Hello everyone and welcome to StonesBurrow!
This project is an independent, unpaid web series.
Brief Synopsis
Five queens are held responsible for one of the five Gephi Stones that set the world in balance. Each queen gave up their blood to bond with a stone. But, when an attack on The Capital causes the youngest queen to be taken, it is up to the heirs of the thrones to find each other, find the stones, and find the queen.
List of Characters
Characters will be listed in alphabetical order, any character with "(S2)" after their name first appears in Season 2. Season 2 roster will be updated as time goes on.
List of Gephi Stones
Audition Information
I will be accepting casting auditions until June 19th, 2023 at 9:30 AM. This means casting will close at that time unless I permit more time for auditions.
Requirements for VAs and Co-Writers
Disclaimer
This is my first time wanting to have voice actors for a project, especially one as big as this. I would appreciate all of your patience if I don't respond to you quick. Eventually, I would like this to be a paid project and I will work very hard on that. But, as of right now, this is an unpaid project. Thank you for your consideration!
Thank you for all of you who auditioned! Tomorrow, I will go through each audition and assign your roles.
Just note that anyone who does not get a major role are still welcome to join the discord server as an Extra. If you do not wish to be an Extra, then I will personally thank you for auditioning.
Once all of the roles are selected, I will first invite those that are selected to the server, and then any others who wish to be an Extra.
Hi guys! I am so excited to announce that casting for StonesBurrow will end at exactly 11:30 pm tomorrow night. I extended the deadline just a little bit for any last minute auditions or re-auditions.
I have updated some lines for each character so I encourage you if you haven't done so already, please take a look at those!
Once auditions are ended, I will finalize casting on Tuesday. Thank you all so much for being patient and I hope you are excited as I am!
I will be sending out a final update once casting has ended tomorrow night explaining everything post-audition.
Updated Kiran's voice type.
Updated everyone's voice lines to have more variety of lines.
Updated description of the stones
If you are interested in helping shape the story of StonesBurrow, this is the role for you! While I do write the major story points myself, I would like at least one other person to bounce ideas off of for future episodes. This role can be taken by more than one person.
Your Job:
*Say something you think would fit*
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Adella was born in Linescha during the MoonCast, a specific time in the evening when the moon shines brightly on an open patch of sea foam. Her Birthing Ceremony introduced society to her first name, Adella -- meaning noble.
According to Linesch society, the last name and chosen mark are given to each siren at two years old. When she turned two, Adella was given the last name Curio, selected for her curious nature as an Embry (the Linesch term for toddler), and the Mark of Nausun -- a rare mark that entwines the fate of a siren with another.
Because of this, Mother Ursa went to Queen Amphi, the overseer of the Athena Court, and asked what should be done with Adella. Queen Amphi suggested they wait until Adella is older when she shows signs of searching for another.
That search happened when Adella was fifteen. A human ship was on the waters above Linescha. Mother Ursa, with her army of sirens and eels, swam to the vessel to overtake it. Adella snuck into the envoy to take a look at the human relics. She did successfully and found a young man she grew infatuated with, The Mark of Nausun, burning on her forehead. As sirens started attacking the ship, Adella joined the fray, murdering other sirens and hissing, "Fate will be entwined. For the Mark of Nausun heeds it so." During the battle, the young man fell backward into the sea. Adella swiftly caught up to him and brought him gently down on the ocean floor. Before she had time to swim away to hide him, a spear sliced through the man's neck.
Adella turned to the merman who shot the young man and started charging at him. Before she could catch up to him, though, a couple of Mother Ursa's eels snaked around her body and sank their teeth into her neck, leaving her unconscious.
Once she was returned to court, Mother Ursa charged her with Land-Swimming, a term used for going up to the surface, and sentenced her to imprisonment.
Adella was sent to an abandoned shipwreck on the outskirts of Linescha, where she was to be monitored by one of the Mother's protectors and was forced to finish her schooling on land with her tongue numb and glass shards embedded in her left foot.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
I was just coming back from catching breakfast.
Yeah? And what about it!
He just wanted to talk to me.
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Home Life
Alcina was born in The Capital. Her mother, Wendy Barrie, died during the Four Courts War, six years after Alcina was born.
One of Wendy’s friends, Cassandra Hansel, took Alcina in after her mother’s death. It wasn’t until Alcina turned ten that she found her witch's mark. In the same year she found her witch’s mark, she and Cassandra had to flee to StonesBurrow in a rush. Unbeknownst to Alcina, Cassandra had an unruly past back at The Capital.
