Aetris Carbon
Harbinger list -
Frontier
twin function.
Colossus(reserved?) - ? - it’s full body armor with immense defensive capabilities, conventional weaponry will not harm it.
Cons: it often pumps adrenaline into the wearer, while simultaneously feeding off very small portions of their vitality, it’s usage does not come without a price.
function: for everytime the armor is hit, it drains the user of a small portion of their vitality, this is assuming the hit was actually something that could damage the wearer, conventional weaponry such as low caliber guns, or basic blade weapons do not trigger this, and instead make the user easily able to walk through it.
asperous - a divine spear capable of cutting through almost any material except it’s own(where it’d actually take immense effort)
viral - a dagger specializing in self replication, and deadly neurotoxins
Nay say(reserved?) - a single shard constructed into a small chip which the wearer must undergo surgery for, empowering their natural senses, intellect, and analytical abilities a.k.a the chess player that’s already 20 plays ahead of you
ballista
Hour glass
nova
the parasites - this is an organic construct crafted for experimentation uses, it attaches itself to the host becoming part of their organic materials, anything he or she comes in contact with then is corrupted by this harbinger and controlled by the user, it only works with physical contact of the user(it has several applications in itself)
striker - a claymore sword with the ability to project it’s intentional slashes beyond normal range (crowd control)
twin
Veralious - similar to it’s twin it’s main ability lies with cutting, however it cuts space, giving the user a for of instantaneous attack
Limitation: it only has 2 slashes worth of uses, and then has to eject an empty capsule of unknown energy, giving it a low recharge time as the user must reload it and then have it recharge for 30 minutes
Category: Uber weapon - Harbinger’s attack power and speed is recognized to be one of the most absolute lethal
wielder affects: “those who wield this weapon Is nothing more than a slave to it’s indomitable will.” - users have a hard time synching with this weapon due to it having sentience and picky times of use(inconveniences)
purgatory - a Kusarigama(chain sickle) that attacks the ethereal existence of another being, making it lethal in the use of the right hands
(only the blade of the sickle does the ethereal damage)
twin
Omen - a magical chain linked to the user’s ethereal being, it’s length and range are presumed unlimited, the form of the chains can change dependent on the user’s likes and needs, they attack physically and can be deployed from the user’s soul at any given time, over extended exposure to the chains grip or touch causes physical pain decay
category: unknown
limitations: user is at risk if they deploy too many chains at once. Harbinger tends to feed off of it’s wielder’s ethereal energy, and thus user must be wary when using it
Ascalon - a scaled bow that doesn’t require the use of arrows, as it generates multi-elemental explosive tipped magical arrows. the longer it is drawn back is dependent on it’s power and velocity of those arrows, only two elements can be fired at a time from a new user, veteran usage is given four elements.
note: please do be aware that the bow is not indestructible and can be destroyed if damaged enough, this especially goes for the bowstring.
Panzer - this is another companion harbinger, it takes the shape of a 2 story canid-batlike creature which automatically seeks out the user’s targets, as well as capable of firing a beam of dense magic from it’s make shift maw(charge time is 2 minutes per). it’s body is metaphysical to attacks, therefore physical ones do not work, it is mostly preferred to attack the user and attempt to ignore the harbinger.
(harbinger list updates with every other update) - it is possible to obtain the listed harbingers by scouting for them in equestria.
Harbinger fragment searching -
harbingers that are recently placed have pillars of light signaling where they are
dependent on their color.
Some time ago Equestria had discovered ancient underground sentient constructs which labeled themselves prisons.
In an effort to keep those responsible for creating a very peculiar fragment type away.
This however failed and resulted in a years worth of various storm pillars composed of vibrant colors and energies. Said pillars released Intervals of power, and materialized an objects that just came to be known as “fragments”.
Which didn’t take long to draw the attention of Equestria’s inhabitants or their rivals. Denying their rival countries entry or rather survival on the land sparked a war composed of mainly greed and curiosity, which lasted over seven years, the intense use of magic, siege weapons and all, destroying it’s beauty and capital. Over the duration of said war, Canterlot had been reduced to ruins, Ponyville became a flatland of embers and scorched earth, even the forests and swamps had be reduced to ominous dead trees.
