Order of the Ninjette notes
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jadelyntateSo...I've been thinking of doing a Ninjette fic, with the seven we know of playing major/minor parts.
Basically, it would be the set-up to them creating a new Ninjette Order, with Dulcea guiding it from the old way to this new one. As I ALWAYS do, Kim would be the main character (I write her so much because she's the one I know the best to write--she's the only one I'm confident I'm not too OOC in writing).
My notes on the Order are below the cut.
There are two paths Ninjette take in the order, that of a Warrior and that of a magic user, or mage; among these are different tiers or power, both physically, mystically, and politically. The highest member of the Order is the High Priestess, who presides over everyone else—she's the head.
Just below the High Priestess is the Master Warrior and the High Magus. The Master Warrior presides over all those of the Warrior cloth, the physical Ninjette. She and hers are the protector sof the Order, and, when needed, the planets of the Alliance. They are strictly forbidden from fighting internal political squabbles on the planets the Temples preside on, such as civil wars or coups, but if an outside force attacks, they can fight on behalf of the planet. They are also encouraged to train fighters on the planets they preside on, often acting as the military trainers for the governments.
The mages use magic based on the four elements of fire, nature, air, and water. The High Magus is a Ninjette mage who can control all four, much like the avatar in A:TLA. While the power of the animals plays an integral part of the Ninjette lifestyle, the elemental magic is more important for the casting of the mages. Like warriors, they are forbidden from helping in internal struggles of the planets they live on but are able to help if outside forces attack the planet as a whole. They often act as the teachers of the local populace, teaching basic necessities of life. They can also train mages they feel have potential, even if the magic user is not Ninjette.
On off-world temples, the head is known as the (insert planet name) Priestess. Below her are lord/lady magus, those of high elemental powers. Warriors in these temples are known as Protectors and are led by the Lord/Lady (insert planet name) Protector . On the few planets that do not have an actual temple but have ninjette who have chosen to live there (mostly this being Ninjette who wishes to return to his or her home to protect them), they're known as Defenders. There is a Lord/Lady Defender for each galaxy/empire that they defer to.
The Temple of Eltar, for example, goes like this:
Eltar Priestess Zandra of the Dove
Lord Fire Magus Elsren of the Salamander/Lord Nature Magus Nealan of the Fox/Lady Air Magus Iola of the Robin/Lady Water Magus Delilah of the Crab/Lord Eltarian Protector Landon of the Badger
Protectors of Eltar/Mages of Eltar
On Phaedoes, at the Great Temple, the Warriors are known as Sentinels and are led by a Lady/Lord Sentinel. However, at the Great Temple, there are also Knights of the Order, basically an intergalactic peace group of fighters, who are also skilled at magic—they're the few who do not technically belong to either Warrior or Mage paths. Phaedos is their base planet and they are led by the Champion Knight. At Phaedos, they are directly below the Master Warrior and High Magus, but if, for example, a Knight were to travel to Eltar, he or she would be more or less equal to Eltar Priestess Zandra of the Dove. The Lord and Lady Magus' would have to defer to them. However, the Champion Knight, would be above even the Eltar Priestess, able to take control of the Temple for whatever reason he/she had traveled to Eltar in the first place. On Phaedoes, however, the Knights are equal to the Lady/Lord Magus' and the Lady Sentinel.
