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Subject: Dark Angel Sapphon Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:24 am
"As the world burns beneath us. As the soil crumbles and burns in the immortal fires of the deep. As everything you've ever known, and ever loved dies and perishes before your very eyes, remember this. You brought this upon yourself. You all brought this upon yourself. The faithful lavish and live, they stand side by side with our lord. And the rest? Those pitiful plenty who sinned and forsake themselves? Let them burn, for only the fires of hell shall purge them."
-For a refrence, the lulliby sung here ^ would be what she sounds like-
~Name~ Sapphron
~Age~ Most recent historical or biblical findings indicate she is 407 years of age
Sapphon appears mostly as a pale women, dressed in a long black gown with long black hair flowing over her body. Her face is covered by a crest with no apparent facial features. Her wings expand from 1 meter long with dozens of small eyes along the front. The eyes seem to move on their own with no connection to it's neighbors, staring at objects and people with large pupils which do not posses any iris'. More often than not, Sapphon can be seen or heard playing a small violin in secluded areas. The people that hear the violins can most likely see her, though it's been proven that not everyone can see or hear the fallen angel, whether this is her doing or just a matter of faith is unclear.
Sapphon can change her facial features to one that matches a young, pale women.
Spoiler:
When Sapphon is threatened or has no longer any intentions of staying in one area, she will literally slowly fade from sight where her physical preferences can no longer be felt or heard, though many times her presence remains.
~Height~ Approximately 5'10" - Unless shape shifted
~Important Note~ Seeing as this character will mostly be a preacher, she will always be roleplayed in a passive way. She cannot under any circumstances participate in combat even if she is threatened. Her means of defense is to ether fade away into her non-physical form or simply teleport. More likely than not, characters with strong religious beliefs will see her, and others may not. The only real weapons that can actually harm her or even kill her are holy weapons or blessed items.
Spoiler:
Seraphim literally means "The Burning Ones"
Quote :
"Secondly, the active force which is 'heat,' which is not found in fire simply, but exists with a certain sharpness, as being of most penetrating action, and reaching even to the smallest things, and as it were, with superabundant fervor; whereby is signified the action of these angels, exercised powerfully upon those who are subject to them, rousing them to a like fervor, and cleansing them wholly by their heat. "Thirdly we consider in fire the quality of clarity, or brightness; which signifies that these angels have in themselves an inextinguishable light, and that they also perfectly enlighten others."
Seraphim, mentioned in Isaiah 6:1-7, serve as the caretakers of God's throne and continuously shout praisesThe name Seraphim means "the burning ones."The Seraphim have six wings; two covering their faces, two covering their bodies ("feet"), and two with which they fly. Two of which are named Seraphiel and Metatron, according to some books. Seraphiel is said to have the head of an eagle. It is said that such a bright light emanates from them that nothing, not even other angelic beings, can look upon them. It is also said that there are four of them surrounding God's throne, where they burn eternally from love and zeal for God.
tl;tr: The Seraphim is as close to being god without actually being a real god. They are the throne caretakers and continuously praise the lord.
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Subject: Re: Dark Angel Sapphon Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:09 pm
Well, I think this can be accepted provided the no fight note is enforced on your part.
Fuzzy Wolfy
Posts : 454 Join date : 2010-04-23 Age : 30 Location : Under your bed.
Subject: Re: Dark Angel Sapphon Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:59 am
I'd like to talka to you about thiiiiiss character, once I come home.
We must reconcile this with the lore, ya see.
There's also the question of which God it was actually a servant to. The only Gods that that actually uses Angels as their servants would be Tyr and the Concord.
Fuzzy Wolfy
Posts : 454 Join date : 2010-04-23 Age : 30 Location : Under your bed.
We have a lot of these type of characters. Servants of gods and that crap. Shouldn't we have more progression in characters and not loads of characters?
Jerry isn't in Olden ICly yet, I'm still working on his biography. Alaska will be my main and Sapphron will be played on occasionally for passive IC religion RP.
I'm not a fan, really. The character is immune to combat, yet as a seemingly pretentious religious servant, going to provoke it. More importantly, the lore is wrong. There's no Christianity in Aeria lore, and certainly no Seraphim history. Christianity sparks drama, read the rules.
6. No religious discussions on the server or the forums unless it is IN CHARACTER. We do not care if you worship God. We do not care if you believe in the Devil. Take it OUTSIDE of Olden's forums and server. Be respectful of what you say about other's religions and beliefs as well.
Denying.
Fuzzy Wolfy
Posts : 454 Join date : 2010-04-23 Age : 30 Location : Under your bed.
Subject: Re: Dark Angel Sapphon Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:28 am
Like I stated above, I can bend the character to follow any god available in Olden or any religious hierarchy. Still suppose to discuss this with Pat though.
Krug
Posts : 1397 Join date : 2010-01-20 Age : 31 Location : England
Subject: Re: Dark Angel Sapphon Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:34 am
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~Race~ Fallen Angel of the Seraphim Hierarchy
The fact that you've directly woven Christianity here is what I think is the problem.
I strongly agree with progressing your first characters before making another one. If you already have one that you have in-server, and another is incoming, then I doubt you'll need a third one, that on top of all is invulnerable, and a religious symbol.
Until I talk to Pat directly, I can't bend the character without replacing it's race with "Unknown". -and yes it's still vulnerable, in fact Sapphron is entirely killable, especially considering she can't fight back in any circumstances. The fact is I gave her a way to defend herself and possibly avoid battles but she is in no way impervious to weapons or magic.
-and Jerry needs a while before I can play him. Anyway, this character is a preacher, she won't be played 24/7 like I would with Alaska.
I also admit to having used christian information for what I could base the character off of but again, I can and will bend it's backstory/canon/etc to fit whatever god she follows.
Kain
Posts : 1427 Join date : 2009-03-24 Location : Somewhere Pat doesn't want me to be
Still, I don't like these sorts of characters. It can't be applied to normal roleplay, and'll end up with everyone in the bloody RP knowing bloody God and his mum. You can't exactly walk in to a tavern and go "HAI GUISE."
Fuzzy Wolfy
Posts : 454 Join date : 2010-04-23 Age : 30 Location : Under your bed.
I'm confused to the fact why everyone thinks I'll be RP'ing with this character the same way I would with Alaska.
1. She's not going to go "God exist and he's very angry at you." 2. She appears in front of religious characters, even then, she rarely does.
The fact being this character is for occasions and occasional preaching, it's not like I'd walk around town with a cowbell going "THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR!"
I'm sorry, I'm also going to have to throw a deny towards this - temporarily.
At the moment, it seems a bit outside of Olden to chuck for a new person - even though you can RP, Wolfy, Olden's a different kettle of fish. Plus, it doesn't exactly fit into the canon of Olden.
To be honest, I don't see why it needs to have all these superpowers. The character works just as well as an ordinary preacher of one of the gods.