[Lucky Girl]

If you want a crew member I have a character I'd love to use again. If you're interested that is.

Or perhaps you want to be the captain of another battle-ship? Otherwise, the second-in-command is indeed needed.

[Rhi Edwards]

Or perhaps you want to be the captain of another battle-ship? Otherwise, the second-in-command is indeed needed.

He's bit of a coward but I could write a different character who could captain a ship if you want?

[Tamara Dost]

He's bit of a coward but I could write a different character who could captain a ship if you want?

A coward on board of the biggest and baddest ship on sea? Yeah, a captain of another slightly smaller ship would be great. The Fallen Demon has a crew of 200 men, so something slightly smaller would fit.

[Mandi Norton]

Grand Duke of Shornhelm - Allard Lariat.

Spoiler

Name
Allard Lariat

Title
Grand Duke of Shornhelm

Age
38

Race
Breton

Gender
Male

Appearance
Allard Lariat is a tall man, his dark green eyes contain an immense amount of grief and sorrow so much so that it is said that those who look into them are hit, for just a second, by a wave of despair. His face is aging and ruggedly unkempt. His physical build is degrading fast though once he was a very well built, strong man. His hair is equally neglected though not yet long and is slowly greying.

• Tall
  
• Sad, dark green eyes
  
• Aging and unkempt face
  
• Physically degrading
  
• Hair is neglected and messy, brown but slowly greying

Skills
Being schooled his entire life by top instructors Allard has reached proficiency in duelling skills, destruction and restoration magic, along with minor alchemy influences. He has studied all the schools of magicka to a degree which allows him to recognise different types of spells. As a young man Allard dreamed of being a poet or bard and so has the ability to write, though something he does sparingly.

Equipment
Carries with him a long ornamental sword and wears long expensive black robes and is never seen in another colour, on his head a circlet containing a small green jewel can be seen, an improvement on the crown he had as king which was made of simple copper.

Background
From a young age Allard was tutored and readied for his position in becoming a new king. He loathed the fact at first and dreamed of escape and becoming a bard. To quell these fancies his father, Roran Lariat, had him squired to one of the knights of the land and soon he learned to respect these men. However not long after Allard stole one of the knights horses and escaped searching for adventure. It wasn’t long though until he discovered the true state of the kingdom as he explored, he discovered that many of the people in the kingdom suffered and were extremely poor.

This discovery drove him to do the things he did, which ultimately won the peoples love but not the nobles. His first act as king was to sell any of the castle’s unneeded items, vast amounts of expensive silk tapestries, curtains, rugs and jewellery were sold off at once, including the old kings crown. In it’s place Allard wore a copper circlet, a symbol that he would expend luxury for his people. This act earned him the name ‘The Pauper King’ throughout the upper echelons of society and the nobles of Shornhelm found him a disgrace to their people. It was no doubt then for this reason that when Northpoint turned on the kingdom the noblemen soon abandoned their king and joined the enemy, which ultimately aided them enough to defeat Shornhelm and claim it for themselves. During this time of turmoil Allard’s pregnant wife and queen of the land, Lady Selene Lariat, became gravely ill. It is said that watching his wife slowly die while his kingdom crumbled drove old Allard mad. After the city of Shornhelm was captured by the enemy, they found Allard sat on his throne weeping, for his wife had died but hours earlier. They discovered that the King submitted easily and decided to keep him on the throne to quell the peasants.

[Nims]

Now the next scene has to involve some really bloody fighting, and a gorey torture scene, and we are ready to get this RP commissioned by HBO.

The opening for Aleron would be the end of a battle between bandits were they lost a knight to a crossbow bolt. If you want a fighting scene I can always open his post at the beginning of the battle. I'm still writing but I'm also watching the voice so expect my post by the end of the evening

[.X chantelle .x Smith]

A coward on board of the biggest and baddest ship on sea? Yeah, a captain of another slightly smaller ship would be great. The Fallen Demon has a crew of 200 men, so something slightly smaller would fit.

It's easy to be a coward on board a big bad ship, you just jump overboard when things look nasty. I'll come up with a captain character for a smaller ship, perhaps a crew of thirty or so aboard a Barque if that fits with your idea of the Navy?

[james tait]

It's easy to be a coward on board a big bad ship, you just jump overboard when things look nasty. I'll come up with a captain character for a smaller ship, perhaps a crew of thirty or so aboard a Barque if that fits with your idea of the Navy?

That's completely fine.

[k a t e]

Grand Duke of Shornhelm - Allard Lariat.

