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- Mar 28, 2024
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Plot overview
In the northern desert of the lands of Aridonia the tower of the evil sorcerer High Lord Balthazar suddenly appeared.
As a daughter of the Ochieng, a well-known family of knights and guardians of the neighboring region, the young Kioni sets out on a quest to defeat him, eager to prove herself to her older brothers. But instead of the glorious victory she imagined, all she encounters there is utter defeat, losing not only the fight but her freedom as well.
After years in slavery, an exceptional barbarian named Björn arrives at the tower and stumbles over the imprisoned swordswoman by chance, deciding to help her defeat the sorcerer and get her back to her family safely. A long way from home as the tower had been moved again, they get to know each other on their journey and fall in love with each other.
In the northern desert of the lands of Aridonia the tower of the evil sorcerer High Lord Balthazar suddenly appeared.
As a daughter of the Ochieng, a well-known family of knights and guardians of the neighboring region, the young Kioni sets out on a quest to defeat him, eager to prove herself to her older brothers. But instead of the glorious victory she imagined, all she encounters there is utter defeat, losing not only the fight but her freedom as well.
After years in slavery, an exceptional barbarian named Björn arrives at the tower and stumbles over the imprisoned swordswoman by chance, deciding to help her defeat the sorcerer and get her back to her family safely. A long way from home as the tower had been moved again, they get to know each other on their journey and fall in love with each other.
"Nala Kioni Ochieng"
Meaning "successful", "full of life" and "born when the sun shines", but she mostly goes by Kioni.
She's brown-skinned, has almond-shaped dark brown eyes, high cheekbones, full lips and eyebrows, soft facial features and black tightly coiled curls plaited into thin braids and tied together in a tail reaching to the lower edge of her shoulder blades. She's 5'9" tall and as a skilled swordswoman she has an athletic but still curvy and soft body. She doesn't have any tattoos, but she'd wear big earrings and a necklace made of small gemstones.
Kioni comes from a dryer, subtropical steppe-like region called Aridonia, where the native language is Aridian and the people are called Aridonians.
The land has vast deserts, orange-golden plains and rugged mountains and is home to many deadly animals. Adapted to the arid and dangerous environment the Aridonians are rather strong, resilient and resourceful. To survive, they had to study the animals living around them, finding ways to live symbiotically with them or learn about their weaknesses to fight them off, which is still taught to every kid growing up, as you never know when a new species or enemies suddenly appear.
Their cities and towns are either built into the mountains or made from sandstone.
Kioni's family comes from and reigns over a region closer to the border, which is governed by the city of Jua Mwema, usually referred to as Sunvale in other languages, southern of the desert Simba Jangwa.
Their language is characterized by sharp, guttural sounds and rolling consonants. When speaking in other languages, they have a distinct accent with a clipped and precise enunciation.
Meaning "successful", "full of life" and "born when the sun shines", but she mostly goes by Kioni.
She's brown-skinned, has almond-shaped dark brown eyes, high cheekbones, full lips and eyebrows, soft facial features and black tightly coiled curls plaited into thin braids and tied together in a tail reaching to the lower edge of her shoulder blades. She's 5'9" tall and as a skilled swordswoman she has an athletic but still curvy and soft body. She doesn't have any tattoos, but she'd wear big earrings and a necklace made of small gemstones.
Kioni comes from a dryer, subtropical steppe-like region called Aridonia, where the native language is Aridian and the people are called Aridonians.
The land has vast deserts, orange-golden plains and rugged mountains and is home to many deadly animals. Adapted to the arid and dangerous environment the Aridonians are rather strong, resilient and resourceful. To survive, they had to study the animals living around them, finding ways to live symbiotically with them or learn about their weaknesses to fight them off, which is still taught to every kid growing up, as you never know when a new species or enemies suddenly appear.
Their cities and towns are either built into the mountains or made from sandstone.
Kioni's family comes from and reigns over a region closer to the border, which is governed by the city of Jua Mwema, usually referred to as Sunvale in other languages, southern of the desert Simba Jangwa.
Their language is characterized by sharp, guttural sounds and rolling consonants. When speaking in other languages, they have a distinct accent with a clipped and precise enunciation.
"High Lord Balthazar of House Serpensis, first of his name and Exhalted Sorcerer."
The sorcerer looks to be in his late 30s or early 40s but is really about 300 years old, and there's a magical artifact in his possession that keeps him immortal - if it's broken, he ages back to where he would be now, which is to say, a pile of dust.
He is of a medium skin tone, like light olive roughly, green eyes, tall (about 6'3"), skinny, short black hair and a goatee with a little sprinkle of grey (a Dr Strange kind of look only more sinister). He is an old fashioned noble type, but he has a magical snake tattoo, as it's his family's symbol, that can slither and move around his body, and even turn into a real snake.
