Burden of Heroes (Closed)

[Cloud_Silva]

As expected, my two previous rp's didn't work. At all. Now I know they weren't good ideas and I can move on~ ^^


This rp is one I did a long time ago on a different website and I think it did fairly well, so why not reboot it here. Find the companion thread for rules, info, and character sheets!




In the world of of Orilia, both man and fur lived together in peace. These two races roamed the planet hand in hand for centuries, since the dark age of dragons and monsters to the holy age of celebrations and festivals. When demons and hellish beasts bore its teeth towards one, they'd both come down hard on the enemy. All it took one day was a powerful dragon to get past their defences and smite the human king. Immediately the humans blamed the furs for being to weak and purposely allowing it to happen. The dragon escaped and went into hiding, and the humans made multiple attempts on the fur King's life. None were successful. Soon, the humans decided to lay siege upon the citizens, in hopes of crushing the King's morale. After enslaving multiple lives and slaughtering countless more, the fur King had enough. He ordered all remaining citizens to go into hiding in small settlements scattered throughout the world. That was the last the humans had ever seen of the furs in many more centuries. Until now, when a small parcel was picked up by a little girl just outside her settlement. Upon taking it to her mother, her mother read it and immediately sent it to the current king. The humans had required help fending off a massive demon attack. The king, however, had believed the humans had what was coming to them, and left them to fend for themselves. Countless lives were lost and enslaved, and the total population of humans shrunk to half. Even with half their population however, the human population was still more than eight times the size of what was left of the furs. A few more years passed, and the humans hated the furs even more. However, now the furs were gifted with a gracious king, one that seeked to right the wrongs that both sides had committed. He only needed to figure out how.

[Razuel]

Razuel woke up one morning to the sounds of chirping Bluejays, to which one came in through his window and sat on his chest, so he brought a hand up and pet it gently before it flew away.


Razuel lived in an old looking tower, when in fact everything inside his home was new and reinforced, but currently he had no food, so today was when he would have to trek into town and try out his new Polymorphing spell.


He got ready to go and wrapped his wings around himself, and with a spark of light, Raz looked like a human counterpart of himself. The woodland critters could see through his guise, but no bipedal creatures could... he made sure of that in the spell.


Within moments, hade his way to the main road and towards the gates, "Good morrow, gentlemen!", they both grunted, "We're ladies...", Raz soon corrected himself, "Ah! Yes! Sorry about that, ladies... is there entry into the city right now, what with all that stuff going on..", they looked at each other and moved aside to let Raz in.




To any good willed anthros around, they'd see Raz for who he is.

[Naval]

   Carl was up and early in the morning so he could enjoy his potato stew without having the young ones messing with him or steal when he's not looking. But of course this meal was cooked with haste and wasn't the best. Though that didn't really matter as when you have a empty belly, dirt tastes like a royal banquet. But besides his breakfast, he washed his own bowl in the basic kitchen so nobody had to burdened with one more thing. And set off to his part of the garden, the radishes. Those babies where his pride and joy.. well other then good old Bess. But she was taking a nice nap in a mud puddle as Carl grabbed a gardening hoe and glanced at his radishes.


  Being quite happy to see that they are growing strong with bright fresh leafs, but are darker in color for lacking the nice fresh top soil they need. But, I mean after all what are they really going to do about it. But he could hear the shouting of one of those way too strict slave owners barking at him to get to work. And so useing the tool, he was plucking out the ripe-ish radishes and plopping them in a basic weave basket and slipped one for Bess before heading off to the kitchen,While the wart hog smelled the sweet veggie and snacked it down quickly in delight.


  "I wish I could be a human... and finally get a farm of me own.. I'll have there ol patatas or coo-combers " He said while getting out of the kitchen to get back to his farm and plant new seeds...

[Teo]

Rick sat on the side of the road, hiding among the trees that lined it. He was leaning against a tree, however it was a low-hanging pine tree, so he was well hidden

He was waiting for any humans to come by, preferably trade wagons, as they were common down this route, and held lots of valuable items, but more importantly, their supplies. Human food was undoubtedly the best, and bringing it back would make everyone at home smile

[Cloud_Silva]

It was early in the morning when Cloud began to wake up. The sun had somehow broken through the shades he had over his windows, and it ate away at the comforting darkness that held his sleep. A bit irked at the sudden brightness in his eyes and even more annoyed that someone opened his curtains, Cloud grumbled and stood up from his bed. Making his way over to the window and closing them, he smiled as the normal, darker version of his room returned. He had always loved his sleep, and was never one to be afraid of the dark in his room seeing as it's his own little sanctuary.