Decades go on by, and these pillars mentioned from before make themselves suddenly apparent from sudden storms, spread thin on Equestria itself, and like moths to flames, anyone willing returned and other countries visited the husk of Equestria to scavenge for whatever had been spawned in these areas.
Course everyone involved take their treasures back to their homelands or new ones, in order to contribute to their land or just outright greed, having the fragments scanned by their talented scientists and mages, discovering that these were pieces of an eventual whole that could be utilized for greater purposes.
These pillars of luminescence did not cease their constructs, and more lily welcomed those from earlier to take what was required. It was Poised to cause a vicious cycle of wars of violence between the countries due to impatience and lust for more power. This ended in catastrophic failure as all countries suffered millions of casualties and homelands were utterly destroyed in the process.
The fragments they obtained brought fear and destruction, only to be placed in a plethora of safes and locked away.
-(time skip here, but i’m not going to bother explaining why cause that in itself took an hour last time :/ I don’t want my post to magically disappear cause derpi times out again)-
Newer generations have risen from the ashes of their predecessors, setting off to the husked remains of the fallen countries to retrieve the suggested items their elders went on about for years, telling their children’s children stories about the items that brought disaster.
These were given three different names, one of which was their original, which is long forgotten.
They called them Katastrophen and or Harbingers. “Alien” to their knowledge, these were ancient or rather mystical and unheard of fragmentary objects meant to be pieced together into a whole to make out some kind of weapon.
Taking where their predecessors left off, the newer generations managed to figure this out on their own, using random obtained pieces they obtained themselves through their studying and traveling to the fallen countries.
While it was true these objects possessed great power, but it wasn’t as simple as them just being bland weapons of mass destruction, these things were molded into shields, and juggernaut vehicles. It was never as simple as one thing either, sometimes they formed a copy or otherwise known as a twin pair which is similar to the other but not exactly the same despite similarities.
Aroused suspicion, shivering anticipated anxiety, all these things at once, while the new bloods stared at the luminous lights emanating from equestria’s ruined soil
–(since this is more like a beta, there are ALOT of ideas put into this, and I will update this frequently now that it’s an account that I have better accessibility with, etc, etc.)
country origin/customization - your country can have a goofy name or not at all, and be composed of whatever you like, including the inhabitants, and culture, I have zero problems with it. If you want a steam Punk country, you can have one, if you want a floating country or an giant sea dragon with a city on it’s back, I don’t mind it. Modern, past, futuristic, I don’t have a beef with this.
natural and abnormal/supernatural/abilities/powers - all characters you make as mains will have base versions of the abilities they already possess for good reason. Yes progress and methodically training said characters can ascend the tier of their abilities.
basically split into two categories. both of which only your Actual Main can have when starting of.
So natural abilities, this is referring to cell manipulation and natural body advantages, such as a healing factor through rapidly multiplying and dividing which ever cells you feel necessary to heal a wound, or creating weapons or armor through one’s own blood
then the other would be an actual power, which is like at will teleportation without the use of magic but instead another energy - basically anything high end and or destructive, like violent aura emition to destroy matter. you will always start.
you will always start off with the lowest tier for said power the character is given, for safe guarding and temporary limitations
character cards - you don’t have to make your character’s details really up there, but it is preferred that you do put some effort into it, and specify your character’s base abilities.
exceptions (power topic)- it is very possible for an exception here and there, but in terms of this area, this’d mean someone with a next tier or fully developed power already would have to have a serious crutch on themselves when using the ability, thus limiting it’s use in several ways if not one.
technology usage - I don’t really consider this a problem, have at it.
time period - I didn’t specify it. Therefor futuristic advancements are still highly plausible
Harbinger usage - only a Main can have one, infact you only get One to start off with. Down the road it’s possible to upgrade harbingers little by little.
