Who are we?
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Duleth De'hunal
Duleth, started as an alt to try the new dervish fighter kit quickly turned my main. The bedine man, younger son of the shiek of his tribe, was sent to Arabel to figure out more about the Shadovar given their recent interest about the city. Just realized he succeeded in this, but it was already too late. He was highly uncomprehending towards city life, and failed to understand how things go until his death. His secret conviction was that his people were the descendants of the Netherese, but the Shadovar has (well, somehow) robbed magic from them, and his people should claim magic as theirs again.
On one of his first days, he participated a patrol down the ruins, meeting a number of shadovar slaves, bedine slaves included. From that day he wanted to find a means to remove slave collars without killing the slave, but as a bedine unlearned in magical arts, he couldn't quite hope success.
On a spiced-up lumberjack quest he was asked by a dieing Harper (assasinated by the orc shaman Grey, but he didn't manage to pursue this link between the orcs and Loross) to carry his sword, and murder prince Melegaunt with it.
He passed the sword to a secretive elf (half-elf?) who he only knew as the watcher because (I had to log and…) he gave Duleth valuable information before. He later turned out to run by the name Vilith. Vilith took up the quest, and against Thune's and others' will, murdered Melegaunt with the blessed sword. This started the second Shadovar war while I was having a randez-vous, avoiding to write history, but the executioner's axe as well. :) -
Thrar Amakirr - Elven bladesinger who was a member of the Theur Everae and the Adventurers Guild. Also played a critical role in the cormyrian resistance and the downfall of Gromfia.
Robbes Mallarme - Mage Guild Councillor, and apprentice to Kanthea Ferelven. Probobly my most enjoyable character. Mix of Kanthea, the Planes, and MG hijinx made him a blast to play.
Eriq Belleyne - Started off as a Harper Agent in the Purple Dragons. Deserted when he learned a horrible war wizard secret and sparked a brief war between Cormyr and Arabel after Lhal granted Eriq sanctuary. Retired him shortly after becoming senior harper of Arabel.Kalen Hael - Ilmatari Templar with a criminal past. With his Diretiger animal companion, he did his best to help the people of Arabel embrace higher values, and be more compassionate to each other. Got some corrupt guards canned, and did some infernalist/heretic hunting, but ultimately spent most of his time cleaning after his pet.
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Ronya Smith Simple plain farmer girl turned Herald of Arabel's Court, started wars with Cormyr and then wrote peace contracts after a few days realising it was started over misunderstandings. Mostly spent her time sitting in meetings and gathering medals from Lady Lhal. Retired to live with a wimpish senior harper of Arabel.
Erihnienia Realan The scarred, mentally disturbed and very shy dust elf "Erih", she was Hobore Cooperson's only apprentice and Under Librarian of Arabel's Library and Museum, the chosen "Enigma" the role which ended her life and turned her into a star in the sky. "Friend" with criminals, heroes, dames and ancient vampires in the name of knowledge, reading books was her biggest passion, not strange as she had collected a total of 123 IG books by the time she turned into a star. My favourite character, a mixed bag of insanity, stuttering and wanting to know everything, which she ended up doing by becoming Enigma, only to die in the process to save Arabel from the Shadovars and the dormant dust spread.
Carnelian Tourmaline "Gems" the Forest Gnome, lover of chocolate and passionate hater of shadows. A fighter in the second-shadovar war, cause she felt like tagging along. Crusaded to return the Ortant to the Earth, slayer of a lich and then got eaten by a troll. Part-time "pet" to the War Wizard Nine and Cormyrian envoy Dree, mostly to call them fat and steal chocolate.
Freya The were-tiger Steward and bastard child of House Wyvernspur, slayer of Ngzaaz the Infernal Orc Warlock and cleanser of the Hullack Forest. She always tried to do better, fight evil and bring others in to fight the evil in the name of good. An emotional wreck who only wanted to be seen worthy by her family House, spent most of her time hunting traitors/heretics/orcs/infernalists and make a mess for her Ilmater Templer to clean up in between ear scratching.
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Just rediscovering this, some great memories over the years of fantastic characters. With the wipe on the horizon and having not been as active this past year, it would be nice to read about some of the characters of 2013, so if you haven't already throw in your addition!
