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User: | lightning_war (184275) .:| lightning war: a secret history |:.
version 2.5 (shelter from the storm) |
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Name: | Lightning War | ||||||||||
Theme: | Multifandom RPG or collaborative media mashup writing project? You decide. | ||||||||||
Website: | The Lightning War Wiki | ||||||||||
About: | In 1942, there is more than one world at war. While mundane Britain strives to survive, arcane Britannia strives to ward itself against magical attacks of every kind. Dion Fortune is the magical advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the acknowledged leader of the arcane community, and Lady Dracaena Leffoy, the Duchess of Cornwall, whom some believe to be the sacred queen of wizarding Britannia, is working to unite the nonhuman peoples of the British Isles behind the mists. Gregor von Thorwald, Julius Evola and Fujiwara are the wizarding leaders of the Axis. Von Thorwald has sent his emissaries out behind the mist and promised the folk of the mists freedom from human dominance. He has likewise promised lycanthropes, vampires and other supernatural predators free rein in Europe under his rule. All the arcane schools in occupied Europe have fallen under his control. Evola wants to return Italy to the old pagan ways and pagan virtues, but is not averse to working with the darker factions of the Church, and has a number of demonic allies. Fujiwara is determined to control all of Asia, and it is rumoured that she can see into every place and time with her Golden Mirror. Von Thorwald has sworn to wipe out the dhampir: the hunters. These men and women once had ordinary lives, but their ancestors, siblings or lovers attracted the attention of the dark and demonic through bad luck or bad character, and the lives of their descendants and loved ones were destroyed. The hunters are Eastern Europe’s first line of defence against evil, but their numbers are dwindling and many of the best have been forced to flee for their lives. They were once almost unknown in Britannia, but because of von Thorwald’s activities, there is plenty of work for them now. Most threatened and threatening are the b’nai Azazel, better known as the Nephilim: few people know they exist. These unlucky individuals develop terrible and wonderful abilities. Some of them learn to control their gifts; others become slaves to the powers they only believe are their own. An Anglo-Indian wizard named Vikram Ayyar attempted to educate the arcane world about this phenomenon, but the Department of Mysteries silenced him and recruited his prodigal son. Not long thereafter, Vikram Ayyar was murdered by one of Evola’s agents. The Nephilim are appearing in greater numbers than ever before, and most of them are utterly ignorant of their origins. Few of them have much hope of discovering their demonic ancestor’s purpose before their lives can be twisted into its fulfilment. For centuries, the wizards of Britannia have sent their children to the Royal Academy of Wizardry in order that all may be educated in keeping with their future estate. That may no longer be the case; the school itself has come under attack. For centuries, the children of the fey, unpredictable Old Blood, the powerful arcane families, the mundane-born changelings, and the most talented arcane youth of the colonial populations in India, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia have been educated together in a common language and culture. Who knows what will happen if families are allowed to decide for themselves what and how their children will learn? And there are also those on all sides of the war who remember that the castle where the Royal Academy and its colleges currently reside is actually a great Artifice—an engine of defence for the arcane world. In the search for new defences and weapons, who knows what doors into the distant past may be opened, or what may be found behind them? This community contains adult content, by which we mean: