Site Plot

[King Uther Pendragon]

Up until now, the site has not had a specific background plot, but now we have a nice amount of active members, we'd like to get something bigger and more permanent sorted.
Before we put our heads together, we wanted to find out what our members thought would be good. We're leaving this thread open for a week today, so please post all your ideas for a big plot in here.

^{[Plots can specifically involve canon characters and groups of characters ie. the brotherhood, but nothing specific to an original character please.]}


If you don't have an idea yourself, please comment on ideas other people have so know what everyone thinks

Lots of plotting love,
Arthur and Merlin

[Dante Grixis]

How about this one:

The Brotherhood decides to attempt to overthrow the Pendragons and take Camelot for themselves. In doing so they would reorganize the social order so the Lows got money and the Nobles had no power. Kind of like communism I guess.

[Merlin Emrys]

Yeeah, I like the idea of the castle/royals being threatened, and we need something big instead of magic, so the brotherhood is a good start. But the brotherhood work for money, so i'm thinking some kind of evil magician would be paying them good money for anything they do.

what do people think about introducing the option of 'dark races', like vampires or something. (or is everyone sick of vampires because they're everywhere at the moment!) Or dragons maybe? Although it is straying quite far from the plot of the actual show... maybe not necessarily a bad thing?

We could always go for a classic natural disaster, like drought or storms or crop failiure and it's suspected it's to do with evil magic?

hohum x

[Jasen "Dreamer" Masters]

I like the idea of Dragon playable characters, but they would have to be limited in some way. Cause honestly, we all know we couldn't take a Dragon at our levels. (Ok, Merlin probably could, but we arent Merlin XD ). And they would probably have to have really good reasons for gathering in Camelot.

Maybe a plot that "Introduces" Dragons as playable characters because of some Gathering of Magical Creatures or a great Dragon gathering ect. ect. And i think they would have to be classified like our other guilds, into what type of Dragon (Maybe element?) and the level of their power based on whatever the Admin decides.

(Chucks two pennies) Thats my Two cents

(And i dont know about introducing Vampires or Werewolves, cause u cant have one without the other, cause then you have all these blood suckers around Camelot now and it would defeat the purpose of the actual game, although.....Druids could turn into werewolves....Hmmmm)

(Two more pennies) Ok two more cents

[Jasen "Dreamer" Masters]

I like the idea of Dragon playable characters, but they would have to be limited in some way. Cause honestly, we all know we couldn't take a Dragon at our levels. (Ok, Merlin probably could, but we arent Merlin XD ). And they would probably have to have really good reasons for gathering in Camelot.

Maybe a plot that "Introduces" Dragons as playable characters because of some Gathering of Magical Creatures or a great Dragon gathering ect. ect. And i think they would have to be classified like our other guilds, into what type of Dragon (Maybe element?) and the level of their power based on whatever the Admin decides.

(Chucks two pennies) Thats my Two cents

(And i dont know about introducing Vampires or Werewolves, cause u cant have one without the other, cause then you have all these blood suckers around Camelot now and it would defeat the purpose of the actual game, although.....Druids could turn into werewolves....Hmmmm)

(Two more pennies) Ok two more cents

[dardan]

Oct 23, 2009 0:48:54 GMT Jasen "Dreamer" Masters said:

I like the idea of Dragon playable characters, but they would have to be limited in some way. Cause honestly, we all know we couldn't take a Dragon at our levels. (Ok, Merlin probably could, but we arent Merlin XD ). And they would probably have to have really good reasons for gathering in Camelot.

Maybe a plot that "Introduces" Dragons as playable characters because of some Gathering of Magical Creatures or a great Dragon gathering ect. ect. And i think they would have to be classified like our other guilds, into what type of Dragon (Maybe element?) and the level of their power based on whatever the Admin decides.

