Do you enjoy creating characters? Do you make so many characters for yourself, that you aren't quite sure what you'd do with them, or if you'd even pick them back up again anyway? Well, think about tossing them my way, and get rewarded for your wild imagination!

What do I do?
Very simply put, you're to create a member of the High Council. Up until this point, I've never really explored any of the twelve, besides Pandora, through my writing of this world and these people. I've only mentioned them in passing, a face there, a sentence here. What I ask of you is to help me in fleshing out these highly powerful and influential people, so that the Council as a whole can thus become more substantial and real for me and whomever reads what I write involving the Rangers.

Entries are encouraged to be drawn, but it's not a necessity. If you're more a writer: your entry should be a really detailed physical description, amongst other things, and photo refs are always encouraged. But if you are an artist, a character sheet would be more than fabulous!

Okay, but what are the rules for the High Council characters? How do I know if I'm doing it right?
Based on how I have fleshed out Pandora's character [I'll speak about her in a minute, I didn't get enough details earlier], it is necessary that each High Council member be mythology based. That is to say, they should take roots within stories of our people, no matter the culture! The best place for reference is [link] through which you can find plenty of myths from all over the globe. I'd really like to see diversity in the mythological backgrounds - sort of to say, "if everyone was just a little bit right"..! Same goes for naming. You can modernize an ancient name, or what have you, and taking the exact name from the myth isn't required. Just something related/deviated from it, so that their myth isn't a huge mystery to those who don't know the character, <3.

High Council members were appointed at the beginning of time, so if you can incorporate the myth to be "said to be one of the first peoples" or what have you, that'd be fab. It's not required, though. Take something YOU find interesting, and make it fit!

You got a taste above for what Rangers can really do. But, to reiterate, these are the abilities that have been exhibited in a wide variety of Rangers:

- teleportation [by particle disintegration]

- 360 projection of soul files [can access any point in history and project them in panorama, like watching a lifelike movie from someone's POV of any point in time, minus restricted files]

- accessing soul files [soul files are glowy, standard sized file folders that actually contain every bit of information, no matter how insignificant, about a person's lifetime. They are self writing, self sustaining, and do seem to have some semblance of consciousness/choice. Can be magicked to forbid access to certain people, block out memories or info, etc.]

- telekinesis [rare]

- body transmogrify [used to disguise, or permanently change or enhance appearance, for those vain enough to do it.. like Pandora. Can be made to resemble animals, most commonly.]

- and most obviously, time powers! But, ironically, these are extremely limited, pretty much taboo, for the consequences are usually greater than the benefits of time travel/warping/stopping/etc. This doesn't mean they don't have them or don't use them, it just means they're aware of the consequences and are thus veryyy careful about using them.

- myth specific powers. Very limited, very rare. [Re. Pandora's soul shredding box is a tangent of the mythological Pandora's box, etc.]

High Council members are, obviously, outside of the law, for the most part. They're fearful of their own time magic, but will manipulate it in ways other than actual travel, so exploit that as you will for your own invention!

Keep in mind that, by nature, the Time Ranger race is, as a whole, a very indulgent people. They are susceptible to major addictive qualities and overindulgence. Rangers are forbidden, therefore, to make personal ties to Earth [because, between far outliving potential human friends, they are also mostly unable to control.. urges, hehe.] and this rule is highly enforced.. for regular Rangers. The Council members can mostly get away with things, so long as the public doesn't know that there's truth behind the scandal.

Indulgences include but are not limited to: friendships with humans, sexual deviance, addiction to human intoxicants and drugs, overindulgence with human food, etc. Think deadly sins, or perhaps the most scandalous political stories you've heard.

Okay already! How do I do this?
Draw! Write! Whatever!

It's up to you how you'd like to present me with your High Council character. As mentioned, it'd absolutely thrill me to receive character sheets and photo refs, and thorough personality profiles are very desirable. You should get pretty detailed, as I wouldn't want to butcher your character when I adopt them as my own [please realize that you're creating this character for my own use! You're helping me flesh out characters that already exist, they just don't know it yet!] but you don't need to get so detailed that you start listing off what your Council member would eat for breakfast.

As a bonus, include a description/art of their private quarters, which are located in a wing of the government building and are basically their only personal space in their world. Pandora's is number 21. No, the numbers aren't supposed to be logical; yours can be roman numerals or symbols - remember, no one questions the Council but the other Council members.

What you MUST include: physical description/art/photos, thorough personality analysis, powers/abilities, a link to their myth from the aforementioned pantheon website
What you COULD ALSO include: description/art/photos of their quarters, relationship possibilities with other Council members, possible lackeys, etc.

So what do we get in return? PRIZES PLZ
How I wish it'd be sane for me to reward everyone who enters! ): I'll probably find a way to pay y'all back, even if it's a watch and a few faves of gratitude, if I don't already do that, haha.

First prize: One cg from me of a character of your choice!
Second prize: One flat coloured sketch of a character of your choice!
Third prize: One full body sketch of a character of your choice!

You can enter as many times are you want! You can only win one prize, though!

Top Eleven: Anyone whose character I choose for the High Council, which may be up to eleven people/characters, will receive a headshot sketch from me, in addition to any prize they might win in the process.

For more information on the contest and the Time Ranger race, please see my journal!

Exciting, no? I hope so! I've been looking forward to running a contest like this, and hope you share my enthusiasm. Can't wait to see what comes of this!