Obviously, the admin need to turn it into a hunting/influencing area.
Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
Was a minor event where Eventru and Lyreth fused to become Valtreth.
And you should totally make your own post here. For sure.
@Kiradawea I know he's gone, it's the reason I stopped playing. and because of that I feel I have no reason to create one of these, as great as they look. I am enjoying reading everyone else's, though!
I've been holding back since I feel like these things can often be too revealing, but I have enjoyed reading these during my breaks at work for too long now. So here is mine:
Character Name: Vivet Pavok
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Trill/Illithoid, might expand beyond this as changeling experimentation continues Gender: Female Guild: Institute City/Commune: Hallifax Order: Zvoltz
THE LOOK
Hair: - Eyes: - Height: - Build: - Defining Features: All of these things will vary, but different shades of purple/amber shall be the most prevalent theme. Piercings: None Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Largely numb to own sense of pain, doesn't mind getting her hands dirty as is required, capable of potent empathy, capable of developing curiosity and interest in nearly anything, dedicated to her charges and superiors, supportive of bold moves and new enterprises in her peers.
Weaknesses: Generally aloof, easily distracted and lost to thought, tendency to expect negative outcomes, extreme difficulty in completing tasks without strictly regimented deadlines and schedules, difficulty in finding time for everyone/everything and choosing between them, afraid of hurting others that trust her, hesitant to believe in the depth of her own strength (poignantly so when alone).
Morals: Today's enemy can be tomorrow's ally. Today's ally can be tomorrow's enemy. There is always a degree of uncertainty in all connections one makes and establishes. Thus, avoid burning bridges where possible and be prepared to bridge new gaps as they are available. But remember, the more distantly you extend yourself, the more difficult and tasking it is to maintain it all.
Pet Peeves: People "being bored", people not thinking, people not working, people being nuisances and stirring up trouble just because they can.
Best way to piss me off: Be counterproductive.
Best way to get on my good side: Do Work.
FAVORITES
Color: Purple
Tertiary: Healing
Tertiary Skill: Aurashift
Primary Skill: Crystal Weapon. Not one in particular, though.
Location: The well in the City of Spires
God/Goddess: Zvoltz - also partial to Isune, Yomoigu to a lesser extent
Commodity: Pearl, moonstone, and coral. They come from cutting gems and we don't use those on the Continuum. Therefore, use them for everything else!
Animal: Braineater parasites
Item owned: A multi-chained silver heart pendant
Village/forest/region: Talthos
NPC: a dark violet rage worg with wings of mist and shadow
Memory: Being asked, point blank, to help save Hallifax by a troubled man who was ready to throw it all away. There are many others, but the majority of them would probably never have been realised without this one coming first.
Song: Talan's songs. They are pretty fun.
Drink: Cloudberry tea.
MINDSET
Goals: Write more. Design more. Gain/expend more essence. Attain omniscience. Empower Hallifax.
Ambitions: Achieve contentment for the whole of the Collective.
Nemesis: Time. Aeonics, help me!
Rival: All of my betters in all the various fields and pursuits I enjoy. I can't pick one.
Best Friend: Talan, Elanorwen
Idol: Zvoltz
Best personal achievement: Ascendancy.
Worst personal achievement: Convincing Morbo not to stay and argue with Celest over a domoth when it seemed a full-on fight was ready to break out between us. Magnagora came and took it while we were gone. Somehow, this seemed to improve alliance relations/cooperation for a time afterwards.
Proudest moment: Becoming a full Arbiter of the Architect. Yes, bigger and better things have come since, but this one came not long after an important revelation between deity and devotee.
Most shameful moment: Any time a difficult decision has forced her into choking up and remaining inert.
If I could make one wish: Attain universal comprehension and understanding of all things. Or about 500 million essence. Both are good, but that latter one is probably more realistic.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: Sometimes wishy-washy with direction and goals, may seem to contradict herself often with a variety of paradoxical philosophical views, not interested in entertaining you simply because you are there. Obsessed with gaining more essence.
Why you should love her: Liable to have some interest in what you are interested in, tends toward highly reciprocative behaviour, wants to get shit done.
Why you should fear her: You have a use in the grand scheme of things, and it will be found and put to the task in due time.
Why she is harmless: It is extremely likely she has more interest in utilising you than in killing/destroying you. Not wanting to kill/destroy most people tends to put her grossly out of practice in such matters.
If she ruled the world, you'd best expect: A regimented conglomerate of nation-states dedicated to the expansion and spread of all races, continued containment of the Soulless, and the perpetual advancement of knowledge and art. It would be arranged in a fashion similar to the divine circles, with Hallifax being the obvious seat of the "First Circle". This may likely require a full dissolution of the Kepheran Hives and Illithoid Prison as they currently exist, full settlement of aetherbubbles and the outer planes, development of artificial aetherbubbles, deeper exploration of alternate timelines, and the unification of the remaining Elders via mortal persuasion (at the least). Also, development for use of prospicience and noetics from anywhere and across multiple people, so I can keep my personal circle close without extensive travel or having to leave them too frequently. And lots of essence for me.
Race: Elfen Gender: Male Guild: Spiritsingers City/Commune: Serenwilde Order: Maylea (Llewell doesn't have a clear understanding of what Maylea stands for. He's mostly in the order because She's interesting, and has a lot of history to read)
THE LOOK
Hair: Flaxen and straight, almost a bleached blonde and cut shoulder length Eyes: Sharp, wintery blue Height: A bit under two metres in height Build: Generally thin, but with good posture. Defining Features: He seems to try and keep his hands clean no matter what he does. Piercings: None Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Has a great respect for nature and older people. He's a designer, and will generally show that he likes you by designing you things (Qistral's ladybug starleaf throne comes to mind).
Weaknesses: Distrustful of people outside Serenwilde, even people who he believes to be allies at the time. This leads him to lose a lot of business, as he rarely jumps to serve cityfolk as an artisan.
Attitude: Generally quiet and polite.
Morals: Might be described as Lawful Evil for the most part. Llewell is a bit dark, and doesn't see the harm in killing communemates if they aren't productive or are "leeching from the commune" in some way, like simply sitting around while Serenwilde is being raided. The Leaves in Serenwilde keep him from this..for now. To quote his motto, "Nature is harsh and unforgiving".
Pet Peeves: Snugglers. Oh god, people who snuggle and romp and lick each other piss him off to no end. Also, people who whine that they can't advance or better themselves, and just sit around.
Best way to piss me off: Not being useful or having a purpose.
Best way to get on my good side: Better yourself, show respect to elders, perform rituals for public display.
FAVORITES
Color: Silver, white, blue. Llewell loves ice, and icy tones.
Tertiary: Ecology
Tertiary Skill: ForestSmudge. Nothing like remotely hitting enemies with burning damage/stun from a few rooms away.
Primary Skill: Wildarrane, Ecology
Location: A frost-laden grove of maple. (his manse)
God/Goddess: Maylea, but he would give anything to join Auseklis' order if Auseklis was active.
Guild Master/House Head (all time): None.
Artifact: a plush doll of Shashi
Commodity: Snowballs.
Animal: Snow mammoth
Item owned: a frost-clasped mandolin of ancestral spirits. a whimsical throne of Czigany memories
Village/forest/region: Icewynd
NPC: a spirited snow phoenix with wings of black frost
Memory: Llewell once created a tapestry for Maylea, and was asked by Her not to submit it, because She felt it was too personal. She may not have thought much about the incident, but it gave Llewell a lot of respect for Her, as well as himself for hitting so close to home.
Song: None. Llewell doesn't even like listening to other people's bardic songs, and only has one himself because it helps his ecology smudges.
Drink: Almost any white tea with flavor.
MINDSET
Goals: Destroy all of the cities, covering them in trees with the help of Glomdoring. Llewell sees Glomdoring as an enemy, but not as much as he does the cities, and he'd rather team up with the Wyrd than the cityfolk if given a chance.
Ambitions: to help Serenwilde turn to a mindset where people carried their weight or are kicked out.
Nemesis: Gabriella, who is one of the higher ranking people in Maylea's order. He looked up to Gabriella for a long while and also had a bit of a crush on her, but she started being condescending and rude to him (or so he feels), and was largely unapproachable. He feels he would have advanced in Maylea's order if she had been more approachable and better explained Maylea's tenets, which he still doesn't understand. He feels she is scatterbrained and uninteresting, and he scowls every time he thinks of her.
Rival: Lyethal, who annoys him to no end.
Best Friend: Niina. Caerlyr to a lesser extent, who helped him found a family and then jumped ship and joined a city. What a pitiful wench.
Idol: Everiine. Llewell looks up to Everiine as part of the "old guard", and sees him as a reminder of how Serenwilders should act.
Best personal achievement: Winning fifth place in Beauty one year with his throne.
Worst personal achievement: None, yet.
Proudest moment: Also none yet.
Most shameful moment: Also none yet. Geeze, I need to play Llewell more.
If I could make one wish: Destroy all of the cities.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: Unless you're older than him or an elfen, he doesn't like you. He's a grouchy old man, despite his youth.
Why you should love him: Because even if he doesn't like you, he'll help you out no matter what.
Why you should fear him: You shouldn't.
Why he is harmless: He's not especially confrontational, and would rather sit back and let things happen. In combat, he's more of a supportive person, spamming smudges from a distance (and he's quick about it too).
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: Imagine a forest mixed with Hallifax. That forest would cover the first world, and he'd be sitting somewhere in it, finally at peace.
