Wolves of Koth - Hyborian Sword and Sorcery (Extreme) - Recruitment CLOSED

[tormentedmale]

The Wolves of Koth



A Tale Of Swords and Sorcery

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.”

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.”

This is the recruitment thread for The Wolves of Koth, a tale of Swords and Sorcery set in the a dark gritty Hyborian world. Players can expect to encounter themes of gore, torture, horror, slavery, nudity, sex, rape, and other non con situations. The game will be dark, the World is bleak. Character death or other ‘bad’ endings such as enslavement are possible. Influences include (but are not limited to) Game of Thrones, Spartacus (the Starz series), Gor, and Lovecraft. Both consensual and non consensual sex would be common place, as will nudity.

The game will be free form. As GM I will endeavour to nudge the plot along following a relatively loose story arc that will provide ample opportunity for characters to loot, pillage, and rape as they wish, but there is also an expectation that players will seek out opportunities for interaction and plot development themselves.

Pacing will be moderate. Ideally people wishing to participate should be able to post once / twice per week. I would anticipate posting GM updates twice per week at most (once midweek, once at the weekend). Shorter posts, answers to OOC questions, etc, will be more frequent (as I’m working from home I’m near a keyboard quite frequently at the moment). All being well, I’d hope to start IC posting by the weekend.


Characters

The group are a band of mercenary sell swords who have found themselves in the City of Khorshemish, Capital of Koth. I welcome characters who are at best morally corrupt / ambiguous who will do what is needed to survive, and are not choosy about whose coin they accept. If you want to step over the line from morally corrupt to actual evil that’s fine by me, but the group will need to cooperate to some degree so in general I’d prefer to avoid PvP.

Characters may be of any sexual orientation - all are welcome. Writer gender and character gender need not be the same.  Character images should be real pictures. I'll make allowances for realistic fantasy art but please no magna, anime, etc.

While the group are sell swords, characters need not be out and out combat types - rogues, thieves, face characters etc are equally welcome. I’m open to including characters with magical powers such as a Sorcerer(ess) or a Witch but please bear in mind that magic was rare in the Hyborian World and those who practiced it were often viewed with suspicion (at best) so any magic users would need to be fully discussed beforehand.

I’m also open to including a heal slut (or two) if there’s interest (in this setting a healslut would not use magic to heal, they'd be a trained healer).

If you want to take part please complete the (basic) character sheet below and submit it in this thread. I’ll set up a character thread a little later for accepted characters.

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[Xurtan]

Tempting. Very tempting. I love this setting, honestly. Playing a Sorcerer of some form would be my lean. Hmmm.

[DummieBlondie]

well well... I was thinking something closer to D'n'D bard type character but if someone else wants to be the magic wielder, then I will be more keen on something between dancer/assassin. I will try to put it all together and post it

[Primarch]

Should we assume the mercenaries are part of a small, personal group (so basically just the PCs) or would they be leading a larger force?

[tormentedmale]

Should we assume the mercenaries are part of a small, personal group (so basically just the PCs) or would they be leading a larger force?

Just the PC’s (plus maybe a few NPC’s). Probably as much brigand as mercenary.

[tormentedmale]

@Xurtan, happy to discuss options for a Sorcerer type. I'm sure we could make that work.

@DummieBlondie, a dancer that's also an assassin would fit well I think if you wanted to go down that road.

[Brittlby]

Character Name: Huxia Khet
Character Age: 22
Character Gender: Female
Character Homeland: Hyrkania
Preferred weapon(s):

Longbow, Rope (Traps and Snares), Daggers (Many of them...)

Additionally, she has an extensive knowledge of herbology for the purpose of brewing poisons and healing salves... and the occasional hallucinogenic.

Player Name: Brittlby

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Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Character Ons: Oral Sex, Bondage/Orgasm Deprivation, Rough Sex
Character Offs: Site Rules/Toilet Stuff
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Description:

Huxia wears nomadic furs, though they are well tailored, as if by a true artisan. She seems to enjoy finery while being true to her heritage. Striking blue eyes peer out, usually half-lidded by opiates, they stare past this world of men, seeing much and nothing. Without her cloak of fur, she has the back and arms of an archer, toned from years of drawing back the string.

Personality:

A thrill seeker and dilettante, though she prays to no gods, she has the capricious nature of a Hyrkanian wanderer, going where so ever the winds blow her. Reasonably loyal if she is well cared for, she is a sensation junkie of the highest order.

