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Within this world--not our world, Earth, mind you, another world--there are just a few types of people. Make no mistake, of races there are many, but types there are only the three.
There are the normal people: Nothing terribly special that wouldn't be in any other world with that race. Then there are the Faded...

The Faded are people who have somehow lost their mortal bodies and become essentially ghosts. They act like normal people, and many think like them; even though they have varying personalities, however, they all seem to have at least a twinge of depression, an emotional disturbance, just because of being what they are. They are completely intangible and unharmable, but are often capable of some form of magic and perhaps even affecting physical objects.
The Faded also have the passive ability of affecting anyone who stays nearby them for a long time, in the manner of a friend, causing them to slowly fade and become Faded themselves. This is why people do not usually associate with the Faded, unless they are tragically ignorant or invite danger: "Misery loves company," is the saying, reflecting the belief that the Faded do this on purpose...when really, most aren't even aware of the process, or want badly for it to stop.
If one remains with a Faded for long enough to fade quite a bit, but not quite to become one, the fading gives them peculiar abilities, or a strange warping of the abilities they already had. One might have been capable of controlling water, and suddenly become much better at it; or perhaps come to have no magical abilities at all, but become completely immune to magic.

The third type of person is known as a Peace-Giver. They are rare, born among the normal people with no known cause or logic. How one is born as a Peace-Giver is completely unknown, though some research has been put into it: They are almost always the children of normal people, and the relatives of no other Peace-Givers, but there are exceptions, and this is more likely because they are so rare.
Peace-Givers have a special power to them, which is both a blessing and, ironically, a curse. They are capable of negating the Faders' passive ability, causing the Fader to slowly go back to being a person with a body again by staying with them long enough. The trouble is that a kind Peace-Giver will stay around Faders in order to give them the benefit of this power, and no normal people will want to come anywhere near him or her because there are always Faders around, and they fear becoming another one...since most don't know that being around a Peace-Giver at the same time prevents this.

Table of Contents
1.Title/Intro/ToC
2.Rules
3.Setting
4.Races & Magic
5.Character Application
6.Characters -- Normal and Near-Faded
7.Characters -- Faded and Peace-Givers
8.Reserved Post I
9.Reserved Post II

3.Setting
The setting of this RP is extremely Earthish, and most (if not all) of this RP will take place on just one of the continents.
The time and technology setting is medieval, although there may be some things that work better than that time period due to magic, and some things missing (such as guns) for the same reason.

This world consists of a few small kingdoms, many individual villages, and a vast unexplored area of land. There are several places where the Faded gather, sort of like villages but without the buildings; or else true 'ghost towns', which used to be villages but have been through disrepair because none of their inhabitants are tangible anymore.

There are also monstrous, demonic creatures which some claim are what the Faded become who succumb to the full depression and anger of their own being; this is unconfirmed, however. Regardless, these monstrous creatures are hostile to anything that moves, and seem able to 'disrupt' the appearance of the Faded, causing them pain although they don't seem able to be destroyed.

5.Character Applications
For all applications, READ, OBEY, and then DELETE everything in parentheses.

Normal/Peace-Giver/Near-Faded Application:


Faded Application:

7.Characters -- Faded and Peace-Givers


Unowned Claimable NPC:
Name:Iris
Gender:Male
Race:Human
Age at time of Fading:15
Used to Look Like:Pretty normal, average. Just enough through puberty to identify him as a "boy", but not much else. Wears odd, semi-tattered traveler's clothes.
Personality:Extremely spacey; has off-the-wall habits and mannerisms of speaking. He could be talking about a funeral and have someone thoroughly convinced that he was speaking of a wedding, for example. Speaks in a very cheery tone, even moreso when he's saying something of negative connotation.
Magic:Able to create purple constructs of magical energy, which can "act" like a weak form of any element, but are generally better used as simply physical objects. The "constructs" are so named because their appearance is fluid by his will.
History:He doesn't talk much about himself, or when he does, nobody can understand what he's saying. As far as anyone trying to listen to his story can tell, he was either outcasted or ran away from where he was born at a very early age, or maybe his hometown was destroyed somehow, and he actually lived in and helped repair some of a 'ghost town' for a few years before finally Fading into one of them. Oddly enough, it seems he didn't leave there until he had Faded, suggesting that he had wanted it...
Extra Information:N/A

9.Reserved Post II
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I guess we can start now.
BEGIN POSTING PROFILES!
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Type: Near-faded

Name: Eiralis
Gender: female
Race: Elf
Age: 17
Appearance:[ LINK ]
Personality: Eiralis is a sweet person for the most part, if rather masochistic. She enjoys the company of the rather morose faded and sought them out for that reason, not realizing quite in time what they did to her.
Abilities: Fire magic and levitation of small objects
History: Eiralis met a faded as a child and found their generally sober temperments rathing soothing and would visit them for a long while before she began to realize that things had started happening to her. She nearly despises her magic because she doesn't like to be different but still visits the faded out of sentimentality, knowing what could happen to her. She just makes her visits shorter and more infrequent.
Extra Information: Eiralis was disowned from her family for her adoration of the faded and their abject fear of them and she is a bit wary of peace-givers because they change her friends.

((this ok, xin?))

((Ah...ok....you want me to put something like that in there or let it remain as it is?))

Eiralis strolled lazily down the path she had been going down, searching around for her usual companion of this time of day but they were nowhere to be found. She rubbed her eyes in the soporific warmth of the day and had to concentrate on moving forwards or she probably wouldn't have.