CURRENT PLAYERS AND MAIN CHARACTERS

anaea
fthg42 - Dan [DM]
RiffsTrenchcoat - RTC, TLP
Poing - Bip
quesoLOCO27 - Eva, Tamsin

NEW PLAYERS

Marauder_Pilot - Shas
Raziel - Raziel
waffle - Estonja
Crake - Crake
DarkMagician - Moreth

Anaea was a former Amazon.  She ascended to godhood, taking up the mantles of her former teachers Seth (Egyptian god of chaos) and Quetzalcoatl (the Mayan/Aztec snake god) to heal them.

Anaea took up residence in the Forest in the Room at the Center of the Universe.  At its heart was a temple set atop a pyramid, serviced by a host of warriors at her beck and call.  Here in the forests Anaea’s companions swore allegiance and fealty to Anaea, and in return she granted them abodes in that place.

Among Anaea's companions were fthg42 and Æther, twins and counterparts, and RTC, a girl with an interesting coat, and TLP, a former god now bound to RTC.

Loki escaped from Anaea’s watch, and plotted against her.  It was revealed that Anaea’s son, Atrus, was still alive, a fact quickly acted upon by the Ancients, a race which battled the Gods long ago, and were shunted out of this plane of existence.  They kidnapped Atrus from the Olympians and held him hostage.

Anaea led an expedition against the Ancients, joined by Bip, a mongoose who was once Atrus’ pet, and Tamsin and Eva, warrior and wolf-mount from the tribe of Fortis, which was destroyed by a great creature of no-light.  During this quest, fthg42 and Æther reached their apotheosis, claiming their birthright as stars.

The Ancients were destroyed by Anaea, but she disturbed the Balance of this universe to do so.  Shortly afterwards, betrayed by Loki's machinations, she was killed, and her realm at the center of the universe was sealed off entirely.

The current storyarc begins one year later, the dawn of Ragnarok.  As the fall of the Norse gods is imminent, Atrus is dying, somehow tied to these events, while his pet Bip watches on.  RTC is dealing with a comatose TLP, and Tamsin is struggling with bouts of amnesia, while her worried wolf-mount Eva is receiving strange visions.  A newcomer, Dan, a former star but cast out for the Balance, contains within him the mentality of fthg42, whom he killed, as well as other voices.  And throughout all this is the collective hand of the Keepers of the Balance (or are they the Balance themselves?), the Constellation Bilanx.

TBT Saga Characters

Dan
Major abilities: Limited light and darkness control, limited deep magics
Major weapons: Shadowstave.
Notes: Joined in Tamyr Marketplace, about one year after the death of Anaea.  Is blind.  Has a thing for Valkyries.
Description:
Dan was once a star of Constellation Bilanx, but was cast out and made mortal due to the maintenance of the Balance (which Anaea disrupted).  He suffers from several neurological problems (for lack of a better word), most notably a recurring form of amnesia, preventing him from remembering most memories from his past, and also a case of schizophrenia, where he contains within him many voices of other, distinct personages.  One of these voices is that of fthg42, whom he killed.  He is primarily haunted by his past and his identity, which he seeks to regain.  He also seems to be hunted by something or someone, although he isn't quite aware of this yet.

Bip
Major abilities: Can fly short distances, is capable of rudimentary speech.
Major weapons: A slingshot given to him by Raziel, worn over his back like a bow.
Notes: Well meaning, but kinda dumb. Very loyal to his friends, though has difficulty distinguishing friend from foe. Likes cheese.
Description: Bip is a small mongoose who became Atrus' pet after being sucked in through a time portal created by another god. It's not clear what time period he came from, or how he is able to speak or fly, but perhaps most puzzling is why he was in a blue plastic easter egg when found. Bip was kidnapped with Atrus, but was abandoned as useless and was later found being sold as a pet. Bip does not recall where he came from before meeting Atrus, possibly because he's blocked the memories out--he does remember a large, dark shape in the sky, and becomes frightened at the memory. With recent events in the Saga, Bip is starting to realize that people are mortal and die, or, as he puts it, "Goway."

