Final Fantasy IX: The Fall of the Mages, Story overview!

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As many have shown signs of interest against the RP, but don't have either patience or time to read trough whole 23+ pages filled with story, I have decided to make the life easier by creating a story overview from the beginning till the latest post ( It will be updated after every main event of the Rp itself).
Still, to get the best reading experience, you should read trough all the posts of the original RP.


Prologue:

100 years after the epic end of Final Fantasy IX, the once beautiful and partly peaceful world is on the edge of extinction. The population of Gaia itself has grown more than dozen of times. The towns and villages from the past have grown in to cities, which are now filled with thieves, mercenaries and beggars. The former cities and remindigs of cities have turned in to the true capitals of the world, containing more population than Gaia's total population once had been. But all that only moves Gaia closer to its inglorious end.
As the cities were growing at rapid speed, the new empires were formed and yet the old ones continued growing in both, stregth and culture. But the new, young and aggressive empires have unfolded a great row of wars, which have caused fear to the fearless civilization of Mist Continent. But everything what has beginning, has also an end. After 40 years of deadly, devastating wars, everything had calmed down. For a decent or two.
Unfortunately, by the beginning of the Fall of Mages, the Great Empire Of Oeilvert or shall I say, the empire of assassins, thieves, murderers and selfish rulers, once again started a never ending war by attacking Daguerro towns in Forbidden Continent.

Once, a war with that size would only have harmed the cities and the life within cities. But this day, when the technology is quickly surpassing the power of magic, the world is slowly moving towards a total war, which will unleash nothing less than a total chaos to the planet of Gaia.
Things that once were impossible without the aid of few godly mages, like blowing up towns and empires, are now possible with the aid of bombs and other kinds of technology. And what's even worse, even a small country can afford themselves few of those bombs.

Though, even in times of darkness, there is a brighter side. The brighter side might be you, my fellow RP'ers.

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Characters ( List of most occurred characters)-

Richard Black - The last member of the legendary Black family of Daguerro. A hero who has saved Daguerro and Mist Continent from destruction more than once, yet for last 30 years, he has been a simple mercenary, fighting for the best offering.

''The Black Lotus'' a.k.a Shera Shujo - Former assassin of Oeilvert, yet now she is the leader of Lindblum assassin's organization and a friend of king himself.
Related to Richard Black as found out later in the story.

Master Vivius - The grandson of Vivi. The head of Eastern Outern Continent ( Previously known as Mages village). He is a living legend and his deeds have been both, great and devastating.
Also known as The mercenary of Summons

Eophelia - A beautiful woman and a great white mage. A companion of Richard.
Lover of Richard

Delta- The student of legendary Quina and also the student of Master Vivius. A great blue-mage capable of many great deeds. Known as a companion of Richard Black.
Lover of Shera

Gabriel Bloodrage - A mercenary working for Richard Black and Kuja Tribal I.

Kuja Tribal I - The last living son of Zidane Tribal. A true hero and king of Alexandria.

Amarus - The son of Amarant. An infamous mercenary and assassin, who is also known as a companion of Richard Black.

Letitia - The Dark Alchemist. One of the most feared enemies of everything good and pure. She is a wicked monster who does everything to get stronger.
Works for Garland the II

Darkrul Varas - The lord of the Black Waltzes. Once a great waltz, who now has fallen in to madness. He is a neutral force who kills just to kill.

Garland the II - The mysterious general of Oeilvert.
Last creation of Garland I. Fell in to madness after losing to Master Vivius.

Longbeard Dori - A mysterious dwarf from Terra. He is a companion and ally of Richard Black.

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The last moment of peace
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It all begun in a quiet day like no other. The king sent out Black Lotus to gather more information about Richard Black, who had called together a meeting. Black Lotus found out that the elite of the elite, veterans of Lindblum, had all gathered in a small bar as an order from Richard who hired them all to the upcoming war. The mission was a success, until Master Vivius caught Black Lotus. Though, Black Lotus was able to escape. From that point on, Black Lotus was always followed by the companions of both, Richard and Master Vivius.

