Children of Hades Chapter 1: Intro 1: Submission Guidelines, a dungeon ni deai o motomeru no wa machigatte iru darou ka fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own "Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka"/"Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?"/"DanMachi"/"Familia Myth." The series belongs to Oumori Fujino, Yasuda Suzuhito, SB Creative, GA Bunko, and J. .

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DanMachi

Children of Hades

By Cyberweasel89

Co-Written by Wandering Letters

Intro 1: Guidelines

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In this world, the Gods have come down from on high seeking excitement and fun. In exchange for the brave swearing their loyalty to a god or goddess, that god or goddess will give that person their "Falna," or blessing to fight monsters in the massive Dungeon beneath the city of Orario. The Adventurers that gather under that god or goddess are that deity's "Familia."

One such Familia in the city of Orario is the Hades Familia. A fairly recent Familia and one of only medium size, you would expect the Familia of the God of the Underworld to be more popular. But as many Adventurers looking for a tough group to join find out, Hades is not what one would expect.

Despite being the god of the Underworld, and having a rather intense air about him to match, Hades is a surprisingly nice guy. Often described as "the chill of the underworld with a warm center," he takes in Adventurers that no other Familia will accept, were abandoned by their Familia, and even orphans off the street, and gives them food, a place to live, and a purpose. He may be pretty intimidating at first, but beneath his constant frown and glare, Hades is a rather nurturing guy with a love of children, animals (particularly cats), and a dislike for the mistreatment of women.

Hades tends to do a lot of the grunt work around his Familia's base, known as the "Underworld Dormitory," including cleaning, cooking, and even sewing for them all. He has a tendency to wake up very early to cook a huge breakfast for everyone, helps gain funds for his Familia with odd jobs around Orario, and even packs his Adventurers homemade lunches before they head out to the Dungeon. People outside of his Familia tend to call him the "Mr. Mom God" due to his tendency to go grocery shopping and publicly air out laundry in an apron and bandana, but most of the members of his Familia view him as a father figure. You join the Hades Familia, you quickly get in the habit of calling him paternal terms like Father, Dad, Pops, etc. Even the Supporters in the Hades Familia are treated like Hades' children.

You are an Adventurer or Supporter of the Hades Familia. Whatever your race, weapon of choice, Level, Alias, Abilities, Skills, Spells, class, role in the Party, it doesn't matter. You are all... Children of Hades.

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Rules

Submit your characters over PM ONLY. I want to keep the Reviews only for opinions on the story. If you are unsure before submitting, PM me and I can help you build your character with you.

No part of the profile is optional. You cannot merge any slots to answer them together, not even in the "Relationships" section. If your profile is too long, you can send it in multiple parts.

Avoid sending your profile in multiple PMs. Rather, stack your parts in the same PM so I didn't get cluttered and confused. To do this, send the first part in one PM. Second, go to your PM Outbox. Third, click the PM you just send. Now you can post the rest of the parts of the profile in the same single PM.

Note that Adventurers do not and cannot gain Spells, Skills, or Abilities until they join a Familia and are given a Falna. There's no learning Skills or Spells from your parents before joining a Familia and gaining a Falna. There just isn't. Not even as "hidden values" before getting a Falna.

There is no such thing as "evil/dark magic/energy." In the world of DanMachi, good and evil are not exhaustively quantifiable concepts. There is no true villain. Rather, conflict comes from interpersonal relationships in this world.

Summoning is not possible. Guns and robots do not exist.

The offensive magic elements are as follows: Fire, Ice, Water, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Nature, Light, Darkness, Non-elemental.

Derivatives of elements count as that element. Thus, the following are considered the same element:

-Fire, heat, ash

-Ice, snow, cold

-Water, mist, fog, bubbles

-Lightning, electricity, magnetism

-Wind, air, sound

-Earth, stone, dirt, sand

-Nature, plants, flowers, wood, poison

-Light, illusion

-Darkness, shadow, gravity

-Non-elemental magic would probably fall under things like explosions and just general energy, like "Magic Missile."

Magic will be split between two categories. When you make a spellcaster, you choose between the two. If you are not a spellcaster, but a warrior type, you get one spell and one spell only from any category. The two categories are:

-Sorcery: Offensive magic, negative status conditions, debuffs

-Theurgy: Healing magic, status curing magic, buffs, enchantments, defensive barriers

Spells that do not fall under either of the above can be loosely defined as "Support."

Magic does not rely on mana or "MP" or anything. Rather, spells cast draw on the user's own stamina reserve and fatigue, loosely referred to in-series as "Mind." Healing spells are also not perfect. Even if the wound is gone, the wounded may still need time to recover. Hence Bell's frequent bedrest.

Just to encourage some fun-having, "pets" can be given Falna and act as a personal mount/pack mule Supporter for their owner. This is likely non-canon, but I feel it would make things more fun and encourage creativity. You may list any pets under "Equipment." See Runemeyer's profile in the next chapter if you want to see how I want this done.

Currently, submitting Adventurers (but not Supporters) who are Level 1 will make things a bit difficult to fit them into the flow of the story. I recommend making them Level 2 or 3. But again, no higher than 3. Again, this need not apply to Supporters.

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This is the profile. Don't worry about formatting it with bolding, italics, or underlining, since it usally doesn't show up over PMs anyway.

Name: Western names only. If your character has a Japanese-style name, they must come from the "Eastern Lands," in which case your character's name will go surname first, given name second, and Skill and Spell names must then be in Japanese. I will, however, allow Japanese given names with Western-style surnames due to Orario's multicultural nature.

Sex: Playing against stereotype, like female dwarves, female boaz, male cat people, etc. is encouraged. Amazons are female-only, though. Currently, we are in the begginings of a small overstock of male characters.

Age: Don't worry about lifespan. Just go for it. Not ridiculously young, though. Bell is only 14 (seriously). However, to encourage creative freedom, I'll say that 10 will be the minimum for a freshly-started Level 1, though characters who begin the fanfic as Level 2 are allowed to have started Adventuring as young as 8 in their backstory.

