Name: Ophelia
Portfolio: Demon of Revenge
Symbol: A rotten hand grasping a human heart.
Divine Might: Lesser Deity
Followers: Mainly humans and elves, but drows and lesser creatures can be recruited.
Number of Followers: Estimated 100-140 followers
Secrecy: Most of the common folks knows about her, but they all they know is old myths and rumours.
Ophelia’s cult, The Shadows of Ophelia, on the other hand, knows a great deal about her and her goals.
Favoured Weapon: Claws
Residence: In the Planes of Shadows, no one knows the exact location.
Places of Worship: All Shadows are endowed with The Book of the Forgotten, which serves as their shrine and spell book,
but the Shadows can also reach Ophelia in their temple, Reventide, where they can reach Ophelia’s physical form. Outsiders can’t reach Ophelia at all.
Main Form: Ophelia takes form as a part drow and banshee.
Her upper body has the aspect of the drow and the lower body has the aspect of a banshee.
Her armour is ethereal, and seems to be rags of cloth, but the armour is an ancient relic which weakens her surrounding foes.
Major Powers: Feeds on the essence of revenge and general hate;
the ability to enrage her fellow followers and empower their magical abilities.
Can also posses the body of a mortal, this avatar burst of dark magic power and should not be taken lightly.
Minor Powers: The ability to turn enemies on their allies.
Bio: Ophelia is one of many lesser deities, but yet she’s one of the elder.
Ophelia exploit the power of revenge and hate to destroy her enemies and a cult has formed under her name; The Shadows of Ophelia.
Ophelia herself is devoted to her cult and does anything in her power to keep the cult alive,
because the cult strengthens her as they all pass “The Sacrifice”.
And Ophelia hopes to reach a higher state among the deities one day and this might come true thanks to the beloved followers.
But in the field, Ophelia is feared and is believed to bring confusion and hate to the battlefield.
But because of the great secrecy of her cult, the common folks know very little about her,
but one thing they are well aware of is that it’s always good to have The Shadows of Ophelia by your side, and not at your enemies.
The Shadows of Ophelia
Bio: The Shadows of Ophelia first appeared when the Archmage Anora was contacted by Ophelia.
Ophelia asked Anora for help, to bring down a rival demon. Anora did what Ophelia had asked,
and Ophelia rewarded Anora with immense powers to harvest the powers of revenge.
In honour of Ophelia, Anora established a cult in her name, The Shadows of Ophelia.
At first Anora merely succeeded with the recruitment of new Shadows, but after The Forgotten War,
when Anora proved herself worthy, many magical-knowing beings joined her cause. This was the birth of the cult,
and as the years passed, the cult got more and more surreptitious and went underground.
Now they worship Ophelia as a god; despite she’s a lesser deity, and in her honour,
once a year the cult goes through “The Sacrifice”. During this ceremony, the cult gathers in Reventide
and the follower’s sacrifices blood in the name of Ophelia. This has been requested by Ophelia,
because this blood strengthens her own powers and benefits both herself and the Shadows. Part from “The Sacrifice”,
the Shadows has few ceremonies and the only one worth mentioning is “The Joining”,
which is the time when a fellow mage, warlock, cleric or other magic-knowing being devotes her or his life to the Shadows.
Leaders – The Keepers of Shadows: Sovereign Jontun, Counsellor Janila, Keeper Mervick and Mistress Elwynn.
Cult Major Powers: Living Bomb, turns a being into a ticking bomb.
Release Anger, makes the target less aware of what it’s doing, causes them to perform poorer in battle, and works on higher ranked creatures.
The Grandmasters of the cult can even enquire Ophelia to be granted “Demon Powers”,
which makes it possible to transform into a demon form, but only one is known to posses this power, Jontun.
Cult Minor Powers: Learns how to drain the power of revenge.
Cult Weapons: In favour of Ophelia, some of them wear War Claws,
but most of them favour the Short Sword-, Dagger and Book or Staffs.
Warcry: "Betrayal feeds us, vengeance is the source of power, so come foul beasts, release you revenge upon us, feed us with your foolishness!"
Higher Ranks
Sovereign: Serves as the Shadows guide and mentor, and is the person who decides whose welcome into the cult.
But even if the Sovereign serve as the Master of the Shadows, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the person
with the strongest connection to Ophelia, that person is called the Mistress and can be the Sovereign as well.
Counsellor: Serves as the Sovereigns left hand/s. They, just like the Sovereign,
serve as guides and mentors and the Sovereign can create as many Counsellors as he or she desires.
Keeper: Is the Guardian of their temple, Reventide. The Keeper never leaves the temple,
expect during greater wars that can threaten their temple.
Mistress: Mistresses are handpicked by Ophelia, and are always of the female sex.
They serve as a link between the mortal world and Ophelia, and during “The Sacrifice”,
Ophelia uses the Mistress as an avatar, but The Mistress is always fully aware of what’s happening.
Lower Ranks
Shadow: Has mastered the art of harvesting the power of revenge.
Phantom: Jet much to learn, but knows how to harvest the power of revenge.
Shade: Still learning, has a diminutive knowledge of how to harvest the power of revenge.
Contact Ophelia via the Urn
The Shadows can always contact Ophelia via the Urn, which is located in their temple, Reventide.
This Urn holds the ashes of their first leader, the first Mistress of Ophelia, Anora and her
remaining powers makes it possible to contact Ophelia, no matter if your a Mistress or not.
OOC
Well, a update!
Shit, it's 01:30 here... A bit sleepy-
And it's holiday this coming week, so i might start my little journy inside this RP!
But I have to ask something:
I meantioned "the Great War" in my Bio (The Shadows of Ophelia), has there been any great wars? If, what was it called?
