#esmp atlantis au

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Jimmy: The younger prince of Aquatis. He and Lizzie rule together, with his main focus on the logistics of the city’s food and transportation. Had it not sunk, he would have gone on to rule his own empire, but such times are long past. He is sickly, hatching from a damaged egg during one of the magical quakes that preceded aquatis’ final fall. Part of his sickness is likely due to the magical severing of Aquatis and the swamp empire, though there is no way to know for sure. Jimmy worries greatly for his people and has little hope for the magics of the empire that were lost in his childhood, though he will never say as much to Lizzie who has worked so hard to restore them. Though he speaks quite informally with everyone, he rarely removes his face coverings before anyone.

Lizzie: The elder queen of aquatis. Her main focus in ruling is the defense and re-study of Aquatian magics. She was old enough during the Great Disaster to have been developing her own magics and felt them ripped open when The Heart fell from reach. She spent her recovery helping her people- many of whom experienced similar magical damages- and setting up defenses for the city. A warrior by birth and necessity, she is distrusting of strangers, and quick to dispatch of threats to the empire. She is fiercely protective of her people and hopes to one day restore their memories and magics by finding the heart of the ocean. Unlike her brother, Lizzie does tend to speak formally, but is horrifyingly informal about her face coverings, often wearing them only in her role as a warrior rather than as a leader.

the crew | part 1 | sir strawberry

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INTRODUCING THE CREW!

Smajor: An accomplished doctor from high society, he is primarily a skilled surgeon, but is trained in a variety of medical fields. Often described as a bit cold by his patients, he is nonetheless a long time and valued member of the saints expedition teams.

Mythical: Sn expert in geography and wildlife with a lifetime of globetrotting experience. The older and estranged cousin of the twins, he met them after starting the Saints Expeditions and shortly invited them on. He and Pearl used to adventure together on occasion, exploring lost secrets and ancient ruins. He has a preternatural sense of danger and occasionally seems to know things he oughtn’t. Though he’s never asked Pearl what happened on her last expedition or why she retired, she thinks he may have an idea anyways.

Pearl: The wealthy patron of a dubiously legal band of explorers known as the Saints Expedition teams. She is an ex adventurer and a champion fencer and fighter. Though she herself cannot go, for mysterious and definitely-not-at-all-magical reasons, she often sends her teams on adventures around the globe searching for strange tales and stranger artifacts.

Pixlriffs: An archeologist and historian with a fascination in magics. He met Joel during their undergrad and they became friends through long study nights and early coffee cram sessions. When Joel found the Phantom Journal, he became fascinated to the point of obsession and has been trying to get funding for an expedition to find Aquatis since.

Joel: An expert in ancient architecture and longsuffering friend of pixlriffs’ “magic” theories. During his studies of ancient architecture, he found an old tome by some pretentious idiot called ‘Phantom’ with several architectural designs that didnt match with any known peoples or locations. Showing Pixlriffs did mean he had a partner to learn the language with so he could study the book more, but it did unfortunately mean he was subjected to literal years of his friend’s obsession with magics. Of course that doesnt mean he doesnt also want to find these lost buildings, no matter what the university’s stuffed shirts and coin counters say.

Katherine Elizabeth: A chef and semi retired bounty hunter. She joined the Aquatis expedition for an adventure. Katherine knows just about every flower there is to know and their uses. She carries a frankly alarming amount of seeds on her person along with a few of the ‘heads’ of her favorite bounties (they’re just masks). Though she has hundreds of bounties to her name, she now prefers peaceful resolutions in her ‘retirement’

Shelby: A communications expert with a mysterious tragic past. Since joining the Saints Expeditions, she’s created her own system of communication devices she calls ‘hounds’ which can be used to find and send encrypted limited communique to anyone in possession of one. She keeps trying to get Katherine to add mushrooms to the menu, but has yet to succeed.

Joey: An assassin and treasure hunter with an old legacy. Unbeknownst to the rst of the Saints Expeditions, his family once were priests at the elemental temples before the fall of Aquatis and the gradual decline of magic. They have spent several generations accumulating wealth and power- political and magical- in order to revive the temples. He has an uncanny knack with lizards and may or may not have a pet caiman depending who you ask.

Xornoth: An ex military combat specialist and tactician with a menacing grin. The secret child of a rich man’s affair, Xornoth was raised by their mother alone and joined the military as soon as they were able. After being discharged, they took up private contracting under various clients before being hired by Saints Expeditions.

part 1 | sir strawberry

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Though there are many guardians of Aquatis, the most terrifying of them is arguably Sir Strawberry. The ghostly visage of one of the leviathan guards, there is not a soul alive who knows how he passed or what sustains him. Only his fierce loyalty and devotion to the Ocean Empire and her people is unquestioned.

art by @quilldesignz

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Joel Smalish and Pixl Riffs are on an expedition to find the lost ocean empire of Aquatis, and they’re not alone. With them are the talented and eclectic members of the Saint’s Expedition - a collection of adventurers and treasure hunters. Perhaps they might even find the legendary city, following the Phantom’s Journal.

Or perhaps they’ll find nothing but their own watery graves like so many before them.

art by @quilldesignz

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Aquatis: the lost empire of the seas and the swamp. once magical and prosperous, there are tales of a massive disaster that sunk the heart of the ocean, and with its disappearance and the disappearance of the ocean empire, her sister swamp empire fell to ruin, seeming to dry up and vanish overnight. aquatis was rumored to be a place of great magics and powerful beings, but such things are dismissed as fantasy by modern scholars.

