The Midgar Kingdom (Eminence in Shadow RPG)

There are many locations within the World, such as the Midgar Kingdom (Where the Midgar royal family resides and {{user}}'s starting location. The Midgar Kingdom is powerful, home to many formidable dark knights.), Oriana Kingdom (A nation known as the "Country of Arts", named this due to their placed value on Artistic Talent. Meaning they do not care for status, as long as you have talent in the Arts.), The Lawless City (A city renowned for its infamous reputation as the global epicenter of criminal activity and vice, characterized by its sprawling slums where illicit and corrupt practices flourish with impunity.), and many more locations.

The Midgar Academy for Dark Knights, the most prestigious knight academy on the continent, which pulls talented students from both inside and outside of the Midgar Kingdom. The Midgar Academy is known as one of the top leading magic swordsman academies on the continent, where promising knights gather to hone their talents not only from Midgar Kingdom, but all over the world. In Midgar, all royalty and nobility must attend this academy as a formality. When the children of aristocrats with magical powers turn 18 years of age, they are obliged to enroll in the Academy when they begin to attend their education at a school in the royal capital for a period of 3 years. There are disparities depending on the status and ability of the family, and those with high status and ability can live near the school, while the students of lesser status live in dormitories off-campus. The Academy itself is a massive building that apparently shares their campus with the Midgar Academy of Science, where they conduct scientific research with item development-- such as train engines or artifact studies.

In World, there is a concept of Magical Power, but there is no concept of Magic such as releasing fire or water (At least not common knowledge). Magical Power is generally used as energy to strengthen the body and weapons, and healing exists, but is difficult. Magical Power can NOT be used for "Magic" such as telekinesis, only for physical strengthening. The presence or absence of Magical Power is determined by talent, but it is not uncommon to have Magical Power, and it is possible to develop Magical Power with effort. Fighting an opponent with Magical Power without Magical Power is a clear difference and can be called suicidal. For this reason, although there are several schools of martial arts, they can be won by a forceful push with stronger Magical Power, meaning pure fighting techniques have not been refined. The nature of Magical Power is to dissipate uncontrollably as soon as it leaves one's body, for this reason, an enormous amount of magic power and magical control beyond the norm would be required to unleash slashes of Magical Power. Magical Power can sometimes physically manifest itself depending on the user's skill, giving off colors and other visual depictions. People who can do this can create Special Techniques, what kind of power these possess depends on the one who creates the Special Technique. Special Techniques could be used as a substitute for the concept of 'Magic', however, there aren't many (or any at all) feats that can prove this (except for people at the top of the power scale). However, the quality far surpasses the quantity of an individual's Magical Power, precise control and compression of one's Magical Power surpasses its original limitations and amplifies it by up to 1,000x its original strength. Magical Power can also be used to run on surfaces the user otherwise couldn't, such as walls, moving trains, and even on water. Although there is no notion of 'Magic', there have been feats that can be possible with enough magic control (though, extremely unlikely, like 1% of world population unlikely), such as a magical power wave spread outwards that cures ghouls into being humans again, creating a large explosion out of magical power, and much more, possibly through the usage of Special Techniques. Some characters do seem to possess supernatural abilities that don't seem like they use Magical Power (such as flying by turning the body into a pseudo-gas state), but these abilities are only possessed due to certain circumstances (vampire curses, possibly). Notable Magical Power Shapes: Aura (A burst of Magical Power that usually comes off from an individual when they unleash a large amount of magical power). Notable Magical Power Techniques: Weapon Strengthening (One of the core uses of magical power used in the world. All types of materials exhibit conductivity with magical power. Conductivity, in the form of percentage. For example, Iron and Steel have a conductivity of 10%, while Mithril has a conductivity of 50%), Body Strengthening (The most basic form of using magical power in the world. With varying degrees of ability, magical power allows the human body to go beyond its normal limits and achieve amazing feats.)

Witchcraft or Magic is usually connected to ancient mystic knowledge, it has been lost to time (only held by special individuals), but is in modern times through artifacts. Magic boasts far greater power and versatility when compared to magical power. Any who can still use it are either thousands of years old or are monsters (such as a dragon, which are around 2% of the already miniscule monster population. Meaning they would be extremely hard to find.)

Bushin is the swordsmanship of Dark Knights, and is common everywhere. Bushin can be classified into two styles, Royal Bushin (A more refined swordsmanship style that incorporates more advanced techniques.), and Traditional Bushin (A swordsmanship style with basic movements, such as holding the sword to one shoulder and swinging it downwards.)

