Aldric Sayrillont

IC INFORMATION A house shrouded in mystery, dealing in blood and dark magics to ensure their prosperity over the centuries, the House of Sayrillont act as puppeteers to control the political and military climate of Ishgard from the shadows. With the world on the brink of ruin, this house of man and dragon both seek to extend and grab influence in each corner of the world to both use their influences to save the world from the doom coming for it as well as conquer and take advantage of vulnerable avenues of influence that have arisen from this desperate state of near extinction. A house of a powerful and immortal legacy, the Sayrillont legacy makes bonds in blood and does not take kindly to betrayal. Inducting its kindred via dark and nefarious blood rituals which bind the persons aether directly to the bloodline in exchange for ancient and primal power fueled by dragonsblood, the family are a force to be reckoned with. Boasting its capability for its bravado both on the battlefield and in parliament the family have taken down many of its rivals over the years with renowned mercilessness and suspiciously little intervention from the authorities. Having ownership of a grail of blood, an ancient artefact that has been imbued and cherished by the house for generations and is said to hold the secrets of the Sayrillont bloodline as well as the unique vampiric abilities that each of pure blood to the house possess. This grail lies on an aetherial leyline and has the ability when properly used to augment and mutate ones aether. With the house's ranks rising the Sayrillont family open these opportunities to others that swear fealty. Giving them a limited imbuement of what the grail has to offer through the mark so that they may serve the house more efficiently. The house looks for new blood to fill its ranks, those with knowledge of the dark and occult to fuel its rituals for power and conquest of knowledge, and those with influence and pull in areas outside the North to assist the house in pulling and cementing its influence in other places outside the cold North. OOC INFORMATION <GRAIL> is a lore-adhering free company focused on the day to day and Military dealings of the Ishgardian House of Sayrillont. An ancient and enigmatic force within the wintery North, House Sayrillont has thrived through manipulation and blood. Dealing into heretical ways to ensure its prosperity and continued legacy through working with dragons. The House orchestrated many ploys on both sides to ensure the true nature of the house was kept secret, its rituals ensuring power and a unique synergy with the dragons they worked alongside as bloodbearers. With peace being bought to the North the house seeks to come out from the shadows and secure its prominence in other territories, no matter the cost. As a company, we wish to give a place for people to enjoy roleplaying under a noble house that gives more than just your run of the day dealings. Primarily operating in a somewhat antagonistic nature as a free company, we hope to be able to give those that join as well as those who wish to work alongside or even against us ICly the opportunity to delve and thrive within the many dark and occult dealings the house employs to get the job done. What We Offer: RP events ranging from day to day dealings of the noble house to more dark and mature themes such as blood rituals, sacrifice and occult pacts as they delve into new areas of opportunity. A large array of event types to suit every kind of player. A great OOC community. 3 events weekly. Opportunities for multi-guild and intercommunity roleplay and plotlines. Do I have to be in the company to roleplay with us? Of course not! Despite the secretive nature of the house ICly, the company hopes to bring in many allies in the coming future to ensure mutual growth and story opportunities. Whether you wish to ally with the house, trade relics or even act as a rival and enemy to the house's dealings, get in touch! We thrive on this sort of thing and are always looking to make great and memorable plotlines with new friends. If you want to get in touch, contact Aldric Sayrillont in game or poke me at Aldric#0807 on discord.

Nastrond has been taken down to foster a theme change! Please look at <GRAIL> House Sayrillont for a look at what is to come!

Bumped thread due to company adjusting its theme to better fit the criminal element. Our front is now a tavern! See the main post for more details, otherwise please ask either myself or one of the officers.

After a break over the holidays King of the Ring has returned for 2021! We had a successful first tournament on the 9th of January and plan to carry on our usual weekly bouts of carnage in Wineport each week at 8pm GMT/3pm EST on Balmung.

Nastrond is open for recruitment once again! With new monthly plotlines we hope for a great 2021. Come and meet our friendly community and poke us in game for more info!

The Theme has changed! Nastrond has become more at one with its noble roots, turning into a military force protecting the Houses values more directly. See updated changes in the initial post!