silliness, compassion, inquiry, sense, sensibility, sex, love, passion, war, death, pain, valour and honest creative work done to the best of our ability. It is therefore suitable for adults and people who aspire to become adults. The small minority who fit neither category may wish to go elsewhere.Welcome to Lightning War! This RPG began in January 2003 on LiveJournal, and at that time, it was a Harry Potter RPG, but when OOTP was published in June 2003, we decided not to revise for backward compatibility. After the publication of HBP in July 2005, the mods decided to wash their hands of JK Rowling for good. If you like HP canon and enjoy participating in HP canon-based RP, this is not the place for you. While there are characters in this game who were inspired by characters in many fandoms (including HP), this game is its own world and all characters within it have origin stories that are unique to this world. Expecting things to go exactly the way they would in any canon is bound to be disappointing. This game is maintained by ataniell93, littlewings04 and jamoche, with help from puzzlement and mclittlebitch. * This game is slash, het, transgender and consensual kink supportive. * Explicit sex, explicit violence or graphic nudity must be placed behind a cut tag, with warnings where applicable (see the wiki for examples). * We warn for content, rather than rating for age. * We do not allow graphic descriptions of bestiality, sexual abuse of prepubescent children, non-consensual sex, coprophilia or torture. As this is a wartime RPG, these elements may occur in plots and backstories with approval of mods and all involved players, but they may not be depicted ‘on screen’ in graphic detail and warnings must appear on posts which deal at length with these themes. We do not allow MPREG. * Please use common sense and discretion when posting graphics. Sexually explicit, extremely violent, and obnoxiously modern icons, layouts and banners are not allowed. * We have in the past accepted and approved applications from people between the ages of 14 and 17. Players are free to decline explicitly sexual storylines with anyone, regardless of age. * Character journals are private, and are posted for the edification and entertainment of players. Please do not assume that your character knows all the information contained therein, or is aware of events for which s/he was not present. * Characters based on real people are accepted only if those real people are real historical figures alive during the 1940s OR are well-known entertainers with public personae. In the latter case, the character must be inspired by the public persona and importing of the character's real life family and friends who are not part of the public persona is not allowed. Characters based on modern politicians are not allowed. (In other words, you could play a character based on the guy Gerard Way pretends he is on stage--if someone weren't already doing it--but you can't play a character recognisably based on Barack Obama.) If you wish to apply, we check lightningwarmods AT gmail DOT com every few days. Priority will be given to prospective players who are members of the Lightningwatch community and are known to be conversant with our backstory. DOVER BEACH | ||||||||||
Interests: | 123: lw-alan turing, lw-aleister crowley, lw-alternate history, lw-anti-semitism, lw-anusim, lw-apotheosis, lw-aranxta, lw-arcane church of england, lw-arithmancy, lw-ark of the covenant, lw-arranged marriages, lw-b'nai azazel, lw-bastardy, lw-benandanti, lw-blitzkrieg, lw-blood feud, lw-blood sacrifice, lw-class warfare, lw-colonialism, lw-conversos, lw-crossing the abyss, lw-culture shock, lw-curses, lw-definitely not jk rowling, lw-diaries, lw-duelling, lw-dybbuks, lw-enochian magic, lw-faeries, lw-fallen angels, lw-family secrets, lw-fascism, lw-fealty, lw-fujiwara, lw-gematria, lw-genealogy, lw-germanenorden, lw-ghosts, lw-glastonbury tor, lw-gnosis, lw-gnosticism, lw-goblins, lw-habitat destruction, lw-heresy, lw-hitler, lw-holy grail, lw-hong kong, lw-idiolects, lw-inheritance disputes, lw-irish home rule, lw-irish republican