outofsticks | A NEW YEAR, A FORGOTTEN YOU

Once upon a time, in the continent of Ostorn, there was a town called Haven. After a deadly plague had ravaged the lands, a man decided to strike out and pave a new trade route to cities barred by a lack of roads and an abundance of natural blockades...

Welcome to the first past life plotting post of 2025! Sticks and Bones is a setting where player characters are the reincarnations of previous residents of the town that Aldric founded within the woods as a midway stop between cities on his new trade route. The continent of Ostorn and the world of Sticks and Bones is a magical land inspired by the Tales of series, among other games. Below in the comments are some explanations, locations and pre-existing NPCs who can be referenced!

Players with dropped characters are encouraged to include their dropped characters if only for potential backstory purposes for others, but it is not a requirement.

While we don't want to restrict things a lot, we must ask you keep the following in mind!

Although this is a magical setting where plant-animals and beasts like the Guardians exist, characters must be human in their past life, with few exceptions. Please speak to the mods if you feel something else is better for your character.
The level of technology was a bit skewed, but largely it was very basic electricity that just... happened to be magic. Light bulbs, the magic of indoor plumbing.
Speaking of magic, while there are forms of magic such as enchantment and standard RPG mechanics, the Celestial magic that's been included in the game plot is not open to characters in their past lives.
You are more than welcome to include new locations or expand on current ones, though if it is noted to reach out to a specific player about it, please do that. Ostorn is a large continent, and there is an even bigger world out there.
The Goddesses are known, but very distantly as ancient history. Religion depends on the region, but Guardians, being demigod animals, are frequent objects of worship.
Your past life should not be a 1:1 parallel to your current life! Things change, situations change, and the new reincarnations got off very badly actually.

When you're ready, please use this form and then tag out!

Name: it u
Place of Birth: where u from
Reasons for Joining the Grove: why u here
History: whahappun (also how did u die)
Role: what u doin
Looking for: what are you most interested in having for your past life cr?
Wants and Wishes: anything else!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Gnosis Edelweiss

Place of Birth: Gnosis is from somewhere overseas, remember in summer where the land beyond the sea came up... he's Nebulously That Way.

Reasons for Joining the Grove: His folks showed up here with him as a Youth™. It was one of the first ships out here before the civilization really kickstarted, and he grew up with the Grove itself.

History: Little Gnosis was very much introverted and disinterested in the things everyone else was doing. It took a long time for him to warm up to others, but even as an adult he remains slightly closed-off. He lived with his parents for a long time and in fact didn't actually move out of his childhood home for a while... his parents actually loved him in this timeline, something he has said to Sesa in current timeline freaks him the fuck out because he would prefer the reality where they didn't. Gnosis is very normal.

Gnosis spent fucking Forever pining after Enciodes. It was embarrassing. It was very much teenagers in love but Gnosis kept hiding behind trees, everyone had to be subject to this and watch this happen in real time. He wrote full-ass love letters to this man, and they were in fact recovered from his old house in the North Grove when it existed there. That's old lore but fingerguns.

Otherwise Gnosis grew up fairly well-adjusted and was often forced to babysit, especially babysitting Mizuki, and eventually he got fairly tired of babysitting the Youths because wow y'all are loud. He spent most of his time dedicating himself to the pursuit of being a Historian. He's probably got archives of Things That Happened somewhere stashed away in the archives. He and Enciodes got married at some point and that was gay of them to do. Gnosis has their past-life wedding rings nowadays too.

As for his death, when the fires started to ravage the town, he tried and failed to get his parents out of their home and burned to death with them. Yayyyy :) Sesa already discovered his and his parents' corpses in the Burned Town (former) (RIP burned town) and he doesn't want to talk about it, not because he died but because his parents actually loved him. Go to therapy Gnosis.

Role: Gnosis was a nerd I mean a historian! He was recording history... of like everything, even if it was mundane. Everyday practices, rituals, holidays, things like that.

Looking for: Honestly if folks want to make it a Thing that Gnosis wrote sssssooomething about their characters or a holiday or something and find it in the archives, that would be cute. Even if it's just a family history, or records of weddings or birthdays, or something.

Wants and Wishes: See above

A NEW YEAR, A FORGOTTEN YOU

gnosis hours!!