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on 18 June 2012
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Book of air - The story of Karu
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This is a role playing community for Avatar : The last airbender. Here is a bit of information about the characters and story.
New players are not accepted, but feel free to read the story.
First post (story basis) :
http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/256.html
Rotation :
Everyone is given 7 days to write a post. If you cannot post, please state that you skip your turn. You can post faster then 7 days if you wish. Posts can be long or short and focus on any character.
DMs (lycorne and secondlina) may sometimes post "DM Blurbs" guiding the story a little when things get too loose.
Characters from top to bottom, left to right.
Ellil, QiShi, Sinaaq, Nunataq, Malu, Enlai, Kosei, Lin, Karu, and Ru.
List of Characters :
Name: Karu (Japanese "to hunt")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Karu is a very serious-minded individual, whose primary focus for her entire life has been her family.
She is not naturally exceptionally talented or graceful at anything. However, her serious mindset causes her work twice as hard to make up for the lack of natural ability. She is generally quiet, and prefers to act rather than talk,
Fighting Skills: She didn't start out particularly strong, but was enlisted for the Fire Nation Navy/Army.
Weapons: Karu is uncomfortable using melee weapons, and generally sticks with hand-to-hand fighting.
Bending Skills: Airbending
Hailed From: Fire Nation (A small village in the Southern countryside.)
Player: lycorne
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Nation-Karu-49637277
Name: Enlai (Chinese meaning "favor coming")
Gender : M
Status : Main cast
Charismatic, intelligent and calculating, Enlai exudes a happy-go-lucky exterior. He flirts with nearly any girl that will give him the time of day, and truly does live life for the pleasures of it. He is likely to drop something as soon as he stops finding it entertaining or getting something he wants from it. Words like "responsibility" and "duty" might as well be curse words to Enlai.
Arts: Surprisingly, Enlai is actually a skilled artist. Also an art thieft.
Fighting Skills: Enlai isn't much of a fighter.
Weapons : None.
Bending Skills: Earthbender, but not particularly powerful. Just a few basics... like chucking rocks and using earthbending to scale stone/clay walls.
Hailed From: Earth Kingdom
Player : lycorne
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Earth-Kingdom-Enlai-76445496
Name : Ellil (Sumerian meaning: lord of the wind)
Gender : M
Status : NPC
After Avatar Aang passed away, the art of energy bending was lost, but more air benders still appeared, born into families within the other three nations. The best guess is that the Spirit World itself was trying to restore balance.
So the small population of Air Nomads continued to live on together in the Southern Air Temple.
He, like every other child that developed air bending, was sent to the Air Temple to train and live. No one is quite sure what happened, but one day when Avatar Tootega of the Water Tribe came to visit, she found everyone in the Air Temple dead, except for Ellil. Air Bender Ellil had killed every last person in the temple by bending the air from their very lungs, causing the Air Nomads to drown on dry land. When the Avatar came, he even attempted to kill Tootega. He did not succeed, and Ellil escaped the Avatar's wrath. Thusly, air benders became a cursed people.
Arts : Unknown. Possibly medecine knowledge.
Weapons : Unknown
Bending Skills : Airbending
Hailed From: Earth Kingdom
Player : lycorne
Name: Nunataq (Inuit meaning "mountain peak sticking up through inland ice")
Gender : M
Status : Main Cast
Nunataq is a very serious young man, overly so at most times. He is still young, and often makes rash decisions or looses his temper. He tries very hard to be the "perfect" Water Tribe warrior and man, but he often falls short as he tries to hold to cultural ideas and biases that his interactions with Karu and Enlai often prove wrong. Growing up with teasing from his friends and sister, he has developed a complex about his good looks. Rather than being narcissistic, he treats any compliments on his appearance that don't involve saying he looks manly or macho as an insult.
Arts: Despite his insistence on being an ideal man, Nunataq is quite skilled in singing, dancing, and carving.
Fighting Skills: He is a warrior that specializes in using the war clubs traditional to the Water Tribe in a fluid and high-motion double-wielding style. Despite being small, years of training have given him solid muscle.
Weapons: Double War Clubs
Bending Skills: None.
Hailed From: Northern Water Tribe
Player : Earthstar_chan
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Nunataq-76445156
Name: Sinaaq (Inuit meaning "edge of the sea ice")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Sinaaq is a tomboy, often mocked for her tendency to wear traditionally male clothing and practice arts usually reserved for the men of the tribe. Sinaaq is a serious warrior when it counts, but she also has quite the mischievous streak. She enjoys teasing and playing jokes, especially on her brother.
