Eleatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RVf_511Eg&list=PLE9C693C411368BE1&index=19 The Elven Guard lay sprawled on a table, bloodied and evidently assailed. Her right arm is severed, replaced. A gargantuan piece of metal fashioned to be likened to an arm is in the place of her flesh, and slotted inward to crack the bone. Rivets are jammed into her, halph-hazardly, to just barely secure the arm moreso. Her natural arm is sunken at the bottom of the River, and the footprints of two monstrosities can be seen walking out of the city. The Dread Lord looks to the place of his formerly attatched arm, grunting, before speaking in a low voice, "Not soon forgotten."

As Soresan is gone, we have a new thread. Please look there for Dread-Knight related stuffs. Archive this thread if possible.

Dreadknightika reigns supreme.

Fallen on the battlefield, ruined as the forces of so-called 'good' ravage the city of Embermoor, the Dread Lord hoists himself up upon his sword, his helmet five feet away, and unbeknownst to the ravaging conflict going along around him. He is stabbed in the back, and the Dread Lord loses his balance, falling again. Hours pass. It is only the click and recognition of a helmet being re affixed that startles him. He looks up to Vaurca, and a low, somewhat laughable cackle escapes his throat. "It's good your back. We took out a lot of them before the end, I suppose posterity may atleast recall that." The two walk along the battlefield, plundering the corpses of the fallen flesh, and taking whatever valuable armaments they may hold.

Dread Knights. Born from the over ambition of Blood Mages, these metallic constructs have been called many things over the centuries by the populace. "Abomination", is one, "Corrupt", is another. Paladins, Clerics, people of goodness originally turned to evil by gambling with it. Those who tempered subservience and once again became free. The Slaughters of Ozymandian Maegi, destroyers of their bastion. They tried to return home, to be forgiven and welcomed by their families. They were turned away. They became mere bandits, unlead and astray, until one man who led them on a path of vengeance that they've been following ever since, whose name is only known now as Lord BIle. Only still remaining by the willpower of their benefactors, the ominous and ever-present "Dread Lord", these knights have become displaced, disbanded, corrupt, enslaved thrice more, and essentially wiped from the world in their original form over the course of a century. Though like roaches tend to do, they continue on. The Illness of the Knights has always been their rampant desire of conversion, or, at-least, that of the Dread Lords'. It is this which brings them failure, weakness. It is this which severs them from power, from greatness, from what they once were. Lords and Knights fell to it, where those of a breed not swell and hardy enough to endure were found, and just so did it fester as a rot, hampering the Knights, and all they stood for. No longer. The Prowling of Athera for these purposes no longer appeals, and in lieu, they are selective. To regain the power they once held, they wander this world in search of those whom may be even slightly hold that great power that the knights before had. OOC. A change in how we recruit has been needed for a long time, and especially so with the awful inactivity we've been facing over the last few months, due to the unfortunate lack of internet connectivity of my replacement, Soresan. However, in this, I've decided to overhaul our group and begin anew. Having seen my group, one I've been a part of for a long time begin to fade and wither, I refuse to let it continue. With this new recruitment process a hierarchical, and most of all: BENEFICIAL cult system is now going to be implemented for those who seek us out. Those who serve us well, and show their abilities as cultists will be considered for Dread Knighthood, and even for those who are not cultists, we will be monitoring those role players we know are quality and try our best, to in lieu of organizing things through bland forum interviews, and generally inefficent tact, give players a role-play centric possibility to join our group. A brief clarification is that we are not an Antagonist group as per LoTC definitions, but a Villain Group. That being, we create player-driven conflict for the purpose of it, and to provide roleplay. Below is a guide which I composed to give anyone who is one of us an example of how to play their character, or for those fighting us to get an estimate of power.

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I suppose. Keep in mind that DKs also can't become mages, since they would immedietly die upon casting a single basic spell.

Verin grumbles, off in some underground cellar: "Death to the Heretics."