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[IronyOwl]

The world is new and undeveloped, but the various races of the world are starting to wake up. Fields are being plowed, swords are being forged, and cities are beginning to grow rapidly.

Perhaps the most dangerous and fascinating new development, however, is that of magic. Currently possessed by only a tiny handful of individuals in the entire world, it has the potential to revolutionize everything.


You are one such individual, or hope to be shortly. You have been taken on as an apprentice by the first person to discover magic in your area, and now hope to use it- and possibly the political strings gained by being so close to the current ruler of your city- to accomplish great things.

Spoiler: Overview (click to show/hide)

Study magic, engage in politics, govern logistics, or even become a great warrior in the course of being an apprentice to one of the only wizards in the world. Exactly how much freedom you'll have and how much you'll need to follow orders depends on you and your master, but your master does want talented, inventive, free-willed individuals on some level.

Magic will be somewhat obscured early on, but you should get the hang of it fairly soon. Most of your time will probably be spent researching spells as a "main" action, but you might be able to do some diplomacy or other activity on the side. And of course, if your master's alright with it, you can put magic on hold and spend your time dealing with more mundane problems or opportunities.

Politics and relationships may be important. If nothing else, your master's opinion of you can obviously affect quite a bit. Other than that, you can establish contacts and relationships abroad or just huddle in your tower; either is probably viable.

Logistics and city operations most certainly will be important, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll need to become involved. As your master's holdings will affect your situation in fairly obvious ways, however, it might be at least be wise to keep tabs on how everything is running.

Finally, you'll likely encounter rival wizards and warlords at some point. How you handle that may not entirely be up to you, but your actions may have an effect on it and your situation will certainly be impacted by it.

Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)

Race has relatively few static mechanical effects, but can have a massive impact on what a race can invent, build, or benefit from. For players, it also affects starting skills, which are usually relatively unimportant.


-Mermaids-
Mermaids are attractive, artistic, charismatic creatures with the upper bodies of humanoids and an eel-like lower body they can slither around on. They are good swimmers, and known for their detailed crafts and beautiful singing voices.

Mermaids are very friendly, and mostly concerned with art, culture, and luxury.


-Humans-
Humans are lean, cunning, adventurous humanoids. They are good swimmers, and are known for their adventurous mercantilism and ingenuity, particularly aboard ships.

Humans tend to be a bit boisterous but fairly diplomatic, and are mostly concerned with commerce and a hint of adventure.


-Gnolls
Gnolls are athletic humanoids resembling hyenas. They are good runners and can be stealthy when they want to, and are known for their martial prowess, warlike nature, and tendency to eat other humanoids.

Gnolls tend to be fairly ferocious and bellicose, and are mostly concerned with strength, battle, and plunder.


-Centaurs-
Centaurs are fairly large creatures with humanoid upper torsos and equine lower bodies. They are very good runners and have excellent stamina, and are known for their prowess in diplomacy, drinking, feasting, and other simple vices.

Centaurs tend to be very boisterous but charismatic, and are mostly concerned with enjoying life's pleasures and keeping good relations with those they need to.


-Harpies-
Harpies are humanoids with birdlike feet, winged arms (or fingered wings), and fairly luxurious plumage. They can fly, and are known for their cunning and rapacious, cruel, marauding natures.

Harpies tend to be vain, jealous, and cruel, and are mostly concerned with exceeding their rivals and acquiring prestige, treasure, and comforts.


-Grondell-
Grondells are upright, large, thick, vaguely reptilian creatures covered in bony plates and spines. They're very tough, and are known for their industry and mining.

Grondells tend to be reserved and industrious, and are mostly concerned with industry, mineral wealth, and keeping gainfully busy.


-Shamblers-
Shamblers are large, hunched, very vaguely humanoid creatures that appear to be made of layers of vines and other foliage. They're shockingly resilient, and are known for their thoughtful, slow natures.

Shamblers tend to be shy and thoughtful, and are mostly concerned with tending to their surroundings and keeping happy.