army, lw-israel, lw-italy, lw-john dee, lw-judaism, lw-kabbalah, lw-laws of inheritance, lw-lebensraum, lw-lilith, lw-london, lw-loyalty, lw-machiavelli, lw-madness, lw-marranos, lw-marriage contracts, lw-medmenham abbey, lw-mesmerism, lw-microculture shock, lw-microcultures, lw-missing books, lw-nazis, lw-nephilim, lw-nightshade district, lw-nikola tesla, lw-not knowing you're jewish, lw-not!due south, lw-not!harry potter, lw-not!heroes, lw-not!hex, lw-not!hornblower, lw-not!house, lw-not!sga, lw-not!spn, lw-not!torchwood, lw-not!weeds, lw-original characters, lw-oxford, lw-politics, lw-qlippoth, lw-romance, lw-sang real, lw-scotland, lw-secret affairs, lw-secrets, lw-seelie court, lw-sex magic, lw-shame, lw-shekinah, lw-shoah, lw-sinn fein, lw-sluagh, lw-spear of destiny, lw-species competition, lw-stregheria, lw-tantra, lw-taoism, lw-the hell-fire club, lw-the holocaust, lw-the wild hunt, lw-thelema, lw-thule society, lw-tintagel, lw-toad demons, lw-toads, lw-tojo, lw-true love, lw-true names, lw-unions, lw-unseelie court, lw-vendettas, lw-world war two, lw-zionism, lw-zohar | ||||||||||
Maintainers: | 2: jamoche, tiferet | ||||||||||
Members: | 223: above_reproach, adelina_garcia, aelfweald, aeliana, aetherwave, alessio, alison_lw_npcs, alma_inocente, angelic_whisper, angelo_pazzo, aranxta, ari_rachel, ash_of_violets, astraspera, attenuated, auditrix, aunt_aggie, aurelien, avise_le_fin, balm_of_gilead, beestungsoul, belle_colette, bellissima, beroughwithlove, betterwithapen, bitsy_wilkes, blushing_jade, boot2thehead, bradburyfamily, bran_bach, breadandroses, brightmechanism, bydegrees, cagafuego, caismeachd, casaubon, celerity, charteris, claudien, clutterbuck, coiledlightning, coldiron, corazon_de_luz, corinne_camille, corisande, criticalmass, crockford, cryptomancer, dakini, dear_imprudence, delgardie, deononfortuna, dimity, diotima, discimus, divine_alchemy, doctortaverner, domini_canis, domitian, donnapericolosa, doryatschool, dracaena, drschadenfreude, dux_bellorum, eastofthesun, edouardthibault, egregoroi, eliezer, en_el_fuego, epistle_of_paul, ercole, errantknight, eudokia, | ||||||||||
Watched by: | 220: above_reproach, adelina_garcia, aelfweald, aeliana, aetherwave, alessio, alison_lw_npcs, alma_inocente, angelic_whisper, angelo_pazzo, aranxta, ari_rachel, ash_of_violets, astraspera, attenuated, auditrix, aunt_aggie, aurelien, avise_le_fin, balm_of_gilead, beestungsoul, belle_colette, bellissima, beroughwithlove, betterwithapen, bitsy_wilkes, blushing_jade, boot2thehead, bradburyfamily, bran_bach, breadandroses, brightmechanism, bydegrees, cagafuego, caismeachd, casaubon, celerity, charteris, claudien, clutterbuck, coiledlightning, coldiron, corazon_de_luz, corinne_camille, corisande, criticalmass, crockford, cryptomancer, dakini, dear_imprudence, delgardie, deononfortuna, dimity, diotima, discimus, divine_alchemy, doctortaverner, domini_canis, domitian, donnapericolosa, doryatschool, dracaena, drschadenfreude, dux_bellorum, eastofthesun, edouardthibault, egregoroi, eliezer, en_el_fuego, epistle_of_paul, ercole, errantknight, eudokia, excitableboy, fabulous_laurie, factbusters, fairlight, fascio_littorio, felisfelicious, fiammetta, fife, finaldefence, flintlock, gamchicoth, gentian, ghazal, glorianamundi, gresham, hadrian, hagonel, hand_of_shiva, hellfire_maria, his_girl_friday, idealmatch, invisibleson, irrgarten, j_walsingham, jackoldman, jadis, jameswarrington, jenica, joscelin, josette, kafziel, kaskait, katyusha, kenjiro, keresek, la_lw_npcs, lady_honoria, ladyduellist, lalage, lamerveilleuse, lav_parkinson, le_batarde, leo_szilard, libra_patrona, lieundermytree, lightningyears, loveanddarkness, lucy_dolloway, mad_alec, maddie_proctor, madimi, madwatchmaker, mariovincenti, mary_agnes, metaphysicist, mi_kamocha, michelrosenthal, mighthurtabit, minerva_m, mirabilis, moruith, my_world_is, myr_avallenau, nat_pritchard, nerissa, nicodemo, nonajf, northerlywings, not_the_pm, notforfree, olivia_goulston, orvos, ozzer, paladina, pan_ili_propal, pattycakes, pendle_mist, ... | ||||||||||
Account type: | Free Patient |