(Chucks two pennies) Thats my Two cents

(And i dont know about introducing Vampires or Werewolves, cause u cant have one without the other, cause then you have all these blood suckers around Camelot now and it would defeat the purpose of the actual game, although.....Druids could turn into werewolves....Hmmmm)

(Two more pennies) Ok two more cents

I don't exactly know anything about the show, but if you believe vampires and werewolves can't exist without each other, you're mistaken. Together, they keep a natural balance between predator and prey - though it's the predators preying on each other. Depending on what mythology you follow, vampires are much older than werewolves - the most common beginning with good old Bram Stoker's inspiration - Vlad The Impaler aka Dracula, who drank the blood of his defeated army to survive and was cursed to live forever consuming only blood afterwards.

However, in European history, it is believed that vampires and werewolves were substituted for a truthful explanation of what may have actually happened. In an irrational era, it would have been much easier to believe your brother was a mindless beats unable to control his actions, instead of knowing him to be a murderer. I, for one, don't doubt for a moment that in dark age Germania, you would have no problem at all believing there were vampires and werewolves roaming the dark forest on your doorstep.

And that's my two cents. Vampires don't rely on werewolves, and vice verse.

Dragons are always good, but I would think there should be a good reason for them to be around, considering their scarcity and strength. Compared to humans, you might as well call a dragon a god, for all the hurt sharpened sticks would do to it.

[Lady Gillianne Auvray]

Dardan's right about the vampire thing, if anything, at the beginning of Dracula he's shown to have an strange affinity with the wild wolves that live near his castle... and I'm not sure how vampires would work into a coherent plot line. There were legends long before Stoker's Dracula, and so it's feasible to introduce them into a medieval England plotline I suppose.
Even though vampires and werewolves might be a bit too much, with magic there's always the option of Shape-shifters or a magician controlling wild animals?

I like the concept of Dragons too, but I think dreamer's right and they'd have to be restricted somehow. Perhaps the Dragon from Merlin could be used as a canon character? And he could be evil and the one employing magicians and the brotherhood against the Pendragons? Or invent a completely different dragon? They're such an ancient race they could have a vendetta against humankind?

[Prince Arthur Pendragon]

In reply to Dardans point, i dont think we would be constricted by having dragons as they dont necessarily have to be immune to "sharpened sticks".
Just like you dont need to have werewolves to have vampires, you dont have to have invincible dragons just because most stories portray them that way.

Gill i think starting off with a canon dragon (the great dragon from the show or another) would be a good idea, just to see how it goes. We could also have a plot involving freeing the great dragon or something?

I also think a natural distaster would be a good first plot due to the fact it would involve everybody on the site, rather than just those in the brotherhood (which is only henry and dante at the moment-plus we have no evil magicians who might be controlling them as yet)
Although i think dantes suggestion about the brotherhood trying to overthrow the pendragons plus merlins idea of a powerful dark magician being behind it all would work when we have more members?

[dardan]

I didn't mean it like that, I just meant their natural defenses - scales would be near impossible to get through with an arrow and in most cases even a spear just wouldn't do.

I just have one question - how old is Camelot, how long have humans been living in the area? If it's an appropriate time, you could go with a dragon plot, somewhat like a year of the dragon - once every so and so years dragons congregate to breed. Camelot, or somewhere nearby, could be their sacred ground and whatnot, which would really get everyone's feathers up. You could even go as far as to say that it's the beginning of the end - a prophecy that the world will perish in fire and water. Yay for chaos. XP

Okay, so I have another question - I was googling Merlin and I found out that Arthur killed a unicorn. WTF, why did he do that? >.>

[Prince Arthur Pendragon]

I dont know how you think i thought you meant it? (wow impressively confusing sentence!) But i was trying to explain that the dragons can be as godly or as humble as we make them. (Ie dragons scales could be permeable by swords and arrows) Other stories portray scales as armour like but it doesnt mean we need to, which it hink was the point you made about vampires

As for the year of the dragon idea, i like it. We could always bring stone henge into it, as it its origins are unknown. (perhaps it could be a mounument to call the dragons of old, built by ancient druids?)

Arthur killed a unicorn so the shows plot could develop, nothing more and long story short- by the end he regretted it and so it lived again.

[King Uther Pendragon]

Only one day left until this thread is locked! If you have any more ideas/protests put them forward now or forever hold your peace!

[King Uther Pendragon]

Thread Closed

We'll start writing a site plot asap!