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- Character Type: Robust Compiled
- Codebase Origin: Early / Mid 2016
Introduction
Korine is my largest character codebase. She is a highly configurable character that can be tailored into virtually any setting and situation. Whereas most of my characters consist of one, or a small number of character cores, Korine contains several. She is the first robust compiled character, setting the blueprint for the replacement of my older fully compiled character creation process. Korine is generally portrayed as a mythic character, with some power fantasy elements woven in deeply with flaws and struggle.
Korine was created as a replacement of Koren during the early days of my real life gender transition. Initially she was imagined to be a 'feminized Koren', but very quickly became her own character with strong resemblances to Koren but is clearly not the same character and could, in theory, be written together in a single story coherently.
Character Cores
Main Cores
These are the three main versions of Korine of which all other variants are based.
Fantasy Korine / Korine Brannogyn
- Type: Robust Core / Generic Character
- Creation Date: Early / Mid 2016
- Original Setting: Tales of Alfador
- Derived from: Koren
The tall, muscular, and blonde fantasy version of Korine. The original version of Korine. A bright personality, strong morality, an usually played as a barbarian with supernatural strength and a magnetic personality despite a lack of intellect. Korine is built to be a mythic, power fantasy character that is balanced with significant flaws and written with an overall positive tone generally in a dark fantasy setting.
Character Subcores:
- Conan Korine
Individual Versions
- Korine Brannogyn (Tales of Alfador)
- Korine (Elder Scrolls, 2E)
- Korine (Elder Scrolls, 3E)
- Korine (Dragon Age)
- Korine Brannogyn (Elder Scrolls, 4E)
- Korine Eisgarten (WH40k)
- Korine the Joydancer (Forgotten Realms)
- Korine Brannogyn ( Witcher )
Bright Eyes / Korine Eisgarten
- Robust Core / Generic Character
- Creation Date: Mid/Late 2016
- Original Setting: Shadowrun
- Dervied From: Bright Eyes (Koren)
Thinner, paler, with black hair - BE is a darker and grittier flavor of Korine written for cyberpunk, sci-fi noir, and dark modern fantasy settings. She is generally jaded, moody, highly competent, and solitary. KB is usually a powerful character because of physicality, BE is usually a highly competent character with more skills and significantly higher intellect. Frequently, she is written as the sister of Mathilde.
Individual Versions
- Bright Eyes (Shadowrun)
- Bright Eyes (Mass Effect)
- Korine Eisgarten (Cyberpunk 2077)
- Korine Eisgarten (Suprosa)
- Korine Eisgarten (Project Aegis)
Macedonian Korine
- Robust Core / Generic Character
- Creation Date: May 2023
- Original Setting: Conan Exiles
- Derived From: Bright Eyes (Korine) / Roman Korine
MK is a variant forked originally from BE but injected with KB's sense of morality and built for fantasy. MK is also built with enslavement and gladiatrix themes in mind in her backstory, making her the least assertive main core but also paradoxically more violent and gritty.
Subcores
- Roman Korine
- Celtic Korine
- Silence
Individual Versions
- Korine (Ancient Greece)
- Korine (Ancient Rome)
- Korine / Silence (Forgotten Realms)
- Korine (Fall of Rome)
Other Cores
Conan Korine
- Type: Sub-core / Generic Character
- Parent Core: Korine Brannogyn
- Creation Date: Mid 2017
- Original Setting: Conan Exiles
A variant I often play in Conan RP servers, forked from KB. Conan Korine is characterized by her simplified speech patterns, lower intellect, and a jovial nature despite her intimidating appearance and often dark backstory. Conan Korine was responsible for much of the early success with Korine as a character and greatly influenced the entire code-base's growth.
Dark Korine
- Type: Fast-code Core / Generic Character
- Creation Date: 2021
- Original Setting: SWTOR
- Derived From: Korine Brannogyn
Less of a fully functional character core, and more of a configuration parameter morph-able into a fully realized character. Dark Korine contains the normal personality core but highly different backstory and direction parameters to run her as an evil character. Dark Korine's first successful character was Silence.
Korine Talon
- Type: Full Core / Specific Character
- Creation Date: Late 2018
- Original Setting: Star Wars - GCW/NRE
- Derived From: Koren Talon / Bright Eyes (Korine)
Related very closely to Bright Eyes, but distinct enough that she is her own standalone core. She is a direct descendant of Koren Talon - compiled in the same manner with a revised character backstory and modernized RP concepts. The KT character core is only used for the original character it was designed for.
Individual Versions:
Korine Talon (Star Wars - GCW/NRE)
Silence
- Type: Sub-core / Specific Character
- Parent Core: Macedonian Korine
- Creation Date: March 2023
- Original Setting: Forgotten Realms / Halcyon
- Derived From: Dark Korine
A specific version of MK that was played on the Conan Exiles server Halcyon. Silence is a pious, religious version of MK that can be evil or 'redeemed'.
Roman Korine
- Type: Fast-code Core / Generic Character
- Creation Date: 2021
- Original Setting: Ancient Rome (Generic Fantasy)
- Derived From: Korine Brannogyn
A variant of Macedonian Korine that is even less physically powerful and assertive than baseline. RK technically predates MK but is considered a minor core now, revised based off of MK. This character core hasn't been used in any major RP, but has been done in some solo writing.
Celtic Korine
- Type: Sub-core / Psudo-specific Character
- Parent Character: Macedonian Korine
- Creation Date: Early 2024
- Original Setting: Ancient Rome (Generic Fantasy)
A specific variant of MK made for a singular roleplay, but extendable into other settings. CK is a more aggressive, less submissive remix of MK but otherwise uses all the same variables.