Once Cloud was dressed in his normal attire of a black royal garbs and robes, he made his way down to the main hall to greet the court. Despite his fondness of the colour black and his comfort in the dark, he was no emo or rebellious one. In fact, he brought joy to many of the folks around him. As he made his way into the main hall, all of the dukes and bishops and other higher ups had risen to greet him. "There's no need to be so formal to a prince as you are to the king, I'm no king yet" he spoke to them all as they all nodded and replied "Yes Prince Silva". As they sat, so did Cloud. "My lord" "Not a lord yet" "Ah...my apologies, my prince. My Prince, word of your kindness and good deeds have spread far, you're known by nearly every major encampment. Some are beginning to believe that you may the one to connect both fur and humans together again, so does your father. Your father seems to believe most though, but as a test of good faith and skill, he wants you to free the slaves in a nearby farm encampment. Do this, and your father will send you on your way to the great capital to meet with the high king and make peace once more. What say you?" spoke one of the hall attendants. As Cloud thought for a moment, a small smirk spread across his maw. "I'd be honored" he replied. "Excellent, though this is just a farm, we can't have you getting captured or killed, so we're going to send word out for two or three men to come along and protect you. We'll also send word out to smaller settlements to let them know your approximate time of departure so that you may not be robbed by them. Good luck, my liege" the attendant spoke again. Cloud nodded and got up to leave the room, as he did, he wondered what type of camp he would be liberating. He had seen and liberated a few before, which in turn must have spread his good image around. He couldn't stop thinking about it until he got back to his room. Quickly, he got changed into more casual attire, and layed on his bed. "I bet it's tonight" he muttered, before falling into a nap.

[Razuel]

Raz walked in and was fairly calm, despite the tension as of recent, he slowly made his way to an old building and upon entering, he was greeted by a human, "Sir, you can- wait...", Raz closed and locked the door behind him and then let down his veil, "Nice to see you too, James... Anything new?", James was quite astonished by this as a dragon was able to get by the gate, even with Raz's own thick campfire smell, "What? How!... I thought that scroll was a dud!", "It was... but there was one letter in it that was scratched out... it took me at least a week to get it right... luckily I had a few restoration potions... anyway, I need your help...", James shook his head, "I'm not helping you get back into the wizard tower, Raz... they all respect you, but even they know that they'd be in trouble if you entered the palace...", Raz nodded, "Well... how about some food... I've been having rabbit stew for quite some time and I'm sick of it...", James sighed, "Fine fine... go sit at the table... but please, put that spell back up... there's supposed to be a house searching in this section today... ever since a little rabbit girl wandered into an armory.", "Is she alright?", "He, actually... well... they insisted that they were male... their body clearly told otherwise... anyway, he or she, is already gone to her home... Here's your food... it's a bit of leftovers from my dinner last night....", Raz quickly ate and then went to the door, "W-wait, where are you going!?", "To storage house in the east-end...", and before James could get anything to Raz, he was already gone, (Still James) "Goddammit, Razuel... well... he does have fire... and dragon's hide is pretty strong... whatever, I'll here the flat-foots hutting by when Raz gets noticed..."

Razuel is currently making his way from West-end to East-end.

[Naval]

  Carl was having i pretty simple and nice , being that wasn't beaten being his older age and not doing anything stupid. Though tending to those purple seeds, he was carefully scooping up the dirt with his paws and butting one seed every four inches. Thoug this was taking all of time on his knees. More so just hunche over as he was making wok of his back. But this was rather nice compared to trying to pluck Cotten or even more so get firewood. But you know everything wasn't all bad, sure he didn't have the land or more so nice feel of truly owning something. But it's better then being hacked down like the rumors he heard from the others. But getting up though, he could hear the voice of the big ol fat man. Funny thing is though, that human would make the sloppiness of a pig look fancy.


"CARL! It's your turn to get to the core rocks and get to mining!" He ordered while having some spit fly out, of course. Carl got to his feet and was moving up over to the tool shed where a few other anthros where in a line to be handed some cheap end picaxes or buckets. So he had to stand in the wam sun making him awefully thirsty, but he had to walk all the way to the kitchen. But it's closed for this time of day and so he'll have to wait until way later. And as soon as it as his turn to get a tool, he could hear that mean fat man, yelling at a child of tripping while carrying some fruit.


