Welcome to The Khaos Game...
From here on out your lives will inevitably change, and it's up to you to figure out whether or not it's for better or for worse. The history behind this world has been buried behind secrets and magic. Still, one thing is for sure, technology and magic have intricately melted together to make a community of individuals that are either capable of both or entirely dependent on one. There's already a war between the Supernatural and Humanity, but now with more mana introduced into a once-deprived world, the Gods of Old and New are reawakening. With them rising the Khaos Game begins, and it's up to these Minor Gods to find a Champion quickly, or else they will disappear forever into omnipotence to be forgotten.
From the early days of creation it had been well known that the Gods were not always on the best of terms, entire worlds had their landscapes drastically altered in many universes simply due to a feud between the Gods. With how often things got out of hand it became an issue that would stop the production of creation had Khaos not stepped in and made the fights out to be a game instead, a change in the Universal Laws causing everyone, even his own children, to fall into this deadly game.
The rules are fairly simple to understand, no harm shall come to another God by another God's hand once the Game is initiated, and one must find and retain a Champion for themselves to properly participate. Choose wisely, as the Champion is the key to the God earning enough power to win it and become the most powerful, allowing them free reign to do as they please to the world as everyone knows it.
And what decides a Champion? Well, that truly depends on the God(dess), one may be the Strongest Human Man in the world, for another taking on a Dragon as their Champion may seem like the best and easiest idea. Really, the possibilities are endless, but there is one thing for sure, they all are in for a life of dedication and hard work. Champions may fight or deceive their way to the top with their God(dess), the more worshippers earn the more power gained, and if Champions cross it is perfectly fine and legal to the Khaos Game for them to fight as hard as they can.
If you're one of the lucky ones to earn the title of Champion, your wish may also be granted no matter how outlandish it may seem. Immortality? No problem. Unlimited Mana? Maybe with some drawbacks, but workable. Love? Not an issue.
The only real issue comes in when it comes to what God decides to call you their Champion, and how much you're willing to trust them. So, are you ready for worship and war? Or will you fall alongside your new God? Welcome to the Game.
Room Rules
- Do not harass or cause issues with staff or other writers, there will be days where nothing happens and that is fine, constantly bothering others will result in a warning before a ban from the room.
- No heavy kinks, yes this room is NSFW but that is due to more than just sexual content. Yes, rape is a heavy kink, please take those scenes to DMs. If any confusion on what qualifies as a heavy kink, please ask the staff of the room for clarification.
- This room is semi-para and up, but one lining is not excluded for not-so-serious RP. It's a flexible room, but do not expect to be taken seriously if all that is done is one-lining. When the room starts picking up with para posts, refrain from one-lining any further and keep OOC to a minimum.
- Phobic comments of any kind are not allowed, Religious ( The IRL kind ) and Political talk are to not be introduced into the room. Keep things peaceful OOCly, that's the main request here.
- You do not have to be a Champion or a God to play in the room, there are people that exist outside of the Khaos Game that live their daily lives, you are welcome to write that out.
Character Rules
- For the Gods, they are only supposed to rule over minor concepts. Things like Cooking, or subsections of already massive concepts such as the God of Violent Dreams, would be considered minor concepts. There will be no participation from Gods of bigger concepts such as Darkness or War.
- Demi-Gods cannot be Champions or Gods in the game, they are excluded entirely as they are seen as wild variables that tip the scales too much.
- Approval for Minor Gods must be done by the Staff before active play may be done in the room. This is to stop anyone from causing issues ICly and OOCly.
- Normal people do not know about the Khaos Game, do not auto-assume your awareness of it unless you are playing a God yourself.
F.A.Q.
What is the location/setting? Consider it the real-world map layout, with some areas completely desolated of life after what is known among the populace as 'The Great Incident', no one is sure what exactly happened except a select few people, all that seemed to happen is one day the supernatural became reality and they were willing to destroy everything to find a place to call home again. Living legends, such as the Dragons of the Old Ages, reawoke with a surplus of mana that came out of seemingly nowhere for them as well. The majority of Europe and Asia has been conquered by the Tepes Clan, which is currently led by a mysterious woman known to be Dracula's Wife, and her twin children Satoru and Cneajna Tepes. The Dragons and Cneajna Tepes rule over Russia, while Satoru remains a wandering soul haunted by a monster in his Mother's arsenal, none truly know where the Howling Hound and thus Dracula's Wife are. Humanity has been pushed to the outskirts of this area, mainly taking over North America with the remains of the European and Asian countries.Is the common being aware of the Khaos Game? No, none but the Gods and their Champions are aware of it. There are some devastating effects that come with the Game, such as Natural Disasters and phenomena unexplained by science or man. These events are what remain of the brief time two Gods interact with one another aggressively, so when Champions were introduced, things instead were covered up with the term 'War'. This did birth that God into existence, but his role is to remain at the sidelines prepared for any God who dares to dishonor the terms of fair battle. Consider him your judge, jury, and executioner if you decide you want to backstab your opponent when they give up.