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I likely do a write up on wipe day.. full of spoilers! :wink:
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Anton Requiem First character app turned down by DM team. He was looking for information about his ancestors, who he was certain had dragon blood. Probably not remembered, as he wound up being very self centered and wound up heading into the Stormhorns, having heard there were dragons, maybe, out there. (Self Deleted)
Harry Lillis Retainer for House Maleen. Very definitely blinded by O's charms, would only see that she was working for the betterment of the city, and tried to stand as her defender whenever a knight was not present. There was Something there, Harry believed, but there was a Complication as well, by the name of Hadrian. Fortunately, Eliane Milkeno came in to Harry's life, and Harry took a shot, and Asked Elliane for a date! having recieved stunned silence from El, Harry shot back pver his shoulder that no answer is not a "no" answer, and Harry was Saved from being consumed by O. It was about this time that a young wild/wood elf was brought in to Maleens tower, And Vel'Manth was sugesting that she might want to dress a little more apropriately. harry Told Vel, to essentially, Shut up and mind his own business, and Harry was very much enjoying the view. Maleen Frowned and Harry Met Trunk, for the first, and last, time. The Irony of being told that Harry thought with his loins nearly killed ME, considering who the admonishment came from. I mean A Satyr thought Harry was too intrested in the fairer sex. Sheesh.
A chink in O's armor appeared though, when Kastle implicated O in the use of bloodstones, and Harry started to ask himself questions. It was all too much for our sensitive hero, and when Eliane was called home, He packed his bags, and followed her. Presumably He and El are living Happily wherever her home is, raising Kittens and generally having a peaceful life, enjoying different varieties of Catnip, the way rich folks enjoy fine wines.Artio Walker… Ranger/Silverguard who thought upholding the laws of Arabel would help her get over the tragedy of losing the love of her life. Disillusionment soon set in, as genuinely evil beings were allowed to roam the streets, and good people who made mistakes wound up in the pit. A chance encounter with a Sharran priestess cause Artio to question her own faith. Following her expression of that faith in Selune, Artio was sentenced to the pit for committing the crime of sacrilege. In the pit, Artio had an epiphany and reeducate her life to Selune. She performed a ritual to bless a piece of crystal, not realizing it had been tampered with by Taloran,Suppi and Dra'nychlar. The crystal snapped , but showed no ill effects. We were attacked by elementals, who also appeared to be attacking the lost vale. When we entered the Vale, we encountered Taloran just finishing his own ritual .
Selune filled me with her might and I was able to defeat the teifling and we returned to the city . Harner and I placed the stone in the pit as a beacon of hope for prisoners. The stone was stolen and used to power the destruction of the mythalar leading to the eventual
Destruction of Arabel. Ouch. -
Aaeri Linu - The Bashing Elf. Stupid wood elf ranger/rogue/barbarian that I created when I was very young and didn't really understand NWN. Joined the Green Dragons and got a reputation for saying she was going to bash stuff…but she actually used swords. Once tried to kill a goblin by bashing it with a shield wand.
Ulayne Umi - Started out as a young brilliant wizardess in search of fame and fortune. I was so young when I made this character, I had no idea what I was doing. Something about this character made me unable to give her up for five years, and I was never really able to get into Arabel's plots fully until I finally retired her. She wound up learning to use a sword and shield from Fezznick Retainer Azriel Rosenfeld, and joined half a dozen PC factions. Became an "advisor" on strategy and magical matters. Huge Cormyrian loyalist, even long after the Civil War ended. Eventually retired after she failed to remember she had Stilled Holding spells prepared when a barbarian smashed an orb that released a powerful demon upon the land. I could write pages and pages more, she was around forever.
Alicia Sunsworn - Lathanderite purist. Incredible build that performed very well and was very fun to play. Had a great run with a Team Smite consisting of Ryker and Bjorn Hawkeye and some Tethyrian Lord. Casualty of the Battle of Crag. DMs allowed a respawn, but it quickly became clear that her story ended at Crag.
Zlovol Kraaj - Insane oozemaster visionary. Dreamt of ending physical violence between humans by creating non-sentient (ooze, construct, and undead) armies to do all the fighting. Cocky and mean as can be. Fun concept, god-awfully-boring build. DM Arkham ran a wonderful experiment in which he created an ooze construct of immense power, but it collapsed in on itself and instead fused his familiar with ooze-like powers. Sadly, I never got to stick around for the actual custom familiar that he earned.
