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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The Age of Fire: A Modern Godhood Game
« on: February 14, 2015, 06:27:10 pm »
Also I accidentally got excited after reading Buried Fire by Johnathan Stroud and ripped off his concept of the dragon to make another character instead of doing a Merlin thing like I said I would.
If there's another game like this I'll likely use this guy.
If there's another game like this I'll likely use this guy.
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Name: Viktor Drachenkopf
Gender: Male
Backstory: Long before the modern day, in another life, the person known as Viktor Drachenkopf was an entirely different entity. An ancient dragon from times long past, he reigned over an area somewhere around the size of modern Germany. For the better part of his nominal reign over the territory he mostly kept to himself, occasionally demanding a sacrifice from the humans living in scattered villages in exchange for the rest of their lives. This changed when a particularly wealthy tribe discovered how to mine rock and metal out of the ground. Smelling the gold they extracted from hundreds of miles away, he swiftly arrowed in towards this new discovery and realized it's potential. Marshaling the unfortunate tribesmen under his banner, he conquered the majority of the nearby tribes, enslaving their minds with his fell gaze. Over the next few years, his slave soldiers armed themselves with metal blades and armor extracted from the vastly increased mines burrowing into the earth in his territory. Then they marched outwards, conquering, assimilating, throwing whole tribes into his thrall, for the self-declared Dragon King's greed drew his gaze outward, requiring more thralls to abate his goldlust. It was not to last, of course. The neighboring petty kingdoms of Eurasia recognized the rising threat in their midst and united for one of the first times in their history, penning in the growing slave kingdom and inoxerably grinding it back. Eventually the kingdom's income was cut into enough to attract the dragon's attention. When he took the field, whole armies burned alive and were devoured. Eventually though, the various hedge witches, sorcerers, wizards and clannish magical practitioners, assembled in a great cabal, devised a countermeasure. The combined armies of 15 kings marched to meet the dragon in the region later known as the Sudetenland, where a large amount of the mining operations were centered. The drake's thrall armies marched out to meet him, and though they were outnumbered many times over, the battle was in their favor with their master on the field. A great slaughter was inflicted on the armies of the kings, but as the dragon was barreling through the lines of the king of the Franks, the cabal made their move. A great stone edifice was assembled, and the sacrifice of one of their own sealed the ritual - the powers of the worm were sealed within an endless stone circle, afflicting him with a deathly weakness. They then sealed him deep underground in a great upheaval of earth, for the weapons they possessed were unable to pierce his hide. Afterward the coalition would descend into bloody warfare over the vast mass of gold the dragon had hoarded in his lair and he would be slowly forgotten over the years.
As the millennia passed, mortality impinged on the dragon, still bound by the curse. To avoid this mortal's death of dust and time, the dragon was forced to let the sheer weight of the earth compress his mind down to a mere pinprick, a bright note of anger and greed slowly burning down the ages. But that wasn't enough, and he was forced to let his power, what remained of it, slowly seep out into the earth around him. Over the years it drew many others to the land, those greedy of heart and grasping of mind. Much mining was conducted in the mineral-rich mountains the dragon was buried under, and one forlorn day several millennia after the dragon faintly registered magic vanishing from the world his cocoon was breached. Seizing his chance, the flame of his mind and soul, near-vanished from his long imprisonment, leapt into the unfortunate human that had discovered him.
Adolphus Greiger went into the mineshaft a normal human - a young man escaping from his parent's idea of his future, business. He'd never had a taste for it. He emerged as something else entirely.
Many years later after the family of the former mortal now called Viktor Drachenkopf for lack of this body's ability to pronounce his true name, the dragon emigrated to the New World. Europe was naught but a pale carcass to his eyes next to this feast.
Appearance: He seems at first glance to be an older gentleman, very grey - his longish hair is silvery, his eyes are steel, and the suit and tie he habitually wears are slate grey. However, in times of distress, anger, or intense emotion he ... changes. His hair shines a brilliant gold or red or orange, his eyes seem slitted and dangerous, and one would almost think a red glow emits from his maw. But that's just silly talk, right?
Symbol: A dragon coiled in upon itself, looking balefully outward at whoever's looking at it.
Style: Viktor uses his magic in an innately draconic fashion, utilizing and perhaps even spreading his gifts in service of his goals. Flight, power over lesser minds, great vision, etcetera.