Bushin Festival is a massive biennial swordplay tournament hosted in Midgar Kingdom, where skilled fighters and dark knights from all over the world come to make a name for themselves. The Bushin Festival is an international tournament held at Midgar Kingdom that attracts fighters from other lands across the world that is held once every two years. Here the fighters display their skills and strength before the king and other powerful nobles attending as guests who watch how the fights will play out. Besides the local fighters, there are also famed renowned knights from around the world come to participate. Not only that, Midgar Academy for Dark Knights also especially has an obligation to send their representatives to the Bushin Festival by holding a qualifying preliminary through a Selection Tournament to determine a student that will represent the Academy. Apparently, the Bushin Festival superficially was for sport for all have different races, nationalities, and occupations as they nonetheless share a strange sense of unity and the common goal of wanting to enjoy the event. The winner is awarded a trophy. For the tournament, the fighters use dulled blades. The preliminary rounds have a bracket elimination style tournament, where only the leader of each group proceeds. The primary rounds are head-to-head elimination. Before the main festival, The Midgar Academy for Dark Knights has a special bracket to determine the students who will represent the school at the festival. During the festival, the fighters register at the reception. After registration the preliminaries begin. These matches take place in grassy fields outside the capital. They have very few spectators and the quality of the fights is low since they involve a large number of inexperienced fighters. From the third round, the fights are held in the arena in Midgar.

Equipment are primarily medieval weapons, such as swords, armor, spears, shields, crossbows, etc. However, the mana conductivity of an item is what matters in a fight. Magic Conductivity is the term used to describe the magical power loss of a certain material, for example, a 10% conductivity would mean it would lose 90% of the energy imbued into it, meaning it is ineffective against materials with a higher conductivity. Magical Power does seem to help with conductivity, such as a 50% conductivity sword in the hands of a low energy user still being weak against a 10% conductivity sword in the hands of a user with overwhelming energy, however, most of the time this isn't the case.

Artifacts are items that were created by ancient magical civilizations. They have special effects that activate on certain conditions, such as a protective net artifact around the user. However, Artifacts are exceedingly rare, this meaning a normal person could never hope to find one in a market.

There are many races within the world, such as Primary (Most known): Therianthropes (They have a human-animal hybrid appearance, typically having a human body with animal ears, lot of fur and tails. They have a wide variety of different tribes. However, about 80% of them are people whose inherent abilities are their physical strength. Therianthropes have greater physical ability, sharper senses, better reflexes, higher amounts of magical power, longer life spans and higher fertility rates. Therianthropes typically have lower intelligence compared to humans, however, there are some tribes that boast greater intelligence such as the Fox tribe.), Elf (Elves are better at magical power and have a much longer lifespan than Humans and Therianthropes. Because their longer lifespan elves grow differently than humans do, some can be as tall as teenagers or smaller. This applies to family as well, where the older sibling may be shorter than the younger sibling(s). Elves have a society akin to that of humans, meaning that their countries are managed by an aristocracy and royal family. However, the race has a low population, meaning there are only a handful of Elven towns across the world.), and Human (Humans are much weaker than the Therianthropes and have much shorter lives than the Elf population. However, humans exceed both races in population numbers, making them far more common.). Secondary (Less known): Dark Elf (A close relative to the elves. Seeming to have the same benefits, although some members of this race have dark skin.), Vampires (A race with nearly eternal life. Although they can reproduce, they normally abstain. Hosting overwhelming magical energy and vitality, their flesh never decays. The majority of vampires have become extinct, leaving only a few survivors. They also have the ability to turn humans into Ghouls. Although they are nearly immortal, they have many weaknesses, such as the piercing of their heart, which cancels their immortality and healing, the consumption of blood being required for existence (Vampires who abstain from blood for extended periods eventually find themselves with strength hardly distinguishable from that of ordinary humans.), Sunlight proves fatal to vampires, reducing them to ash upon exposure, regardless of the vampire's strength, and a vulnerability to fire (although it doesn't hurt them as much, it does pain them)), Ghouls (Zombie-like vampires' familiars created by vampires. Ghouls are beings that were originally humans who were then turned into Vampire servants. They're classified as more powerful creatures than zombies, yet far from vampires which serve as lesser pawns. They appear to have lost their sense of reason entirely and only seek human flesh, to spread the curse that turned them into Ghouls. However, there is a cure. Ghouls possess low levels of invulnerability to conventional injury; allowing them to survive multiple slash wounds and even being dismembered.).

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