Glad to see you back in the game! There are also Community discords for more EU-centric roleplayers within the roleplay community if that interests you also. If it does feel free to check out the EU Crystal RPC Discord here: https://discord.gg/HPE3hg

NASTROND <ND-RP> is NOW recruiting! An EU themed 18+ Criminal/Dark roleplaying guild that follows the story of a organised crime unit that employs trade in the black markets as well as that of blood and bounty. What is Nastrond? With a name that originates in Norse mythology, Nástrǫnd (Corpse Shore) is a place in Hel where Níðhöggr lives and chews on corpses. It is the afterlife for those guilty of murder, adultery, and oath-breaking (which the Norsemen considered the worst possible crimes). The Mythos behind the title is where the origins of our free company was found. Operating within the public eye as a dive bar lead by the enigmatic Lord and Lady House Sayrillont, the venue holds as a front for an organised crime company that smuggles and secures targets as well as items to place on the black market. Though their main focus on items is those that would secure them the greatest amount of profit on the black market, the criminals found at Nastrond are not ones to avoid operations that set out for taking out targets for large sums of gil either. What rules do the Nastrond employ? The ranks of Nastrond keep confidentiality and subtlety first and foremost when it comes to their operations, only showing themselves when they need to be seen. They try to keep away from harming innocents yet are also aware that sometimes sacrifices need to be made for victory and can be ruthless and cold when they need to be also. Any act of betrayal within the ranks will be met with swift punishment, the cover and the main operations of the company serving among the tavern and the markets need to be done with the utmost confidentiality. How does Nastrond run its events? We like to stick to 3 events a week, which can include one shot jobs, the longer stories that can interconnect between major guild milestones and thrilling character development opportunities, and even a content night where we can push players through older content or map runs. We have something for everyone! And are always open for feedback. PLEASE be aware that Nastrond is a criminal themed organisation also, so do not expect every event to be a victory, and consequences have a fine habit of coming back on the organisation now and again... (Nastrond is a criminal organisation, so please accept that our IC actions in the world will come back in the form of IC consequences as far as character interactions and interactions go at times) Im in! How can I join? Feel free to message myself on discord or in game on Aldric Sayrillont if you have any questions or inquiries, we have advertisements on discord, RPC, tumblr and in game on party finder and shout chats. As well as accepting applications to our guild, there are lots of ways of entry to exploit, even simply finding us in the world and interacting works! We also accept external members in the cross world link shell to work alongside the companies activities. We hope to see you around as friend or foe! If you want to join, work with us or simply act as a rival to one of our plotlines due to the companies criminal nature, please let us know! Contact Aldric Sayrillont in game (Aldric#7268 on discord.) or Mairon Bauglir in game (Feynren#6959) for more information.

FIRST KING OF THE RING THEME NIGHT: LONELY HEARTS BASH! (2V2 DUELS) Want to fight the night away? Replace a romantic dinner with a mealful of blood and glory? Come down to wineport this weekend for the First king of the ring themed event "Broken heart bash!" Fight with your significant other or lover to be and try to gain an increased cash prize! This will be held for this week only before going back to our regular scheduling so come and take part! When you appear at the venue please stand with your partner and ensure one of your team shouts out your name when it comes to your turn in the line, then we shall put you in your respected fights! We will be having one duel at as time so people can properly enjoy the spectacle! See below for the roll system: Teams decide on who rolls initiative for them. Initiative roll counts for both team members Each member of Team 1 rolls and posts, freely choosing their target. Focus attack or individual. Each member who is being attacked on Team 2 rolls for defense. Should one target be focused said target rolls twice. Once for each incoming attack to defend. Thus either one, both or no attack can be blocked. During the fight it is at the other team member's discretion to sacrifice their attack roll to defend an incoming attack against their partner should they have failed a defense roll. THIS CAN ONLY BE USED ONCE PER BATTLE FOR EACH PERSON AND IS TO BE ANNOUNCED OOC IF MADE USE OF General roll system remains the grindstone system of roll vs roll. Teams alternate back and forth until both members of 1 team reach 0 HP. It is not required for both team members to be 'alive' to win.

UPDATE!: The King of the Ring Tournament has been moved to Wineport! please move there for following weeks, any further changes will be notified, thank you. Aldric.

