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The Zodiac Guardians [ARTIST SEARCH + DISCORD]

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:02 pm


Welcome to The Zodiac Guardians ARPG!
Here you can adopt a species called plurions and level them up through various art and writing challenges. Upon levelling your plurions, you will earn different rewards as your plurions follow their quest to become a guardian. This ARPG is based off of my interpretation of the western zodiac, I hope you guys have fun! Please read below in order to learn more about plurions, their connection to the zodiac, and the levelling system for this ARPG.


Terms of Service

    • Plurions are a closed species. You may not make your own plurion unless given permission.
    • Please do not use any aspect of the plurion lore on non-plurions.
    • As of now, plurions may not be bought or sold for currency until a proper system is put in place to facilitate these transactions.
    • As of now, people may own up to 5 plurions in addition to your starter.
    • Remember to respect all CS rules and guidelines.

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Species Lore

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:02 pm

Plurions
lurions are the organic / celestial hybrids with a connection to the zodiac. From the beginning, they have always been the crown jewel of all of sol's creations. Plurions are a diverse species, each with their own colours, features, personalities, and aspirations. However all of them wish for one thing the most, to become godwoken and to join one of the 14 houses of the zodiac. They have managed to create a highly complex society on earth, with much of their intelligence and wisdom coming from the 14 gods that watch over them. Upon achieving guardianhood, the plurions are granted many benefits, such as celestial visions, elemental powers, their zodiac crest, and interdimensional travel.

Celestial Form

𝔸s your plurion becomes godwoken, they will cross the boundary from organic life into celestial life very quickly. All plurions are semi-celestial beings, even when they become godwoken. Only the true gods and goddesses of each house are fully celestial. As your plurion's god(dess) donates more of their power to your plurion, you will unlock a list of edits, that will allow you to build your plurion's celestial form. These are known as 'housewarming gifts' and there are four of them, one pertaining to each rarity. To add these edits to your plurion's refrence, make sure that you make a new copy of their refrence instead of adding it directly to their original refrence, so that you can flip between the celestial and original refrence any time you need.


Additional Lore
𝕋he big bang model describes an erruption of energy from an infinitesimal place in the void. Before the big bang, nothing existed, but then evolved the elementary particles, photons, electrons and protons, and the first atoms were built in the wake of creation. Life has always chosen the direction of complexity, as energy was excited from it's previous form into new things, the void became an expansive entropic soup. This was the beginning of the organized chaos that we now know as our universe. 200 million years later the first colonists were created, you may know these as 'stars', however these great colonizers are more than burning balls of gas, they gave way for the future of both organic and celestial life.

𝔹y the time that the solar system formed, the universe had just celebrated it's 9 billionth birthday. Sol was a unique colonizer from the rest, while most other stars were unable to establish the conditions for organic life, Sol was unique in a way that it could. Sol played with life many times over, creating new and unique biological organisms in different shapes, sizes, and of different materials. He started small, with bacteria, and watched his creations develop into multicellular life on earth. When he got bored, he could restart from the begninning. One of sol's finest creations were the plurions, a maliable race of organic life that could be easily muted and shaped into whatever sol desired. The plurions lived happily on earth for a very long time, and still do to this day- however much has changed since their beginnings.

𝔸ntares, the goddess of scorpio and the most jealous of the surrounding colonizers was envious with Sol's power of creation. She herself was unable to make anything organic, the conditions were just not right. She sent her embodiment to earth in order to bargain with some of the plurions that inhabited the planet, hoping that she could win over their hearts and bring them home. The other surrounding colonizers were all witness to this, and sided with Antares. They too wished to host organic life of their own, but were unable to. Sol found himself at war with 14 of the surrounding colonizers, and in the end he lost to them all. Although regardless of whether they wanted to steal Sol's organic creations, the surrounding colonizers had no way of managing them and keeping them alive. Instead, they demanded that Sol gave up 14 of his creations to become celestial plurion gods, so that they too could have control of earth and the plurions. Sol agreed and woefully sacrificed 14 of his beautiful creations, each one becomming godwoken in the process. The Plurion gods and goddesses became vessels for the gods of the 14 houses, as a way to communicate and establish rule over the plurions.