Everiine said: The reason population is low isn't because there are too many orgs. It's because so many facets of the game are outright broken and protected by those who benefit from it being that way. An overabundance of gimmicks (including game-breaking ones), artifacts that destroy any concept of balance, blatant pay-to-win features, and an obsession with convenience that makes few things actually worthwhile all contribute to the game's sad decline.
Yay. Character development (To be fair, he's only been around 3-4 months so there's not a lot to put in).
Edited again (Fourth time) because of recent events.
Character Name: Haezon The Black (He Of The Blackest Night)
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Trill
Gender: Male
Guild: Harbingers
City/Commune: Glomdoring
Order:
THE LOOK
Hair: None, bald.
Eyes: One orange, one blue.
Height: Tall
Build: Slender.
Defining Features: Black skin, sunglasses.
Piercings: None
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Faith in the Glomdoring, creativity, confident and stalwart.
Weaknesses: A bit of a naive romantic unused to deception and politics.
Attitude: Dedicated, Loyal, loves challenges, polite, loves having fun.
Morals: Glomdoring through and through. Utmost loyalty, utmost respect, looking out for number 1 (Glomdoring). Go team.
Pet Peeves: Thugs, personal arrogance, hypocrites/hypocrisy, disloyalty
Best way to piss me off: Be disloyal and/or arrogant.
Best way to get on my good side: Watch plays, talk about Glomdoring philosophy.
FAVORITES
Color: Black
Tertiary: Hunting, Ecology
Tertiary Skill: Acrobatics
Primary Skill: Music.
Location: The Marble Orchard (Manse)
God/Goddess: Trillillial
Guild Master (all time): Valonah
Artifact (don't have to own): Scarecrow hat
Commodity: Wood (Campfires)
Animal: Bat
Item owned: Sun glasses.
Village/forest/region: Icewynd mountains.
NPC: Adalgiso
Memory: Becoming Minister of Culture.
Song: Music for Funeral of Queen Mary (A Clockwork Orange) by Wendy Carlos, Paradise by Nightwish
Drink: Water
Likes: Puns, plays.
Dislikes: Sweet things
MINDSET
Goals: To become a renowned playwright, make great art and serve Viravain
Amibitions: Gain respect, become a bastion of the Glomdoring.
Nemesis: None.
Rival: None
Best Friend: None (Everyone who fell under these three have gone dormant or left)
Idol: Valonah.
Best personal achievement: Prestige winning play, twice.
Worst personal achievement: Being an annoying prick during a domoth. He's gotten better.
Proudest moment: Becoming Astraea's son.
Most shameful moment: Private.
If I could make one wish: To receive all of Mother Night's knowledge and understanding.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: Haezon prides a lot on loyalty and those who forsake it usually become dead to him, unrevocably. He instinctively distrusts mercenaries and carries a lot of inner conflict within himself.
Why you should love him: Always wants to help people, enthusiastic about his duties and polite.
Why you should fear him: He does not fear death. He cannot be broken. He can not be converted. He just is.
Why he is harmless: Calm, polite and truthful.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: An empire under Mother Night's reign.
This is a useful exercise for a thing I’m working on so here we are.
Also here is an excellent example of character building from True Detective:
Very much a love letter to Ligotti
Character Name: Kaalak Mittani
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Human, previously Elfen
Gender: Male
Guild: Matrix Research Institute
City/Commune: Hallifax
Order: Lady Isune
Background Summary: Started in Magnagora as a Nihilist. Went to Celest and joined Celestines, serving as administrator for several years. Moved to Hallifax as a retiree.
THE LOOK
Hair: Long black hair pulled in a ponytail, now greying in an increasing number of streaks.
Eyes: Brown
Height: Six one.
Build: Build of an endurance runner.
Defining Features: Kaalak is 250 years old. He has noticeable laugh and frown lines (more of the former) adding character to his weathered face. Overall he appears to be in his late thirties. There is a slight point to his ears reflecting his Elfen origins.
Piercings: none
Scars: Several, all decades old now.
PERSONALITY
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths and weaknesses are context dependent.
Kaalak is highly analytical, perceptive, and occasionally creative. He has firm convictions. Or he’s an arrogant asshole. A little of column A, a little of column B. Somewhere in there, there is a sense of humor. He is a perfectionist.
Attitude/ Morals: Since his arrival in the Basin, Kaalak has always considered himself a ‘Servant of the State.’ Kaalak views this ‘State’ in abstract almost amoral terms: specifically a society of mortal individuals is best viewed as a Machine, specifically some sort of dynamic engine. The overall politics of the Machine or the direction the Machine is going is … not his concern. Specifically Kaalak views all individuals with in this system as cogs of varying size proportional to their contribution to the society. Whether the cogs are tightly interacting in lock step, or given to wandering flitting between different functions, or if they spin doing seemingly nothing at all; Kaalak considers all of this to be simply the equilibrium of the Machine at a given time. Kaalak’s attention is only drawn to cogs that disrupt the function of other cogs; specifically individuals who harm other individuals and derive personal pleasure from their actions. Said individuals are detrimental to the Machine’s health and function as a whole as they detract from the Machine’s resources rather than contribute to it. Such individuals are Sadists.
These aberrant cogs damage the Society-Machine by each sadistic action they take; and more broadly by their continued existence within the society even while they take no action. For the Society-Machine to continue to function these aberrant cogs must be removed permanently. In lieu of termination, the resources of the aberrant cogs must be limited or removed at every opportunity. The resources sanctioned to be removed include the aberrant cogs’ resource of time, political influence, or physical ability to harm another i.e. their weapons or hands.
When an individual in the society is aware of an aberrant cog, has the resources to limit them and the mindset to do so then said individual is compelled to act for the benefit of the Society-Machine. This mandate may not necessarily be sanctioned by the political ruling body of the Society, but that is irrelevant. An individual aware of the destructive element is mandated to act purely based on their awareness of the sadist. There is no higher authority. In addition, there is to be no glory in acting as an executioner-regulatory mechanism for the Society-Machine. The individual purely serves the function of an adaptive immune response in the context of the Society-Machine. The individual’s will becomes temporarily co opted or directly parallel to the desire for self-preservation of the Society-Machine.
In a poetic sense the individual temporarily becomes a literal servant of the society/state, rather than any discrete internal political body.
Once no target is present, the individual is to return to basal society-contributing functions.
If an individual takes action that is too disruptive to the Society-Machine, another cog in the Society-Machine will become aware of him and his actions and judge for his/herself whether those actions deserve terminal sanction. The success of one of the two aware components in conflict is a function of each component’s respective resources and stochastic events. Ultimately, a self-regulating equilibrium is established within the Society-Machine to remove sadists and also remove aware individuals who may take acts so extreme they themselves function as sadists. That on average, the strong survive, is ultimately beneficial to the Society-Machine’s long term robustness.
FAVORITES
Color: Black. Goes with everything.
Tertiary Skill: Tarot
Primary Skill: Harmonics
Location: Libraries everywhere.
Divine: Elostian, Isune.
Artifact: a plush doll of Gorgulu, Devourer of Souls. If I had a Volucer doll, it would be my favorite.
Commodity: Silk or Cloth
Animal: I don’t recall Kaalak ever having a favorite animal. Could be wrong. Item owned: Whatever piece of clothing Lady Nihmriel has generously tailored for me.
Village/forest/region: Arthar’rt Observatory, Presidio of the Damned
NPC: Volucer, Master of Her Majesty’s Air Force, hands down. Uuken Exley, Butler of Erudio is a close second.
Memory: Kaalak’s favorite memories are late night impromptu philosophical discussions with Lord Elostian with thinly veiled references to thermodynamics, evolution and quantum physics. Wherever you are sir, I salute you.
Song: No real ‘favorites’ but for no reason at all Kaalak sometimes burst out in show tunes or Sinatra songs. There is no rhyme or reason for this. Sometimes members of Lady Isune’s order are unfortunately subjected to this when I think the aether is empty.
Drink: Yes.
MINDSET
Goals: As a member of Hallifax Kaalak is finally enjoying a creative outlet as a member of Lady Isune’s Order. Unfortunately for him (and possibly the Order) for Kaalak, creation involves an above average amount of frustration and effort. Kaalak feels personally very fortunate that Lady Isune and his fellow Order mates put up with the grizzled old cantankerous human who fusses and rants about this design or that project from the alcoves of his aethermanse. His goals are to finish his list of projects and make a specific bird happy.
Ambitions: Finish projects before you start others, damn it.
Nemesis: None. All have fallen on the swords of their own hubris. Some enjoyed a little push.
Rival: Akyaevin/Esano and Celina. Kaalak enjoys annoying Akyaevin ad Celina when the opportunity presents itself. Akyaevin has on occasion tried to target him during revolts and on other occasion when Kaalak becomes too much of a jackass, but so far Kaalak has managed to dance away from earthquakes and chasms like the Tarot’s own Fool. Celina has learned the only winning move it not to play and thus Kaalak is rather annoyed that she is not around. VERY. ANNOYED.
Idol: Way way back when Kaalak was very young I believe Neerth was his Idol.
Best personal achievement: Quiet work.
Worst personal achievement: No regrets.
Proudest moment: One of the more recent ones was learning that Kaalak could successfully keep up in a rap battle. First time I ever tried to wax lyrical. Who knew?
Certainly another one was getting the Celestines to build a bust of Neerth, a former Celestine Administrator (iirc) and all around excellent roleplayer, in the novice area of Celest. Having the opportunity to see Neerth return and see his well-deserved monument was a very fine moment indeed.