-Dryads-
Dryads are humanoids that appear to be made of wood. They're secretive and clever, and known for their isolationism and mysterious ways.

Dryads tend to be isolationist and secretive, and are mostly concerned with investigating knowledge and keeping it hidden for themselves.


-Kik'kithik-
Kik'kithik are upright beetle-like insectoids. They're stealthy and cunning, and known for their treachery and murder.

Kik'kithik tend to be very group-focused and sneaky, and are mostly concerned with the ascendancy of their particular clan.


-Dwarves-
Dwarves are small, stout humanoids with a lot of facial hair. They're very focused and tough, and known for their exceptional handiwork, considerable greed, and mental instability.

Dwarves tend to be somewhat suspicious and erratic, and are mostly concerned with creating and acquiring greatness and wealth.


-Other-
The above races are not the only in the world, or even the only that have advanced beyond tribal origins. They are, however, the only races known to have frequent, stable, major cities, and thus be commonly described as having a true "civilization."

Accordingly, members of other races sometimes find themselves in the lands of the "major" ones, where their presence is often unusual but not necessarily unwanted.

Spoiler: Cities (click to show/hide)

In addition to magical responsibilities, apprentices may be expected or at least allowed to take a hand in the city's affairs. If nothing else, the city is the source of an apprentice's security and resources, and thus its operations might be of at least passing interest to them.


Output and Upkeep
Cities produce a number of useful resources, but also require certain things to remain functioning. Most notably:

-Each citizen requires a unit of food per turn
-Most buildings require a certain amount of gold upkeep per turn
-Luxuries and amenities are required to keep a city's population in line once it grows past a certain point

The type of resources produced (and to some extent, required) by a city depend on both what innate structures it has, and what sorts of terrain its people are working to produce. See the Labor and Population and Buildings headings for more detail.

Resource	Sources	Use
Food	Farmland, hunter's camps, granaries; anything that produces, conserves, or preserves food	Feeding population, growing new population
Production	Workshops, lumber mills, mines; anything that produces or processes raw materials	Manufacturing and supporting military units, constructing buildings, crafting individual items
Gold	Markets, trading posts, population centers; anything that encourages commerce or generates taxes	Paying building upkeep, paying unit upkeep, purchasing things from others
Mundane Research	Libraries, sages, laboratories; anything involved in learning or experimentation	Unlocking new or improving current buildings, units, equipment, upgrades, or nearly anything else that might be built, bought, or manufactured
Spell Research	As mundane research, but requiring those knowledgeable in magical arts	Creating new or improving current spells or magically enhanced or related buildings, units, equipment, or nearly anything else that might be built or manufactured

Luxuries

Jeweler's shops, wineries, theaters; anything that higher-class or already happy people might enjoy or benefit from

Turning content citizens into happy citizens

Amenities

Taverns, guard houses, sewage systems; anything that lower-class or unhappy people might enjoy, benefit from, or be kept in line by

Turning unhappy citizens into content citizens

Population and Labor
The city's population is measured in citizens. Each citizen unit generally represents about a hundred people, though this number can vary wildly depending on various factors.

Each citizen consumes 1 food per turn and can work one improvement for resources.

Generally speaking, when a city amasses as many units of food as it has units of population, it consumes the food and produces another unit of population.


Morale
By default, all citizens are Unhappy. It takes amenities to make them content, and luxuries to make content citizens happy.

Fortunately, there are a set of basic amenities rather innate to being a city.

Food represents freely available food. Famines and various other events can sometimes prevent this, in which case the populace generally starts starving and causing or suffering from additional problems.
Shelter represents freely available places to live. Natural disasters or other events can sometimes prevent this, in which case the populace generally begins to seriously consider emigrating elsewhere.
Civilization represents the freely available conveniences of civilization, such as specialized craftsmen. Utter anarchy, complete economic ruin, or other catastrophes can sometimes prevent this, in which case the city is usually undergoing far more grievous concerns than the loss of an extra amenity.