Race: Only the following races are allowed. No Zenos (intelligent Monsters), Hybrids (half-Monsters), or Gods. No halfbreeds except the ones listed (Half-Elves and Half-Dwarves). Choosing a race that has not been used in the roster in the next chapter will drastically increase the chances of them being accepted (I have a "race counter" cheat sheet at the bottom of this chapter for your convenience), though Humans are of extremely low priority since... well, I'm just getting so many submitted. This isn't D&D. Humans aren't the optimal race.

-Humans: No bonuses, but generally the most balanced and adaptable race, with no deficiencies in any stat. It's also why they're considered the weakest race, since being specialized is actually a good thing.

-Elves: Long ears are their trait, though males are quite feminine looking as well. Extremely adept at Magic, but growing their Strength and Endurance stats is extremely hard. Good hearing and magic-sensing, and fairly good with Dexterity and Agility stats.

-Dark Elves: Sub-race of Elves. Dark Elves have dark skin, white hair, and yellow eyes. Stats are generally the same as Elves. Maybe even a slight bit more balanced, if only slightly. They also possess natural low-light vision.

-Dwarves: A short, stout race. High Strength and Endurance, low Dexterity and Agility, about average Magic. Often very good blacksmiths and fond of grog and mead.

-Pallums: Hobbits in everything but name. Short, petite (though not necessarily meagerly breasted with the female ones), generally weak. Often considered the second-weakest race after Humans. Abysmal Strength and Endurance, moderate Magic and Agility, excel in Dexterity. Generally look quite youthful, even when middle-aged. Due to their short height, most prefers weapons with reach or range like polearms and crossbows.

-Amazons: An all-female race of dark-skinned warriors. They leave their villages as a rite of passage to find a male of any species (except Gods and Spirits) and mate with them, leading to (somewhat) unfair rumors of Amazon promiscuity. They then bare a full-blooded Amazon daughter regardless of the father's race. Excel in Strength, moderate Endurance, Agility, and Dexterity, generally low Magic.

-Cat People: Humans with feline ears and tails. You choose the breed. Generally energetic, curious, and while independent, are huge cuddle bugs to those they've bonded with. Supreme Dexterity and Agility, moderate Magic, generally low Strength and Endurance. Enhanced hearing and smell. Like Dark Elves, they possess natural low-light vision.

-Chienthropes: Humans with dog ears and tails. You choose the breed. High Endurance and Agility, moderate Strength and Magic, generally low Dexterity. Bloodhound-like sense of smell to the point they can recognize disguised people and track things, but also good hearing. Fiercely loyal to those they deem friends and some can be quite affectionate and cuddly.

-Hume Bunnies: Humans with rabbit ears and tails. You choose the breed. THE speed kings of the DanMachi world. Tremendously excel in Agility, high Magic, moderate Dexterity, generally low Strength and abysmal Endurance. More prone than other races to gaining the Luck Development Ability. EXTREMELY good hearing, fairly heightened sense of smell. Prefer vegetarian meals and tend to view sex anywhere from a "really gets around" level to a more respectable "ethical slut" level.

-Runarls: Humans with fox ears and a fox tail. High Agility and Magic, moderate Endurance, low Strength and Dexterity. They take repaying their debts VERY seriously, and tend to show a much warmer, playful, and more affectionate side to those they feel they owe their lives to. Slightly enhanced smell and hearing than a human, but not to the level of other beastmen races. NOT kitsune.

-Werewolves: Humans with wolf ears and tails. Enhanced hearing, greatly enhanced smell, generally higher survival instincts and tend to be somewhat territorial, making having a roommate who is not a "pack member"... difficult, but also makes them extremely loyal to those they DO consider "pack." Excel in Strength and Agility, moderate Endurance, generally low Magic and Dexterity. More prone to getting the "Instinct" Development Ability than most other races.

-War Tigers: Humans with tiger ears, tiger tails, and tannish tiger stripes on their skin. Unlike their Cat People cousins, their main focus is a very high Endurance and Agility, moderate Strength, but low Dexterity and Magic.

-Boaz: Humans with boar tails and ears. EXTREMELY high Strength and Endurance, but generally dismal Magic, Agility, and Dexterity. Pretty much THE Strength and Endurance kings of the DanMachi world. Despite this, they are also among the more intelligent races, have senses of smell even better than the Chienthropes to the point they can even track smells through water when the dog beastman race can't, and also oddly prone to gaining the Empathy Development Ability. They're also known for their appetite, though certainly not inhumanly hungry.

-Spirits: The favored race of the Gods, and like them, cannot have children. Based around a single element and generally take on a form that is mythologically related to that element, like gnomes for earth, undine for water, sylphs for wind, and salamanders for fire. They have their own brand of magic that is generally more powerful and easier to cast than other magic, to the point it's more like elemental manipulation than magic, but are restricted to their own inherent element. THE most magically-gifted race, but other stats are largely dependent on the form they take. If you want a character whose magic is more like an element bender than a spell list... choose a Spirit and pick a miscellaneous fantasy race related to that element for their appearance. You can find some ideas for the form a Spirit takes under "Spells" below.

-Half-Elves: The product of an elf and a human in sexual union. Generally look like elves, but shorter ears. More rounded stats than a full-blooded Elf.

-Half-Dwarves: The product of a dwarf and a human in sexual union. Generally taller and thinner than a full-blooded dwarf, and more rounded stats than one.

Familia: Hades Familia (This is a must, unless you want your character to just be an associate from another Familia that pops in on occasion and forms parties with or otherwise works with the Hades Familia. As the Underworld Dormitory is also set up as a tavern, Adventurers and even Gods from other Familia are free to come visit whenever they want, so this is a natural thing.)

Job: Adventurer or Supporter. Supporters are allowed one Spell as well as Skills and Development Abilities relative to their Level just like Adventurers.

