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castellankurze · 4 years

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Too much rambling about au ra characters I’ll probably never play for a possible warring kingdoms AU, put behind a cut because I love you.

I: The Age of Twilight

Approximately four hundred years ago a volcanic eruption in the south seas cast much of the continent of Othard beneath a diffuse cloud of dust and ash. Several years of cold winters and poor crop yields followed, heralding an age of strife and hardship. Previously-peaceful nations and outlying factions began to buckle with unrest, and brushfire conflicts erupted along the various borders of Othard’s polities, threatening to boil over into an open age of war.

In the center of Othard, the reigning king of Doma awoke to find enemies at his every flank. To the south the nations of Dalmasca and Nagxia eyed their fertile farmlands, whilst to the east the piratical Confederacy raided their coastal villages for supplies and foodstuffs, and finally to the north the warlike xaela tribes sought precious iron and animals to slaughter for their meat and bones.

The king was faced with an impossible situation - with men and women already lean and hungry due to the hardness of the earth, his nation lay ripe to be picked apart by the various predators circling in the waters. So he put the question to his loyal lords and retainers: defend Doma on all sides, with one arm behind their backs. In these years, a quartet of warlords would rise to the occasion, their names committed to history as the heroes that shepherded the nation through the years of darkness. For many years afterwards, they would each be celebrated - though in the lands beyond Doma, their names would be whispered as objects of terror.

II: The Warlords of Dusk

Toshitada Koma (top left) became known as the Warlord of Spring, though to his enemies he was known more widely as the Warlord of Cruelty, or more simply as the Ogre. His solution to the king’s proposal was simple - strike fear into the hearts of Doma’s enemies, and make them quake to even consider battle with her armies. He fought his skirmishes with a bloodthirstiness that shocked his foes and left few alive in their wake. He pursued battle aggressively, favoring savage preemptive strikes that forced his opponents onto the back foot, and it was not unknown for enemy soldiers to desert upon finding his banner lifted in opposition. Despite his unimpeachable record, later in life Toshitada was said to have come to regret his reign of cruelty, and abandoned his wealth and holdings to live as a monk, bringing peace and comfort to the victims of war. He is believed to have been slain by the family of a Nagxian village headman he had killed, though the circumstances of his death are murky.

Classes: warrior, dragoon, white mage Goro Kurodajiro (top right) became the Warlord of Summer, known also as the Phantom Lord. He was a less frenetic, more calculating sort of warrior. He had gone blind in one eye early in life under mysterious circumstances, and often wore a patch over the sightless orb. Despite this, he was often said to see things no one else could. A masterful magician, he cast veils of illusion over individuals and armies alike, leading his foes astray so that they would walk into prepared traps or even come to blows with one another. Whatever was left, he would finish off with more direct spells of fire, ice, and thunder, and was said to turn the very land and laws of nature against his enemies. Xaela in particular called him ‘Maker of Webs’ and considered his tactics dishonorable. This would one day prove to be his downfall - as he spun his spells to frustrate an alliance of xaela tribes, a sniper of the Mol loosed an arrow that put out his remaining eye. Blinded, Goro began to lash out in every direction, slaying friend and foe alike in a panicked rage. The xaela warriors weathered the storm, however, and he fell beneath their gathered blades.

Classes: red mage, astrologian

Naotoki Yamanouchi (bottom left) would be known as the Warlord of Autumn, as well as the more sinister title the Demon of Venom. Born with a strange tongue shaped by two points and elongated eyeteeth, it was whispered the man’s lineage was tainted by that of a snake demon. Unsurprisingly, Naotoki’s solution to the king’s question was to make use of all manner of gathered venoms and poisons to level the battlefield against Doma’s foes. His blades coated with toxins, he could blind or incapacitate foes even without touching them as the substances dripped onto exposed flesh. Even far from the battlefield his foes were not safe from his debilitating touch, their very food and drink turned against them. It was said that he possessed the power to cure those he inflicted with his venoms, but if so it was a power he used sparingly, if ever. These heinous tactics would one day backfire, as his cavalier use of such weapons crept into the jungles of southern Dalmasca and attracted the ire of the viera who made their home there. Ambushed and pierced by many arrows, Naotoki’s last act was to throw himself into the Zeirchele River, his tainted blood fouling its waters for years afterwards.

Classes: samurai, summoner

Kuniko Sasaki (bottom right) was the Warlord of Winter, and her defense of Doma was a two-pronged approach. Said to have perfect vision even in total pitch-black, she and her chosen cohort of samurai and shinobi would attack in the dead of night, when the moon lay shadowed, and sow panic and confusion amongst the enemy. For this, she became known to Doma as the Blade of Darkness. However, open battle was of limited effect against foes like the Confederacy, who rode their ships to and fro across the Ruby Sea. Against such foes, Kuniko brokered deals under the table, promising to look the other way while such enemies plundered Doman lands...only for such raids to inevitably run afoul of sudden attacks in the night. For this dishonorable behavior she became known as the Jackal, and even some Domans termed her the Warlord of Corruption. One night her reputation caught up with her, and rather than raid the vulnerable coastal village offered to them, the Confederacy shelled it with unending volleys of catapult and ballista fire. When dawn rose, Kuniko and her cohort had been wiped out.

Classes: dark knight, ninja

III: The New Dawn

Doma survived the dark, savage years, and history rolled on for four hundred years. Until there came to Doma a new foe, one clad in steel and bearing weapons never before seen by the ancient nation. The Garlean Empire put the better part of Othard beneath its banner, bringing even Doma to heel. For twenty-five years the Empire’s VI Legion ruled Doma as a vassal state, exploiting its lands, its people, and even its legends.

Forever searching for ways to broaden their scientific understanding - no matter the cost - the scientific contingent that had accompanied the VI Legion carried out unspeakable experimentations on the people put under the rule of the Empire. When they learned of the ancient legends of the Warlords of Dusk, they sought out the ancient graves of the revered warriors and subjected them to the newly-termed process of ‘cloning.’ The intent was to parade Doma’s ancestral heroes before them as loyal servants of the Empire, and to this end they created living, breathing copies of the long-dead quartet.

Unfortunately, the Empire had overlooked a simple truth - great warlords are not wont to bend their knee to foreign rulers. And savage days in savage lands give rise to savage leaders. The quartet threw off the shackles of their captors and slaughtered many of their creators in one terrible blood-soaked night before retreating into the mountains of Othard. Before a response could be organized, the VI Legion was called away by the Emperor, and in the resulting confusion the newly-reborn warlords were overlooked. Soon enough, the Empire as a whole would be thrown out of Doma by the arrival of the Warrior of Light and the restoration of the Rijin line to the throne.

But there was yet unrest in the ancient kingdom. Not all were happy to return to life as it had been twenty-five years ago. Strong currents churned beneath the surface, and among the voices raised in anger echoed those of the distant past, the warlords returned to ancestral holdings and lands, sometimes at the point of a blade. The quartet seemed to have been reborn with much of their old personalities - and, more distressingly, their various abilities - intact. With Doman lands and Doman people depleted by the brutal Garlean rule, a set of warlords with experience from another time when the nation faced lean years would be fearsome foes indeed...

#FFXIV #au ra #raen #kurze writes #thinly veiled Ronin Warriors fanfic

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asdra · 7 years

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Pokemon vs phone suggestions

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