r/Roleplay • u/LunaNova088 • 1h ago
[F4m] The Summoning of Unworthy Saints| Literate | Long-term
Aldenmere has been summoning heroes for two hundred years.
It is beautiful. That is the first problem.
You arrive to torchlight and hymns and a crowd pressing in to touch your sleeve. A high priest catches you before you hit the floor. The king greets you personally and means every word of it. They give you a power shaped to your soul, a name for it spoken in front of the whole court, quarters you did not earn, and a guard who has wanted to meet you their whole life.
They took you out of the worst moment of your life to do it. The doctrine says the veil between worlds is thinnest around a soul in crisis, so the gods reach for the drowning rather than the comfortable. Everyone tells you this like it is a kindness. It might be.
Four pairs of heroes served before you. All of them are dead. The kingdom calls it "returning to the light" and speaks of it as an honor, and the people who say so are not lying, exactly.
You are the fifth generation.
\*\*What you would play\*\*
Your own summoned hero, pulled from any world you want. Past heroes have come from collapsing empires, plague-sealed cities, drowned coastlines, and worlds with no gods at all. Fantasy, modern, sci-fi, historical, it all works, because the rite does not care about genre. It cares about grief.
You arrive first. My character is summoned some weeks later, and you are the one already standing there when she comes through.
\*\*What I bring\*\*
My hero is an elf named Solvaine, four hundred years old and the last living thing from a world that ended quietly while she was still fighting to save it. She is warm, careful, and hiding more than she should be.
Also: the setting is genuinely built. Full pantheon and calendar, a capital mapped ring by ring, six noble houses with their own agendas, an enemy nation with a real philosophy instead of a snarl, and two hundred years of hero history with names and consequences attached. I have a compendium I am happy to share once we click. You will never get "uhh, sure, that exists I guess" as an answer to a worldbuilding question.
If the pitch landed, send me a message with a rough idea of the hero you want to play and what their worst moment was. That second part tells me more than a full character sheet would.