Post by Lilystar88 on Feb 10, 2018 10:54:03 GMT -5
Introduction
"The year is 196 of the 18th Dynasty (1352 BC). Your people have ruled the Nile for over two thousand years -- building pyramids that rival mountains in the North by Memphis, and entombing ruler after ruler in the Valley of the King's to the South by Thebes. Egypt has been made into a land of colour and luxury, trade and commerce, beauty and artistry. No other Kingdom can rival yours.
You thank the gods for such things -- for how they have brought Egypt prosperity.
And yet, there are those that would ignore the gods -- Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. The new Pharaoh, Akhenaten, says there is but a single god -- and his name is Aten.
Could this new idea be true? Or is it heretical madness? Perhaps the gods don't even matter to you, for there's more than gods to the sweet, fragrant and potently beautiful land you call home."
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Ta Da! After too many hour's researching this I've finally got a functioning Ancient Egypt RP up. I'll explain how it works in as few words as possible, cause who the hell actually reads these things.
Role Play Background
All of this is going to be fairly historically accurate. There's a lot of room for interpretation as records on Ancient Egypt are very unclear.
The current Pharaoh is Akhenaten. He has tried to change Egypt's religion by excluding all God's from the pantheon, claiming that the only God is 'Aten' -- a 'sun god' like Ra. Once Akhenaten dies, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and his vizier Ay (Nefertiti's father) all together change the religion back to the old ways. Akhenaten is married to Nefertiti, they have six daughters. In future years he is going to take another wife and by that wife produce Tutankhamun who is going to marry a daughter of Nefertiti's and have two stillborn daughter's. He is a sickly boy, and will die at eighteen years of age. After that, his vizier (second in command) will marry his wife and then take over Egypt.
Things that have happened in Egypt before this point include...
Map
(Don't think this is going to make ancient history professors fall in love with me but oh well here we go)
Family Trees
Again, a lot of this info is debatable. But I'm working off this framework for rping.
Rules(?)
Roles
You can be anything you want. Really, if I try and dictate this rp too much ya'll are going to leave. So, pick a role. You could be a concubine, a servant, a peasant, a doctor, nurse, midwife, call-girl/boy (it was a thing ok), carpenter, architect, sculptor, musician, wet-nurse, scribe, priest/priestess, soldier, general, commander, adviser to pharaoh, stable-hand, slave --- whatever you want. I trust you and your creativity
Frequently Anticipated Questions
(and by questions I mean complaints)
"I don't know enough about *insert aspect of ancient Egypt*!
Here ya go
Gods
Hierarchy
Pharaoh
Burial and Mummies
General Life in Ancient Egypt
It's simple information (except burial), but enough for you to get the jist of what the rp's all about
What I wanted to know wasn't listed above!
Ask me either by PM or on this thread
You did something inaccurate!
I probably did -- I'm not an expert on the subject. I'm open to discussion/debate about changing things to be more accurate if you want to
I don't know what to rp!
Come up with a character first then I'll match you up with someone (probably myself in the early stages) and make u a plot-line
This all looks a bit unsorted-out and I'm unsure of where to start..
Make a character and I'll help. I hate reading opening pages as well it all looks hard to figure out.
Characters
HISTORICAL CANON SHARED CHARACTERS
Name: Akhenaten
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Role: Pharaoh
Appearance: Big belly, moobs, wide hips, thin legs and thin face with egyptian features. Balding but is often seen in traditional pharaoh outfits so that is unnoticed.
Personality: Calculating, but loving and affectionate to his family. Somewhat brave but fearful as he knows his new changes are not embraced by all.
Family: Main wife is Nefertiti. Currently has four daughter's by her.
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Name: Nefertiti
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Role: Queen
Appearance: Extremely beautiful with slender facial features and bright obsidian eyes. Often seen in different but illustrious outfits befitting a Queen.
Personality: Has clear love for her husband and presents as compassionate, but is very sharp and a perfectionist. Tries hard to prove herself to the nobility as a competent leader. Very much seeks her father's approval.