Cletienne Hyral - Tychean templar and radical. Sided with the Temple of Tyche team (Alasidar + Khamal's priestess) against the rest of the server. Invaded the mage's guild and was the reason we failed…Aldek was at 3 hp, but Cletienne had died to a random spawn earlier in the day and no longer had a single damaging spell. Sat there and watched as my team died, failed the bluff check against Aldek, but managed to escape anyway through a hidden portal in Maleen's quarters. Ran -far- away from Arabel after that.
Jhlessia and Alexis are explained above somewhere.
Fiona de Valmont - Devout Favored of Milil. One of the most fun builds I've ever come up with and one of the most fun plotlines I've ever been involved with. Secretly served the War Wizard Nine until she managed to convince Kreagus Thune to allow Cormyr's forces back into Arabel. Announced her loyalty and fought throughout the Shadovar war. Returned to Suzail after almost going insane as a result of a Shadovar prince's mind magic.
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V4
John "the Warmace" Langlocke (alias Fryar)
My last character of v4. And my most successful fighter. His early days spent with team Shar, then team Bane, then between Kaizen's Crew and Ophelia's Thayans. His body has been crazy modified by squiggles, he wrote a book about the Wyvernwater Isles and killed a number of people. He retired back to his homeland in Battledale just before the catastrophe. (Fighter 9)Edwyn "Fast" Fastbrooke
After a long hiatus, I made Edwyn as a master of espionage for every single faction. Ended up sticking with the Sheriffs until his buddy was killed by the Sharrans. Then joined them. Eventually everybody got tired of him and his constant betrayal, that he was executed summarily with a mock-trial by the Palace. (Rogue 9)William "Will Cobb" Cobbenbough
My first real halfling concept. He was my only good one too. Formed his own halfling militia, had a love-interest that could never be, and died in a heroic escapade to the North of Arabel against CB's guys. (Fighter 4)Walter "Waldo the Scythe" de St. Rumbold
Part of Mr. Gentles Crew during his most productive stage. Was a major asset to Team Evil in the fight against the MG with his insane purse and Scythe. Killed a Sheriff and two civilians. Had an ongoing feud with Lisa Amraphen, and eventually sought to die by her hand in an honourable duel. (Fighter 10)Robert "Rabbie" Watts
Fighter-Archer of Tyche, spent most of his life fighting the Rift Cultists and Lyssians. He killed two major Lyssian Cultists in an abandoned slum house (after torturing them) in the presence of a captive. Took their bodies to his good friend, the Sheriff, and was consequently arrested, tried and executed for killing two threats to the city. He was soon after reincarnated as William l'Jourdemayne, a Lyssian perversion of himself (however he died very soon after during a battle at Eastway). (Fighter 9)Gerard "Ivo" FitzClerque (alias de Imberys)
Another superb mercenary concept. Had a load of awesome magical equipment, and ran with a very powerful crew with CB and company. So much to say about him; but so few memories. He was killed dueling a prisoner of his crew at Castle Crag. Still don't understand how that worked though, honestly. (Fighter 9)Christopher "Crispy" Le Hallows
Originally a basic mercenary with a fairly nice personality, silently obsessed with making a big impression on Arabel. By chance he bumped into the Slime Cult killing someone, and ended up helping them, eventually joining their ranks. He was present at the successful assault on Castle Crag, and with his allies defeated all of Team Good. This allowed Kreswell to escape with the Staff of Ilmater almost unchallenged. Slime Cult got hold of Xzavien and placed him in a room with Crispy to watch; and inevitably, Kreswell wanted to leave, so he FtS'd Crispy but later recovered. All of the Slime Cult managed to get themselves butchered at the botched assault on the Red Hart Fortress in Eveningstar. Crispy was present at the battle, but without much of his equipment and faded into obscurity afterwards. (Rogue 4 Fighter 4)Sir Edmund Cavalier
One of the three Knights of Mk'akta. Caused a significant amount of mischief and killed a number of people in his run with the Mk'akta crew. Rewarded with supah shiny stuff and very powerful plate; but ended up dying a heroic death almost alone with Thadeus Garhan at the siege of Ashby Castle in 1379. (Fighter 8) -
Under my account Loonayaa:
Miyara Shadowmoon (level 12 pure rogue, was also a Harper): my first real PC. Played her very long-term XD She almost became evil until a certain group of elves along with two awesome halflings showed her the path of good and of Tymora. She became a known scout and worked for many factions, having a special place with the Purple Dragons and War Wizards. Had her locked at lvl 10 and even asked dms to remove xp from her during the Stoneland campaign so I could see it through and through (the events were always lvl 10 caped). She eventually became a Harper. Later on, she became an official at the Lady's House, working for Darmos. That is when she became an NPC.
