Concepts in Brief
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:53 am
Snippets of characters floating in mind. Suggestions and critique welcome!
-Elderly Japanese craftsman, a master of enchantment and imbuing; such is his skill and the value of his very existence on morale that the government is willing to take steps to extend his life, no matter the expense. A freakish coincidence sees him praying beneath the Tree of Life in Hiroshima (equivalent to Sophia's tree) on the morning of August 6, 1945. His proximity to the great Tree, the power swirling around him and the massive energies of the atomic blast transform him into a lich almost by accident, and his soul is forced into a wakizashi shortsword of his own making. Would the nuclear blast have any affect on his being after the fact? How would this alone make him different from other liches, if at all? (Shijima Yamamoto)
-Belfast, Ireland. The powers-that-be have gravely offended the Fae court, yet they are obligated to plant a sapling of the World Tree within the city. Unable to back out and unwilling to see them get by without grief, the Fae see to it that one of the most notorious terrorists and mass murderers of the day be physically and psychologically tortured before his unnecessarily drawn-out and painful execution. His blood soaks the ground on which the Tree will be planted; his body is buried six feet under that ground; his soul and spirit are bound to the tree, certain to poison and warp the dryad spirit to come.
Hundreds of years later, the terrorist's soul has melded inextricably with the dryad's being, and plans to resume his criminal ways once he amasses power. No longer human and not quite a dryad, this hybrid Abomination has slept for many long decades and wants nothing more than total revenge upon the British he fought against, and the Fae who sentenced him to a horrid death just to spite his Irish kinsmen. (Luca Stephenson)
-In Hope, the latest and brightest of a long line of clanksmen, the heir to the dwindled and crumbling Masterson empire, has his sights set on reclaiming what his family once held. On the way he has to keep an ailing vintage clank market afloat and gamble what remains of the family fortune on the safest gamble of all; the stock market. Lucrative and morally questionable defense contracts are a possibility he is willing to explore, as well. What would these contracts entail, and what personal cost would the brilliant heir have to pay? What lengths would he be willing to go to recover his family's prestige? (Bryce Masterson)
-Elderly Japanese craftsman, a master of enchantment and imbuing; such is his skill and the value of his very existence on morale that the government is willing to take steps to extend his life, no matter the expense. A freakish coincidence sees him praying beneath the Tree of Life in Hiroshima (equivalent to Sophia's tree) on the morning of August 6, 1945. His proximity to the great Tree, the power swirling around him and the massive energies of the atomic blast transform him into a lich almost by accident, and his soul is forced into a wakizashi shortsword of his own making. Would the nuclear blast have any affect on his being after the fact? How would this alone make him different from other liches, if at all? (Shijima Yamamoto)
-Belfast, Ireland. The powers-that-be have gravely offended the Fae court, yet they are obligated to plant a sapling of the World Tree within the city. Unable to back out and unwilling to see them get by without grief, the Fae see to it that one of the most notorious terrorists and mass murderers of the day be physically and psychologically tortured before his unnecessarily drawn-out and painful execution. His blood soaks the ground on which the Tree will be planted; his body is buried six feet under that ground; his soul and spirit are bound to the tree, certain to poison and warp the dryad spirit to come.
Hundreds of years later, the terrorist's soul has melded inextricably with the dryad's being, and plans to resume his criminal ways once he amasses power. No longer human and not quite a dryad, this hybrid Abomination has slept for many long decades and wants nothing more than total revenge upon the British he fought against, and the Fae who sentenced him to a horrid death just to spite his Irish kinsmen. (Luca Stephenson)
-In Hope, the latest and brightest of a long line of clanksmen, the heir to the dwindled and crumbling Masterson empire, has his sights set on reclaiming what his family once held. On the way he has to keep an ailing vintage clank market afloat and gamble what remains of the family fortune on the safest gamble of all; the stock market. Lucrative and morally questionable defense contracts are a possibility he is willing to explore, as well. What would these contracts entail, and what personal cost would the brilliant heir have to pay? What lengths would he be willing to go to recover his family's prestige? (Bryce Masterson)