Worse yet just making the poor pocipine cry, and by far it was sad.. but what was worse I had to turn my head away unless I want the hammer down on me hard. So getting my pick, I jogged over to the rock piles and started swinging in hopes to find some fresh ore or maybe something more...

[Teo]

Rick had decided to stop waiting, the thought of food and fortune had faded, so he decided to walk through the woods

He stumbled across an unfamiliar route, which lead to a huge farm being worked by slaves. He was attracted by the  familiar sound of tool hitting rock, he snuck through the farm to get a closer look.

He saw an old squirrel, which made him upset, as he'd probably been working year after year without break, he decided to wait a little longer, scouting the place out, unfortunately, his ability to hide was not great, he was crouching down nearby in plain sight, they probably thought he was a slave if they saw him

[Cloud_Silva]

As Cloud lay there napping, he awoke to the sound of some knocking on the door. Quickly he got up to open his bedroom door. Immediately he was greeted by one of the dukes and two strong looking men. "Good evening prince Silva, we have the two men that will be escorting you to the farm. Also, due to the large amount of activity during the day, this had to be a night operation" the Duke said. Cloud made a small smirk and muttered "called it". "I'm sure you did sir. Now, it's important to know that if you're spotted, there is a high chance they'll shoot you on the spot, or if they have a traitor fur with them, they may capture you with knowledge of you being the prince. So don't. Get. Caught" the Duke warned. Yawning, Cloud nodded his head and spoke. "Have you gotten word out to everyone?". The Duke grinned with pride. "Already done sire, all mages within this half of the planet should have recieved a message saying to steer clear of your operation. Everyone else shall receive the news through woodland birds. You'll be totally covered for the journey sir. Now get some rest"

[Razuel]

However, Raz had missed the memo, be it he glanced over the paper amongst his own, or he left too early for the bird.


Meanwhile, Raz had made it to that warehouse by keeping to the roofs and upon reaching the warehouse, he saw a new batch of slaves being brought inside, and this was the perfect time for him to try and liberate them all, human and anthro alike... Raz knew about this years before, but was silenced by the guards before , not all, but the more powerful ones.

He scanned the building for an exit point, and entry besides the front door.  He spotted a section where the warehouse and city wall meet, and that was his exit... he also found a square wooden roof door for an entry, so that was his entry... but how does he orchestrate a way to get them all out.  Possibly a diversion... A tip! That's what would do it... and luckily for coincidence, Raz appeared to be dressed like one of the higher wizards that live within the castle tower... but he'd have to quick about it...


Raz undid his disguise for a minute and shot a fireball at a rotten cabbage cart and it exploded in an instant, \and the owner of the cart exclaimed in despair, "My cabbages!!"
and the guards infront and beside went to the man that was now crying as to put out the fire that had now begun, "Not as subtle as I'd hope... but that'll do... Now for inside", Raz muttered to himself and he went to the roof door and went inside, thus then observing the inside and the guards within, "Wizard, wizard, witch, beggar, beggar, guard, guard, guard with spear, guard with sword, guard with... a fish?... no... that's a flail... huh...", he whispered to himself, and only the slaves directly below him would've been able to hear him.

[Naval]

   Carl was plucking away at the rock while he made a crack though it seemed just to be more stone. A bit disappointed, but heck it was what he was used to at this point though something seemed off. Like eyes where staring at him. And so he was taking just a little break to stare off into the woods and did spot someone and was going to shout at them to go, being that he must be a run away. When I was about to let myself speak I heard a buddy of mine shout. "My Cabbages!" Followed by a big boom and smoke, so turning around I could tell we have been attacked. Though what would want to attack us? Only if they where really desperate maybe, though to start burning things seem rather foolish. But he wasn't going to stand around to be the next one and hurried off dropping his pick axe. Bring that if anyone he is going to worry about , it's got to be his child Bess. "Old Bess! Where did you go girl? Bess!" Carl called out as the sturdy wart hog came grumbling to him while he clapped his paws and then hobbled off to the sleeping quarters. "Alright old girl come here." He ordered while the hog was running to him...