Class: How their specialties are built. You know, knight, cleric, wizard, rogue, ranger, etc. Stick to one. Jack-of-all-tradesing is a bad idea, especially in the DanMachi world. Note that, if you can think of one that can still fit with them being a Supporter, a Supporter is welcome to have a Class. I have two Supporters already on the roster that are a Bard and a Scholar.

Level: While stats grow as you use them against Monsters (and only Monsters), Level ups only happen when you defeat a far stronger enemy (doesn't have to be a Monster) or do something heroic, which makes Leveling purely a matter of being in the right place at the right time and handling it correctly. What counts as a "heroic deed" is largely situational, as the Gods decide what counts on a case-by-case basis, but generally saving the life of someone who would have surely died had you not intervened and defeating a Monster Rex (floor boss) are highly favorable toward Level Ups. If multiple people defeated the stronger enemy or did the heroic deed together, they may Level Up together.

When you Level Up, your stats reset back to I0, but the stats you had before the Level Up carry over as an "invisible base," which makes a Level 2 with an A870 in Strength MUCH stronger than a Level 1 with an A870 in Strength.

At Level 1, you are allowed one Skill and no Development Abilities. At Level 2, you are allowed two Skills and two Development Abilities. At Level 3, you are allowed three Skills and four Development Abilities. I am not allowing characters submitted to be above Level 3 at the time of their introduction, regardless of reasons for it.

Spells are different. If you are a fighter class, you are allowed one Spell and one Spell only and ever. If you are a spellcaster type, you have much more freedom in number of Spells, up to six, but you may be allowed more with good reason. For characters, the maximum starting level will be 3 or less for Adventurers and 2 or less for Supporters. They can and will gain Levels as the story progresses. Due to how difficult it will be to work them into the plot at the moment, I currently would advise against you making an Adventurer who is Level 1, though I can still allow Supporters who are Level 1.

Granted, no pressure to make a Supporter. We have three in the Hades Familia, one more for the Hades Familia that will be joining later, and three more Supporters in the Hestia Familia once the crossover with Standing United begins in-story.

Alias: Every three months, the Denatus is held in the Babel tower. The Gods and Goddesses all meet and discus Aliases for any and all Adventurers who have Leveled Up in the past three months. Once an Adventurer (or Supporter) reaches Level 2, they will gain an Alias at the next Denatus. This Alias is essentially a title or epithet to identify them. Once they reach Level 3, they will gain a different Alias at the next Denatus, and so on.

As the Gods all decide an Alias together, the God of that Adventurer's Familia has little say in what the Alias will be. This means that most Aliases tend to be pretty stupid or mocking. Bell actually got off lucky with "Little Rookie" because several of the Gods who like him stood up for him at the Denatus. By comparison, an Adventurer of the Set Familia got the Alias "Burning Fighting Fighter" despite Set's protests.

You can suggest one here if your character is Level 2 or 3, but you have no guarantee I will use it. I might give them something different, or slightly alter it. Still, doesn't hurt to make a suggestion. If you'd rather not suggest one, just let me know that I can make up one however I want. Believe me, you won't be disappointed. I'm pretty good with that. I can actually make them so clever, they're both lame AND cool, thus perfectly fitting within the lore of the Denatus while not sounding stupid.

Note that even some of the cooler-sounding Aliases are quite pun-filled or mocking, sometimes in a meta-sense. Aiz's "Sword Princess" Alias can actually be read in Japanese characters to contain the word "waifu," for one.

Basic Abilities: Basic Abilities are the five base stats displayed on your back. They grow as you use them even within the same Level. The growth only happens when the God or Goddess of your Familia personally updates your Status. If you never visit your God or Goddess for an update, your stats won't grow no matter how much you use them. I'll be lenient (and generous) and say that S-ranking a stat takes about a year or two. Stats are ranked I-S, each one covering a set of one hundred points. So they go: I = 0-99 ; H = 100-199 ; G = 200-299 ; F = 300-399 ; E = 400-499 ; D = 500-599; C = 600-699 ; B = 700-799 ; A = 800-899 ; S = 900-999. Going above S999 into SS and SSS is only possible with the Realis Phrase Skill, which I will not be allowing. I will, however, allow Skills that act as a narrower Realis Phrase, like a Skill that allows ONLY one or ONLY two stats to grow quickly and exceed S into SS and SSS, but this leniency will not be abused. Stats can also exceed S temporarily as a result of buff Spells, buff Potions, or Conditional Skills. Note that Basic Abilities only grow from fighting (not necessarily slaying) Monsters, not non-Monsters like other Adventurers, as only Monsters give "Extalia," a kind of DanMach-world version of "experience points." However, that doesn't mean you can't train with other Adventurers just to get better at fighting in general, and you can still Level Up from things like Familia vs. Familia War Games and saving others even though you won't gain Extalia from them.

-Strength: Determines how much melee damage you do with most weapons that utilize strength for use. Gains points by dealing forceful physical melee damage to Monsters.

-Endurance: Determines how much damage you can take, how much you can resist damage, and how well you can block. Gains points by taking and blocking attacks (and surviving, obviously).

-Dexterity: Determines how accurate and skilled you are with ranged weapons of all kinds and weapons of skill. Gains points by landing hits with ranged weapons, weapons of skill, and dealing sneak attacks. Of note is that weapons that both utilize strength AND/OR dexterity, like knives, potentially can put points into both Strength and Dexterity depending on how you use them.

-Agility: Determines how fast and agile you are and how well you can dodge. Gains points by fleeing from Monsters and dodging attacks.

-Magic: Determines how powerful and effective your spells are and how easy they are to cast. Gains points by casting spells.

Development Abilities:

These are abilities your character can develop upon level up. You will gain two at Level 2 onward, meaning you'll have none at Level 1, two at Level 2, and four at Level 3. Exactly which abilities you get depends on how you fight and the feats you have performed before the Level Up. After gaining one, it starts at Level I. It will gain a Rank only at Level Up, and even then, only one Rank per Level. They use the same I-S Ranks as Basic Abilities, but do not use numbers. Note that even low-Rank Development Abilities make a HUGE difference when performing the act related to them.