𝕊ince then, the culture of the plurions has changed drastically. Despite their incredible diversity, most plurions seek to join one of the 14, now 12 remaining houses with the aspiration to become a guardian. The process of awakening is a long and hard journey, however the plurions are promised a life in the devine upon becoming godwoken.
Which house will you chose?
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Houses and gods

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:04 pm

Houses
hoose your plurion's house from this list! Make sure you choose wisely, your house will determine what element your plurion will master. House 13 and 14 are off limits!

1st House: Aries - God: Hamal
Element: Fire

Heart
Plurion of the first house are strong leaders. They heil strongly to Hamal,
each of them burst with potential.

2nd House: Taurus - Goddess: Aldebaran
Element: Earth

Nature
Plurion of the second house have a deep connection with the natural world,
chosing nature over industrialism.

3rd House: Gemini - God: Pollux
Element: Air

Identity
Plurion of the third house are focused on their identity and discovering
who they are. They understand that there are multiple versions of self.

4th House: Cancer - God: Al Tarf
Element: Water

Evolution
Although some may be opposed to it, Plurion of the fourth house
are observant of change, attempting to discover it's origins.

5th House: Leo - Goddess: Regulus
Element: Fire

Energy
Plurion of the fifth house are fascinated in the way energy flows trough
everything, connecting us together for eternity.

6th House: Virgo - Goddess: Spica
Element: Earth

Knowledge
Plurion of the sixth house consistently seek to learn more, regardless of
how that knowledge comes to them.

7th House: Libra - God: Zubeneschamali
Element: Air

Balance
Plurion of the seventh house seek to maintain the fragile balance
in their lives, the universe, and on earth.

8th House: Scorpio - Goddess: Antares
Element: Water

Love
Love is it's own force, according to plurion of the eighth house,
they believe in loving thy neighbour, no matter what.

9th House: Sagittarius - God: Kaus
Element: Fire
Wisdom
Not everything is clear cut in stone, according to plurion of the
ninth house. Plurion who heil to kaus always know what to say.

10th House: Capricorn - God: Algedi
Element: Earth
Logic
Logic is the driving force between plurion of the tenth house,
who wish to find validity in everything.

11th House: Aquarius - Goddess: Sadalsuud
Element: Air
Health
Plurion of the eleventh house are focused on physical and spiritual
healing, and know all there is to the mind.

12th House: Pisces - Goddess: Eta
Element: Water
Emotions
Plurion of the twelfth house are in tune with their emotions,
and wish to share this expereince with the world around them.

Special Houses

13th House: Ophiuchus - God: Rasalhague
Life and Death
Near extinct

14th House: ??? - God(dess): ???
???
Near extinct
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Polarity and Modality

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:05 pm

Polarity and Modality
olarity and modality exist to help you build your character's personality and outlook on the world, similarly to a DnD alignment. Please note that for the sake of allowing more liberty to character creation, polarity and modality have nothing to do with your plurion's house, gender or element. Choose the polarity and modality that you feel best represents your plurion's personality and perspective. All aspects listed are entirely up for interpretation, and are made as a base to be drawn off of.

olarity is a scale that allows you to determine in what ways and how often your plurion takes the opportunity to express or discover aspects of themselves. This may help you develop a broad personality for your plurion.

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Positive Polarity
Those who are blessed with positive polarity wish to self-express to the fullest. They are incredibly vocal with their self-expression, and passionate with their words. They would rather tell than listen because they have a very confident idea of who they are.

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Semi-Positive Polariry
Those who are blessed with semi-positive polarity wish to self-express differently. They are consistently vocal, however they know when to draw the line. They often wish to promote their identity in new ways. Despite being expressive, they do chose discovery in some cases.

