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≫ WHAT'S UP WITH GATEWAY ROLEPLAY? ≪

  • We've been radio silent for a long time now. We posted an announcement in our Discord server back in April of 2025, but never updated the forums. So what's up with Gateway Roleplay?

    After 5 long years, we've decided to place the development of Ties That Bind on an indefinite hold.

    This doesn't mean it's cancelled. We fully intend to run Ties That Bind: What Lies Beneath and Ties That Bind: City of Angels eventually. But to do so, we need to take a step back. In the meantime, we'll be working on smaller, invite-only projects.

    Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us this long! MindGate and I (Pika) have been working on this server for over a decade now. It truly is a passion project for us.

Eleanor Brandenburg | Elohym

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Eleanor Brandenburg

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Has this character appeared in a previous lore?
No

Age
26

Blood Type
A+

Personality
Eleanor is often known to be a cold individual. While her demeanor may make it difficult for others to perceive her as caring, she is a loyal companion at heart. Calculating and logical, she's one to bring ideas to the table or criticize other's suggestions in order to vent out things that would get themselves killed. While not easily angered, certain subjects about her past are sensitive and cause her to act irrationally. Often traveling alone. While she is used to being alone, she secretly craves social interaction, having grown lonely over the years of isolation.

Character Motivations
Having grown up an orphan, her own survival has always been her top priority. She prefers living out in the wilderness, scavenging and hunting for food. Never really having had a family, she seeks a place to belong, hoping her outdoor skills will make it easier for her to be welcomed with open arms.

Physical Appearance
Slim build, raven black hair, pale skin. Her arms covered in burn scars, her left cheek having a small cut. She often wears a pair of worn blue jeans and a white tanktop, covered in grime due to her life out in the wilderness.

Character Image Link
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/89/5f/50/895f50ae0f193bbd64614f23ebeb9c49.jpg

Mechanical Occupation
Park Ranger

In-Character Occupation
Survivalist

Biography
Born to a couple of homesteaders, Eleanor learned from a young age how to live off the land. At the age of 6, during a cold winter night, raiders had come to the homestead, burning it to the ground. As Eleanor's mother had hidden her daughter in a secret compartment in the floor, her father was fighting off raiders. In the end, both her parents perished, the raiders burned the homestead to the ground before taking their leave. Eleanor managed to escape but was severely burned. Using the knowledge gained from her early childhood, further developed into adulthood, Eleanor has been surviving on her own ever since, living a nomadic lifestyle. Yearning to belong once more, she seeks to have a family of her own.. But having witnessed the cruelty of human nature first hand, bearing the scars to prove it, it remains to be seen whether she will find what she seeks, or die alone.

Would you like your character to start with any items?
An Axe and Tent Kit

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No
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Hey, Elohyml! My name is Pika and I'll be reviewing your application today.

Before we can go any further with the application process, I need to address the most glaring issue: You haven't read the lore. At least, there are no mentions of it in Eleanor's biography. But, luckily, you've already got a lot of great stuff down! You can easily add to what you've written so far. A few sentences will suffice, I just need to know that you've read the lore and a general idea of how Eleanor has fared this whole time. Note that we're ~14 years into the apocalypse now, so Eleanor would have been 12 or 13 at the start. You can read the lore here.

Once you've made those additions, just reply to bump the thread and we can continue with the application process. Thanks!
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I can adjust the age if it allows for it to work better? Say it happened around the age of 12-13, going on alone until the present. It wouldn't require me to change much background story as is.

On a side note, a one and a half paragraph of lore isn't exactly much, and it seems a tad difficult to find more lore on what happened from that page.

Either way! If we'd say she lived with her parents in the wilderness when shit hit the fan and things go awry a year or so after when raider gangs start to pop up or something, would that still work?
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That works as well! Whatever is easiest for you.

Since What Remains is a continuation of What We Become, 12 years later in the apocalypse, the lore was kept fairly brief and open-ended. Here's the timeline from What We Become to give you a better idea of what happened at the very beginning of the outbreak. MindGate didn't include too much on the 12 years between the two lores so that players wouldn't feel constrained to a single storyline.
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Great! When will i be able to log into the server? c:
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Here's your login info!
Username: Eleanor Brandenburg
Password: brandy
If you have any questions, feel free to reply and ask. Thanks!