RTC
Abilities: Very fast; has shadow and fire abilities; can switch gravity around on herself
Weapons: Coat, mainly. Her coat is equipped with a portable rift that leads to a pseudodim. She spent most of her life before the saga finding objects to put in it. Also, Anei, her katana.
Notes: RTC... RTC doesn't exactly think very much.
Description: Looks human. Black hair, black trenchcoat, black jeans, black workboots (with sharpie designs on them!), black shirt, mirrored sunglasses. Loyal. Doesn't really like to fight, especially after Anaea-Sai died.

TLP
Abilities: None come to mind...
Weapons: Err...
Notes: A fallen God, TLP has what you might call inner conflicts with The Lone Power.
Description: Ask me when I'm sure who he is, anymore.

Tamsin
Tamsin is the last Rider of Fortis (the tribe of humans she came from). She has short brown hair and blue eyes, stands at about 5'5", and has the heart of a warrior.
She doesn't back down from battle, since such a thing would cause her to tribe to end (for to back down from battle is to exile oneself from Fortis), and doesn't always think things through completely before rushing in for sake of honor and Fortis.
Enter Tamsin: When Fortis was destroyed by a creature of no-light, she followed it through a tear in dimensions (which is how the thing got to Fortis to begins with), aiming to destroy it and avange her tribe. RTC was the one who actually brought it to an end, and Tamsin has been fascinated by "The Quick One" ever since.
Currently, Tamsin struggles with the memory of what went by in the past year, the Balance disturbed by Anaea's demise spurring it. Chosing to aid Odin during Ragnarok, she rode into battle and is currently fighting a frost giant....
Alias: The Rider

Eva
Eva is the last Wolf-Mount of Fortis. She is 1.5 X the size of an average wolf, with longer legs, larger ears, and greater speed (specific traits of her breed), than most of her wild counterparts. She has 2 large earrings in each ear, near the tips, to be used for steering by Tamsin.
Bound to Tamsin by honor, ritual, and true caring and compassion, Eva is both Tamsin's muscle and voice of reason. She will do anything within her power to protect her Master, but cannot disagree on matters of abandoning battle or the like.
Enter Eva: Tamsin rode Eva in persuit of the no-light creature. The wolf-mount accepted the group, though seems to treat TLP roughly... perhaps because he is an ex-god.
Currently, Eva is fighting the frost giant with Tamsin, and has been having visions and hearing voices.
Alias: (in association with "The Rider") Her Mount

Raziel, Razzy or Raz:
Raziel used to be an assasin, before she found her way out of it by running out on an assasinatio assignment. She followed Anaea around after appearing in her realm and (being an enchanter who is unable to control the magic linked to how she feels) was learning magic from her. She is part vampire though never shows it cause there is that little of it in her, and she attempts to get along with everyone unless they make her really annoyed (she even tried to befriend Loki and somewhat succeeded...i think) She disappeared for a year and was off training her magic and getting her assasination skills up to date in case she one day needed them...again.
She is 17 by now and has long silver hair, and dresses in a black body suit that looks to be made of black straps and leather belts. Her eyes are a bright silver and she has an attitude to go with her age. She is 167cm high and is quite light. She knows RTC, TLP (they were good friends) and anaea and her pets...

