following along, it's a group centered story, don't make it hard to stick with the group. If you are aiming to pursue a plotline like this, please do discuss it with everyone prior. It's what the Palpad group will be for!

• Do not use AI/stolen art in your form to show your character’s appearance. There are plenty of free ways of showing your character, such as drawing it yourself, using a free dress-up game (like HeroForge, Picrew (use an adblocker for that one though) or even GachaLife) even describing them works just fine.

• We are allowed to deny your form/s for any reasons we see fit. Please do not try and argue against this. Additionally, we’ll reject you automatically if you're blocked by any of the co-hosts. Sorry!

not accepting, as of now
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Name: (preferably a full name)
Age: (we recommend young adult ages and above)
Pronouns:
Gender:
Race: (Feel free to lead with basically every generic fantasy race, if you have anything more specialized feel free to ask us if it can be done :3)
Class: (behemoth or enchanter? if you're not sure what your character falls into, feel free to post your form anyways and we might be able to help! or just ask us and we can help out)
Magic/Weaponry: (the way in which your character uses magic. you may specify how the magic will upgrade, if you'd like to)
Personality:
Appearance: (specify their race here, if it's not entirely obvious)
Backstory: (some questions to help you : How has their magic manifested? has it helped them in the past? Why did they come to the festival? Do they feel as though they are in debt to the gods? What are they looking to gain by joining an adventuring party?)
Other: (perhaps provide a voice claim or a song/album that reminds you of your character! any other random info you think of can go here.)

Name: Beige Acres
Age: 24
Pronouns: He/it/they
Gender: Transmasculine
Race: Post-Human Un-Mortal
Class: Behemoth
Magic/Weaponry: Beige is able to rapidly increase the rate of his regeneration, as well as having an unusual tolerance for pain which often comes across as airheadedness. Beige is able to keep all parts of their body alive, despite how connected these parts may be. If their body were to be decapitated, he could simply reattach the limbs by using its magic. Beige often uses their cleaver to detach their body parts, leading to a gross sight, but one that leaves them looking utterly unphased. If Beige chopped their hand off, the hand could crawl around with almost a mind of its own, before returning to Beige and letting him reattach it. He also uses this cleaver to attack, but the damage isn't great due to its short range and their lack of strength. If he exhausts his magic too much, he will be very fatigued, and even more airheaded. The only way to kill Beige is to remove their heart, placed in the centre of the depths of their chest.
Personality: Virtuoso : ISTP-T. After dying, Beige’s mind was changed hugely, which led him to lose a hell of a lot of feeling for others’ emotions. Beige is incredibly blunt, and would much rather focus on facts rather than feelings, out of sheer understanding. It upsets him that he can't understand others, and feels guilt whenever he sees others feeling things. It prefers to explore the world for itself, using his hands and eyes to examine rather than asking others due to Beige’s elaborate way of thought. He finds socializing rather taxing, but will listen to others if required to.
Appearance:
Backstory: Since childhood, Beige was largely magicless. They had a natural resistance to pain, thick skin, but it was never something he felt largely proud about. But then again, Beige’s memory is hazy on everything before he died. Something crushed the side of their face in, and they were spotted by a powerful healer. The healer took him in their arms and filled his body with more magic, bringing him to a state of thinking and breathing again. While heavily warped, with awful balance and heavy thoughts, Beige was alive, despite being a husk of their old self. They don’t even remember their old self, but they must have been very different. Feeling in debt to the gods, Beige brought himself to the festival, and believed that he received a blessing from the god called Lyric, bringing them back to a more stable form, but one which was far from his old humanity. A green stitched mess, almost brainless, with no sensitivity to life. And as he brought himself back home, his mother sobbed at his feet. She begged for him to leave, for she could not stomach the thought of her poor child becoming this… undead entity. Beige never returned.
Other: partially based on the song called “Beige” by ‘Hi, I’m Chris’... I would link it but it has swearing !!! and yes I did take an mbti test for this guy. im dedicated, I fear. AND YES I DREW THE ART please do not use it ^_^" also, their voice claim is Casey Mongillo !!

Name:
Oceiros Sulyvahn

Age:
29 in human years

Pronouns:
He/Him

Gender:
Male

Race:
Dragonborn

Class:
Behemoth

Magic/Weaponry:
Oceiros wields two short-swords. One imbued with fire and the other imbued with ice. Oceiros is able to extend the range of those elements a distance equal to the length of the blade, allowing him to basically wield average-sized swords.