Good Development Abilities (including canon ones) are:

Some non-canon DAs that I am putting out there are:

-Hunter: One of the most useful DAs, but hard to get. It increases damage on and general ease of dealing with Monsters one has fought before. It is given only as a result of killing a LOT of monsters before reaching Level 2. Some notable canon characters that have it are Aiz and Ryuu, partly why they're so badass.

-Mage: Increases power, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with magic. Riveria's apprentice Lefiya has it.

-Healing Power: Increases the rate at which the body's natural healing processes recover from injuries. At higher levels, it can essentially function as cellular regeneration.

-Spirit Healing: Increases rate in which stamina (especially for magic) regenerates and generally prevents, deters, or speeds up recovery from Mind Down and Mind Zero.

-Abnormal Resistance: Generally given as an option at Level 3, but sometimes Level 2 or 4, Abnormal Resistance grants resistance to negative ailments including but definitely not limited to poison. As poison is a very common status effect with monsters in the upper floors of the Dungeon, this is seen as a very useful DA, and is widely picked by most Adventurers. It's the most commonly known DA among canon characters in DanMachi. Even Bell has it. At Rank G, it can resist to outright negate almost any negative status effect, while higher levels can effectively make you immune to disease and everything beyond and before.

-Magic Resistance: Increases resistance and natural defenses against magic. Later levels can essentially make you completely immune to offensive magic.

-Perception: Generally improves senses like sight, hearing, smelling, taste, touch, proprioception, as well as general attention for detail and ability to pick up on subtle things. Like Luck, it can only be gotten automatically.

-Instinct: Gives the user a superb sense of intuition and gut feelings. Like Luck, you can only get this automatically, and it's much easier for a Werewolf to get it, or wild people in general.

-Charm: Generally makes the person more charming and improves others' disposition to them. Useful in negotiation, persuasion, deception, and general sweet-talking. Some similar stats in other video games are charisma, glamour, sex appeal, pulchritude, diplomacy, and swag. Like Luck, can only be gotten automatically.

-Empathy: Improves your ability to pick up on subtle expressions and body language, people's emotions, and generally helps you understand people better. Like Luck, it can only be gotten automatically.

-Luck: A very rare DA, Luck generally causes good things to happen. It's theorized to be something of a form of divine protection from the gods. It's generally easier for a Hume Bunny to get it. Or, as seen with Bell, rabbit-like people.

-Crush: Generally increases lifting strength, pushing strength, pulling strength, swinging strength, etc.

-Running: Increases speed when running and moving around in general. At higher levels, it can essentially be flash steps.

-Jumping: Increases skill, ease, effectiveness, height, and distance of jumping. At higher levels, you can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

-Parkour: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness with climbing, wall-running, platforming, rooftop hopping, balance when on ledges or narrow footholds, pole-swinging, and general free running. At higher levels you get HARDCORE PARKOUR!

-Diving: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness with swimming and diving. There are watery areas in the Dungeon.

-Riding: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness with riding a mount.

-Swordsmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with double-edged swords. Aiz has this.

-Bushido: Increases damage, skill, and general effectiveness when wielding single-edged swords.

-Fencing: Increase damage, skill, and general effectiveness when wielding sabres. This includes rapiers, scimitars, cutlasses, dao/tao, szabla, talwar, and shamshirs.

-Spearmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding polearms. This includes spears, lances, partisans, pikes, tridents, guisarmes, glaives, halberds, bardiches, naginata, bisento, nagamaki, guandao, war scythes, etc.

-Axemanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding axes. This includes battle axes, adzes, hatchets, and bardiches.

-Clubmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with clubs. This includes maces, mauls, morning stars, hammers, war hammers, sledgehammers, and mallets.

-Flailmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with flails. This includes balls and chains, bolas, nunchaku, kusarigama, surujin, yo-yos, jouyou/rope dart, and other chained weapons.

-Whipmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with whips. This includes thorned whips, spiked whips, chain whips, whip swords, cats o' nine tails, and crops.

-Scythemanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness with scythes. This includes sickles and kama.

-Clawmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding claws.

-Knifemanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding knives. This includes daggers, dirks, katars, shortswords, shivs, needles, and scissors.

-Shieldmanship: Increases damage/defense, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding shields. This includes lantern shields, bucklers, and targes.

-Archery: Increases damage, aim, skill, ease of use and general effectiveness when wielding bows. This includes crossbows and bowguns.

-Sniper: Increases damage, aim, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding ranged weapons like blowguns, slingshots, slings, catapults, and trebuchets.

-Throwing: Increases damage, aim, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness when wielding throwing weapons like throwing knives/kunai, throwing stars/shuriken, throwing needles/senbon, throwing club/knobkierie, throwing hatchets/tomahawks, throwing spears/javelins, Swiss (throwing) arrows, throwing sticks, boomerangs, chakrams, bolas, bombs, and offensive potions.

-Fist Strike: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, and general effectiveness while unarmed or wielding unarmed-based weapons like knuckle dusters, gloves, hand wrappings, gauntlets, and bracers. Also includes unarmed strikes with the legs or leg-based weapons like greaves, boots, shoes, sandals, and other footwear.

-Staffmanship: Increases damage, skill, ease of use, magic channeling ability, and general effectiveness with staffs. This includes rods, poles, wands, canes, brooms, etc.

-Dual-Wielding: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness when wielding a weapon in each hand. Not necessarily the same kind of weapon.

-Quick-Draw: Increases skill, ease, speed, and general effectiveness with drawing or loading your weapon. Useful for bows and iaijutsu (draw-and-resheath techniques).

-Blacksmith: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in forging weapons and armor. At higher ranks, you can forge Magic Weapons from Drop Items.

-Tailor: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidering, and generally crafting and altering clothing. At higher levels, you can sew Magic Clothes from Drop Items.