Spoiler

Name
Allard Lariat

Title
Grand Duke of Shornhelm, Warden of the Heart and Ex-King of Shornhelm

Age
38

Race
Breton

Gender
Male

Appearance
Allard Lariat is a tall man, his dark green eyes contain an immense amount of grief and sorrow so much so that it is said that those who look into them are hit, for just a second, by a wave of despair. His face is aging and ruggedly unkempt. His physical build is degrading fast though once he was a very well built, strong man. His hair is equally neglected though not yet long and is slowly greying.

• Tall
  
• Sad, dark green eyes
  
• Aging and unkempt face
  
• Physically degrading
  
• Hair is neglected and messy, brown but slowly greying

Skills
Being schooled his entire life by top instructors Allard has reached proficiency in duelling skills, destruction and restoration magic, along with minor alchemy influences. He has studied all the schools of magicka to a degree which allows him to recognise different types of spells. As a young man Allard dreamed of being a poet or bard and so has the ability to write, though something he does sparingly.

Equipment
Carries with him a long ornamental sword and wears long expensive black robes and is never seen in another colour, on his head a circlet containing a small green jewel can be seen, an improvement on the crown he had as king which was made of simple copper.

Background
From a young age Allard was tutored and readied for his position in becoming a new king. He loathed the fact at first and dreamed of escape and becoming a bard. To quell these fancies his father, Roran Lariat, had him squired to one of the knights of the land and soon he learned to respect these men. However not long after Allard stole one of the knights horses and escaped searching for adventure. It wasn’t long though until he discovered the true state of the kingdom as he explored, he discovered that many of the people in the kingdom suffered and were extremely poor.

This discovery drove him to do the things he did, which ultimately won the peoples love but not the nobles. His first act as king was to sell any of the castle’s unneeded items, vast amounts of expensive silk tapestries, curtains, rugs and jewellery were sold off at once, including the old kings crown. In it’s place Allard wore a copper circlet, a symbol that he would expend luxury for his people. This act earned him the name ‘The Pauper King’ throughout the upper echelons of society and the nobles of Shornhelm found him a disgrace to their people. It was no doubt then that when Northpoint turned on the kingdom that the noblemen soon abandoned their king and joined the enemy, which ultimately aided them enough to defeat Shornhelm and claim it for themselves. During this time of turmoil Allard’s pregnant wife and queen of the land, Lady Selene Lariat, became gravely ill. It is said that watching his wife slowly die while his kingdom crumbled drove old Allard mad. After the city of Shornhelm was captured by the enemy, they found Allard sat on his throne weeping, for his wife had died but hours earlier. They discovered that the King submitted easily and decided to keep him on the throne to quell the peasants.

Awesome character sheet Erasmos. 38 and already that aged, that is one sad story =/. One thing though, his position as "Warden of the Heart" would now belong to the Counts of Gwened, who rebelled from Shornhelm during the war over the issue of the Crypt and now swear fealty to Evermore.

[Soph]

EDIT: Forum hick-up made a double post. Oops.

Um, in other news, I'll make a Knight in Shornhelm sometime to keep the sad King-come-Duke company.

[James Wilson]

One thing though, his position as "Warden of the Heart" would now belong to the Counts of Gwened, who rebelled from Shornhelm during the war over the issue of the Crypt and now swear fealty to Evermore.

Damn didn't realise that, I'll change it.

[Assumptah George]

That's completely fine.

Probably more a question for A_sapp but are we carrying gunpowder on these ships or not?

[M!KkI]

Probably more a question for A_sapp but are we carrying gunpowder on these ships or not?

That would be a no from a lore perspective, so the ships will need a lot of master archers, spell-casters and alchemists. The use of found dwemer crossbows with explosive ammo (the fallen demon has 2 of those only, takes quite some time to reload) is not out-of question.

[Lew.p]

Name: Barnan Diamond-Tooth
Title: Captain of the Fallen Demon
Age: 55
Race: Breton
Gender: Male

Appearance: As his name says, one of his teeth is pure diamond, just to make sure he has something with him in case of emergency. He is tall and strong, the years and years of being a captain makes him a very authoritarian. He has a rugged look, but his age cannot be seen in either the way he moves or looks. He wears not a pirate outfit like he used to, but bretonic fine clothing with deep blue shoulders, white torse with a black leather armor reinforcement that are completed by gold decorated, black leather pants and black boots. He has his long hair curled up on sides and wears it as a necklace, decorated by tiny rings of emerald green metal. The rest of his hair is shorter, loosly folded behind him. His hair is darker than night, but has a vein of bright green hair, sickly green, as if from a curse.