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Semi-Negative Polarity
Those who are blessed with semi-negative personality chose self-discovery over self expression, and prefer to take most of their time learning about themselves. They are practical about what they wish to express and tend to keep things to themselves.

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Negative Polarity
Those who are blessed with negative polarity are consistently confused about their identity, and wish to learn from the expression of others before they express themselves. They are incredibly sensitive and empathic individuals who are always there to listen.


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hanges happen frequently in life, and your plurion will have to adjust to change when they become godwoken. Modality describes how your plurion adapts to change in their life.

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Cardinal Modality
Those who are blessed with cardinal modality are changemakers who wish to take charge when possible.

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Mutable Modality
Those blessed with mutable modality are adaptable to change, however they do not take a strong stance either way.

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Fixed Modality
Those blessed with fixed modality are resistant to change and wish that things would always remain consistent.
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Getting Started

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:05 pm

Getting started

Before you set out to adopt your first plurion and begin levelling it up, there are a couple things you must do in order to begin your journey towards awakening.


1. You must create your own archive to keep track of your plurions. Your archive must be either a thread on CS or a character website that can be linked to cs. It must contain the following information:
    • One post for every plurion you own, containing the following.
Code: Select all
Reference:
Name:
Gender:
Plurion Level:
Polarity:
Modality:
House (only 2nd level plurions and above):
Completed Prompts

    • Any additional information such as world building, user info, etc that you believe is necessary to your archive! Feel free to make it into a little home for your plurions, build them an environment where they live, get creative!

2. Make sure you post a link to your archive on the archive tracking thread. This must be done to register as someone with the species!

3. Now that you’ve done that, you may create your first plurion. Anyone who joins this ARPG is given the opportunity to make one basic custom to play with. You may not make any edit to the lineart of your basic custom, however you may colour them whatever way you want!

4. You should also mark this thread, and make sure you read through all of the ARPG’s rules and information before you start levelling up your plurions!

Congrats! Your officially set up to start adopting and leveling up your plurion characters. See the guide below to see how levelling works.
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Becoming a Guardian

Postby zealouzie » Mon May 06, 2019 4:05 pm

Becoming a Guardian

𝕀n order for your plurion to become a guardian, they must fist become godwoken. The process of awakening is a level system, in which completing different challenges at different levels will help you achieve guardianship. With each level, your plurion will gain different perks, these may manifest in physical mutations to their bodies or celestial powers. The more effort you put into developing your plurion, the more they will level.
Please note that each plurion levels individually, and that this system is not like an owner level system. You must complete prompts for each of your plurions in order for them to become guardians.

Level 0 Plurion
• Establish their polarity and modality
• Add them to your archive with the appropriate information

Level 1 Plurion
• Draw your plurion. [flatcolour sketch or more]
and / or
• Write a brief personality for your plurion. [100 words or more]

Level 2 Plurion
• Chose your plurion's house [on refrence]
• Write or draw about why they chose that house [200 words or more][flatcolour sketch or more]

LEVEL 2 COMPLETION REWARD
Spirit Vision Ability

Your plurion has finished the first step to becoming a guardian.
They are now capable of seeing the celestial plane, including dead plurion, celestial beasts and their god(dess).

Level 3 Plurion
• Write / draw about their experience seeing spirits [200 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]
and / or
• Write about your plurion meeting their god(dess) [200 words or more]
and / or
• Write or draw about a spiritual dream they had [200 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]

Level 4 Plurion
• Write / draw about a challenge your plurion has had to overcome [350 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]
and / or
• Write or draw about one of your plurion's favourite hobbies [350 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]
and / or
• Write or draw about your plurion's greatest achievement [350 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]

Level 5 Plurion
• Make friends! Draw or write about your plurion with someone else's plurion. [350 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]

LEVEL 5 COMPLETION REWARD
Housewarming Gift

Your plurion has finished the second step to becoming a guardian.
You may begin creating your plurion's celestial form
choose one of the following edits.
Tier 1 Edits:
Hair, Fur, Teeth, Claws

Level 6 Plurion
• Draw your plurion's new form [flatcolour lined or more]
and / or
• Write about how your plurion feels about their new appearance [200 words or more]

Level 7 Plurion
• Draw or write about your plurion according to today's horoscope [300 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]
and / or
• Write about your plurion’s connection to the symbol ex) taurus: bull. [300 words or more.