Purple Dragon Tracker Alexania Daxton (Ranger 5, rogue 3): my first attempted at a lawful good and a law enforcer. This was intense and I learned a lot. The PDs faction was awesome at the time and my PC struggled at time with leadership positions. She had enrolled in the army after getting her own brother arrested. She was a Tyrran and learned that the Law was not always so black and white. Was fun times. Was part of the crazy assault on Crag Castle when we retook it from the Pheonix legion. We were certain we'd all get killed on that one, apparently we had the DMs running all over the place going WTF!? hehe. Was awesome. We made it! Retired her after the Legion won the war in the region.
Nantiska Thornhive aka The Multitude (level 8 druid of Talona): ebol druid with a hive mind attitude. This was a fun concept with two other players. Stoped playing her cause the rest of the multitude players had no more time to play… but we did accomplish a lot, changing the druid mentality of the time and causing a lot of conflict. We once helped free a hafling druid that was in jail, with Eliphas, Gurm and some others, by using a bulette to dig in the jail and get her out. She'd gotten throw in there cause we turned a WW into a white stag for making him pay for something I can't recall. We eventually got a bounty on our head for trading a live pure white stag with a lancelord. Thing is, the stag was poisoned and deseased to no end so we got accused of atempted murder on several Lords >_>
Anhksari Zalann, crazy bard of talona. Went nuts when all her friends eventually got killed. Killed her off cause she had no more meanning.
Quamara Zy'ari, elven warrior of the Theur Everae, died fighting the Baron of Gromfia! Almost had the bastard too! Ran out of healing >_>Lead Engineer Ruby Sandneedle of the Company of the Gear. (lvl 8 wizard): Hafling clockwork maniac working to make the world a better world and blow things up! Had an awesome time creating all sort of crazy things. Made it to the top rank which was actually secret. The rank was called Disciple of the Sambho, but in public, we used Lead Engineer. They were trying to create a God, no less. At one point, during the Sambho construction, Ruby got her unfamous shield that allowed her to control 4 summons at a time. My personal army! One of my best moment involved beating the crap out of a beholder all on my own and making HarryMcScary go: O_O WTF!. Tossed my whole contingent of summons at it, saving the day.
Became a DM after that. Though after a difficult year in 2012, I needed to play again to get my mind off things. So I started a secret account.
Under the account Milady Mouse I played only one true PC:
Stark Wyvern / Retainer Taran Everfall (lvl 10 pure fighter) Few new it at the time, but Taran was an Earth Genasi. His traits were a strong build, large hands and feet, and ruby gemmed eyes. That is why he oftenly was seen with goggle on or his helmet. He had decided to hide so he would not have to face all the stares of fear and hatred being different brought. He'd gotten tired of that from living in a small town. He weas Chauntean, but belived in her more wilder side, The Earthmother. Strength and life. Before he came to Arabel, he had a hard time with weaker being, as earth genasi prefer the company of strong fellows, but he came to understand that everyone had strengths, not always physical ones. He saw the power mages could had but knew they were rarely strong physically. He knew he wasnt the sharpest too in the shed but knew he could protect them so they could change the world. Maleen became sort of a father figure to him and he'd had done anything to protect him and his Guild/House. He also met a knight of the Red Hart who he fell for. Dame Deidre O'Connell. Her reaction when she learned what he was was priceless. Though she eventually got over the difference and fell for him also. They made one hell of a team. One day, he rescued a young earth genasi girl from urdlen maniacs, and he became sort of a parent to her. I had a good time with him. He retired after almost losing his eyesight to the urdlen cultists. He went home to raise little Emily and marry Deidre! -
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Rego Frin - trapspringer. Banished from the city for an attack on a lance lord, and converted to the druid cause as they taught him the ways of the lands. Travelled to the Shadovar's castle islands and aided in the killing of one of the warmongering princes.