This means that cities can freely grow to Size 3 simply by being cities. Beyond that, they must produce structures, acquire resources, specialize labor, or otherwise devote attention towards improving their citizens' lots in life.

In the event that a city's unhappy citizens outnumber its happy ones, the extra unhappy citizens begin fomenting unrest. They refuse to provide labor as standard citizens do, and may begin generating further problems, from increased unhappiness to outright rebellion.

Happy citizens, and unhappy citizens in amounts smaller than the number of happy citizens, do not normally provide any bonuses or penalties beyond normal. However, having happy or unhappy citizens can impede or enable certain, usually creative actions, such as creating an elite school for happy citizens or forming a smuggling ring using unhappy citizens.


Production
Production is the city's industry and craftsmanship. It is used to produce just about anything physical, from farmland to courthouses to armor. Each item has a cost in production, so the more a city produces, the faster it produces.

Cities can produce multiple items at once, but it's usually not prudent to do so. Typically split production is used for very small items in conjunction with larger projects, or occasionally as a "tax" towards a project too massive to focus on exclusively until completion.

Most buildings cost somewhere between 10 (a simple tavern) and 50 (a respectable palace) production to complete. Improvements are usually closer to 5 (simple farmland) to 20 (a mine), but can become much more expensive for special purposes. Units vary wildly depending on equipment and training.


Buildings and Improvements
Buildings are structures that provide some constant or situational benefit on their own. Improvements are larger, more spread-out features that provide benefits when worked by labor.

Buildings typically cost gold in upkeep, and may have a wide variety of effects. Some simply produce more of a resource, while others speed unit healing, reduce unhappiness, or enable a trade in resources. Buildings typically cannot function beyond another building that operates in a similar manner; for instance, a brewery might not have any benefit if the city already contains a tavern, since the core mechanism, "provide beer," is already in effect. Some buildings may complement or augment each other, however.

Improvements typically have no upkeep and no effects when not actively being worked. They typically provide only basic resources, but exceptions are possible.

Spoiler: Research (click to show/hide)

Mundane research can be performed by sages or wise men, or it can come about through the gradual activities of students and scribes. Any time there is learning or intellectual activity, there is the possibility of research occurring. It should not be confused with Spell Research, which can only occur by those rare few trained in magic.

Research is used to unlock new things. These things can be buildings, improvements, units, equipment, or just about anything else that might be built or manufactured. As a general set of guidelines:

Buildings have a wide range of possible effects and requirements, and can vary in not only effectiveness but efficiency. Remember that redundant buildings will not stack with each other.

Improvements tend to be much more limited than buildings, not only in possible effects but also in effectiveness. Unlike buildings, you shouldn't expect to be able to revolutionize farming or mining with simple research. Most improvement-based research involves new uses for special resources or unorthodox uses of labor.

Units are a combination of their training and equipment. Much like buildings, they can vary wildly in power, cost, and efficiency between those two. They can also possess a number of special traits or abilities.

Upgrades are additional abilities or equipment options available to units. Unlike researching entirely new unit types, researching upgrades allows any individual unit who meets the prerequisites to better arm themselves for a price. Note that upgrades usually require a building to be applied.

Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)

Units are groups of creatures operating as a whole. A standard unit usually consists of 10 creatures, but particularly large, small, powerful, or weak individuals might be found in different numbers.


Stats
A unit's main stats are Attack and HP.

Attack: The unit's offensive power. This determines how much damage it deals in battle.
HP: The unit's defensive power. This determines how much damage it can absorb in battle.


Experience
Units that engage in battle (or other dangerous events) may gain experience from their trials. Units that level up gain increased stats and a perk.

Stats: Stat gains through leveling up are simple, automatic increases to HP and/or Attack. Notably, almost all units gain at least a point of HP each level.
Perk: A perk is a bonus ability or quality gained or increased in level through leveling up. Perks are partially standardized for the unit's type and partially tailored to unit's experiences. Perks tend to be relatively simple, but still more complex than a simple stat boost. Most are situational.