Family: Father is Ay, husband is Akhenaten, has currently four daughters.
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Name: Ay
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Role: General/Advisor to Pharaoh
Appearance: Slender facial features, putting on a bit of weight nowadays. Looks a lot like his daughter Nefertiti. No beard/stubble.
Personality: Carries himself with entitlement and won't associate with anyone lower than him if he doesn't have to. Devout follower of the traditional full Egyptian pantheon. Clever. Seeks the advancement of himself and his family, but is wise enough not to cross the Pharaoh. Scheming.
Family: Daughter is Nefertiti, which makes him Pharaoh's father in law.
USER SPECIFIC CHARACTERS
Name: Meritaten or simply "Meri"
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Role: Princess
Appearance: Loveheart shaped head, unusually tall for her gender. Slightly chubbier than her mum with wide breasts and hips. Keeps a clean shaven head and often wears a braided black wig and is fond of black khol on her eyes and red paint on her lips. Quite dark skin as well.
Personality: Often seems mean and cynical to those around her, and acts just as a princess would be expected to act. Isn't keen on either of her parents because her mother tries to only make her dainty and polite, and her father loves her but will never let her rule unaided. Often seeks adventure and tries out dangerous activities.
History: N/A
Family: Father is Pharaoh Akhenaten and mother is Queen Nefertiti. Eldest child of both.
Other: Bi, and is the eldest child of both her parents.
Screen-name: Lilystar88
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Name: Thutsef
Age: 18
Gender: male
Role: Apprentice to Pharaoh's Scribe
Appearance: Muscular with no body hair except on his face which he is highly embarrassed about. Keeps his own hair, but it's very short and springy curly. Long scar on the back of his left thigh that he never speaks about. Full lips and other facial features.
Personality: Very eager to learn so will do anything to please his master, secretly frightened about religious reforms but curious about them. Does his best to seem unfeeling and a rigid machine on the outside. Invests all his money into his burial.
History: N/A
Family: Mother is a high priestess of Isis in Memphis. Rumours his father was a vagrant from beyond the Western Desert.
Other: N/A
Screen-name: Lilystar88
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Name:Cleopatra
Age: 18
Gender: female
Role: King/queen's servant
Appearance: long, solid, straight black hair that goes down to just below her chest with straight bangs over her forehead. She has sparkling blue eyes and full lips. Her body is more on the petite side. She has a light mocha complection.
Personality: She's mostly shy, but cares a lot about people and especially animals.
History: she was born into her family where they were the king/queen's servants.
Family: Her twin , Kha.
Other:N/A
Screen-name:kittykatcutiez
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Name: Kha
Age: 18
Gender:male
Role: servant to king/queen
Appearance: curly black hair and hazel eyes. He is tall and muscular. Has a light mocha complection.
Personality: He is very protective over his sister and doesn't trust anyone.
History:Same as Cleopatra
Family:His twin, Cleopatra
Other:N/A
Screen-name:kittykatcutiez
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Name: Ahmos, but goes by "Turo"
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Role: Runaway slave/low level merchant
Appearance: Turo is just about every definition of a street rat- he's about 5"8 and 140 pounds soaking wet. He has dark, olive colored, skin that is always tanned, and slanted dark brown eyes. His hair is cut short, the only thing that he actually pays attention to in his appearance. Its black and wavy, but currently it is long enough to cover his ears. He needs to cut it soon and has bad scarring on his back. Has no facial hair.
Personality: We shall see. His personality changes every now and then tbh.
History: When he was twelve he had been taken away from his family by slave traders who had been traveling down the Nile. Their small village that lived an hour (on foot) out of Memphis had been raided by strange. Many huts had been burned to the ground, and his parents had been gone on a trip to Memphis, so he was tasked with protecting his siblings. because of this he'd been taken away, brought to Thebes, where these strange men had claimed his family owed money and he'd been payment. He is a recent runaway, having escaped a year ago, and is currently living on the streets.
