The Ivory Consortium
Balmung
NA Based Free Company
Lavender Beds, ward 9 Plot 36
About us
Affectionately nicknamed a 'Home for Wayward Degenerates,' the Ivory Consortium provides room, board, a salary, well as protection, for a number of disgraced albeit highly skilled professionals in exchange for the dedication of their craft to the advancement of the group. Their contributions range from dubious research and periodic assassinations to providing moral guidance and questionably "charitable" giving. Fundamentally a criminal organization, the Consortium cleans profits from these activities through the hosting of social events.OOC, the Ivory Consortium is a tightly knit free company which fluctuates thematically between dark and comical themes. We realize this is a small niche! Our group is largely a criminal enterprise with supernatural and horror elements that sometimes organizes community events.While the Consortium's members generally do believe they are doing right, their moral compasses are often askew. That being said, characters of most moral alignments might find a home here provided they are willing to do questionable work for what they believe to be good reasons, and a portion of our core members are good aligned.We love to collaborate with other groups for storylines or events! Please send a DM to @apptookmyname on Discord if you're interested!
Recruitment Information
We want to create a small and tightly knit group with meaningful relationships.
Our characters rely on each other, and all characters are important. For this reason, we need to selectively curate membership to ensure applicants are a good fit! To be able to provide the level of attention and involvement we would like to each member, we must remain small.All of us are responsible for producing our own content.
We seek proactive players who enjoy taking initiative in producing their own roleplay. Characters who seek out others, work well in groups, and care about their companions should fit in well. Our community has a very hands-off approach to RP, and the experience would likely be a difficult one for players who hesitate to reach out.Allies are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
While our community includes allies, the relation anyone has to a potential ally is only one factor for consideration. Anyone's admittance to the community should not be construed as a back door for their significant other to be granted automatic entry to the community. Please note that we do not recruit allies as we do usual members, and the role is intended for people we already know!A final note on character traits!
Our characters may do terrible things for what they believe to be worthy reasons. They are flawed and their actions may not outwardly seem justifiable, but they maintain strong bonds to each other. Dark themes tend to be popular with loner characters or others who do not work well with others. Sociopaths, avoidant characters, and other characters who would have difficulty forming connections to others (and would like to remain that way!) likely would not thrive in our environment due to difficulty forming the values that bind our group.
Rules and Policies
We strive to cultivate a low-conflict and considerate atmosphere.
Treating others with respect is important to us. We hope to maintain a supportive community of players who enjoy building positive experiences with each other, and expect members to manage conflicts as they arise responsibly and with discretion. While everybody has difficult days, we encourage anyone who feels ongoing negativity to consider stepping back to tend to their needs.Being considerate includes being mindful about where the spotlight might be.
It's good to consider about what an RP event is about, and if it is focused on a particular player or players, to allow them their moment in the spotlight! Everyone has their time to shine, and we look for players who are comfortable supporting each other while the story is focused on others. It's said that a fun RP partner isn't one that sees themselves as the protagonist, but the protagonist's best friend!Delicate topics should be approached with care.
While there are no banned topics, we understand some topics can elicit strong emotional responses. Accordingly, we ask all members and allies who discuss such topics to accept any differences in views respectfully.We are not especially concerned with lore.
To call the lore of XIV incredibly broad and at times even inconsistent is putting it lightly. This is a universe where reality-altering robots exist, but also one where it seems like most people don't have reliable access to running water. Suffice to say, there is a lot of wiggle room to work with. There will be concepts well within the lore that will be too much for our group, as well as ones outside the lore that are completely workable.While we are flexible in allowing players to make creative choices at their discretion for the sake of writing a compelling story, we place a high value on more muted backgrounds.Our group heavily favors main characters over alts.
While alts are fun to play, our experience has been that they are frequently inactive and seldom participate without hooks extended to them. This places other players in a difficult position where their efforts in creating content are often not reciprocated, can contribute to burnout from players who feel as though they rarely move beyond unsatisfying introductory RP, and can complicate or delay plot advancement. To maintain the level of involvement we aim for, we are very selective with alts.We hope to grow a community of adults IC and OOC.
