Company of
the Withered Rose
Join a world where choices define experiences, and decisions ripple across the pages of a story.The Company of The Withered Rose is a Skyrim-based, mercenary RP guild built for those who crave deep storytelling, gritty realism, and the thrill of unpredictable consequences. We are a band of blades-for-hire, wandering hedge mages, societal outcasts, erudite scholars and thrill-seeking adventurers who’ve traded a life of contentment, for a sack of coin.
[21+ only]NOTE: No vampires or werewolves. Must be comfortable starting at the bottom of a hierarchy and rising through the ranks of the organization. We strongly recommend having access to the Greymoor DLC.
Step into our World
Enjoy engaging campaigns with handcrafted storylines, where every member can influence the direction of the story. How will you affect the course of this world?
What to Expect
When you join a company of mercenaries, survival isn’t guaranteed and merit must be earned. What kind of contracts will you decide to accept?
Choose Your Skills
Progress through a custom-built character sheet that offers martial, magical, armoring and non-combat skill trees. Pick your abilities, and grow your character the way you want.
Step into our World
At the Withered Rose, our storytelling team values the freedom of expression, and embraces the role of player agency in all forms of handcrafted content.We offer a host of various activities designed to engage players and provide opportunities for character growth and progression:• Saturdays: join guild-wide campaign missions that serve to progress the guild’s overarching storyline.
• Wednesdays: enjoy tavern socials at the company’s headquarters, a great opportunity to further your character’s personal relationships with others.
• Weekly: participate in small-scale jobs the company has acquired from various sources of employment. These serve as one-shot narrative content.Interested in DMing? We encourage and empower our community members to find their own storytelling voice. If you have an idea, simply present it to our content officers for approval. As a guild that thrives in “grounded fantasy”, we support content designs that place smaller, more intimate stories in the spotlight.Come create with us!
What to Expect
The Withered Rose accepts a variety of contracts from a myriad of employers. We’ve worked for haughty nobles, humble Colovian farmers, official government institutions, and hunters of both men and beast. Where coin can be made, the Withered Rose plants its thorns.• Contracts: bounties, hunting, scouting, escorting, defending, investigation, negotiations, diplomacy, & territory capturing.
• Socials: tavern hang-outs, in-character training sessions, guild-wide meetings to discuss important decisions, & town trips to acquire contracts
• Campaigns: involves long-form storytelling through roughly 13-16 weeks of content. Specific details will vary, but community resources are provided to help you stay current with events.
Our weekly scheduled content is supplemented by a lively community, and layered with an in-character mentorship system and an in-character ranking hierarchy.• Mentorship: all players who join the Withered Rose are highly encouraged to seek out a mentor. This is both an in-character and out-of-character experience designed to help new players get acclimated to the guild & forge IC bonds with other characters.
• IC ranks: all players are subjected to an in-character ranking system. As your character progresses, they will encounter opportunities for promotion within the guild’s ranking system. You will begin as a seedling, before rising through the company.As players participate in missions and socials, their character will earn experience points that can be spent to progress their skills and abilities, as well as attain higher ranks.
Choose Your Skills
The Withered Rose provides a comprehensive, homebrewed character sheet and skill system. Inspired by the rules and requirements of DnD 5e, our system incorporates a "skill buying" mechanic that functions similarly to "champion points" in ESO.Our dedicated skills team is constantly updating, testing and applying patches to our system to ensure that we are consistently providing the best possible experience to members.By simply attending events, players can earn experience for their character. This experience translates into three separate categories: proficiency points, skill points and non-combat points.• Proficiency points: these are spent to unlock and advance your skill line through a tiered system of progression. Each new tier grants you better roll bonuses and higher damage thresholds for your spells and abilities.
• Skill points: these are spent to unlock new martial abilities, gain new magical spells, and to increase the sizes of your resource pools.
• Non-combat points: these are spent to unlock and advance all character skills outside of combat-related abilities, such as athletics, acrobatics, perception and other related skills.Though it may appear complicated at first glance, our character sheet will automatically track and update the amount of proficiency, skill and non-combat points your character possesses. All you have to do is input the correct amount of experience you’ve earned and all metrics will be conveniently updated.