Family: Two sisters, father is a merchant in Memphis and mother is a Priestess under Sekhmet
Other: He is still on the run and even if some form of indentured servitude would allow him to live in better conditions he'd never go back to that. He makes his living by selling off thingshe steals from higher classes sells.
Screen-name: Sweetclover1
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Name: Ipy
Age: 23
Gender: female
Role: dancers for the royals
Appearance: Ipy has long stick straight black hair falling down to her waist in a shiny curtain. Her eyes are a light honey color. Her face is slender with high cheekbones. She is slim and has lean muscles from dancing.
Personality: Ipy is smooth but closed off. She is professional but in her profession she must be charming, flirtatious and suave.
History: Ipy does not reveal her history to just anyone.
Family: she has a younger sister that she takes care of and works to support.
Other:favorite of the king
Screen-name: Rosa
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Name: Chrysanthos Diokles
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Role: Demigod Prince of Athens
Appearance: Chrysanthos stands at 6'5"; revered for his god-like beauty throughout his kingdom, he draws gazes wherever he walks. It’s hard for him not to... having long golden hair in a place where the surrounding people all have black. His eyes are a clear sky blue, long lashed, and he has bronzed skin, covered in smatterings of freckles.
Chews his lips and fingernails; has pierced ears, and walks with the grace of a dancer.
Personality: Chrysanthos is an extremely gentle soul who struggles with conflict- an unwanted personality trait in that of a demigod. He would much rather go for a stroll down the beach than fight in a war. He has lived an extremely sheltered life- due to this, he’s far too trusting.
History: due to his ridiculously trusting nature and his naivety, Chrysanthos got himself captured by slavers, and has been traveling for about a month now- forced to do whatever his slavers sell him for.
Family: Ambrosius (Brother), King Diokles of Athens (Father), Aegon (Uncle)
Other: He likes cats. A lot. Egypt pleases him in this aspect.
Gay af.
Screen-name: Bloodrose
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Name: Ambrosius Diokles
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Role: Demigod Prince of Athens
Appearance: Ambrosius is shorter than his brother, standing at 5'11". He has bronze skin, deep black hair and even darker eyes.
Personality: Ambrosius has a darker personality, often resorting to snapping at people to release his anger, although he will apologise to them soon after. He is the complete opposite to his brother when it comes to war; he would happily go to war if needed to.
History: Since his brother was captured, he has hunted for him to bring him home. He is incredibly close to his brother and will do anything, and everything, to protect him.
Family: Chrysanthos (Brother),
King Diokles of Athens (father),
Aegon (Uncle)
Screen-name: Nighteyes
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Name: Ashait
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Role: Princess
Appearance: Ashait is old enough for people to see that she will one day be a relatively pretty young woman but young enough for her to still have rounded cheeks and a little bit of puppy fat. She also shaves her head like her older sister and wears a wig decorated with colourful glass beads. She has a strong nose, full lips and dark brown eyes.
Personality: Ashait is, like Meri, quite a free-spirited girl. But, as she is not next in line for the throne and is not the daughter of Ahkenaten's favourite wife, the family are rather less patient with her. Though she is quite a sweet girl, she is troubled by her ambition. She knows that the Egyptian throne is a kill-or-be-killed environment, and though she is close with her half-siblings, she is acutely aware that if you are not the first to turn on your siblings, you will lose the throne and most probably your life.
History: N/A
Family: The Pharaoh is her father, her mother is one of the Pharaoh's other wives (not Nefertiti) and she has four half-sisters, including Meri
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name: Esi
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Role: Apprentice to the pharaoh's physician
Appearance: Esi is tall with a waifish figure, though she admittedly looks a little more clumsy than elegant most of the time. Her long dark hair is braided and falls to her shoulder-blades. Her face is oval-shaped and her eyes are a rich amber colour. Other than her striking eyes, however, she is relatively plain looking
Personality: Esi is quite quiet and doesn't like to talk too much with people. She is very intelligent and has a great ability to focus, but when she's working or thinking about something she can never stand interruptions. She's a perfectionist and quite self-critical but has a great desire to help others
History: N/A
Family: Has a younger sister who also helps out from time to time
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name: Setka
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Role: Slave/servant at the palace
Appearance: Setka is around average height (or just under) and relatively well-built. He has strong features with a wide jaw and a square-shaped face. He has dark eyes and just as dark hair cut to about the length of his shoulder-blades. His face looks quite harsh when he's not smiling, though luckily he usually is smiling so it doesn't matter all that much.