Skills: An able sea-man and beast in navigating deadly waters. He knows how to use his falchion and two boot-daggers. Not known to fight fair, fair combat won't keep you alive, he coats his blades in poison. A natural charmer of the ladies, at least back at his youth, and a silver-tongue when it comes to escaping bad situations.

Equipment (Weapons, armor, misc.): Leather armor (see appearence), a falchion coated in poison, two daggers coated in poison, his hair is a necklace with tiny green emeralds, enchanted with water-breathing.

Background: He was born on the sea and has spent more time of ships and the sea than on land. Early childhood and advlthood involved shady underground business, smuggling of illegal goods and sometimes even sea-robbery. He was caught, but his silver-tongue managed to help him escape. From there, he slowly began gathering reputation around High Rock and five years later was the leader of a small smuggling operation by himself. It only took him a few more years of calculated business and sabotage to make him the pirate captain of the Avenger. That ship was a fast, but small, ship that was infamous for disappearing and ambushing other ships by surprise. He learned the way of sea-fight from the captains point of view. The stealing and plundering of high rock was, however, risky and Barnan got a most tempting deal with the duke of Sharnhelm himself. Years of service under his banner made him the captain of the Fallen Demon, a massive warship that packed a punch in every way one could imagine. Ruin exploration had even managed to equip it with two slow dwemer crossbolts, a huge advantage against all ships within their range thanks to the explosive ammunition. The crew contained everything from cartographers and alchemists to archers and even a few priests. The rest of the crew all had years and years of melee combat experience, not a single one fighting fair. That's how Barnan wanted things. Honor is for the dead. The Sharnhelm navy was more than just one ship too, half a dozen smaller ships regularily patrolled the water ways from northpoint to evermore, but always keeping to the west side of the gulf. The fastest of these smaller ships is The Restless Serpent, whose captain if a young but promising lad called Aster Faris who reminds Barnan of his own youth.

[Ebou Suso]

Scow, I'm fine with Davian as long as he isn't uber like he was in TDS. Great proficiency and skill in most weapons and and schools of magick was a bit overkill for someone who was barely 20. Not to mention he was a walking arsenal with all the weapons he carried.

As long as you can play him sensibly and realistically then I'm ok with him.

And Squid, Azra's crossing isn't in Markwasten, its in Gwened. Markwaston is in the north on the border with sharnhelm.

I'm not sure how I missed that. I'll edit my post.

[Emma Pennington]

That would be a no from a lore perspective, so the ships will need a lot of master archers, spell-casters and alchemists. The use of found dwemer crossbows with explosive ammo (the fallen demon has 2 of those only, takes quite some time to reload) is not out-of question.

Hmm, I assume most sailors are suspicious enough to not want to have mages on their ship if possible. I think a few archers and some marines would be appropriate for a ship of The Restless Serpent's size. Dwemer Crossbows are fancy but not really the practical.

[Luna Lovegood]

Sorry for the double post but here's my Captain for your glorious navy Gorbad.

Spoiler

Name: Aster Faris

Age: 26

Race: Yokudan

Gender: Male

Title: Ex-Mercenary, now captain of The Restless Serpent

Appearance: Aster is quite stocky but not in such a way as to appear fat. He is around 5’9” so slightly shorter than most. His left cheek is covered entirely by a red tattoo of The Serpent which has its tail below his left ear and its mouth just next to his mouth. Other than that his face is rather ordinary, his brown hair is kept short and he has no facial hair.

Skills:Blade, Block (but not with a shield), Unarmoured

Equipment: Aster wears a red shirt with an attached hood and a pair of black trousers. Over these he has bit of armour strapped on, his right shoulder is covered by a teardrop shaped steel pauldron, he has a steel bracer on his left forearm which extends into something similar to a gauntlet covering the outside of his hand whilst leaving his palm clear, he uses this bracer instead of a shield and it has been thickened and tempered appropriately. Other than these items Aster wears no armour sacrificing defence for greater mobility in attack. For his weapon he carries a steel Falchion and a steel dagger he keeps in his boot. The nature of the Falchion and his fighting style allows him to maintain an edge on it that would be considered inappropriate one a dual bladed weapon. All he carries with him is a small pouch of Septims and two moderate healing potions.

Personality: Aster is confident in his abilities and this confidence is often interpreted as arrogance by those around him. Due to his past he considers himself to be above your average swordsman and will never reject a duel when offered. Before Aster will fight with any man he must trust this man to gain Asters trust is not easy but it is far easier to lose it. On his ship his word is law and his crew of thirty know this.

