Hi everyone! Originally this was going to be an adaptation of my old Splice rp concept, but, well I got a bit sidetracked in the brainstorming process and I think it's overall a lot better. The world is still in development, though I've laid the groundwork, and my hope is that everyone can contribute and we can turn this into a fun kingdom vs kingdom type rp. Anyway, enough rambling from me, here's the important stuff. Let me know if there are any questions!
The year is 3107. 300 years ago society was a utopia, or at least it seemed like one. Thanks to improvements with AI and space travel, mankind was mining the universe from the comfort of their own homes. Global warming was solved, healthcare was not a concern, and thanks to the new ability to alter nutritional qualities of food, the increasing population was easily supported by a moss like substance that could be rapidly grown and taste like whatever you desired while still providing the utmost in health. On the surface everything was perfect, but this image of a utopia was only preserved by the government banishing “ undesirables” to the world beneath the surface.
At the age of 15 all members of society were forced to take an aptitude test that was said to measure their ability to contribute to society; however, in reality it measured their willingness to conform. People of high intelligence or strong individual beliefs were seen as threats to the fragile utopia were sent to live in underground bunker cities where their individuality was never a threat. Unfortunately for the social elite, they were unknowingly ensuring that these rebels were the only ones with a future.
If you have the ability to mess with the universe, it is only logical that the universe will get you back. And in 2817 a shard of the moon, which turned out to have contained abundant amounts of an element known as tontrium struck the earth, destroying about half the planet in a giant crater and pushing all remaining continents together on the other side to create a new Pangea. The only people who survived were those in the underground bunkers.
Quickly, a new bid for power began amongst all the individualists and the wild life that was mutated and empowered in the radiation after impact. It was only thanks to the power that even trace amounts of tontrium provided in ores, the people were able to survive in the post apocalyptic hell scape.
It provided a near limitless energy source, becoming essential to power all new technology and even provided weapons. Soon enough the strength or your group was determined by how much tontrium you had, and strength was the only currency that mattered.
An unknown power drew certain people to pure masses of tontrium called Brontea, and upon coming in contact with them the brontea was absorbed into their bodies, granting them great powers. With the newfound strength to match their ambition, a few of these people went on to found their own factions, gaining more power for themselves as they amassed more tontrium ores and brontea. Now, the world enters a phase of superpowered warfare in an attempt for domination. Which faction will you align behind and is your conviction strong enough to survive?
Important post with more details
At the age of 15 all members of society were forced to take an aptitude test that was said to measure their ability to contribute to society; however, in reality it measured their willingness to conform. People of high intelligence or strong individual beliefs were seen as threats to the fragile utopia were sent to live in underground bunker cities where their individuality was never a threat. Unfortunately for the social elite, they were unknowingly ensuring that these rebels were the only ones with a future.
If you have the ability to mess with the universe, it is only logical that the universe will get you back. And in 2817 a shard of the moon, which turned out to have contained abundant amounts of an element known as tontrium struck the earth, destroying about half the planet in a giant crater and pushing all remaining continents together on the other side to create a new Pangea. The only people who survived were those in the underground bunkers.
Quickly, a new bid for power began amongst all the individualists and the wild life that was mutated and empowered in the radiation after impact. It was only thanks to the power that even trace amounts of tontrium provided in ores, the people were able to survive in the post apocalyptic hell scape.
It provided a near limitless energy source, becoming essential to power all new technology and even provided weapons. Soon enough the strength or your group was determined by how much tontrium you had, and strength was the only currency that mattered.
An unknown power drew certain people to pure masses of tontrium called Brontea, and upon coming in contact with them the brontea was absorbed into their bodies, granting them great powers. With the newfound strength to match their ambition, a few of these people went on to found their own factions, gaining more power for themselves as they amassed more tontrium ores and brontea. Now, the world enters a phase of superpowered warfare in an attempt for domination. Which faction will you align behind and is your conviction strong enough to survive?