If I could make one wish: Wishes are ineffective. Make plans instead.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate/love/fear/ him: These are dumb questions, seriously.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: Kaalak isn’t interested in ruling the world or in ruling in general. He believes society generated by the accretion of events and random interpersonal interactions is much more interesting than any plan he could personally envision, because it generates a greater diversity than his imagination can encompass. That is about the extent of Kaalak’s ‘humility’: realizing the universe is significantly larger (and more interesting) than his personal sense of self. You cannot beat the Chaos of life into Order…but you can manage events to generate systems that support your own ideals and improve one’s own personal condition. In accordance with is worldview, Kaalak prefers to work behind the scenes and apply pressure where/when his intelligence indicates tipping points are likely to occur.
Eyes: Heterochromatic emerald and sapphire star-eyes
Height: Tall
Build: Athletic
Defining Features: Heterochromatic emerald and sapphire star-eyes and a body of shadows
Piercings: None
Scars: A wound that never healed which spells out @Narynth's name - this was from a long, long, long time ago; Narynth did it for fun
PERSONALITY
Strengths:
He is approachable, very friendly and believes in the best and the potential in everyone, even if they don't see it yet. He is very loyal and is willing to contribute in whatever ways he can. Very often, he encourages those who sees a lot of potential in to step up, most noticeable when he was the Prince of Shadows and the Librarian of Glomdoring. He makes it a point to talk to you personally and he can be quite shameless when he wants results.
He is unfazed by defeat and is always ready to give pep talks should things don't turn favorably. This is most noticeable during the Glomffpeak Raids Era, or whenever the latest library contest didn't churn up a lot of entries.
He is strongly against the very idea of giving up, of being apathetic. It is a weakness he nips in the bud should he sense it.
Weaknesses:
Over the years, he has woven for himself a reputation for being seemingly talkative, flippant(hello Wyrden Potato, ha) and comical. He attempts to add levity to situations where it can be otherwise inappropriate. This often leads to people underestimating him, which leads to them being surprised when he gets serious and gets things done. Very few people have seen past this.
Attitude: Friendly, distant, comical, empathetic
Morals: He is amoral.
Pet Peeves: DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP AND GO EMO AND WAIL AND BE ALL MISERABLE IN FRONT OF HIM.
Best way to piss me off: DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP AND GO EMO AND WAIL AND BE ALL MISERABLE IN FRONT OF HIM.
Best
way to get on my good side: Design things, write books, be cordial, and put up with him when he tries to be funny.
FAVORITES
Color: Black
Tertiary: Influence
Tertiary Skill: Empowerment and Charity
Primary Skill: Crow Caw
Location: the Wyrden Archives
God/Goddess: Maylea - Shikari - Nocht - Viravain
Shikari deserves a mention because of Himself, Iriki, and Ingwe. Yes, I still have your baby painting, Ingwe.
Best personal achievement: attaining Demigod(license to Star-eyes), helping Glomdoring get the Largest Library(thank you Shamelessness)
Worst personal achievement: Becoming a reclusive Dirgesinger, so much so that Tacita had to replace me.
Proudest moment: Library wins. Each and every one of them.
Most shameful moment: Swearing at @Raeri once a loooooong time ago. He has never forgiven himself for that.
If I could make one wish: get his personal Wyrdling
SUMMARY
Why
you should hate him: He will outlast you. A lot of people who have been quite unpleasant(even downright rude) to him are now gone.
Why you should love him: He will give peptalks even after all of you died 999999999 times, lost something, etc.
Why you should fear him: He will outlast you. A lot of people who have been quite unpleasant(even downright rude) to him are now gone. Oh, and beware the Siam that wears the SD-attitude hat.
Why he is harmless: He is kind.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: a moonless Wyrden sky with lots and lots of auroras and veritable armies of Siam-pixies and Siam-butterflies
Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
Coming back to the game after so long, I suppose I should do this, if for no other reason than an excercise.
Character Name: Kolibri
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Trill
Gender: Female
Guild: Nekotai
City/Commune: Glomdoring
Order: Shikari
THE LOOK
Hair: Short, black feathers that cup her head.
Eyes: icy blue Height: short
Build: emaciated
Defining Features: Covered in tattoos
Piercings: None Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Unemotional unless she trusts you. Very logical and level-headed. Willing to do whatever it takes to complete her goals.
Weaknesses: Very distrusting, and believes violence/murder is nearly always the answer.
Attitude: Quiet and distant to outsiders. Behind closed doors, angry and passionate. Morals: What are morals? Nothing matters but Glomdoring? that's a moral, right? Pet Peeves: People who make promises then don't keep them (QUORRE), delinquency, laziness
Best way to piss me off: Ask for her help then do nothing to progress toward the goal. Best way to get on my good side: Help her get better at combat.
FAVORITES
Color: Black Tertiary: Acrobatics
Tertiary Skill: springup
Primary Skill: Deepcover. hehehe
Location: Wandering Glomdoring
God/Goddess: Shikari
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Tau. Her Mother-in-Law. Artifact (don't have to own): Whip of the Pious
Commodity: steel Animal: cats. She enjoys watching them hunt birds, then hunting them.
Item owned: Her cloak Village/forest/region: Glomdoring
NPC: Rowena Nightshade
Memory: Marrying Quorre
Song: She sometimes hums a trill lullaby when she is polishing/poisoning her blades.
Drink: Inebriation dulls the mind.
MINDSET
Goals: Become a Demigod. Divorce Quorre. Find a better, stronger partner. Amibitions: Long term: Ascension.
Nemesis: None currently.
Rival: None Currently.
Best Friend: Hah. Friends.
Idol: Lerad
Best personal achievement: Reaching 80. Worst personal achievement: Sleeping for so long.
Proudest moment: Being accepted into Shikari's order. Most shameful moment: Losing control in an argument with Quorre and stabbing him.
If I could make one wish: More power.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: She is very loyal to Glomdoring and it's leadership. She wont question orders.
Why you should love her: She is very loyal to her friends and family as well.
Why you should fear her: She feels nothing while killing.
Why she is harmless: She's not as powerful as she wants to be yet.
If she ruled the world, you'd best expect: Murder.
Necro-ing because it is 5:10 AM, I cannot fall to sleep, and I was inspired by Aetolia's Character Breakdown thread (which was @Celina's inspiration). Plus, I've been wanting to write in this thread ever since I began lurking the forums again. #shameless #selfpromotion
Character Name: Nott Rillaen
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Human Gender: Female Guild: Harbingers
City/Commune: Glomdoring Order: Viravain
THE LOOK
Hair: Golden blonde
Eyes: Orange
Height: I don't give a specific measurement in Nott's description, but I imagine her being Wonder Woman-y tall: six something-ish. Since she is a demigod, I feel that is fine. Build: Dancerly. Basically, I imagine Blake Lively's Serena van der Woodsen meets Emily VanCamp for Nott. Defining Features: Spider bites behind her left ear and on her right wrist, left behind by a "friend of Viravain's." Beauty mark at the hollow of her throat. Piercings: None Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Eternally an optimist, Nott is very sunny and tries her best to be rather happy. She wears her heart on her sleeve and tries to be quite passionate at what she does.
Weaknesses: Because she puts a lot of energy into her work, she ends up being very doubt-y at times (especially in regards to writing and music; heck, I feel doubt-y for her when I see all you cool writer types emote). Also, Nott has a tendency to be overly emotional (which is perhaps not the best for a Viravainite or a Glomdorito since intrigue is supposed to be our speciality). If anything, her overly emotional moods break into deep melancholy: perfect for Mahalla-esque dirges, or emo cry-fests. Attitude: Happy-go-lucky and usually pleasant.
Morals: Nott tries to believe people at their word (which again, is perhaps not the best thing when being in a forest and Order of intrigue). Beyond that, and especially now that she's returned to Glomdoring, she is quite serious about being loyal and faithful to "the cause."
Pet Peeves: Coldness. Best way to piss her off: Be bothersome, I guess?
Best way to get on her good side: Be kind?
FAVORITES
Color: Blue
Tertiary: Glamours
Tertiary Skill: Conceal or Deadlypattern
Primary Skill: AB SHADOWBEAT COMPOSITION Location: Under the bridge, 3595 God/Goddess: Viravain and Maylea; Viravain is obviously, but Maylea as well because She has a flower-designing competition that Nott submitted several flowers toward. I am not sure what came of that competition, sadly. But I thought that idea of it was really neat! Guild Master/House Head (all time): @Eliron Artifact: Nott's customised brooch: a mechanical, death watch beetle brooch Commodity: Powerstones?
Animal: Spiders, but also loamadores Item owned: a Medallion of Knowledge Village/forest/region: The Meliashmora of Imperial Secrets
NPC: Nyoro, the Summer Solstice (Nott definitely takes after her in a lot of ways; sorry Shadowdancers!)
Memory: Nott's first visit to the Night Bubble; I don't think he remembers, but @Xenthos was the one who helped Nott out when she kept losing to an influence battle Song: Nott's colour songs - RIP Drink: I always imagined Nott being a whiskey girl.
MINDSET
Goals: To complete all three Harbinger Concertos
Ambitions: To become a Voice of Viravain
Nemesis: None?
Rival: Before, I would probably say the entire Shevat family, but now, not so much. Maybe @Zouviqil, because Nott imagines she is similar to her but is hiding it all behind a Shadowdancer veil.
Best personal achievement: Winning the Knowledge Trial
Worst personal achievement: More or less rage-quitting during the Ascension where I could have been a contender (haha, who am I kidding?!)
Proudest moment: Beating @Arel in a haiku contest and temporarily being crowned "Voice of Twilight" while he was @Elostian's OH (the category was "twilight" too)
Most shameful moment: Probably the same as the worst personal achievement?
If she could make one wish: She would rewrite history and never had left Glomdoring (hey - Glomdoring is fully of timey-wimey nonsense, it could happen!)
