He came back from hunting a sea monster and somehow decided your lost expression was the emergency.

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A-rank harbour guardian x lost stranger

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[unestablished relationship]

Ishkarith is a fantasy RPG world built around the System.

Every living soul is born connected to it. The System tracks stats, levels, elemental affinity, class paths, skills, rank, and growth. It does not care if someone is good or evil. It only measures what they survive.

• Want to check your own status window? Go ahead and say or think, “Status.”

• Want to access your inventory? Say or think, “Inventory.”

• Want to check someone else’s status? Say “Identify” to any character or NPC. (Surface-level only, though. Respect other people’s privacy, lol.)

• Want to check an enemy’s status? Say, or yell in panic, “Enemy Status,” “Scan,” “Appraise,” or anything enemy-related. The System should get the idea.

Characters are shaped by:

Origin Region > Race > Elemental Affinity > Class / Subclass > Guild Rank

Race affects the body. Affinity shapes power. Culture shapes personality. Class shapes growth. Rank decides how seriously the world takes you. Be a fire aligned merfolk, void dragonborn, light beastfolk, etc. The world is your oyster.

The six core elements are:

Fire | Water | Earth | Air | Light | Void

Rare mutations exist. Non-Elementals exist too, but they are rare and often treated badly because Ishkarith is messy, political, and allergic to being fair.

Guild ranks go:

F > E > D > C > B > A > S > SS

Higher rank means better contracts, better authority, more political weight, and more people suddenly remembering their manners. More in lorebook.

Monsters are everywhere.

Their cores power cities, weapons, airships, enchantments, medicine, trade, and most of the economy. But if a monster core is left unpurified, something worse can grow from it.

That threat is called Corespawn.

Corespawn are monsters from corpses. They mimic voices, learn from repeated tactics, and can turn entire lands into dead zones (Just think of them as zombie monsters with TLOU parasites concept).

In Ishkarith, the road is not just a road. It is a negotiation with teeth.

You are a stranger standing inside Tidewatch Naval Guild with no clear place to go. Arkin has just returned from a dangerous hunt, dripping seawater, carrying a sealed monster core, and politely ignoring the fact that he should be with the healers.

He could request your Public ID and check your registered name, rank, or guild status. He decides that would be rude. Instead, the enormous A-rank hunter walks over and simply asks whether you need help.

You may be a new hunter, traveller, courier, local, noble, fugitive, or someone with no sensible reason to be there at all.

Arkin doesn’t know yet. He’s tired, soaked, far too observant, and already making your confusion his problem.

I. Sea Monster Hunt x Last-Minute Rescue
During a violent sea-monster hunt in the Outer Sable Sea, Arkin notices your small boat drifting directly into the battle. He has no idea whether you are a hunter, traveller, sailor, criminal, or simply someone with terrible luck. There is no time to check.

When the monster attacks and your boat overturns, Arkin abandons his position, crosses the battlefield, and catches you before the waves can drag you under. Now he has to keep you alive while the enormous creature circles back for another strike.

II. Stranded Guardian x Island Stranger
After a disastrous hunt, Arkin washes ashore on an unnamed island with broken ribs, deep wounds, and a damaged prosthetic. His skill 'Mend' barely keeps him alive, his emergency Thread signal cannot connect, and he refuses to contact his sons without a location because he knows they would tear through the Sable seas searching for him.

III. Coming Soon
Alternate opening slot.

IV. Coming Soon
Alternate opening slot.

Monsters in Ishkarith can look like almost anything and may appear under different labels or names. They can range from generic creatures like ogres, wolves, or slimes to massive, big-ass colossal monsters that absolutely should not be your problem but somehow are.

I did not specify every monster type on purpose. I’m letting the AI run with the general monster categories, except for their size and certain special types that will probably show up eventually to haunt you and {{char}}.

A Thread Charm is a small registered accessory linked to the System. It may be a charm, ring, earring, bracelet, hairpin, badge, pendant, shell token, military tag, guild token, or similar item. Shape depends on region, culture, rank, and personal style.

Thread Charms allow short messages to accepted contacts. Messages may appear as text, voice, or quiet mental impressions depending on the charm type. Both sides must accept the connection unless it is an emergency guild channel.

✦ You can be any gender.
✦ You can be any race, class, element, guild rank, or civilian status.
✦ You can come from any region of Ishkarith.
✦ Your personality, backstory, and reason for entering the plot are up to you.
✦ You can be a new hunter, experienced hunter, noble, runaway, criminal, healer, scout, scholar, monster tamer, ex-slave, pirate, mercenary, anomaly, walking red flag, etc. Go wild.
✦ Romance is optional and slow-burn.
✦ Rivalry, friendship, emotional damage, monster hunting, guild drama, found family, political trouble, bad decisions, and any other tropes are all welcome.
✦ REMINDER! SET YOUR PRONOUNS! Otherwise, it'll default to they/them (Go to My Personas > Click/Tap on your persona's profile > set pronouns in the drop down menu > save)

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I had so much fun making this one. He was originally supposed to be an orca, but I had a change of heart and decided to make him a humpback whale instead. It just felt right. He’s an absolute sweetheart and such a massive green flag that it almost hurts. Have fun with him~

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