Important post with more details
After gaining a brontea core your power can activate as 1 of 3 categories depending on the nature of your innermost desire.
Evolution
Your powers can only ever remain within your initial category; however, there are also 3 ways in which your powers can grow and evolve.
the goal with this power system is to be simple enough for anyone to grasp, yet for those who desire more complexity it can be achieved by messing with the orders of evolutionary stages. For example, you could first corrupt a power and then affirm it to buff the corrupted state, or you could buff the base state with affirmation first and then corrupt it to yield a different result as an opposite to the affirmed desire. There are a lot of ways to play around with it that I will demonstrate through characters I plan to introduce later.
- Manifestation: if your desire is to gain something, your power will revolve around the creation of something
- Extension: if your desire is to change something your power will revolve around affecting/altering your environment. This also includes most elemental powers like producing fire and lightning
Evolution
Your powers can only ever remain within your initial category; however, there are also 3 ways in which your powers can grow and evolve.
- affirmation: going all in on your current desire, may require a sacrifice or a great display of conviction. Essentially buffs your current power to the next level (ex: going from
- adaptation: changing your desire or gaining parallel desires, allows for the development of secondary abilities that may be different from the ones granted by your original desire
- corruption: shattering your conviction and corrupting it. This is the hardest to achieve (think of it like changing to the dark side) Occurs by doing something inherently against your initial desire (if your desire was to protect your family you’d have to kill one of them). Your power would be corrupted and take on qualities of an opposite power, essentially leading to an unrestrained form that is harder to control
the goal with this power system is to be simple enough for anyone to grasp, yet for those who desire more complexity it can be achieved by messing with the orders of evolutionary stages. For example, you could first corrupt a power and then affirm it to buff the corrupted state, or you could buff the base state with affirmation first and then corrupt it to yield a different result as an opposite to the affirmed desire. There are a lot of ways to play around with it that I will demonstrate through characters I plan to introduce later.
These are the different factions you can choose to begin in. I left their bios a bit vague in order to allow for some creative development by the people who join them and definitely not at all because it would've taken too long to write super descriptive details for all of them by myself. The door is open for people to fill in bios for the significant figures I list for each faction, but I am also prepared to do them on my own. You can change allegiances down the road so don't stress too much about picking a faction, but please note it will have an influence on your story, so it is worth looking at all of them.
Sorry for the sloppiness, but I'm hardly a writer and much less an artist.
Red- Exignis Empire
Blue- Binazuma
Yellow- Ramilahr
Pink- Forentvilles
Orange- Selva
Green- Monte
Purple- Lunaria
Light Blue- Tusaro
White- Makuini
Red- Exignis Empire
Blue- Binazuma
Yellow- Ramilahr
Pink- Forentvilles
Orange- Selva
Green- Monte
Purple- Lunaria
Light Blue- Tusaro
White- Makuini
Color on map: purple
Form of government: Triumvirate (3 rulers)
Significant Figures:
Form of government: Triumvirate (3 rulers)
Significant Figures:
- Tem: ruler of the sea
- Sekwi: ruler of the skies
- Bebe: ruler of the earth
- Has the largest unit of armed forces
- Richest Faction
- Large Territory
- Knows a bit about the origin of Brontea
- Surrounded by enemies on all sides
- if any one of their 3 leaders falls they are extremely vulnerable
- lack allies
Color on map: yellow
Form of government: Pharaoh, followed by advisors and then high priests who watch over some of their more populated cities
Significant Figures:
- the most populated city, built upon the roots of the original Cairo. The pharaoh lives in an obsidian pyramid even larger than the great pyramid that he constructed with his army of the dead
Strengths:
-the high ranking government officials are extremely powerful
-harsh environment lowers risk of attack from mutated beasts and makes it harder to invade with enemy forces
Weaknesses:
Form of government: Pharaoh, followed by advisors and then high priests who watch over some of their more populated cities
Significant Figures:
- Pharaoh
- 3 advisors
- 7 high priests
- the most populated city, built upon the roots of the original Cairo. The pharaoh lives in an obsidian pyramid even larger than the great pyramid that he constructed with his army of the dead
Strengths:
-the high ranking government officials are extremely powerful
-harsh environment lowers risk of attack from mutated beasts and makes it harder to invade with enemy forces
Weaknesses:
- weak central army
- lack of food resources leads to famished and impoverished people
- government presence is low outside of a few main cities so there are crime rings. (Especially famous for their brothels) this also makes city to city travel dangerous
Color on map: White
Form of government: Democracy
Significant Figures:
Ever since Zero joined, the faction has taken more of an interest in expanding, and the efforts are currently focused on Zero scouting out and recruiting young Brontea core individuals to join their forces.