We are adults with professional and personal obligations, and would like to enjoy the game with similar players. Our membership is predominantly aged 30+. We only accept both characters and players aged 21+, and strongly favor characters beyond early adulthood.Players always have agency to change their character's behavior, but we ask they be mindful not to meta game.
We encourage players to write their characters in a way that suits their OOC needs, and believe that characters should be flexible enough that their players are not restricted from finding enjoyment in playing them. We encourage players to create reasons for their characters to get involved, and ask players to be to mindful of the divide between OOC and IC knowledge.We look for strong writers!
Our members are best immersed in writing that displays a strong grasp of the English language! Some of us could likely write sonnets in theirs sleep, while others enjoy a more direct, less poetic writing style. While there is variation between our stylistic choices, and while everyone makes occasional mistakes, our group best matches with players who have a strong command of the written word.Characters with a limited scope of power are interesting!
We believe that what makes a character interesting is entirely independent of that character's abilities and power level, which is why we are a low-power group. Often times, the more 'wow' factor a character has, the fewer opportunities there are to explore the complexities of that character.We believe that what makes players want to RP with each other is how they feel when they write together, and that people generally enjoy feeling good about their RP. Being able to produce that feeling for someone is far from easy, and ultimately unrelated to a character's power level or abilities.We aim to be realistic-leaning.
Our power levels are relatively low. We seek to emulate a level of scaling closer to real life than anime and similar media. For example, a single player who is outnumbered, even by lesser fighters, will likely lose that encounter. Our characters are exceptionally gifted in their own ways, but are also meant to have tangible limitations.We hope that by regulating character utility to moderate to low levels, we can stress the importance of teamwork and prevent the mentality that any particular character has the capacity to be the unilateral solution to all or even most obstacles.Our group is not oriented toward sexual themes.
We are aware that themes which include criminality and dark subjects can be open to an interpretation with sexual undertones. While we are all adults, there are no sexual themes to our storylines. Courtesans, escorts and characters whose identity is similarly inherently intertwined with sexual themes may be better suited to another group!We do not use a formal disciplinary process, such as strikes or warnings.
Anything that needs to be addressed will be on a case-by-case basis. First and foremost, we are a friend group, and while we get along well with plenty of people, we also have the sensibility to realize when a relationship is not working out. Ultimately, if someone is stressful for us to be around, the best approach for our group likely will be to amicably part ways.We are always open to collaborations!
While we may not always be able to work together on every project, we enjoy working together to make RP! Whether co-hosting public events or intertwining storylines, please DM Livia#7728 if you're interested!
Applying
Our application can be found hereIf the company is presently recruiting, the leadership will reach out for an OOC conversation to discuss their character and expectations. The Ivory Consortium implements a trial membership period to weigh a potential member's fit into the community. Please contact Livia#7728 if you have any questions or if you have not heard back about your application! While we try to check regularly, there may be times where we miss the application. Please don't be intimidated to reach out, we're a very relaxed group!