A day later, Richard Black left to Burcmeria, where he also gathered more forces to his side. That was the first encouter with Delta in the story. Also, he was suddenly attacked by an unknown beast, who destroyed a huge part of Burcmeria (The reasons of attack where only partly mentioned in the RP itself). From there, Richard headed towards Alexandria. Meanwhile, Black Lotus had travelled to Alexandria and assassinated an important captain there.
When Richard made his way to Alexandria, he met both, Eophelia and Gabriel. Eophelia joined Richard gladly, but Gabriel didn't agree with Richard's offer and they had a fight. Richard beated Gabriel without any problems and Gabriel agreed to work under Richard. The same time, Black Lotus got an order to aid Richard as much as possible.
Later that night, Richard met Letitia. It seemed as they both knew each-other and in the same time, it felt that Letitia liked Richard in the way how women like men. But Richard ignored Letitia. Few hours after that, Richard met with Black Lotus and her companion Tahomi. Letitia was still following them. While Black Lotus left to deal with her personal life, Tahomi stayed with Richard. A little conflict took place between Tahomi and Letitia, but was soon over when Letitia left.
Next day, Richard had left Madain Sari, but on his way there, they encountered around 50 warships of Eastern Outern Continent. And the news were bad, the war had started. Few minutes after meeting the allies, the enemies started to attack. More than 70 warships and a grand summon, known as Bahamut, launched a full scale attack against. The battle was devastating, but Richard had no time for fighting. He and the ship he was on, were able to escape from the battle and head to Daguerro.

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The World War I - The raise of Oeilvert
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The war started first on the sea, between the navy of Daguerro and airforce and dragons of Forbidden Continent. Gabriel was on the board of one old ship and met Kuja Tribal I there.
The second attack was against the Outern Continent forces, from which Richard took part some time.

The moment Richard landed, he met Shera. Seconds after that, they were ambushed by an Oeilvert welcoming party.( Meanwhile, Letitia met Garland II and started working for him.) A well-known Oeilvert general started a fight with Shera. The general was the same who had slaughtered her old master during the time she was in the forbidden continent. Tahomi was ''killed'' by the same general a moment later and that threw Shera in to a rampage. The general was killed, but Shera's rampage didn't end. She was totally taken over by dark trance ( Black mages secret power - told more in the RP itself) and attacked Richard. Richard was losing in the end and almost died, but Vivius beat Shera's physical body by using a single spell. That locked Shera in her mind in a fight against her dark Trance. Barely, Shera won and got control over her Dark Trance. Few hours later, she got her concious back and found out that her old master had been his father. Richard in the same time, had been the brother of his father. So yeah, as you all already know, Richard is the uncle of Shera.
While battle for Richard's and Tahomi's life was harsh, the battle on the sea was even harsher. Fortunately, Gabriel did a great job there. Meanwhile, Letitia together with Garland II had beaten the air force of Outern Continent.
When Richard was healed, he let Shera meet many of the legendary warriors and his companions. Shera also met Delta that day. Next day, they headed towards the war front in Forbidden continent. While they were in the ship, they were attacked by Garland (yeah, the good old Garland from FF IX). But later, they found out that Garland came to warn them from his creation, Garland the II. Meanwhile, Delta and Shera fell in love with each-other, yet they told nothing to other. But suddenly, their airship was shot down. Delta and Shera found each-other in a dark forest and had to fight against dark beasts who were sent there to assassinate them by Garland II.
After hours of wandering, Delta and Shera found the camp. It was the first and last time they made love.
Later that night, alarm sounded, yet Shera and Delta didn't hear it. It seemed as the war had started. Everyone, besides the two, rushed to the front. That was the beginning of one of the most known battles of history.
Quina had joined Richard, and together they smashed themselves trough the enemy lines. Until a godly beast stopped Quina. Ifrit it was. The battle between Quina and Ifrit lasted for long and was legendary. In the end, Quina ate Ifrit. And a second later, he was dead, killed by Garland II. The same moment one of Quina's students, the human called Delta, woke up. Together with Shera, they rushed to the battle front. There, Shera found out that Letitia was her mother as Letitia was mocking and teasing her. Meanwhile, Richard was overwhelmed by enemies and Delta was rampaging. Killing everyone and everything on his way until Garland II stopped him. They had a fierce duel but Garland II won. Delta was dead. And so started the next fight, between Richard and Garland II. While Richard was dying in a fight he was unable to win, Letitia was facing her own daughter, Shera. The battle was as harsh as all of the battles were that day. And the same moment when Richard was almost slashed to pieces, Vivius returned and gave Garland II a good fight. It lasted for 10 minutes, but then, Garland I appeared. After that, an epic duel between Garland I and II started. Vivius teleported them to the Terra, to avoid more destruction. And yet a moment later, Shera had fallen. A part of her power went over to Tahomi, the clone sister of her.
At that point, it seemed that the battle was going to slow down, but it wasn't like that. The mad Black Waltz Lord had joined the battle and was killing everything on his way. And then, he had a little duel with Vivius. In the same time, Richard was transported to Daguerro by a dwarf and cured there by Eophelia. While the war in Forbidden Continent had slowed down, and battle between Vivius and Darkrul ended, a new force attacked Daguerro. At that time, Letitia and Darkrul turned to allies.
Richard in Daguerro was having a hard time, until he turned in to his black dog form. Then, he encountered Darkrul. They had a duel where Richard almost killed Darkrul, but in the end, Richard lost and Daguerro was destroyed. Barely, Richard's life was saved by the king of Alexandria.

