Thread: Final Fantasy XVI

Classes

Alchemist

 click to show spoiler

Alchemists are unrivaled when it comes to the mixing of ingredients. Their knowledge is second to none. Where it may take an experienced soldier to mix a poison, it would take an alchemist less than half the time required, make the poison ten times more potent, and have a ready antidote ready from the concoction.

Alchemists are versed in all kinds of materials, including, but not limited to: Plants, metals, liquids, and energy; all of their properties are analyzed constantly, as the world of Eorzea is a constantly changing one. Alchemists tend to be natural healers when a Paladin or Cleric is no where in sight, while on the side doing business with rogues, handing out poisons at a lethal price.

Alchemists are known to trvale far and wide, honing their skills among other Alchemists. They either trval in groups of five to ten sized caravans, or they travel alone. It is prefered that they travel with a group, most Alchemists are not prone to fighting and are easily killed; there are some, however, that are well-versed in the art of combat and prefer to travel alone.

Alchemists’ lives as nomads bring them to the far reaches of the planet, where only the very few brave, or witless end up. Some Alchemists travel for ingredients, others to seek knowledge, but what is clear is that a traveling Alchemist is never without purpose.

Assassin

 click to show spoiler

Assassins are born, not made; created, nourished from before birth, not trained in the art of killing. Assassins are the masters of dealing death, their fast movements are third only to light and sound speeds. They move with sureity and preciseness. They are muscular, as they are flexible. They are the ultimate killing machine of the United States of Eorzea.

Assassins can emulate emotions, but they cannot freely give it. They have the emotional capabilities of a worm, yet at the same time they are able to perceive lies and truth hidden among emotion and are able to act upon those lies or truths.

Not much is entirely known of the Assassin clas, however. What is known is that whoever an Assassin is has no will of their own, and can not, will not act without orders from a superior.

Beast Master

 click to show spoiler

As the name kindly suggests, the Beast Master class are persons who are adept at communicating with animals. More experienced Beast Masters are able to control animals upon a first meeting. Those who are Beast Masters come from a long line of ancestors who are also Beast Masters. They feel that living in the hustle and bustle of the cities force the power to communicate with animals, which, enevitably, leads to the downfall of the class.

Beast Masters welcome travelers of all kinds to their villages. Beast Masters, for living in the wilderness, have the reputation of a wildbeast, blood thirsty and reckless. Those who know Beast Masters know the falsehood of such lies. Beast Masters have it in most of their hearts to live as the animals do: Without regrets, grudges, and to learn to acknowledge the constant threat of death, even to accept it in their hearts when one of their family members is brutally murdered before their very eyes.

Beast Masters do visit cities, mostly to learn of impeding wars or to find relatives forgotten among their villages.

Beast Masters have from birth a blood companion, usually an animal that lives within the enviroment and can be anything from wolves to a dragon to the slinking shadows of the wraiths, or even to the demonically sadistic demons. The two are as one. When a companion dies, the beast Master never replaces him/her, and instead lives until his dying breath either in a state of depression, or acceptence.

Berserker

 click to show spoiler

Berserkers are powerful fighters versed only in the knowledge of vicious beatdowns. Berserkers wear immensily heavy armor and carry a weapon twice the size of any normal weapon. Their minds are often lost when in battle, they succumb to the killing intent in their hearts. For this, Berserkers do not make good travel companions for they often turn their blades on those of their fellow traveling companions.

Berserkers know next to zero magical powers. At most their armor or weapons are embued with the power of magical energy. Their skin are tough patches of caluouses, at times during a frenzied kill their body automatically heals itself of any wounds, though the process is a long, and cumbersome one.

Berserkers are rightly shunned from society. The simpliest arguments become more often than not a scene of murder with a Berserker. They are rarely drunk and eat easily more than any other class.

Cleric

 click to show spoiler

Clerics are a branch from the Paladin class. Whereas Paladins are well versed in the art of physical combat with some magical training,Clerics are the opposite. Their holy spells are devastating. Clerics are the natural healers of Eorzea, their magic are third only to the High Mages and the Omniscient Mage.