  So once both of them where inside, Carl put Bess behind him and looked around as he grabbed a pitch fork someone left behind and held it like a spear as he was prepared to fight unless it was another slave or slave owner. And was taking some breaths to calm his nerves as he felt his heart pound out of fear. Though now he was wondering if that run away slave had anything to do with it. And so he waited as he heard some racket going on and then watched the door carefully with a grip on his make shift spear.

[Teo]

Rick went over to the squirrel as he looked away, sitting on the rock he was swinging at, trying to get his attention

"Hello?" He said curiously in an upbeat tone, crossing his legs whilst sat on the rock

[Cloud_Silva]

As the message went around, the kingdom in which the furs resided stayed in it's calm, peaceful state. The major human city however, was in a panic. Word of a raid on a slave transport traveled quickly around the city and into the crown. Once the higher ups heard of the attack, they immediately set to work on figuring out who was to blame. The Queen's right hand man had went around to all the guards to get info on the attackers. They all replied with "No human is stupid enough to attack a slave transport in the middle of the city, it has to have been our enemies". The right hand couldn't agree more and quickly confronted the Queen. "My lady, we have an idea on who was attacking, but it's no surprise. I believe it's time to hit them where it hurts. Tonight, I believe we should use our overwhelming force to attack their biggest settlement. My lady, if we can take down the royal family, they will lose all of their morale and will be powerless to fight back. They will fall into chaos". The Queen could only smile deviously as she listened. "Very well. Tonight we will destroy them. Do you know of the location of such a settlement?" she asked. The man nodded slightly and replied. "Not one hundred percent. Though we do know the basic area. If they don't find it immediately, it won't take more than an hour to do so. However, I suggest we send in something much stealthier than catapults and warriors. May I suggest hiring a small army of assassins? They will be top of their class and will be in and out quick. They won't know what hit them". Taking this into consideration, the Queen nodded. "Get them hired and have them ready to go immediately, we strike as soon as the sun sets. For now, go deal with that raid. You are dismissed". He nodded "Yes, my Queen".

[Razuel]

With the guards busy, Raz took optimal opportunity to initiate his plan, and with that, he gracefully floated down with no noise at all, and looked at the slaves around him, signaling them to be quiet, and as 2 guards turned around, he shot two yellow beams of direct light at them, and they passed out.

Raz watched them fall, and looked around, and spoke in a soft manner, quiet enough for those outside to not be able to hear a peep, "Everyone, listen... there's a corner of this place that touches the outer wall of this city... I can provide refuge at my home if you trust me and follow me... if not, then stay here... stay here and be auctioned off for food or other displeasurable deeds..." and with that, Raz hopped up onto the rafters and soon dropped down by a corner and as he placed his hands on the stone wall, it started to swirl and morph as though it had returned to clay, until it became a clear hole, "Run! Run now! I can only hold this for so long...", waves and waves of slaves started to rush out of the building to the outer area of the walls and right into a brush.

Struggling could be seen clearly on Raz's face as he continued to hold this doorway open for thousands of slaves, and he soon looked back at Carl, with beads of sweat falling down his face, "What are you doing! Run already!!", and at that, the doors opened at the entrance of the barn and guards yelled things at Raz, but before they could run in, he shot a fireball at the roof of the warehouse over by the entrance, collapsing on those guards and slowing them down for quite a while.


The exit was slowly starting to close, and aside from a few elderly, Carl was the only one left, "RUN!"


Raz had become much more tired from the fireball, but was struggling immensely to keep the hole open.


If any were familiar with the Castle's Grand Wizards, then they'd notice that Raz is, or rather, was one before the war.

[Naval]

    Carl was in fear as he moved to see a rather swave dragon and was letting the slaves run out. Though as it was clear, the squrriel was but too fearful to make his move and now is trapped. Trapped like a fat rat ready to amuse the nobles. So the elder was gently petting his hog in hopes to put Bess at ease. And though he looked around for that odd mistaked slave. But couldn't get much sight due to the crushed buildings and now frantic guards. Though before the old squrriel had time to think clearly if at all, his hog saw freedom and ran like the wind. Suprising way faster then she has before, as if she knew that her owner needed her. And so Carl was fallowing his pet went quickly into the now open gap as he pain on the dragons face was clear to the both of them, he wasn't going to last long. And so the both of they where inside now and making there way with the far larger group of slaves. Though now after the both of them where in somewhat of the safe zone, Carl was looking back at the dragon. As if questions had been swarming in his head. Though that time will come later as Carl kept his hog moving...