Day later, Letitia wanted to assassinate Richard but failed because of Amarus. And so started a duel between Amarus and Letitia. Letitia lost to Amarus. Meanwhile, Darkrul had charged at Alexandria and was going to destroy it. In the battlefield, he met King of Alexandria and they started a duel.

OOC: To be continued as the story continues.
BTW, If you got any questions or I told something wrong, just mention me. Because I haven't read trough all the posts since they were originally wrote which was like half a year ago.

NB! If you want to get to know more about Vivius, than read this - http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/f...d-of-vivius-the-rise-of-a-new-king-28023.html
 
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Darkrul was driven back by the King, when the king went into a trance and easily bested the Waltz lord who retreated to his mountain hideaway, A cloaked figure appeared shortly after and began to destroy what was left of Darkrul's army, the cloaked figure was soon to be revealed as Shera, or rather Alexandros, Shera had been a host of the Daughter of the Guardian Force Alexander, thus after her death at the hands of her mother, her Guardian Force spirit was released from its bond and allowed to act upon its own accord, showing only an alliegance of convience to Alexandria at first, she quickly established herself as a threatening opponent with a temper (very much like that of her host)

Several young soldiers establish a name for themselves during the battle of Alexandria, showing skillful leadership and tactics under pressure, Tina and Luna are two of the soldiers that show excellent promise during the battle, Tina being a skilled rifleman and Luna being the last of a long thought extinct "sword weaver" that can control magically enchanted swords to do battle for her. Carlos was promoted to Lead the Pluto knights by the king himself, a rank his grand father Steiner had previously held.

Tahomi defeated Ifrit with the help of Phoenix and was congratulated by Vivius, before Vivius sealed Ifrit away, still somewhat confused by the goings on, Alexandros spoke to her telepathically and revealed the truth of her existence, that she was indeed just another host, But the host of her younger sister Alexis, Alexander's youngest daughter. Taking a leap of faith (in which it appears she transformed before she hit the floor, but in reality she actually did hit the floor and died thus allowing the GF spirit to awaken and assume material form) she transforms into Alexis and teleports to Alexandria to assist her sister.

The Forces of Ispen are driven away and in a blood lust, Alexandros attempts to trap them all within the realm of shadow (home of the Dark Guardian Forces) but her sister talks sense into her and they quickly meet up on the west wall.

Darkrul in his wild and reckless rage and deluded ambitions, reads from the final passage of the book of black arts, destroying the book and binding his body to Chaos, who takes over the body of the Demented Waltz Lord and assumes his own form, destroying the cave and flying to Alexandria.

During the latter stages of the Battle Tina and Luna are both wounded, Tina using what strength she had left to carry Luna from the battlefield, they are taken to a nearby Inn to be looked after.

On the West Wall Alexis uses the power of the Illuminati and brings forth Phoenix, who heals the wounded and cures the sick, Tina and Luna awaken cured of there wounds and depart to join the others on the western wall.

Dori (whom is flying to Alexandria at the time) comes across Darkul in his Chaos bound form, Darkrul sense his presence and the pair briefly skirmish, Darkrul feels he is wasting time and continues on his way to Alexandria and Dori follows him.

Queen Alshi of Granseal has a premonition in which she sees the destruction of Alexandria with the Echoing laughter of Darkrul as the city is obliterated by dark energies, She Finally decides that Granseal has no choice but to go to war and orders her son High Archmage Rafl, to assemble the Griffon Knights, Vivius teleports to Granseal and speaks to the Queen as Bahamut takes his leave, transporting the City of Granseal back to the material "Earthen" Realm, The Griffon Knights along with a contingent of Green Mages, Queen Alshi, Vivius and High Archmage Rafl depart to Alexandria leaving behind a small "token" guard to keep an eye out for encroachers.

The Battle against Darkrul begins as the Chaos Bound Waltz Lord arrives and begins to assault the city, the King protects a nearby Church from the Demented beasts magic, whom begins to focus his magic on attacking the king, only to have his staff knocked from his grasp by Dori, who had been following him and he taunted the dwarf as he quickly despatched one of the commanding officers of the Alexandrian Inquistion force, this sent Dori in a berserk rampage that Darkrul hoped to use to his own ends as he flew back to the wall and attempted to strike the king with the mighty Chaos Sword, only for his blow to be deflected by the Defiant Guardian force sisters and the King asked to retire from the battle while they "handle" Darkrul.

