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MsBloom
Moonchild
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2020
- Location
- Northern Europe
This world was built in association with @DarkDreamer9110.
It is a very inclusive world where no species, gender, identity or orientation is denied.
Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth (since 1193)
Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth was founded in 1193 by Cath'rinne Pomeroy as a school where young girls could learn and hone their natural magical skills. When in 1216 (at the notable age of 87 Cath'rinne drew her last breath her oldest son Jeustin Pomeroy took over as headmaster for the school, which now also allowed boys to study there, and it has ever since been handed down to the oldest child of the headmistress/headmaster. In the beginning there were only a handful of students learning their art at the Academy but during the latter half of the 17th century youth from all over England came to the school to study magic. They even came from Wales, Normandy, Bretagne, Ireland, Scotland and the school grew, as did its power.
In 1702, the year of her crowning, Queen Anne Stuart visited the Academy and gave it royal privileges on the condition they not be spoken of lightly or to anyone other than herself and her successors. These privileges included, among a substantial financial grant to keep the academy running, the academy to have one representative the royal advisers. Through these privileges Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth became the best kept secret of the English (and later British) state.
The Academy has three house:
House FitzGerald (After Gerald FitzGerald 8th Earl of Kildare, 1457–1513)
House Eye (After Margery Jourdemayne "The Witch of Eye" before 1415 – 27 October 1441)
House Shipton (After Ursula Southeil "Mother Shipton"
The story as such is not yet set other than it being based around a personal vendetta against the Pomeroy family, one that go as far back as to the Norman Invasion, a grudge that began at the battle of Hastings in 1066 between Cath'rinne's great grandmother and Mathilda Downing one of the defending Anglo-Saxon Wizards.
There is also framework for an opener in which Philomena and Angharad are leading a group of students on an excursion of the heath looking, as part of their education, for mythical creatures living there. As they make their way across the heath Philomena suddenly stop them and ask them to listen. She then says something like: "That's the Banshee weeping, someone is going to die tonight."
Shortly after they hear The Black Chuck baying in the distance.
When they get back, or the next morning, news arrive of someone affiliated with the academy having been found torn to pieces as if by a wolf. (Kendra Downing's first strike against the academy in the story.)
Characters already in progress.
Aurora "Rory" Fletcher.
19, AFAB, Pansexual, Non-Binary (possibly unhatched Trans-male).
Major: Conjuration. (but also has an inclination for the darker arts such as Necromancy)
House: Eye (One of two prefects)
Player: MsBloom
Galatea (nee Goliath) Petrichor
Species: Gargoyle
Age: 17
House:
Galatea has transitioned socially but not yet physically. (She first needs to be an adult.)
Player: DarkDreamer9110
Staff:
Athena Pomeroy, Headmistress. (Played jointly by MsBloom/DarkDreamer9110)
Philomena Pomeroy (Daughter of Athena, teacher of history, lore and herbology) (Played by MsBloom)
Angharad Captain of the Gargoyle guard, groundskeeper. (Played by DarlDreamer9110)
Saoirse Gallagher, 30. (Pansexual, CIS,)
Subject: Conjuration
House: Eye (Formerly prefect, now head)
In a relationships with Ciaran Buckley
Player: MsBloom.
Name: Ciaran Buckley (Buckley being Irish for "bleak hill")
Species: Dullahan
Subject: Potions
Age: Appears to be around 30, claims to be far older.
House: FitzGerald (former prefect, now head)
In a relationship with Saoirse Gallagher.
Faceclaim suggestions for professors/staff:
One Two.
Students:
Rowan Devereaux 18. (Straight, CIS.)
Major: Runes/Abjuration.
House: FitzGerald
Antagonist to Rory and Galatea. (Open to be adopted by another player. Please discuss it with us first though.)
Jean/ne Du Lac 16. (Gay, Trans-male, socially transitioned)
Major: Potions and Herbology.
House: Eye.
Considering that the first Gender Affirming Surgery was performed in 1931, I was thinking there might be some magical way of achieving the same result, a potion perhaps that require certain very rare ingredients, some that may not even have been heard of in centuries.
Player: MsBloom
Edmund Blackwood. 17. Bi cis crossdresser.
House: Shipton
Player: DarkDreamer9110
Faceclaim suggestions for students:
One Two Three Four Five Six
Houses:
House FitzGerald (After Gerald FitzGerald 8th Earl of Kildare, 1457–1513)
House Eye (After Margery Jourdemayne "The Witch of Eye" before 1415 – 27 October 1441)
House Shipton (After Ursula Southeil "Mother Shipton")
Villain:
Kendra Downing.
Actual age unknown but appears to be in her mid to late 20s. (Open to be adopted by another player. Please discuss it with us first though.)
Non-Humans:
If interested please contact either @MsBloom or @DarkDreamer9110 with a basic character concept. Once we have enough interest we will make a character thread and an OoC thread for plotting.
It is a very inclusive world where no species, gender, identity or orientation is denied.
Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth (since 1193)
Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth was founded in 1193 by Cath'rinne Pomeroy as a school where young girls could learn and hone their natural magical skills. When in 1216 (at the notable age of 87 Cath'rinne drew her last breath her oldest son Jeustin Pomeroy took over as headmaster for the school, which now also allowed boys to study there, and it has ever since been handed down to the oldest child of the headmistress/headmaster. In the beginning there were only a handful of students learning their art at the Academy but during the latter half of the 17th century youth from all over England came to the school to study magic. They even came from Wales, Normandy, Bretagne, Ireland, Scotland and the school grew, as did its power.
In 1702, the year of her crowning, Queen Anne Stuart visited the Academy and gave it royal privileges on the condition they not be spoken of lightly or to anyone other than herself and her successors. These privileges included, among a substantial financial grant to keep the academy running, the academy to have one representative the royal advisers. Through these privileges Pomeroy's Academy for Exceptional Youth became the best kept secret of the English (and later British) state.
The Academy has three house:
House FitzGerald (After Gerald FitzGerald 8th Earl of Kildare, 1457–1513)
House Eye (After Margery Jourdemayne "The Witch of Eye" before 1415 – 27 October 1441)
House Shipton (After Ursula Southeil "Mother Shipton"
The story as such is not yet set other than it being based around a personal vendetta against the Pomeroy family, one that go as far back as to the Norman Invasion, a grudge that began at the battle of Hastings in 1066 between Cath'rinne's great grandmother and Mathilda Downing one of the defending Anglo-Saxon Wizards.
There is also framework for an opener in which Philomena and Angharad are leading a group of students on an excursion of the heath looking, as part of their education, for mythical creatures living there. As they make their way across the heath Philomena suddenly stop them and ask them to listen. She then says something like: "That's the Banshee weeping, someone is going to die tonight."
Shortly after they hear The Black Chuck baying in the distance.
When they get back, or the next morning, news arrive of someone affiliated with the academy having been found torn to pieces as if by a wolf. (Kendra Downing's first strike against the academy in the story.)
Characters already in progress.
Aurora "Rory" Fletcher.
19, AFAB, Pansexual, Non-Binary (possibly unhatched Trans-male).
Major: Conjuration. (but also has an inclination for the darker arts such as Necromancy)
House: Eye (One of two prefects)
Player: MsBloom
Galatea (nee Goliath) Petrichor
Species: Gargoyle
Age: 17
House:
Galatea has transitioned socially but not yet physically. (She first needs to be an adult.)
Player: DarkDreamer9110
Staff:
Athena Pomeroy, Headmistress. (Played jointly by MsBloom/DarkDreamer9110)
Philomena Pomeroy (Daughter of Athena, teacher of history, lore and herbology) (Played by MsBloom)
Angharad Captain of the Gargoyle guard, groundskeeper. (Played by DarlDreamer9110)
Saoirse Gallagher, 30. (Pansexual, CIS,)
Subject: Conjuration
House: Eye (Formerly prefect, now head)
In a relationships with Ciaran Buckley
Player: MsBloom.
Name: Ciaran Buckley (Buckley being Irish for "bleak hill")
Species: Dullahan
Subject: Potions
Age: Appears to be around 30, claims to be far older.
House: FitzGerald (former prefect, now head)
In a relationship with Saoirse Gallagher.
Faceclaim suggestions for professors/staff:
One Two.
Students:
Rowan Devereaux 18. (Straight, CIS.)
Major: Runes/Abjuration.
House: FitzGerald
Antagonist to Rory and Galatea. (Open to be adopted by another player. Please discuss it with us first though.)
Jean/ne Du Lac 16. (Gay, Trans-male, socially transitioned)
Major: Potions and Herbology.
House: Eye.
Considering that the first Gender Affirming Surgery was performed in 1931, I was thinking there might be some magical way of achieving the same result, a potion perhaps that require certain very rare ingredients, some that may not even have been heard of in centuries.
Player: MsBloom
Edmund Blackwood. 17. Bi cis crossdresser.
House: Shipton
Player: DarkDreamer9110
Faceclaim suggestions for students:
One Two Three Four Five Six
Houses:
House FitzGerald (After Gerald FitzGerald 8th Earl of Kildare, 1457–1513)
House Eye (After Margery Jourdemayne "The Witch of Eye" before 1415 – 27 October 1441)
House Shipton (After Ursula Southeil "Mother Shipton")
Villain:
Kendra Downing.
Actual age unknown but appears to be in her mid to late 20s. (Open to be adopted by another player. Please discuss it with us first though.)
Non-Humans:
The gargoyles have three primary forms. Their human form, their flesh-and-blood gargoyle form, and a living stone gargoyle form.
Gargoyles lay geode eggs, each one typically similar in shape to and slightly smaller than an American football (more like a large orange or a grapefruit), which must be incubated in mineral-rich hot springs.