Human Skill: Moneymaking. Whether legal business, illegal smuggling, stock market playing or even gambling, Viktor's very good at attracting wealth of all forms to himself.
Gender: Male
Backstory: Long before the modern day, in another life, the person known as Viktor Drachenkopf was an entirely different entity. An ancient dragon from times long past, he reigned over an area somewhere around the size of modern Germany. For the better part of his nominal reign over the territory he mostly kept to himself, occasionally demanding a sacrifice from the humans living in scattered villages in exchange for the rest of their lives. This changed when a particularly wealthy tribe discovered how to mine rock and metal out of the ground. Smelling the gold they extracted from hundreds of miles away, he swiftly arrowed in towards this new discovery and realized it's potential. Marshaling the unfortunate tribesmen under his banner, he conquered the majority of the nearby tribes, enslaving their minds with his fell gaze. Over the next few years, his slave soldiers armed themselves with metal blades and armor extracted from the vastly increased mines burrowing into the earth in his territory. Then they marched outwards, conquering, assimilating, throwing whole tribes into his thrall, for the self-declared Dragon King's greed drew his gaze outward, requiring more thralls to abate his goldlust. It was not to last, of course. The neighboring petty kingdoms of Eurasia recognized the rising threat in their midst and united for one of the first times in their history, penning in the growing slave kingdom and inoxerably grinding it back. Eventually the kingdom's income was cut into enough to attract the dragon's attention. When he took the field, whole armies burned alive and were devoured. Eventually though, the various hedge witches, sorcerers, wizards and clannish magical practitioners, assembled in a great cabal, devised a countermeasure. The combined armies of 15 kings marched to meet the dragon in the region later known as the Sudetenland, where a large amount of the mining operations were centered. The drake's thrall armies marched out to meet him, and though they were outnumbered many times over, the battle was in their favor with their master on the field. A great slaughter was inflicted on the armies of the kings, but as the dragon was barreling through the lines of the king of the Franks, the cabal made their move. A great stone edifice was assembled, and the sacrifice of one of their own sealed the ritual - the powers of the worm were sealed within an endless stone circle, afflicting him with a deathly weakness. They then sealed him deep underground in a great upheaval of earth, for the weapons they possessed were unable to pierce his hide. Afterward the coalition would descend into bloody warfare over the vast mass of gold the dragon had hoarded in his lair and he would be slowly forgotten over the years.
As the millennia passed, mortality impinged on the dragon, still bound by the curse. To avoid this mortal's death of dust and time, the dragon was forced to let the sheer weight of the earth compress his mind down to a mere pinprick, a bright note of anger and greed slowly burning down the ages. But that wasn't enough, and he was forced to let his power, what remained of it, slowly seep out into the earth around him. Over the years it drew many others to the land, those greedy of heart and grasping of mind. Much mining was conducted in the mineral-rich mountains the dragon was buried under, and one forlorn day several millennia after the dragon faintly registered magic vanishing from the world his cocoon was breached. Seizing his chance, the flame of his mind and soul, near-vanished from his long imprisonment, leapt into the unfortunate human that had discovered him.
Adolphus Greiger went into the mineshaft a normal human - a young man escaping from his parent's idea of his future, business. He'd never had a taste for it. He emerged as something else entirely.
Many years later after the family of the former mortal now called Viktor Drachenkopf for lack of this body's ability to pronounce his true name, the dragon emigrated to the New World. Europe was naught but a pale carcass to his eyes next to this feast.
Appearance: He seems at first glance to be an older gentleman, very grey - his longish hair is silvery, his eyes are steel, and the suit and tie he habitually wears are slate grey. However, in times of distress, anger, or intense emotion he ... changes. His hair shines a brilliant gold or red or orange, his eyes seem slitted and dangerous, and one would almost think a red glow emits from his maw. But that's just silly talk, right?
Symbol: A dragon coiled in upon itself, looking balefully outward at whoever's looking at it.
Style: Viktor uses his magic in an innately draconic fashion, utilizing and perhaps even spreading his gifts in service of his goals. Flight, power over lesser minds, great vision, etcetera.
Human Skill: Moneymaking. Whether legal business, illegal smuggling, stock market playing or even gambling, Viktor's very good at attracting wealth of all forms to himself.
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