How do Champions get picked? It depends on the God, and what they are looking for in Champions to gather enough power to win. Some Gods might pick the most charismatic being around, while another would instead pick the strongest creature in existence without breaking the rules. There is no one formula for winning the favor, just that you get picked one day and you have a choice in joining the fight or forgetting everything you know about the Khaos Game.
Can a Champion be tricked or manipulated into becoming a Champion? This is a touchy subject, as there would be some minor concept Gods I can see being capable of this, but to be fair and balanced story-wise so things don't always end up this way, there will be a limit on the number of times this route may be taken. There will be an announcement and an update to the rules when this is no longer an option to be taken.
How many Good/Bad guys? I rather keep this as close to a 50/50 as possible, a surplus of one type will get really boring really quickly, so if you notice there are a lot of bad guys, make a good guy instead!
How to get started? Once you fill out your profile with information regarding your character (Profile codes can be found on the Roleplace Discord's free-profile-codes channel, or asked for from The Dark Mother), and you've been approved if you're playing Minor God, you can start writing right away. Note that you don't automatically become a Champion until after you've spoken to a God ICly, so you are not ICly automatically aware of the Khaos Game until then. This may take some time to develop, do not get frustrated, some days are slow and people have lives outside of this to attend to just like you.
What are the 'First Borns'? These are a race of humans that have evolved through natural means, separate from 'Meta-humans' as these individuals are made through science instead. One famous individual that falls under this category of 'First Born' is Dracula himself, as he came into vampirism not through the curse but through drinking the blood of his comrades in order to survive. Being a First Born means as a human, you were pushed to the brink of death so often and so intensely that the spiritual makeup shifted in order to adapt and protect itself. These First Borns will also tend to defy what is fact, for example, the Inugami is known to be the size of a house cat, but there is one Inugami in the world that upon revealing her true form is the size of a three-story house. If you desire to make a First Born as a character, you are more than welcome to go to The Dark Mother and hash out details!
Current History
TBA!!!Before The Great Incident
Book One: S.H.I.N.E.Chiyoto, the Original Chiyoto, was born around the time that the supernatural and gods freely walked the earth. She fell in love with Raum, a fallen angel who took her as his bride, only for her to be betrayed by her people-- as she was considered of nobility due to Raum teaching her advanced and incredibly dangerous magic-- and slaughtered mercilessly. In retaliation, Chiyoto placed a curse upon her soul to be passed down to the first child of every new generation. The last person to be taken by Chiyoto this way-- as the curse erases the soul that originally inhabits the body so she can take it over-- was Yoki's Mother. As a safety precaution to keep her daughter safe, her Mother intentionally kept the soul of the original Chiyoto locked in her body. Yoki was not aware of this, of course, and just assumed her mother had TB.
This goes on for a little bit until Yoki's father comes back into the picture with his right-hand man; though they were there for shelter and nothing more, as they were being hunted down by a detective. Said detective did locate them easily, and upon her father abandoning everyone to escape, the right-hand man attempted to rape Yoki only for his head to be blown off his shoulders by the detective. As thanks, Yoki employed herself under the mysterious detective as a caretaker to keep track of the case that concerned her father, fully intent on killing him for abandoning his family like that. (Mind you, she always didn't like him, he was never around visibly for her even if he did technically pay for her eyes being treated so she could see properly.)
