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=Welcome Visitors=
SOF Designs is in the process of creating a new Second Life role-play sim for release in Spring of 2021. This website and the sim build are all still in process. You are welcome to join our [https://discord.gg/P9bAq63 Disord Group] or our Second Life Group to stay apprised of the development process and get sneak previews of the cultures, build, and upgrades to RPCSS.  Most community polls and group discussions will be held in Discord as it is an easier platform for discussion.

The Arcovian Citadel is a natural successor to our Comraich project and is in fact set in the same universe. 

<I>It is our intention is to create a low fantasy backdrop to dark political role-play. The world is a human-only fantasy world that is by design intended to be unique enough to encourage creative expression yet familiar enough to reduce the initial learning curve.  </i>

;Sim Premise
There are thirteen city-states on the Continent of Essealas which are in a constant state of shifting wars and alliances. Approximately 300 years ago, a guild out of Arcovia gained control of the most advanced form of communication the land had ever seen -- messenger birds that would unerringly and intelligently deliver messages over long distances.  How they do this so quickly and how they are bred and trained is a mystery known only to the guild masters of the Arcovian Citadel.

The Citadel holds a monopoly on the birds and all messages. Communication can only be sent to and from a Citadel guildmember.  Consequently, the small councils of each city-state keep a team of agents in Arcovia itself, hoping that messages are not unscrupulously interfered with.

;The Guild
''A blend of the Maesters of Game of Thrones, the Spacing Guild of Dune and the Inquisition.

{Insert RP Description: Information brokers as well as the world’s scholars, scientists, and physicians. Birds only travel from a city-state to the guild city and back, never between city-states. The city is a multicultural city set on a mountain. The guild is highly conservative and enforces laws against “human corruption”. The Guild is not played by players, instead will be part of the admin’s ability to insert interesting quirks into the main plotline.} 

The guild is a strictly conservative guild that enforces its laws against information theft, intimidation, promiscuity, graft, and drugs. For the most part, these laws are only enforceable within the city limits. However, as they are the information traders of the entire world, they have a broad reach and the ability to bring pressure to bear when they choose to act. 

Of course, the entire premise of the sim sets the player in this city where the only way to survive and gain the information their home cities need is to bribe, manipulate, seduce, steal and intimidate.

; Agents
Players play as agents to the small council of their city-state. Players will choose from one of 12 city-states.  The agents will use [[RPCSS]] and the information gleaned from players to wage political, martial, and financial war on their neighbors.  
*The small council itself and the rulers are NPCs that live in their native city-state.

; Character Backstory
The ideal character is a lesser member of a noble house, wealthy merchant house, politically savvy guild, clan or military structure from one of the twelve city-states. 

*However, you can not play any leader of said structure, as those leaders would not, themselves, be in The Citadel. Obviously, no royalty or equivalent is acceptable.
*While not all of the city-states have nobility, those that do have at least 200-300 different noble houses and it is perfectly acceptable for someone to play a number of a noble house. But be careful about high title in public for, <I>“It's never a good idea to reveal one's rank and title in Arcovia, as it simply attracts derision, disbelief, kidnappers, hangers-on, and those with a hand forever stuck out.”</i>

; Applications
We are currently hoping to reduce or eliminate the application process.  The Comraich application process was far too complicated and time-consuming for both players and staff.  We hope that the new fiction which is inherently more adaptable to cultural shifts will eliminate the need for race/kingdom/city-state/culture gatekeeping. 

=Recently Added=
* [[History]]
* [[Slaves]]
* [[Human]]
* [[Foundlings]]
* [[Rusavik ]]

=Under Development=
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