The peace that formerly reigned in Terra Nova has eroded, now little more than a memory. War ravages the continent. Disputes divide kingdoms; ideals divide families. The quest for power consumes absolutely and indiscriminately. None are immune to its allure.
Who will rise and who will fall? Only time—and ambition—will tell.
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05.26.2023
2 month character creation hold for all existing members begins 6/5/2023. Ended 8/5/2023.
10.29.2023
Change in how times flows. Was 4 IC seasons, now only 2 IC seasons per 1 OOC year.
5 whole years of Heir Apparent goodness! When I started the site, I knew I was hunkering down for the long haul, but I never could have predicted the numerous twists and turns this roleplay site has seen. Hundreds of plots, characters, and members have come and gone, all leaving marks on the site. I am so very thankful for those who have invested. Because you keep coming back, keep getting on, and keep writing, Heir Apparent has the legacy it does today. Three cheers to us!
Ring of Charisma - This ring will give the wearer when twisted around three times a boost of confidence and listeners to be compelled to believe and trust her.
The Mirror of Sight- will be able to locate and see where a person is doing, by say their full name.
Holding the letter in the hand, she knew she has to lay low, thankfully she been doing a very good job at laying low and not being spotted. She asked her maid to look after Trixie at home as she has to go somewhere and she thought she will less noticeable if she was to go to the school without a child in her arms.She got into her carriage and make sure that they go to school, no pit stops, nothing.
When she arrived she stepped out wearin a clock pulling a hod up so notice can see who going into the school. She made her way to the place Helena asked her to meet. When she arrived she was a couple minutes early but it is always better to have her waiting then Helena waiting. plus the woman said don't be late, nothing about being early..
When Helena arrived, she gave a small bow of the head. "Marchioness Kane." She got to know that she isn't one for the formalities.
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 9, 2024 15:21:25 GMT -5
It had been a while since anyone had actually asked Helena for a training session. The Kane forces didn't ever bother with it. They had been training one another, veterans to the younger generations, for centuries. It was relatively rare for an outsider to ask for their assistance. Granted, Annabeth hadn't specifically requested a Kane, but since she'd managed to get herself so deeply entangled with the family that it seemed only natural that they be the ones to help train her in combat.
After all, there were few better suited for war, and fighting than the ancient house of Kane.
Helena was already there, having been overseeing some potential plans for expanding the school. When the younger woman arrived, she would move to go and greet her. Greet her in her own very Helena way of course. The elder would present her with none of the common curtsy, and politeness which was common practice among the upper echelons of society.
"So. Here you are." The elder spoke plainly. "I trust that you're ready."
Last Edit: Jun 9, 2024 15:23:10 GMT -5 by Helena Kane
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Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 10, 2024 9:54:10 GMT -5
At this point Annabeth was used to Helena's bluntness it didn't face her at all. She learned that she takes these words in and respects what they say because she can't trust her own judgment. "I am alive." that was the honest truth, nothing more can be said about how else she was feeling cause how could one feel in these times, when everybody watching every fibre in your body, just waiting for you to mess up again.
She took her cloak off so she doesn't trip over it and placed it to one side. "Yes, I am ready." Plain and simple.
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 10, 2024 15:39:13 GMT -5
Helena had no intention of getting her hands dirty, not yet at least. She raised an eyebrow, as she watched Annabeth. "Have you ever even held a weapon before?" Trust the Kanes to view many of the their countrymen as being amateurs, as if they might be the only people within the kingdom who knew how to fight. There would be no attempts to give her a weapon, until she had answered the question. The family had been practicing warfare for so long that they had had time to come pretty close to perfecting it, at least in their minds.
"If we do this. We do it properly. None of those fancy tricks for display. This will be something that you will use to save your life, or that of someone close to you." The elder spoke firmly, delivering her statement as both a warning, and a caution.
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Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 10, 2024 16:10:14 GMT -5
Annabeth understood the question about if she ever held a weapon before because if you don't know how to handle it, you can hurt yourself and other people you don't attend to. "My ex-husband taught me a little bit of a sword but he preferred to teach me hand-to-hand defensive moves. He also taught me a lot of how to use a dagger." She explained.
"I would only this to protect myself or my family. I don't know any fancy tricks." She explained.
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 11, 2024 15:07:54 GMT -5
Helena knew a bit of Annabeth's former husband. She'd made the effort to inform herself, when Scout had first spoken of marrying a Porter. They weren't a family that the Kanes had ever thought of very highly. Little had changed in that regard... Annabeth had been part of the deal though, when they welcomed Astor into their ranks. Whilst he might have been gone, the oath still remained, and so here they were. She'd proven to have at least some more worth than the rest of her family with her recent actions, and so the elder was willing to spent some time on her. "Well, then I guess we shall see just how proficient he was, or at the very least, now good a teacher he was."
In the corner of the courtyard, Annebeth would find a rack with all sorts of weapons, ranging from polearms, to swords of various sizes, and weights, axes, hammers, clubs, and daggers. "Pick something that you're comfortable with, and we'll get started." Helena ordered.
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Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 11, 2024 15:47:36 GMT -5
In Annabeth's eyes, he was a good teacher, but she know she had nothing to compare his teaching to. A part of her wants to defend her ex, however, she knows she isn't in the best place to say anything cause if he is the best why did she cheat? When Helena tells her to pick something she is comfortable with, she doesn't know what she is comfortable with. She doesn't want to be comfortable with any weapons.
She looked at the selection of different sizes and weights, surprised that there were loads of weapons that she could choose from. However, she knows she has to pick something cause Helena gives her an order and she knows she doesn't like waiting. In the end Annabeth went with a standard dagger. It was standard, and possible nothing surprising to a lot of people, she have held a danger she was trained with it the most, thankfully she never had to use it in real life. however she trained with it often and she carries one with her most days.