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: She is sweet like a summer romance or something silly like that? She is emotional and doesn't like to do the intrigue games? She is less of a spider and more of a fly?
Why you should love her: Because she will side with you if she believes you are in the right.
Why you should fear her: Potentially if you do become her friend and let your guard down, she will have access to that (I mean, really - a happy girl in Glomdoring? This is some long con Revenge business)
If she ruled the world, you'd best expect: The Age of Wyrden Supremacy, of course.
And I noticed that this last question was excluded from our version of the thread:
If you were to describe her in one sentence: Silly blonde trying to be a wannabe Sappho meets Oracle of Delphi who doesn't know how to play a shadow game (or does she?).
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Your turn! Also, if you posted forever ago, you should redo this with all the changes that has happened until now.
Hair: Straight, blueish-black, a little shiny. Eyes: Pink and bulbous. Height: 23 inches. Build: Currently tubby, but fluxuates like Oprah. Defining Features: Four giant bat wings! With thumbs! Piercings: Around 30, but only fills half of those. Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Observant, intellectual and patient. A decent writer. Weaknesses: A bad fighter. Very lazy. A bit tightly strung. Attitude: We're all in this together, so stop fighting. Morals: Anti-Soulless, ambivalent toward religion, but approves of the rule of law. Pet Peeves: Treating laws as guidelines, being messy or inefficient, xenophobia. Best way to piss me off: Being rude right up until you want something. Best way to get on my good side: Presents of books!
FAVORITES
Color: Jade. Tertiary: Glamours. Tertiary Skill: For combat: Mazemazemazemaze. For everything else: Conceal! Primary Skill: Starhymn. Location: The waterfall in the Tidal Flats. God/Goddess: Avechna. Guild Master/House Head (all time): Nariah. Artifact (don't have to own): Changling Cameo! Commodity: Leather. Animal: Snakes. Item owned: Her cwrth. Village/forest/region: Delport/Serenwilde/Estengare River NPC: Jolly Bundy. Memory: Interveiwing Terentia for the Gossip. Song: The Carol of the War-Weary Solider Drink: Honey.
MINDSET
Goals: Finally finish her current writing project. Amibitions: Awaken a water elemental. Nemesis: Fain. Rival: Telperion. Best Friend: Doman! Idol: Kelly! Best personal achievement: Publishing the Gaudiguch Gossip. Worst personal achievement: Doing all the rituals in the Libellus. Proudest moment: Successfully predicting the Wayfaire a year in advance. Most shameful moment: Getting kicked out of Gaudiguch. If I could make one wish: Please blow up all the Soullesses.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: Chances are good that she has written something terrible about your organization at some point in the past. Why you should love her: She would probably ress you if she found your corpse laying on the side of the road, even if you were an enemy. Why you should fear her: Her sharp and biting wit, obviously. Why she is harmless: She weighs like 20lbs and would fall over in a stiff breeze.
Hair: No hair! Sharp crystalline spikes about eight inches long that act as prisms and split the light into rainbows at the right angle.
Eyes: Blue and pearlescent.
Height: Five feet elevenish?
Build: Crystalline and angular, with almost no curves or rounded edges to be seen.
Defining Features: He's made of crystal, and he glows. The intensity shifts based on how intense his feelings are at the moment, and the color changes based on what the dominant one or two emotions are. Most often he emanates a dim white (reflecting focus) or emerald (reflecting curiousness or intellectual effort). Beryl or other shades of yellow and gold are not uncommon, with lighter shades reflecting outright happiness or amusement and darker ones representing contentment. Red is anger and orange is frustration. Grey is uncertainty or hesitation. Blue varies, but often represents sadness or melancholy. White represents a state of controlled emotions, and usually appears in formal situations or those in which emotions are subordinated to logic or focus. Also, his body is engraved with a complex and branching set of equations, which are his shorthand representing much of his temporal research, as well as tattoos protecting him from the evils of fire damage.
Piercings: None. He thinks piercing crystal is silly.
Scars: When he's injured, he oozes a colorless fluid which does double duty as blood and a sort of sealant. When it hardens, it's indistinguishable from his original flesh, so no scars.
Weaknesses: Overreliant on hierarchy and direction, especially in combat situations, where he is expected to be low in the hierarchy. Expects everyone else to respect the hierarchy as much as he does.
Attitude: If everyone would simply work hard in the position best suited for their talents, rather than focusing on selfishly grabbing power, a great many problems would be solved.
Morals: The gaining of knowledge is the highest-- indeed, the only-- "moral" aim. All other rules for conduct follow from this. If an experiment makes efficient use of resources and has a likelihood of yielding results, it is ethical.
Pet Peeves: Disrespect to superiors. Ignorance. Rudeness. Thuggishness.
Best way to piss me off: Fail to respect basic social pleasantries when addressing him, or even in his presence. Getting straight to the point is acceptable if it is done in the name of efficiency rather than rudeness.
Best way to get on my good side: Be polite and demonstrate intelligence.
FAVORITES
Color: Beryl.
Tertiary: Healing.
Tertiary Skill: Health aura.
Primary Skill: Crystalweapon, though he is somewhat abashed about using a scalpel (due to its mathematical superiority) rather than the resonator of his own department.
Location: Xion Laboratory, where he feels most in tune with his racial ancestor, Xyl, whom he respects greatly.
God/Goddess: Xyl. Failing that, Jadice. Honorary mention: Elostian, whom Ileein refuses to believe has lost agency.
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Arel, though Vivet comes close.
Artifact (don't have to own): The fesix briefcases from goop probably.
Commodity: Silk, because he uses them for his academic regalia.
Animal: Various forms of birds, excluding pigeons.
Item owned: His crown, which he designed himself to exacting mathematical standards, of course.
Village/forest/region: The Mesa Complex, despite long-term trauma.
NPC: Cririk Adom, RIP.
Memory: Saving Solstice.
Song: There's a song/poem about the aforementioned memory, though he doesn't like to talk about it.
Drink: White skyblossom tea.
MINDSET
Goals: Expand the horizons of scientific knowledge, especially in the field of temporal science.
Amibitions: Serve on the Board of Directors.
Nemesis: He doesn't really have a nemesis, honestly.
Rival: Not really one of these, either.
Best Friend: Probably Daraius or Vivet. He doesn't do 'friendship,' but he does have people he considers colleagues.
Idol: Cririk Adom, RIP.
Best personal achievement: Winning prestige a few times with his research.
Worst personal achievement: Completing the Meliashmora quest to earn Verses for Hallifax. It may have involved doing drag for the Collective.
Proudest moment: Entering the override code in Xion to retract the pylons and reveal the aetherrings.
Most shameful moment: Being an idiot with relationships while still Trill. We don't talk about it.
If I could make one wish: One wish, any wish? Subjugate Gaudiguch and convert its population into lobotomized servants, and use the city itself for remote superweapons testing.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: He is utterly bloodless and views all civilizations other than Hallifax to be flawed, though to various degrees. He is also willing to do terribly unethical things to people he viewed as expendable, which is a lot of people.
Why you should love him: Unless you are an enemy and actively engaged in hostilities, he is likely to treat you at least cordially, and will probably have tea with you if the opportunity arises.
Why you should fear him: He would happily consign entire populations to genocide or effective genocide if it would further scientific knowledge.
Why he is harmless: He is unlikely to ever be in a position to consign entire populations to anything. In the meantime, he's more a theoretician than a field researcher, and he's quite happy to experiment on pigeons.
Jadice, the Frost Queen says to you, "Constant vigilance."
Why she is harmless: He is unlikely to ever be in a position to consign entire populations to anything. In the meantime, he's more a theoretician than a field researcher, and he's quite happy to experiment on pigeons
Scars: When he's injured, he oozes a colorless fluid which does double duty as blood and a sort of sealant. When it hardens, it's indistinguishable from his original flesh, so no scars.
Hair: Black Eyes: Glowing blue orbs Height: lots Build: buff and mostly-flat-chested Defining Features: Being an Orclach is practically a defining feature. Piercings: None Scars: All kinds on her limbs, none on her actual vital areas.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: A mediocre fighter. "Never go at anything halfway, do you?" Super-extreme devotion to her interpretation of history and how things should be. Weaknesses: A terrible leader, stubborn as hell, extremely spiteful Attitude: Only the ignorant disagree with me about anything, and only the foolish refuse to be educated. Therefore, anyone who isn't on my side or doesn't listen to me is foolish, ignorant, or both. Morals: Anti-Soulless, pro ur'Guard. Pet Peeves: Her brother, people spelling ur'Guard as Ur'Guard Best way to piss me off: Impugn my honor Best way to get on my good side: Show respect for me as a knight, if nothing else
FAVORITES
Color: Gold Tertiary: Necromancy Tertiary Skill: Contagion Primary Skill: Knockdown Location: The Hall of the Sacrificed God, Silent Cathedral God/Goddess: Urlach(Avechna.) Yomoigu kinda? Guild Master/House Head (all time): Papa Thalkros Artifact (don't have to own): Bone Helm of Urlach Commodity: Gold Animal: Clockwork snakes Item owned: Painting of 'a verdant chamber', Catacombs of Urlach Village/forest/region: Shallach NPC: Undead Commander (Cankermore) Memory: Being knighted as ur'Marshal Song: S I L V A N U S WHAT'S THAT SPELL [lavinyas song is grea tbut I can't remember the lyrics] Drink: None
MINDSET
Goals: I've run out of everything I've ever wanted to do. Get higher in Yomoigu's Order maybe? But affinity costs..hnng. Amibitions: I've run out of goals. Nemesis: Elanorwen Rival: Morkarion Best Friend: Delphas Idol: Ixion Best personal achievement: Knighted as ur'Marshal Worst personal achievement: Accidentally the entire friendly group in a fight Proudest moment: Knighted as an ur'Marshal Most shameful moment: Seeing Xynthin be the one to cleanse Krangar of the Time Dame's influence and not a Magnagoran thing, losing to Krangar, Knight of Destruction in a 1v1 If I could make one wish: Uhhh....Yomoigu join Mag?
