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The country where Dark Fates take place is known as Strias, covered in nature. Lakes and rivers dot the country so there isn't much concern for water. The capital of the country is where the king and his queen lives, the Saviore Castle. The basement of the Saviore Castle is the HQ of the Guild. In the freezing north lay the Frostpeaks, a range of icy mountains so high that Strias is completely cut off from neighboring countries. The technology of this country's weaponry is up to crossbows. There are only humans in this realm. Magic is rare in the human race, only a blessed few being born with the natural innate ability to use magic. However, while a person might not be able to use magic, they can still certainly use or create magical items, if the materials and knowledge are available to them.
You are one of the Hunters, a Guild of soldiers specialized in taking down the demonic threat against Strias.

First off and most important, I reserve the right to reject and accept anyone that I want to. Second, NO ONE-LINERS. This is self-explanatory, but if you're even in this, I doubt you'll be writing one-liners. Space in this RP will be limited due to time constraints that I have..to maybe about six people. I may allow more people in, but we'll see. Lastly, this is a RP created with Napsii's constant buggeration, so she may be co-GMing this. I dunno.

I will be introducing a new mechanic that is purely luck based. I will draw a single playing card to determine combat, defense and healing. Healing is basically combat backwards.

Demon's Deck.
The name of the mechanic I will be using, this involves me drawing a single random card from a deck of playing cards, Jokers included. The number that you draw will be multiplied by five to do the total amount of damage. The card rankings will be in this order. Joker,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, Jack11, Queen12, King13 and Ace. All cards besides numbers will have extra effects. The suit of the card you draw will also be affect depending on which suit you select.

Suits.
Spade: Known as the favored suit of the gambler, your damage will be tripled if you manage to draw above a 7.
Heart: A heart's compassion. Your healing spells' effects will be doubled.
Club: Overbearing as the clubs of olden times, you will completely smash through your opponent's defense and armor.
Diamond: The hardest material ever found, you will take after the namesake of the suit and totally nullify damage if you manage to draw it for your defense.

Card Effects.
Ace In The Hole: Double damage.
King's Wrath: Your attack cleaves through your enemies, hitting up to three targets.
Queen's Grace: Heals you or a person of your choosing for 50 Health
Jack's Luck: Enemies will not be able to attack you for that turn.
Joker's Trick: You will not be able to attack or defend during that turn.

You will take on corruption if you are defeated by demons. Reach 100% and you will be lost to the demons, to become one of them. Stryder will personally hunt you down. Corruption is your second chance of sorts in this RP. If you die as a demon, it will be by the hunters' hands and it will be permanent. Corruption will slowly fade with time, at 1% per turn.
5% of Corruption is gained depending on how many enemies you were damaged or raped by. An example, if three imps raped you, you gain 15% Corruption with every turn.
Bosses will inflict 15% Corruption if damaged by them.
Corruption is mainly carried out through spreading demonic taint, an energy that seeps in only either through bodily fluids or flesh wounds. Bruises or simple blunt force trauma will not inflict Corruption.
If you give yourself to the Corruption, you will be Corrupted instantly.

There are two varieties of Corrupted. Lesser and Greater. Lesser Corrupted are exactly what they sound like, the weaker variation of Corrupted. They do not retain their once-human intelligence from before and they take on the appearance of a usual demon, with red scaly skin and a pair of horns along with a tail.
The Greater Corrupted, however, maintain their human intelligence and sanity, gaining a massive boost of speed, strength and overall combat ability. They gain the ability to use magic, too. Greater Corrupted remain just as what they looked like as human, but their eyes will blaze a fiery red if any particular source of emotion affects them. Still, that dark aura that tends to hang around them usually marks them out from normal humans..

The world as you see it now, with Humans, Demons and the rarely-mentioned Divines wasn't always this way. The world originally was created by the two great Demon brothers, Aridan and Guileastes. The world never had Humans in the beginning. It all started with Demons. As the time passed on and Aridan grew discontent with ruling an unpopulated world, he created several Demons, the first other than Aridan and Guileastes. These demons populated the world and eked out their lives, content with whatever they had, unlike most of the current demons today. In a way, these first demons could be considered the most human-like. Both Aridan and Guileastes watched upon the demons with interest. Interest that Aridan once again did not hold. He loved strength, and so as the ruler of the realm, he decreed that the demons would all take a side each and slaughter each other. Guileastes objected violently with this reasoning and Aridan's challenge was that he choose a side and meet him in combat. Whoever was won would be right. Guileastes accepted and chose a side, renaming themselves the "Divines".
The two sides, Demons and Divines eventually met in combat. Guileastes promoted peace and mercy, his Divines doing the same, but the Demons had no such qualms. The Divines were mercilessly slaughtered. Only a handful of Divines managed to escape the bloodbath. Guileastes met in combat with Aridan, but he knew it was a fight that he would lose. Aridan was by far more bloodthirsty and merciless, and Guileastes had no such desire to murder his own brother.
Instead, he invoked magics so ancient that even Aridan himself had forgotten about them. The ritual was simply named "Banishment". It was with a silver sword that Guileastes drew his own blood, required to banish Aridan into the domain named "Underworld". The blood ritual had it's side effects as well, sealing Guileastes into a smaller, weakened form. The first true human and half-demon. Upon Aridan's banishment, the rest of the Demons went back to their usual lives. The Demons on Aridan's side were weakened greatly, some of them banished with their master and some of them just simply losing their powers. These demons would go on to become the first humans. The Divines were never seen again, but it was said that less than five of them had survived.