Clerics can be found everywhere on the planet as their services are widely accepted. It is in their oath to never turn away from a person in need, but Clerics aren’t push-overs and can refuse to give aid if the aid given will in turn kill hundreds.

Dark Knight

 click to show spoiler

If the Paladin are the heroes of assumable right and good in the world, law abiding at least, than the Dark Knight class are the anti-heroes. Scornful men, they are often associated with the worst creatures in the world. To become a Dark Knight, one must first sever his ties with the world and sacrifice his own blood, to form a pact with the god Undais. It is this pact and this pact alone that seperates the normal knight from a Dark Knight.

Dark Knights can be evil, and cause pendemonium, but at the same time can save lives if it is their desire. The mark of the Dark Knight doesn’t align him with the art of evil, but fastens him with the knowledge of the most poweful force in all of Eorzea: Death.

Death to a Dark Knight is perceived differently than every other class on Eorzea; it is understood with such a finute description that only Undais could willingly give that others could only understand nothing but a fragment of such knowledge.

Dark Knights are the forces on Eorzea that allow souls passage into the next realm, though they themselves are unable to make that journey until death claims their lives as surely as they know that it must. And they welcome death with open arms, warmly like receiving a dear parted friend from long ago, forgotten from present knowledge, but not from memory.

Classes Continued

Dragoon

 click to show spoiler

Dragoons are like the Beast Master class; they spend most of their lives in the company of a lifetime partner, but in the case of the Beast Master it could be any animal. Dragoons, however, are not so fortunate in this regard, yet to some Dragoons are on a level far too high to climb, to be revered at a distence, whispering words of graditude, while at the same time envy pouring off of their bodies. The Dragoons lifetime partner is none other than the dragon, a specific dragon to each region of the world.

Dragons that are under the service of the Dragoon class spend lives quite different to a dragon living in the wild. For one Dragoons’ dragons are surperiour fighters and their resistence to magic raised tenfold; their claws and teeth are manufactured by time to have sharpness that only Undais’ and his siblings’ blades outstrip. Dragons that live with Dragoons also have an infinitely shorter lifespan.

Dragoons are often on the forefront of war. It is the Dragoon class that marks where the front lines are, and how they are maintained. Dragoons make up the majority of any army’s bulk; their sheer knowledge of battle coupled with the savagry of their dragon partners make them irreplaceable soldiers.

As the dragon and Dragoon partners grow constantly in each others presence they form a bond of unbreakable power. This bond teaches both parties techniques that can be used in battle. Dragons that have been with a partner for a long time can not only fly and breathe fire, but only lightning, ice, water, poison, darkness, light, and time. Time is the most powerful spell that any dragon can learn, only Elder Dragons can learn these spells, and after living for centuries. They learn it after digesting the bodies of their partners, gain their will, their dominace, their compasion, and then after the men are no more... the dragon and rider’s souls become entertwined and fuse, becoming far stroinger than previously before.

Golem

 click to show spoiler

Golems were sentient beings… once. Golems are the byproducts of scient and engineering. Golem bodies are made of castized metal, usually mythril, oil, and mana. There is also a secret ingredient that the citizens of Eorzea tend to turn a blind eye for. The missing ingredient, if widely known, could cause a major upheavel in society. The missing ingredient is, or was, a living person’s soul, reincarnated into a walking, thinking, and killing machine known as the Golem.

Golems don’t die, they are destroyed. Their bodies are not made of flesh, but of metal, maknig their durability many times more than regular armor. Golems each come with a power pack filled with mana, this is their sustance, their life energy that keeps them moving day to day. Without this pack, Golems will stop working within minutes. When a Golem is destroyed, the soul trapped within the Golem is freed until a Dark Knight sends the soul into the next world, it is recaptured, or it turns into a monster.

The soul trapped in the Golem feels no pain, instead it feels a semblence of pain that is transministered to the soul by scientifical acheivements. No one truly knows how, or why the mana in the Golem transmists the pain to the soul, or even, most cannot explain how there is pain to begin with. The Golem is a creation made of metal, not flesh and nerves that travel across the body of a human. There should be no notion pain, yet there is.