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: She's a ruthless knight zealot who believes in her own righteousness. That's dangerous. Why you should love her: She has a distaste for lying and will always have a trustworthy word. Why you should fear her: Her axe. Why she is harmless: Very easily politically outmaneuvered and manipulated, if anyone bothered to try
Race: Aslaran Gender: Male Guild: Serenguard City/Commune: Serenwilde Order:
None
THE LOOK
Hair: Long, thick mane tangled naturally together into a mass of shaded white dreadlocks woven with golden eagle feathers and beads of moonstone and blackened bone. Eyes: Large jade eyes surrounded by partly fused patches of white and black hairs, which gradually meld together into a mask pattern Height: Short, hardly a meter and sixty five Build: Broad and sturdily built. Defining Features: Oversized perky black ears and bushy black-tipped tail Piercings: None Scars: A multitude of jagged scars that intertwines with the various tattoos covering his short but stocky frame.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Helpful and restrained, likeable. A more or less decent fighter and loyal defender of the commune. Avoids drama. Weaknesses: Lack of confidence in himself, too often reliant on others to lead. Tendency for tongue in cheek kinky comments. Inclined towards outbursts of anger and and bad language. Attitude: Commune goals and objectives first.
Morals: Spirits guide your path and imbue wisdom in your dreams. The inner struggle is as and even more important than the vanity of mortal conflicts. Follow the path of nature and the mystic teachings of the ancestors as only they remembered the golden age of the past.
Pet Peeves: The lack of understanding and passiveness of non combatants. Wield your shield damn it! Munsia and Marcella.
Best way to piss me off: Betray me or my commune. Munsia and Marcella. Arrogance.
Best way to get on my good side: Talk to me. Teach me something new in combat. Show me a ritual to pay respects to the spirits. Kill Munsia and Marcella.
FAVORITES
Color: green, brown, black, white, grey
Tertiary: Moon
Tertiary Skill: Dark...every little bit helps in the darkness...
Primary Skill: Spiritbond wolf... I thank thee Brother for your gift
Location: on the spiritual paths
God/Goddess: Still a Shikari follower in heart
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Ga'ruul
Artifact: a ghostly vial of ancestral spirits
Commodity: Steel and bone
Animal: bear, sabretooth...wolverine
Item owned: a fossilized root bardiche jingling with bone chimes
Village/forest/region: Serenwilde, Icewynd, Mount Dio
NPC: A grungy black rage worg with leathery black wings
Memory:
You wildly jab a fossilised root bardiche jingling with bone chimes at Caerlyr. You sense victory as you push the tip of your bardiche through her weakened chest cavity, easily parting muscles and ribs in a spray of gore. Exerting your strength, you lift her flailing body off the ground and let it slide down the shaft of your weapon, bringing her face to yours as her last spattered breath sprays blood over you. Caerlyr slides off the weapon and collapses to the ground in a heap of blood and guts, her chest now only a gaping hole.
Song: The whining of my enemies
Drink: Almost any white tea with flavor.
MINDSET
Goals:
Lift the Ga'ruul tribe to a Lesser House status. Be a better fighter. Be a vernal ascendant.
Ambitions: to invigorate the cultural life in Serenwilde and train more fighters there.
Nemesis:
For quite long Caerlyr. Briefly, Chade. Right now no one in particular.
Rival: None, just chilling out, fighting, winning popular support.
Best
Friend: Athree, Isluna, Niina... more to come
Idol:
Karlach to a certain extend.
Best personal achievement: Planar drifter in exploration. Being acknowledged on both sides of the fence as a decent character and fighter. Liked by some people.
Worst personal achievement: 19 Enadonella kills.
Proudest moment: Belibi
Most shameful moment: Teleporting to Glomdoring nexus by chance just in time to kill the baby by reflex and claim the bloody ritual that my son Belibi spent days to prepare for himself. Killing my son in a revolt.
If I could make one wish: Humiliate Munsia. Or Marcella.
SUMMARY
Why
you should hate him: He jumped you and killed you on prime. Hopefully.
Why you should love him: He spent quite some time hunting with you and teaching you new stuff.
Why you should fear him: He cares not dieing trying to get to you and bash your brains.
Why
he is harmless: He does not hold grudges for long.
If
he ruled the world, you'd best expect: A calm and peaceful commune of mutual help, cooperation, feasts, rituals and long, exciting hunts.
Defining Features: She has a floral theme going on.
Piercings: None
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: She has a good amount of creative talent, decent willpower, and a surprisingly good reputation.
Weaknesses: These days, tends to sit around doing nothing a little too much.
Attitude: She has a refined manner of speech, and a sense of personal dignity.
Morals: She has spent most of her life working against zealotry of one form or another. She believes that zealotry is the worst form of cowardice - it is easy to espouse, and turns strength to weakness by driving people away from your cause.
Pet Peeves: People assuming that just because she loves flowers and the good things in life, that this somehow makes her less dignified or respectable than people who go around in wolf pelts.
Best way to piss me off: "We don't have any need for [an enchanting chamber/a ballroom/a stage/any kind of civilized culture], we're not a filthy city!"
Best way to get on my good side: Be reasonable, polite, and fairly utilitarian.
Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
Our friendship consisted mostly of me turning you into a toad to amuse novices, if I recall correctly. :P
What. I am absolutely hurt. HURT! What about the meteors? And bookbinding? The library? Havulma, Adeleide, and Romero?! AND TEASING NEJII?! Huh, @Aramel?! X_X
Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
Hair: In what forms have hair, it's red. Ranging from crimson to copper.
Eyes: Typically large, shades varying. Height: Generally shorter for the race s/he is.
Build: With the exception of two forms(which are chubby) s/he's generally slim and slender.
Defining Features: S/he's generally bizarre and strange in whatever form s/he takes.
Piercings: All of them. Scars: None.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Passion, stubbornness, willingness to learn, refuses to give up, compassionate, loyal(to a fault)
Weaknesses: Stubbornness, fear of failing, fear of being useless, fear of everyone hating her/him, fear of losing everything s/he's worked for.
Attitude: Passionate and fueled by anger and fear. Morals: Really none. S/he will do anything if the right people/Divine tell her/him to. Pet Peeves: People who have no passion or Will to work towards things.
Best way to piss me off: Hurt those under her/him care or insult Mysrai. Best way to get on my good side: Chat with her/him, banter, flyte(if you flyte with him/her you're instantly amazing and yeah)
FAVORITES
Color: Red Tertiary: Runes
Tertiary Skill: Deathprophesy
Primary Skill: Pyromancy Mirage
Location: The Temple of Mysrai
God/Goddess: Mysrai.
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Crek as Archmage Artifact (don't have to own): Changeling cameo/Gilded mirror
Commodity: Leather Animal: Phoenix
Item owned: Her/his poppy from Mysrai. Village/forest/region: Skarch desert. Or the Glomdoring forest.
NPC: Sebitti Silkenhand and Kassai Silkenhand
Memory: Basking with Sebitti in the city and chatting with her.
Song: Subotai's drinking songs(s/he'll never tell him that though)
Drink: Whiskey of paradigms.
MINDSET
Goals: To please Mysrai and do her/his duty. Amibitions: True Ascendant
Comments
Yes, please.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
Anyway we're steering off topic. More profiles please!
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
Character Name: Vivet Pavok
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Trill/Illithoid, might expand beyond this as changeling experimentation continues
Gender: Female
Guild: Institute
City/Commune: Hallifax
Order: Zvoltz
THE LOOK
Hair: -
Eyes: -
Height: -
Build: -
Defining Features: All of these things will vary, but different shades of purple/amber shall be the most prevalent theme.
Piercings: None
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Largely numb to own sense of pain, doesn't mind getting her hands dirty as is required, capable of potent empathy, capable of developing curiosity and interest in nearly anything, dedicated to her charges and superiors, supportive of bold moves and new enterprises in her peers.
Weaknesses: Generally aloof, easily distracted and lost to thought, tendency to expect negative outcomes, extreme difficulty in completing tasks without strictly regimented deadlines and schedules, difficulty in finding time for everyone/everything and choosing between them, afraid of hurting others that trust her, hesitant to believe in the depth of her own strength (poignantly so when alone).
Attitude: Cautious, reflective, contemplative, experimental, relaxed.
Morals: Today's enemy can be tomorrow's ally. Today's ally can be tomorrow's enemy. There is always a degree of uncertainty in all connections one makes and establishes. Thus, avoid burning bridges where possible and be prepared to bridge new gaps as they are available. But remember, the more distantly you extend yourself, the more difficult and tasking it is to maintain it all.
Pet Peeves: People "being bored", people not thinking, people not working, people being nuisances and stirring up trouble just because they can.
Best way to piss me off: Be counterproductive.
Best way to get on my good side: Do Work.
FAVORITES
Color: Purple
Tertiary: Healing
Tertiary Skill: Aurashift
Primary Skill: Crystal Weapon. Not one in particular, though.
Location: The well in the City of Spires
God/Goddess: Zvoltz - also partial to Isune, Yomoigu to a lesser extent
Guild Master/House Head (all time): @Morbo
Artifact: Divine Manna (want)
Commodity: Pearl, moonstone, and coral. They come from cutting gems and we don't use those on the Continuum. Therefore, use them for everything else!