-Leatherwork: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in skinning, tanning, and general leather crafting. At higher levels, you can craft Magic Leather Armor from Drop Items.

-Bowyer: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in making bows, crossbows, blowguns, slingshots, and other long-range and wooden weapons.

-Fletching: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in fletching arrows and bolts for bows and crossbows, and even darts and pellets for blowguns and slingshots. At higher levels, you can craft arrows, bolts, darts, and pellets with magical effects from Drop Items.

-Mystery: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in crafting Magic Items from Drop Items.

-Mixing: Increases, skill, ease, and general quality in mixing and brewing potions and poisons.

-Explosives: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in crafting explosive bombs and disarming them. DanMachi world explosives have largely not progressed far past Legend of Zelda-like bombs, but smoke bombs and flashbangs are specifically mentioned to exist, and the Firestone Drop Item of a Flame Rock monster is explosive. I am VERY open to an "explosives expert/demolitioner" class character.

-Building: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in building structures via carpentry or stonemasonry. The Goibniu Familia, despite being a smithing-type Familia, dabble in construction for extra work.

-Security: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness with detecting traps, disarming traps, setting traps, and picking locks on doors and containers. At higher ranks, you can pick magic locks and detect and disarm magic traps.

-Thievery: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness with stealing and picking pockets. At higher levels, you can essentially steal abstract concepts from Monsters, like stats.

-Jeweler: Increases skill, ease, and general quality when making jewelry.

-Mining: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness when mining for mineral resources in the Dungeon or elsewhere.

-Fishing: Increases skill, ease, and general effectiveness when fishing.

-Cooking: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in cooking and preparing food. At higher levels, you can cook Magic Food that interacts with Adventurers' Falnas, healing and/or buffing them.

-Cleaning: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in cleaning, washing, dusting, and polishing. This includes weapons, armor, and clothing. Perfect for cleaning monster blood out of sword handles and clothes, polishing weapons and armor to a brilliant sheen, and, well, washing dishes.

-Kama Sutra: Increases skill, ease, quality, endurance, recovery, and general effectiveness in bed.

-Music: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in playing musical instruments and singing.

-Performing: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in dancing, singing, acting, and voice acting.

-Art: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in sketching, drawing, painting, and sculpting.

-Gardening: Increases skill, ease, and general quality in growing, tending, and harvesting plants.

If you have an idea for a DA for your character that does not fit the criteria above, explain it to me, and I will tell you if it works. Note that DAs are always passive abilities that are always active and no not provide knowledge in any way. Only skill or general effectiveness. If you want to garden or brew potions with Gardening or Mixing, you still need knowledge of plants and herbs. Also note that I will only accept a limit of one rank to a DA per level. So at Level 3, it'd be impossible for any except two of your DAs to be Rank H.

The full list of Development Abilities can be found on the DanMachi Wiki under the article "Development Abilities," though it is an incomplete list.

Skills: Skills are non-magic abilities you gain based on your own inner desires and personal epiphanies. I am limiting each character to one Skill per Level, so you are allowed one Skill at Level 1, two at Level 2, etc.

Skills come in three varieties: Passive, Conditional, and Active Trigger.

-Passive Skills have a constant effect and are always on.

-Conditional Skills are activated once certain conditions are met beyond the user's choice or control.

-Active Trigger Skills are turned on by the user when they choose.

To avoid over-complication, please try to avoid Skills that are more than one of the above types, or do more than one thing that would cause it to be more than one type.

Skills do not grow with the user. Once acquired, they have the same effect regardless of Basic Abilities, Development Abilities, and Level.

Given their rarity and the conditions that they were acquired, Bell's Realis Phrase and Argonaut will not be allowed. I will, however, allow Skills that boost the growth rate and allow SS and SSS ranking of ONE or TWO Basic Abilities, or allow the charging of ONE kind of attack (as opposed to Argonaut allowing the charging of ANY attack) or the charging has restrictions (like, once activated, it only charges based on outside stimuli). This is not to be abused.

Note that Skills are not non-magical attacks/techniques. At most, they simply supplement existing attacks. Bell's Argonaut, for example, is not an attack on its own. It simply allows any other attack to be charged up.

Also note that whereas you can ONLY gain DAs at the moment you Level up, so long as you follow my "one Skill per Level" rule, you actually can gain a Skill at any point after Level up in response to a desire or epiphany.

You are free to list Skills they will gain at later Levels in the story, so long as you mark them as such in some way.

Please, for organization purpose, order your Skills in the order they were obtained.

You can find all canon Skills on the DanMachi Wiki under the article "Skills." Though I should warn you, it's a short list, and really, the only ones actually useful and applicable are:

-Artel Assist: Conditional Skill exclusively for Supporters. When the user is carrying a certain amount of weight, the Skill will help compensate in stat increases. The amount compensated depends on the weight. This is what allows tiny Supporters like Lili to carry such huge backpacks at Level 1.

-Fairy Cannon: Passive Skill for wizards. Increases the effects of Magic. The effect doubles for offensive spells.

-Berserk: Conditional Skill. Raises Strength every time the user takes damage. Effect increases based on anger level.

-Backdraft: Conditional Skill. Raises the Strength of the user exceptionally high in a pinch, possibly past S-rank limit.

-Intense Heat: Conditional Skill. Raises the stats of all Basic Abilities in a pinch.

-Úlfheðinn: Conditional Skill. Ability only activates under moonlight. The user becomes beast like, dramatically improves in all areas, and all abnormal statuses are negated

-Fenris Wolf: Passive Skill. Improves user's running speed.

-Solmani: Conditional Skill. Improves strength and speed at acceleration.

Spells: Spells in the DanMachi world fall under two (sort of three) categories:

-Sorcery: Spells that deal damage, induce a negative status effect, or debuff.

-Theurgy: Spells that heal wounds, induce a positive status effect, buff, or erect a defensive barrier.

Spells that do not fall under any of the above criteria can be loosely defined as "Support."