Upgrades
Upgrades are improvements to a unit added on after the unit's creation, representing superior equipment, training, or other processes. Upgrades can be as simple as a stat boost or as complex as adding a new special ability, depending on the nature of the upgrade.

While most upgrades stack, upgrades that operate in fundamentally the same way do not, unless some sort of accommodation can be found for, say, wearing two sets of armor at a time or fighting in both a berserk frenzy and a cautious defensive stance simultaneously.


Heroes
Heroes are a special class of unit. While they function for the most part as standard units, they tend to have far more specialized abilities available. Notably, heroes have access to the Leadership trait, which increases the stats of units it's leading.

Unlike normal military units, however, heroes are hard to find. It takes a truly exceptional individual to serve as a hero, and in most cases such talent goes where it will.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

Combat is relatively simple in most cases. Each unit rolls a d6, with the winner dealing damage equal to their Attack stat to the loser. In the event of a tie, both units damage each other simultaneously.

Combat may take place over multiple turns, as in a running battle or siege, or through a series of combat rolls, as with more frantic, pitched battles.

Under normal circumstances, only one unit may engage another at a time. If there are multiple units available, both sides make opposed rolls to see which one is engaged. This roll is repeated each combat round.

To retreat from battle, a unit makes an escape roll in place of a regular combat roll. The chasing unit makes both a combat and chasing roll, both opposed by the same escape roll. This means a unit may succeed or fail to escape and take additional damage independently from each other.

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Magic is a largely unknown art, completely opaque to all but a chosen few, and largely unexplored even to them. Accordingly, not everything you or your Master knows is necessarily entirely true, the whole truth, or the only way to go about things.


Mana
Mana is the currency or raw material used to power spells. All magic requires mana to function, with the amount usually proportional to the spell's power and complexity.

In the forms you've seen, it's usually a glowing blue liquid, though pale blue crystals have also made appearances. Its origin is completely unknown to you, as are its properties beyond the obvious.


Source
All magic has what is known as a Source, which is a conceptual starting point for the spell. They've been described as the habitat the spells live in, the weapon a warrior uses to fight, and the emotion one speaks with, all to get across the idea that while various methods and intents are possible within a given Source, it's the Source that gives the spell its character and overarching traits.

You do not currently understand Sources or their properties very well, despite having drawn upon them in limited forms during training. You get the feeling your master may have been deliberately trying to prevent you from grasping what Sources were or which ones you were drawing power from, though you couldn't say why.


Method
In addition to Source, each spell has a Method, which is the overarching purpose or form the spell takes. If Source is the raw materials used to build the spell or the habitat the spell lives in, then Method might be described as whether the spell is a shop, house, or workshop, or whether the spell is a predator, scavenger, or herbivore.

Your master has not been very forthcoming about Methods either, but it either hasn't been obscured on purpose or it hasn't been obscured as well, because the same three seemed to keep coming up in your training. Almost all spells (if you can call what you were doing spells) have been either a quick burst of power, a sticking of power to some other object, or a conjuration of something apparently from nowhere.


Form
Finally, all spells have a Form, which is essentially the caster's will beyond a spell's Source and Method. Form is what determines exactly what a spell does and how, within the confines of its Source and Method.

Your understanding of Form is probably the best of all three aspects. Form is essentially a caster's intent; it's what a wizard shapes the power and function granted by Source and Method into. It's the difference between a wolf and a bear, both carnivores living in the forest, or a bakery and a smithy, both stores made of stone.


Level
Spells are not all created equal. Traversing the usual aspects of a spell is the spell's level, which is a measure of the spell's power and complexity. Higher-level spells require more mana to function and more skill to understand, but are of course more powerful in return.

Your understanding of level is somewhat mixed. On the one hand, you've been limited to the most basic of magical exercises, and your master has mentioned level only in passing. On the other hand, you managed to find some of his notes lying out in the open, so that was cool.

