• Information • Antagonists (Rharne Edition)

[Pig Boy]

Every story needs a villain, right?

If you have claimed a Calendar Event, Bounty, Odd Job, etc - if you have a story you're telling in Rharne - then you're going to need an antagonist! This is where you can quick-dev one for your RP pleasure.

Use this thread to create NPC antagonists. They might be one-off story pieces, or they might be someone you think of and just submit here. This will allow consistency between players and will mean that you can have more skilled NPCs than the usual "faceless" ones being played consistently without needing to go through the full approval process.

As long as the NPC meets the requirements / restrictions below, you may play them immediately and don't need to wait for approval. They should be submitted before the thread starts, however, you just don't need to wait for approval. Also - please still be aware that Rharne is a place with a military and laws etc. Please play within the context of Rharne, and don't go overboard. Maybe your new arch-nemesis is below!

The Antagonists are sorted by Role - as in the Role they will play in the movie of your PCs life.

Not In The Credits

If this was Star Trek, this guy would be seen once. If it was Game of Thrones, he'd be the head on the spike next to Sansa's nurse...
They may have up to 6 non-magic skills, 1 expert, 2 competent, 3 novice

Bad Guy in Scene 3

Not enough to actually have a character name in the movie of your PCs life. But, you know,
They may have up to 6 non-magic skills, 2 expert, 3 competent, 1 novice

Named in the Credits

Recurring characters - this is the Draco Malfoy of the Harry Potter world
They may have up to 8 non-magic skills, 3 expert, 4 competent, 1 novice

Starring

Gul Dukat, Inspector Javert, Iago, Joffrey, Your Arch Nemesis
They may have up to 8 non-magic skills, 1 master, 4 expert, 3 competent.

The Fashionable Socialite

Name: Lady Vanessa MacBride
Race/ Age / Gender: Human/28/Female
Location Rharne (Glass Quarter)
Submitted by Tristan Venora
Role: Starring
Skills: Master Cosmetology, Expert Socialization, Expert Seduction, Expert Intelligence, Competent Detection, Competent Discipline, Competent Etiquette
Personality / Quirks Since taking up residence in the Glass Quarter in Ymiden 721, Lady MacBride has quickly become the most popular, most fashionable and most sought after socialite in Rharne.

She is aware of the newest fashion trends - sometimes, she does in fact know that something will become a trend before anybody else. She is a seductress and seeks the company of men, famous men to be exact. She can be quite direct, outrageous even, but she is never slutty, and she is definitely not one of those vapid pretty women that are common in certain circles. On the contrary, she has a keen mind, and a knack for finding things out.

Lady MacBride likes literature and music - she is well-educated - but there are two things that she intensely dislikes: children and pets. Children are loud and annoying and uncontrollable and just get in the way, and cats and dogs leave their hair everywhere so that they can get on your clothes. That is, as far as Lady MacBride is concerned, absolutely unacceptable!
Dates & Links Bride and Vanity: Lady MacBride visits Tristan in order to welcome him to the neighbourhood. (Vhalar 12, Arc 721)

The Director's Cut

Mod Submitted / With Mod Oversight only.

Cutting Room Floor

For our dead who won't live to see the sequel...

Rookie Crusher

Name: Avi
Race/ Age / Gender: Yuldih/32/Female
Location: Dust and earth quarter mostly, but she deals everywhere she can.
Submitted by: Rozkia
Role: Starring - Scouter/Rookie Crusher
Skills:
-Master: Investigation
-Expert: Deception, Stealth, Detection
-Competent: Psychology, Discipline, Unarmed Combat, Tactics
-Novice: Athletics, Disguise
Personality / Quirks:
A smooth talker who relishes in taunting her opponents till the blind themselves with rage. She's somewhat of a know it all- extensively going through anyone who has information on the rookie she has her eyes on. She can easily sneak around, taunt and jeer, and then enjoy the explosion that comes afterwards. Quite a character, and a very annoying one though her skill is recognized. Avi has many appearances, and no shortage of personas to get the result she's looking for. That said, she typically appears a middle aged redhead with umber skin and green eyes. Morally grey
Dates & Links: 15th Ymiden - Shadowed - Locked her sights on Rozkia
Death: Was eliminated by her own kind for sharing her nature as an Yludih with an outsider.

