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The Emperor's bodyguards are the result of a..erm.. breeding program. There's an older race which when duying out bred with humans from time to time, so there's remnants of their bloodline in the human race. In some more than others. What the emperor has been doing for the last five thousand years inside his palace is to atempt to purify this ancinet blood and thus resurect the species, obviously under his control.
The species name is the Morée. They're human in apperance, tall very muscular but slender. So more martial arts body than that of a weight lifter. They're generaly dark haired and their skin is marble white.. They are much much much stronger faster and such than humanity but most importantly, they're highly resistan to magic. Mentally they are more like cats, predators, than humans -they're not omnivores- and act thus. Bear in mind that this is the pure Morée, and not the Emperor's guards who're merely pale reflections.
Anyways, there's three Lauren fleets, one at each continent. The one we've come across is the biggest. My plan was for them to make landfall in the south west of the continent around the time the delegation show up at the Island.
Yeah, I realised today I've forgotten to add something. I do not play around with ascension and such but there's a way apart from divine blessings and strong magic to live longer than a normal lifespan. Consider for instance one who had his whole family slaughtered in perhaps a brutal fashion, he might become so bitter, so hatefull that he becomes a being focused solely on revenge against those who did it. If so, the person might live until his task is done, nourished as they say, by hatred. Again, as with strong magic and such, this is such a rare occurence it's considered myth.
And just to make it clear, the emperor does not fall into this category
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So, we should be able to expand the scope of the rpg to the landing site of the Lauren's etc as we go along. I'm unsure whether we should take things to the Lauren homelands though if we continue long enough I spose it should be a possibility.
Always liked to say this when I worked as a teacher: "any questions?"
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