IC AD An extravagant flyer would be posted on the walls around the city states, bards spinning tales of a new tournament that is now happening in the luscious wine country of La Noscea, serving as the heart of the realms newest spectacle: COME ONE COME ALL! A BRAND NEW FIGHTING TOURNAMENT THE LIKES THE REALM HAS NEVER SEEN! TEST YOUR STRENGTH FOR THE CHANCE TO BECOME THE…. KING OF THE RING! A fighting spectacle that does not restrict your means to fight or fling dangerous magics, put your strengths forward to fight against unwilling odds and earn title and treasures aplenty! Want to smash your axe against a devious meteor flinging thaumaturge? DO IT! Want to have your carbuncle Floor-tank an enemy dragoon with adorableness? DO IT Want to hit a fish-spitting blue mage with a frying pan? DO IT!!! As long as you leave your opponent in one piece and not on a one-way trip to the realm of the departed, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Come on down to Wineport each SATURDAY at the 8th bell of the day to participate in the weekly dose of the ultimate trial of combat! And that's not all, At the end of each month we shall have themed nights ranging from DUO BATTLES, TEAM BATTLES, FREE FOR ALLS and MORE with increased prizes and glory to behold! The poster would have details linking to the organisers below, as well as information on the location of wineport. OOC AD King of the ring is an upcoming EU based roleplaying tournament (Anyone is encouraged to participate however) that will involve grindstone roles and no limits as far as to what skills your characters can use within the battle as long as you make no attempts to take a characters life or dismember them. If such a thing happens you will be disqualified and your character will take full IC consequences for the action made whether permitted by the opponent or not. This event will BE HELD AT 8PM GMT BIWEEKLY ON SATURDAY The tournament itself will take place in Wineport! Spectators will be allowed to stand above the archway in the centre to observe, or drink at the bar to the left while the spectacle continues. Participants will have to line up in front of the archway, and say their name and weapon once the yell is given, before being assigned into brackets. Themed evenings will have rules slightly different, and will be posted before the event starts so participants are properly able to familiarise themselves with the rolls before the event. Any questions direct to either myself (Aldric Sayrillont or Aldric#7268 on discord) or Quixo (Melafyre#5008 on discord) for any questions and we hope to see you there! TUMBLR POST: https://dragoonsdiary.tumblr.com/post/190351768028/king-of-the-ring-balmung-saturdays-8pm-gmt

If you still have a character left on balmung I would reccommend starting on that, it has a very established community and its extremely overpopulated so its easy to find people. Saying that however there is no real in for other friends to come with you if your not on balmung anyway, which leaves new people coming on here at a exact nil until they open the servers up again. The people here are nice though! so thats definitely an opportunity to explore. Otherwise as Unnamed suggested Mateus may be the best for a steadier stream of people, but both servers are excellent for roleplay

As a few have said here its definitely possible to become a doman spearman, which I would advise as being the more better route with how elite the dragoon order can be in terms of its participants and how many are trained in the actions. Saying that however if you wish to add a bit more flourish to the lancemanship its definitely possible to learn dragoon-like abilities from aetherical manipulation if you can pull it off, for example using wind aspected aether to simulate jumps, or fire aspected to infuse your lance for certain attacks.

Lovely character and glad to hear your enjoying balmung! Would love to help you with finding connections and also have Von here make connections with your character, always looking for friends! If you want to roleplay, feel free to poke Von Sayrillont in game!

Hai there Val! lovely to meet you! As Lydia said there are a lot of useful tidbits here on the RPC to help get you started, i would also say that as it also helps a lot to try and take in as much of the quest text and story as you can through the game as you level up and go through the various MSQ quests, side quests and instances out there as you can learn a lot of juicy tidbits from there too that can help you out! I have a character on Balmung (Von Sayrillont) if you ever want anyone to help show you the ropes, ill be happy to!

Welcome to the game! this place has a lovely community and I am sure you will find some good experiences! if you wish for help on roleplay just ask and if you use discord I know that is a good place to organise and find roleplay in game if you are having trouble ^^ As other people have suggested get to 15 so you can go across all the cities, though the higher you get the more glamours you can obtain!

Beautiful, well written piece. Was a pleasure to read!

This is a game full of rich lore, mesmerising moments and the story in this game has incredibly well put together, making it very personal to your character as you go through the story quests and definitely brings on some epic moments and emotions! The roleplay community I know is very good on a couple of servers here and the content is very diverse and capturing, there is a very large load of things to do here! I do hope you enjoy your time here, and welcome to Eorzea my friend!