Form of government: Democracy
Significant Figures:
- The White Queen
- Zero (head of the Vanguard forces)
- Secret Location
- They have Zero
- Virtually no military force
- The Queen herself is quite weak compared to other nations’ leaders
- lacking natural resources
- lacking technology
- small territory
- surrounded by Lunaria
Ever since Zero joined, the faction has taken more of an interest in expanding, and the efforts are currently focused on Zero scouting out and recruiting young Brontea core individuals to join their forces.
Color on map: Pink
Form of government: Democracy turned into Monarchy
Significant Figures: the king
Strengths:
Under the new kings rule he led an oppressive regime, caring not for the people if it meant more wealth for himself, and burning down entire cities that did not comply. Ultimately this led to a revolution by the Exignis Empire, resulting in a loss of a lot of their territory.
Form of government: Democracy turned into Monarchy
Significant Figures: the king
Strengths:
- has the most tontrium weapons
- best air force
- has tontrium tanks
- terrible leadership
- prevalent mafia
Under the new kings rule he led an oppressive regime, caring not for the people if it meant more wealth for himself, and burning down entire cities that did not comply. Ultimately this led to a revolution by the Exignis Empire, resulting in a loss of a lot of their territory.
Color on map: Red
Form of government: Emperor
Significant Figures:
- nation is the newest and as such still in the developing phase
Bio: If you want to join a powerhouse look no further. The Exignis empire arose from the ashes as a child known as Titus watched the mad king of Forentvilles burn his hometown to the ground, forming an unbreakable resolve with his brontea core with a desire to conquer all. Since then Titus has sparked a revolution, recruiting other powerful individuals and conquering over half of Forentville’s former territory as well as three other factions (including an island faction that he quite literally sunk). Despite lower initial military strength, Titus’s tactical genius, incredible individual strength, and pure brutality have led this nation’s ascension to conquer all in his path.
Form of government: Emperor
Significant Figures:
- Titus
- The
1312 Knights
- has the most brontea core users of any nation
- has a large and well equipped military
- low crime rates
- good natural resources
- nation is the newest and as such still in the developing phase
Bio: If you want to join a powerhouse look no further. The Exignis empire arose from the ashes as a child known as Titus watched the mad king of Forentvilles burn his hometown to the ground, forming an unbreakable resolve with his brontea core with a desire to conquer all. Since then Titus has sparked a revolution, recruiting other powerful individuals and conquering over half of Forentville’s former territory as well as three other factions (including an island faction that he quite literally sunk). Despite lower initial military strength, Titus’s tactical genius, incredible individual strength, and pure brutality have led this nation’s ascension to conquer all in his path.
Color on map: blue
Form of government: Oligarchy. The only nation without a leader bearing a Brontea core. The leaders of the country are the five inventors who created amazing applications for tontrium
Significant Figures:
Form of government: Oligarchy. The only nation without a leader bearing a Brontea core. The leaders of the country are the five inventors who created amazing applications for tontrium
Significant Figures:
- head of weapons development
- head of weather development
- head of computer development
- head of transportation development
- head of medical development
- army general (strategizes robotic weapon deployment)
- the lightning lieutenant "Zeus" (one of the only people in the country with a Brontea core, leads an elite tech enhanced group of soldiers)
- most technologically advanced nation
- incredible defense system
- army of robots and technology aided humans (ROBOT SAMURAI AND TECH NINJAS!!!)