The Great Temple of Phaedoes hierarchy looks like this:
High Priestess Crane (Kimberly)
Master Warrior Dulcea of the Snowy Owl/High Magus Ninjor of the Eagle
Champion Knight Phelan of the Panther (former Phantom Ranger)
Lady Sentinel Sabri of the Scorpian/Lord Fire Magus Wyldon of the Ram/Lord Nature Magus Belden of the Stag/Lady Air Magus Alycone of the Nightingale/Lord Water Magus Roland of the Shark/Knights of the Order
Sentinels of Phaedos/Mages of Phaedos
Training Ninjette (Dedicates/Squires/Pages/Acolytes/Initiates/Pledges)
The training for the Ninjette starts at an early age, at least to those from Earth—Pledges are those of eleven years of age who travel to Phaedos to train in the ways of both the Warrior Ninjette and the Mage Ninjette. This ensures that warriors will have the basic understanding of magic and the mages will know the basis of how to fight if it comes to it. After two years as a Pledge, they spend a year as an Initiate, taking more specialized classes/tests to determine if they are more suited towards being a warrior, a mage, or a knight. After their Initiate year, they either leave the Order altogether or pledge to one of the three, thus becoming either Pages (Warriors), Acolytes (Mages), or Squires (Knights). For another three and a half years they train in their more specialized areas until they reach the autumn equinox, in which they begin six months of intense meditation, training, and soul-searching. On the Spring Equinox, they go through the Ceremony of the Night and are introduced to their animal spirits, thus becoming full-fledged Ninjette. They are eighteen or going on eighteen by this time.
The Destruction of the Old Order happened during the Great War, and since then, the Ninjette Order had all but died out. Dulcea & Ninjor draft Kimberly and Scorpina, now free of evil and back to her old persona, Sabri, to help rebuild it on the orders of the High Animal Spirits. It is them who insist that Kimberly be High Priestess, something she detests—she maintains it should be Dulcea or Ninjor.
It is extremely slow-going in rebuilding, as they are trying to return to a way of life that has been dead for millenia. However, once the Alliance learns of their efforts and who's spear-heading it all, people start coming to Phaedos, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The first and most important thing they decide to do is to rebuild the Temple itself, though on a different site, in deference to those who died protecting the original structure.
For several years this goes on, until a small city had sprung up a few miles from the location of the Temple. Most are refugees or those looking to make a life in the shadow of the rebuilding, those who believe strongly in the Ninjette Order's place in the Universe. By the time the other Earth rangers learn about it, the Temple itself is almost finished and the first batch of trainees (sixteen in total) are about to become Dedicates.
So...what do you all think? Am I completely insane?
Basically, it would be the set-up to them creating a new Ninjette Order, with Dulcea guiding it from the old way to this new one. As I ALWAYS do, Kim would be the main character (I write her so much because she's the one I know the best to write--she's the only one I'm confident I'm not too OOC in writing).
My notes on the Order are below the cut.
There are two paths Ninjette take in the order, that of a Warrior and that of a magic user, or mage; among these are different tiers or power, both physically, mystically, and politically. The highest member of the Order is the High Priestess, who presides over everyone else—she's the head.
Just below the High Priestess is the Master Warrior and the High Magus. The Master Warrior presides over all those of the Warrior cloth, the physical Ninjette. She and hers are the protector sof the Order, and, when needed, the planets of the Alliance. They are strictly forbidden from fighting internal political squabbles on the planets the Temples preside on, such as civil wars or coups, but if an outside force attacks, they can fight on behalf of the planet. They are also encouraged to train fighters on the planets they preside on, often acting as the military trainers for the governments.
The mages use magic based on the four elements of fire, nature, air, and water. The High Magus is a Ninjette mage who can control all four, much like the avatar in A:TLA. While the power of the animals plays an integral part of the Ninjette lifestyle, the elemental magic is more important for the casting of the mages. Like warriors, they are forbidden from helping in internal struggles of the planets they live on but are able to help if outside forces attack the planet as a whole. They often act as the teachers of the local populace, teaching basic necessities of life. They can also train mages they feel have potential, even if the magic user is not Ninjette.
On off-world temples, the head is known as the (insert planet name) Priestess. Below her are lord/lady magus, those of high elemental powers. Warriors in these temples are known as Protectors and are led by the Lord/Lady (insert planet name) Protector . On the few planets that do not have an actual temple but have ninjette who have chosen to live there (mostly this being Ninjette who wishes to return to his or her home to protect them), they're known as Defenders. There is a Lord/Lady Defender for each galaxy/empire that they defer to.
