Dragons & Demons (OOC)

The land of Serphyre had seen it's worst years in recorded history. After a dark cult of necromancers heard of a dark prophecy telling of a great demon and the rapture they broke into the grand library of central city and a plague was unleashed causing famine and death across the country while they set about their evil plot. The king was helpless to stop them as most of his troops had been sent to protect the five great cities from dragons. In the ensuing chaos people were rallied with and against the king causing war to break out between the opposing cultists and the pure followers of the king. The situation had only been made worse as dragons had caught wind of the chaos and begun to descend on the great cities in hopes of stealing treasure and wreaking havoc on the people they hated.

It was ensured by the cultists that within this mess the most of impure spells was cast, problems arose and the spell was indeed cast but not by a human as the prophecy foretold and instead the tainted' dragoness he'd slain. A vengeful spirit, she wove his and her souls together, causing him to become unstable and sent him on a rampage with her silver tongue. This man soon became the primary suspect of the recent killings in west city where all places of knowledge and people of specific interest were being targeted wit no specific pattern. With no spare troops the king threw a hefty price on his head to gather the number of recently out of work adventures, who came from far and wide to hunt the man and bring him to justice so that they may be made royalty.

The chase was ill fated for the mysterious man who was revealed to be the revered dragon slayer Gale No'gard, Driven to the point of madness by the vengeful spirit he had turned on his own men and the order of dragon slayers itself. He was at last caught only after he had succeeded in reviving the evil dragoness know as Deathfire to the humans and while the man claimed she had shown him the error of his ways and preached of a coming rapture only the dragons could avert the elders sooner decided he was beyond insane and locked away for treason and consorting with dragons with a life sentence. Years later the dark cult struck back and the now broken holy sword that Gale had carried was tainted, christened dark fissure by the cult's acolytes and hidden away for the rising of their dark master.

Rumours abound of those who would free Gale and of dragons in the sky keeping an all too watchful eye on the humanoids.

This is your not-so-average fantasy adventure gone a little wrong. There are many types of magic and such which I'll list below with the skeleton but first the factions.

The cultists hold the north and east great cities while the king holds the south city, chaos has spread in central city as raiders run amok the battlefields while the neutral west city and the hamlets surrounding it closed their doors to most. Many people have flocked to west city and become trapped turning it from a grand place to live to the most drudgery slums in the land.

Basics
Name:
Age:
Faction: (Ether Pure; cultist; neutral or chaotic)
Race: this includes your average fantasy races.
Magic: If your a magic user put the type of magic from the relevant schools, you get to know two from the beginning. If you don't use magic put +willpower to get a physical bost (To even the playing field). If you are a pure follower of the king you may only know magic from the light school and spirit, this is the same for cultists, the dark school and spirit school. For everyone else it's free to use whatever combination of schools you want.
History:

Optional stuff
Weapon:
Equipment: (Not the same as weapons)

Magic
There are various schools of magic.

Light
Healing (Also includes resurrection if your powerful enough and the receiver is pure)
Buff (+ defence/health etc)
Holy might (attacks)

Dark
necromancy (includes raise dead if your powerful enough and the corpses are tainted)
Curse (opposites of buffs)
Unholy might (dark magic)

Elemental (basic attacking spells)
Pure mana (Magic missiles etc... has no pro or con)
Fire (against energy +attack, against water -attack)
Water (against fire +attack, against energy -attack)
energy (against water +attack, against fire -attack)

Spirit magic
Spirit walk (Allows you to leave your physical form for a time.)
True sight (Allows you to nearby beings and see cloaked people.)
Soul bind (Allows you to bind your soul to a blood stone to act as a form of resurrection, otherwise it only preserves your soul until someone else revives you)

Alchemy
The act of breaking down and reforming material as seen fit, you can't turn one thing into another however and can't make something out of nothing unless you posses a blood stone to use as material. A special transmutation circle is required to direct the energy used in the process correctly and for more advanced transmutations. (Please excuse my lack of original terminology)

Notes start here

Blood stones
Remarkable as they are rare these crimson gems have not been seen in years with the last one rumoured to have been eaten by a hydra when it was lost at sea. They take the life force of beings for later use in transmutation and other magic that requires more material or energy than what is at hand.

Dragon pact
A special kind of magic spell only usable by dragons. While most humans and their and cousin races go through long times of courtship dragons instead make a pact with their partner to be and perform a powerful spell that binds their souls together indefinitely, allowing them to communicate on a deeper level and even share their life force. it is rumoured the energy of the act rivals that of thousands of hours of life but scientists have never witness it themselves in all of recorded history.

Anyone at all interested?