If you are a warrior type of class, your limit is one spell and one spell only. This one spell can be of any type so long as it is only one.

If you are a spellcaster class, you have much more freedom for spells, up to six, but will be limited to either sorcery or theurgy, not both. I may also allow more than six with good reason.

Spells are not to be treated like "powers" as in the anime/manga series Fairy Tail. Rather, spells do one thing and one thing only. It all depends on what you cast them on. Bell's Firebolt, for example, simply shoots a fireball. But depending on where he casts it and what he casts it on, he can destroy floors, ignite oil or gas, dry up water, and burn an enemy from the inside out.

Spells require chants. Bell's Firebolt is one of the rare Spells with no chant, and I intend to keep it that way unless you have a VERY good reason for it being a No Chant Spell. In general, the weaker a spell, the shorter the chant, and some Spells might function slightly differently depending on a slight word change in the chant, often performing a different effect within the parameters of the Spell.

Some spells have two chants. A Cast Chant, which casts the spell, and a Release Chant, which stops the spell's effect. So far, only two Spells actually have a Cast Chant and Release Chant. Those are Aiz's Airiel, which is a wind-element enchant Spell for weapons and armor, and Lili's Cinder Ella, which is a transformation Spell. Note that both are, effectively, self-buffs.

Spells have elements. I will, however, allow some to be a mix of more than one element within reason. Bell's Firebolt, for one, is primarily fire, but also partly lightning. A raincloud spell, for a better example, would likely be a mix of water and wind, with lightning added if it was a thundercloud spell. A magma spell would be a mix of fire and earth, mud a mix of earth and water, steam a mix of fire and water, etc.

You must list the element(s) and full effects of the spell, as well as the full chant.

To encourage characters of this race and allow more freedom and fun, Spirits' magic DOES work more like elemental bending, though they are restricted to the element their form is based on. Some examples are:

-Fire: Salamanders, ifrits, phoenixes

-Ice: Yukionna, yeti

-Water: Undine, mermaids

-Lightning: Kirin

-Wind: Sylphs

-Earth: Gnomes, golems (though that doesn't mean you can't create a golem from nearby rock and dirt as a Spell)

-Nature: Dryads, mandrakes, mandragoras, alraune

-Light: Angels

-Darkness: Succubi/Incubi/Concubi, vampires, liches

Those are just ideas off the top of my head, and some of them are probably ill-advised to actually submit as a character. If you have knowledge of mythology for elemental mythical creatures that are better than my ideas, by all means, use 'em.

You can find a full list of all the canon Spells on the DanMachi Wiki under the article "Magic."

Note that Grimoires are very rare, hard to make, EXTREMELY expensive, and are one use for one Spell for one person before becoming useless. You don't even NEED a Grimoire to gain a Spell. It's just an easy button for the perfect Spell for you. How expensive are they? One sold in a magic shop that Riveria and her apprentice visit in the series goes for 130,400,000 Valis, which the witch who owns it got from a guy in another town who can make them, and has been trying to sell it for that price for a very long time. To put that amount into perspective, Tiona, one of the Amazon sisters from the Loki Familia, had the Goibniu Familia forge a first-class weapon from top quality adamantite from the deep floors of the Dungeon for 120,000,000 Valis, and is still 89,000,000 Valis in debt because of it. The Hestia Knife that Hephaestus crafted from a strand of Hestia's hair and blood cost 200,000,000 Valis, a debt to paid off in 420 payments over the course of a 35 year loan. And that's technically an illegal weapon.

Weapons: Limit of one. I will allow a second (hell, even third) if it is similar to the first, such as using the same Development Ability, or is a Magic Weapon to act as a back-up to the first. Shields are also allowed as secondary weapons to any weapon that could logically be wielded with one. For ideas for weapons, see the list of Development Abilities above. For ideas for materials to make the weapons from, see the list of Items below.

Armor: The armor they wear in the Dungeon. For ideas of materials to make them from, see the Item List below.

Clothing: The casual clothes they wear outside of the Dungeon, around Orario.

Equipment: Personal belongings they take with them into the Dungeon, carry around with them, own in their room at the Underworld Dormitory, or use to aid in their specialty, like blacksmithing tools, a potion brewing set, tailoring kit, cleaning kit, cooking supplies, a quiver for their arrows, personal belongings, and any Magic Items they might have. Magic Items have magical abilities and are crafted from Drop Items by someone with the Mystery Development Ability. For a list of the known Magic Items, see the Items list below.

Appearance: Writing is using words to paint a vivid image in motion to convey ideas, meanings, and emotions, so character appearances need to be known. Things like eye color, hair color, hair style, skin color, height, weight, body shape, figure, bust size, general expression, etc. If you aren't good at describing people, directing me to a picture will suffice, and I'll write this section for you. However, don't just tell me "they look like or this part of them looks like this canon character," since I won't accept that.

Personality: This section needs the most attention. Things like the character's positive traits, negative traits, mannerisms, phobias, hobbies, ideals, philosophies, and even just general attitude are all a must. Justifications for why they have those traits help, but can generally be inferred from their Background. Note that no one should be perfect. Since DanMachi has no true villain, conflict should come from small things, inner and past demons (figuratively, of course) and character interaction. Drama and conflict, especially within a single Familia, are not a bad thing. However, they cannot be all bad, or all good. Characters, like people in real life, are both jerks and saints, never one or the other. Hades sees the good in people, but he can't see the good in people if there's no good in them.

Background: No novels, obviously, but a good description of the highlights of your character's past are needed. Things like where they came from (and not just location, but lifestyle and family life), how they ended up where they are today, major events that shaped them, and how they came to join the Hades Familia (or any other Familia if you want more of a "quest character" role). If there's anything from your character's past that could come back to haunt them or simply needs to be dealt with in the future, even just for them to find peace or strengthen their resolve, detail it briefly but clearly. Note that I expect them to have a reason to join the Hades Familia or become an Adventurer, as Hades needs some reason to accept them into his Familia. He is an excellent judge of character and can see people for what they really are. He is not a charitable pushover who will accept freeloaders into his Familia.