Also, if a gargoyle is unsatisfied with their current form, the can form a geode-chrysalis-egg-thing and melt like butterflies inside it and then reform themselves however they like. Up to and including physical sex characteristics. And then they hatch
That is correct. Trans gargoyles hatch from actual eggs. Which are all rainbow geodes.
They also have no concept of monogamy. Or at least no institutionalised systemic concept of it. Some might pair bond, others are polycules that have upwards of 10-20 members.
And they're polytheistic and their big creator deity is a non binary they-ity who is called The Carver Of Stone And Flesh.
Gargoyles also have particular talents with stuff like earth-based magic, rock manipulation, etc.
Dartmoor is home to a gargoyle formation of, say, similar size to the school's population. And that basically the formation made a deal with Cath'rinne Pomeroy wherein it's basically a cultural exchange and mutual defense pact. Some gargoyles are employed as a security force at the school, some younger gargoyles attend it, etc.
Gargoyles lay geode eggs, each one typically similar in shape to and slightly smaller than an American football (more like a large orange or a grapefruit), which must be incubated in mineral-rich hot springs.
Also, if a gargoyle is unsatisfied with their current form, the can form a geode-chrysalis-egg-thing and melt like butterflies inside it and then reform themselves however they like. Up to and including physical sex characteristics. And then they hatch
That is correct. Trans gargoyles hatch from actual eggs. Which are all rainbow geodes.
They also have no concept of monogamy. Or at least no institutionalised systemic concept of it. Some might pair bond, others are polycules that have upwards of 10-20 members.
And they're polytheistic and their big creator deity is a non binary they-ity who is called The Carver Of Stone And Flesh.
Gargoyles also have particular talents with stuff like earth-based magic, rock manipulation, etc.
Dartmoor is home to a gargoyle formation of, say, similar size to the school's population. And that basically the formation made a deal with Cath'rinne Pomeroy wherein it's basically a cultural exchange and mutual defense pact. Some gargoyles are employed as a security force at the school, some younger gargoyles attend it, etc.
The banshee (also known as a bean sidhe, or ban sith) is a female spirit, which warns of impending death. In Irish legend, popular belief held that specific families had their own banshee and that banshees fell into one of two camps.
Some banshees were old hags, who would scream around a house to gleefully announce a family member's imminent death. Other banshees were beautiful young women who would weep for her family's impending sorrow. Either way, her eyes are said to be red from wailing so much, and she either wears white or black. To see her is a mark of great misfortune.
Some banshees were old hags, who would scream around a house to gleefully announce a family member's imminent death. Other banshees were beautiful young women who would weep for her family's impending sorrow. Either way, her eyes are said to be red from wailing so much, and she either wears white or black. To see her is a mark of great misfortune.
The Black Shuck is a giant, spectral dog, whose appearance is usually seen as an omen of death. Despite being an omen of death, occasionally Black Dogs will act as guardians for travellers walking alone at night—usually women. A local legend from Cronwall might have inspired the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Known by different names across the United Kingdom and Ireland, the puca is a mischievous shapeshifter. While a benevolent being, the puca does enjoy terrifying and confounding humans, merely for pleasure. It can change between both human and animal forms, though folklore suggests it prefers animal shapes. In human form, they can be identified by certain animal features—such as a tail or ears. The puca is particularly fond of appearing to humans as a beautiful dark stallion, however, if a person tries to ride the puca stallion it will find itself being taken for a wild ride, though the puca causes no harm to its victim.
Traditionally associated with autumn and the end of harvest, 1 November is the puca's day, a day when farmers leave out shares of the harvest for the puca to consume. As with many other creatures on this list, the exact nature of the puca differs from region to region—in some areas it is merely a trickster, in other areas, it is more malevolent, and in others, it is a kind being who aids and protects humans in trouble. The puca almost certainly served as inspiration for Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Traditionally associated with autumn and the end of harvest, 1 November is the puca's day, a day when farmers leave out shares of the harvest for the puca to consume. As with many other creatures on this list, the exact nature of the puca differs from region to region—in some areas it is merely a trickster, in other areas, it is more malevolent, and in others, it is a kind being who aids and protects humans in trouble. The puca almost certainly served as inspiration for Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
These minor goddesses lived in and with the trees of the forest. The original dryad was a nymph of the oak tree. The word Drys itself signifies oak in Greek. However, as time went on the term dryad came to mean any kind of tree-dwelling nymph.
Dryads would often take the form of young and beautiful women and most of them lived immortal lives. Unlike many other nymphs and fairies in folklore over the world, dryads were not mischievous but rather shy and unassuming.
Dryads would often take the form of young and beautiful women and most of them lived immortal lives. Unlike many other nymphs and fairies in folklore over the world, dryads were not mischievous but rather shy and unassuming.
A Lantern Man is the atmospheric ghost light, of malevolent spirits trying to draw victims to their death in the reed beds, were drawn to the sound of whistling and could be evaded by lying face down on the ground with your mouth in the mud.
If interested please contact either @MsBloom or @DarkDreamer9110 with a basic character concept. Once we have enough interest we will make a character thread and an OoC thread for plotting.
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