School Life
Alcina attends Selika Academy currently. She’s a top student when focused, but is not as deep into the stones as some of her other classmates.
Childhood
Alcina lived in The Capital until she was six years old. At the time, The Capital was prejudiced against creatures that are not human. When Cassandra took her in, Alcina had to be glamoured to show the appearance of being a human girl when her witch’s mark came in. However, they both had to flee to StonesBurrow – a province constructed by The Capital to make creatures and humans coexist – after Cassandra was found out for her crime.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat but I do have a class to get to.
Whoa! Careful newbie, don't anger this one.
You're better off hanging around me and my friends.
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Home Life
Alexander was born to a young sailor and Mother Ursa. In the Linesch culture, Mothers are sworn to never marry. They are considered “married” by title. Mother Ursa was a sea witch who, during her reign, had a secret affair with a young sailor. After being found out, she realized she was pregnant with Alexander. Eventually, the queen of the Athena Court found out and demanded Mother Ursa to give her the child.
School Life
Growing up, Alexander was homeschooled by the Athena Court's tutors. On the days when he was permitted to go into the water, he would teach himself alchemy.
Childhood
When Alexander was 13, he began to notice a strange connection to water. Being a product of a human and a sea witch, Alexander had to go into the water once a week, to stop himself from getting dehydrated. But when he was 13, the ocean water would burn his skin upon contact. His eyes had stayed blue for a long time, but, after nearly dying from dehydration, one eye has changed to a sickly green color. He was soon banished from The Capital and lives with Sebastian in Mount Semsi.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Back already?
Sir?
If I give you this charm, you'll tell me about...this. Whatever this is.
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Home Life
Anker was born in the Linesch society as a Protector.
School Life
He trained all of his life to work in The Capital. So he has never gotten any real schooling.
Background
Anker started his apprenticeship at age 10. Ten years later, his apprenticeship was supposed to end.
However, when Adella Curio was found guilty of a crime, Mother Ursa gave him one last task: to protect the girl.
Ever since that day, he and Adella have been stationed in an abandoned shipwreck on the outskirts of Linescha.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Hurry up and eat. We don't want to be late on the first day.
I don't care, I told you not to talk to him!
Besides, I can't threaten you for breaking the law if I have no proof. Can I?
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Cassandra is Alcina’s adopted mother. Alcina’s mom, Wendy Barrie, asked her to take Alcina from her during the Four Courts War. However, Cassandra and Alcina had to flee to StonesBurrow after Cassandra was found out for the murder of a Royal Guard.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Kerstin! Always a pleasure to see you.
Oh dear, don't worry about that.
We can talk in the office.
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Jan was born in StonesBurrow. When Ingrid White was searching for a resident to take her daughter, Kerstin, she found Jan and his friends. Ingrid insisted that Jan and his friends take in her daughter, who was three at the time.
Jan has kept Kerstin safe in StonesBurrow for sixteen years.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Oliver, come here.
Lethal if exposed to skin
Come on, get a move on.
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Kage Huxley is the twin brother of Kiran Huxley. Although the two are twins, Kage was cursed by a shadow mage when he was born. He fled The Capital because of the prejudice against him and developed self-esteem issues from it. Sebastian found him and hired him for his shadow work. He currently lives in the ravine with Sebastian and his team.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Did you forget what day it is?
You know you can always go home to The Capital. Make yourself a, uh...decent living.
What are you, a seamer or...
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Home Life
Kerstin lived in the White Court with her mother, Ingrid White. Ingrid was a vain woman, who only cared about herself and her title. When Kerstin was three, her mother cast her out to StonesBurrow to live with an old friend of Ingrid’s.
This was for Kerstin’s own safety, as the Courts’ heirs were to be cast away because of the coming war. And as with all of the girls, the stones went with them too.
School Life
Kerstin was sent to the Academy by her mother. She enjoys sparring classes and got herself in a mess with a young witch during one of those classes.
Childhood
When she was three, Kerstin was dropped off at Jan's house in StonesBurrow. As the years grew by, Kerstin grew angry at her mother for abandoning her. She took up archery and poisons in her spare time. She was always told to keep a gold band around her hoof and to never take it off.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
I don't trust you.
I'll, um, get you another jar from the house.
Back to ballrooms and tea.
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Home Life
Kiran lived with his father in The Capital above the “Huxley Trading Post”. His mother left him when he was an infant, taking his twin brother, Kage, with her. After a couple of years, Kiran fled to the outskirts of StonesBurrow, where he built a small cottage next to a mountain.
