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Epoch of Murk: Part III

Epoch of MurkEpoch of Murk (Canon)

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 Recap of Part II:

The Undead survived the few dangers of the Odious Swamp, and have reached the town of Farrun. Here, they encountered numerous other Undead, including meeting Abelkain and Abello again after the latter had left them for a brief while. The insane Abelkain attempted to kill the poet, although the Undead managed to stop him and they got rid of him permanently.

Now, they are in All Saints' Cathedral - a holy building that overlooks the ocean and the town on top of a large cliff. Inside, they encountered The Grotesque Mass, but they decided against engaging this passive, repulsive creature. They instead descended down below, finding the inner sanctum and there they laid eyes upon Knight-King Rendall 's Lieutenant and two of his Immortal lackeys.

Now, they are currently battling the mysterious trio.

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Premise:

Many Eras after a warrior born with a powerful dragon soul managed to avert an event of mass extinction and prolong the era of mortals, his blue coated allies were caught between two seperate armies. One hailing from Cyrodiil and the other from the southwest of Dawn's Beauty.

Before these armies could clash, a third, unknown party joined the fray and dealt a heavy blow against all of these armies.



In order to retaliate against this unexpected foe, the divines and various high standing mortals collaborated and created the gift of immortality; a power that was used to beat them back.

As immortality spread, the flow of time and the line between life and death in Tamriel became blurred, and as to preserve the fragile balance another, less powerful counterpart of immortality was created by this beaten unknown foe - Undeath.



<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Mortals were the only people that could be afflicted with both of these gifts. While immortality was bestowed upon high ranking mortals who the gods favored, Undeath was planted in small parts of the common people in various civilizations across Dawn's Beauty.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">The affliction was slow and sluggish, and took many eras just to spread out and take effect, right under the Divines' eyes who were still wallowing in their temporary victory.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">The first victim of the disease was an old knight, by now his name or origins forgotten. Upon the order of the fallen, he took the life of a Divine who guarded over love, growth, and the sanctity of marriage. This event would become infamous in the annals of an already clouded history as the very demise of many proud cities and provinces.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">The immortals and divines casted away the mortals from their cities and threw them to the wolves, or locked themselves up in their fortified palaces, leaving the commonfolk to die, simply because they have the potential to become afflicted with Undeath.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Regardless, upon Her demise, appalling and grim creatures emerged from the husks and trunks of dying trees and reduced the province to a deserted and desolate wasteland. The small amount of people that survived live in a nomadic lifestyle or have left the province entirely.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">But you haven't - Perhaps you have come to this province, hoping to bring an end to this incomprehensible scourge? Maybe contracted Undeath in another place and have come here to find a cure? Or possibly you are just an aimless wanderer in a lost land, looking for adventure or a purpose? Poor sod you are, no matter what happened before.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Anyways, travelling to this land has grave consequences. You wake up, covered in ashes, lying on a pile of rotting corpses that weren't as lucky as you. You don't know where you are or how you got here. Your skin is as cold as ice and your breathing is ragged. You bear the scar of a nasty wound that most likely brought an end to your life and became afflicted with something greater than yourself.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Moments after you wake up, you hear a feminine and soothing voice whispering to you. As you turn to where you thought it came from, you only find another pale face of a deceased warrior, staring you down with glassy eyes, still and unmoving.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Your mind coming at ease, you hold what the voice said in the back of your head.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Go forth and find thine ilk.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digging and burying your way out, you encounter the sight of a murky plain, and strewn about this plain are various other burial mounds such as the one you emerged from. The sun had trouble piercing through a thick, brownish mist that hung above. The stench of the glade was unbearable, but the latter would be the least of your worries.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:15pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Large mysterious silhouettes of people could be seen wandering across the plain, armed with various weapons and grunting as they moved about aimlessly.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Character Card:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Name:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Gender:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Race:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Weapons:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Armor:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Appearance:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Lore Skill (see below):

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Bio:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">None of these rules apply to me whatsoever.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">1. Not necessarily a rule, but if you have any questions of any kind about this RP, please contact me on my talkpage or in chat. If you also have a subplot or something like that you want to integrate into the main plot, feel free to do the same and I'm sure we can work something out.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">2. Your character(s) have no ties to any TES protagonists whatsoever. Naturally, this also means you are not allowed to RP as any of the TES protagonists.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">3. Please be serious about this RP. No ridiculous character cards or fooling around for no reason.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">4. You cannot be a Divine, a Daedric Prince or an (Im)mortal.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">5. Modded races are not allowed. (Half-breeds don't count as modded races.)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">6. You cannot kill another player character or maim them without permission from the creator of that character.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">7. You cannot be overpowered. This means that you cannot evade or dodge every attack that is thrown at you, you can't kill an enemy instantly (unless it's a critter). I mostly trust you keep your character's strengths and weaknesses in check and know when to take a hit, but if I feel you're too OP I will call you out on it or damage/kill your character myself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">8. You cannot metagame. This means that you cannot know everything there is to know about an area, history, a boss, a character, etc. We have lore skills for that. The premise is also common knowledge amongst characters.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">9. You can only have one lore skill as of now. A lore skill works just like an item description in Dark Souls - a brief description of whatever you used the lore skill on. It will not showcase or reveal every secret about the item or character, but will atleast grant you abit more knowledge on it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Lore skills include..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Beasts

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Friendly NPCs

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Hostile NPCs

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Immortals

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Mortals

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Weapons

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Armor

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Areas

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">   If you are going to leave the RP, please give me a message on my talkpage or PM me in chat. I have no problem if the RP doesn't suit you anymore, but I would like to know if you are going to leave.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">11. On the subject of leaving the RP - if you do, your character(s) will either be claimed by someone or be killed by someone.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;vertical-align:middle;font-size:16px;text-indent:-18pt;line-height:normal;">12. Have fun! If something annoys you or does not fit well with you, don't hesitate to talk to me and we'll try and resolve the problem.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">These rules might be updated as the RP progresses.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">'''Thanks to Kool Khajiit, the RP now has soundtrack! Here it is!'''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Also, be sure to check out the soundtrack album of the RP, also produced by him.

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<p class="title" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0.4em;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Kool Khajiit - Dilapidation

<p class="title" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0.4em;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">There are also multiple tracks for most of the current active characters on this RP - see Kool Khajit's album Epoch of Murk'  for a current summary of all of them, including instructions of how to request your own.' <ac_metadata title="Epoch of Murk: Part III"> </ac_metadata>