Glork Glorinson - Mage guild frontlining wizard, Elder of the Stoneguard and book fetishist. Discovered and retained the Rainwreath sacred to Itishia. Killed the Baron Gromf in the fangvale assault.kili Deepshaft - dwarven skald, and demon worshiper. Entered the Aegis tomb and help recover it secrets. Joined the Red Moon and aided in the summoning of Bloodclaw.
Karic Sawman - current. Bloodthorn of the Red Moon
since these i have played…
Cal Blake - sheriff and eventually thrall to Batsey Belfries vampire guard.
Fyanamoac - fey touched halfling bard and councilor of the mage guild. she was a year long character which achieved quite a lot though slowly! was fun to play as she was quite chaotic.
Ttrir Trollslayer - founder of thunderholme trades. my richest character by far, usually had over 20k. achieved a lot with the red hart not least retrieving the ortrant from urdlen's lesser avatars to make weapons for the red hart to use in the battle for crag castle. (also happened to be decieved in this as the ortrant was not used for the weapons but instead the dwarven weaponsmith used it in the creation of a lich….)
Elith - lythari, missed most of the action that the elven faction got up to due to time zones.
Vinco - necromancer that advertised his ability to raise an army to defend against the advancing shadovar army, suprisingly no one accepted his help but eventually marlir fought for the city anyway. died to spawns on a transition after being made an outlaw when he was present at the ending of the eight.
Ratter - talonite, part of a trio that basically claimed the seewers for talona. got up to some fun but ultimately died as they were exiled and the whole concept was city centric, we returned and awaited death via pvp.
Ganbattar - barbarian clan member that was created to provide muscle for the actions of other players. the server seemed quite caster heavy at the time.
Frem Twil - wererat and silver bannerman, lots of fun to play as he could play alongside all chars. bluff skill was 19 at the end, when he finally revealed himself to the city conquering the western district for the rat king whom he then proceeded to usurp. retired a success and the new rat king.
Buck Roegers - the antidote to the Frem and the talonites. designed to serve the city and be utterly devoted to it. died as he tried to prove a point to the silverguard having been refused a place amongst them.
Suppi - urdlen gnome created as an alt whilst i apped for a faction cahr. app was declined but suppi and his 'killing for coins' mentality was addictive! murdered, pardoned, assaulted, spent time in the pit to be released with his already dubious sanity degraded. died in the palace as he assaulted everyone there… claimed by Urdlen via moles! -
My other post (on a previous, much-gone account)
Karla Jarshald
Jent Fearshal
I am going to add to this again when I have time.
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So now the wipe has hit and things can't be spoiled anymore….
Molly Manors
LE Sorceress 8 / fighter 1 at peak. Shadow theme. Helmite (mostly)
Molly was made with two things in mind, to be a minion (because everyone always need minions yup yup!) and for me to play around with the Shadowmancer theme. She was designed to be highly mailable in agenda, fundamentally her only real personal objective was to discover the truth of her bloodline (which she did!). People sometimes feel you need a big list of goals before you even log in.. you don't. Course you need a character that's fun to play and will create fun for others too!
Molly was Helmite (well till near the end) and her faith was a major comportment in her morality. Molly had some rather aggressive instincts, she tented to try and hide it in the yup yups, but deep down Molly rather enjoyed violence and she rather enjoyed victory and the feel of power. She also had a really bad time doing nothing, as in doing nothing whittled away her self control and more prone to doing something reckless, she also had real issues with empathy and understanding other peoples point of view.
Molly faith in Helm was her looking for a good path forwards. There was always going to be some nightmare out there that needed killing she reasoned, and Helm was a respectable and Just deity she reasoned. If she became a good Helmite bodyguard and protect her charges and the innocent at all costs, She never have a lack of acceptable targets and people won't care she's a Scarymacer, yup yup!
This rather simple ethic system and the naivety that went along with it would lead to much conflict down the line, Early Molly often walked about covered in shadows, because it put her at ease in a world of bright lights that actually hurt her somewhat (she was mildly weak to light, nothing like a Drows by a long shot, but she didn't like strong lights one bit!) and of course she always offered her services to fight evil (because you know, she didn't want to go bat shit crazy!)
