Post by TEARSOFNIGHTFALL on Aug 13, 2012 14:27:24 GMT -8
~The Factions~
[/center][/b][/u][/font]There are a total of six factions on this board that your character can be a part of, though your choices will vary depending on race (human or +anima) and the country where your character lives. Your character must be a member of one of these factions or a spy/mercenary. The info on them is below.
Each faction also has a private base. Once your character is excepted, it will become visible to you. Spies and Mercenaries have access to all bases.
[/blockquote]Vindico
Races: Both +Anima and Humans
Nationalities: Both Astaria and Sailand
Base Country: Astaria
Base Style: An abandoned fortress that was carved into a cliff by the sea. Was created in the past when Astaria feared sea attacks from Sailand, but was never used.
Special Rules: N/A
Bio: Vindico is a +anima lead faction that simply seeks freedom and equality. It is probably the largest +anima faction. The members will fight when they need to, and are eager to take control or power, as the +anima are tired of taking unfair treatment without fighting back, but they are not excessively violent like Fatum can sometimes be. This is also the only +anima faction that allows humans to join, as long as they promise to help them and fight for their cause. The faction is based in Astaria, but sometimes humans that want to help will even come from Sailand, as will escaped +anima slaves.
Relations With Other Factions: Vindico, of course, opposes the human factions. It has a strained relationship with the other two free +anima factions, not agreeing with the way Fatum wants to completely rule over the humans, or the way the Caminus members still wish to be human again and haven't accepted what they are. They fight against Acies if need be, but they wish they could help them and don't especially like to.
Characters In Faction: 5Fatum
Races: +Anima
Nationalities: Both Astaria and Sailand
Base Country: Astaria
Base Style: A large, deserted mine near a river.
Special Rules: N/A
Bio: Fatum is a very extreme, +anima lead faction. Unlike Vindico or Caminus, they aim not for equality or peace, but rather, revenge and domination. With the recent trend of +anima increasing in population, Fatum believes that it is their time to take control of Astaria and Sailand and rule over the humans as the chosen species. They firmly believe that +anima are superior to humans, and that humans know this, deep down, which is why they try to suppress them. They all have a lot of resentment towards humans, making this faction unpredictable, reckless, and violent. There is sometimes even turmoil within the members of the factions, as it is separated by two different beliefs. The most common one is that the +anima should simply enslave the humans like they had previously done to them, but a few members, including some higher-ups, believe that the +anima should completely wipe out any remaining humans.
Relations With Other Factions: Fatum consider themselves enemies of all the other factions. The only one they can communicate semi-reasonably with is Vindico. They will often try to convert Vindico members, but will not hesitate to steal their territory or base if it means more power and control to them. They very much look down on Caminus, and see them as foes almost as much as they do the human factions. As for Acies, they tend to think of them as unworthy of being +anima, though they welcome any escaped slaves. They believe that, even if they would risk or lose their lives, they shouldn't be letting themselves be controlled by humans under any circumstances, and the fact that they do puts them at a level beneath them.
Characters In Faction: 1Caminus
Races: +Anima (though members that become human are allowed to stay if they choose)
Nationalities: Both Astaria and Sailand
Base Country: Astaria
Base Style: A condemned, empty cottonmill.
Special Rules: N/A
Bio: Caminus, essentially, is a faction run by +anima who wish they weren't +anima. The members of this faction haven't accepted their transformation, and hope to one day lose their animas. As such, they don't feel they belong in either Vindico or certainly not Fatum, as they can't put their full heart in fighting against humans for the +anima. What they want is for the governments of Astaria and Sailand to focus on finding ways to stop people from becoming +anima and to perform mass anima removals through science, rather than trying to wipe them out through violence. They feel forgotten and betrayed by their countries, though, who they don't feel are helping them like they should be. It is this reason they fight against the human factions.
