Ethos
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[edit] Ethos
Genre: Low Fantasy
System: Original Final Fantasy-Like
Start Date: Spring 2002
End Date: Spring 2004
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Webpage: [[1]]
[edit] Description
A lack of history, a disintegrating kingdom, disappearing people and records, a plague of madness: all signs that the world is not as it ought to be. The church of Isal is looking into its records to find why the wrath of god is striking all of the warring factions in the known world.
An admittedly Final Fantasyesque game, Ethos explores systems of beliefs, self-perception, what draws characters together and apart, what makes somebody human, and how one may try to escape the past and its bearing on the present. Ethos has a Late Middle Ages (not high fantasy) and Imperial East (go vengeful eunuchs!) feel to it, with much historical basis actual tribes and civilizations (e.g. lots of barbarians, Huns, other crazies). However, the character base is very flexible, as you can play pretty much any type of person you like. The system is mostly original dice-based (with some borrowing from Earthdawn), and uses a semi-original magic system, heavily influenced by CRPGs.
[edit] Characters
PCs
- Dakhira Leyara (Sue B.)
- Queen of Thieves.
- Adriano Lucrezia Caligari (Dave R.)
- Black Mage, deconstructed.
- Saraseia Anitsa doch'Monastyr (Becky S.)
- Somber White Mage.
- Mikkos Thalassides (Jamey P.)
- Well-greaved Odyessean sailor and Legend.
- Naersin (Dan S.)
- Red Mage with a Hat-of-Levitation.
- Ohn Kerya (Joanna)
- Urial Archer and Herbalist.
- Haroun Omar Aziz al-Mutasid (Ben L.)
- Morbid assassin with a knack for stabbing the ruler of a country.
- Ancelaine d'Bastienne of the Order of the Dragon (Emily B.)
- Dragoon with absurdly large wings.
NPCs
- Abeko Isshiki, Empress of Oalien
- Anthony White, pretending to be Antoine
- Arjin Anduve, King of Dtai
- Atma ibn Jahn, Haroun's unrequited love
- Black Ops, a group of Ninevan explorers
- Eigar ali Sande, Super spy
- Giuliana Caligari, Adriano's sweet mother
- Ilia Chenzhekova-Sumner, son of Sarah
- Kalindra, Sebastiano's hussy wife
- Keting Xia, Empress of Kohn
- Luca, Nose-in-a-book girl
- Magdalena Vernaducci, Risen heretic
- Minya, Urial warrior princess and Mikkos' wife
- Nehla du Pentak, former queen of Dtai
- Nieta Lotra, Grand Prince of Gedersov
- The Passion
- Sebastiano Caligari, Adriano's cousin and nemesis
- The Shadow
- Shin Lai, Emperor of Kohn
- Teryn Takare, a ninja leader
- Yui Isshiki, princess of Oalien
- Zephaniah, ghost who imprisons persons in crystals
- Zirce veii Volehr, Tormented killer and queen
Malakim
- Seir Mojave, the Devil Samael
- Lillian Mojave, Lilith
- Sophie Elmasy, the Beast
- Kallen Metastrian, Metatron
- Israin Douma, Dumah
- Sora Sumner/Sora Angelovsky, Sorath
- Sarah Chenzhekova/Saraseia, Sathariel
- Sara Patel/Saraseia, Sariel
- Luciano Abalidotto, Abalidoth
- Mikhail, Mikael
- Beryl, Beleth
- Rahab
- Leviatan
- Abilene Danzerian, Abaddon
- Simon Tabriz, Tabris
- Kore Afraim, Af