Arts: She plays the Qilaut [link] quite skillfully.
Fighting Skills: She is a warrior that specializes in using the bone Panabas, and her fighting style is more aggressive and rooted style of fighting than her brother's fluid fighting styles
Weapons: (See illustration.) A large tooth/bone weapon based on a weapon seen used multiple times in season 1 of Avatar.
Bending Skills: None.
Hailed From: Northern Water Tribe
Player : Zenavy
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Sinaaq-76444821
Name : QiShi (Chinese meaning: one who enlightens many)
Gender : M
Status : NPC
Young king of the Earth kingdom and current incarnation of the avatar. Qishi believes in machinery, evolution and fears that dependance on the avatar and the ever changing spirit world will be the death of his people.
He is pleagued at night with a dream where the walls of Ba sing se fall and out of the rubble crawls a strange centipede-like spirit carrying a girl. Another girl surrounded by light faces him. He then wakes up when he hears another woman talking.
He calls this dream the dream of the three maidens. Despite being worried by his state as the avatar, Qishi is very fond of himself and appreciates the combination of his nobolity and powers.
Arts : politics
Fighting Skills: chinese swords
Bending skills : Earthbending, currently learning firebending.
Hailed from : Ba Sing Se
Player : secondlina
Name : Malu ("the ghost witch") (Hawaiian meaning: Peacefulness)
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Malu, the Ghost Witch of the Mountain, arose as a figure of Earth Kingdom legend in the years following the Fire Nation's first strikes. An enigmatic beauty who supposedly controlled the spirits, and seemingly vanished and appeared at will, Malu was truly an Airbender, whose mother hid her in a mountain cave to escape the Fire Nation's storming of the Eastern Air Temple.
For years, she lived a solitary existence in the forest, but ten years into the war, she stopped hiding and began attacking Fire Nation soldiers. Despite not having a teacher to train under, she quickly mastered the airbending skills that helped her survive for so long. Although her ultimate fate is unknown, some say she still makes her home in the mountain passes, and villagers still pay tribute to the spirit who protected the forest so long ago.
Her ghost inhabits a prayer stone that was removed and is being sold in Ba Sing Se.
Arts : None.
Fighting Skills: none
Bending skills : none (spirits don't bend) but knowledge of airbending
Hailed from : Originally, air temple. Now? Rock.
Player : secondlina
Name: Lin (means "beautiful Jade")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Lin has a very nurturing and forgiving nature, but she is also quiet and sometimes shy. Lin is very practical and will hardly loose her temper unless someone is threatening herself or someone close to her. She also has a weak spot for animals whether they are cute or not.
There is an old family legend that their family once received an ostrich horse from the famous Fire Lord Zuko after the family "lent" him one, but the locals considered that to be just a story. Being the oldest of five children, Lin has to often care for her younger brothers and sister.
Lin plans on selling her jewelry and some money back to help her family. Lin besides for a few pieces of her jewelry to sell off, Lin is broke. She does not have enough money to maintain a license. She is hoping that she can hide her bending and sell her jewelry without anyone knowing she uses her earth bending to shape them. Her plan is once she has enough money, she will get a license. Lin is hoping that she won't get caught before she does.
Arts: Thanks to living in a rural area, Lin is able to earth bend without having to worry about a license. Since she was twelve years old, Lin has been taking pretty small rocks she finds and uses her bending to shape them for jewelry as gifts for her family and to sell on the road side.
Fighting Skills: Lin does not have much experience in fighting, but she does always carry a dagger her father gave her for emergencies.
Bending Skills: Earth Bending and changing stones and rocks into different shapes.
Hailed from : earth Kingdom
Player : Earthstar_chan
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/803.html
Name: Ru (means "blue"). Her real name is "Tikaani" (Wolf in inuit) but she uses "Ru" as a work name.
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Ru one of the numerous great-granddaughters of the world-famous Sokka of the Avatar Aang fame. Her parents came to live in the earth kingdom when she was very young, so she never really got to see her great-grandfather, just hear about him (so she's about as informed as everybody else). She does keep a precious drawing made by the great Sokka in her scroll container. It's "modern art".
Ru met Enlai when he, being an art thief, tried to steal the "Sokka drawing" she keeps. Enlai was paused in his escape by the sheer ugliness of the picture which allowed Ru to catch up, confront him and get the drawing back. Their similar personalities allowed them to become friends quite quickly.