Relations With Other Factions: They are enemies with the human factions and Fatum, who bear a deep hatred and completely opposite beliefs towards them. They have a strained relationship with Vindico, who have accepted themselves as +anima and don't especially like the way Caminus still believes humans are above them. They have a complicated relationship with Acies. They also believe that their county has betrayed them, but at the same time, the members of Caminus have a hard time accepting that the members of Acies, whom they may have even owned at some point if they came from Sailand, are no longer any different than them.
Characters In Faction: 1Dignitas
Races: Humans
Nationalities: Astaria
Base Country: Astaria
Base Style: A bulding given to them by the Astarian government.
Special Rules: Members must be at least 14. Also, they wont usually take the territory or attack the bases of Supernus or Acies, unless something happens to upset them.
Bio: The faction run by Astaria's government in order to help seek out the +anima. A small amount of people are drafted, but most of the faction joined of their own free will, and therefore, genuinely believe in eliminating the +anima.
Relations With Other Factions: They oppose all free +anima factions. They are more or less allies with Supernus, and will not usually take the territories or attack the bases of either them or by extension, Acies, but there is a bit and rivalry and tension between them, which makes this fact and their relationship a bit unstable and not all that set in stone.
Characters In Faction: 1Supernus
Races: Humans
Nationalities: Sailand
Base Country: Sailand
Base Style: An outpost consisting of multiple tents set up near the base of the Moss Mountains and Astaria's border.
Special Rules: Members must be at least 14. They cannot take the territories or attack the bases of Acies, which is under their control. They also wont usually take the territory or attack the bases of Dignitas, unless something happens to upset them.
Bio: The faction run by Sailand's government in order to help seek out the +anima. A small amount of people are drafted, but most of the faction joined of their own free will, and therefore, genuinely believe in eliminating the +anima. They are generally a bit more aggressive than Dignitas, but a few of the members would rather simply keep the +anima enslaved than eliminate them completely.
Relations With Other Factions: They oppose all free +anima factions. They are more or less allies with Dignitas, and will not usually take the territories or attack their base, but there is a bit and rivarly and tension between them, which makes this fact and their relationship a bit unstable and not all that set in stone. They control Acies, and can give them orders. They haven't yet decided what they are going to do with the +anima of Acies once the war is over.
Characters In Faction: 2Acies
Races: +Anima (Enslaved)
Nationalities: Sailand
Base Country: Sailand
Base Style: A prison building where they are kept locked up when not needed and under the control of Supernus supervisors.
Special Rules: They must obey Supernus, and are not allowed to take their territories or attack their bases. This extends to Dignitas unless Supernus turns against them themselves. Although...if they were to disobey and rebel, something interesting might happen...
Bio: Acies consists of the +anima that were formally enslaved by human families in Sailand prior to the start of the war. Once the war began, they were all sent, regardless of age, into the war as the Acies faction under the order of the Sailand government and Supernus. They are forced to fight against the other +anima. If they refuse, they will be met with death. That's not to say that some don't manage to escape, and that others don't rebel and met an unfortunate end, but most are too obedient or afraid to do so, and so live as the puppets of Supernus, just as they always have. They still wear the collars that are the symbols of their enslavement.
Relations With Other Factions: They are under the control of Supernus, and therefore to some degree, forced allies with Dignitas. They are also forced to fight against all the free +anima factions, though most of them don't want to. While some have accepted their lives as belonging to the humans, many of them wish they could join the +anima factions. Many of them would simply want to join Vindico, but there are others that identify more with the Caminus who want to be human again, or even the revenge-driven Fatum.
Characters In Faction: 3Spies & Mercenaries
While not a faction of their own, you can also choose to play as a multiple-agent spy or mercenary. Spies and mercenaries can be either human or +anima, and have access to all or multiple factions, but officially belong to none. Spies specialize in gathering intel for the factions they are hired for, whereas mercenaries focus on assaulting and killing for profit.
Spies: 1
Mercenaries: 0