Estonja
Estonja is the bastard daughter of a passing Irish trader and a Mongol woman. Her red hair and green eyes marked her as far too different from the rest of her clan to ever have a normal life. She seemed destined for a quiet and frustrating life herding horses until she caught the eye of a passing warlord, a minor Khan. Intrigued by her strange coloration and proud demeanor, he bought her as a concubine. What he discovered was a quick mind, a fierce will and an indomitable spirit.
More in jest than anything else, he began teaching her to fight. She was a natural, and soon had mastered the ways of the Hordes. She could ride as if born in the saddle, wield the Mongol's whip-like sword in either hand with ease and draw the 180 lb compound war bow of her people. Mounted or unmounted made no difference, she could bring down a rabbit from a hundred yards at a full gallop.
As the Khan's fondness for her grew, so did his other wives' resentment of her. When the Khan, already far older than any other war leader, passed quietly in his sleep, the resentment boiled over. Estonja tried to claim a share of the Khan's wealth, citing her treatment as a wife. But the other wives conspired to reject her claim. Furious, Estonja stole into the armory and marched out with armor, two swords, a hunting bow and the Khan's very own war bow. Any disagreement with her actions died when they saw the 200 lb bow was now strung, with a quiver of arrows at her hip. Well, almost. One pretender to the Khan's title did quibble, reaching for his sword. Estonja's arrow passed clean through the man's armor, chest, back armor and a nearby yert.
Estonja took two ponies and set out west, with no clear idea of where she was going. She simply knew that she was on the western edge of her people's lands, and, all told, she'd rather deal with barbarians than her own kin from here out.
Major Abilities: master swordsman, master archer, master equestrian.
Major Weapons: two swords, compound bow, compound war bow, knife
Notes: fiercely loyal to those who've earned her trust. Considers herself a married woman and a Khan's wife. Still learning the local language and customs.
Description: somewhat short by western standards, with an athletic build. Asian features with a rich olive brown skin, green eyes and dark red hair. If expecting trouble, she wears an armor made of iron bands sewn on a leather backing and a silk under garment.

Crake
One day in northern Michigan in the 1970s a teenage boy named Chris was walking home from school, when quite by accident he fell into another world. No portals or teleportation, he just triped on a root on the ground and when he looked up he was not in Michigan anymore.
The world he had fallen into, or at least the part of it he fell into was a hardpan desert with cacti. Stumbling around he walked across the desert for two days without any indication of food or water. In a fit of desperation he took a rock and cut out a piece of cactus to try to drink the water from it's spongy inards. Unfortunatly the water was rich in hallucinagenic chemicals and Chris quickly fell into a stoner's daze. He meakly passed out on the desert with a firm belief that he was Spiderman.
When he awoke he was in a jail cell sleeping on a dirty pile of hay. He lived a bleak and dismal existance until a man who dressed like an old doctor came outside his cell and started to talk with him. The two had a slight communication problem seeing as to how they spoke different languages. The doctor decided to remedy this by casting a translation spell. Chris suddenly understood what the man was saying, but it was more of the intent behind the words than the actual meaning. The man was the government mage of a base for the Hinn empire. Some soldiers had found a boy out in the desert and would have left him if not for his strage clothes. They took him to the base's mage and had him looked at. When the mage examined Chris's aura he had seen that Chris was capable of somatic magic.
Soon after this the man left and told Chris he would be seeing him soon. He was then relesed to one of the nurses at the base to get a crash course in their language. After Chris had mastered the basic vocabulary the mage came back and explained to him what somatic magic was. In their world they had three types of magicians, sorcerers who cast spells, conjurers who summoned spirits and somatics who used magic to improve their bodies. The mage explained to him that his government was always looking for more magically active soldiers to employ so he Chris was being offered a opportunity to get real magical training. He took the offer.
For the next six months Chris learned how to use his magic to augment his body's natural abilities, under the instruction of the mage Alastair. He could channel magic to regenerate wounds, fight disease better, improve all of his senses and enhance his reflexes. Chris soon became bored with how Alastair kept talking on and on about how he would use these new abilities to better serve the government. Screw this he thought. He didn't want to serve some faraway government when he could get on with his own life. So one night he stole a sword and two pistols from the armoury, stole a horse and was long gone before the sun came up.
He quicly came to a town and sold the horse. He assumed the alias of Crake, bought a train ticket and put some further distance between himself and the government. He still has those guns and the sword,. Crake tried to simply be a wander, but the government did not take kindly to his insubordination. He is still on the run today, trying to shake their trail.
Major abilities: Regneration, improved senses, immune system and reflexes. He has become quite skilled with that sword and has a talent for being inconspicuous. Mildly skilled with his pistols.
Major weapons: His stolen military sword which incidently was enchanted by the mage to be stronger and sharper. Still has the guns both of them are simple six chamber revolvers.
Notes: Very suspiscious of people and has a strong dislike of formal authority. Does not make friends very easily or often, but when he does Crake is incredibly loyal to them. also tends to want to do things his way, unless someone points out a flaw in his logic or plan.
Description: Now about nineteen years old and roughly 6' 2''. Has tanned skin from continual exposure to the desert sun. Has eyes that are neither blue or green but somewhere inbetween and blonde hair that he has tied back. Wears a leather coat and a hat similar to those of your generic desert bandit. Sword is worn over his back in a scabard and the guns are in holsters on his thighs.