She is very energetic, happy-go-lucky and free spirited. When the story starts, Ru is working at the library of the university. She gets to meet the prince of Ba Sing Se (and current Avatar though that is not yet known) who right then and there decides he like the exotic appeal of her waterbending and sends her off to palace.
Arts: Ru can also create "floating images" out of ink. Ru works at the Ba Sing Se university. Because of her inkbending ability, she also basically serves the purpose of a printer
Fighting Skills: Ru is a skilled waterbender in both artistic and battle stances.
Bending Skills: Waterbending
Hailed from : Southern water tribe, raised in the earth kingdom
Player : secondlina
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/1038.html
Name: Kosei
Gender: M
Status : Main cast
Most firebenders are driven by a passion for something and Kosei is no exception. He is passionate about bending itself and is trying to use his talent to make people happy, to show them that bending is not something to be hated or feared. Although quick enough on his feet and has discovered some bending tricks, he is somewhat naive and sometimes leaves his common sense at the door. Looking at him, one might get the sense that he is serious or reserved (especially when he's fully outfitted in Fire Nation clothing), but he's actually quite excitable and enthusiastic. He takes pride in his talents but may display arrogance, too.
Kosei lived in this town for the majority of his life, growing up with a friend of Earth Kingdom descent. They both had bending talents, Kosei a firebender and his friend an earthbender, but shared frustration at the taboo and limitations now set in place over bending. Both had the desire for bending to return to what it once was: a mystical talent and treasure of the cultures. They came to the decision to use their skills for entertainment as part of a traveling group. In order to accomplish this, Kosei had to obtain a bending license. He gained it fairly recently and began his new job.
Arts : Performing firebender
Weapons: A short spear, with a blade at one end and the opposite end used like a torch. He also has a simple knife, more a tool than a weapon.
Fighting skills : osei is a good but unconventional firebender. Thanks to his earthbender buddy, he incorporates some special minerals for tricks in firebending, like small explosives or fuels that burn different colours. In addition, he has come up with a way to focus his bending towards generating more light as opposed to heat. His intention was to try and remove fear of firebending, though it also came in handy in getting his license.
Although fit and coordinated, Kosei is not trained as a warrior.
Bending: Firebender, specializing in flashy and unusual tricks (more light then fire).
Player : Zenavy
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/1451.html
New players are not accepted, but feel free to read the story.
First post (story basis) :
http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/256.html
Rotation :
- Lycorne
- Zen
- secondlina
- Earthstar
Everyone is given 7 days to write a post. If you cannot post, please state that you skip your turn. You can post faster then 7 days if you wish. Posts can be long or short and focus on any character.
DMs (lycorne and secondlina) may sometimes post "DM Blurbs" guiding the story a little when things get too loose.
Characters from top to bottom, left to right.
Ellil, QiShi, Sinaaq, Nunataq, Malu, Enlai, Kosei, Lin, Karu, and Ru.
List of Characters :
Name: Karu (Japanese "to hunt")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Karu is a very serious-minded individual, whose primary focus for her entire life has been her family.
She is not naturally exceptionally talented or graceful at anything. However, her serious mindset causes her work twice as hard to make up for the lack of natural ability. She is generally quiet, and prefers to act rather than talk,
Fighting Skills: She didn't start out particularly strong, but was enlisted for the Fire Nation Navy/Army.
Weapons: Karu is uncomfortable using melee weapons, and generally sticks with hand-to-hand fighting.
Bending Skills: Airbending
Hailed From: Fire Nation (A small village in the Southern countryside.)
Player: lycorne
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Nation-Karu-49637277
Name: Enlai (Chinese meaning "favor coming")
Gender : M
Status : Main cast
Charismatic, intelligent and calculating, Enlai exudes a happy-go-lucky exterior. He flirts with nearly any girl that will give him the time of day, and truly does live life for the pleasures of it. He is likely to drop something as soon as he stops finding it entertaining or getting something he wants from it. Words like "responsibility" and "duty" might as well be curse words to Enlai.
Arts: Surprisingly, Enlai is actually a skilled artist. Also an art thieft.
Fighting Skills: Enlai isn't much of a fighter.
Weapons : None.
Bending Skills: Earthbender, but not particularly powerful. Just a few basics... like chucking rocks and using earthbending to scale stone/clay walls.
Hailed From: Earth Kingdom
Player : lycorne
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Earth-Kingdom-Enlai-76445496
Name : Ellil (Sumerian meaning: lord of the wind)
Gender : M
Status : NPC
After Avatar Aang passed away, the art of energy bending was lost, but more air benders still appeared, born into families within the other three nations. The best guess is that the Spirit World itself was trying to restore balance.
