Adding Original Characters
For the list of all original characters currently on the site, see the “Tagged: ocs” page.
The predominant purpose of this whole world was to have people make cool original characters.
You can write your character stuff wherever you want, as long as I can access it when I actually add it to the website.
- Google Docs should work fine in most cases. Or another document app.
- Alternatively, you can just text me the info and I can construct the page myself.
- If you want to be technical, you can write it directly in Markdown.
Top
The top section of a character bio consists of two things:
- A short blurb about the character.
- An info box.
Intro blurbs should be relatively short— only a few paragraphs long. The specifics of what exactly should be in a blurb are not predetermined, but in general it should be a reliable answer when someone asks who your character is.
Info Box
The Info Box is a structured list of information present at the top of pages. For characters, it notes down major attributes about them.
Tip
Info Boxes are given a very small amount of horizontal space to work with. Each line should only ever be two or three words long. If the contents of the box are too long, they will forcefully stretch.
- Weapon
- The (named) weapon a character primarily uses.
- Affinity
- Elemental affinity.
- Style
- A character’s combat style.
Example
| Lucien |
|---|
| Characteristics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Aladia | |
| Affinity | N/A | |
| Style | Assassin/Vanguard | |
An anomaly in his adventuring party, Rovi stands out by being a commoner— one without magical powers, or royal connections. While many would assume a quick downfall against one of the many, many dangers that exist outside the protection of established kingdoms, Rovi has managed to endure and even thrive in his newfound life.
His power rarely comes from him, but from the trinkets, allies, and blessings he has found along his journeys— borrowed strengths that can make him a force to be reckoned with— if the cards are willing to align.
Combat Report
A Combat Report is an analysis of a character’s capabilities (predominantly in fighting). They come with a stats table that give an approximation of where their strengths lie, and a written analysis that provides more detail.
The main purpose of the combat report is to give an in-world demonstration of how other characters perceive your character’s strength. They are written to be accurate, of course, but only from the information a reporter would be able to figure out. If a character has immense hidden strength, it should be expected that their report should be rather negative.
(Although, in cases like that, there should be some hints that the reporting wasn’t accurate, such as a comment in the footnotes.)
Note
I like doing combat reports— they’re fun. If you don’t mind (or simply don’t care for it), I can do this section for you.
Stat Profile
| Strength | ●○○○○○○○○○ |
| Endurance | ●●○○○○○○○○ |
| Agility | ●●●○○○○○○○ |
| Technique | ●●●●○○○○○○ |
| Mind | ●●●●○○○○○○ |
| Casting | ●●●●●●○○○○ |
| Wisdom | ●●●●○○○○○○ |
The Central Kingdoms’s stats table is an all-rounded skill analysis that is suitable in most cases. It is the most common stats table in the overworld (and the only one currently being used).
The stats are roughly organized into physical and mental relevance with the top and bottom stats, respectively. Each stat given a value from zero to ten, known as a stat’s rank.
- Strength: Your physical power in a fight, i.e. how hard you can hit.
- Endurance: Constitution, defense; the amount you can withstand.
- Agility: Speed, dexterity, and reactivity.
- Technique: How good are you at what you do? How reliable?
- Mind: Mental fortitude, mana manipulation effectiveness.
- Casting: Speed of spellcasting, and effectiveness in conjuring new spells.
- Wisdom: Intelligence, emotional stability, etc.
Stats are genrally interconnected— strength, endurance, and agility usually all benefit from the other, and mind and casting are improved simultaneously (though not necessarily at the same amounts). Technique is mostly calculated by the other stats (sans Wisdom), but does not necessarily need to be an average of them all.
The major flaw with this stat profile is that many pieces of blessed equipment exceed the power of a max rank stat in most cases. In lore, this means that individuals with blessings almost always have a stat profile lower than what their power demonstrates, however this is rarely an issue because people with blessed equipment are typically well known, making the purpose of a stat profile relatively irrelevant.
Footnotes
Footnotes (not to be confused with the footnotes section on a stat profile, which are written to be in-lore), are bits of information attached to the bottom of the page, to give additional context. When creating original characters, footnotes are used to explain information that might not make immediate sense, or may be misleading.
For example:
- Rovi’s stat profile gives him a rank of “N/A” for Mind and Casting, when it should be a numerical value.
- Ryan’s character has an Etheral affinity, but only really uses it to enhance his physical endurance, making him look as if he has no affinity at all.