The Temple of Eltar, for example, goes like this:
Lord Fire Magus Elsren of the Salamander/Lord Nature Magus Nealan of the Fox/Lady Air Magus Iola of the Robin/Lady Water Magus Delilah of the Crab/Lord Eltarian Protector Landon of the Badger
Protectors of Eltar/Mages of Eltar
On Phaedoes, at the Great Temple, the Warriors are known as Sentinels and are led by a Lady/Lord Sentinel. However, at the Great Temple, there are also Knights of the Order, basically an intergalactic peace group of fighters, who are also skilled at magic—they're the few who do not technically belong to either Warrior or Mage paths. Phaedos is their base planet and they are led by the Champion Knight. At Phaedos, they are directly below the Master Warrior and High Magus, but if, for example, a Knight were to travel to Eltar, he or she would be more or less equal to Eltar Priestess Zandra of the Dove. The Lord and Lady Magus' would have to defer to them. However, the Champion Knight, would be above even the Eltar Priestess, able to take control of the Temple for whatever reason he/she had traveled to Eltar in the first place. On Phaedoes, however, the Knights are equal to the Lady/Lord Magus' and the Lady Sentinel.
The Great Temple of Phaedoes hierarchy looks like this:
Master Warrior Dulcea of the Snowy Owl/High Magus Ninjor of the Eagle
Champion Knight Phelan of the Panther (former Phantom Ranger)
Lady Sentinel Sabri of the Scorpian/Lord Fire Magus Wyldon of the Ram/Lord Nature Magus Belden of the Stag/Lady Air Magus Alycone of the Nightingale/Lord Water Magus Roland of the Shark/Knights of the Order
Sentinels of Phaedos/Mages of Phaedos
Training Ninjette (Dedicates/Squires/Pages/Acolytes/Initiates/Pledges)
The training for the Ninjette starts at an early age, at least to those from Earth—Pledges are those of eleven years of age who travel to Phaedos to train in the ways of both the Warrior Ninjette and the Mage Ninjette. This ensures that warriors will have the basic understanding of magic and the mages will know the basis of how to fight if it comes to it. After two years as a Pledge, they spend a year as an Initiate, taking more specialized classes/tests to determine if they are more suited towards being a warrior, a mage, or a knight. After their Initiate year, they either leave the Order altogether or pledge to one of the three, thus becoming either Pages (Warriors), Acolytes (Mages), or Squires (Knights). For another three and a half years they train in their more specialized areas until they reach the autumn equinox, in which they begin six months of intense meditation, training, and soul-searching. On the Spring Equinox, they go through the Ceremony of the Night and are introduced to their animal spirits, thus becoming full-fledged Ninjette. They are eighteen or going on eighteen by this time.
The Destruction of the Old Order happened during the Great War, and since then, the Ninjette Order had all but died out. Dulcea & Ninjor draft Kimberly and Scorpina, now free of evil and back to her old persona, Sabri, to help rebuild it on the orders of the High Animal Spirits. It is them who insist that Kimberly be High Priestess, something she detests—she maintains it should be Dulcea or Ninjor.
It is extremely slow-going in rebuilding, as they are trying to return to a way of life that has been dead for millenia. However, once the Alliance learns of their efforts and who's spear-heading it all, people start coming to Phaedos, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The first and most important thing they decide to do is to rebuild the Temple itself, though on a different site, in deference to those who died protecting the original structure.
For several years this goes on, until a small city had sprung up a few miles from the location of the Temple. Most are refugees or those looking to make a life in the shadow of the rebuilding, those who believe strongly in the Ninjette Order's place in the Universe. By the time the other Earth rangers learn about it, the Temple itself is almost finished and the first batch of trainees (sixteen in total) are about to become Dedicates.
So...what do you all think? Am I completely insane?