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A caste is something you are born into. While anyone can take the training for a particular set, only those born into those sets can use/take that training to its fullest. It is possible to be born into more than one caste; for example, there can be a Priestess/Healer. The rarest, and most powerful, combination is a Queen Black Widow Healer. Only three currently exist (correction- are known) among the Blood. A rank can be revealed by the psychic scent an individual gives off- if the person who receives that scent recognizes what it means, which isn't a guaranteed. Several other things can be told from that scent, too, including current temper.

Only two known males hold a traditional female rank: two Black Widows. They are the only two recorded crossing of the gender barrier between castes.


Male:

Landen: Non-Blood of any race. There are also several different human races, the most noticeable of which is Eyrien, due to their wings.
Blood male: A general term for all males of the blood; mainly used in reference to a Blood male that doesn't wear Jewels.

Warlord: A Jeweled male equal in status to a witch.

Prince: A Jeweled male equal in status to a Healer or a Priestess.

Warlord Prince: A dangerous, extremely aggressive Jeweled male; in status, lower then a Queen, but higher than a Black Widow.


Females:

Landen: Non-Blood of any race.
Blood female: A general term for any female of the Blood; mostly refers to any Blood female who doesn't wear Jewels.

witch: A Blood female who wears Jewels, but isn't one of the other castes. Also refers to any Jeweled female.

Healer: A witch who heals physical wounds and illnesses; equal in status to a Priestess or a Prince.

Priestess: A witch who cares for alters, Sanctuaries, Dark Alters, witnesses marriages and handfastings, and performs offerings; equal in status to a Healer or a Prince.

Black Widow: A witch who heals the mind, weaves the tangled webs of dreams and visions, and is trained in illusions and poisons. There are several physical differences that mark them. They are higher then a Prince, Healer, or Priestess, but lower then a Warlord Prince.

Queen: A witch who rules the Blood. She is considered to be the land's heart, and the Blood's moral center. As a result, she is the focal point of their society.

{REALMS/WINDS/OTHER NESSICARY STUFF!!}

1) The Winds, also known as the Webs, are psychic currents that run across the Three Realms. (Also across Earth and it's space, though in a different pattern then in Terrielle, Kaeleer, and Hell). In the Three Realms, the Winds form a web that meets at Ebon Askavi, the Black Mountain. The lines strait out from the mountain are called tether lines, the lines between the tether lines are called radial lines. Blood who wear the Jewels can travel the Winds like a spider over a web, and use this to cross distances more quickly and with less problems then in normal travel.
There is a Web for each rank of the Jewels. The darker the Web, the more tether and radial lines there are, and the faster faster the Wind is. You can only travel on the Webs that are your Jewel rank or lighter. You can't ride a Web of darker rank unless you are being sheilded by someone who CAN ride that web, or are in a Winds Coach being driven by someone that can ride that Web. There are specific points, called Landings or Landing Webs, that are the official drop points. They are marked by pieces of clear Jewels, which act like a psychic beacon to everyone on the Webs. Thus far, this is the only use discovered for those clear pieces.

2) I didn't mention this before, but differnt races of humans have drasticly differnt life expectancies. For Halliyans and Eyriens, 17 centuries is considerd 'young' and 'in the prime of your life.' For others, they only live as long as us. For simplicities sake, all the races that I deal with will all be the very, very long lived ones. There are also differnces in coloring for various races. The most notable characterisitcs, however, are the fact that Eyriens have wings. For an image, picture bat wings. Big, black, webed. One other race has wings- the Jhinka. They are the mortal enemies of the Eyriens, don't wear Jewels, and are considered to be little more then barbarians.

3) Warlord Princes are dangerous, agrresive, edgy, protective of females and friends that they love, and are the type of males that most need contact with their Queen, or other dominat females in their life. They're considered laws to themselves, To sum up their mindset, I give you a quote from the series: "I'm an Ebon-Gray Warlord Prince. I can do anything I damn well want to." Please keep in mind that this was said AFTER threatening to cut off a man's hand.

4) Psychic scent. What it really is is an indication of your presence, an echo of who you are and your feelings at any given time. If you stay in a room for more than a few minutes, or handle an object for a while, your psychic scent gets imprinted onto it. If you stay in that room almost constantly, keep the object with you 24-7, or experience very intense emotions in the room/with the object, the scent gets stronger. If you leave the room for a long time, or abandon the object, the scent gets harder to detect. Extreme emtions experienced there at a later date can cover up the original psychic scent, especially if the new ones are stronger than the old ones.

5) Tangled webs are what a Black Widow weaves to trap or fool the mind. They can induce nightmares, create illusions, hide certian selected things, supress someone's memory, create dreams, tear your mind apart, and many other things. The best known tangled web is one woven to see images of the future- but it's hard to interpret and apply to everyday life. Anyone CAN, in theory, get out of a tangled web that's trapping them, if they have the psychic strength to do so. But they need to first recognise that they're IN a web, and then they need to knowledge of how to fight it.

6) Psychic threads. A psychic thread is a connection between two minds. Words, emtion, power, and knowledge can be sent along the bond. You can only send threads that are the level or your Jewel or lighter, and can't recieve any from a darker Jewel. Threads can be made open to all, narrowed down to one group, one gender, or one mind. If you wear a Jewel darker than the thread being sent, than you can 'listen in' without anyone being aware of it, so long as it's doesn't exclude your gender or mind. There's no limit to the distance that can be reached with this- though more distance does need more strength.

It seems that the evil workings of Dorthea and Heckta haven't been banished as everyone would think. There is a new taint that is spreading through out the realms and THere is need for a new generation that will be able to continue the defence of the inocent... WIll you be one of them?

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[x]Is there a specific place that the RP starts from?[x]