Animal: Braineater parasites
Item owned: A multi-chained silver heart pendant
Village/forest/region: Talthos
NPC: a dark violet rage worg with wings of mist and shadow
Memory: Being asked, point blank, to help save Hallifax by a troubled man who was ready to throw it all away. There are many others, but the majority of them would probably never have been realised without this one coming first.
Song: Talan's songs. They are pretty fun.
Drink: Cloudberry tea.
MINDSET
Goals: Write more. Design more. Gain/expend more essence. Attain omniscience. Empower Hallifax.
Ambitions: Achieve contentment for the whole of the Collective.
Nemesis: Time. Aeonics, help me!
Rival: All of my betters in all the various fields and pursuits I enjoy. I can't pick one.
Best Friend: Talan, Elanorwen
Idol: Zvoltz
Best personal achievement: Ascendancy.
Worst personal achievement: Convincing Morbo not to stay and argue with Celest over a domoth when it seemed a full-on fight was ready to break out between us. Magnagora came and took it while we were gone. Somehow, this seemed to improve alliance relations/cooperation for a time afterwards.
Proudest moment: Becoming a full Arbiter of the Architect. Yes, bigger and better things have come since, but this one came not long after an important revelation between deity and devotee.
Most shameful moment: Any time a difficult decision has forced her into choking up and remaining inert.
If I could make one wish: Attain universal comprehension and understanding of all things. Or about 500 million essence. Both are good, but that latter one is probably more realistic.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: Sometimes wishy-washy with direction and goals, may seem to contradict herself often with a variety of paradoxical philosophical views, not interested in entertaining you simply because you are there. Obsessed with gaining more essence.
Why you should love her: Liable to have some interest in what you are interested in, tends toward highly reciprocative behaviour, wants to get shit done.
Why you should fear her: You have a use in the grand scheme of things, and it will be found and put to the task in due time.
Why she is harmless: It is extremely likely she has more interest in utilising you than in killing/destroying you. Not wanting to kill/destroy most people tends to put her grossly out of practice in such matters.
If she ruled the world, you'd best expect: A regimented conglomerate of nation-states dedicated to the expansion and spread of all races, continued containment of the Soulless, and the perpetual advancement of knowledge and art. It would be arranged in a fashion similar to the divine circles, with Hallifax being the obvious seat of the "First Circle". This may likely require a full dissolution of the Kepheran Hives and Illithoid Prison as they currently exist, full settlement of aetherbubbles and the outer planes, development of artificial aetherbubbles, deeper exploration of alternate timelines, and the unification of the remaining Elders via mortal persuasion (at the least). Also, development for use of prospicience and noetics from anywhere and across multiple people, so I can keep my personal circle close without extensive travel or having to leave them too frequently. And lots of essence for me.
Yay. Character development (To be fair, he's only been around 3-4 months so there's not a lot to put in).
Edited again (Fourth time) because of recent events.
Character Name: Haezon The Black (He Of The Blackest Night)
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Trill
Gender: Male
Guild: Harbingers
City/Commune: Glomdoring
Order:
THE LOOK
Hair: None, bald.
Eyes: One orange, one blue.
Height: Tall
Build: Slender.
Defining Features: Black skin, sunglasses.
Piercings: None
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Faith in the Glomdoring, creativity, confident and stalwart.
Weaknesses: A bit of a naive romantic unused to deception and politics.
Attitude: Dedicated, Loyal, loves challenges, polite, loves having fun.
Morals: Glomdoring through and through. Utmost loyalty, utmost respect, looking out for number 1 (Glomdoring). Go team.
Pet Peeves: Thugs, personal arrogance, hypocrites/hypocrisy, disloyalty
Best way to piss me off: Be disloyal and/or arrogant.
Best way to get on my good side: Watch plays, talk about Glomdoring philosophy.
FAVORITES
Color: Black
Tertiary: Hunting, Ecology
Tertiary Skill: Acrobatics
Primary Skill: Music.
Location: The Marble Orchard (Manse)
God/Goddess: Trillillial
Guild Master (all time): Valonah
Artifact (don't have to own): Scarecrow hat
Commodity: Wood (Campfires)
Animal: Bat
Item owned: Sun glasses.
Village/forest/region: Icewynd mountains.
NPC: Adalgiso
Memory: Becoming Minister of Culture.
Song: Music for Funeral of Queen Mary (A Clockwork Orange) by Wendy Carlos, Paradise by Nightwish
Drink: Water
Likes: Puns, plays.
Dislikes: Sweet things
MINDSET
Goals: To become a renowned playwright, make great art and serve Viravain
Amibitions: Gain respect, become a bastion of the Glomdoring.
Nemesis: None.
Rival: None
Best Friend: None (Everyone who fell under these three have gone dormant or left)
Idol: Valonah.
Best personal achievement: Prestige winning play, twice.
Worst personal achievement: Being an annoying prick during a domoth. He's gotten better.
Proudest moment: Becoming Astraea's son.
Most shameful moment: Private.
If I could make one wish: To receive all of Mother Night's knowledge and understanding.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: Haezon prides a lot on loyalty and those who forsake it usually become dead to him, unrevocably. He instinctively distrusts mercenaries and carries a lot of inner conflict within himself.
Why you should love him: Always wants to help people, enthusiastic about his duties and polite.
Why you should fear him: He does not fear death. He cannot be broken. He can not be converted. He just is.
Why he is harmless: Calm, polite and truthful.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: An empire under Mother Night's reign.
Also here is an excellent example of character building from True Detective:
Very much a love letter to Ligotti
Character Name: Kaalak Mittani
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Human, previously Elfen
Gender: Male
Guild: Matrix Research Institute
City/Commune: Hallifax
Order: Lady Isune
Background Summary: Started in Magnagora as a Nihilist. Went to Celest and joined Celestines, serving as administrator for several years. Moved to Hallifax as a retiree.
THE LOOK
Hair: Long black hair pulled in a ponytail, now greying in an increasing number of streaks.
Eyes: Brown
Height: Six one.
Build: Build of an endurance runner.
Defining Features: Kaalak is 250 years old. He has noticeable laugh and frown lines (more of the former) adding character to his weathered face. Overall he appears to be in his late thirties. There is a slight point to his ears reflecting his Elfen origins.
Piercings: none
Scars: Several, all decades old now.
PERSONALITY
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strengths and weaknesses are context dependent.
Kaalak is highly analytical, perceptive, and occasionally creative. He has firm convictions. Or he’s an arrogant asshole. A little of column A, a little of column B. Somewhere in there, there is a sense of humor. He is a perfectionist.
Attitude/ Morals: Since his arrival in the Basin, Kaalak has always considered himself a ‘Servant of the State.’ Kaalak views this ‘State’ in abstract almost amoral terms: specifically a society of mortal individuals is best viewed as a Machine, specifically some sort of dynamic engine. The overall politics of the Machine or the direction the Machine is going is … not his concern. Specifically Kaalak views all individuals with in this system as cogs of varying size proportional to their contribution to the society. Whether the cogs are tightly interacting in lock step, or given to wandering flitting between different functions, or if they spin doing seemingly nothing at all; Kaalak considers all of this to be simply the equilibrium of the Machine at a given time. Kaalak’s attention is only drawn to cogs that disrupt the function of other cogs; specifically individuals who harm other individuals and derive personal pleasure from their actions. Said individuals are detrimental to the Machine’s health and function as a whole as they detract from the Machine’s resources rather than contribute to it. Such individuals are Sadists.
These aberrant cogs damage the Society-Machine by each sadistic action they take; and more broadly by their continued existence within the society even while they take no action. For the Society-Machine to continue to function these aberrant cogs must be removed permanently. In lieu of termination, the resources of the aberrant cogs must be limited or removed at every opportunity. The resources sanctioned to be removed include the aberrant cogs’ resource of time, political influence, or physical ability to harm another i.e. their weapons or hands.
When an individual in the society is aware of an aberrant cog, has the resources to limit them and the mindset to do so then said individual is compelled to act for the benefit of the Society-Machine. This mandate may not necessarily be sanctioned by the political ruling body of the Society, but that is irrelevant. An individual aware of the destructive element is mandated to act purely based on their awareness of the sadist. There is no higher authority. In addition, there is to be no glory in acting as an executioner-regulatory mechanism for the Society-Machine. The individual purely serves the function of an adaptive immune response in the context of the Society-Machine. The individual’s will becomes temporarily co opted or directly parallel to the desire for self-preservation of the Society-Machine.
In a poetic sense the individual temporarily becomes a literal servant of the society/state, rather than any discrete internal political body.
Once no target is present, the individual is to return to basal society-contributing functions.
If an individual takes action that is too disruptive to the Society-Machine, another cog in the Society-Machine will become aware of him and his actions and judge for his/herself whether those actions deserve terminal sanction. The success of one of the two aware components in conflict is a function of each component’s respective resources and stochastic events. Ultimately, a self-regulating equilibrium is established within the Society-Machine to remove sadists and also remove aware individuals who may take acts so extreme they themselves function as sadists. That on average, the strong survive, is ultimately beneficial to the Society-Machine’s long term robustness.
FAVORITES
Color: Black. Goes with everything.
Tertiary Skill: Tarot
Primary Skill: Harmonics
Location: Libraries everywhere.
Divine: Elostian, Isune.
Artifact: a plush doll of Gorgulu, Devourer of Souls. If I had a Volucer doll, it would be my favorite.
Commodity: Silk or Cloth
Animal: I don’t recall Kaalak ever having a favorite animal. Could be wrong.