The soul can, at times, recall some of its former life, the abuse of forced enslavement in the Golem, and any other Golems. Dark Knights take it upon their duty to kill any Golem that they come across, it is seen as the highestlaw broken to slave a soul, when it should have moved on. Golems, if left alone, or retain too much of their memories are then turned into Monster Golems, powerful beings that have the strength of any Golem, the viciousness of monsters, and the technological advancements of the decade.

Hell Knight

 click to show spoiler

Hell Knights are former Dark Knights. They are far stronger than their previous counterparts. Hell Knights are able to conjure familiars from the depths of hell, usually demons, but also lost souls and walk along side each other. They know the knowledge of Deatj, as the Dark Knights, yet their pervse minds are corrupted, upon learning of Death most Hell Knights take it in stride to kill, blatantly and without regard, as many people as possible, calling it their just desserts in a world of higher powers.

Hell Knights are strictly fire and dark based magic users. Their magic is some of the best, but their knowledge of using magic if limited despite their phenomenal powers. Hell Knights turn their magic and empower their weapons and armor with them, experienced Hell Knights turn their magic for their familiars, making them stronger, or bending a particular strong demon’s will to their own.

Hell Knights are forbidden to enter most cities and towns under punishment of death.

High Mage

 click to show spoiler

High Mages are the second of three Mage class transformations. High Mages are masters of only one branch of magic. They shut themselves off from the others, and bury their minds into the last. It is often the High Mage that are asked to fix a problem with the world, a distortion in reality that has been left over by a god stepping onto the planet.

High Mages train a series of students every year, mages from across the world that wish to follow a single branch of magic. The path is indeed hard, truly most die as they learn the arts. Some succumb to the pressure and commit suicide, others flee and abandon all hope of Mage arts again. Once the High Mage has a student, he or she is the High Mage’s for life, or until a place in time ordains that the lowly Mage has become a High Mage themselves. The High Mage has the power to irreversably destroy a person’s innate control over magical items, making them something less than human at will.

High Mages also carry the secrets of the world on their shoulders. It is rare for a High Mage to concern himself with the everyday business of lesser beings. High Mages hold themselves daily in great towers, spanning across most of Eorzea. These towers of sorcery are secluded, hidden with magic and only those in experienced in the art of magic can uncover their hiding places.

High Mages can also travel instantly from one place to another by making their bodies into pools of pure energy, they then zoom across Eorzea in a matter of seconds where it would take a platoon of Droids to travel in weeks.

Classes Continued

Lich

 click to show spoiler

Liches are blights of rotting flesh, crawling the darkest places of Eorzea. Once sentient beings, Liches are neither alive nor dead; they asume the form of former lives. Sometimes their form is that of one of their victims; sometimes their form can be a family member; rarely are their forms their true forms. Only by rooting out a Lich’s true form, can they be truly killed.

There are spells that force Liches to show their true selves, known only to Clerics and Paladins.

Liches kill, then eat the flesh of their slain victims, but it is not the flesh that is their interest. Blood is. It is the blood that which keeps them alive; blood how warm it feels when it freshly comes from a living creature, yet how cold and empty, lacking of any true substanence that it is constantly sought after. Liches gain power, strength, and knowledge when they drink blood; the blood of their victims becomes the vulcrum for everything that person was for the Lich to take advantage of from abilities to their name and face.

The power of holy damage severly damages a Lich, who craves pain and suffering. While drinking blood, even a few drops, a Lich of cured of any damage that it sustained. Liches are slaves to blood, and from the blood they lose their self-worth, their pride, and all rights to sentient beings.

Mage

 click to show spoiler

Mages are your basic magic class fighter. Mages, unlike their stronger High Mage conterparts, start with a footing in every sect of magical properties. It is only as they train and gain a wide aspect of magic that they pick and choose a single art for which to eternaly delve into.

Mages powers are limited, though they are still among the more powerful classes on Eorzea if a Mage refuses to select one branch of magic to work under, and spend his entire life studying all branches indifferently. There are branches of magic that the Mage class can never learn with training from a High Mage, but to train under a High Mage means to cast all, but one branch to the side.