Shas
Shas looks like the kind of person that you'd mug for money. Not exceptionally large, and generally dressed in extravagant robes and arcane jewlerry, pretty much anyone desperate for money has tried to mug him at some time. He gives off the appearance of some rich little pretty-boy.
Then he causes you to spontaneously combust with a wave of his hand.
Nobody really knows where he came from. He just sorta showed up one day, came into a bar and ordered a drink. The bar, by the way, was one of considerable ill repute and surly patrons. They're piles of ashes in a jar on the bar that the barkeep keeps around for an interesting story to tell the drunks.
Now, that's not to say he's a sadist, his control of flame is only in self-defense.
Shas usually wears an extravagant red robe-although he feverntly denies any connection to a red mage, although nobody honestly belives it-with ornate jewlerry and designs covering it. He carries very little-a canteen hanging on his right hip, and a short sword on his left. However, the sword hasn't left it's sheath in quite some time, other then cleaning, because he's never needed to use it-his opponents are rarely in any condition to fight after he waves his hand.
Again, nobody really knows who or what Shas is, besides Shas himself, and he doesn't reveal much-anything, really-about his past. The rumors fly around-an immortal mage, a fallen god or somesuch, there are even those who suggest that he's not human at all, but some mechanical creation. However, the most popular rumor is that he's a preist of a long-lost religion among an ancient people who worshipped Vre'ya, the god of fire, which would certainly explain his powers. However, the people and the civilization that did are mostly lost to history and time. Irregadless, that's what people believe, and Shas doesn't really care.
Shas fights, obviosuly, with fire. In simple self defense, he's content to just light them on fire. However, he can summon all matter of firery wrath-fireballs and pillars of flame are a favorite. Also, he can create a wall of flame if he wants' although such a task will leave him physically and mentally exhausted-all this power is not without consequence. If he really needs to, he will draw his sword, but he's none to adept at it-it's more a decoration then anything. The sword itself is covered with ornate designs matching those on his robes.
Physically, Shas is rather small, standing only about 5'' tall, and weighing less then 100 lbs. His skin is slightly tanned, and most say, in joking and seriousness, that it's solely from his unique method of self-defense. His eyes are green, with his black hair pulled back into a topknot. He's a somewhat playful type, but becomes extremly serious when the situation demands. He especially loves to watch people jump whenever he flicks his hand, and endless gets a kick out of if.

Name: Moreth
Mj Weapon: Marbles
Abilities: Magical, Metal elementalist. Metal is my specialty ^.^
Desc: Moreth, is an anthropomorphic rabbit. Brown, fluffy fur with a white underbelly, standing on his hind legs and talking as people do ^.^ He stands no taller than three feet from the ground and wears only a belt with a small pouch attatched to it. the pouch chinks as he walks. He has wide, bright yellow eyes and a pen around his neck, attatched by a small silver chain. Watch out, this bunny bites
Hist: As a rabbit, he hasn't seen much adventure really. He preffers to stick to himself, lending a hand when it's needed. Really there's nothing known about the rabbit except that he is a walking, talking, humafied rabbit!

Dan
Major abilities: Limited light and darkness control, limited deep magics
Major weapons: Shadowstave.
Notes: Joined in Tamyr Marketplace, about one year after the death of Anaea.  Is blind.  Has a thing for Valkyries.
Description:
Dan was once a star of Constellation Bilanx, but was cast out and made mortal due to the maintenance of the Balance (which Anaea disrupted).  He suffers from several neurological problems (for lack of a better word), most notably a recurring form of amnesia, preventing him from remembering most memories from his past, and also a case of schizophrenia, where he contains within him many voices of other, distinct personages.  One of these voices is that of fthg42, whom he killed.  He is primarily haunted by his past and his identity, which he seeks to regain.  He also seems to be hunted by something or someone, although he isn't quite aware of this yet.