Level	Rough Power
Novice	Basic
Apprentice	Specialized
Adept	Competent
Expert	Powerful
Master	Frightening; no further?

The notes were a bit vague, of course, but they also seemed to imply that researching or casting spells greater than you skill level (it's suspiciously cryptic regarding skill in what) was difficult or impossible.


Type
Also transcending Source and Method, but closely related to Form, is a spell's type, which is a measure of the time and effort needed to cast the spell. Rituals are long-term spells, designed to be cast in relative safety. Combat spells are intended to be cast instantly or nearly so. Most spells are designed to be rituals unless there is a specific need for them to be cast quickly.

Your understanding of Type is fairly good. As might be expected, doing something instantly tends to be harder and costlier than doing it slowly.


Research
Researching spells consists of someone with magical talent- yourself, for instance- attempting to research a particular effect at a particular level. Researching a spell also generally grants experience in whatever overarching categories the spell falls under.

Spells are useable in increments; that is, a half-researched spell can be used before it is fully refined, but it will of course be less powerful, efficient, or otherwise useful than a full version. You should understand what the finished spell's stats will be when you begin your research.

-Character Creation-
Name: Obvious
Caste: Gender and race. Describe the race in some detail if custom.
Appearance: What you look like
Personality: Needn't be long or complex, but at least a brief description of what kind of person you are
Bio: Not optional, but can be short and simple.


-Wizard Submission-
As character creation, plus a description of their magical abilities or tendencies. Don't worry about not knowing how magic works or what's available; I'll just match their general intent with how magic as they understand it works.


-City Submission-
Name: Obvious
Race: Obvious. Note that having more than one race would be very unusual for a city.
Location: The immediate surroundings of the city. Terrain affects what improvements can be built there and can have a handful of other effects.
Province: The city's location in broader, more general terms. What kinds of settlements, races, and terrain exist in general beyond the city's borders but still potentially in its area of interest.


To join, fill out the character sheet. Sheets will be selected based on how interesting they are and how much I like them. Nirur probably also has a reserved spot for coming up with and running the game I ruthlessly stole from to produce this one.

We will also need a wizard and starting location. Filling these out is not mandatory for submitting a character, nor is submitting a character mandatory for suggesting a wizard or starting spot. The winning entries will most likely be a combination of how interesting and conducive to play I find them, and how much everyone else likes them.


If you have any questions, please ask. I can't necessarily reveal everything (magic is vague partially by design, for instance), but I might be able to clarify some stuff (I think the race descriptions may have come out too terse, for example).

[IronyOwl]

Also, need a post or two for additional info.

[Dermonster]

RESERVED IN CASE OF INTEREST

ALSO SORRY.

[IronyOwl]

Well whatever. This post reserved for stuff anyway.

[IronyOwl]

One more just in case.

I need no further posts.

[Dermonster]

Name: Shek'Zeer
Caste: Female Kik'kithik Princess caste
Appearance: This except youngerish.
Personality: Defiant and withdrawn, likes being outdoors, and fond of syrup, as it reminds her of the sacred tree sap. Not too fond of enclosed spaces and doesn't take to personal relationships easily.
Bio: Ran from the great city of Scaratone when old enough, due to not wanting to become another brood mother to the swarm and sit in a dark and small room all day every day doing nothing but eating and giving birth.


Might make a city/wise old master later. For now AUGH SO LATE.