Inevitably, Yoki's Mother dies from the Original Chiyoto, and the soul passes onto Yoki. It doesn't take long for the original to realize that Yoki is the perfect vessel for her that won't degrade from the magical output she naturally has. This is where the real beginning of the book starts, where we follow Yoki's point of view while learning more about the mysterious detective. That detective is nicknamed 'Crystal', and everything about her, from age to real name, is simply nowhere to be found. It's eventually revealed that she was born into a secret government project that took orphans, and the homeless to train them and give them 'jobs'. This sounds fine until one reaches the level clearance to learn that the Supernatural from the past didn't die off or never existed, but was very real and very sentient as well. Humanity, fearing this after it became obvious in the Second World War concluded that Project S.H.I.N.E. (Supernatural Human Investigation Nexus Expedition). SHINE overall was supposedly an organization intentionally meant to protect humans, but the Germans and Japanese realized quickly that the supernatural they were killing could be combined with human DNA to make a more powerful human. So they started experimenting on their people.
Crystal was one of those experiments, and although her power is only to feel a grim reaper closing in, she is considered the Prodigy of the Project. Then we meet Akane, the first villain of the series, also a part of SHINE but with a history of her own (Religious physical abuse by her mother, neglect by her father, caged like an animal since four when she suddenly developed abilities to manipulate blood at random.), she is considered the absolute best exterminator for rogue SHINE members, which Crystal is. It becomes a cat-and-mouse chase throughout the entire book, with both Crystal and Akane chasing after one another, one to kill her and the other to bring her to justice. The book should end with Akane being taken back to SHINE after a rather humiliating defeat. Also in that book, Yoki meets her future husband, Octavius. He just so happens to be the son of the First Reaper to live and the Unholy Construct of Lucifer, the two start falling in love with one another over the series, and at the end, Airi-- Yoki's current girlfriend-- Octavius and Yoki are in a three-way relationship with Yoki having a child by Octavius.
Book Two: The Soul Collection
In the second book, I go more in-depth with Octavius and his family, and that's where things start to kick off. I introduce Hecate Morte, Death's Last Creation, who is acting as a sort of surrogate mother for Octavius since Akina isn't around as she's running hell personally. You learn that reapers are the souls of those who had committed suicide, and all except Hecate can recall how they died. Assuming that her death was so horrific that she blacked it out, no one bothers to delve further into it, but throughout the book, it's revealed that she was created specifically to be Death's Caretaker and Lover-- they're like the Greeks dw about it-- but Death had gone omnipotent before that could happen and Hecate got amnesia after an accident so she forgot who she was and what she was originally supposed to do. Demitru, Octavius' father and technically the 'brother' of Hecate, immediately recognizes her from the early days of visiting Death, takes her under his wing, and protects her the best he can. But, during a fight concerning a particular cat (Hitomi, the one who stole Hecate's fiance's soul to drag into Hell), Hecate ends up injured by a life-threatening disease to even reapers-- The Rot. It's incredibly dangerous for any supernatural creature to have, as it eats away at one's mana before consuming their life force.
So to help out Octavius and Demitru for helping her out during the first book (Demitru and Octavius run a business that's a mortician's in the front and black market secrets of the supernatural and humans in the back, they managed to find out about SHINE for Yoki during the first book), Yoki decides to lend a hand. There she learns of Octavius' past and how he was forced to age into an adult by Lucifer, and even eventually meets the Devil himself-- they might've flirted a bit but nothing happened for-- and his real Mother, Akina. It is also technically in this book that Raum finally shows himself and attempts to possess Yoki only to end up being swallowed by her massive amount of mana. Hence, he ends up trapped with the Original Chiyoto as well. After this incident, Yoki is forced onto the bench to watch what follows, everyone-- even Octavius-- fearing that something terrible would happen if Yoki continued to involve herself.
Sadly Hecate does regain her memories from the past when she's hit by her scythe by Hitomi, and upon realizing that the entire time her purpose was to care for Death and he's just gone, absolutely loses her fucking mind and annihilates the majority of the Reaper Realm and the Soul Collection Library into a barren wasteland. Death does manage to manifest himself in time before she completely rips the realm apart searching for him, and with Demitru's help, they manage to save Hecate from destroying herself as well. Octavius gets to meet his grandfather, and Death starts to hint at what everyone fears to be true. Yoki has three souls total, and her body may be strong, but her mind would break under that pressure eventually.