Background: Aster grew up in Sentinel under the rule of the Forebears. At the tender age of five he was tested for his ability to wield a sword. He was one of the best children who were from a non-noble background and so was taken from his family. He was taken to one of the military camps along the coast where he was trained in the techniques of swordsmanship. Aster spent thirteen years training leaning as much as he could from the masters in the camp, when the time came to be tested to enter military service he failed. His failure was not through his lack of ability he was still considered to be one of the best swordsmen they had trained however he had no grasp of future events, in battle he thought only of the moment and never of the subsequent movements. Disgusted by his failure he left Hammerfell and became a wandering Mercenary, working only when he had to.

Whilst he wasn’t working he spent his time training but he had learnt from his past mistakes and his training now included playing strategic board games with the old men in towns. Slowly he taught himself to examine others and use it to his advantage in battle by predicting their movements based on his knowledge of them.

Eventually he found his way to High Rock and ended up working aboard the ships there as a part of their navy. After a while he worked his way until he had command of his own ship, The Restless Serpent. The ship is one captured from some Yokudan raiders in the last year and as the member of the crew who secured the ship he was granted the right to become its captain.

The Restless Serpent
Type: Barque, emblazoned with a Serpent exactly like the one seen in the constellation.
Crew: 10 minimum, but fully staffed with apprentices, carpenters and a small amount of marines it can reach up to 40 men.
Masts: Four with the tallest at 60 meters above deck.

[Genocidal Cry]

Hey, Athell and Gorbad, I kinda called the role of Admiral of Northpoint's Navy. Couple pages back. Just in case that affects you guys.

[OTTO]

You could join the navy of Shornhelm or Evermore, hint hint hint...

[Spencey!]

But of course someone would come get the role when I actually spend some time creating the king. But oh well. i just ask that you let me create the Admiral of Northpoint's Navy.

So you did, admittedly I missed this but it doesn't affect me too much, but as Vincent has suggested above me we could just shift our ships alignment.

In fact that makes sense for me, which would you prefer to gain a ship Vincent, Shornhelm navy or Evermore Navy?

[Franko AlVarado]

So you did, admittedly I missed this but it doesn't affect me too much, but as Vincent has suggested above me we could just shift our ships alignment.

In fact that makes sense for me, which would you prefer to gain a ship Vincent, Shornhelm navy or Evermore Navy?

Shornhelm would still be within the northpoint allies. And it has the same king too, right?

[Ells]

Probably more a question for A_sapp but are we carrying gunpowder on these ships or not?

No. Only the ships of Sentinel have canons and gunpowder.

The main tactic used in naval warfare in this time is ramming or boarding.

The ship I used in KSS was a battle-class warship of Anticlerian make, with a large, sharped, curved steel plate on the bow that was used to ram into the sides of ships and sink them. Other than that it had gangplanks that could quickly be deployed from within the ship as well as multiple decks of ballistae and one huge rotating ballista on the front. The bolts fired by the main weapon were hooked at the end and attached to a long rope that could be wound by a crew of men under the deck. The bolt was shot into enemy ships and then retracted, either ripping off big chunks of the ships hull or pulling the ship into the steel plated bow.

Name: Barnan Diamond-Tooth
Title: Captain of the Fallen Demon
Age: 55
Race: Breton
Gender: Male

Appearance: As his name says, one of his teeth is pure diamond, just to make sure he has something with him in case of emergency. He is tall and strong, the years and years of being a captain makes him a very authoritarian. He has a rugged look, but his age cannot be seen in either the way he moves or looks. He wears not a pirate outfit like he used to, but bretonic fine clothing with deep blue shoulders, white torse with a black leather armor reinforcement that are completed by gold decorated, black leather pants and black boots. He has his long hair curled up on sides and wears it as a necklace, decorated by tiny rings of emerald green metal. The rest of his hair is shorter, loosly folded behind him. His hair is darker than night, but has a vein of bright green hair, sickly green, as if from a curse.

Skills: An able sea-man and beast in navigating deadly waters. He knows how to use his falchion and two boot-daggers. Not known to fight fair, fair combat won't keep you alive, he coats his blades in poison. A natural charmer of the ladies, at least back at his youth, and a silver-tongue when it comes to escaping bad situations.

Equipment (Weapons, armor, misc.): Leather armor (see appearence), a falchion coated in poison, two daggers coated in poison, his hair is a necklace with tiny green emeralds, enchanted with water-breathing.

Background: Pirate first, now in charge of Northpoints biggest battle-ship, The Fallen Demon. (I'll update on this as soon as possible)

Sorry for the double post but here's my Captain for your glorious navy Gorbad.