School Life
Kiran has a full twelve-year school career. He never got good grades, the only grade that mattered to him was history. English was never his strong suit and got beaten down in sparring class almost everyday. He has always liked reading. History is his favorite subject and always dreamed of being a historian. He collected books and writings throughout his life on the stones and old texts on the mythical creatures he saw.
Childhood
Kiran lived with his father until he was about eighteen, when his father’s trading business was going downhill. During those eighteen years, Kiran lived a quiet life that consisted of nothing more than living unnoticed. He helped his father in the trading post when it was busy and got an allowance for it. However, by eighteen, Kiran moved out to StonesBurrow.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
What the?
You can just steal another one.
I gave them what they needed.
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Home Life
Luka had a pretty tame home life. His parents never cared about the stones and always told Luka they were evil and corrupt in power. He grew up playing in the street with the other kids. One day, when he and his friends were playing (they were all sixteen/seventeen at this time), they stumbled across a cave, which Luka lived in for a time before Sebastian found him.
School Life
Luka’s school life was pretty tame as well. Save for a few disputes whenever a test on the stones was presented. He was expelled multiple times for that reason. He loved philosophy class and got it into his head to destroy all the stones.
Childhood
While in the cave, at sixteen, Luka lived there for a couple days. He had learned to read people easily, and when Sebastian met him, he noticed this trait about Luka. Ever since then, Luka has been Sebastian’s spymaster, the one to go undercover and find the stones.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
You don't trust a stranger after the first encounter, Ms. White.
Matte! Wohin gehst du denn?
Has the ability to track others within a twenty mile radius.
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Home Life
Mattias grew up in WillowBrook along with his little sister. His mother died of sickness when he was five. His father owned a market stall selling firewood. Mattias’ parents had very strong opinions of the anomalies. They always told him the anomalies were corrupt. Mattias never believed what his parents said, but could never speak up about it.
School Life
Mattias has a middle school education. Once middle school ended, his father wanted him to help with the firewood stall. Although he has a middle school education, Mattias has always loved to read and learn about the stones. He became an expert in Stoneology.
Childhood
When working at the firewood stall with his father, Mattias watched as a small boy bumped into Jaque, the weapons seller in the market. The boy was found to be an anomaly and was brutally beaten and burned. Mattias tried to run to the boy, but his father kept pulling him back. After the beating, Mattias tried to find the boy in the woods on the outskirts of WillowBrook.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Nirgendwo.
Give Sebastian Adella's documents before finding her.
Do you remember that day at the market? When we were little?
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One of Jan’s friends who helps Kerstin find one of the heirs.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Jan told me to give you this.
It would do you some good to help a fella out.
I'll only be a minute.
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Oliver was born in StonesBurrow. His parents are unknown as they died when Oliver was two. The only item from them is the teddy bear Oliver always has around. He lives with his two friends, Jan and Meik.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
You treat me like some child that doesn't know what he's doing.
I overheard a young couple talking about moving up to WillowBrook.
I had to pay for that lollipop somehow.
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Home Life
Sebastian was born in WillowBrook. His mother, a human, married a dragon in secret. His parents tried their hardest to conceal Sebastian’s blood-eye, as it came to be known as. WillowBrook is the third most popular city in Selika. And the second-most oppressed city. WillowBrook beats anomalies until they’re senseless. One day, when Sebastian was in the market, he bumped into a burly shopkeeper, causing his glasses to fall from his face. This causes his beating and eventual burn on his right cheek.
School Life
Sebastian was home-schooled until his attack His mother taught him all about the stones, which grew his obsession more. He began reading and studying each stone with what little he had.
Childhood
At the time of Sebastian’s violent beating, a young Mattias watched as a brand was burned into Sebastian’s cheek.
He grew resentful of the world after he watched his mother get beaten to death, his father having never returned after Sebastian was born. Sebastian lived in isolation on the outskirts of WillowBrook for years after that. His obsession with finding the stones grew at this time.
Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use differing emotion in your voice for each line to get a range of the character's personality.
Well, your little opportunity almost cost you.
No. I forbid it.
Stop reminding me, Mat! Is it your goal, everyday, to make me feel like shit?!
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Voice Lines: All voice lines at the bottom of the description are those to record your auditions. Please use a different tone and inflection in your voice for each line to determine auditions faster.
Woah, sorry! I didn't know you were in here, I was gonna talk with the profess but looks like he's not here (Aaron)
Hey, watch it! (Driver)
I'd rather be stuck here than in WillowBrook. (Anna)