Course people sometimes said no ( coughs Claudio coughs) on the grounds they thought she was Sharran agent, and latter because she was Vinco the necromancer servant, which bring us neatly onto her boss! Molly early on put up a advert offering her services as a Helmite bodyguard with a few restrictions (mostly she wasn't going to work for a Lathaderite… she really hated strong lights remember!) and Vinco hired her to protect him and Roy the Sightless Rite to talk with the Vaulted One about this little undead army plot you may have heard off.. :wink:
Anyway Vinco quickly won Molly over to his plan (were going to save loads of innocent people and here a suit of plate you can cast in!) and kept her very much on side for a few reasons...
A) He treated her well, when most treated her poorly
B) He treated her magic as a interesting thing that Molly should develop and not liquid evil.
C) He constantly gave her tasks and helped Molly with her personal objectives (a early case being the attempt to create a Shadow Looking Glass), which helped keep her blood under control.
D) He had a plan that could save the city, which sounded like it could actually work.... while as far as Molly was concerned was in stark contrast to the People Militia, who were a clueless bunch of fools more concerned with infighting and pleasing druids then stopping the Shadovar (in her eyes).
You can understand why Molly tended to take attacks on Vinco badly and when people told her to go kill him.... it was a easy way to piss her off big time. As far as Molly was concerned Vinco was her best friend, charge and boss, and the person she could depend on the most. Course being a Necromancer bodyguard didn't help her reputation, but every time someone pushed her away for supporting Vinco, it just made her hate them and love Vinco's more (who never rejected her).
Anyway as the the Druids led by Gems made Molly life more and more difficultly. Molly was seriously considering working for the Shadovar because of this, but had issues with there collars and in the end William (Vrugor halfing!) being fair and Just with her made her have seconds thoughts about the whole assassinate Claudio, steal his staff and let the EO be butchered by demons plan, and she didn't go through with it.
It was at this point, a certain loyalist wizard of Eraamion's called Camille Erlengaard hired her to spy on the Shadovar and be useful to the cause (the fact Molly was a little too close to Falstaff and she worried for Vinco's life may have pushed her to say yes). So she went to work on collecting information from the other side. Course the wall ended shortly after that and Camille never got round to telling anyone that Molly -really- wasn't a traitor.
In the post war period this tag of traitor came to define Molly's interactions with others and caused a growing hate to develop in her for the Palace. The main target was House Wyvernspur, who she saw as foes of the Weave, who would kill all sorcerers and hid behind a generic "faith in the divine" to hide something. Nearly all members of the House were Molly's worst enemies, through Molly did always try to give each retainer a chance to prove otherwise. She saw House Maleen as sells outs, who refused to defend Mystra's Honor from Wyvernspur and who had sold trhere souls to fey (who Molly didn't like due to the whole fey queen buisness). The fact many of the retainer were the same people who been in the People Militia and 'betrayed' the innocent by letting the druids release the Fey Queen of Storms and Lightning didn't help one bit.
Claudio of course pushed his influence more and more too, resulting in Molly being beaten down after Skully (MrMagpie) betrayed her and released a hoard of fiendish Moles on the city. The fact Brianna called him lover and let him get away with such (and constant death threats) eroded her belief in the Wyrmguard and the Justice system and her belief in Helm too, she was sacrificing everything to be a guardian of the innocent, and there was no respect and little in the terms of the results.
Course there was one person she didn't hate who was Retainer, Amithiel (aka ThreeSidedCoin), who always made a effort to treat her fairly and justly, gave her dream she could get behind, gave her tasks to do and actually had the guts to challenge her to a duel twice! Needless to say in a city that was by and large crushing her spirit and slowly driving her insane, the idea that there someone who gave her hope and seemed to value the innocent, gave Molly real hope when she mostly had none (hence why she had the hots for her, when you been slowly dying of dehydration in a desert, you love water regardless of flavor >.<). It was kinda of a shame this guy called Gentles roped her to assassination plot to kill one of the Wyvernspur retainers called Asb (Seter), or as Molly saw it, just counter attack on a would be murderer, and and Amithiel got really pissed with Molly over this.
Funny enough, just as she was leaving the city a even darker force got it hands on Molly, the demon Lord Zu. It started with Molly having a adventure that including meeting her real father (who tried to kill her with fire... yer it was pretty horrific for her), killing him in self defense and being told by a demon that her bloodline gave her access to a army of demons to defend the innocent from oppressive forces like the Palace (who would never accept her no matter what it claimed) and savage druids. Going back to the metaphor about water in the desert, this was music to Molly's (naive and dispirited) ears. Finally she had found a way to protect the innocent from evil tyrants in the palace and wicked man eating druids! All she had to was create a 'Family' who would serve Loyalty to Her Grandest of Fathers (who even gave her a hat!, Yes -that- Hat)!
