Community Profile

We don't let ooc affairs affect our RPing. We're skilled, mature, experienced players, and in the end, what matters to us is the good of the game, the good of our characters, and the harmony of all. We'll CR with whoever is IC for us to, we don't let bias of the player in question affect our opinion on their characters, we never ignore characters belonging to muns we don't like. While, of course, we love to play with our close friends, cliques are for high school, and we're always willing to let others into our CR circles. We don't like our friends' characters better than our acquaintances because they're our friends. They're just oftentimes better players, better character builders, and we like their way of doing things. We don't let ooc affairs affect our RPing.

... right?

This roleplay is an experiment. It isn't a contest. It isn't a measuring stick. It's a test for yourself, to see if this is actually true. And it's an excellent way to get unbiased feedback on your own RPing, sometimes which is pretty hard for any of us to get, sometimes.

Every player in this game will have only one character. This is a character they have built from scratch themselves. Over the course of a month, they will play this character in Everthorne Academy. They will do what we always do, build CRs, have romances, follow plotlines ... and they will also watch. They'll read everything, everyone's threads, and constantly be evaluating the skill of the other players, the solidness of the characters built, the openness with which they CR, their activity and commitment. And they won't tell a single soul which character is theirs.

At the end of the month, the term will end. Each player will submit a "report," giving honest, fair constructive criticism of each character. This isn't a bashing session, building the strengths of the character isn't just encouraged, it's neccessary. After every report has been submitted, everyone will reveal which character is theirs, and the reports will be posted.

Do you want to know how well you work with others? Do you want to know how seriously you really take ooc into ic? Do you want to get fair, honest concrit on your roleplay skills from people who know what they're talking about? And most importantly, are you willing to commit to a month at Everthorne almost as grueling for the players as it is for the students they play?

Then apply away. I'm thrilled to have you.

Welcome to Everthorne Academy.

It's a prestigious place, big, nice, with large hanging gardens and beautiful architecture. It posseses a sprawling library, fifty-nine classes, three faculty buildings, a splendid theatre, a ballroom fit for a king, well kept riding trails, three tennis courts, and two large dormitories, Aphra House, for the young ladies, and Corven House, for the young men. All the curtains are velvet, all the carpets are thick, all the books are original copies, all the professors are famous.

This is the training school for those born with the talent for magic. Capable of incredible feats, those who have this gift are revered and respected, the highest class of society in Fairn, in the service of it's royal family. They come here from all walks of life, after being tested at age nineteen, to learn to manage their skills and bind nature to their wills, and also to be clever, witty, classy, graceful, talented, impressive, well-read, charismatic, and beautiful.

For some, all of this comes easily as breathing. For some, every day is a struggle. Some will survive the grueling pace, and emerge as most exulted society has to offer. And some will fail, have all of their magics forcibly and painfully stripped from them, and be sent home.

The students have one month to turn themselves into the sort of mages who can pass the tests set before them and emerge victorious. The pace is gruelling and the stakes are high. At Everthorne, there are no make-ups, no summer schools, no grading curves, and no second chances.

Fairn is a standard fantasy kingdom with a tiny renaissance flair. Technology is nonexistant, as you would expect. No electricity, no running water, no magical alternatives for any of these things. Characters do speak in modern language, to just plain make things easier, although the upper classes would sound more formal and some obvious changes would exist (sayings that rely on modern inventions just don't work.) Travel is all done by horseback and carriages. Fairn has all four seasons, and is currently at the beginning of summer. There are several major cities, some smaller ones, little towns, tiny villages, large farms, and the lowest of the low, backwater farms who have little or nothing. There is no discriminating when it comes time for mage tests, the testors visit every person whose birth was registed in the capital of Reyse, where Everthorne is located, nineteen years before. If they pass, they're taken along to Everthorne. If they fail, they're left there. Testing it the biggest event in Fairn, the most important day of any one person's life.

Soceity in Fairn is run off a strict class system. The classes will be explained shortly, but it is crucial to remember that those in higher classes, as a societal norm, will look down at those in lower classes. Though all are supposed to be equal in Everthorne, it is rarely, if ever, the case.

Fairn's society is patriarchal, but women are not expected to be pretty decorations. They're merely expected to stay away from "men only" paths, such as knighthood, or serious tennis. There is no taboo against women speaking their minds openly. Male inheritance is strictly enforced; as such, women are expected to marry. Homosexuality is frowned on and conducted in secret. Incest is an abomination. While extramarital sex is forbidden, premartial is completely allowed in every class but the nobles, clergy and the royals. Fairn is ruled as an absolute monarchy, by a King.

The religion is a vague "God" who has many aspects of the Christian God, and a clergy that is comprised of priests and priestesses, who are chaste and separated from one another. There are many cathedrals, churchs, and chapels across Fairn.

Fairn keeps our calander. This is to make things easier. 8)

It was a mild climate and environment, both following the likes of western Europe.

Fairn has professional sports. These come in the form of horseback riding and tennis. The horseback riding is jumping courses and racing. The tennis is rudmentary, but the rules follow current standard rules. Women are accepted as riders, but not as tennis players, though there have been cases of woman pretending to be men to win the people's support and thus maintain their position.

For the sake of convenience, basically any fantasy profession or element you can think of is most likely allowed in Fairn. The only true world specific info is the class system, the testing, the tennis and riding fixations, and Everthorne itself. World building is not strict by any means, since there just isn't enough time to build anything of the sort. Try to keep inside these guidelines, but bend them as much as you want.