Level 8 Plurion
• Design your plurion an outfit [flatcolour lined or traced over ref]
and / or
• Design or describe your plurion’s den [environment art][300 words or more]

Level 9 Plurion
• What does your plurion love the most about their zodiac house? [250 words or more]

LEVEL 9 COMPLETION REWARD
2nd Housewarming Gift

Your plurion has finished the third step to becoming a guardian.
You may continue creating your plurion's celestial form
choose one of the following edits.
Tier 2 Edits:
Tail, Ears, Shorter fur, Backmane, Glow, Pupil shape, Horns

Level 10 Plurion
• Choose a themesong for your plurion and describe how it relates to them / their backstory. [200 words or more][lyric art]
and/or
• Find another piece of artwork (such as a poem, contemporary artpiece, etc.) for your plurion and describe how it relates to them. [200 words or more]

Level 11 Plurion
• Who is your plurion's idol / role model? Why? [350 words or more]
and/or
• What is a major lesson your plurion has learned? [350 words or more]

Level 12 Plurion
• How does your plurion feel connected to their house's element? [200 words or more][flatcolour lined or more]

LEVEL 11 COMPLETION REWARD
Primary Elemental Ability

Your plurion can now harness the element of their house.
Aries | Leo | Sagittarius
Pyrokinesis [manipulates plasmatic materials]
Taurus | Virgo | Capricorn
Geokinesis [manipulates solid materials]
Gemini | Libra | Aquarius
Aerokinesis [manipualtes gaseous materials]
Cancer | Scorpio | Pisces
Hydrokinesis [manipulates liquid materials]

Level 13 Plurion
• What is the first thing your plurion does with his or her ability? [300 words or more][2 panel comic or more]
and
• What does this power mean to them?

Level 14 Plurion
• What is your plurion's deepest motivation? [300 words or more]
• Where does it originate from? [100 words or more]

Level 15 Plurion
• What is your plurion's happiest memory? [300 words or more]

Level 16 Plurion
• What has hurt your plurion the most? [300 words or more]

LEVEL 16 COMPLETION REWARD
3rd Housewarming Gift

Your plurion has finished the fourth step to becoming a guardian.
You may continue creating your plurion's celestial form
choose one of the following edits.
Tier 3 Edits:
Multiple Tails, Extra eyes, Scales, Crystal growth, Plant growth, Fins

Level 17 Plurion
• If your plurion was given the power to wish anything into existance, what would they wish for and why? [350 words or more][1 flatcolour lined + shaded or more]
and / or
• If your plurion could solve any world issue, what would they choose to solve and why? [350 words or more]

Level 18 Plurion
• Design your plurion a pet companion! [1 flatcolour lined][200 words or more + a picture off google]
and / or
• If your plurion could be a different animal, what would they be and why? [200 words or more]

Level 19 Plurion
• What is your plurion's greatest fear? [300 words or more][1 flatcolour lined + shaded or more]

LEVEL 19 COMPLETION REWARD
Secondary Elemental Ability

Your plurion has gained an additional elemental ability.
Aries | Leo | Sagittarius
Meteor Shower [creates a small meteor shower in a localized area 2.5km radius]
Taurus | Virgo | Capricorn
Earthquake [creates a localized 8.0 mag earthquake in a 2.5km radius]
Gemini | Libra | Aquarius
Thundershock [summon a violent thunderstorm in a localized area 2.5 km radius]
Cancer | Scorpio | Pisces
Hot Geyser [large geysers in the surrounding 0.5 km errupt, shooting boiling water into the air]


More to come as your plurions develop!
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Re: The Zodiac Guardians

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