Dueling with knives atop a slender pole over a pit, rappelling blindly out of a guard tower or eating her fill of psychedelics, she has more fear of boredom than she does of death. Huxia claims that she knows when she will die and so she has no fear. Perhaps that is so, but can anyone truly know the will of the gods?

Backstory:

In the jungles of Khitai where savages and grey apes dwell, the black lotus blooms. Lethal and beautiful, a single petal in a well can end a village. A rare bloom, it is the cornerstone of many dark rituals, its acrid smoke upon the wind drawing up demons like sharks to blood in the water. And for those Stygian Sorcerers bold and mad enough to curry the favors of the beyond, the smoke lent them vision while taking their sight.

Such was the woman Karam Khet, Seer of the Scarlet Circle, the eyes and ears of God-Emperor Yah Chieng. Lovely of form and ample of appetites, she took her fill of beautiful men and wine during her service. No seed found purchase upon her vessel, for her womb was as dead as her eyes...

Captured by Hyrkanian mercenaries, when they demanded ransom, Yah Chieng was not one to admit weakness. He took the messenger's scroll, spat blood into the parchment, rolled it up and finally snapped it over his knee. Hundreds of miles away, the mercenary who had penned the letter also snapped in half with a choked gurgle. His compatriots were too fearful to again broach the topic of ransom, yet they were also too superstitious to let her live. They piled rocks upon her until her breath gave out and then left her for the wolves.

Cries from the rubble drew the attention of washer-women of the mercenary camp. There they found the child, covered in dust and blood, bawling for milk. They took pity upon her and one raised her amongst her own children. With beautiful blue eyes, a rarity in the kingdom of Hyrkania. Again the Gods saw fit to grant her a tainted gift, for they were as useless as they were striking. But Huxia did not find that she missed the burden of sight.

She shunned women's work and learned the art of the snare and the bow. Though eyes could be deceived, the only truth that Huxia needed was that her arrows always struck true, never missing her prey. Huxia could not see the sunrise, but she could feel the rain hours before it came. She had not ever known the color of the grass, but she had heard her mother's whispers in the earth beneath it. Huxia Khet knew her name and she knew her mother demanded vengeance.

But... in the knowing, she felt no compulsion to act upon it! Her mother was nothing to her beyond another whispering voice in the earth. Huxia would have time aplenty to hear tales from those past this world of flesh when she too was gone. For just as she had inherited her mother's eyes, she had inherited her appetites. Hedonism, wine, opium, flesh and gold... these were more precious than the words of any elder. The wisdom of the ages was a pale shade next to pleasure.

Huxia Khet. A hunter of beasts, a finder of lost things and people, an herbalist snake oil peddler and a thief of experiences above wealth.

[Hamadryad]

Character Name: Grata.
Character Age: 19.
Character Gender: Female.
Character Homeland: Pictland.
Preferred weapon(s): Spear if necessary, healer role.

Player Name: Hamadryad.

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Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.
Player Ons: Almost anything. Specifically non-con, group sex ect.
Player Offs: Almost nothing.

Character Ons: Soft, passionate sex. Submissive.
Character Offs: Rough, non-con, ect.
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Description: A short woman with graceful curves. Her skull is hawkish and adorned with soft, olive skinned flesh. She moves with a graceful gait, long brown hair adorned with feathers flowing about her.


Personality: Grata is a caring woman, but usually only for those she holds dear. She understands the world is a dark place and there is not much she can do about it. She performs her duty as a healer admirably due to her pacifistic nature, she doesn't particularly resist violence and will submit to any of her company's whims.


Backstory: Grata was taken as a child from her people during a raid performed by the mercenary company she now calls home. From an early age she was groomed and trained as a submissive healer for the mercenaries, and has seen just about any injury one could think of. As she became more of a woman, though, the company subjected her to more and more favours, finding that she didn't resist or complain about such advances.

[Amarlo]

>.> I'm bookmarking this and keeping an eye on it.

[Polymorph]

Character Name: Ndima
Character Age: 25
Character Gender: Female
Character Homeland: Amazon Nation
Preferred weapon(s): Spear, Handaxe

Player Name: Polymorph

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Sexual Orientation: Bisexual. Dominant with males, consensual with females.
Player Ons: Dominating men, bondage, rough sex.
Player Offs: Submission.

Character Ons: Noncon, slavery, forced orgasms.
Character Offs: Anything with bodily waste.
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Description: Tall and athletic. Her hair is braided. She wears a loincloth and halter, and leather and fur boots with paldrons, shinguards and bracers as armour. She carries a 7' spear and a bronze handaxe.