Personality:
Oceiros tends to almost immediately get attached to others and proudly call them comrades, some even dare call him the definition of being affable. Albeit loud, he's a very considerate and kind person, willing to lay down his life for his dear 'comrades' sans hesitation. Others have also commented how easily he would fall head over heels for any unfortunate woman that dared to make eye contact with him, though Oceiros claims he is working on it.

Appearance:
Oceiros is a relatively tall dragonborn, standing at a respectable 216cm with very soothing light blue scales. Even though he often uses his jade eyes to get the attention of women, he almost always fails. Although he's always wearing this very cheap and almost self-made adventurer armor, with noticeable patches and padding, he never wears a helmet. Probably because nothing fits. Regardless, his face doesn't have any scars and the condition of his body is unknown.

Backstory:
Ice magic is common within the Sulyvahn family, it was expected Oceiros would have some affinity to it. Soon after he reached adulthood, having a relatively jubilant upbringing, he set out with a young friend of his on their very first adventure. The two of them were enjoying their first ever taste of freedom and adventure, exploring faraway lands and anything that caught their attention ranging from caves to remote cities. During a dungeon exploration,the group came across a mage of some sorts and before they had the chance to act, they fell unconscious. When Oceiros came to, he was alone. No sign of his comrade except the short-sword. Soon after a closer inspection, he noticed a big part of his body had turned red and was oddily swollen, as if it was scorched, and the sword he picked up reacted as if his comrade was holding it, with flames enveloping the blade. One person using two different attributes of magic? That was unheard of. Could he...really have merged with his comrade? Years have since passed, and Oceiros' curiosity has yet to be satiated and there hasn't been a moment he hasn't thought about his comrade, even if his soul might be inhabiting Oceiros' body. Oceiros often tends to avoid the topic about his body and how he acquired the other short-sword.

Other:
(can't think of anything atm)

Name: Liza B. Karatcha

Age: 22

Pronouns: she/her

Gender: Female

Race: Hm... Fish person, if it counts, same as Undyne

Class: Behemoth!

Magic/Weaponry: A stereotypical katana, tinted blueish-silver, although she is able to fixate on certain objects with her eyes, controlling them from a distance. She calls this power 'Envisioning'

Personality: ISFP-T (The adventurer): Creative and ambitious, although prefers to stand alone. This does not mean she dislikes social interaction, just that she experiences it differently than most. She prefers to go in for a reckless attack rather than to strategize.

Appearance: Around 6ft 3, shade of blue skin with red scratches/scars across her right cheek. Long, black hair falls down her back, with purple streaks running through different parts of it. Sapphire blue eyes turn an emerald green as she fixates on objects, partially hidden behind her messy fringe. She wears a lightweight black chestplate complete with shoulder pads that protect her, and denim jeans scratched and old with age. Her boots reach up to about midway of her shins are a shade of green or black, though nobody can tell. Her outfit is complete with a spiked silver cuff on her left wrist.

Backstory: She was gifted with 'Envisioning' at the age of twelve, although at that time it was only with small objects such as pebbles. As she grew up, her power grew, though at this age she can manage bigger objects, sometimes accidentally toppling buildings when enraged. It was in one of these incidents where her family passed away. Through the ruins, she managed to recover her father's katana, and has been fighting with it ever since.

Other: Her voice would sound similar to Ai Hoshino's. A song that reminds me of her would be Respite by Toby Fox :D

Name:
Okami no last name as of yet qwq

Age:
23

Pronouns:
She/They

Gender:
Demi- Female

Race:
Chimera(?)/Werewolf

Class:
(unsure)

Magic/Weaponry:
Bow and Arrow, or 2 Daggers, depending on the situation. Can transform into a wolf and use wind magic to push her arrow/speed them up.


Personality:
Quiet and watchful, but once she accepts you, you become a part of her 'pack' and she is extremely loyal. She tries her best to be sweet and kind, but she's typically awkward and can come across as rude or mean.

Appearance:
Bonks

Backstory:
for the purpose of this rp She was raised by a pack of wolves in the wild. One of the elder wolves was/is also a werewolf so he was able to teach her the Language and basic wind magic. She prefers her (feral) wolf form but will remain in a hybrid form for the sake of other humans who are uncomfortable or in large crowds. Her anthro form is her favorite for stealth attacks. She only came to the festival at the wishes of her late fatherly figure (the elder) because he believed she might stand a chance. She doesn't really believe in the Gods though.

Other:
nothing i can think of!