The advisors thing is smart! As for how to divide the territories, it's hard to communicate through words, but we can utilize the rivers and mountains to create more natural territory lines. I'll see about drawing out a rough sketch in a moment, just as an example!
Should we name each of the families in possession of immortals?
Ok! And naming them doesn't sound like a bad idea at all :D I'm working on getting Caligo's template right now but I can help in a little while.
Name: Caligo (Will use the last name of the family/ ruler she is with)
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bi
Appearance: Caligo has noticeably dark black hair that is always stick-straight. It falls to about the bottom of her shoulder blades when it's down. Her eyes are a strange mix of brown and green that never seems to stay the same color, but they fall closest to hazel most days. She only stands at about 5'7" and she's a twig. Mostly from lack of food, but she looks ready to fall over at any moment if it wasn't for the almost surprising amount of light muscle on her frame. Pale skin that is marred with many tiny scars, most fading with time. The most noticeable ones though are the long gashes on her back from being whipped and the set of claw marks on the left side of her chest, spanning from her shoulder down across to the center of her chest.
Personality: Will mostly be revealed but when she's in captivity she's eerily quiet, mostly because talking leads to punishment. Even though she's silent, she has a tiny streak of pride left in her, which leads to her defying orders to take someone's life most of the time. Just really wants to be free and be loved.
Powers: Death
Likes: Stars, sunshine, being in control (Even though she hates it at the same time)
Dislikes: Darkness. She hates the dark, with a passion. Being alone for long periods of time.
Background: She won't disclose anything about her past.
Other: The gem she wields is Iolite set in a silver armband for the upper arm.
I love her! And I'll work on the territory thing tomorrow—unfortunately I won't have time tonight, like I'd hoped.
As for family names, I have a couple random suggestions?
I can come up with more if these don't work or you don't have any others! I literally just misspelled words on purpose and let autocorrect decide lol.
(Also unrelated, but this song is a bop and really sweet and I think somewhat fits the softer vibe of this rp)
All of those work for me! If you're good with using them, then we just need three more that I can get together if you'd like?
(Oh my gosh I think I found a new favorite song tbh :D That definitely fits)
I can spitball a few more! How about Chiara, Basale, and Venire? (And then an extra because I'm not sure if you already had one in mind or just miscounted—) Ferreter? Also I finished dividing the map into nine territories. If you'd like it to be changed at all, let me know!
(And awesome! I love SAINT PHNX, so I get excited when anyone ends up liking any of their music!! :3 )
Those names work for me! And that works perfectly for dividing the map up :) Now we just have to deal with deciding what names go where and which immortals they each have…I could do a random number generator and randomly pair up the immortals and families if you think that's the easiest?
That sounds good to me! We could always just put the names in order, too, whichever works!
I'll get something together in about twenty minutes :) Do you have a preference on which last name goes with the current ruler?
Ahh, I just realized what wasn't adding up lmao. I'll have to change the map in a bit, but I meant to divide up the territories into nine, not ten…which I did… Would you be alright with combining the turquoise and magenta into one? I genuinely forgot about the ruler's area being separate.
And no, not particularly!
So here's the parings I got up. The number is which section the family rules, then it lists the immortal they have and finally the family name. I hope it makes sense?
7: Life (Andre), Chiara
3: Fire (Olivia), Venire
5: Light (Elina), Basale
2: Water (Kyo), Tumen
4: Energy (Samuel), Ensile
8: Earth (Lilly), Ferreter
6: Psychics (Isaac), Kresol
1: Shaping (Dakota), Sievert
9: Death (Caligo), Borland
I think the tenth territory is just that island between orange and purple if I'm reading the map correctly, so it should be fine, but if you'd like to rearrange go ahead!
I just meant in terms of, if each family and the ruler is in possession of an immortal, then that'd make nine, obviously. And if the ruler lives with their immortal on that island (which I'm counting as one territory), then there should be eight other territories, where I put nine. Otherwise there's an extra territory without any immortals. I feel like it's something that should be fixed, but if you're sure you're alright with it like this, then I can leave it!
And alrighty! Do the numbers go from left to right across the map?
OHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok, that makes sense, I had a brain fart lol. I don't mind if you want to combine those two, but otherwise, I would suggest maybe making splitting the orange or red to fit another territory? As for the numbers, that works for me, however you want to put them in works :)
I think combining turquoise and magenta would be the easiest way to make nine territories in all. I have to admit, I'm not quite sure what you mean by splitting a territory. Wouldn't that just make more? Unless you're going for more, which is totally fine, too!
And cool, so how does this sound, assuming we go the nine territories route?
So wait, you want to combine some? If we were going the nine territories route, with the 'island' being one territory, wouldn't we need to add one to the 'mainland'? Or are you planning on the yellow island actually being a territory? Just wondering since it seems really tiny compared to the other territories.
Other than that, it looks good, I'm just confused about that.
No you're fine, I'm not explaining it well lol. I was only counting the island (yellow) as an official territory in terms of dividing up the immortals. If the ruler is going to live on that island with an immortal in their possession, then there's eight left—hence the eight "mainland" territories I was shooting for. I just miscounted when I drew out the territories and made nine mainland ones (excluding the island, which accounts for one immortal), which doesn't really make sense unless there are ten immortals and ten families/names. Hopefully that makes sense?? I'm sorry for the confusion!
OHMYGOSH I'M DUMB I get what you mean nowwwwww >_< I'm really sorry it took me that long to understand what you meant. I'm perfectly fine with combining those two now that I get what you're going at :)
Nah, you're fine, I was explaining it really badly lmao. I kept term-jumping—but now that it's sorted, are you alright with each of the elementals that were paired? Mainly Olivia being the ruler's immortal? Or did you already have someone else planned for them?
I think those parings should work if you're fine with them, whatever you think would work best for the plot. The only question I have now to get your opinion on is do you think each territory would have an 'arena' for the whole executioner/murder thing? Just want to make sure we get things sorted out before jumping in.
Hmm, probably not, in my opinion. I imagine the arena thing would be a pretty unique thing, with people from other territories often coming to watch. Just 'cause I can't see all families using their immortals in the same way—although I'm not saying others shouldn't exist. Just probably not in every territory. Maybe two or three at max? It's up to you!
I like that idea :D If you're down for three arenas or even just two, maybe we could have them spread out over the country? Maybe one in the red territory, one in black/white, and the final one in orange or yellow with the ruler?
Yeah, that sounds good! I would say one in yellow might make for an interesting plot, 'cause it could give Anna and Caligo a cover for sneaking in if they need to (like, say the council is at the same time as a match, since there's gotta be some kind of entertainment–) . Otherwise, orange works well, too!
Alrighty! Well then, with that, any more questions before we start?
Not that I can think of, no! :3