So the small population of Air Nomads continued to live on together in the Southern Air Temple.
He, like every other child that developed air bending, was sent to the Air Temple to train and live. No one is quite sure what happened, but one day when Avatar Tootega of the Water Tribe came to visit, she found everyone in the Air Temple dead, except for Ellil. Air Bender Ellil had killed every last person in the temple by bending the air from their very lungs, causing the Air Nomads to drown on dry land. When the Avatar came, he even attempted to kill Tootega. He did not succeed, and Ellil escaped the Avatar's wrath. Thusly, air benders became a cursed people.
Arts : Unknown. Possibly medecine knowledge.
Weapons : Unknown
Bending Skills : Airbending
Hailed From: Earth Kingdom
Player : lycorne
Name: Nunataq (Inuit meaning "mountain peak sticking up through inland ice")
Gender : M
Status : Main Cast
Nunataq is a very serious young man, overly so at most times. He is still young, and often makes rash decisions or looses his temper. He tries very hard to be the "perfect" Water Tribe warrior and man, but he often falls short as he tries to hold to cultural ideas and biases that his interactions with Karu and Enlai often prove wrong. Growing up with teasing from his friends and sister, he has developed a complex about his good looks. Rather than being narcissistic, he treats any compliments on his appearance that don't involve saying he looks manly or macho as an insult.
Arts: Despite his insistence on being an ideal man, Nunataq is quite skilled in singing, dancing, and carving.
Fighting Skills: He is a warrior that specializes in using the war clubs traditional to the Water Tribe in a fluid and high-motion double-wielding style. Despite being small, years of training have given him solid muscle.
Weapons: Double War Clubs
Bending Skills: None.
Hailed From: Northern Water Tribe
Player : Earthstar_chan
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Nunataq-76445156
Name: Sinaaq (Inuit meaning "edge of the sea ice")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Sinaaq is a tomboy, often mocked for her tendency to wear traditionally male clothing and practice arts usually reserved for the men of the tribe. Sinaaq is a serious warrior when it counts, but she also has quite the mischievous streak. She enjoys teasing and playing jokes, especially on her brother.
Arts: She plays the Qilaut [link] quite skillfully.
Fighting Skills: She is a warrior that specializes in using the bone Panabas, and her fighting style is more aggressive and rooted style of fighting than her brother's fluid fighting styles
Weapons: (See illustration.) A large tooth/bone weapon based on a weapon seen used multiple times in season 1 of Avatar.
Bending Skills: None.
Hailed From: Northern Water Tribe
Player : Zenavy
Details : http://elfgrove.deviantart.com/art/Water-Tribe-Sinaaq-76444821
Name : QiShi (Chinese meaning: one who enlightens many)
Gender : M
Status : NPC
Young king of the Earth kingdom and current incarnation of the avatar. Qishi believes in machinery, evolution and fears that dependance on the avatar and the ever changing spirit world will be the death of his people.
He is pleagued at night with a dream where the walls of Ba sing se fall and out of the rubble crawls a strange centipede-like spirit carrying a girl. Another girl surrounded by light faces him. He then wakes up when he hears another woman talking.
He calls this dream the dream of the three maidens. Despite being worried by his state as the avatar, Qishi is very fond of himself and appreciates the combination of his nobolity and powers.
Arts : politics
Fighting Skills: chinese swords
Bending skills : Earthbending, currently learning firebending.
Hailed from : Ba Sing Se
Player : secondlina
Name : Malu ("the ghost witch") (Hawaiian meaning: Peacefulness)
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Malu, the Ghost Witch of the Mountain, arose as a figure of Earth Kingdom legend in the years following the Fire Nation's first strikes. An enigmatic beauty who supposedly controlled the spirits, and seemingly vanished and appeared at will, Malu was truly an Airbender, whose mother hid her in a mountain cave to escape the Fire Nation's storming of the Eastern Air Temple.
For years, she lived a solitary existence in the forest, but ten years into the war, she stopped hiding and began attacking Fire Nation soldiers. Despite not having a teacher to train under, she quickly mastered the airbending skills that helped her survive for so long. Although her ultimate fate is unknown, some say she still makes her home in the mountain passes, and villagers still pay tribute to the spirit who protected the forest so long ago.
Her ghost inhabits a prayer stone that was removed and is being sold in Ba Sing Se.
Arts : None.
Fighting Skills: none
Bending skills : none (spirits don't bend) but knowledge of airbending
Hailed from : Originally, air temple. Now? Rock.