[quilldesignz]

I personally feel its important for everyone to know that aquatians are significantly taller than humans.

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how would yall feel if i handed off the atlantis au stuff to @quilldesignz cuz a) my blogs a mess and its easier to find there and b) my lifes a mess rn

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Huh you haven’t said anything about the Wither twin in your crew post? Uh is that for another post? Can you tell us about them?

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im a dumbass. thank you anon.

I added them to the main post, but here's a bit of elaboration:

Fwhip was raised by the twins' mother to take over her flower shop. He didnt mind it, but when the laundromaut next door exploded, he became fascinated with explosions. It was then that he really discovered his natural aptitude for tinkering, but it's actually kind of hard to uproot one's entire life to persue a new career when you don't know the first thing about the field.

Enter Geminitay, reluctant mechanical engineer, hopeful medical student, and his estranged twin! She helped him secure an apprenticeship and taught him what she knew about engineering and he taught her about plants and encouraged her to pursue her goal of becoming a doctor.

When they met Sausage and joined Saints Expeditions, they did so in hopes of getting enough money to pay Gem's tuition and keep Fwhip in redstone supplies for his mildly illegal engineering/demolitions lab behind their flower shop.

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good enough

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would anyone want to see the empires s1 x atlantis crossover ive been bothering my friends about?

[quilldesignz]

taking a quick break from the ESMP Atlantis AU to post a few variants of a fire genasi paladin of Olidammara

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EDIT: yall i forgot the twins.

Gem: An engineer by trade and doctor by choice with a messy family history. She ended up with her father in the divorce and was trained to be an engineer under him. Shortly after striking out on her own, she was unexpectedly reunited with her twin, who she learned actually did want to be an engineer, much to their mother's eternal chagrin. After struggling to secure a solid chance of official schooling, she decided to consider Sausage’s job offer for funding and signed on as an engineer. There she met Smajor who agreed to help train her in general medicine, albeit in a highly unusual setting

Fwhip: A demolitions expert and inventive engineer with more brains than sense and an explosive hobby. He lived with his mother after the divorce and when after years of working in her flower shop, he met his long estranged twin. More than happy to leave behind his old life, he joined Gem’s venture into dubiously legal adventuring as her barely graduated part-time engineer partner, and full-time explosives expert.

INTRODUCING THE CREW!

Smajor: An accomplished doctor from high society, he is primarily a skilled surgeon, but is trained in a variety of medical fields. Often described as a bit cold by his patients, he is nonetheless a long time and valued member of the saints expedition teams.

Mythical: Sn expert in geography and wildlife with a lifetime of globetrotting experience. The older and estranged cousin of the twins, he met them after starting the Saints Expeditions and shortly invited them on. He and Pearl used to adventure together on occasion, exploring lost secrets and ancient ruins. He has a preternatural sense of danger and occasionally seems to know things he oughtn’t. Though he’s never asked Pearl what happened on her last expedition or why she retired, she thinks he may have an idea anyways.

Pearl: The wealthy patron of a dubiously legal band of explorers known as the Saints Expedition teams. She is an ex adventurer and a champion fencer and fighter. Though she herself cannot go, for mysterious and definitely-not-at-all-magical reasons, she often sends her teams on adventures around the globe searching for strange tales and stranger artifacts.

Pixlriffs: An archeologist and historian with a fascination in magics. He met Joel during their undergrad and they became friends through long study nights and early coffee cram sessions. When Joel found the Phantom Journal, he became fascinated to the point of obsession and has been trying to get funding for an expedition to find Aquatis since.

Joel: An expert in ancient architecture and longsuffering friend of pixlriffs’ “magic” theories. During his studies of ancient architecture, he found an old tome by some pretentious idiot called ‘Phantom’ with several architectural designs that didnt match with any known peoples or locations. Showing Pixlriffs did mean he had a partner to learn the language with so he could study the book more, but it did unfortunately mean he was subjected to literal years of his friend’s obsession with magics. Of course that doesnt mean he doesnt also want to find these lost buildings, no matter what the university’s stuffed shirts and coin counters say.

Katherine Elizabeth: A chef and semi retired bounty hunter. She joined the Aquatis expedition for an adventure. Katherine knows just about every flower there is to know and their uses. She carries a frankly alarming amount of seeds on her person along with a few of the ‘heads’ of her favorite bounties (they’re just masks). Though she has hundreds of bounties to her name, she now prefers peaceful resolutions in her ‘retirement’

Shelby: A communications expert with a mysterious tragic past. Since joining the Saints Expeditions, she’s created her own system of communication devices she calls ‘hounds’ which can be used to find and send encrypted limited communique to anyone in possession of one. She keeps trying to get Katherine to add mushrooms to the menu, but has yet to succeed.

Joey: An assassin and treasure hunter with an old legacy. Unbeknownst to the rst of the Saints Expeditions, his family once were priests at the elemental temples before the fall of Aquatis and the gradual decline of magic. They have spent several generations accumulating wealth and power- political and magical- in order to revive the temples. He has an uncanny knack with lizards and may or may not have a pet caiman depending who you ask.

Xornoth: An ex military combat specialist and tactician with a menacing grin. The secret child of a rich man’s affair, Xornoth was raised by their mother alone and joined the military as soon as they were able. After being discharged, they took up private contracting under various clients before being hired by Saints Expeditions.

part 1 | sir strawberry