Personality: Setka is basically just a ray of sunshine. He can be described as nothing else. He's very positive and outgoing and basically just quite friendly. He is very accommodating of others, however, and is quite naive. This often means that some less-pleasant people are able to manipulate him or take advantage of his kindness. And, of course, there are just those people who don't like happy people. In an effort to be friendly he can sometimes forget his manners and end up getting himself into trouble.
History: N/A
Family: He is far away from his family, who live in a distant part of Egypt
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name:
Yaeg
Age:
22
Gender:
Female
Role:
Tomb slave
Appearance:
Yaeg is pale white, which means she's a long looooong way from home and is treated like a dancing monkey in Egypt. She's got ginger hair and blue eyes, which she does nothing to hide. A few freckles cover her face, she's rather plump but strong and is about 5' 1'' in height. Various scars on her face too.
Personality:
Yaeg is dour, and dark. She's been in Egypt for 6 years, where she's picked up the language but isn't fully fluent in it. She enjoys scaring people, especially kids, since they're usually scared of her anyway. She's been beaten often because she's very unruly, stubborn, aggressive and, basically, not a good slave. The reason her personality is so foul though is because of how different she looks to the people of Egypt.
History:
At the age of 16, Yaeg became annoyed with her father (irish chieftain) and married a foreign man who turned out to be a slaver. She was first in Egypt sold as a dancer to a high priest, but she trashed his party, since then she's been sold in a long line of people who thought they could break her. None have succeed. Now she's being sold to slavers who build the tombs underneath Egypt.
Family:
All in Ireland and are basically still tribal savages.
Other:
None
Screen-name: Lilystar88
Joining Form
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Role:
Appearance:
Personality:
History:
Family:
Other:
Screen-name:
Some notes about the joining form would be don't go insane on appearance, try to include that in your rping. Follow the examples above if it helps.
Current Plotlines
* A plot to assassinate Nefertiti has been discovered by her temporary scribe, Thutsef. He and her servant, Cleopatra, work to foil the scheme before it's too late.
* The eldest daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaten has escaped from the palace to go drinking and sleeping with the vagabonds in the lower town just one too many times. This time, Meritaten's mother has decided to ban her from the palace for 6 weeks! Luckily, to help her in her temporary exile is the thief she just met -- Turo.
* Turo, on the other hand, has just tried to release a greek prince called Chrysanthos who has been unfortunately kidnapped and sold into slavery.
"The year is 196 of the 18th Dynasty (1352 BC). Your people have ruled the Nile for over two thousand years -- building pyramids that rival mountains in the North by Memphis, and entombing ruler after ruler in the Valley of the King's to the South by Thebes. Egypt has been made into a land of colour and luxury, trade and commerce, beauty and artistry. No other Kingdom can rival yours.
You thank the gods for such things -- for how they have brought Egypt prosperity.
And yet, there are those that would ignore the gods -- Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. The new Pharaoh, Akhenaten, says there is but a single god -- and his name is Aten.
Could this new idea be true? Or is it heretical madness? Perhaps the gods don't even matter to you, for there's more than gods to the sweet, fragrant and potently beautiful land you call home."
~~~
Ta Da! After too many hour's researching this I've finally got a functioning Ancient Egypt RP up. I'll explain how it works in as few words as possible, cause who the hell actually reads these things.
Role Play Background
All of this is going to be fairly historically accurate. There's a lot of room for interpretation as records on Ancient Egypt are very unclear.