[RAM]

I'll just dump this here for now, and update it later...
link: -Character Creation-
More links:
  Cities:
    RAM
    ragnarok97071
    Harry Baldman
    Nirur Torir(sort of...)
  Wizards:
    RAM
    ragnarok97071
    Harry Baldman
    Digital Hellhound
    Nirur Torir
  Apprentices:
    dermonster
    RAM
    ragnarok97071
    RulerOfNothing
    Knave
    Harry Baldman
    Digital Hellhound
    My Name is Immaterial
    Nirur Torir
    RAM
Updated after reply #33

Spoiler: I still like this character... (click to show/hide)

Name: Firackark
Race: Kobold Kobolds - A small race of strangely cute, yet weak, creatures. They get bonuses to defensive warfare and population caps. They receive maluses to mana generation, subterfuge, and troop experience.
Description, physical/mental/background: Deep green skin with neck frills and somewhat gangly for a kobold and bears many scars. Tends to wear belted and short-sleeved robes coloured to match the tone of the surroundings./Tends to become obsessed with one subjects and make abrupt judgements about most other matters. Possesses a profound dislike for the termination of life and cold environs. Is fond of fine tools and privacy./Raised as somewhat of an academic, comparatively, in a typically high-density population. Prone to forming attachments and frequently shocked due to the frequency of mortality it developed a strong dislike for the natural processes and sought to learn more about them. A number of murders prompted spontaneous searches of abodes, leading to the discovery of its dissection facilities and a presumption of guilt. Narrowly escaping the city while being pelted with stones, it gradually grew too cold to think clearly, and remembers little of its flight, regaining its senses in the dark elven dungeons having apparently charged into a remote partol's camp and collapsed next to their fire.
Preferred mission type(s), if any: Research, surgery, exploration, logistics.
Disabled mission type(s), if any: Assassination, fights to the death.

-Wizard Submission-
Name: Slough
Caste: Shambler
Appearance: A mass of rust-coloured leaves with bright-green shoots occasionally protruding between them. One 'arm' is short and stiff, and held at an upwards angle with apparent burning at the end, while the other is about half-again as long as its body and drags along behind it. There is no discernible head and its 'legs' are a single mass, although they are flexible enough to use a motion similar to bipedal walking.
Personality: Methodical but prone to bouts of obsession or anger. Comparatively reduced sense of individuality but fond of peace and quiet. It is attempting to build a nation of flora and the wilds to compete with the ever-encroaching nations of technological fauna.
Bio: Long has it absorbed the energies of its environs without awareness of the fact. But recently, during a battle against a force of farmers intent upon clearing its lands, these energies coalesced into a form that bolstered its awareness of the world and granted it command of the land and that which grows in it. After burying its attackers in a mound of soil and dense roots, it ventured to the deep forest to commune with the energies that it had discovered. After a very long period spent in meditation, it made a brief connection to all the wild lands of the world, and sensed the great loss that had befallen them in recent centuries. It now seeks to amass will enough to compete with the ravenous hunger of the nations that now surround its home.
magical abilities or tendencies: Land manipulation, Flora manipulation, Flora communication.


-City Submission-
Name: Holy Oaks
Race: 80% Shambler 20% Dryad
Location: Dense rainforest, by necessity the city itself is somewhat sparser than its surrounding, with most of the population dwelling in buttresses formed by the dense root systems of the local trees, which in turn are propagated within the city for this property. Some wooden and dirt structures exit for communal purposes, such as storage and meeting-places. The dryad population lives above the city amidst what appears to be sporadic wooden scaffolding with occasional ramps to the ground. The dryads mostly keep to themselves, and the shamblers have little ability to scale the comparatively light dryad structures, though the dryads appreciate the safety offered by the shambler city and are known to occasionally assist the shambler community.
Province: The forest itself is quite large though it is completely surrounded by clear grassland, most of which has been settled. To the west and north is a large Kik'kithik empire which little over a decade ago ended a period of militaristic expansion due to assorted conflicts within the empire itself. While they generally keep themselves busy, there is always a supply of ambitious individuals looking to gain some advantage from the lands beyond. Two rivers run through the forest from the Kik'kithik empire. The southern river meets with various loosely-affiliated Gnoll settlements to the south of the Forest and will occasionally see traffic from Harpies somewhere beyond them. While to the East of the forest the northern river encounters A large, and predominantly nomadic, centaur nation. Despite their nomadic life-style, the centaurs maintain a standing army and fortifications around the north-eastern edge of the forest. Traffic along the northern river is rare and subsequently the wildlife is more prolific in that region.

