The Orlesian occupation of Ferelden lasted almost a century, marking a dark period in Thedas.
Vigil's Keep was the first fortress to fall. Twenty years after the invasion began there, Orlais finally sacked the city of Denerim, claiming victory and drove the king into hiding. Though routed, the king now known as "Brandel the Defeated" continued to rebel against the Orlesians... but his efforts have proven inefficient, as most nobles believe that Ferelden is truly lost.
August has just ended and the cold and rain are starting to show, on-and-off, in the southern parts of the continent. The northern half is experiencing only minor changes.
All skins coded by Dani, graphics made for them a collaboration between Dani & El.
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NOV. 24th Happy belated first month anniversary to us! A few things to be noted. We are currently taking nominations for our first ever site spotlights. The nomination period will be over by the 30th, so feel free to take your time as new members and threads roll in. Just don't forget about them. Secondly, the advertising contest is still going strong, but it slated to wrap up at the end of the month. If you want to earn some extra gold and help promote the site, best to get on that now, while the rewards are higher than usual. Thirdly, the site lottery is still going, and the drawing period will be over Friday. Lastly, we should be getting that multiplayer thread soon. Sorry it's been delayed so long--as you can imagine, I've been busy with single player for Inquisition. Once I'm done, I'll put up the threads and we can hopefully get some games going.
OCT. 19th We're kicking off the site's grand opening with quite a few things to do (besides apply and join, of course ;D). We have an advertising contest going on right now, which will earn new members a ton of gold. You even get ten gold just for advertising for us once. Aside from that, our first ever site lottery is underway, with double the traditional jackpot payout. There might even be a few other things that we've forgotten to mention, but we're sure you can figure those out on your own. ;D As a final note, with DAI's release date being less than a month out (in North America), we're strongly considering organizing multiplayer across the various platforms so IWV members can play together. If that sounds like something that might interest you, keep your eyes peeled for the next little while.
NAME: First and last name only, please. If you have purchased a title of nobility, please place your title prior to your name. IE, Bann Name McNamerson.
NATIONALITY: Please keep in mind that some origins are restricted, such as Orzammar Dwarf and Female Qunari. Most characters should come from either Orlais or Ferelden, and those characters that do not should have an adequate explanation as to why they are so far afield.
RACE: Dwarf, Elf, Human, Qunari.
AGE: Normally pretty simple, but depending on your character's age, you can get some bonuses. Every 10 years over 20 years of age, your character gets 1 additional skill, spell/talent point, and 25 gold, up until the lates 50s, when age begins to catch up with most individuals. This is to signify that with age comes experience. As a note, age will be rounded up past 8. IE, 28, 38, etc will count as belonging to that next decade.
GENDER: Pretty self explanatory.
ARCHETYPE: Your character's societal role. See the Archetype page for more information.
PROFESSION: What your character does for a living. Are they a Circle Mage, a Templar, a Craftsman, or perhaps a Tavern Wench? Please keep in mind that rank and title both affect the loftiness of one's profession, so most characters should have a relatively mundane profession as compared to being a Knight Commander or Seeker of Truth.
RANK: Unless purchased beforehand, all characters start at Rank 0. Rank impacts your character's influence and control over the organization(s) to which they belong. A breakdown of sample ranks can be found here.
CLASS: Most characters will either be a Mage, Rogue, or Warrior. However, the majority of the population is simply Civilian, underlining the fact that most sentient beings do not have combat skills.
APPEARANCE: Required, in a sense. Even if it's just two-three sentences, we need the bare basics. Third person narrative is required.
PERSONALITY: Required. Two paragraphs are the suggested minimum for this, with coherent and consistent traits. Third person narrative is required.
BACKGROUND: Required. Three paragraphs are the suggested minimum for this. Third person narrative is required.
☀ Please copy the code beneath the headers, as we've discovered quoting can have some odd effects. We have two versions of the application, a linear and freeform. Naturally the freeform still has some required information, and we still expect to be able to glean some level of personality and background information from whatever you do with the freeform, but otherwise, go wild.
☀ Please keep all applications, including freefrom, third person past tense.
☀ The subject title of your application should be labeled as follows: Name ; Class (Ex: Avery Mondivarius ; Rogue). Names can be just a first name, first & last, or an alias (alias would only be viable if that's the only name they tend to go by 90% of the time).
☀ WIP applications are allowed, BUT BE WARNED, due to coding limitations, the application MUST be edited inside of a text editing program, as edits after the application has been posted will be next to impossible due to the finicky code. With that in mind, please tag them with [WIP] before the rest of the thread title. You have a week to complete a WIP application, at which time it will be moved to the character archives.
☀ Once you are accepted be sure to PM the admin that accepted you with the items you want for your character, and the total cost of said items. Meaning that you should reference what your archetype is given, choose the corresponding goodies for your character and determine the total cost. This is so we can send you the appropriate amount of gold for you to purchase those skills, items and the like for yourself. Please note that we will be referencing the items you requested and the items you bought. We won't have any cheating!
☀ You can add sections to the linear form IF for feel comfortable enough with coding to do so. However we ask you don't add a ridiculously large amount of sections - two or three is fine, but if you have a lot of things to note, making a general 'miscellaneous' section should work.
☀ Note from Dani: If you mess with how things are spaced, you will likely mis-align part of the template. I tried to make this thing as simple as I could, coding-wise, but I can only do so much, and as a way to compensate the heavy coding that people can get lost in, I spaced everything apart and coded around the elements of the spaces. As such, these things can be a little bit touchy.
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We more than welcome guests into our cbox. Feel free to introduce yourself, get to know the others, and ask any questions. However please do not use this cbox as a free chat room - unless you have buisness with, or are looking into this site, we ask that you don't clog our cbox with random bits.