Balthazar comes from Hellenia, where people are called Hellenians and speak Hellenic.
Hellenia is lush, pretty flat with some small mountains, temperate, known for their rich cuisine, wine, culture, philosophy, art, science, literature, etc. One of the pillars of civilization. It's a very nice place to live all round...well, except for the slaves, which are like 20% of the population. It also has a reputation for being a place of excess and hedonism at times, especially among the higher classes who can afford such luxuries. Hence you can see where Balthazar gets it from.
The sorcerer speaks many, many languages fluently and elegantly, rarely cursing and using purple prose whenever he feels like it.
The sorcerer looks to be in his late 30s or early 40s but is really about 300 years old, and there's a magical artifact in his possession that keeps him immortal - if it's broken, he ages back to where he would be now, which is to say, a pile of dust.
He is of a medium skin tone, like light olive roughly, green eyes, tall (about 6'3"), skinny, short black hair and a goatee with a little sprinkle of grey (a Dr Strange kind of look only more sinister). He is an old fashioned noble type, but he has a magical snake tattoo, as it's his family's symbol, that can slither and move around his body, and even turn into a real snake.
Balthazar comes from Hellenia, where people are called Hellenians and speak Hellenic.
Hellenia is lush, pretty flat with some small mountains, temperate, known for their rich cuisine, wine, culture, philosophy, art, science, literature, etc. One of the pillars of civilization. It's a very nice place to live all round...well, except for the slaves, which are like 20% of the population. It also has a reputation for being a place of excess and hedonism at times, especially among the higher classes who can afford such luxuries. Hence you can see where Balthazar gets it from.
The sorcerer speaks many, many languages fluently and elegantly, rarely cursing and using purple prose whenever he feels like it.
"Björn."
Just Björn, no titles, no surnames, only the nickname "Half-Eyes", though he resents that name because people usually make fun of his heterochromia.
The barbarian is 6'6" tall, broad shouldered, very muscly, very little visable body fat, surprisingly little body hair. Long jet black hair, rough stubble on his pronounced chizzled jaw (he shaves with a knife, not a razor), pale skinned as he's originally from the Far North (Germanic/Scandinavian analogue, vikings basically). Lots of tattoos I think, his arms, chest, and back mostly. There will be Nordic runes on his right arm I think to signify heritage, but he's gonna have a mix of styles as he's been all over the place and wants to show it off, they're also going to be symbols of his triumphs as an adventurer. He wears one earring and a septum, being more of a brutish, primative type. As usual for a barbarian, he has a lot of scars.
Björn he has heterochromia; one light blue eye and one greenish-hazel. Something invisible at a distance or in dim lighting, but becomes plainly obvious up close.
Björn comes from a place called Nordholm, the language is Nordic and people there are called Nords.
Nordholm isn't really a kingdom, more like a confederacy of different Jarls and sometimes kings. There's lots of mountains, valleys, fjords, and of course ice and snow. It's a pretty brutal place and you gotta be tough to live there. Plus it's not the most fertile land so most people train in combat from an early age in case there's a bad harvest and they need to go raid some place.
Even though very uncommon and unexpected of a nomadic barbarian, Björn also speaks many languages fluently, just...well, he's much more vulgar than anyone you've ever met who was that supposedly cultured.
Just Björn, no titles, no surnames, only the nickname "Half-Eyes", though he resents that name because people usually make fun of his heterochromia.
The barbarian is 6'6" tall, broad shouldered, very muscly, very little visable body fat, surprisingly little body hair. Long jet black hair, rough stubble on his pronounced chizzled jaw (he shaves with a knife, not a razor), pale skinned as he's originally from the Far North (Germanic/Scandinavian analogue, vikings basically). Lots of tattoos I think, his arms, chest, and back mostly. There will be Nordic runes on his right arm I think to signify heritage, but he's gonna have a mix of styles as he's been all over the place and wants to show it off, they're also going to be symbols of his triumphs as an adventurer. He wears one earring and a septum, being more of a brutish, primative type. As usual for a barbarian, he has a lot of scars.
Björn he has heterochromia; one light blue eye and one greenish-hazel. Something invisible at a distance or in dim lighting, but becomes plainly obvious up close.
Björn comes from a place called Nordholm, the language is Nordic and people there are called Nords.
Nordholm isn't really a kingdom, more like a confederacy of different Jarls and sometimes kings. There's lots of mountains, valleys, fjords, and of course ice and snow. It's a pretty brutal place and you gotta be tough to live there. Plus it's not the most fertile land so most people train in combat from an early age in case there's a bad harvest and they need to go raid some place.
Even though very uncommon and unexpected of a nomadic barbarian, Björn also speaks many languages fluently, just...well, he's much more vulgar than anyone you've ever met who was that supposedly cultured.
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