Darkrul was quickly taken by suprise when he was struck by a magical bullet from the gun of the returning Tina which created an opening for Alexandros to strike him with her "Electo-lance" all this succeeded in doing however was allowing Chaos to assume his dominance over his host as he began to thrash wildly with the sword of Chaos, this was in vein however as the Joint efforts of Tina's Sharpshooting, Dori's Dwarven Berserk assault with his enchanted hammer, The Guardian Force sisters "other-wordly weaponry" and Luna's Enchanted swords quickly defeated the beast, With Vivius blocking the way to the City with a giant ultima shield and the assault of the Arriving Griffon Knights, Darkrul seemed likely to fall short of his hopes of Erradicating Alexandria

However, it turned out this was Darkrul's plan all along, as he absorbed the dispersing energy of Chaos and used it to create a Shadow Rift, an immensely powerful spell that was responsible for the dissapperance of the Magic Academy in Granseal decades ago, the spell sucked several through the Void it had created, Including Darkrul, Tina, Luna, Dori, The GF sisters and Alshi...Richard would later enter the void to assist the party in battle with the final form of Darkrul on his home turf, the Waltz Lord had gone into a Trance and his magic was seemingly being fed by the Ruins of the Ancient Academy in the realm they had been transported to.

Darkrul proved a powerful opponent, trapping one of the Guardian Force sisters in a very powerful Shadow Cage spell and Severly Injuring Dori, his spells also seemed to cause severe issues for Tina...but seeing Luna's "Sword Weaving" un-nerved him and he called for reinforcements from the ghostly spectres of the academy by creating a summoning circle.

The servants were weak and easily despatched, as Richard joined in, taking many of the servants down, and uncovering Darkrul's true appearance, he was very much human, albeit demonic from the Waltz Lord transformation...He continued to goad both Richard and Luna, mocking Richard as being a filthy halfbreed Esper and Luna as a meddlesome sword weaver that should have been destroyed when he brought the academy to this realm.

The presence of the Esper and Sword Weaver sent Darkrul into a fitting Rage as he blasted down many of the still standing building before calling on one of his most powerful spells that would erradicate the entire party, however it was not to be as unlikely assistance came from the Previously hesistant Queen Alshi whom used a spell to protect everyone from the Dark magic, being an extremely accomplished and powerful White mage herself.

With her stern words, Darkrul showed a slight amount of remorse as if Alshi's words had actually hurt him, but the madness soon took hold again and he struck her with a quickly charged Shadow flare, knocking her from her feet.

Darkrul began to bolster his spell and called upon more spirits, which Richard and Luna easily bested, but they just kept coming back, Tina took the opportunity of Darkrul's being distracted and struck him a heavy blow, wounding his arm and nearly slicing his throat, however he quickly errected a magical barrier to protect himself and countered with a Void Spark in attempt to get rid of her.

Elsewhere in the world, after his disappearance shortly before the battle of Alexandria, Shenju had arrived at Granseal and was greeted with a warm welcome, however Shenju revealed his true colours by slaughtering the guards and waiting in the throne room for Richard to arrive, where he would finally be able to reveal the truth about himself.

Alexandros called to her father for assistance in breaking the cage spell that bound her sister, Alexander appeared and did so, explaining the sisters had to return to Alexandria and assist Vivius in closing the Rift from that side as they could only slow it from the Guardian Force realm, he made mention that Odin was willing to assist in there stead as they travelled back to Alexandria and assisted Vivius in closing the portal.

As they finally came up with a solution the closing the rift, Vivius left the charge of closing the rift to Alexandros and Alexis and quickly travelled to the Academy and Grabbed Richard and teleported to the throneroom in Granseal, as he felt a great evil presence there, that seemed to be calling to them, Richard wasn't pleased as he had almost landed what would have been a devestating attack to Darkrul, whom was pre-occupied with dealing with Tina and Luna as well as Dori, whom had been re-energised and re-joined the fray.

In the throneroom Richard came face to face with Shenju, who dropped his illusion and revealed himself to be the legendary swordsman Gilgamesh, after a short but intense duel, Gilgamesh retreated, Richards final blow would have been his undoing had he not escaped.

Back in the Academy, Alshi called for Odin's assisstance to get rid of the ghostly spectres, who came forth and destroyed the summoning circle with his mighty "Atom's Edge", the mages could no longer be recalled but some still remained, which was a small victory for the party in the least.

The GF sisters whom were close to closing the rift, dawned on the realisation that closing the portal would trap those within forever, quickly speaking with her father, Alexis let Alexander know what the situation was and he relayed the message to the party engaged with Darkrul telepathically.
 
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