The current Pharaoh is Akhenaten. He has tried to change Egypt's religion by excluding all God's from the pantheon, claiming that the only God is 'Aten' -- a 'sun god' like Ra. Once Akhenaten dies, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and his vizier Ay (Nefertiti's father) all together change the religion back to the old ways. Akhenaten is married to Nefertiti, they have six daughters. In future years he is going to take another wife and by that wife produce Tutankhamun who is going to marry a daughter of Nefertiti's and have two stillborn daughter's. He is a sickly boy, and will die at eighteen years of age. After that, his vizier (second in command) will marry his wife and then take over Egypt.
Things that have happened in Egypt before this point include...
- The exodus of the Israelite's happened approximately 200 years prior to rp start date under Thutmose the II. Directly after this Queen Hatsheput (Thutmose the II's wife) has become pharaoh and built her tomb.
- The Pyramids were built well over one thousand years ago.
Map
(Don't think this is going to make ancient history professors fall in love with me but oh well here we go)
Family Trees
Again, a lot of this info is debatable. But I'm working off this framework for rping.
Rules(?)
- Listen, I'm going to assume we're all adults/mature teens. I'm going to assume you know how to work role-plays and what is and isn't acceptable. If you're new to roleplaying you'll learn and we'll all gently guide you. Which means I don't expect ooc drama/problems/disagreements. If there is, I trust ya'll to sort it out yourselves.
- All obvious rules apply. I don't really have to tell you not to godmod or break forum rules, do I?
- The thing I'm going to say is that while this is a literate roleplay, I'm aware that sometimes you can't do multiple paragraph responses every single time. That's chill. But obviously still try to keep it as literate as you can within comfort. If I see "*goes to pharaoh and stabs him* oh oops lol" ....well chances are I'm just gonna ask you to stop, which ain't much of a threat. But yeah, you already knew that. You get the jist. I'll stop rambling. Sorry.
- As long as you stick within the historical guidelines above, you can do whatever you fecking want. Yes, Nefertiti can murder her husband cause he's basically Jewish drag queen (can provide you with historical context for that comment if you want), yes Tutankhamen can pop off a wain with some random slave. No, no one can invent the mobile phone or protest for women getting the vote (however I'm not adverse to a wee bit of magic if you want someone to control hippos or w/e).
- I'm aware that I'm trying to be historically accurate, and that historically, Ancient Egyptian's favourite hobbies were slavery and incest. I'm ok with you including some of the darker side of history, if you can keep it PG-13 (that's what the american's call it, isn't it?) on public forums. Feel free to reenact your fifty-shades-gone-ancient-egypt scenes in PM, but here let's respect that some people don't want to be put off their dinner by reading word-for-word how much so and so screamed while he was getting eaten by a crocodile.
- Now, here's the main one: major historical characters outlined above will be shared characters. The shared ones will be outlined. Any other minor ones you feel like using that is fine. They will have outlined personalities and profiles, but anyone can use them to advance their own plot. If, however, you have a particular interest in taking on board a certain historical character, I'll allow it as long as I know you're going to care for the character well and be regular.
Roles
You can be anything you want. Really, if I try and dictate this rp too much ya'll are going to leave. So, pick a role. You could be a concubine, a servant, a peasant, a doctor, nurse, midwife, call-girl/boy (it was a thing ok), carpenter, architect, sculptor, musician, wet-nurse, scribe, priest/priestess, soldier, general, commander, adviser to pharaoh, stable-hand, slave --- whatever you want. I trust you and your creativity
Frequently Anticipated Questions
(and by questions I mean complaints)
"I don't know enough about *insert aspect of ancient Egypt*!
Here ya go
Gods
Hierarchy
Pharaoh
Burial and Mummies
General Life in Ancient Egypt
It's simple information (except burial), but enough for you to get the jist of what the rp's all about
What I wanted to know wasn't listed above!
Ask me either by PM or on this thread
You did something inaccurate!