Personality: Ndima is aggressive and brash. She is dismissive of males, considering them inferior. Fiercely loyal to those she has accepted as sisters


Backstory: Ndima was the daughter of an Imusa, the elite warrior caste of the Amazons. She has no knowledge or interest in her father who was a slave taken by her mother during a raid on the Black Coast and sold on before her birth. She was raised to follow in her family's tradition and serve in the standing Amazon army. Exiled from the Amazon Nation following an attempted coup against Queen Nzinga by her Impi's officers she wandered north hiring her spear to any with coin. Frequently having to move on as her nature and upbringing meant she had great difficulty obeying the male leaders of mercenary bands and was quick to take offence and enter conflict with the men she served alongside.

[Ironwolf85]

keeping an eye on this to either make a guy, or something else. Just did some herm-ish amazons and might look into that.

[Ghrymhawke]

This looks interesting!  I will admit though, the majority of my knowledge comes from the movies.  Is that ok?

[avarus]

loving this idea so here is my character sheet:



Character Name: Ardana
Character Age: 29
Character Gender: Female
Character Homeland: Cimmeria
Preferred weapon(s): Greatsword, Greataxe, Javelins

Player Name: Avarus

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Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Player Ons: O/O I’m fine almost everything (excluding the below), including the gruesome death of this character. More specific things: Bondage, Torture, Non-con all the way, rough sex
Player Offs: Just toilet things

Character Ons: Violence, dominating others, rough sex, enslaving others
Character Offs: Being dominated non-con

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Description: A tall, muscular redhead, who stomps around with the grace of an angry elephant, clad in furs and pieces of scavenged leather. In Cimmerian fashion she applies blue dye before battle to her skin and wears almost no armour to show her bravery.


Personality: A good warrior, crafty and loyal to her mercenary band and always in for a good time of boozing and singing (it’s about volume, not talent). On the other hand not only will she do whatever necessary to survive, she has a certain love for violence that goes above and beyond that of the average mercenary. When drunk she tends to get into brawls, disputes she settles with her axe and she enjoys making anyone she is going to kill suffer for as long as possible.


Backstory:

Never had Ardana ever known anything else than the roving life of a mercenary. She was born in Cimmeria to a mercenary and one of the camp aides. Travelling with violent mercenaries and seeing horror every single day is the perfect education if one is considering a career as a mercenary. As soon as she was old enough to fight Ardana has done so, finding herself revelling in the slaughter and looting. If there are only a few bad apples giving mercenaries a bad name then Ardana is that bad apple.

Eventually this penchant for violence came back to her when she got into a fight with the leader of the band, who wanted to take her to his bed. She managed to slit his throat before being jumped by everyone present. As punishment for her ‘betrayal’ she was tied naked to a raised cross and left to die in the middle of the desert. She hung there for at two days, when she had the incredible luck of a lone drifter passing by. She promised that she was weakened from the ordeal and that if he untied her, he could make an easy profit by selling her as a slave. Naturally suspicious, considering the state in which she had been left, the man eventually gave in and untied her. For this act of kindness she immediately thanked him; by strangling him with the rope and taking his possessions.

Not knowing what else to she joined a new mercenary band and keeps her eye on the mercenary scene, looking for her old group After all, her axe still has invitations pending to a certain faces…

[Juggtacular]

I'll be working on my pirate/privateer today.

[tormentedmale]

OK, so so far we’ve got

Huxia Khet - Brittlby
Grata - Hamadryad
Ndima - Polymorph
Ardana - Avarus

I’m presuming Grata is going to be a healslut?

@Ghrymhawke, that’s not a problem at all.

@All, if anyone has any questions or there’s anything I can help with just let me know.

[Juggtacular]

By Crom...I'm surrounded by women!! -does a happy pirate jig-

[IrishWolf]

Character Name: Glynn
Character Age: 33
Character Gender: Male
Character Homeland: Bossonian Marches
Preferred weapon(s): Longbow, falchion, bollock dagger, buckler

Player Name: IrishWolf

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Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Player Ons: Most things really
Player Offs: Anything that belongs in the toilet

Character Ons: Being dominate, oral, rough sex, drunk sex and depending on his mood/nightmares gentle sex/cuddling.
Character Offs: Being submissive, rape
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Description: Of average height, Glynn is stocky and solid, with the thick arms of a longbowman. His dark auburn hair is more brown then red and is normally kept cut short. He doesn’t let his beard grow but is often seen with rough stubble covering his cheeks. His light grey eyes are bright but hard and sharp. His nose is a little crooked, as if it was broken once or twice and never set properly in the past. His face is weathered and set grimly, save when he’s drinking. Small and large scars cross his arms and chest.