Spoiler

Name: Aster Faris

Age: 26

Race: Yokudan

Gender: Male

Title: Ex-Mercenary, now captain of The Restless Serpent

Appearance: Aster is quite stocky but not in such a way as to appear fat. He is around 5’9” so slightly shorter than most. His left cheek is covered entirely by a red tattoo of The Serpent which has its tail below his left ear and its mouth just next to his mouth. Other than that his face is rather ordinary, his brown hair is kept short and he has no facial hair.

Skills:Blade, Block (but not with a shield), Unarmoured

Equipment: Aster wears a red shirt with an attached hood and a pair of black trousers. Over these he has bit of armour strapped on, his right shoulder is covered by a teardrop shaped steel pauldron, he has a steel bracer on his left forearm which extends into something similar to a gauntlet covering the outside of his hand whilst leaving his palm clear, he uses this bracer instead of a shield and it has been thickened and tempered appropriately. Other than these items Aster wears no armour sacrificing defence for greater mobility in attack. For his weapon he carries a steel Falchion and a steel dagger he keeps in his boot. The nature of the Falchion and his fighting style allows him to maintain an edge on it that would be considered inappropriate one a dual bladed weapon. All he carries with him is a small pouch of Septims and two moderate healing potions.

Personality: Aster is confident in his abilities and this confidence is often interpreted as arrogance by those around him. Due to his past he considers himself to be above your average swordsman and will never reject a duel when offered. Before Aster will fight with any man he must trust this man to gain Asters trust is not easy but it is far easier to lose it. On his ship his word is law and his crew of thirty know this.

Background: Aster grew up in Sentinel under the rule of the Forebears. At the tender age of five he was tested for his ability to wield a sword. He was one of the best children who were from a non-noble background and so was taken from his family. He was taken to one of the military camps along the coast where he was trained in the techniques of swordsmanship. Aster spent thirteen years training leaning as much as he could from the masters in the camp, when the time came to be tested to enter military service he failed. His failure was not through his lack of ability he was still considered to be one of the best swordsmen they had trained however he had no grasp of future events, in battle he thought only of the moment and never of the subsequent movements. Disgusted by his failure he left Hammerfell and became a wandering Mercenary, working only when he had to.

Whilst he wasn’t working he spent his time training but he had learnt from his past mistakes and his training now included playing strategic board games with the old men in towns. Slowly he taught himself to examine others and use it to his advantage in battle by predicting their movements based on his knowledge of them.

Eventually he found his way to High Rock and ended up working aboard the ships there as a part of their navy. After a while he worked his way until he had command of his own ship, The Restless Serpent. The ship is one captured from some Yokudan raiders in the last year and as the member of the crew who secured the ship he was granted the right to become its captain.

The Restless Serpent
Type: Barque, emblazoned with a Serpent exactly like the one seen in the constellation.
Crew: 10 minimum, but fully staffed with apprentices, carpenters and a small amount of marines it can reach up to 40 men.
Masts: Four with the tallest at 60 meters above deck.

Looks good guys, I'll add them to the Characters section as soon as Gorbad is done with his sheet.

[Cash n Class]

Shornhelm was a seperate Kingdom, but recently has been conquered by Northpoint. So anyone in that navy has recently lost a war, or is joining a force licking its wounds.

Evermore is primarily a land-based power, but it does hold the Barony of Portdun, which has the port of...Portdun in it. On the mouth of the river Dun, I have just decided. A quieter navy than Northpoints, no doubt

ALTERNATIVELY, if you want to join Evermore, you could be a captain of a boat in the River Bjoulsae, who would have to deal with the local barbarous pirates and marauding Horsepeople, but would be patrolling one of the most vital trade-lines in all of western Tamriel.

[Kit Marsden]

Shornhelm would still be within the northpoint allies. And it has the same king too, right?

Yes, but it is a vassal of Northpoint. Therefore it has it's own forces. Each nation does not have an army like the US does today. It's almost like each state had it's own army, and then when the country went to war each state would send it's own army bearing it's own flag with the US flag hung above it.

Each county has it's own forces, and each county is a Bannerman to the King. So Shornhelm would have it's own Navy.

[Adam]

Yes, but it is a vassal of Northpoint. Therefore it has it's own forces. Each nation does not have an army like the US does today. It's almost like each state had it's own army, and then when the country went to war each state would send it's own army bearing it's own flag with the US flag hung above it.

Each county has it's own forces, and each county is a Bannerman to the King. So Shornhelm would have it's own Navy.

Ok, in that case: will the lack of a duke of Shornhelm matter?

[Haley Merkley]

Ok, in that case: will the lack of a duke of Shornhelm matter?

Shornhelm has a duke. Erasmos is RPing him. But you dont' want to join a defeated navy, oh no. You must rule the waves for the Glorious Kingdom of Evermore