Book Three: Queen of Annihilation
The third book is where Natsumi finally gets introduced, here you learn about how she came from the Heian Period of Japan and was originally supposed to be a consort of Emperor Daigo, the 60th emperor of Japan. She was taught by her eldest brother Satoshi in combat, learned how to be a wife and mother by her biological mother, and was taught like a noble by her teacher. When her father came back from a war permanently after an injury, she found out how severely abusive he was and how twisted her mother could be, as they were given an Akita puppy (In Japan, getting an Akita puppy is supposed to bring you health and fortune), Natsumi fell in love with it and caused her father to believe that the dog's love for Natsumi was outweighing the potential mystical powers that he thought was rightfully his instead of hers. So, using his wife, they took the dog to a crossroads and began the ritual of making an Inugami. (If you wanna know that process, I suggest looking it up, but be prepared for some sad shit cause it isn't fun.) Natsumi eventually does find out about this and runs to rescue her dog, only to find the poor thing already dead and her mother desperately calling upon the soul so they could be wealthy again. Enraged by this, Natsumi calls forth the soul instead, then tears her father apart before cursing her mother into prostitution (this is the only known record of Natsumi actively cursing someone, something Inugami are known to do frequently).
This leads to her older brother believing that the spirit of the Inugami had also consumed his beloved little sister's soul, and with pure rage, he continues to hunt Natsumi down even after being cursed into immortality by a witch he denied sex. (As a clarification, Satoshi is fully asexual but not repulsed by it) He's the only being in existence that can actually fight Natsumi and kill her permanently, and Natsumi just can't seem to kill him properly as she is subconsciously aware that Satoshi is her older brother, but consciously she's clueless as to who this guy is.
Natsumi goes around the countryside of Japan on her own, killing and eating a lot of supernatural creatures along the way. (This is where it becomes obvious that the entire time humanity could've been ascending in power if they had a taste for supernatural meat instead of the other way around.) Including Han Riu-- a legendary dragon that couldn't reach Heaven-- who adopted Natsumi and taught her all sorts of dangerous magic. (A parallel to Chiyoto and Raum) When another dragon starts taking over Han Riu's territory, both of them enter a fight with the dragon, with only Natsumi managing to survive; however, Han Riu does offer his soul to Natsumi so they would never part, as he saw Natsumi as his personal Heaven after the many years they spent together training. He becomes the First General in her Unholy Army and gives her complete access to his powers as she pleases. Then she runs into creatures like Yeqon, a Watcher and the ring leader who convinced other Watchers to have sex with humans, creating the Nephilim and causing the Great Flood, and Vain, a demon with thirty legions at his command. This is all a little important for the next book, funnily enough.
The Three-Way War, something I'll commonly reference, is a war in history that was erased by humanity and vampiric kind. The three sides were Humanity, Lycanthropes, and Vampires; and they engaged in war during the time that Dracula became a general for the vampiric army, with Natsumi easily claiming general as well after a misunderstanding was cleared up. (She does technically smell like a dog to those with sensitive noses, so they assumed she was a Lycan). Dracula, or Vlad as I'll switch between the two, accidentally mesmerizes Natsumi into falling for him, though they do not kindle any sort of relationship during the war outside of wine and talking occasionally. When she ends up losing one of the last battles to humanity, she does not return to combat and instead runs with her injuries and the souls of her men to safety. It is assumed that she died in action, and her body was never recovered.
This also follows the love story between Dracula and Natsumi, and how they struggled to come together as a couple up until the modern age. Natsumi attempts to rescue him from the hands of the Hellsings (if this sounds familiar I'll give you an internet cookie btw~) several times over a few decades until she is chased out by Satoshi and Van Hellsing, a barrier is later put in place by Satoshi so Natsumi could not step a foot onto their land without intense agony and pain. This manages to keep her away until the barrier is broken by accident after the Hellsing Estate is attacked by a variety of monsters in an attempt to gain revenge on the current head of Hellsing. Sadly Vlad does not remember Natsumi at all, as he was tortured into forgetting her entirely by Hellsing, but the two do end up starting a relationship that lasts for quite a long time. Eventually, Natsumi gets pregnant by a miracle of her 'permanent healing' factor, and she gives birth to twins alone as Vlad goes off to battle to never return. She raises the two as a Prince and Princess proper for the next thirty years, giving the girl Vlad's mother's name-- Cneajna Tepes, and naming the boy after her brother, Satoru Tepes. (Not the same, but similar enough sounding that it brings Natsumi comfort without the intense guilt of outliving the one family member who did treat her kindly.)
