This guide covers the basics applicable to all paths and characters. For specific paths, character specifics guides are below.
The Character
First stop is to create your character in the registration thread. You can open the thread with your character’s name. Also, please edit the thread’s name to the name of the heir when your original character dies. In the case of clergy, the protégée occupies the place instead of heirs (clergy’s cannot marry). Below is the basic’s the thread should cover.
Name: The name of the character.
Age: Self-explanatory. Also, make sure you update your character’s age every week. This way, you save them a load of work.
Appearance: How does your character look like? What is the physique? I do not need to explain much here. Be creative in this regard.
Origin: Essentially means from where your character hails from. Does not need long essays, a single sentence would do. This is especially important as your origin would influence your relations with that place. My advice would be to confine this area within Europe as it was extremely unlikely that your character could be from elsewhere, say Japan.
Examples of origin could be -> English, French, Spanish, Polish etc…
Family/House: A description about your character’s roots. Every character in the game is allowed a shield to highlight his house/family. This section should contain details about the character’s house or roots. You need not be historic with this, be creative to make your character interesting.
For example, the house of Brent claims descent from the old Frankish lords of Charlemagne.
The one line was just an example; the creativity is up to you. A colorful paragraph about the house would make a splendid read.
Background Story: This should sum up a brief, yet rich history of your character. What your character did before and where he/she came from. Make a nice narrative, and let your creativity flow naturally.
Personal Effects: In the very first of a kind, this game allows new players to possess 5 items as their personal effects. You can choose from a list of items which will be given in the Registration forum. My advice would be to choose such items which would not only be useful for your character, but suit them a bit as well. The items available are given in the list below.
- Chainmail Armor,
- Crossbow,
- Dagger,
- Dagger with Carved Cross and Sheath,
- Journal Book,
- Leather Gauntlets,
- Lockbox,
- Quill,
- Shield,
- Shield Rounded,
- Sieben Flanged Mace,
- Signet Ring,
- Silver Crucifix Chain,
- Silver Crucifix Ring,
- Sword – Crusader,
- Sword – Short and Leather Scabbard,
- Sword – Zweihänder,
- The Holy Bible,
- Wooden Crosier Staff.
You can replace those items by purchasing new ones from player-merchants or from NPC sellers controlled by moderators.
Another important function of this feature is that it tells moderators what your character is having on them at any given point of time. This saves you the trouble of mentioning the items in each and every place you role-play. It is equally important that you keep this list updated. Each Male Character can carry 6 items, and Female can carry 5 items.
The Residence
Well, now that your character’s ready, he/she needs a place. So, the next stop is The Residences forum. Here you have to create a thread for your character’s home. It’s very simple, name the thread as what you would like to call your abode. For example,
The Black Manor, Regensburg.
You can situate the residence anywhere within the realm. It is possible to own many personal estates and manors, but you have to confine those in the main residence thread itself. My suggestion, use a list. The main residence could have a brief description to bring a feel about the residence. A picture would only make a nice addition. In this regards, any picture would do, I would go far to say that a picture of even Hogwarts castle would look nice.
As the name suggests, the residence is an excellent place for maintaining records which you could not elsewhere. You can store the list of all your character’s possessions in this thread. This place is also ideal for you to post the details of the character’s family, and family trees if you like to do things rather in depth.
Lastly, the residence is the place where people would come and role-play with you too. For instance, they might come with just the usual banters or maybe sometimes with sinister plans of conspiracy.
Coat of Arms
Every player is allowed a basic shield. But it does not end there. As your character goes up in ranks and standings, you can ask additions from Major Darling. The additions would be like supporters, crowns etc. which would better highlight your character’s position. For example, lion supporters are a mark of kingship. When you character is awarded kingship, you can ask MD to add lion supporters to your shield, thus making it into a Coat of Arms. Also note that you can start off from the first step only, which is from the basic/starting positions. There is no jumping the steps here.
Incomes
By now, you would know about registration and residences. After that the next stop is the incomes thread. It will be a stickied thread, so no problems in finding it. However, here is the link to that thread.
There, make a post with the name of the character family. Keep the post updated weekly (yearly in-game) with the incomes, deductions, and balances.
Now we reach the end of this basic player guide. Give a look into the Path specific guides for more details about each path and distinctions between the paths. |
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