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 13, 2024 3:13:51 GMT -5
There were a few curious looks given towards Annabeth as she approached the rack, keen to see just what exactly she would chose to wield. Helena was silently relieved that Annabeth didn't decide to be bold, and pick up a much heavier woman. There were plenty of much bigger, and larger men who couldn't wield them properly. At the very least, it showed a certain amount of sensible judgement. That was as good a start as they could reasonably hope for.
For the time being at least, Helena would choose not to pick up a weapon. There was little point, and with her stubborn hip the way that it was, the elder deemed it more cautious to wait before pushing things any further. From a distance, the matriarch of the Kane family quickly accessed the weapon that had been chosen. Like a dictionary, she was easily able to identify it, and think over the appropriate strategies and tactics to be used. "Show me what you know how to do." Helena would step back, expecting to be given a demonstration of whatever she'd been taught. They would build on that, or tear it all down and start again if it were bad enough.
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Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 13, 2024 4:57:25 GMT -5
Annabeth was able to handle a shortsword, Castiel wanted to make sure that she can at least know how to hold it and use a shortsword a little bit. However that was only if she could get to one short of thing. The dagger in the hand was not her dagger, the weight felt different. When Helena told her to show her what to do, she thought for a moment, she normally have a dummy or a sparring partner.Having none of them felt od, she just thought for a moment.
However, she take a breathand started showing what she can do with a dagger, nothing fancy, but can see what Castiel taught her was just defensive moves. Just enough to disarm her attacker and give her a chance to run away. No attacking moves, just defence. After a moment she stopped as she looked towards Helena. "That is i can do."
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 15, 2024 1:39:16 GMT -5
Helena would purposefully step back - enough to ensure that she wasn't within range of a careless strike at any rate - and watch from afar. No training dummies had been put out to remove as much potential for injury as was humanly possible. More than once, the elder had seen someone lunge at an inanimate object, only to trap their blade within it, or somehow manage to wound themselves in the process. Fighting and imaginary opponent in the air was more than enough of a challenge for the time being.
Well trained, and experienced eyes would study every single one of the movements that Annabeth made, quickly identifying them as belonging purely to some basic defense moves. She let Annabeth continue her little demonstration. Her face would betray none of what she was thinking. Finally, when she was confident that the younger woman was done, the elder would speak: "Well, we had better hope that you don't actually need to use any of that." Helena took a few steps closer. She would move to tap the other's feet with the end of her stick. "There's no point holding a blade, unless you move your feet."
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Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 15, 2024 4:56:55 GMT -5
Her feet, she looked down at them, "It feels a bit odd for me to swish a dagger at thin air." It was true the dagger was only about 7 inches long, it wasn't a long dagger possibly the length of her forearm. "I am so used to a sparing partner or a dummy that I'm just not used to aiming at the air. So I not sure how to use my feet."
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 16, 2024 2:27:16 GMT -5
Helena would frown upon hearing Annabeth's explanation for her footwork, or lack thereof. The old woman made no secret of her disapproval: "I know many a teacher who won't so much as hand their students a weapon, even a wooden one, until they had mastered their footwork. The method produces some of the finest fencers in all of the kingdoms."
She thought things over for a few moments, wondering how best it would be to phrase things so that Annabeth would understand. "When we train to fight. We first must train ourselves to know how to handle a weapon, before you know how to fight a foe. You repeat movements again, again, and again, until they become as natural as breathing. Then, you can fight properly. Of course, it takes both time, and patience"
Ring of Charisma - This ring will give the wearer when twisted around three times a boost of confidence and listeners to be compelled to believe and trust her.
The Mirror of Sight- will be able to locate and see where a person is doing, by say their full name.
Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 16, 2024 2:59:52 GMT -5
Annabeth stood there as she listen this was the same thing Castiel told her over and over again. "That is what my ex explained to me." So she already knew that. there wasn't anything new that Helena added that she didn't already know. She takes a deep breath "Marchioness Kane, i know at the moment i haven't shown much for you to trust me again. However right now if I am to be able to learn how to handle myself if anybody attacks me, I would like if you at least belive in me. if i know people don't believe in me then how can i belive in me that i can do it. A person with low self-esteem is a danger to themself if they hold a weapon?" She asked
Post by Helena Kane on Jun 20, 2024 15:27:11 GMT -5
Helena had been about to speak, and continue with some explanations and tips when Annabeth began on one of her rambles. At this point, the elder was more than accustomed to them. So she let the woman go on, and did genuinely listen to what it was that she had to say. When she was quite confident that she was done, the marichioness would answer: "Well only if you decide to put yourself out of your misery." Was her response to her concerns about someone with low self-esteem using a weapon. "So far you haven't given me many reasons not to trust you other than your ineptitude, and if I worried about such things I would never leave my house for fear of being run over by a carriage." Now, Helena placed both of her hands on the pommel of her cane and leaned forwards. "Are you going to spend the rest of the day complaining about the state of your existence, or are you actually going to do something about it?"
Ring of Charisma - This ring will give the wearer when twisted around three times a boost of confidence and listeners to be compelled to believe and trust her.
The Mirror of Sight- will be able to locate and see where a person is doing, by say their full name.
Post by Annabeth Porter on Jun 20, 2024 15:54:18 GMT -5
Annabeth have been trying to get passed her misery, Annabeth just looked straightforward as Helena spook. She came here to train to not be scared. Though she know she means more then doing this jon that she asked her to do with her self-worth and stop being sad. When she asked if she going to carry on complaining about her life or do something about it, she thought for a moment. "I will stop complaining about the state of my existence." She eplained.