Player : secondlina
Name: Lin (means "beautiful Jade")
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Lin has a very nurturing and forgiving nature, but she is also quiet and sometimes shy. Lin is very practical and will hardly loose her temper unless someone is threatening herself or someone close to her. She also has a weak spot for animals whether they are cute or not.
There is an old family legend that their family once received an ostrich horse from the famous Fire Lord Zuko after the family "lent" him one, but the locals considered that to be just a story. Being the oldest of five children, Lin has to often care for her younger brothers and sister.
Lin plans on selling her jewelry and some money back to help her family. Lin besides for a few pieces of her jewelry to sell off, Lin is broke. She does not have enough money to maintain a license. She is hoping that she can hide her bending and sell her jewelry without anyone knowing she uses her earth bending to shape them. Her plan is once she has enough money, she will get a license. Lin is hoping that she won't get caught before she does.
Arts: Thanks to living in a rural area, Lin is able to earth bend without having to worry about a license. Since she was twelve years old, Lin has been taking pretty small rocks she finds and uses her bending to shape them for jewelry as gifts for her family and to sell on the road side.
Fighting Skills: Lin does not have much experience in fighting, but she does always carry a dagger her father gave her for emergencies.
Bending Skills: Earth Bending and changing stones and rocks into different shapes.
Hailed from : earth Kingdom
Player : Earthstar_chan
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/803.html
Name: Ru (means "blue"). Her real name is "Tikaani" (Wolf in inuit) but she uses "Ru" as a work name.
Gender : F
Status : Main cast
Ru one of the numerous great-granddaughters of the world-famous Sokka of the Avatar Aang fame. Her parents came to live in the earth kingdom when she was very young, so she never really got to see her great-grandfather, just hear about him (so she's about as informed as everybody else). She does keep a precious drawing made by the great Sokka in her scroll container. It's "modern art".
Ru met Enlai when he, being an art thief, tried to steal the "Sokka drawing" she keeps. Enlai was paused in his escape by the sheer ugliness of the picture which allowed Ru to catch up, confront him and get the drawing back. Their similar personalities allowed them to become friends quite quickly.
She is very energetic, happy-go-lucky and free spirited. When the story starts, Ru is working at the library of the university. She gets to meet the prince of Ba Sing Se (and current Avatar though that is not yet known) who right then and there decides he like the exotic appeal of her waterbending and sends her off to palace.
Arts: Ru can also create "floating images" out of ink. Ru works at the Ba Sing Se university. Because of her inkbending ability, she also basically serves the purpose of a printer
Fighting Skills: Ru is a skilled waterbender in both artistic and battle stances.
Bending Skills: Waterbending
Hailed from : Southern water tribe, raised in the earth kingdom
Player : secondlina
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/1038.html
Name: Kosei
Gender: M
Status : Main cast
Most firebenders are driven by a passion for something and Kosei is no exception. He is passionate about bending itself and is trying to use his talent to make people happy, to show them that bending is not something to be hated or feared. Although quick enough on his feet and has discovered some bending tricks, he is somewhat naive and sometimes leaves his common sense at the door. Looking at him, one might get the sense that he is serious or reserved (especially when he's fully outfitted in Fire Nation clothing), but he's actually quite excitable and enthusiastic. He takes pride in his talents but may display arrogance, too.
Kosei lived in this town for the majority of his life, growing up with a friend of Earth Kingdom descent. They both had bending talents, Kosei a firebender and his friend an earthbender, but shared frustration at the taboo and limitations now set in place over bending. Both had the desire for bending to return to what it once was: a mystical talent and treasure of the cultures. They came to the decision to use their skills for entertainment as part of a traveling group. In order to accomplish this, Kosei had to obtain a bending license. He gained it fairly recently and began his new job.
Arts : Performing firebender
Weapons: A short spear, with a blade at one end and the opposite end used like a torch. He also has a simple knife, more a tool than a weapon.
Fighting skills : osei is a good but unconventional firebender. Thanks to his earthbender buddy, he incorporates some special minerals for tricks in firebending, like small explosives or fuels that burn different colours. In addition, he has come up with a way to focus his bending towards generating more light as opposed to heat. His intention was to try and remove fear of firebending, though it also came in handy in getting his license.
Although fit and coordinated, Kosei is not trained as a warrior.
Bending: Firebender, specializing in flashy and unusual tricks (more light then fire).
Player : Zenavy
Details : http://community.livejournal.com/karu_avatarrp/1451.html