I probably did -- I'm not an expert on the subject. I'm open to discussion/debate about changing things to be more accurate if you want to
I don't know what to rp!
Come up with a character first then I'll match you up with someone (probably myself in the early stages) and make u a plot-line
This all looks a bit unsorted-out and I'm unsure of where to start..
Make a character and I'll help. I hate reading opening pages as well it all looks hard to figure out.
Characters
HISTORICAL CANON SHARED CHARACTERS
Name: Akhenaten
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Role: Pharaoh
Appearance: Big belly, moobs, wide hips, thin legs and thin face with egyptian features. Balding but is often seen in traditional pharaoh outfits so that is unnoticed.
Personality: Calculating, but loving and affectionate to his family. Somewhat brave but fearful as he knows his new changes are not embraced by all.
Family: Main wife is Nefertiti. Currently has four daughter's by her.
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Name: Nefertiti
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Role: Queen
Appearance: Extremely beautiful with slender facial features and bright obsidian eyes. Often seen in different but illustrious outfits befitting a Queen.
Personality: Has clear love for her husband and presents as compassionate, but is very sharp and a perfectionist. Tries hard to prove herself to the nobility as a competent leader. Very much seeks her father's approval.
Family: Father is Ay, husband is Akhenaten, has currently four daughters.
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Name: Ay
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Role: General/Advisor to Pharaoh
Appearance: Slender facial features, putting on a bit of weight nowadays. Looks a lot like his daughter Nefertiti. No beard/stubble.
Personality: Carries himself with entitlement and won't associate with anyone lower than him if he doesn't have to. Devout follower of the traditional full Egyptian pantheon. Clever. Seeks the advancement of himself and his family, but is wise enough not to cross the Pharaoh. Scheming.
Family: Daughter is Nefertiti, which makes him Pharaoh's father in law.
USER SPECIFIC CHARACTERS
Name: Meritaten or simply "Meri"
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Role: Princess
Appearance: Loveheart shaped head, unusually tall for her gender. Slightly chubbier than her mum with wide breasts and hips. Keeps a clean shaven head and often wears a braided black wig and is fond of black khol on her eyes and red paint on her lips. Quite dark skin as well.
Personality: Often seems mean and cynical to those around her, and acts just as a princess would be expected to act. Isn't keen on either of her parents because her mother tries to only make her dainty and polite, and her father loves her but will never let her rule unaided. Often seeks adventure and tries out dangerous activities.
History: N/A
Family: Father is Pharaoh Akhenaten and mother is Queen Nefertiti. Eldest child of both.
Other: Bi, and is the eldest child of both her parents.
Screen-name: Lilystar88
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Name: Thutsef
Age: 18
Gender: male
Role: Apprentice to Pharaoh's Scribe
Appearance: Muscular with no body hair except on his face which he is highly embarrassed about. Keeps his own hair, but it's very short and springy curly. Long scar on the back of his left thigh that he never speaks about. Full lips and other facial features.
Personality: Very eager to learn so will do anything to please his master, secretly frightened about religious reforms but curious about them. Does his best to seem unfeeling and a rigid machine on the outside. Invests all his money into his burial.
History: N/A
Family: Mother is a high priestess of Isis in Memphis. Rumours his father was a vagrant from beyond the Western Desert.
Other: N/A
Screen-name: Lilystar88
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Name:Cleopatra
Age: 18
Gender: female
Role: King/queen's servant
Appearance: long, solid, straight black hair that goes down to just below her chest with straight bangs over her forehead. She has sparkling blue eyes and full lips. Her body is more on the petite side. She has a light mocha complection.
Personality: She's mostly shy, but cares a lot about people and especially animals.
History: she was born into her family where they were the king/queen's servants.
Family: Her twin , Kha.
Other:N/A
Screen-name:kittykatcutiez
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Name: Kha
Age: 18
Gender:male
Role: servant to king/queen
Appearance: curly black hair and hazel eyes. He is tall and muscular. Has a light mocha complection.
