- Invitation Status
- Look for groups
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- Multiple posts per week
- 1-3 posts per week
- Writing Levels
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Advanced
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Primarily Prefer Male
The world of Broacien, as far as we know it. There exists more lands to the north, east, south and west, but this is as far as the titular kingdom has explored it's surrounding realms. Where will you strike your mark?
This RP will be based off of Broacien, so reading the linked thread is probably a hard requirement for this thread, otherwise none of it will make sense. :-) The most important parts of the thread are, most likely, the histories of the countries -- but there is much more history that simply wasn't ever written down by me or my previous partner.
Broacien started as a group RP that I expanded upon in a very long term 1x1 RP. As such it's a personal project that was then expanded into a 2 person project. The linked thread above contains only a small fraction of the lore of the world, which means you're gonna be in the dark about a lot of things because frankly a lot of it isn't worth writing about in a lore write up but is worth expanding on in the IC. If that puts you off, rest assured, I spend a lot of time with my writing partners in OOC going through and over different things, and I'm nothing if not willing to change the lore here and there to accommodate a better story.
However, because it's a personal project I've worked on for years, there's also a certain degree of permanence to it: I will not drastically change the world to suit your requests if it changes the world at large. There are some factors that are simply hard requirements for Broacien:
- It's a realistic world. No dragons, magic, fae, elves.
- The position of women in this world isn't changed overnight, and that's intentional. Female characters that stand out get hammered down; either that or they must resist. You can't play Jean d'Arc and then be surprised when people go ''hey, that's a woman, wtf.''
- It's pretty grimdark. I'm edgy, what can I say? There's no sunshine and happiness all the time; happiness exists but the nature of the world means strife is pretty commonplace. This is not the place for a slice of life RP, unless the slice of life isn't about sunshine and rainbows.
- Certain characters are so integral to the lore that I cannot and will not change them -- think of king Ketill or his wife Najla.
In your opening PM to me, feel free to let me know a few things; this is not a checklist, just some ideas on what I'd like to hear from prospective partners (because I know that I usually struggle with ''what do I write in my first OOC message?'')
- Something about yourself
- What plot setup you want to play out
- What you see happening in the long term
- What drew you into the world/what interested you about it
- What type of character you want to play, and who you want me to play opposite them
- If you want to include smut, maybe some ideas on what you like and don't like
- Haha, you thought there was gonna be some sort of codeword here huh?
- Nope, I don't care. I don't need a codeword!
Now we get to the juicy bit, which is the plot. In short: it's up to you. I have an entire world for us to play with, and we can do anything we want in it. I'm not picky about what we do. Wanna introduce some new civilization, then send me a concept for it and a rough idea of where they're from. Want to play around in Broacien, or a small village there? Let me know. Want to write about grand politics and court intrigue in the civil war of Broacien? Dope. I am willing to write in any location in the world, using any culture and explain anything you might want to know more about.
Either way the whole world is there. If you don't have any ideas directly but you have something that you find incredibly interesting about the world let me know and perhaps I can help set us on our way. I do have some ideas for potential plots if you are drawing blanks completely. :-)