Mages work alongside others in their field choice. They sell crystals, magic embedded weapons and armor, scrolls for instant magic casting, books, and they sometimes help train those who hope to become a Mage.

Mages are never learned alone, they are taught through the guided knowledge of true Mages, and helped on by with books. Books are magically sealed so that none except a true Mage or higher can read them.

Necromaner

 click to show spoiler

Necromancers are practitioners of a forbidden art. Necromancers are neutral to the conflics of the world around them, only peering back in at times when asked for specifically. Necromancers live among the dead: Dead raised, and dead burie. They listen to the dead and fulfill their desires for an easier departing. Necromancers travel for they are shunned and ushered out of society, even by clients.

Master Necromancers can summon the body of a deceased, complete with soul and perception of self. These dead bodies decay quickly, most are often brought back when asked for by a relative when a Necromancer’s translations become distorted, or misunderstood.

Necromancers also fight with dead, typically taking advantage of lying skeletons in their vicinity to fight. They like skeletons, there are skeletons everywhere and they are simpliest to conjure from the dead. Without a soul, they are mere puppets for the Necromancer.

Necromancers can be seen in groups of Dark Knights. The Necromancer seeks out the lost soul, and the Dark Knights gives it rest eternal, peaceful.

The Omniscient Mage

 click to show spoiler

The Omniscient Mage is the strongest class on Eorzea. The Omniscient Mage is the Champion of the five Gods of Eorzea, and through him they channel limitless powers. At any given time, only one Omniscient Mage is allowed by the five Gods. The Omniscient Mage can only be obtained by striving for it alongside many other High Mages of all branches of magic. Only one winner, the rest doomed to die, their powers stolen and given to the Omniscient Mage.

The Omniscient Mage lives and dies as the word from the five Gods. Taking one step away from their set path grants instant death for the Omniscient Mage. If there is a quarrel among the five Gods, the Omniscient Mage answers only to Undais.

The Omniscient Mage is master of all branches of magic, and of some magic that can never been mastered by any one but with the sheer will of the five Gods. If it is the Omniscient Mage’s desire, he can glimsp the past and the future, or he can raise the dead. He follows what is best for Eorzea. Entire armies are always unable to kill the Omniscient Mage, for he is made immortal to Eorzea’s rules of life and death and only dies when the five Gods demand it.

Paladin

 click to show spoiler

Paladins are heroes of all the is good and right. By their sword or spear they protect the weak and natural orer of the world. They shun dark magic, use only holy. Paladins are powerful enemies, their armor is second to none and their mastery of the blade is only second to the Assassin class. Paladins guards cities, towns, and castles. With their constant presence around, no one feels wary to enjoy their lives; it is because Paladins exist that Hell Knights don’t run amok near popluated areas.

Paladins are well versed in magical arts, maybe not so much as their Cleric counterparts, but they know enough to heal a wound and to cast protect and shell whenever it is needed. Beyond that, Paladins leave it up to their weapons to do the talking.

Paladins are seen in every city, town, or fort on Eorzea.

Rogue

 click to show spoiler

What one must understand about the Rogue class is that there are many sub-divisions, each with their own purpose. Rogues naturally are more limber built, quick, and clever. They are usually small and can bend in ways that are almost impossible to imagine. Among the Rogue class you can have a Thief, Pirate, Ninja, Ranger, and Bard. Daggers and small swords are for Thieves, Ninjas, and Bards, while the heavier blades of the broadswords and scimitars are for the Pirates and Rangers.

Rogues are also well versed in hand-to-hand combat, second only to the Assassin.

Rogues are everywhere, literally. Turn away even for a second and don’t be surprised to find that you have less coin than he did a second before. Rogues are often sought after for their knowledge of the enviroment and general knowledge of political struggles, the dangerous parts of cities, pubs, and where to find the best alcohal.

Summoner

 click to show spoiler

There are two kinds of Summoners in the world of Eorzea. Unlike the levels of Mages however, Summoners are practitioners of one selected ancient art for life. They are, as the pictures perceive:

Familiar Summoners
Distant Summoners

Familiar Summoners are those that conjure familiars with magical threads and bring them to life. The familiars differ among Summoners. Summoners are limited to a max of six Familiars. Each Familiar is a huge drain mentally and physically on the Summoner, and can fade back into none-existence if the Summoner loses consciencess.

