Okay, this is a completely seat-of-the-pants effort at starting some cross-genre fantasy character RP/storytelling going. I came up with the title in the spur of the moment and what I'm about to write I haven't thought about before, bar a few of the ideas on the Polynesian theme I'd mentioned in another thread...

Humans have lived on the world of Henua for thousands of years, since the first of the ancient Atua, the ancestor gods, drifted across the great ocean of stars. Once they lived in island communities, but now many of these have joined into the great churning steam metropolises of the East, chief amongst which is Nefunuku - the hill of mist - ruled over by the secretive and heretical Tangata (bird-man) cult.

But the humans have never been alone and have lived alongside and fought against many other races across the millennia - most notably the sea-warrior Alfir whose fear-inducing dragonships raid from warring kingdoms across the isles of Midgard; the usually peaceful Lucharacháin, whose monasteries across the mountains and forests of the islands of Tír na hÓige are dedicated to a strange God of contradictions, both one and many, dead and alive; and the secretive, bird-like Tengu with their strict codes of honour and their deadly assassins.

A delicate balance exists between the races, but no balance can hold steady for ever.

So, basically, this is a mixed-fantasy world with, as yet, no map, which gives us the freedom to worldbuild as we go. The races listed above (semi-steampunk Polynesian Humans, the old-norse-viking-elf Alfir, the Irish-celtic-christian-dwarf Lucharacháin and the Japanese-samurai/ninja Tengu) are not exhaustive. Feel free to make your own with your choice of (ideally real-world) language and culture. There's also no reason why you couldn't be a half-breed of some kind or one race brought up in the culture of another.

We will each create a character with the intent to start them in or around Nefunuku to begin with (another reason not to worry about a map), but rather than RP traditionally, I'd like us to try storytelling more collaboratively, with us each writing a scene or section of a scene from our character's perspective, but including other player characters if appropriate. Another nice touch is to give your character a hexcode colour and all dialogue can be written that way. I'll attach a very old RP in the TSPRP Discord server for you to see what that looks like in practice. It does work - you just have to be considerate and get to know the other writers.

Now, my character:

Name: Laki
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 24
Colour: #009966
Description: Tall and slender, but wiry. Brown hair with naturally golden highlights. Simple, black family tattoos cross his arms and back.
Bio: Laki has spent his life on a small, one-village island outside of the influence of the metropolises, farming shellfish on the deep slopes that surround his sea mount home and as such he's an excellent swimmer and intelligent, if uncultured by the standards of the cities. He has come to Nefunuku to seek answers to a mystery he's not yet ready to discuss.

Please be brave!

P.S. feel free to use google translate or other resources for names, etc. We don't have to be accurate - it's about flavour.

P.P.S. In case it's not abundantly clear - this is a world of islands, just like our beloved South Pacific Ocean - but sizes and types will vary, as suggested above.

P.P.P.S. Also, on the topic of flavour - I've been deliberately vague about the races I've described - there could be more subversive elements to them. The dragonships might actually be mechanical dragons! They might fly!?