Rules for this

• In your review request - you must link to this thread - showing your submission of the NPC here. These NPCs do not follow the usual rules and our Peer Reviewers need to know that you are playing to your skills.
• Consider these "flavour" NPCs. They follow the same rules as flavour NPCs , but with more skills than usual flavour NPCs.
• The same rules for story as Flavour NPCs apply. You can meet them, see them in passing, notice them in a bar, etc. If, however, an NPC becomes a significant part of your story, then they should be submitted as a city NPC.
• Please use them in a way which makes story sense for their level of experience.
• Remember that not all antagonists are villains.
• Remember that not all antagonists are warriors.
• In the course of your adventures, should you vanquish one of these foes, please resubmit them with the updated information and a link to where you killed them, and they will be immortalized in the Cutting Room Floor.
• Villains / antagonists can grow with your pc. If you wish to move them UP a Role - then please post using the code below and giving a good reason why.
• No marks, no magics etc.
• You must post here and update every time the NPC is used.
• More than one player may use any NPC here.

For submitting a new Antagonist

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For upgrading an existing Antagonist

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Massive thanks to Pegasus, whose idea this is - both for having the idea, and for letting me steal it so shamelessly.
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[Rakvald]

Name: James Witbane
Race/ Age / Gender: Human/40's/Male
Location Surrounding area of Rharne, the wilderness, sometimes inside Rharne itself.
Submitted by Rakvald
Role: Starring - a Mage Hunter
Skills:

Master: Discipline
Expert: Hunting, Investigation, Whips (Bolas and Chains), Stealth.
Competent: Detection, Endurance, Mount (Ground)


Personality / Quirks James is a tall man, with brown hair, brown eyes, and dark complexion. He uses a bola as well as a chain, usually from horseback, in order to chase down his quarry, which most often include mages although he takes on other forms of bounty-hunting in order to support his personal mission of seeking and destroying magic users wherever they dwell. Usually he'll target mages that are an obvious threat to society, but in lieu of any evil mages, he will hunt down ones that seem innocuous. His mount is a simple but fast horse.

Most of the times, he'll operate within the law, and wait for mages to commit some crime or another in order to pursue them with the fulll backing of society. However, where the mages commit their acts in secret he will not hesitate to take them out quietly, and out of the way.

Dates & Links Magic Interrupted - He's going to hunt down Rakvald in this thread, while he's vulnerable.

[Diana]

Name: Mercy Cropkill
Race/ Age / Gender: Mixed Race: Human-Qi'Ora/ 124 / Male
Location Earth Market
Submitted by Diana
Role: Starring - Unscrupulous Quacksalver (Potion seller).
Skills: Socialization: Master, Cosmetology: Expert, Deception: Expert, Business Management: Expert, Linguistics: Competent, Logistics: Competent, Leadership: Competent, Chemistry: Novice.
Personality / Quirks An unscrupulous fake potion and salve seller. He's nonetheless been able to talk his way out of prosecution by foisting the blame on his brokers and sellers. He has few friends among the Merchant's Guild, but his status as an Iron Merchant has thus far afforded him legal counsel on the Guild's nel. It's rumored that he has a deal with the owner of the Rharne Prison in the Stormwastes, to bring in new blood by getting people sent into jail, which affords him some extra legal protection, however nobody has been able to confirm this.

Biometrics and Style: He's a very colorful Qi'Ora, possessing many veins of various colors, with an undertone of ebony skin. It's unknown whether these extra colors are a result of his cosmetology practice, but his skin is really flawless. His style is that of Nashaki, selling himself as an exotic merchant, which often helps to sustain his more outrageous claims of his produce.
Dates & Links ETA: Soon

[Kalortah]

Name: Gele Nervaro
Race/ Age / Gender: Biqaj/ 23rd as of 21st of Ashan 721/ Male
Location Sails between Zynyx Market and Rharne.
Submitted by Kalortah
Role: Named in the Credits - Beast Captor, Captain of the Bloody Rooster.
Skills: Expert Seafaring, Expert Discipline, Expert Leadership, Competent Blades, Competent Unarmed, Competent Business Management, Competent Hunting, Novice Athletics.
Personality / Quirks He likes to invest in bum and animal fights in the Pit in Rharne. He runs a steady business capturing animals from the wilderness for use in semi-illegal fights in the Pit in the Dust Quarter. He has a slight limp, but it doesn't affect his fighting style nor his livelihood. He runs a crew of about five or more other sailors, who help him run his Schooner, the Bloody Rooster.
Dates & Links Plight of the Flightless Gele is there for one of his cock fights, where Kalortah finds him and decides he's going to rob/kill the man before the tentrial is through for abusing birds.