Personality: He is very protective over his sister and doesn't trust anyone.
History:Same as Cleopatra
Family:His twin, Cleopatra
Other:N/A
Screen-name:kittykatcutiez
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Name: Ahmos, but goes by "Turo"
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Role: Runaway slave/low level merchant
Appearance: Turo is just about every definition of a street rat- he's about 5"8 and 140 pounds soaking wet. He has dark, olive colored, skin that is always tanned, and slanted dark brown eyes. His hair is cut short, the only thing that he actually pays attention to in his appearance. Its black and wavy, but currently it is long enough to cover his ears. He needs to cut it soon and has bad scarring on his back. Has no facial hair.
Personality: We shall see. His personality changes every now and then tbh.
History: When he was twelve he had been taken away from his family by slave traders who had been traveling down the Nile. Their small village that lived an hour (on foot) out of Memphis had been raided by strange. Many huts had been burned to the ground, and his parents had been gone on a trip to Memphis, so he was tasked with protecting his siblings. because of this he'd been taken away, brought to Thebes, where these strange men had claimed his family owed money and he'd been payment. He is a recent runaway, having escaped a year ago, and is currently living on the streets.
Family: Two sisters, father is a merchant in Memphis and mother is a Priestess under Sekhmet
Other: He is still on the run and even if some form of indentured servitude would allow him to live in better conditions he'd never go back to that. He makes his living by selling off things
Screen-name: Sweetclover1
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Name: Ipy
Age: 23
Gender: female
Role: dancers for the royals
Appearance: Ipy has long stick straight black hair falling down to her waist in a shiny curtain. Her eyes are a light honey color. Her face is slender with high cheekbones. She is slim and has lean muscles from dancing.
Personality: Ipy is smooth but closed off. She is professional but in her profession she must be charming, flirtatious and suave.
History: Ipy does not reveal her history to just anyone.
Family: she has a younger sister that she takes care of and works to support.
Other:favorite of the king
Screen-name: Rosa
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Name: Chrysanthos Diokles
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Role: Demigod Prince of Athens
Appearance: Chrysanthos stands at 6'5"; revered for his god-like beauty throughout his kingdom, he draws gazes wherever he walks. It’s hard for him not to... having long golden hair in a place where the surrounding people all have black. His eyes are a clear sky blue, long lashed, and he has bronzed skin, covered in smatterings of freckles.
Chews his lips and fingernails; has pierced ears, and walks with the grace of a dancer.
Personality: Chrysanthos is an extremely gentle soul who struggles with conflict- an unwanted personality trait in that of a demigod. He would much rather go for a stroll down the beach than fight in a war. He has lived an extremely sheltered life- due to this, he’s far too trusting.
History: due to his ridiculously trusting nature and his naivety, Chrysanthos got himself captured by slavers, and has been traveling for about a month now- forced to do whatever his slavers sell him for.
Family: Ambrosius (Brother), King Diokles of Athens (Father), Aegon (Uncle)
Other: He likes cats. A lot. Egypt pleases him in this aspect.
Gay af.
Screen-name: Bloodrose
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Name: Ambrosius Diokles
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Role: Demigod Prince of Athens
Appearance: Ambrosius is shorter than his brother, standing at 5'11". He has bronze skin, deep black hair and even darker eyes.
Personality: Ambrosius has a darker personality, often resorting to snapping at people to release his anger, although he will apologise to them soon after. He is the complete opposite to his brother when it comes to war; he would happily go to war if needed to.
History: Since his brother was captured, he has hunted for him to bring him home. He is incredibly close to his brother and will do anything, and everything, to protect him.
Family: Chrysanthos (Brother),
King Diokles of Athens (father),
Aegon (Uncle)
Screen-name: Nighteyes
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Name: Ashait
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Role: Princess
Appearance: Ashait is old enough for people to see that she will one day be a relatively pretty young woman but young enough for her to still have rounded cheeks and a little bit of puppy fat. She also shaves her head like her older sister and wears a wig decorated with colourful glass beads. She has a strong nose, full lips and dark brown eyes.
