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We’re excited to announce that Wightwold is now open! You can find us at WIGHTWOLD.NET; we can’t wait to see you there! As a small note, our combat system is not yet operational, but will be available soon after we’ve implemented some final coding.

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP on Jcink Premium, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world.

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Pictured: Pooka, dream adder, grimalkin, lesser bogswallow, seerjack

In our introductory post about wights, we mentioned that their species are roughly divided into three categories — minor, middling, and major — based on the danger they pose to humans. Here’s an expanded preview of the minor category, which are frequently encountered across Foundermeer.

Minor wights are typically small in size. They pose little direct danger to adults, though they may be a significant threat to children, and in some cases cause adult mortality indirectly. Most are not a physical match for humans; even civilians may occasionally kill them, though with difficulty.

More about each species beneath the cut:

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Site Artwork

Wightwold features a fully illustrated bestiary, herbarium, armory, and apothecarium featuring monsters that characters can encounter in the world of Foundermeer, strange Otherworldly herbs and elixirs to collect, and antique weapons ranging from rapier to arquebus. All artwork has been created exclusively for the site to support our character progression system.

You can view more artwork in our artwork tag!

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP coming to Jcink Premium on September 27, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world. DISCORD // TAG

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We’re excited to announce that Wightwold will open on September 27! Over the next week we’ll continue to post previews, including more peeks at our artwork and progression system. If you’re new and interested in reading a little about the site, these pages will provide a quick overview: setting, Ginterghasts, and wights. The information tag will additionally give you more in-depth information that we’ll be adding to in the coming days.

If you’d like to get started meeting fellow members, reserving claims, and asking questions about the site, you can join us on our Discord server; alternatively, feel free to send us an ask!

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP coming soon to Jcink Premium, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world. DISCORD // TAG

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Ginterghast classes

In our earlier post introducing Ginterghasts, we mentioned that they fall into two different classes based on their preferred fighting tactics. Here’s a more detailed overview of each class:

Vespertine

Vespertines are Ginterghasts who fight using physical weaponry, ranging from scarred, hulking broadsword-wielders, to nimble rapier fighters, to dauntless gunslingers who take down their opponents from afar with ornate, old-fashioned crossbows and pistols. They are better liked and regarded as more heroic than phylacters; not only do they battle using methods the public can understand, they tend to have more charismatic personas than their often sickly and secretive peers. Charlotte Ginterghast, the first vespertine, is viewed as a savior by the Foundermeerish people. Most Ginterghasts become vespertines, since doing so does not require an education in the alchemical arts.

Phylacter

Unlike vespertines, who are able to launch into battle at a moment’s notice, phylacters must carefully brew their elixirs before each fight. Prepared, they are a terrifying sight to behold on the battlefield; caught unaware, they are nearly helpless. The strange, volatile compounds they unleash upon their enemies and consume to enhance their own abilities take a terrible toll on their health, leaving them drawn, shaking, and vulnerable to attack after extended use. Though phylacters are not innately more sinister than vespertines, Aldous Ginterghast’s dark legacy has irreparably tainted their image, and they are often received with mistrust. Most phylacters had prior experience with alchemy before becoming wight-marked.

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP coming soon to Jcink Premium, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world. DISCORD // TAG

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Wights

“Though it resembled in many ways a wolf, it was not a natural creature: its eyes effulged with an eerie light, even hours after death, though slowly dimming. As soon as the scalpel touched it, it was observed to come alive again on the dissection table, and maimed two men before being dispatched by one of those uncanny hunters who call themselves Ginterghasts; he had sat in the back of the audience in a long dark coat, observing. Had he not attended, it is likely we would have all met our end in that hall…” - 1586, A Scientific Account

Wights are eldritch monsters that creep into Foundermeer through rifts between this world and the Otherworld. Here they are the foremost threat to human life, entrapping the nation in a claustrophobic pall of dread and superstition where civilians fearfully bolt their doors and shutter their windows by nightfall. Wights are sensitive to sunlight, swiftly moving water, and cold iron, and their species are roughly divided into three categories - minor, middling, and major - based on the danger they pose to humans. Ginterghasts hunt these creatures for a living, and may also bind them as familiars: unsettling companions who fight alongside them in battle.

Wightwold features a fully illustrated bestiary of monsters that player characters can encounter. Here’s a sneak peek:

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP coming soon to Jcink Premium, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world. DISCORD // TAG

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Setting

Year of Our Lord 1720

“May God spare us from the forest, from the mist and the wild moor, from the monsters that howl in the dark. And may God spare us from those who hunt them.” - A Foundermeerish prayer

A flock of eyeless ravens roosting in the dead tree near the churchyard. A pale face watching from the rafters of a barn. Strange lights, blooming in the mist.

These are common sights in Foundermeer, an isolated nation where people lock their doors and shutter their windows by nightfall, fearful of the shadows — for eldritch creatures called wights emerge after sundown, terrorizing the countryside by dark. Wights are so dangerous to ordinary folk that they are hunted only by Ginterghasts, strange traveling outcasts who are said to be part wight themselves. Foundermeer’s society is otherwise similar to eighteenth century Europe, with the addition of alchemy. Powered by Otherworld herbs and organs harvested from wights, alchemy is the nation’s proudest scientific achievement; however, its prevalence in society has led to a thriving black market trade in monster parts. 