It also should be noted you do not need to use the listed harbingers as base harbingers for your character, you can infact make your own, then tell me in pm if need be what your idea was and how you want it applied
Activities and purpose - the essential idea is to use equestria as a basis for combat until I can mentally finish the construction for the other fallen countries and give them names, as it will be possible later on to venture Out of equestria for collective intelligence purposes or to retrieve newer pillar fragments.
there will also be missions to other countries and what not to make sure it doesn’t get too repetitive.
Npcs - npcs have their own countries, attack eachother, as well as players at random, they’re more of an activity and meant to be overcome, but as well as a distraction and delayers of interest.
player interaction and strategy - it is possible for players to befriend eachother or deceive eachother with any means necessary, why they do to eachother is entirely of their choice, whether they are friendly or hostile.
possibilities: a player can trick another player into dropping their defenses and forces into a foreign country, have an ambush waiting or otherwise use that as an opportunity to crush their country, forcing them to start over and have an advancement penalty
crafting new weaponry and or universal gear(using the Harbinger fragments) - this runs off of minutes, hours, days, and weeks dependent on the object of desire.
Like if you wanted a satellite cannon with low destructive force that’d be five a day wait,
In an effort to keep those responsible for creating a very peculiar fragment type away.
This however failed and resulted in a years worth of various storm pillars composed of vibrant colors and energies. Said pillars released Intervals of power, and materialized an objects that just came to be known as “fragments”.
Which didn’t take long to draw the attention of Equestria’s inhabitants or their rivals. Denying their rival countries entry or rather survival on the land sparked a war composed of mainly greed and curiosity, which lasted over seven years, the intense use of magic, siege weapons and all, destroying it’s beauty and capital. Over the duration of said war, Canterlot had been reduced to ruins, Ponyville became a flatland of embers and scorched earth, even the forests and swamps had be reduced to ominous dead trees.
Decades go on by, and these pillars mentioned from before make themselves suddenly apparent from sudden storms, spread thin on Equestria itself, and like moths to flames, anyone willing returned and other countries visited the husk of Equestria to scavenge for whatever had been spawned in these areas.
Course everyone involved take their treasures back to their homelands or new ones, in order to contribute to their land or just outright greed, having the fragments scanned by their talented scientists and mages, discovering that these were pieces of an eventual whole that could be utilized for greater purposes.
These pillars of luminescence did not cease their constructs, and more lily welcomed those from earlier to take what was required. It was Poised to cause a vicious cycle of wars of violence between the countries due to impatience and lust for more power. This ended in catastrophic failure as all countries suffered millions of casualties and homelands were utterly destroyed in the process.
The fragments they obtained brought fear and destruction, only to be placed in a plethora of safes and locked away.
-
Newer generations have risen from the ashes of their predecessors, setting off to the husked remains of the fallen countries to retrieve the suggested items their elders went on about for years, telling their children’s children stories about the items that brought disaster.
These were given three different names, one of which was their original, which is long forgotten.
They called them Katastrophen and or Harbingers. “Alien” to their knowledge, these were ancient or rather mystical and unheard of fragmentary objects meant to be pieced together into a whole to make out some kind of weapon.
Taking where their predecessors left off, the newer generations managed to figure this out on their own, using random obtained pieces they obtained themselves through their studying and traveling to the fallen countries.
While it was true these objects possessed great power, but it wasn’t as simple as them just being bland weapons of mass destruction, these things were molded into shields, and juggernaut vehicles. It was never as simple as one thing either, sometimes they formed a copy or otherwise known as a twin pair which is similar to the other but not exactly the same despite similarities.
Aroused suspicion, shivering anticipated anxiety, all these things at once, while the new bloods stared at the luminous lights emanating from equestria’s ruined soil
–(since this is more like a beta, there are ALOT of ideas put into this, and I will update this frequently now that it’s an account that I have better accessibility with, etc, etc.)
country origin/customization - your country can have a goofy name or not at all, and be composed of whatever you like, including the inhabitants, and culture, I have zero problems with it. If you want a steam Punk country, you can have one, if you want a floating country or an giant sea dragon with a city on it’s back, I don’t mind it. Modern, past, futuristic, I don’t have a beef with this.
natural and abnormal/supernatural/abilities/powers - all characters you make as mains will have base versions of the abilities they already possess for good reason. Yes progress and methodically training said characters can ascend the tier of their abilities.
basically split into two categories. both of which only your Actual Main can have when starting of.
