Post by Lucas on May 10, 2008 22:21:48 GMT
Merciless Blades is an adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world roughly 1000 years into the future. Most of the landscapes are barren and none of the world's inhabitants have any memory of their troubled past or how the end of the last order of human civilization came to be. Guns and bombs no longer exist, nor do trains or most other forms of modern technology.
People travel mainly by airships. Airships are large, wooden ships with balloons filled with hot, light gas often with propellers. Some still travel by sea, but the seas are treacherous due to the existence of dangerous and large mutated creatures such as 70 foot long squid and other fearsome beasts. These monsters leave sea faring ships at risk of attack.
Due to some kind of mystical residue from the great world-ending war, some children are born with a strange mutation, allowing them to manipulate energies. These energies can be used to control almost any aspect of the natural world or otherwise. This power can allow the creation of fire or the ability to create or bend light or almost anything imaginable.
Some people (only those 'Users' old, wise and powerful enough) were able to set up 'Vocational Schools' which teach new Users their particular area of control. It often takes years before a User can be found by one of these masters to be schooled in their vocation. A select few of the most talented students move on and find their own area of manipulation and become masters themselves, or even move on to more powerful or chaotic paths.
The planet is now made up of five, small continents due to the rapid rise of sea levels years ago. Each continent is ruled by a judge. These judges all answer to a power simply known as "The Priest". They are each extremely powerful and unique Users and are selected from only the most powerful of the 'Order of Twelve' (a sinister organization of exceptional Users who are chosen by The Priest and only seek power themselves, each of them striving to become a judge by defeating a previous judge in battle. There is one major city on each continent where each judge resides and these cities are usually the only locations on the planet where any level of civilization or technology can be found.
This is the world in which you must now enter. As a User, you must gain in strength and choose your path. Good luck.
People travel mainly by airships. Airships are large, wooden ships with balloons filled with hot, light gas often with propellers. Some still travel by sea, but the seas are treacherous due to the existence of dangerous and large mutated creatures such as 70 foot long squid and other fearsome beasts. These monsters leave sea faring ships at risk of attack.
Due to some kind of mystical residue from the great world-ending war, some children are born with a strange mutation, allowing them to manipulate energies. These energies can be used to control almost any aspect of the natural world or otherwise. This power can allow the creation of fire or the ability to create or bend light or almost anything imaginable.
Some people (only those 'Users' old, wise and powerful enough) were able to set up 'Vocational Schools' which teach new Users their particular area of control. It often takes years before a User can be found by one of these masters to be schooled in their vocation. A select few of the most talented students move on and find their own area of manipulation and become masters themselves, or even move on to more powerful or chaotic paths.
The planet is now made up of five, small continents due to the rapid rise of sea levels years ago. Each continent is ruled by a judge. These judges all answer to a power simply known as "The Priest". They are each extremely powerful and unique Users and are selected from only the most powerful of the 'Order of Twelve' (a sinister organization of exceptional Users who are chosen by The Priest and only seek power themselves, each of them striving to become a judge by defeating a previous judge in battle. There is one major city on each continent where each judge resides and these cities are usually the only locations on the planet where any level of civilization or technology can be found.
This is the world in which you must now enter. As a User, you must gain in strength and choose your path. Good luck.