The book ends with Yoki and Natsumi about to fight, only for Natsumi to be swallowed up by intense darkness that terrifies Yoki badly enough to make her run immediately.~
Book Four: The Umbra and True Gods
And finally, the fourth book. When Yoki returns to everyone and lets them know what happened, Demitru and Octavius in particular pale and throw out the theory that there is only one being in existence that could manhandle Natsumi like that-- because even Demitru thinks twice before exchanging blows with that woman. When asked who, there was only one name that echoed: Nyx, the Titan Goddess of the Night, throughout the book, the reader should start to recognize that all the bad shit that has ever happened does eventually lead to Nyx and her grand plan to return 'home', a place outside of all universes that the True Gods reside in known as the Umbra. This is the place where universes are created by random Gods and Goddesses, while the others fight off something called 'The Nothingness', a creature that consumes everything and everything until nothing is left, and their favored meals are universes and the True Gods themselves.
Nyx was one of the first to come into existence, and similar to the mythology of Greece, she was created by the Ultimate Being known as Khaos, her pair Erebos; but the difference in my series is that Nyx is not the Goddess of the Night and Erebos the God of the Darkness, but Nyx is the Goddess of Darkness and Erebos the God of Light. (Explaining the stars that decorate Nyx, as it is Erebos actively shining through her darkness.) While there were a few rules to keep the peace among the True Gods, there was one rule that was solidified and could not be broken without severe punishment, and that was to never look at Khaos while he was creating a universe. Nyx does end up doing this, and upon witnessing The Truth, is driven insane enough to consume her brother. As punishment, Khaos threw her into the universe he was creating so she didn't cause any further harm. So Nyx has been around since the first breath the universe took and has been intentionally creating opposites to Khaos in that universe so he knows she's still alive. All the True Gods are aware of this, but the True God of Magic is the only one who knows she's only surviving for so long because Khaos is keeping her alive out of love.
The story follows hunting Nyx down to save Natsumi, the grand plan's reveal being that Nyx intends to stuff as many souls as possible into Natsumi before driving her insane so she can destroy the world and bring the attention of the True Gods back to the universe so they can witness Nyx destroying her; hoping that would be enough to get back into the Umbra.
Everyone, excluding Akane and SHINE, comes together to stop the disaster about to happen when Cneajna and Satoru join in as well with the information that they had found Natsumi unconscious and incapable of being woken up, she is immediately placed in Hecate's care with the instructions that should she wake up with more souls than necessary, that she should kill Natsumi on the spot. From there Yoki and Airi both run into Nyx by pure accident, drawing out a problematic battle that leads to Nyx shattering Airi's soul in front of Yoki. The agony over losing one of the loves of her life gives the Original Chiyoto the exact opportunity to take over the body, which she does instantly and engages in a brutal battle with the True Goddess. When Yoki comes back to herself, she figures she's going to die as well and might as well do it with a bang, so she summons the body of one unconscious Natsumi and absorbs all the souls that were inside of her to fuel an Ultimate Type Spell that was revealed upon Chiyoto's awakening: God Breaker.
See, the original Chiyoto didn't want to kill humans at first, that only happened due to the betrayal, Chiyoto's true intentions were actually to defeat Nyx by creating the perfect spell to make her incredibly weak. Chiyoto just wasn't capable of executing the spell because she never had enough power, however, with close to a million souls in her arsenal, Yoki is capable of executing the spell and does so out of pain and rage. God Breaker will take the powers of the individual and separate them by an astral barrier, and it is completely possible to gain the powers back, but one must do so in the most basic human forms they have. So someone like Nyx would easily be killed by that spell. As it activates, it consumes the entire universe and begins rewriting it, and it is in this space that Yoki gets to finally meet The Ultimate Being, who explains to her that he is willing to change things back as long as she reminds Nyx to let Erebos go. When time and space snap back into place, Yoki dives back into Nyx and rescues Erebos from her grasp, releasing him and saving both the Gods from each other and themselves.
The world was sadly rewritten anyway, and fantasy became more real due to it. The book ends with humanity and the supernatural coming to an Agreement of Rights, SHINE is permanently shut down, and what countries of humanity refuse the pack are fair game to the supernatural. Those who signed the agreement were to never interfere with the supernatural defending themselves as long as it was obvious that humanity started it first. And finally, this is where the modern day is. Natsumi runs several separate armies, two owned by each of her children, while they are at war with the entire continent of Asia and Europe for not accepting the agreement. Russia is currently being taken over by Cneajna, while Satoru travels about doing as he pleases.