So natural abilities, this is referring to cell manipulation and natural body advantages, such as a healing factor through rapidly multiplying and dividing which ever cells you feel necessary to heal a wound, or creating weapons or armor through one’s own blood
then the other would be an actual power, which is like at will teleportation without the use of magic but instead another energy - basically anything high end and or destructive, like violent aura emition to destroy matter. you will always start.
you will always start off with the lowest tier for said power the character is given, for safe guarding and temporary limitations
character cards - you don’t have to make your character’s details really up there, but it is preferred that you do put some effort into it, and specify your character’s base abilities.
exceptions (power topic)- it is very possible for an exception here and there, but in terms of this area, this’d mean someone with a next tier or fully developed power already would have to have a serious crutch on themselves when using the ability, thus limiting it’s use in several ways if not one.
technology usage - I don’t really consider this a problem, have at it.
time period - I didn’t specify it. Therefor futuristic advancements are still highly plausible
Harbinger usage - only a Main can have one, infact you only get One to start off with. Down the road it’s possible to upgrade harbingers little by little.
It also should be noted you do not need to use the listed harbingers as base harbingers for your character, you can infact make your own, then tell me in pm if need be what your idea was and how you want it applied
Activities and purpose - the essential idea is to use equestria as a basis for combat until I can mentally finish the construction for the other fallen countries and give them names, as it will be possible later on to venture Out of equestria for collective intelligence purposes or to retrieve newer pillar fragments.
there will also be missions to other countries and what not to make sure it doesn’t get too repetitive.
Npcs - npcs have their own countries, attack eachother, as well as players at random, they’re more of an activity and meant to be overcome, but as well as a distraction and delayers of interest.
player interaction and strategy - it is possible for players to befriend eachother or deceive eachother with any means necessary, why they do to eachother is entirely of their choice, whether they are friendly or hostile.
possibilities: a player can trick another player into dropping their defenses and forces into a foreign country, have an ambush waiting or otherwise use that as an opportunity to crush their country, forcing them to start over and have an advancement penalty
crafting new weaponry and or universal gear(using the Harbinger fragments) - this runs off of minutes, hours, days, and weeks dependent on the object of desire.
Like if you wanted a satellite cannon with low destructive force that’d be five a day wait,
- it is possible to accelerate the process by having items like materializes crafted before hand in order to make your wait time minutes rather than the other three.
exploration - equestria is the only available country for this activity at the moment, but this will change in time. *I already have some stuff in the works, just bear with me
accessibility - every area in Equestria is available for exploration even if the conditions of them seem unsettling.
self country exploration - this is possible aslong as you already have your stuff lined up and ready for such activities.
inhabitants of husk zones - changelings, chimera, interdimensional species(there could be a number of things), and this is also environment dependent, as well.
canon character availability - as I did not specified who lived or died through said wars, it is possible for someone to house canon characters inside of their country or otherwise use for country leaders, etc. first come, first served, whoever pics that character first will have them, and I will update the original post with the character’s name crossed out to signify their status as taken
Harbinger list -
twin function.
Colossus(reserved?) - ? - it’s full body armor with immense defensive capabilities, conventional weaponry will not harm it.
Cons: it often pumps adrenaline into the wearer, while simultaneously feeding off very small portions of their vitality, it’s usage does not come without a price.
function: for everytime the armor is hit, it drains the user of a small portion of their vitality, this is assuming the hit was actually something that could damage the wearer, conventional weaponry such as low caliber guns, or basic blade weapons do not trigger this, and instead make the user easily able to walk through it.
