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faderifting) wrote2018-02-28 08:35 pm
faderifting) wrote2018-02-28 08:35 pm
Side Characters
SIDE CHARACTERS
Side characters are a middle ground between PCs and NPCs, with short apps and no AC. Our hope is to allow players to flesh out the environment with character types that are underrepresented in Fade Rift—commoners, Andrastians, people with more mundane skills or boring jobs or OOCly unpopular opinions, etc.—but who wouldn't necessarily be as fun to play with the same level of commitment as more unusual or sympathetic characters. If you think it would be fun to sometimes write a put-upon diplomat telling other characters to behave themselves or a haughty Chantry Sister judging heathens, that’s what this is for!
Alternatively, you can use side characters to test or develop vague concepts that you might be interested in apping as full characters later, or to play characters with a specific short-term arc, such as temporary allies or citizens that cross paths with Riftwatch somehow.
Side characters are not required to be Riftwatch members. You can play a Kirkwall local or an openly hostile antagonist. However, please keep in mind that unaffiliated characters won’t have access to sending crystals, and it’s your responsibility to keep them playable. We won’t provide plots or mechanisms to keep them from wandering away forever if that’s what they would do. And if you decide to app one as a normal PC later, they’ll have to join up.
This is not meant to allow anyone to indefinitely RP six full-fledged permanent characters, and especially not six strange egalitarian poster children with lots of special skills, so please use it in the intended spirit. Characters who have more unusual qualities than side characters warrant may be given time restrictions on how long they can be voice tested as side characters before becoming standard characters.
RULES
Character Limits
- You must be a current player who made full AC the prior month.
- You can have two side characters at a time, but you can only add one per month.
- You can app a side character as a full character at any time, as long as you have open slots. You can also change main characters to side characters if you want to put them on the back burner without dropping them. But you can’t use it just to dodge AC for a month or constantly rotate.
- Side characters must be native OCs.
- They can’t be from any character category we limit to one-per-player.
- Side characters do not submit AC and are also not eligible to earn AC reward points.
- Other PCs can earn reward points by playing off of other people’s side characters.
- Side characters can be members of projects, but they aren’t eligible for any IC leadership roles.
- Side characters are allowed to participate in plots, but must be given lowest priority in sign-ups for any closed plot, including player plots. It’s fine for them to fill out a group that has empty slots, just not to take a slot that could otherwise go to a willing PC.
- You can propose your own player plots for your side characters, and obviously in that case the 'lowest priority' rule doesn't apply.
APPLICATION
Side character “apps” are very short and meant to encompass just the broad strokes of the character concept, to allow people time to figure details out in play. However, you can’t add big things like mod plot-relevant events or connections that were not included in the initial proposal. E.g., it’s fine not to tell us the details of a character's childhood if that childhood was pretty normal, but you can't then say that the character spent their childhood learning shapeshifting from the Chasind or is Corypheus' secret love child.
Please post your app in the body of the comment rather than linking it.
PLAYER
Name:
Other Characters:
CHARACTER
Name:
Race:
Nationality:
Mage?:
Age:
Affiliation:
Occupation:
Goal: Briefly, in one or two sentences, are you planning for this character to stick around indefinitely? Voice testing a potential full PC? Apping a temporary character for a specific plot arc? (It’s fine for your plans to change later; we just want to know what you're up to now.)
About: In 100-500 words, tell us generally who this character is—key background facts or personality traits, opinions, skills or connections, etc. You don’t have to have every detail worked out, but you do have to tell us anything that’s hugely important, controversial, rare, or plot-relevant in advance. Otherwise, think of this like the elevator pitch section of a CR meme: what are the essentials that make your character who they are and set them apart?
Vanya Orlov
Name: Ammmy
Other Characters: Julius, Ket Perrino, Romain de Coucy
Name: Vanya Orlov
Race: Human
Nationality: Nevarran
Mage?: No
Age: mid-40s
Affiliation: Former Templar
Occupation: Former Templar
Goal: I’m intrigued to play around with templar stuff, but I know that I definitely don’t have the bandwidth for another full character just now. This is a test run, and we’ll see how it goes; he may be an indefinite side guy or eventually get promoted.
About: Vanya Orlov, the son of unusually devout Nevarran parents, was recruited to the Templar Order as a teenager.Vanya found a life of discipline suited him. He invested in the idea that templars were meant to protect mages from the public as much as protect the public from them, and took both parts of the mandate quite seriously. While Vanya was assigned to the Cumberland Circle, his commitment did not go unnoticed, which led to him often being assigned to tasks that took him outside the Circle proper (escorting mages when their presence was required elsewhere, attending Chantry events, rare assignments to Mortalisi rituals, etc.).
In 9:37, Vanya (like many others) was appalled at the situation in Kirkwall but assumed it was a Marcher problem. The events of the White Spire and those that followed filtered to him as a minority of disaffected and dissatisfied mages (mostly not Nevarran) causing the deaths of templars and Loyalist mages alike. Vanya at first hoped the rebels could be subdued, leaving cooler heads to negotiate a reconciliation. These hopes were dashed by Lord Seeker Lambert’s decision to dissolve the Nevarran Accord. However, Vanya felt his vows to the Templar Order left him no choice but to follow where the Order went.
The stress of the war proved rough on Vanya’s idealism. Rumors of what happened at Dairsmuid left him horrified and unsure what had become of the Order he’d pledged himself to follow. In late 9:40, a chaotic battle saw Vanya badly wounded and separated from his unit near the edge of the Silent Plains. Antosha, an apostate who’d avoided the war up to that point, decided to save his life and let him recuperate in his isolated home. After they got word of the events of the Conclave, Vanya became convinced that the threat of Corypheus was bigger than the Mage-Templar war. He urged Antosha to come with him to join the Inquisition.
In 9:44, Antosha defected to the Venatori, leaving Vanya behind. Once it became clear that Antosha’s defection was real, Vanya took it badly. He stayed, but volunteered for risky jobs as far from Skyhold as he could get.
Beatrix’s election finally threw Vanya into a crisis. An Exalted March would give him the excuse he needed to march on Tevinter. But her decision to recall the Templar Order forced him to face his years of growing doubts over the Order’s actions, especially the way it enabled abusers and megalomaniacs (a tendency harder to ignore after years of working with mages and templars from outside Nevarra). In the end, he renounced the title of Templar and the Inquisition both.
Despite his intentions to give up on the war entirely, the guilt of knowing the war continued and the threat of Corypheus and the Venatori remained ate at him. Rather than go back to the Inquisition, he decided to seek out Riftwatch as a way to help without returning to a comforting but dangerous sense of institutional stability.
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Your side character has been approved! Before you start playing, please:
You're then welcome to begin RPing!
If you decide to drop this side character, please do so via the drop page. If you decide to app the character as a main character, you can do so without letting us know here—we'll remove the side character profile for you on acceptance of the full character application. Please remember that this character cannot earn AC points and must be given last priority in plot sign-ups.
If you have any questions, let us know.