I think personally that VR in time will go a long way to accustom to the roleplay community in a better way of making the player more accustomed to the character, and when that happens I can definitely it bringing in a audience of roleplayers when VR in itself gets a bit more improved than what we are currently seeing and is a bit more commonplace I would say, I see VRChat and all that and despite the vast array of memes that I see coming out of it , it seems to be the only VR game I can see that could host roleplay at the minute! As I said though as time goes along and VR games improve a bit I can certainly see it being a thing, of course only to a specific crowd I would imagine because as said above, most of us RPers are writers, not actors so it would be a very different sort of state to get into.

We now have a tumblr! visit the link below if you want to check out tavern night updates, event screenies from our storylines, and more! https://crimsonirisbalmung.tumblr.com/

THE SEA QUEEN AND HER EMPIRE Chapter I: The Journey Begins The Crimson Iris set out to apprehend the turncoat and receive the plunder that had been stolen from them, arriving at a island bearing a small outpost of garlean deserters that had been trading with the pirate captain, they met with the contact Leofric, who informed them that the ship had been shot down by the cannons on her way to the mainland to receive guidance off a local oracle. After being spotted the crew had to fight their way out of the castrum and move to the boat in time, having to dodge the wrath of the deserters coming upon them... Members Hyrst and Atare managed to turn some of their own weaponry against them, manning the cannons to cover the rest of the group as they made their escape via ship, docking at Namai to rest for the night before continuing. Chapter II: The Oracle The iris traveled to the steps and met up with one of their contacts, acquiring a ride across the plans and finding out that the oracle was positioned at the temple peak within the mountains, they traveled to the entrance and had to endure trials of Endurance, Mind and Strength.. in which by tested the party to its very limits... reaching the oracle they asked the question of where the pirate was located.. receiving a cryptic riddle in response. Deciding to take the oracle with them by breaking the chains and stealing the mystic from her intended location, the crew made a quick escape as they had taken the gaze of an ancient guardian protecting the woman, a shadow which followed them onwards... Chapter III: The Vengeful Guardian After taking time to recover from their wounds at the oracles temple, the party travelled through to the ruby sea and sailed across to Onokoro, having split the party to get the oracle to the ship quicker, they stumbled upon the guardian which had tracked down the party from the steppes... stopping the ancient from reaching the ship, they engaged him in battle. The guardian had many tricks in his ensemble, using the very sands of the beaches against them, but with the Iris focused as one they were eventually able to fell the beast by turning the beast to glass and shattering it with the help of Hyrst and the Sanitoriums help from Suna, its leader. Escaping to the ship upon its defeat they set out to the seas.. the final leg of the journey upon them. Chapter IV: The Sea Queens Fall The iris sailed on the galleon towards the safe house of the pirate queen, taking off near shore and moving through a very dangerous and trap infested tunnel (Which some of us fell culprit too) before finally reaching the swamp where the hideout was located. After tripping some of the traps within the tunnel the patrols were already on high alert! causing us a firefight against the remainder of her crew as well as a stolen magitek walker that acted as artillery from getting too close to where the queen was hiding. After a close fight with the crew they were taken down one by one, and the magitek walker destroyed, breaching the insides of the hovel we found Captain Reine Lothaire, the pirate queen... and the mysterious Highlander which turned out to be her lover Odinel Frost. After a hard fight and a tough encounter the group managed to scrape through and take down the two, the turncoats were wanted alive and so were knocked unconscious and were bought back to the house where they were placed within the cells for questioning on the location of the treasure. Epilogue: The Captains Treasure After a very fruitful interrogation the culprits were separated to think about their betrayal to the Iris, whilst the rest of the crew swam to the depths of the ruby sea thanks to aetherical technology to reclaim the stolen cargo, transporting it to the ship as they returned home for a well due rest.

I feel that another reason of it could also be the fact that it is the time in-between patches when people usually take time off until the next release from burn out, which can happen at times! So you will probably see a influx of things once the next patch is released. Other than that however for the more larger events that range away from the usual slice of life/tournament stuff we see here you will usually see those things inspired by larger events in the lore happening, such as Realmsward, Othardian Resistance and the Destroyers Dawn, as things progress down the patch cycle im sure more things of the same sort will pop up! Im all up for community projects either way, and so is a lot of the great people we have in the community here! so I am sure if needed some of us can band together with making content like that to help with further bringing the community together, ive already seen some fun things being made peering at the forums ^^