Words from the GM Vincent McCool:

Heaven Aetherius or hell Oblivion, LET'S highROCK:

Welcome to the out of character and sign-up thread for OF PRINCES AND POWER, part of the Shattered Empire Series, now enjoying its second chapter. Of Princes and Power is a mostly political RP set in the entirity of early 4th Era High Rock. We are taking the events of Oblivion as our point of departure, and many writers have filled in all sorts of fantastically imaginative lore in deciding what has happened in the last twenty eight years since that day. Players control everything from the Queens, Kings, Princes, Dukes and Counts who rule High Rock, to people just trying to find their way in this dangerous time.

Your friendly neighbourhood GMs are me, aSaPp!5@ and Broken-Scale. Pester us, or the thread in general, if you have any questions. Happily, this is about the friendliest, warmest RP I've ever had the pleasure to be in, so don't be afraid to bother us as often as you like.

There is lots and lots of great information on this lovely RP In aSaPp's gloriously long OP in the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1504252-of-princes-and-power-chpt3-the-exchange/, for anyone who wants it. My best advice for anyone new is to read all you can stomach of that big post and ask here for help. Even though this is a new alternative timeline, we haven't gotten very far and there is very little you need to learn in order to start RPing here. In fact, if your character is the sort who doesn't really go in for the big political side of things, you yourself may need to learn almost nothing . Although lots of people have been contributing lots of fantastic new lore, everyone who joins is invited to join in at whatever level they feel comfortable with, and to craft as much new lore-fluff as they like, if they end up with a little corner of High Rock to themselves.

WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MORE LOVELY RPERS

Almost all of the information on the RP is stored on our quite spiffing http://theshatteredempireseries.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shattered_Empire_Series_Wiki, and everyone who joins is invited to write up their own back-stories and new pieces of lore to fit into the tapestry we are making here. This RP is all about feudalism and tradition; those who care about it and those who don't. Princes and Power, that sort of thing. For anyone who is genuinely new/confused, I promise that everything you need to know about what little plot we've had so far is contained either in that OP, or this silly post I wrote in the last chapter, http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1343716-of-princes-and-power-chapter-i-a-game-of-pawns/page-6#entry22481821.

NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO JOIN AS A NEW PLAYER, it's morning in Castle Evermore, as all the gathered nobles and servants in various states not limited to horrible hangovers. The Festival of Peace is coming to an end, and while most of the characters in the RP are gathered there, some will start to make their way home soon. With plots of revolt in Northpoint and news of the royal murder of Prince Geruld in Wayrest, could now be an any more exciting time to join the story?! Only your new character can make it so! If parties aren't your fancy, most of the characters in the RP are soon to disperse back around High Rock, so you don't have to join the festival now if you don't want to.

CURRENT QUEST FOR RPER'S: The wiki is looking really fantastically spiffy right now, so I guess its time to fall back upon the normal quest that we all should be striving for, which is to really try to read and provide feedback on as many posts as we can, because being read is just as important as writing when it comes to RPs. Also, now is the perfect time to really start scheming as to your character's next big scene, as we really, honestly are very close to starting Chapter III.

Magus the Red here, if anything needs re-doing, just PM me.