[Kalortah]

1st of Saun: The Undefeated
A Knight appears as dry lightning flashes strike across the sky. He claims to be the duelist that nobody was able to defeat the prior season at the end of Cylus. He takes to challenging anyone bearing a blade to duels in the middle of the Stormlands. None have been able to defeat him, and he declares himself a Knight of the First Light, and that he is from the land of the Eternal Suns. Some presume he is a madman, others speculate that he may be a follower of Faldrun, as per his mention of the Suns.

Name: Knight of the First Light
Race/ Age / Gender: Unknown/ Unknown/ Unknown
Location The Stormlands, challenging people at the gates of Rharne.
Submitted by Kalortah
Role: Starring - The Master Duelist.
Skills: Master - Blades, Expert - Shield, Expert - Meditation, Expert - Tactics, Expert - Discipline, Competent - Strength, Competent - Expert, Competent - Athletics.
Personality / Quirks The knight wears a cuirass and a full set of plate armor, with a full metal shield and an arming sword in his swordhand. They wear a full face veil, that covers the face beneath their helmet. They speak in nothing but riddles and challenges to duel, and insults if one refuses.
Dates & Links N/A

[Pig Boy]

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[Woe]

Name: Miranda Duskblade
Race/ Age / Gender: Human/ 35 as of 722/ Female
Location Stormwastes
Submitted by Woe
Role: Starring - Bandit Queen
Skills:
Combat: Blades: Master
Leadership: Expert
Tactics: Expert
Stealth: Expert
Athletics: Expert
Fieldcraft: Competent
Strength: Competent
Endurance: Competent

Personality / Quirks This harpy of a woman is the leader of a clan of bandits that roam the Stormwastes. She is a deadly scimitar wielding bandit who is surrounded by a dozen loyal followers. Miranda is a young woman with silvery braided hair and bright azure eyes. Stories of her are pervasive, suggesting her to be a clever tactician that has routed and killed full patrols of Lightning Knights on more than one occasion. The Knights are afraid to throw more of their soldiers at her and she has been elusive so far when they have attempted to hunt her down. Rumors suggest that she has a camp hidden somewhere in the southern Stormwastes near a particularly large swamp.
Dates & Links none

[Orik Qe'Ryn]

Name: "The man with the Scar"
Race/ Age / Gender: Human, 26, Male
Location Dust Quarter
Submitted by Orik Qe'Ryn
Role: Bad Guy in Scene 3
Skills: Intimidation: Expert, Leadership: Expert, Tactics: Competent, Combat Dagger: Competent, Deception: Competent, Unarmed Combat: Novice
Personality / Quirks: The man with the scar on his face seems to have a vendetta against the brawlers in Rharne. He vaguely talks about "having fun" in reference to targetting brawlers. It seems likely that the story
of the scar on his face is apart of a larger tale and his desire to attack brawlers, but he refuses to talk about it in depth.
Dates & Links none

[Elowen]

Name: Teghen Londo
Race/ Age / Gender: Eidisi / 43 / Male
Location Rharne city, Ywyngyll, Mistral Woods
Submitted by Elowen
Role: Named in Credits
Skills: Investigation - Competent, Research - Expert, Intelligence - Competent, Deception - Competent, Field Craft - Competent
Personality / Quirks Arrogant but tries to hide it behind charisma. Suffers delusions of grandeur but tries to mask it with 'research that matters'. He will walk over your dead body to achieve what he wants but someone else is doing the killing.
Dates & Links

• Around the end of Saun, 724 - Rumoured to have taken paid for a room in the Oak Tree Inn of Mistral Village
• Beginning of Vhalar, 724 - Seen around Mistral Village and Mistral Woods with two swords for hire