The second and stronger of the two Summoners is the Distant Summoner. Distant Summoners are those that put their mind to a single task: To find a monster in the wild and bring it to them. It can be anything; random creatures will appear for beginners, and for masters it can be what they desire. Stronger mosnters such as dragons can only be summoned with a strong will of mind; a weak mind will shatter upon meeting a dragon’s will. The two wills fight agaisnt each other, if the Summoner is the stronger, the monster is summoned successfully and becomes another tool for the Summoner to fight with until such a time that the Summoner feels to release the monster.

Technology

 click to show spoiler

Technology differs from country to country, though the level of technology around Eorzea remains somewhat within the same range. The United States of Eorzea remains the top in technological advances, with the Valnesse Empire coming in second.

Technology is the power for non-magical persons to preform tasks that wereonce believed to be only able by magical classes. On of which is to wage war, another is to fly through the air, create fire, and cross the ocean.

Some countries use magic to help power their technologies, while others remain stubborn and only use oil-based products, fearing magic.

The technological level of Eorzea is roughly a balanced act between Star Trek and early 20th century Earth.

Most technology is used for warfare.

Mana, Energy, and Crystals and the Differences Between Them

Every living being on eorzea, whether they are animals or plants, have the power to wield and/or repel magical entities. Without this resistence, the very fabrics of what is known to be reality would be shattered, replaced, and reshaped at will by ameteurs of the magical art.

Mana

 click to show spoiler

Mana is the lifeforce that governs all forms of life on Eorzea. It is the central force that repels all magical forces. The stronger the living being, the better chance at repeling the magic. Plants are weakest, then non-sentient creatures, and sentient beings with the best chance of repeling.

Mana can be found and cultivated all over Eorzea; Mana looks like water at first glance and acts much like water, but has a thin layer of mist emitting off of its surface. Large quantities of Mana in the wild have alterating consequences on the enviroment.

Strong creatures like dragons and demons gather around Mana pools and make them their home. If one obtains Mana, they have the purest form of magical energy in existence, only second to the five Gods.

Fire, Water, Holy, Metal, Lightning, and Darkness are the six magical entities that govern Eorzea.

Energy

 click to show spoiler

Energy particles is the result of fragmented Mana within the enviroment that have been harvested by any mage of any skill level. Energy is transfigured at the will of the caster to become Fire, Water, Holy, Metal, Lightning, and Darkness. Stronger the caster, the more energy that is put into each spell.

Energy can be placed into weapons and armor by a Mage, and are then embued with a specific element until it is broken. The empowered weapon or armor can either deal elemtantal damage, or it can prevent most of the damage if it is hit with the same element type.

Energy particles are shapeless to the naked eye. To the experienced Mage, the energy can appear like distorted shapes in light.







Condensed Energy when Mana is captured by a Mage.

Crystals

 click to show spoiler

Crystals are items that mages create to sell, or that can be found in the wild. Crystals have magical power, but unlike energy, crystals can only be used once, and with a specific element. Crystals can be recharged by any Mage.

You may also mix a crystal of the same or with different elements to gain power.

Crystals are the most common form of magic, and can be used by anyone. Crystals are also the weakest of the three magical entities.

Casting spells

 click to show spoiler

To call forth a magical energy to attack through you in either a physical avatar-like state or with an abstract form of attack like a kamehameha attack from DBZ a chant is used; it is only natural that the stronger the energy, the longer that each chant is spoken. And the weaker the spell and energy, the shorter the chant. Henceforth the stronger the energy the longer the chant goes into other posts – to allow for real time combating. The max posts that a chant can go through is four, with the caster in a very vulnerable state. Here is an example of a chant that can be used:

Darkness beyond the twilight,
Crimson beyond blood that flows,
Buried in the flow of time.
In thy great name,
I pledge myself to darkness.
Those fools who rise up to oppose us
Shall be destroyed by the power
That you and I possess.
DRAGON SLAVE!