With Guileastes sealed in his human form, he decided upon a finality. The spell had banished Aridan from this world for now, but it was temporary. Aridan would eventually return, and he would not be delayed by petty tricks. The silver sword that had drew both his blood and banished Aridan signified something. Guileastes' own Dark Fate, the sacrificing of sealing himself in exchange for the world's safety. Guileastes made a decision then. He impaled Dark Fate into the ground just in front of him. The first human to draw the blade without waking him would have his assistance for saving humanity...
Stryder awoke years, decades, perhaps centuries later. A woman standing before him held Dark Fate in her hand..and thus, it was time. Time to train a generation of humans and demons that would ultimately kill him after he had finally ended Aridan with his own hands.

Amberlyn Seora, her history rather well-documented by Strian scribes, is the only child of Queen Calena and King Leondi, hence being the sole heir to Strias' throne. She was born on a particularly majestic winter's night, named for one of her great ancestors, Amberlyn I, famed long ago for her charm, battle prowess and most importantly of all, her resurrection of Strias' broken morale after a great disaster. It quickly became a fitting name for her descendant as she grew up, as she had no problems charming the noble court with her cheekiness and wit even from a young age. In recent years, she's been in the public eye more than most of the royal family, often making tours about her country to lift the peoples' spirits. Hence her image is well known from the lowliest of peasants to the wealthiest of nobles. That being said, her alone time is spent far more "productively" than any lazy noble.

Amberlyn is known for her prowess in swordswomanship and magic, courtesy of her blazing royal blood and honed since she was almost a toddler. That being said, her more uncanny and esoteric techniques, some long forgotten by contemporary magicians, can be attributed to her shadowy apprenticeship to the Demon Hunter Stryder, who she has known since her early teens. The time spent with him since then has been nonstop since learning of the demon threat in the land... which as convenience would have it, her parents happened to be "in" on and thus were permissive of her following him around, hammering down research and training to combat le demons. For reasons of safety and caution, however Amberlyn has taken to disguising her identity when outside the seclusion of Savior Castle's grounds. While not nearly close to being an invincible fighter, her impressive magic talents and deep seating in Strias' royalty makes her a force to be reckoned with...

When she's not breaking for tea, of course.

Does anyone know how to make the pictures smaller?

It is unknown where Marco was born, but when the monastery found his baby self in the oh-so-cliche basket, there was a circular nametag hung around his neck, with most of the words illegible, save for his name, and the supposed birthplace: "Hammerfall." Where this Hammerfall is also remains unknown, but apparently, it had some powerful enemies. This is inferred by how the monastery was attacked by soldiers of unknown nationality, when Marco was roughly age 14. The marauders set fire to the building, and killed all whom they found within. Marco happened to awake shortly before the door to his sleeping quarters was kicked down, and the battle-cleric - who had been beating back the men until now - was flung in with it, dead as a dodo. And then...something awoke within Marco...

A warrior's mind.

With unprecedented swiftness and accuracy, he leapt from his bed, took hold of the battle-cleric's short-sword (which was about a bastard sword's size for him then), and cut down the men storming into the room in a flash. He proceeded to kill all other soldiers whom he had encountered on his way out to escape, but he did not leave without a painful reminder of the ordeal. Specifically, a burning piece of wood cut him across his forehead, and the heat quickly cauterized the opened flesh. This is why he hides his face, as a way to help hide himself from any other men that would seek to finish what those raiders started.

When he joined up with the carriage, Marco was seeking a form of cover for his travels, though such peril was withheld from the caravan crew. The demons that swarmed upon them, however, were unexpected; he thought the worst they'd encounter would be bandits, and considering the other armed folk around, that didn't seem worth much concern. However, Stryder's intel reveals that the enemies they face are indeed very dangerous...perhaps helping him out will prove safer in the long run, considering how those demons will hunt him either way?