Wightwold is an original dark fantasy RP coming soon to Jcink Premium, featuring Witcher-like monster hunters in a haunting, folklore-inspired autumnal world. DISCORD // TAG

[jesikaos]

I needed a pick-me-up, so here’s a heaping pile of self-indulgence with my three favs @paragon-interrupt @hellodirigibles

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“I can’t believe One-eye took down that shack. He knows we use it when we pass through.“ 

Soibhan slammed the door shut behind her, closing them all in a thick, not unpleasant darkness. It was comforting after wandering the roads looking for a place to rest long after the dubious safety of the sun had vanished. 

“Mr. Tucker—” Hiero said, with careful emphasis, “—had fresh lumber stacked there. It’s just our bad luck we stopped by when we did, and I’m sure next time we will have a much cozier shack to uh, shack up in." 

Will snorted as he removed his soaked overcoat and hung it from the hook jutting out of the low ceiling, one they’d placed there last time just for that purpose. The garment dripped steadily in front of the cold fireplace, but the water would disappear soon after the fire was started. 

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♯ GHRYS FOR ASK MEME

If you have never seen two grown men tangled, uncomfortably, unwittingly, with one another on an antique and moth-eaten couch, let me assure you, it is not pleasant sight.  All bony elbows and mouth breathing, occasional light snoring from at least one party - it’s almost grotesque.  Unless, of course, you are into that sort of thing.

You twisted individual.  This is for you.

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[dylans-obrien]

[dinosaurcountry]

Looks like you’ve reached the last stop train headed West. Well, we suggest you swing by the saloon and kick up your feet, but if you’re headed to the next town, you better get to work. Best start by finding a scaly beastie. You’re going to need a couple of two-ton friends on your hitching post if you want to cut it out here, in Dinosaur Country.

Dinosaur Country is a no word count alternate history RP with writer-friendly game mechanics. Join us for our grand opening today!

[spaceportfloozy]

“you shouldn’t like that character because they’re a terrible person”

look my guy i pulled this character right out of the dumpster fair and square and i’m keeping him

[maycrown]

Alias: Maggie

Timezone: EST

Favorite Types of Characters to Play: Eccentric characters with distinctive flaws, who tend to have extreme reactions to a variety of situations and people.

What kind of plots are you most excited to try? I love odd couples (not necessarily romantic couples—just relationships between starkly contrasting characters with a lot of potential for conflict/tension) and pushing characters far outside their comfort zones. Drama. Humor. Torment!!

The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly? Ugly :)

GPOY Gif:

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Red Hand Gang

The original Red Hand Gang was founded by Norma “Red Hand” Jackson, nicknamed for her habit of getting ‘caught red-handed’ then shooting her way back to freedom. They rose to infamy about five years ago, but nobody has seen or heard from Red Hand Jackson in over a year. Nobody is sure if she is retired, in hiding, or dead.

Her original crew has since splintered and spread across the west. Some new gangs have even formed up just around the name “Red Hand Gang” and the fear that it strikes. They all continue to leave their trademark sign at their crimes, a red handprint, in paint, dirt, or even blood. There is a vague sense of comradery between the different chapters of the gang, and many members travel between local gangs if they need to split town, and can generally count on gang members for protection, even if they have never met. They’ll accept any into their own if they trust the person enough, and recently that has meant a lot of plague survivors that can’t find honest work elsewhere.

Different chapters dabble in different sorts of crime, depending on the makeup of the members. Rustling, theft, destruction of property, extortion, kidnapping, holdups, shootouts, and even murder. With their vast network, the Red Hand Gang has potential for organized crime, but most of their activity seems to be driven by local bands or leadership.

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Fossil Creek

Your new Home away from Home!

Set amid the red rock of the White River valley lies the frontier town of Fossil Creek. For a generation its farms and homesteads have stood, built up by folks from far and wide, and shared with those who have been here all along. At the heart of the town sits a bustling and well-established main street, shops and tradesmen aplenty, and more arriving by the day. Some seek the freedom of the railroad, while others pray for a cure in the famous calcium-rich waters that flow through Fossil Creek.

Fossil Creek proudly owes its name to the calcium rich waters of the White River, so potent that when logs were floated downstream to build up the town, they all but fossilized from the minerals, creating its bone-white buildings, a stark contrast against the green of the crops and the vivid red rock of the river valley.  In the springtime bright yellow flowers bloom along the river banks, and in the winter, a light dusting of snow covers the farms and fields.

For the past thirty years, settlers have lived in and farmed this region, growing with it and having children of their own. Before them, there were the Homesteaders, a city of people native to this land, whose name in the common tongue means “home”. They too saw the benefits of this valley, and built their pueblos up on the cliffs surrounding it, creating an elaborate multi story city of houses from the red dirt, calcified white logs supporting their roofs and driving away the hot desert sun. They work openly with the settlers, selling and trading goods, growing crops, and raising livestock.

Now there are the new settlers. Word of the potential protection from the plague offered by the high calcium in the river spread and visitors to the area grew and grew until Fossil Creek became the next stop on the country’s brand new railway. The saloon is bustling, and equally so the church located right across the street as a reminder. New shops crop up nearly every day now offering what seems to be every service imaginable and more.

[charlesfrxavier]

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