In addition to energies, those who possess scrolls can release an instant spell of differing power. Though these spells are far weaker than their energy counterpart, they are very helpful in a pinch.

Races

Humans

Humans is the dominate race among Eorzea. They are crafty beings, highly intelligent, and compromise most of what is built on Eorzea. Humans are your basic race, they excell in intelligence only; they don’t have overbearing strength like the Draconiancs; don’t have innate magical power like the moogles; don’t have speed like the Vispera, or the agility of the Maruto; and cannot work with mana as well as the Elementals.

Of all races the humans are those with the shortest lifespans; because of this they mature quickly, and act like they have no time left to live.

Moogles

Moogles are modest creatures and the most intelligent being on Eorzea. They cover most of Eorzea, but can only live in settlements near, or in tropical locations. Moogles spend their lives researching arcane arts such as magic or summonging; seldom Moogles will venture beyond and study the art of Necrosis.

Draconians

Draconians are humanoid lizards with dragon-esqe properties in their DNA. Draconians have reptilian scales that are harder than most armor, yet Draconians still wear armor as an added precaution.What they lack in mobility, they more than make up in strength. Draconians have sharp eyes and sharp teeth, and a powerful tail that could cleave a man in two if swung with all their might.

Draconains, from birth, have a Limiter attached to their bodies, for if it is ever taken off the Draconian loses their life and turns into a blood savage dragon, and must be put down. Their dragon form is much weaker than that of a normal dragon, there is no turning back.

Draconians have near human intelligence.

Vispera

Vispera are bunny beings with some human features, such as a tall body, can stand on two legs, and speak human languages. From all races, the Vispera are the quickest, they are able to dodge most attacks and laucnh counter attacks with deadly precision. Heavy weapons are ther bane, thus none of their race carry any.

Maruto

Maruto are humanoid figures in the form of a cat. Short hair; long hair; mediumsized hair cover the Maruto’s body as as sort of extra barrier to their skin. This barrier of sorts has long since been forgotten with the invention of plate and chain-link mail armor. Maruto, not quite as quite on their feet as the Vispera, are best with agility.

Agility does not equal speed, it equals balance. Maruto can scale the side of any building, flat-faced or rough with many handholds. Maruto, like the Viserpa, prefer smaller weapons, but they may also use medium to large sizes as well. The weight puts a damper of their speed, but by using the Maruto’s tail as a counter balance, none of the weight affects the Maruto’s sense of balance.

Elementals

Elementals are csentient beings constantly shaping and re-shaping their outer appearance. No one knows what form is their true one; incidentally most Elementals are thougt to be balls of pure Mana, condensed into Energy, and are thus born. They are the ultimate spell caster. They have no hands to hold a weapon, and no visible body to wear armor.

They are protected with a viel of energy, always visible, that will render objkects motionless for a second, at most. This shield of energy can also be used to attack from.

Note: that I will reveal the true form of the Elemental later in the RP. For now, though, I’ll keep it a secret.

Like freaking wow, haven't seen an RPG in a while that made me want to play...so what the heck... I am in (which stands to say this is approved as soon as 5 players happen in).

I will say that too much effort went into this so if you are going to play, put effort into it.

Now just how does one even pick a class...so many I want to be O_O

I am very wow'd indeed. I just need enough time to read everything thoroughly before I choose everything....give me time and I will join also. Expect many questions from me though, and know that I am a very good RPG player. :P

Finally!!! I read it all!!! XD I will, of course, be joining. Great work, as always, zyta. Geez... you said it took awhile to finsih this and I believe you!!!

O_O Chiefy is joining!!! Wow!! I wonder how this RP will turn out. Well I'll be posting my character sheet soon.

Question. I'm just wondering(I don't want to be this class at all!!), you said the Assassin class is forbidden, but then how does one become an Assassin if they are born. Just confused on that part. ^__^

~whee~ Can't wait for others to join!!! XD

I'll be joining. Give me some time to read it all and then I will got to work on my character. Man, there is a lot of classes. Now which one should I be?

All I can say is wow and sign me up. Zyta you always come up with good rpgs.