Curiously I suspect this plot might have gone very different if Molly had someone she could turn too for guidance and could have told she was being used by a demon who was playing on her hope and pain, but there was no one around anymore who she trusted that much and who would tell her that (Vinco just saw it as another source of power!) so she started to try and recruit people into a infernalisum cult, still thinking she was a good guy and doing the right thing that would let her protect the innocent.
Course time went by and she didn't really have much successes, the next major point in her story was Night of Terror that ended all those Rift monsters, were once more she was rejected and beaten up, this time by a mob, and got thrown in jail. This caused her to effectively have a mental break down and lose faith in Helm... since she just couldn't see the point anymore if she was considered unfit to kill even Rift monsters.
At this point, Molly was highly malleable and controllable, she was scared, lost, full of hate and pain and desperate for a future. So she tried being a Gondite smith and just do whatever the Palace told her to do pretty much (through she was sloppy), thing is, at this point pretty much any priest worth his salt could have likely converted her and won her over. If Team Palace had a real attempt to make her feel welcomed and gave her value, she likely would have started working for them, especially if they had tried to heal her pains....
Course every time things went wrong, she got blamed... Her interaction with Balthus Spade were interesting. Molly desperately hoped he was someone like Amithiel, someone she could believe in and follow, so she went out of her way to help him, but when something nasty and shadow like stuff happened in the Haunted Halls, she got blamed (through she as totally innocent!) Latter on, she broke into tears in front of him about how much her life sucked, and he mercilessly crushed her heart a bit more.
Then of course Zu lured half the server into some ruins and blocked the entrance. It was a long event and he tried to corrupt people during it. Course no one knows the reason why it ended was because Molly told the demon lord to "let them go"... which he did, neatly taking Molly's Soul and giving her Warlock Powers she never wanted or used.
Course Molly ironically got blamed for that too (yup, sucks to be her).
It was about this time that the Eight convinced Molly the Palace wanted her dead and were plotting her doom (not a hard sell). Furthermore the Ruins incident had finally woke Molly up to the fact that Zu wasn't her friend, and wasn't out to protect the innocent... and Zu was a foe of the Eight too. So she joined forces with them and set to figuring out a way to kill the demon lord.
Rav then others the Bresk solution to Molly, sacrifice herself to kill him for good, using her bloodline as the weapon... and Molly decided it was the best plan (plus heroic sacrifice sounds better than kill yourself....) then the Palace sent some mercenary guy to drag her in (maybe those Terrorist posters were a bad idea...)... and Zu broke her out (by getting a guard npc to say his name tuts!) and put her ethical dilemma were she had choose which of two men should die.. which she refused to take part in.
Anyway, a even more screwed up Molly was dropped into the Helmlands, and then summoned The Palace, telling them she held the key to killing the demon lord Zu via a rite they should have checked over by Archmage Kanthea Farelven for validity and made threats of act of violence if they didn't help.... course none listened, and Molly being the angry screwed up mess she was by this point decided that killing Claudio would help get her message across, plus end that homicidal ich she had for him since he called her Sharran spy on her first day.
She nearly killed him too with her wand of lightning bolts (bought from the bounty on Skully she earned, made by Vinco) and went down in a blaze of glory, shortly followed by her soul being dragged in the Abyss and being told by Zu he come back for her after thousand years of being burned alive!
So in a nutshell she was a malleable minion who got involved in necromancy and infernalism with the best intentions, and sent truly evil by trickery and abuse!
(Also Zu was certainly laughing all the way to the bank in the harvest of souls!)
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Isabella Sennett: She became a member of Trystan's Trades, and from there, a Harper. She befriended a silver dragon, eventually becoming a Dragon Disciple. She died to the Ashby family.
Hedera Roth, aka Ivy: Talonite Ranger, who fell in love with the wererat Leopold Crux. Spreader of plague and poison and disease – attempted to become the Chosen of Talona. Died with Crux in a lava pit.Zaniia Rose: She came to Arabel after meeting a traveler from Arabel, who spoke to her of loss and love, and most importantly, of Clar Banda. Seeking to be able commune with her dead mother, Zaniia's efforts led her to becoming a Retainer of Lady Marliir. She dies, rather heroically I think, fighting a dragon.