[My Name is Immaterial]

PT Watch, Read Later, and Possibly Play Later.
Edit: turns out that 'Later' was quite soon. Will there only be one of each? One city, one wizard, and one apprentice?

[Powder Miner]

Lemme reserve a spot up in this

[Weirdsound]

Gonna try to get in on this as well.

[jaass]

Reserve post coming later on today.

[Harry Baldman]

I suppose I'll make a prophylactic reserve here.

EDIT: And it turns out it wasn't even necessary. Well, can never be too sure.

[ragnarok97071]

May I In?

if so, here, have a profile.

Spoiler: profile stuff (click to show/hide)

-Character Creation-
Name: Kelnoia Vitreus
Caste: Female Mermaid
Appearance: Kelnoa is quite young still, having just begun to fully mature at the point that she began awakening to magic. She's a petite creature, just barely beginning to fill out, with seaweed-colored hair that falls down to her waist, and fair skin, where it isn't covered by smooth scales of a lighter green than her hair, tinged with a bit of blue. She gazes at the world with deep blue eyes like pools of water, always looking for something new and exciting to look at.
Personality: Kelnoia is... in a word, nieve. She doesn't think in terms of 'good', or 'evil', or anything like that, simply thinking of what seems the most fun at the time and going with it. Oddly enough, that seems to have served her alright so far, leading to her generally being very eager to learn whatever is offered to her, which eventually led her to the teachings of magic under her current mistress.


-Wizard Submission-
Name: Ninevia Wintersong
Caste: Female Mermaid
Appearance: Ninevia is a beautiful creature, as are most of her race, though even they admit that she is among the fairest of those within Tidevolea. Her hair is a soft, dark blue, falling down to the place where her tail joins her waist in the style common in that place. Her skin is darker than the average mermaid, having spent much time on the surface of the water, speaking with the Humans and the Dwarves, learning from them and sharing knowledge with their elders.
Personality: Ninevia is kind, but shrewd, caring, but well aware that her actions must be weighed against the greater good of all, and that blind charity is not always the best choice, even for the one to which the charity would be given. more often, instead of simply giving, she seeks to teach or inspire, to help those who can to protect and enrich themselves, generally disdaining those who expect everything to be done for them.
Magic: Generally sonic-based, consisting of both subtle manipulation of forces through carefully shaped songs for more careful workings and delicate work, though it is not above a simple glass-shattering and soft-tissue-liquifying screech if pressed into combat situation. She also has a grasp of elemental magic learned from what dabblers exist among the nearby humans, as well as a smattering of the rune magic of the dwarves, though that particular group guards their secrets jealously, and she is still attempting to learn more of that strange branch of magic.

-City Submission-
Name: Tidevolea
Race: Mermaids
Location: The city is built within a deep bay surrounded on three sides by mountains, leaving only a small opening to the sea, which protects it from the worst of its storms when they come to bear. There is a good deal of life on the land immediately surrounding the bay, and an abundance of fish within it, which mean that the denezens of the city are rarely wont for food of some kind or another.
Province: Surrounded as it is, there are only a few settlements surrounding the city, a small town of humans and a dwarven Mountainhome located nearby, both of which are at war with each other off and on, trade in the area mostly conducted by using the Mermaids of Tidevolea as go-betweens. There are also several islands somewhat out to sea, inhabited by a mixture of races, though mostly only in small villages and the like.

[RAM]

I have pretty much had enough with my wizard+city submissions, so consider them to be in their final form. Obviously the G.M. may feel the need to modify them to better suit the setting... My character is just copied over from the other thread, and I don't expect to touch that until we have a setting...

[IronyOwl]

PT Watch, Read Later, and Possibly Play Later.
Edit: turns out that 'Later' was quite soon. Will there only be one of each? One city, one wizard, and one apprentice?

One city, one wizard, probably 4-6 apprentices. Still considering the exact count.