The Stones Of Power

Saraf laid on her hands and knees, as the whips tore into her back, forming bleeding red patterns in her skin. She cried out in agony with each lashing, each one ripping harder and harder as her punisher got more and more infuriated. Still though, naked, and bleeding, and in more pain than most could remain conscious through, she held strong, and she said nothing of what he demanded.
The man grabbed her by the chin, and twisted her head around to look at him. Her face was dirty and coated in sweat, both dry and fresh.
He spoke slowly and with disgust, "Where is the Diamond of the Mind?"
She had been asked this question many times throughout this horrible night, and had responded in the same way, silence. She was asked where the jewel could be found after each set of ten lashings. She had lost count somewhere in the sixties, when she began loosing consciousness momentarily, and then regained it with the next lash. Her back was at that point basically an open wound. She had been asked many times since this as well, and still had remained silent.
This time she responded differently, she looked up at him and did a most peculiar thing, she began to laugh. The startled the man, and he let go of her chin. She then spit into his left eye. He wiped his eye, and his face grew as red as blood. He began shaking, and then threw the whip at the wall.
"Have her killed!" He screamed, and briskly made his way out of the room.

The man we glanced at a moment ago is Overlord Lanar. He has ruled the land for around 300 years, no one can be sure how long he has held power, because he has banned the keeping of time. Time is known now only as morning and night, there is no sundials, there is no calendar. There is nothing that you can tell time by. You can be sure someone out there knows how long he has held power, someone who, along with the three or four generations behind them, has been keeping secret records of can be sure there is someone, it's just that, that someone would never tell.
Overlord Lanar as we've seen is not a nice fellow. He kills entire families, sometimes entire villages for defiance. It is rumored that he once wiped out an entire nation with his army of demons.
And that's another thing. Something that had yet to be mentioned, yet, as all things are, will eventually come out in the wash. the Overlord holds 11 of the 12 Stones of Power. He is only missing one, and that is the Diamond of the Mind. He had tortured and killed 11 of the Guardians to gain their Stone. No one knows the true power of the Stones, except of course the Guardians them self.
Little is actually known about the Stones, except their names. Overlord Lanar was the only person in the world that knew who all 12 of the Guardians are, and it took it many years to seek each of them out. After the first Guardian was captured and killed, and his Stone taken, the remaining 11 in essence made themselves vanish. They went into hiding, hoping to keep the other stones safe. 300 years though, is plenty of time to find 11 people, and find them he did.
Now that all 12 of the Guardians have been killed though, something that Overlord Lanar could never have predicted happened. Something so very strange, and unexpected, that it could shift the power of the world.

A man ran into Lanar's chambers, sweating, and obviously in a downright panic. "Overlord Lanar mi' Lord, they're disappearing."
Overlord Lanar was lounging and being fed fruit as this man barged in.
"What?!? What are disappearing? Veeshis state your business!" He had gone into a panic, not knowing what was going on, and not being entirely in control of an obviously horrible situation.
"The Stones sir, all 11 of them, one by one, they are disappearing mi' Lord."
Lanar stopped dead in his tracks, and his heart skipped many beats. He didn't move for a few seconds and then snapped out of his stone-like temporary coma.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE DISAPPEARING?!?" He screamed at the top of his lungs. If Veeshis had ever heard a scream like this in his life, it may not have surprised him so, but it did. It knocked his almost off his feat.
He began to stutter, "We d-d-don't kn-n-now sir-r. They'r-r-re j-j-just fa-ading away-y."
Overlord Lanar began at full sprint to run out of his chambers. It was almost sort of comical, knowing how out-of-character he seemed at that moment. He ran like a schoolboy that had just learned that someone stole his carton of Ice Cream.
The Overlord ran until he reached the lab. Or so we would have called it now. It was a testing chamber at the time. He had the best minds of the world in that room, trying to learn more about the stones, and possibly unlock previously hidden powers. They had been working under him ever since he got the first stone, the Bloodstone of Death, and had yet to find anything, but Lanar insisted that they keep working. And when the first batch died of old age, he simply hired more.
That is another small detail that has not been brought up yet, but as you may have figured, Overlord Lanar is immortal, and remains young forever. He has not aged a day ever since he received the first Stone. It had been decided that it must be the Stone that kept him forever young.
When he reached the room, sweat dripping down his cheeks, he was only in time to see the 11th stone disappear. It was actually quite a sight. The pearly white of the stone suddenly because translucent, and then it began to tremble, and looked as though it was becoming nothing but a hologram, although Overlord Lanar knew nothing of holograms. Nothing of the such even existed in this reality. It then hovered for a moment, and then there was a quick flash of very white light, and it suddenly vanished.
Overlord Lanar did something he hadn't done in years, he dropped to his knees and began to cry.

Now let me tell you what has happened. After the 12th Guardian was killed, something happened that hadn't ever happened in the history of the Stones. The Stones did not have Guardians. 11 of the Stones were currently controlled by a man who had no care to guard the Stones, or use their powers to help the people, as they were meant to do. This is what the ancients had envisioned. They did not consider that the Stones would fall into the wrong hands.
But back to the point, after there were no more Guardians, the Stones activated an ancient magic inside themselves, and passed themselves on to another generation of Guardians. The Stones will choose 12 people who will become the new Guardians of the stones.
If Overlord Lanar had managed to receive the 12th stone before Saraf was killed, none of this would happen. It was the 12th Stone that ruined his 300 years of work. It was the one that started the ancient magic.
Lanar had made a possibly fatal mistake, and had brought on another Age of Guardians.
Will these new Guardians simply hide in the way that the previous age had, or will they bring upon a war with Lanar?
This is up to you.

If you haven't figured it out yet, you will control one of the 12 new Guardians.
I will also need someone to control Overlord Lanar. This will have to be a skilled Roleplayer, as it won't be an easy task, and for a long time you won't be interacting with the other players, and it will be simply you plotting your plan of action more than anything.

Now before we can start I must tell you all 12 stones, and what their powers will do. The story goes that the Stone chooses the person, but you will choose your own stone, it just makes things more simple.

Two of the stones you already know about, but don't know the full extent of their power. You won't know the full extent of their power, because to some degree, you will make it up. The Stone is yours to discover. I will give you a brief idea of what it's powers may do, but you as a player will have to create the powers yourself. Of course have digression. The magic obviously can't be too powerful, or it doesn't make things fun for everyone.

Bloodstone of Death- Manipulates things related to death.

Diamond of the Mind- Allows the holder to have mind abilities.

Emerald of Earth- Manipulates earth and plants.

Sapphire of Air- Manipulates air.

Ruby of Heat- Manipulates heat.

Tourmaline of Illusion- Allows the holder to create illusions.

Spinel of Freeze- Manipulates ice and water.

Garnet of Darkness- Manipulates darkness.

Alexandrite of Light- Manipulates light.

Crysoberyl of Sound- Manipulates sound.

Opal of Metal- Manipulates metal.

Topaz of Energy- Manipulates energy.

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