Personality: Ashait is, like Meri, quite a free-spirited girl. But, as she is not next in line for the throne and is not the daughter of Ahkenaten's favourite wife, the family are rather less patient with her. Though she is quite a sweet girl, she is troubled by her ambition. She knows that the Egyptian throne is a kill-or-be-killed environment, and though she is close with her half-siblings, she is acutely aware that if you are not the first to turn on your siblings, you will lose the throne and most probably your life.
History: N/A
Family: The Pharaoh is her father, her mother is one of the Pharaoh's other wives (not Nefertiti) and she has four half-sisters, including Meri
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name: Esi
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Role: Apprentice to the pharaoh's physician
Appearance: Esi is tall with a waifish figure, though she admittedly looks a little more clumsy than elegant most of the time. Her long dark hair is braided and falls to her shoulder-blades. Her face is oval-shaped and her eyes are a rich amber colour. Other than her striking eyes, however, she is relatively plain looking
Personality: Esi is quite quiet and doesn't like to talk too much with people. She is very intelligent and has a great ability to focus, but when she's working or thinking about something she can never stand interruptions. She's a perfectionist and quite self-critical but has a great desire to help others
History: N/A
Family: Has a younger sister who also helps out from time to time
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name: Setka
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Role: Slave/servant at the palace
Appearance: Setka is around average height (or just under) and relatively well-built. He has strong features with a wide jaw and a square-shaped face. He has dark eyes and just as dark hair cut to about the length of his shoulder-blades. His face looks quite harsh when he's not smiling, though luckily he usually is smiling so it doesn't matter all that much.
Personality: Setka is basically just a ray of sunshine. He can be described as nothing else. He's very positive and outgoing and basically just quite friendly. He is very accommodating of others, however, and is quite naive. This often means that some less-pleasant people are able to manipulate him or take advantage of his kindness. And, of course, there are just those people who don't like happy people. In an effort to be friendly he can sometimes forget his manners and end up getting himself into trouble.
History: N/A
Family: He is far away from his family, who live in a distant part of Egypt
Other: N/A
Screen-name: ✿ ѕємρєя мαgιѕ ✿
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Name:
Yaeg
Age:
22
Gender:
Female
Role:
Tomb slave
Appearance:
Yaeg is pale white, which means she's a long looooong way from home and is treated like a dancing monkey in Egypt. She's got ginger hair and blue eyes, which she does nothing to hide. A few freckles cover her face, she's rather plump but strong and is about 5' 1'' in height. Various scars on her face too.
Personality:
Yaeg is dour, and dark. She's been in Egypt for 6 years, where she's picked up the language but isn't fully fluent in it. She enjoys scaring people, especially kids, since they're usually scared of her anyway. She's been beaten often because she's very unruly, stubborn, aggressive and, basically, not a good slave. The reason her personality is so foul though is because of how different she looks to the people of Egypt.
History:
At the age of 16, Yaeg became annoyed with her father (irish chieftain) and married a foreign man who turned out to be a slaver. She was first in Egypt sold as a dancer to a high priest, but she trashed his party, since then she's been sold in a long line of people who thought they could break her. None have succeed. Now she's being sold to slavers who build the tombs underneath Egypt.
Family:
All in Ireland and are basically still tribal savages.
Other:
None
Screen-name: Lilystar88
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Current Plotlines
* A plot to assassinate Nefertiti has been discovered by her temporary scribe, Thutsef. He and her servant, Cleopatra, work to foil the scheme before it's too late.
* The eldest daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaten has escaped from the palace to go drinking and sleeping with the vagabonds in the lower town just one too many times. This time, Meritaten's mother has decided to ban her from the palace for 6 weeks! Luckily, to help her in her temporary exile is the thief she just met -- Turo.
* Turo, on the other hand, has just tried to release a greek prince called Chrysanthos who has been unfortunately kidnapped and sold into slavery.