Members
Founders
Livia Crane - Andora CabotH'Ikarus Ammond - Charlant Bastoix -Lorelei Harper - Jamaivaux Morelle-Dejavaux Morelle - Ahtzarael Ryssahctwyn - Soliare Renault - Theo Kisne - Tang Moon
Livia Crane
The Faceless woman
35 Years of age
An amicable, yet chaotic Vylbrand native, Livia specializes in putting an end to people. There are few who can surpass her in armed combat, and some rumors circulate that the woman bartered away fragments of herself for the promise of outlasting her opponents. The daughter of two prominent conjurers but lacking any talent in the art herself, she disappeared for near two decades before resurfacing in Eorzea as a sharp, unsettling, yet simultaneously bizarrely friendly presence. An incredibly private individual, very few persons know more about her beyond the shallow pool of useless trivia she shares.Possessing both a cunning mind and shameless nature, Livia acts as the ringleader of the group, and is suited to managing the organization's general operations, distributing assignments, and ensuring the more clandestine needs of the group are satisfied.carrd profile
Sister Andora Cabot
The Priest
37 Years of age
A soft spoken ordained priest serving the Holy See, Andora was born to a somewhat prestigious line of Temple Knights. A woman of diminutive stature, both physically weak and chronically ill, the midlander pursued a different path than most of her line and joined the clergy. Sister Cabot has come to an arrangement with Livia for their mutual benefit, the details of which remain undisclosed.Andora is functionally the right hand of the organization, and in exchange for her support, the organization aids in periodic assignments issued to the Priest by the Halonic Orthodox Church. Her peaceful and polite demeanor often serve her well in negotiating matters of a social nature. While Sister Cabot can often be found on the grounds, none are permitted a private audience with her.carrd profile
Lorelei Harper
The Soothsayer
29 Years of age
Of the stony peaks of antediluvian Gyr Abania, this soft spoken, fortune-telling highlander spreads words of Fate to any who would listen. Lorelei spends her days and nights searching for the interconnectivity between all things, including herself, as she is unable to predict her own personal path unless it is directly tied to others. The messages are found within the stars, revealed by her talent to interoperate their meaning through Astrology Cards. This has guided her toward her partnership with H’ikarus Tia, her loyalty toward Livia Crane, and her marriage to Jamaivaux Morrelle.Lorelei serves the Consortium as its Soothsayer, using her gift of foresight to read the cards for signs of impending fate. Her readings are used as critical counsel for significant decisions within the organization. She can often be found within the Consortium's Astronomy tower, cataloguing stars and heavenly bodies.carrd profile
H'Ikarus Ammond
The Artificer
30 years of age
A somewhat taciturn tactician with a penchant for munitions, this Miqo'te finds his fingers in many different metaphorical pies. Prototyping new arms and armor and securing the premise occupies most of his days, and the workshop hums with his automatons. But if one were to catch the man on his less strict days, the Miqo'te can be seen carpfishing and cooking; his blood still steeped in Gigantoad traditions.Karu's experience is put to use on behalf of the Consortium as it's resident engineer, and he singlehandedly manages the estate's security and mechanical projects.
Ahtzarael Ryssahctwyn
The Sociable safecracker
A glittering, glamorous, genial career criminal who has been stranded in Eorzea after a recent shipwreck. She'd like to use this opportunity for a fresh start in a new place to become a better person, but old habits die hard when you've only ever known one way to make a living (it's crime)."
Dejavaux Morelle
The Crimson
35 years of age
Dejavaux is, upon first inspection, a typical, rather stoic and imperious knight of Ishgard. After all he experienced, for the first time he is truly seeing the world beyond Ishgard. He learns more of what life has to offer in the days after the Dragonsong War with each passing moment. Ever aspiring to nobility and the teachings of Halone, he is faithful to his companions and death to his foes.carrd profile
Charlant Bastoix
The ambassador
35 Years of Age
A selectively motivated, alchemical thaumaturge who sees his inebriating tinctures and tactics as invigorating solutions to convoluted problems.carrd profile
Tang Moon
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33 Years of Age
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Theo Kisne
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Age Unknown
A cheerful and chatty viera with a fragmented shadow of a past and the scars to hint it. He carries himself with confidence on and off the battlefield, his sun-colored gaze always turned towards the horizon, eager for each new day of his new life.carrd profile
Soliare Renault
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Jamaivaux Morrelle
The poet monk
30 Years of age
Born of Ishgard, Jamaivaux wandered south, earning coin in both mercenary groups and the Maelstrom before founding a small adventuring company called the Crystal Coeurls with his companions. He takes great pride in his training as a monk, passed down to him from a wandering master who yet roams the world. Eventually, his fate crossed paths with that of the Ivory, and his love for Lorelei Harper resulted in their marriage and an inseparable bond betwixt the Ishgardian and the Consortium. The duskwight often has a piercing gaze, and refuses to weigh in on matters regarding a person's character until he has spoken with Lorelei.Acting as both counsel and agent, he spends much of his time on the estate grounds reading, maintaining his training, or providing perspective and support to those of the Ivory that need it.carrd profile