- only nation still capable of mining in outer space, thus has the most inorganic resources
- they are lacking in organic resources
- don’t have as many power house characters as other countries (less top heavy)
- low human population
Color on map: Orange
Form of government: An empress is chosen in a series of coliseum fights
Significant Figures:
- the empress
Strengths:
Mutated by the energy released from Tontrium, both the plants and animals have evolved to become more fit for survival. Travel down below the capital city’s dwelling at the tree tops without a Selvian guide and the chance of returning alive is close to none. It is for this reason that foreign nations rarely dare to attack, they second they march into Selvian territory they are gobbled up by the living nature. The Selvians are the only ones who have conquered this land and they are happy to keep it that way
Form of government: An empress is chosen in a series of coliseum fights
Significant Figures:
- the empress
Strengths:
- Physically the most gifted fighters
- dangerous jungle terrain acts as natural defense system
- army of weapon masters
- low male population
- best natural resources
- dangerous wildlife
- low number of soldiers
- low male population
- somewhat lacking in technology due to environment
Mutated by the energy released from Tontrium, both the plants and animals have evolved to become more fit for survival. Travel down below the capital city’s dwelling at the tree tops without a Selvian guide and the chance of returning alive is close to none. It is for this reason that foreign nations rarely dare to attack, they second they march into Selvian territory they are gobbled up by the living nature. The Selvians are the only ones who have conquered this land and they are happy to keep it that way
Color on map: Light Green
Form of government: Diarchy (Two Leaders)
Significant Figures: the Royal Twins
Strengths:
Form of government: Diarchy (Two Leaders)
Significant Figures: the Royal Twins
Strengths:
- very peaceful and safe
- the two leaders are pretty strong
- highly educated on the origins of brontea (if you pick this faction I’ll tell you the whole lore)
- has enough resources to be self sufficient
- little to no military
- surrounded by enemy countries
- very limited technology
Color on map: light blue
Form of government: none
Significant Figures: the lady of the blue flame
Strengths:
- nobody cares about attacking it
Weaknesses:
Form of government: none
Significant Figures: the lady of the blue flame
Strengths:
- nobody cares about attacking it
Weaknesses:
- no central government
- lots of criminals
- lack of technology
- lack of natural resources
you're welcome to submit multiple bios, either for main ocs or significant figures (though I will be handling the White Queen, Titus, Lighting Lieutenant, and Zero)
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Desire:
Faction:
Rank/social standing: (you can make them a more established world figure or a newbie)
Appearance:
Personality:
Tech: (a large range of high tech is available depending on your faction and backstory)
Backstory:
Brontea Bio
Appearance: (Brontea cores can look like different precious stones. Feel free to mess with the colors of them too)
Category: (manifestation, extension, internalization)
Ability: (also include how it relates to the desire)
How they found it: (only necessary if not included in backstory)
Evolution: (Optional. Affirmation, adaptation, or corruption. Can maybe have more than one if they’re a super established character but I want to shy away for that for main OCs. Please note you will need to justify how they got the evolution and it’s very hard to get approved)
Age:
Gender:
Desire:
Faction:
Rank/social standing: (you can make them a more established world figure or a newbie)
Appearance:
Personality:
Tech: (a large range of high tech is available depending on your faction and backstory)
Backstory:
Brontea Bio
Appearance: (Brontea cores can look like different precious stones. Feel free to mess with the colors of them too)
Category: (manifestation, extension, internalization)
Ability: (also include how it relates to the desire)
How they found it: (only necessary if not included in backstory)
Evolution: (Optional. Affirmation, adaptation, or corruption. Can maybe have more than one if they’re a super established character but I want to shy away for that for main OCs. Please note you will need to justify how they got the evolution and it’s very hard to get approved)
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