Relationships: This is how they interact with people, especially the rest of the cast. In a world with no quantifiable concept of good and evil, no dark magic or energy, no mystical corruption or chaos, no demons or devils, and no true or ultimate villain, character interaction is far more vital in this story than others, since conflicts form that way. When you invent your character, I want you to run through the whole selected cast and give me an idea of how they would get along with that person. Would they be a romantic interest? A close confidant? Friendly rival? Hell, do they flat-out hate each other? It would give me an idea that isn't based solely on differences in personality or ideals. Below, you'll see each of the characters in the roster of the next chapter. Go ahead and check them out.

-Hades:

-Morlin Debma:

-Frobo Smiles:

-Elga Smiles:

-Pyrenee Congina:

-Durkon Thorisef:

-Scarlett Velvetina:

-Sunny Smiles:

-Morn Rower:

-Hero's Shade:

-Elisia Elekor:

-Rooster Ringabelle:

-Tessa Thompson:

-Ian Moone:

-Lleu Macnia:

-Leon Elekor:

-Runemeyer Ravengale:

-Lucia Sherwood:

-Serenus "Serin" Tamruhn

-Sahgi Easter:

-Tairona Jamundi:

-Zorim Whiteskull:

-Darude Freebird:

-Jersey Bullock:

-Alivia Sable:

-Inugami Touka:

Notes: This is for anything else you want to add that doesn't fit in the information above. Go nuts. Some "recommended info" you can put here (which I did for all the profiles I wrote myself) is hand/feet laterality, what they smell like, their preference in food, and their sexuality.

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Items List

The DanMachi Wiki recently added a list of items. However, as it is incomplete and a total mess, I will be doing what I did with the Development Abilities list and fixing it up. You're welcome. If you are not interested, skip to the bottom, where I list "Other Notes."

Weapons

Guild-Issued Weaponry: The Guild will issue starting weaponry to Adventurers when they first register with them. While of low-quality and strength, they are useful against the Monsters of the first few floors, and thus will serve a newbie Adventurer well until they can earn enough money to buy a better weapon.

-Price: 3,600 Valis per weapon

Schweizerdegen: A baselard that was decorated in Bom Cornwall's shop. It is actually of good quality.

-Price: 19,000 Valis

Shinonome: Mikoto's first katana, having a 90cm blade. It was destroyed during the battle against the Black Goliath.

-Price: Unknown

Zansetsu: A katana that can be purchased from the Hephaestus Familia shop on Babel's 8th floor. Mikoto bought one as a second katana, but it was destroyed later by Samira.

-Price: 14,400 Valis

Tenka: An order-made weapon crafted by the Goibniu Familia. It's a white short sword that is a pair with the female Chizan. Owned by Takemikazuchi.

-Price: Unknown (unique)

Chizan: An order-made weapon crafted by the Goibniu Familia. It's a black short sword that is a pair with the male Tenka. Owned by Yamato Mikoto.

-Price: Unknown (Unique)

Large Sword: A large, single-edged sword crafted by Welf Crozzo. As he made it himself for himself, he won't give it a name. It actually has power exceeding that of the Monsters on the Upper Floors, making it useful about until the Monsters past the 18th Floor.

-Price: Free (Unique)

Ushiwakamaru: A Magic Weapon crafted by Welf Crozzo. It is a curved, crimson dagger crafted from the smaller half of the Minotaur's Horn and also has a slight fire element. It is also called Minotan.

-Price: Free (Unique)

Ushiwakamarunishiki: A Magic Weapon crafted by Welf Crozzo. A second blade crafted from the larger half of the Minotaur's Horn. It is longer and stronger due to being made with the Blacksmith Development Ability. It is a third class weapon.

-Price: Free (Unique)

Hestia Knife: Crafted by Hephaestus using a strand of Hestia's hair and blood. It has the same status as the wielder and can only be wielded by a member of the Hestia Familia. It is to be paid off on a 35 year loan with 420 payments. It is, technically, an illegal weapon due to being made from a God's hair/blood.

-Price: 200,000,000 Valis (Unique)

Kotetsu: A 90cm black and silver katana crafted by Welf Crozzo as a gift for Mikoto. The sheath is black with a tiger seal. It is crafted from a Lygerfang Fang and Nosteel and is a third class weapon. It is also called Shimajirou.

-Price: Free (Unique)

Alvs Lumina: A wooden sword crafted from a branch of a large holy tree growing in an Elven forest.

-Price: Unknown

Kazuki: A Magic Weapon crafted by Welf Crozzo. It is comprised of only a handle and blade. It can conjure powerful flames.

-Price: Free (unique, destroyed)

Urga: A first-class weapon crafted by the Goibniu Familia. A large, double-bladed sword crafted from top quality adamantite from the deep floors. Its power, durability, and weight are top class. Tiona Hiryute, an Amazon in the Loki Familia, is still 89,000,000 Valis in debt because of ordering it made.

-Price: 120,000,000 Valis

Zolas: A first-class weapon crafted by the Goibniu Familia. A pair of kukri knives crafted from a Flying Dragon's Fang. Relatively easy to make so long as you have the Drop Item necessary. Tione Hiryute, an Amazon in the Loki Familia, has multiple pairs.

-Price: 58,000,000 Valis

Filuka: A throwing knife that works well on deep floor Monsters. It's supposedly a traditional weapon among Tione and Tiona's Amazon tribe, and Tione asked the Goibniu Familia to make one.

-Price: Unknown

Flosvirt: Boots crafted by the Hephaestus Familia from mithril ingots with high magic conductivity. It can temporarily absorb the power of magic to strengthen attacks. Bete's kicking weapons.

-Price: Unknown

Grand Axe: A massive double-bladed battle axe belonging to Gareth Landrock, Dwarf Adventurer and Lieutenant of the Loki Familia.

-Price: Unknown (Unique?)