He wears a green tunic and trousers, both often repaired or patched with a range of skill. He has recently had to replace his boots with those of a far more barbaric style then he once wore, all fur and natural leather. He wears some armor in combat, his father’s brigandine, which again has seen much repair, some of the small steel plates replaced with bronze or even copper and a steel cap.


Personality: Stubborn to near bullheadedness, he will never give ground in a fight. He is haunted by memories of his childhood and often drinks to keep them at bay. Always watchful of betrayal, his trust is hard to gain and woe to those, who abuse it. He’s not above being a bandit, if it means having a bellyful of food and some coins. He loathes the Shem and has a burning hatred for anything Aquilonian. Of the Picts, his ancestral enemy, he doesn’t care either way.


Backstory:
Borning in the Bossonian Marches to a common farming family, Glynn grew up as most did in that rustic hinterland, with farm chores and archery practice. Like his father before him, he expected to join the Aquilonian army at some point and march off to fight the Picts or the Cimmerians or whoever the Aquilonians were at war with. In his fifteenth year however, things changed with the Nemedian campaign. He was not soldiering, although his father was, when the army marched away for Nemedia, leaving the frontier mostly unguarded. Like the rest of the youths and the old men left in the walled villages, he took up the bow, when the Picts came out of the wildness in force and defended his home until the Bossonian regiments deserted and returned home to drive away the invaders.

He believed the lies they were told, when after the Picts were defeated and the Aquilonians sent Shem mercenaries to help “defend” the frontier, until they had enough strength to launch an expedition against the Picts. Right up until the Shem and the Aquilonians turned on them. He saw his father murdered, his younger sisters raped and dragged off, his village set ablaze, the eldery trapped inside their huts to burn alive. He barely managed to save his mother and his own life.

When the fires had cooled and the Shem gone, he helped his fellow survivors bury the charred dead and dug in the ruins of the village for whatever he might find. He recovered his father’s brigandine, steel cap and longbow from the wreckage of their home, preserved as if by the sheltering hand of a god for him or maybe it was because his father had dug some storage underground. There was not much else left in the village, so they left, walking near the roads but not on them, trying to find more of their folk and rebuild, at least was the plan, until the Picts came again.

Forced to flee, Glynn and his mother became wandering beggars for a time, often hungry. His mother died after five years of such a life, leaving him alone and adrift in the world, without a homeland and his people destroyed. He joined bandit gangs, just so he could eat and honed his ability to kill, before becoming a mercenary, a sword for hire. Willing to take up just about any cause, especially if he gets to kill Shem or Aquilonians.

[Juggtacular]

Oh fuck off Glynn!!! The women were for meeee!!!

[IrishWolf]

Oh please, we all know what kind of booty pirates prefer...out at sea, with nothing but seamen for company. 

[Brittlby]

That has to be a record. Two archers before a sorceress pc!

[Hamadryad]

OK, so so far we’ve got

Huxia Khet - Brittlby
Grata - Hamadryad
Ndima - Polymorph
Ardana - Avarus

I’m presuming Grata is going to be a healslut?

@Ghrymhawke, that’s not a problem at all.

@All, if anyone has any questions or there’s anything I can help with just let me know.

Healslut indeed

[TerribleTira]

damn... so I was thinking of a barbarian type female... but then we already have the Cimmarian. Then I was thinking of a Pict gal. but that was already done. Finally, was gonna go with Hyrkanian... but that was ALSO done.  Fuck... what to do? I don't wanna copy an archetype that has already been filled. But I don't like magic, so I'm not down for a sorceress.

Any ideas or suggestions? My favored tropes are a cruel brute, or a cunning scoundrel type.

I'm definitely interested in this as I love the Hyborian setting (and sword and sorcery in general), and the fact that this isn't system based is a godsend.

[IrishWolf]

Well there is always Asgard or Vanaheim if you wanted to do a viking themed shield maiden 

[TerribleTira]

Well there is always Asgard or Vanaheim if you wanted to do a viking themed shield maiden

maybe... but like, without the shield. lol

I don't actually know much about either of those places, tbh

[Juggtacular]

maybe... but like, without the shield. lol

I don't actually know much about either of those places, tbh

https://hyboria.xoth.net/gazetteer/nations.htm - helps a bit