Item owned: Whatever piece of clothing Lady Nihmriel has generously tailored for me.
Village/forest/region: Arthar’rt Observatory, Presidio of the Damned
NPC: Volucer, Master of Her Majesty’s Air Force, hands down. Uuken Exley, Butler of Erudio is a close second.
Memory: Kaalak’s favorite memories are late night impromptu philosophical discussions with Lord Elostian with thinly veiled references to thermodynamics, evolution and quantum physics. Wherever you are sir, I salute you.
Song: No real ‘favorites’ but for no reason at all Kaalak sometimes burst out in show tunes or Sinatra songs. There is no rhyme or reason for this. Sometimes members of Lady Isune’s order are unfortunately subjected to this when I think the aether is empty.
Drink: Yes.
MINDSET
Goals: As a member of Hallifax Kaalak is finally enjoying a creative outlet as a member of Lady Isune’s Order. Unfortunately for him (and possibly the Order) for Kaalak, creation involves an above average amount of frustration and effort. Kaalak feels personally very fortunate that Lady Isune and his fellow Order mates put up with the grizzled old cantankerous human who fusses and rants about this design or that project from the alcoves of his aethermanse. His goals are to finish his list of projects and make a specific bird happy.
Ambitions: Finish projects before you start others, damn it.
Nemesis: None. All have fallen on the swords of their own hubris. Some enjoyed a little push.
Rival: Akyaevin/Esano and Celina. Kaalak enjoys annoying Akyaevin ad Celina when the opportunity presents itself. Akyaevin has on occasion tried to target him during revolts and on other occasion when Kaalak becomes too much of a jackass, but so far Kaalak has managed to dance away from earthquakes and chasms like the Tarot’s own Fool. Celina has learned the only winning move it not to play and thus Kaalak is rather annoyed that she is not around. VERY. ANNOYED.
Idol: Way way back when Kaalak was very young I believe Neerth was his Idol.
Best personal achievement: Quiet work.
Worst personal achievement: No regrets.
Proudest moment: One of the more recent ones was learning that Kaalak could successfully keep up in a rap battle. First time I ever tried to wax lyrical. Who knew?
Certainly another one was getting the Celestines to build a bust of Neerth, a former Celestine Administrator (iirc) and all around excellent roleplayer, in the novice area of Celest. Having the opportunity to see Neerth return and see his well-deserved monument was a very fine moment indeed.
If I could make one wish: Wishes are ineffective. Make plans instead.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate/love/fear/ him: These are dumb questions, seriously.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: Kaalak isn’t interested in ruling the world or in ruling in general. He believes society generated by the accretion of events and random interpersonal interactions is much more interesting than any plan he could personally envision, because it generates a greater diversity than his imagination can encompass. That is about the extent of Kaalak’s ‘humility’: realizing the universe is significantly larger (and more interesting) than his personal sense of self. You cannot beat the Chaos of life into Order…but you can manage events to generate systems that support your own ideals and improve one’s own personal condition. In accordance with is worldview, Kaalak prefers to work behind the scenes and apply pressure where/when his intelligence indicates tipping points are likely to occur.
Character Name: Siam Star-eyes
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Shadowsinger Faeling Demigod
Gender: Male
Guild: Harbingers
City/Commune: Glomdoring
Order: Viravain
THE LOOK
Hair: Black
Eyes: Heterochromatic emerald and sapphire star-eyes
Height: Tall
Build: Athletic
Defining Features: Heterochromatic emerald and sapphire star-eyes and a body of shadows
Piercings: None
Scars: A wound that never healed which spells out @Narynth's name - this was from a long, long, long time ago; Narynth did it for fun
PERSONALITY
Strengths:
He is approachable, very friendly and believes in the best and the potential in everyone, even if they don't see it yet. He is very loyal and is willing to contribute in whatever ways he can. Very often, he encourages those who sees a lot of potential in to step up, most noticeable when he was the Prince of Shadows and the Librarian of Glomdoring. He makes it a point to talk to you personally and he can be quite shameless when he wants results.
He is unfazed by defeat and is always ready to give pep talks should things don't turn favorably. This is most noticeable during the Glomffpeak Raids Era, or whenever the latest library contest didn't churn up a lot of entries.
He is strongly against the very idea of giving up, of being apathetic. It is a weakness he nips in the bud should he sense it.
Weaknesses:
Over the years, he has woven for himself a reputation for being seemingly talkative, flippant(hello Wyrden Potato, ha) and comical. He attempts to add levity to situations where it can be otherwise inappropriate. This often leads to people underestimating him, which leads to them being surprised when he gets serious and gets things done. Very few people have seen past this.
Attitude: Friendly, distant, comical, empathetic
Morals: He is amoral.
Pet Peeves: DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP AND GO EMO AND WAIL AND BE ALL MISERABLE IN FRONT OF HIM.
Best way to piss me off: DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP AND GO EMO AND WAIL AND BE ALL MISERABLE IN FRONT OF HIM.
Best way to get on my good side: Design things, write books, be cordial, and put up with him when he tries to be funny.
FAVORITES
Color: Black
Tertiary: Influence
Tertiary Skill: Empowerment and Charity
Primary Skill: Crow Caw
Location: the Wyrden Archives
God/Goddess: Maylea - Shikari - Nocht - Viravain
Shikari deserves a mention because of Himself, Iriki, and Ingwe. Yes, I still have your baby painting, Ingwe.
Guild Master (all time): Xiel(Viynain), Astraea, Rancoura, Talan
Artifact (don't have to own): an army of tiny pixies(beep-beep dolls)
Commodity: crushed precious stones and precious metal and vellum(books, yes, boooooks)
Animal: butterflies. LOTS AND LOTS of them.
Item owned: an Envirofinity Vacuum
Village/forest/region: the Wyrden Archives, the Black Interlude(was the Wyrden Potato), Ethereal Glomdoring
NPC: Ingwe and Iriki
Memory: Becoming Prince of Shadows and the Librarian
Song: Boom-ba-doom-boom-boom-ba-doom-boom-Shadowbeat (Super Bass)
Drink: Bromides
MINDSET
Goals: To become an Avatar
Amibitions: To become a TA. Also, to become a Siamladriel
Nemesis: None.
Rival: @Aramel, @Crek, @Calesta
Best Friend: @Aramel, @Crek, @Calesta
Idol: Talan
Best personal achievement: attaining Demigod(license to Star-eyes), helping Glomdoring get the Largest Library(thank you Shamelessness)
Worst personal achievement: Becoming a reclusive Dirgesinger, so much so that Tacita had to replace me.
Proudest moment: Library wins. Each and every one of them.
Most shameful moment: Swearing at @Raeri once a loooooong time ago. He has never forgiven himself for that.
If I could make one wish: get his personal Wyrdling
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: He will outlast you. A lot of people who have been quite unpleasant(even downright rude) to him are now gone.
Why you should love him: He will give peptalks even after all of you died 999999999 times, lost something, etc.
Why you should fear him: He will outlast you. A lot of people who have been quite unpleasant(even downright rude) to him are now gone. Oh, and beware the Siam that wears the SD-attitude hat.
Why he is harmless: He is kind.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: a moonless Wyrden sky with lots and lots of auroras and veritable armies of Siam-pixies and Siam-butterflies
THE LOOK
Hair: Short, black feathers that cup her head.
Height: short
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Unemotional unless she trusts you. Very logical and level-headed. Willing to do whatever it takes to complete her goals.
Morals: What are morals? Nothing matters but Glomdoring? that's a moral, right?
Pet Peeves: People who make promises then don't keep them (QUORRE), delinquency, laziness
Best way to get on my good side: Help her get better at combat.
FAVORITES
Color: Black
Tertiary: Acrobatics
Artifact (don't have to own): Whip of the Pious
Animal: cats. She enjoys watching them hunt birds, then hunting them.
Village/forest/region: Glomdoring
MINDSET
Goals: Become a Demigod. Divorce Quorre. Find a better, stronger partner.
Amibitions: Long term: Ascension.
Worst personal achievement: Sleeping for so long.
Most shameful moment: Losing control in an argument with Quorre and stabbing him.
Character Name: Nott Rillaen
THE ESSENTIALS
Gender: Female
Guild: Harbingers
Order: Viravain
Build: Dancerly. Basically, I imagine Blake Lively's Serena van der Woodsen meets Emily VanCamp for Nott.
Defining Features: Spider bites behind her left ear and on her right wrist, left behind by a "friend of Viravain's." Beauty mark at the hollow of her throat.
Piercings: None
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Attitude: Happy-go-lucky and usually pleasant.
Best way to piss her off: Be bothersome, I guess?
Location: Under the bridge, 3595
God/Goddess: Viravain and Maylea; Viravain is obviously, but Maylea as well because She has a flower-designing competition that Nott submitted several flowers toward. I am not sure what came of that competition, sadly.
Guild Master/House Head (all time): @Eliron
Artifact: Nott's customised brooch: a mechanical, death watch beetle brooch
Commodity: Powerstones?
Item owned: a Medallion of Knowledge
Village/forest/region: The Meliashmora of Imperial Secrets
Song: Nott's colour songs - RIP
Drink: I always imagined Nott being a whiskey girl.
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Faeling
Gender: Female
Guild: Cantors
City/Commune: Celest
Order: Alphabetical
THE LOOK
Hair: Straight, blueish-black, a little shiny.
Eyes: Pink and bulbous.
Height: 23 inches.
Build: Currently tubby, but fluxuates like Oprah.
Defining Features: Four giant bat wings! With thumbs!
Piercings: Around 30, but only fills half of those.