Dame Deidre O'Connell: cleric/fighter devout of Lathander. Arriving in Eveningstar and trained as a squire, then a knight errant; then she became knighted and titled Dame. She finally found the tiefling responsible for killing her family; his head was on a pike outside the Red Hart fortress. During this time she also became a Harper, fell in love (awkwardly, albeit, with Taran Everfall, and left the RH to serve Lord Maleen. She made friends with the most awkward librarian ever (Erih), helping her ascend to becoming an all-knowing entity: the Blue Star, Enigma. Her actions and partnership with Thune eventually led to Cormyr reclaiming the city, and Deidre retiring.
Anichka Winterbourne: tiefling cleric of Auril She died essentially sacrificing her life to help destroy Cinder, the red dragon who was terrorizing Flynn. For her efforts, a shrine was dedicated to Auril in her name.
Raslyn Dracart: Joined the Fivestar merchant company as a joint concept with BG. Made pacts with the most devious and evil men around. Caught the attention of Elshad Vhoor, who turned her into a vampire. She created her own little “family” called The Ravens (Lizard-Man, Shea, & Magpie) who helped protect her secret. She turned a Sheriff into a vampire; turned Michard into a Thrall. There was still (as of the wipe) a hideout in the Underdark with her family crest flying over it. Her crypt was down there too, not far away, guarded eternally by "Fred the Zombie"
Senior Magus Ophelia of Thay: Dabbled in poisons, politics, power, and possibilities. Seeing the path to power as being the ones to save the city, Ophelia took great efforts to do just that. Along with her Knights (Nergui (Yavamaya), Safana (Muse), Urthadar (Nosk)), Ophelia saw to the capture/execution of Lyssans (Shevarra), Banites (Sharlaan), bloodstone dealers (Gordon Two-Knives). Sharlaan was once her lover, but he sided with Djig, who had threatened to kill her, so she had him executed in her bedroom. She met Harry & Hadrian, who both tried to steer her onto a goodly path – and she tried. She really did try! She began searching for the Staff of Stars as a way to end the Curst Elves in the Vast Swamp. She became a contact for The Lady of Wyvernwater, Undie Windfalll, who understood Ophelia's lust for power and aided her in gaining such. Unfie asked Ophelia to remove Tyranshield and the pirates from her isles, which would bring trade/profit, she launched a months-long assault on the Pirates of Immersea, ending with the death of Tyranshield. Unfie's hold over Ophelia was severed when Mather of Lathander broke the Pirate Lord Tyranshield's cutlass. It was during this time that Ophelia encountered Coltsfoot. This led to her hatred of fey and the subsequent capturing of Coltsfoot. This led to the creation of the Ward which was protecting the northern border of the city – which collapsed when Harner snatched the cage from her during an assault on the city. This resulted in Ophelia's rapid-aging curse. Harner managed a ritual to cure her and she again set off to find the Staff. The staff was found, the protective magics of Miyertar were activated, the Primordial was left vulnerable and the heroes of the city were able to defeat it. Then the server crashed got wiped, so her –THE END – didnt happen on screen, but:
[11:33] so.. what do I say happened to Ophelia once they left that cave?
[12:14] <pony_knight>That she stayed with Ooorgh and over the years transcended the material and became a powerful blood mage in her own right.</pony_knight> -
Played a few characters Nobody probably remembers through the years.
Joric Kolt - My first character Guard for House… Something or other, We wore purple was killed by "skinner" at level 5 I believe, Ran with Sinsane Duskflower.
Balderrone Rose - A lovitarian who was in cahoots with Bhallir (The bad bhaliir) Capture Jessica(Half-orc paladin who had a Human husband) and tortured her, cutting off her fingers and tossing her/them down the pit.-- Few bs characters in between -- I wasn't ( I'm not) the strongest of Roleplayers and I lack the ability to know exactly what to do on the server Finally had an app approved but turned it down to play my current character!
Jaric Steel - Tempun turned Banite, was Raslyn Dracarts bodyguard for a short time, an aspirer for Zhentarim recruitment (was never approved)Tagnar Silverhammer - Dwarven Cleric of Dugmaren Brightmantle- Again nothing important
Currently Kaim Lionshield!