Faltear Spear: A spear with a golden tip. The personal weapon of Finn Diamne, Pallum Adventurer and Captain of the Loki Familia. It is a first class weapon that symbolizes bravery. It was, actually, Frobo of the Hades Familia who crafted it for Finn, as the two Pallums are old friends and both middle-aged, high-Level Pallum Adventurers.

-Price: Free (Unique)

Desperate: Crafted by the Goibniu Familia. It has the unbreakable Durandal element, though the blade still needs sharpening and servicing, and is slightly weaker than a first class weapon. It is also one of the few weapons that can stand Aiz Wallenstein's techniques.

-price: 99,000,000 Valis (Unique)

Sun's Flamberge: A flamberge that shines like prominence. The Apollo Familia Adventurer Hyacinthus Cleo's personal weapon.

-Price: Unknown (Unique)

Blade Rolan: A large sword with the Durandal property, crafted by the Hephaestus Familia Level 5 Half-Dwarf blacksmith, Tsubaki Collbrande.

-Price: Unknown (Unique?)

Dual Rolan: Dual swords with the Durandal property, crafted by the Hephaestus Familia Level 5 Half-Dwarf blacksmith, Tsubaki Collbrande.

-Price: Unknown (Unique?)

Spear Rolan: A spear with the Durandal property, crafted by the Hephaestus Familia Level 5 Half-Dwarf blacksmith, Tsubaki Collbrande.

-Price: Unknown (Unique?)

Axe Rolan: An axe with the Durandal property, crafted by the Hephaestus Familia Level 5 Half-Dwarf blacksmith, Tsubaki Collbrande.

-Price: Unknown (Unique?)

Udaeus Black Sword: A black sword that is actually Drop Loot. It can only be obtained by defeating an Audaeus, the Monster Rex (Floor Boss) of the 37th Floor, which spawns every three months. Only by going on-on-one with the Udaeus will it create the sword as a Nature Weapon from a Landform, and drop it upon defeat. It was a previously unconfirmed drop with Aiz being the first one to obtain it. The sword was later destroyed when Bell used it against the Black Goliath.

-Price: Unknown (likely staggering)

Little Ballista: A wrist-mounted crossbow sold by the Goibniu Familia specifically for Pallums. It is stronger than it looks, features manual loading, and can rapid fire, but given its compact size, the range is limited. Bolts sold separately can increase power and flight distance.

-Price: Unknown

Scattershot: A scattershot is a Magic Weapon. It is a slingshot designed to break down the pellet into tiny bits of shrapnel that spread out to pepper the enemy. It is effectively the closest thing the DanMachi world has to a shotgun, and has power comparable to a weak gun.

-Price: Unknown

Bombs: An explosive made from a Firestone. Explodes when lit and thrown.

-Price: Unknown

Fire Bomb: A bomb that explodes in a fireburst instead of an explosion.

-Price: Unknown

Fireworks Bomb: A bomb that explodes in fireworks.

-Price: Unknown

Underwater Bomb: A bomb that can still explode underwater.

-Price: Unknown

Spike Bomb: A bomb that releases spikes, needles, or shrapnel when it explodes.

-Price: Unknown

Acid Bomb: A bomb that bursts with a splash of corrosive acid when thrown.

-Price: Unknown

Water Bomb: A bomb that bursts with a splash of water when thrown.

-Price: Unknown

Gas Bomb: A bomb that explodes with poison or combustible gas.

-Price: Unknown

Smoke Ball: A bomb that creates a smokescreen for cover when thrown.

-Price: Unknown

Flashbang: A bomb that creates a blinding flash of light and deafening bang when thrown.

-Price: Unknown

Flare: A bomb that releases bright red lights. Useful for a signal or illumination.

-Price: Unknown

Forest's Teardrop: A mage weapon that raises the strength of magic. The Spellstones at the end glow blue reacting to the user's magic power. The staff is created from an ore known as Seiros while Thousand Year Tree Sap is used for the magic stone. The personal weapon of Lefiya Veridis, Riveria's apprentice.

-Price: 37,800,000 Valis

Magna Alvs: Riveria Ljos Alf's silvery white staff. It is a first-class mage weapon set with Spellstones to increase the effect of magic cast with it.

-Price: Unknown (Unique, most likely)

Armor

Guild-Issued Armor: The Guild will issue starting armor to Adventurers when they first register with them. While of low-quality and strength, they are useful against the Monsters of the first few floors, and thus will serve a newbie Adventurer well until they can earn enough money to buy better armor.

-Price: 3,000 Valis per armor set

Benikaede: An Eastern Lands kimono.

-Price: 180,000 Valis

Kinagashi: Smithing clothes that protect against fire and heat, but have weak physical defense. Welf wears his into the Dungeon with armor over it.

-Price: Unknown

Ranger Armor: Lightweight leather armor designed for Adventurers of the Ranger class.

-Price: Varies

Pyonkichi MK-II: Crafted by Welf Crozzo and sold in Babel. It uses Metal Rabbit Fur as one of its materials

-Price: 9,900 Valis

Pyonkichi MK-III: The upgrade to the previous Pyonkichi. Bought by Bell to replace the MK-II destroyed by the Uber-Minotaur.

Price: Unknown

Pyonkichi MK-IV: The fourth version of Pyonkichi crafted by Welf Crozzo quickly before the Hestia-Apollo War Game. It is stronger than its predecessors.

-Price: Free (unique)

Pyonkichi MK-V: The fifth version of the Pyonkichi series. Welf Crozzo changed his production method for it due to it constantly breaking. It is crafted from Metal Rabbit Fur and Dil Adamantite. It also includes artificially lightened hard gold to improve defensive capabilities without hindering speed.

-Price: Free (unique)

Salamander Wool: Crafted by imbuing a cloak with a fire-aligned Spirit's magic power. It protects against fire and the cold.

-Price: 87,000 Valis (with coupon)

Undine Robe: Crafted by imbuing a robe with a water-aligned Spirit's magic power. It protects against water and heat.