Scars: None
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Observant, intellectual and patient. A decent writer.
Weaknesses: A bad fighter. Very lazy. A bit tightly strung.
Attitude: We're all in this together, so stop fighting.
Morals: Anti-Soulless, ambivalent toward religion, but approves of the rule of law.
Pet Peeves: Treating laws as guidelines, being messy or inefficient, xenophobia.
Best way to piss me off: Being rude right up until you want something.
Best way to get on my good side: Presents of books!
FAVORITES
Color: Jade.
Tertiary: Glamours.
Tertiary Skill: For combat: Mazemazemazemaze. For everything else: Conceal!
Primary Skill: Starhymn.
Location: The waterfall in the Tidal Flats.
God/Goddess: Avechna.
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Nariah.
Artifact (don't have to own): Changling Cameo!
Commodity: Leather.
Animal: Snakes.
Item owned: Her cwrth.
Village/forest/region: Delport/Serenwilde/Estengare River
NPC: Jolly Bundy.
Memory: Interveiwing Terentia for the Gossip.
Song: The Carol of the War-Weary Solider
Drink: Honey.
MINDSET
Goals: Finally finish her current writing project.
Amibitions: Awaken a water elemental.
Nemesis: Fain.
Rival: Telperion.
Best Friend: Doman!
Idol: Kelly!
Best personal achievement: Publishing the Gaudiguch Gossip.
Worst personal achievement: Doing all the rituals in the Libellus.
Proudest moment: Successfully predicting the Wayfaire a year in advance.
Most shameful moment: Getting kicked out of Gaudiguch.
If I could make one wish: Please blow up all the Soullesses.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: Chances are good that she has written something terrible about your organization at some point in the past.
Why you should love her: She would probably ress you if she found your corpse laying on the side of the road, even if you were an enemy.
Why you should fear her: Her sharp and biting wit, obviously.
Why she is harmless: She weighs like 20lbs and would fall over in a stiff breeze.
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
Doesn't blood, uh, normally work as a sealant?
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Orclach
Gender: Female
Guild: ur'Guard
City/Commune: Magnagora
Order: Yomoigu
THE LOOK
Hair: Black
Eyes: Glowing blue orbs
Height: lots
Build: buff and mostly-flat-chested
Defining Features: Being an Orclach is practically a defining feature.
Piercings: None
Scars: All kinds on her limbs, none on her actual vital areas.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: A mediocre fighter. "Never go at anything halfway, do you?" Super-extreme devotion to her interpretation of history and how things should be.
Weaknesses: A terrible leader, stubborn as hell, extremely spiteful
Attitude: Only the ignorant disagree with me about anything, and only the foolish refuse to be educated. Therefore, anyone who isn't on my side or doesn't listen to me is foolish, ignorant, or both.
Morals: Anti-Soulless, pro ur'Guard.
Pet Peeves: Her brother, people spelling ur'Guard as Ur'Guard
Best way to piss me off: Impugn my honor
Best way to get on my good side: Show respect for me as a knight, if nothing else
FAVORITES
Color: Gold
Tertiary: Necromancy
Tertiary Skill: Contagion
Primary Skill: Knockdown
Location: The Hall of the Sacrificed God, Silent Cathedral
God/Goddess: Urlach(Avechna.) Yomoigu kinda?
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Papa Thalkros
Artifact (don't have to own): Bone Helm of Urlach
Commodity: Gold
Animal: Clockwork snakes
Item owned: Painting of 'a verdant chamber', Catacombs of Urlach
Village/forest/region: Shallach
NPC: Undead Commander (Cankermore)
Memory: Being knighted as ur'Marshal
Song: S I L V A N U S WHAT'S THAT SPELL [lavinyas song is grea tbut I can't remember the lyrics]
Drink: None
MINDSET
Goals: I've run out of everything I've ever wanted to do. Get higher in Yomoigu's Order maybe? But affinity costs..hnng.
Amibitions: I've run out of goals.
Nemesis: Elanorwen
Rival: Morkarion
Best Friend: Delphas
Idol: Ixion
Best personal achievement: Knighted as ur'Marshal
Worst personal achievement: Accidentally the entire friendly group in a fight
Proudest moment: Knighted as an ur'Marshal
Most shameful moment: Seeing Xynthin be the one to cleanse Krangar of the Time Dame's influence and not a Magnagoran thing, losing to Krangar, Knight of Destruction in a 1v1
If I could make one wish: Uhhh....Yomoigu join Mag?
SUMMARY
Why you should hate her: She's a ruthless knight zealot who believes in her own righteousness. That's dangerous.
Why you should love her: She has a distaste for lying and will always have a trustworthy word.
Why you should fear her: Her axe.
Why she is harmless: Very easily politically outmaneuvered and manipulated, if anyone bothered to try
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Aslaran
Gender: Male
Guild: Serenguard
City/Commune: Serenwilde
Order: None
THE LOOK
Hair: Long, thick mane tangled naturally together into a mass of shaded white dreadlocks woven with golden eagle feathers and beads of moonstone and blackened bone.
Eyes: Large jade eyes surrounded by partly fused patches of white and black hairs, which gradually meld together into a mask pattern
Height: Short, hardly a meter and sixty five
Build: Broad and sturdily built.
Defining Features: Oversized perky black ears and bushy black-tipped tail
Piercings: None
Scars: A multitude of jagged scars that intertwines with the various tattoos covering his short but stocky frame.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Helpful and restrained, likeable. A more or less decent fighter and loyal defender of the commune. Avoids drama.
Weaknesses: Lack of confidence in himself, too often reliant on others to lead. Tendency for tongue in cheek kinky comments. Inclined towards outbursts of anger and and bad language.
Attitude: Commune goals and objectives first.
Morals: Spirits guide your path and imbue wisdom in your dreams. The inner struggle is as and even more important than the vanity of mortal conflicts. Follow the path of nature and the mystic teachings of the ancestors as only they remembered the golden age of the past.
Pet Peeves: The lack of understanding and passiveness of non combatants. Wield your shield damn it! Munsia and Marcella.
Best way to piss me off: Betray me or my commune. Munsia and Marcella. Arrogance.
Best way to get on my good side: Talk to me. Teach me something new in combat. Show me a ritual to pay respects to the spirits. Kill Munsia and Marcella.
FAVORITES
Color: green, brown, black, white, grey
Tertiary: Moon
Tertiary Skill: Dark...every little bit helps in the darkness...
Primary Skill: Spiritbond wolf... I thank thee Brother for your gift
Location: on the spiritual paths
God/Goddess: Still a Shikari follower in heart
Guild Master/House Head (all time): Ga'ruul
Artifact: a ghostly vial of ancestral spirits
Commodity: Steel and bone
Animal: bear, sabretooth...wolverine
Item owned: a fossilized root bardiche jingling with bone chimes
Village/forest/region: Serenwilde, Icewynd, Mount Dio
NPC: A grungy black rage worg with leathery black wings
Memory: You wildly jab a fossilised root bardiche jingling with bone chimes at Caerlyr. You sense victory as you push the tip of your bardiche through her weakened chest cavity, easily parting muscles and ribs in a spray of gore. Exerting your strength, you lift her flailing body off the ground and let it slide down the shaft of your weapon, bringing her face to yours as her last spattered breath sprays blood over you. Caerlyr slides off the weapon and collapses to the ground in a heap of blood and guts, her chest now only a gaping hole.
Song: The whining of my enemies
Drink: Almost any white tea with flavor.
MINDSET
Goals: Lift the Ga'ruul tribe to a Lesser House status. Be a better fighter. Be a vernal ascendant.
Ambitions: to invigorate the cultural life in Serenwilde and train more fighters there.
Nemesis: For quite long Caerlyr. Briefly, Chade. Right now no one in particular.
Rival: None, just chilling out, fighting, winning popular support.
Best Friend: Athree, Isluna, Niina... more to come
Idol: Karlach to a certain extend.
Best personal achievement: Planar drifter in exploration. Being acknowledged on both sides of the fence as a decent character and fighter. Liked by some people.
Worst personal achievement: 19 Enadonella kills.
Proudest moment: Belibi
Most shameful moment: Teleporting to Glomdoring nexus by chance just in time to kill the baby by reflex and claim the bloody ritual that my son Belibi spent days to prepare for himself. Killing my son in a revolt.
If I could make one wish: Humiliate Munsia. Or Marcella.
SUMMARY
Why you should hate him: He jumped you and killed you on prime. Hopefully.
Why you should love him: He spent quite some time hunting with you and teaching you new stuff.
Why you should fear him: He cares not dieing trying to get to you and bash your brains.
If he ruled the world, you'd best expect: A calm and peaceful commune of mutual help, cooperation, feasts, rituals and long, exciting hunts.
THE LOOK
Hair: In what forms have hair, it's red. Ranging from crimson to copper.
Height: Generally shorter for the race s/he is.
Scars: None.
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Passion, stubbornness, willingness to learn, refuses to give up, compassionate, loyal(to a fault)
Morals: Really none. S/he will do anything if the right people/Divine tell her/him to.
Pet Peeves: People who have no passion or Will to work towards things.
Best way to get on my good side: Chat with her/him, banter, flyte(if you flyte with him/her you're instantly amazing and yeah)
FAVORITES
Color: Red
Tertiary: Runes
Artifact (don't have to own): Changeling cameo/Gilded mirror
Animal: Phoenix
Village/forest/region: Skarch desert. Or the Glomdoring forest.
MINDSET
Goals: To please Mysrai and do her/his duty.
Amibitions: True Ascendant
Worst personal achievement: Being personally removed from the Order by Mysrai.
Most shameful moment: Being booted from the Order.