asperous - a divine spear capable of cutting through almost any material except it’s own(where it’d actually take immense effort)
viral - a dagger specializing in self replication, and deadly neurotoxins
Nay say(reserved?) - a single shard constructed into a small chip which the wearer must undergo surgery for, empowering their natural senses, intellect, and analytical abilities a.k.a the chess player that’s already 20 plays ahead of you
the parasites - this is an organic construct crafted for experimentation uses, it attaches itself to the host becoming part of their organic materials, anything he or she comes in contact with then is corrupted by this harbinger and controlled by the user, it only works with physical contact of the user(it has several applications in itself)
striker - a claymore sword with the ability to project it’s intentional slashes beyond normal range (crowd control)
twin
Veralious - similar to it’s twin it’s main ability lies with cutting, however it cuts space, giving the user a for of instantaneous attack
Limitation: it only has 2 slashes worth of uses, and then has to eject an empty capsule of unknown energy, giving it a low recharge time as the user must reload it and then have it recharge for 30 minutes
Category: Uber weapon - Harbinger’s attack power and speed is recognized to be one of the most absolute lethal
wielder affects: “those who wield this weapon Is nothing more than a slave to it’s indomitable will.” - users have a hard time synching with this weapon due to it having sentience and picky times of use(inconveniences)
purgatory - a Kusarigama(chain sickle) that attacks the ethereal existence of another being, making it lethal in the use of the right hands
(only the blade of the sickle does the ethereal damage)
twin
Omen - a magical chain linked to the user’s ethereal being, it’s length and range are presumed unlimited, the form of the chains can change dependent on the user’s likes and needs, they attack physically and can be deployed from the user’s soul at any given time, over extended exposure to the chains grip or touch causes physical pain decay
category: unknown
limitations: user is at risk if they deploy too many chains at once. Harbinger tends to feed off of it’s wielder’s ethereal energy, and thus user must be wary when using it
Ascalon - a scaled bow that doesn’t require the use of arrows, as it generates multi-elemental explosive tipped magical arrows. the longer it is drawn back is dependent on it’s power and velocity of those arrows, only two elements can be fired at a time from a new user, veteran usage is given four elements.
note: please do be aware that the bow is not indestructible and can be destroyed if damaged enough, this especially goes for the bowstring.
Panzer - this is another companion harbinger, it takes the shape of a 2 story canid-batlike creature which automatically seeks out the user’s targets, as well as capable of firing a beam of dense magic from it’s make shift maw(charge time is 2 minutes per). it’s body is metaphysical to attacks, therefore physical ones do not work, it is mostly preferred to attack the user and attempt to ignore the harbinger.
(harbinger list updates with every other update) - it is possible to obtain the listed harbingers by scouting for them in equestria.
Harbinger fragment searching -
harbingers that are recently placed have pillars of light signaling where they are
dependent on their color.
- blue lowest rank, Usually a small object attached to another weapon to make it better(shards) - do note though, that even lowest ranks can be considered lethal
- pink second lowest, these usually are twin fragment harbinger pieces used to craft smaller wielded weapons
- yellow borderline ranked fragments that have a randomized amount of needed pieces, as they usually pay off in some way after being fully constructed npcs tend to go after them as well
- gold deceptive harbinger fragments that often are considered parasitic or symbiotic in function
- red harbingers with an output of something that could be almost considered absolute or precisely that, however, they are extremely scattered and require seven days worth of constant searching to be sure all fragments are obtained
- green harbingers that are embedded with a certain number of power influences, but spawn very rarely - these are not fragmented
- purple are “fossil” harbingers which have already existed from the times in the past, but never used or considered important, since they’re a luck of the draw, it is possible to obtain useless or Uber weapon harbingers from them, but again, this is by chance (if someone decides to get these, they have to use a random number generator, as I pick three numbers inbetween the set amount of numbers, if said person touches the furthest right, they get an Uber, if they touch the middle, they get an Absolute, if they touch the furthest left they get a companion or parasitic harbinger
white - these are vehicle harbingers which often take years of working on to fix completely, they generally don’t come fragmented but take gear heads to fix them
Black - Uber Harbingers shards that come in exactly 10 pieces, but only spawn once every week.
Event/mission harbingers - as stated to some there are going to be instances where npcs attack players or otherwise need to be attacked, winning in these scenarios allows players to take the harbingers the npcs have collected, depending on the threat level of said npcs will determine what kind of harbingers they have, and instead of updating which ones have what here, I will Attempt to post a list of them every 5 days, If possible
(next update will bring another function as well)
