Re-living the legends

A nostalgia post really. was listening to some music and started thinking about my favorite characters, and there ends. It is hard to say if I had a favorite or not, i had fun with all my favorites for a variety of reasons. Heres some of my D&D favorites -

Anzari Shadowcloak - Probably a favorite because he was my first sucessful character. He was a warlock type character, and a second edition character. He was the last of a race of humans, and thus targeted by azash, the god of death in the campaign world. He was a womanizer, and he fought between good and evil impulses. In the end, he was a savior of sorts, a guardian type character. When he retired into npc land he became a mysterious figure who oversaw a group of islands that housed dragons. His true purpose became kind of foggy after that, and what he was actually doing bounced around from time to time.

Kalith Kaliodos, the Incanter - My try at creating a wizard abjurer and making him succesfull. boy was i right on that one. Abjuration turned out to be a helluva school of magic. In truth it was the struggle between his impulse to bring order and balance to the chaos around him that proved to be fun. He was a mean and distant man, and he would sacrifice any and everything if it would prove to useful on a greater scale. In the end of PC time he had achieved what he had allways wanted. A true friend, a reputation of respect, a large family, and the quiet he needed to do research. His trip into NPC land seems to be more disturbing. Not exactly sure of the details, but he probably lost everything in the great collapse, and it may even be that he helped cause it. Losing his friends, family, familiar, and reputation would be the total destruction of this character and all that he had achieved. If he truelly is still alive, he's probably nothing like what he was during the days before the collapse. Still, even if he had a tragic end, he had a pretty succesful run while i had him, and i'll definitely not forget the fun i had interacting with him and the rest of the characters from that very awesome campaign.

Shendolen Morningkill, of the mockingbird clan - This was a fun character. He was a good souled character. Really, he was probably the most morally sound character i've played for an extended period. what made him so fun was his dynamic nature, his free spirited ways, and a very low wisdom. He was allways in trouble, allways having fun, and allways in some kind of romantic turmoil. Really, he never retired to NPC land, the chronicle ended on a pretty cool note, and his basic character type stayed true till the end.

Aram the Tree Devil - Was a fun character. Another early warlock type. He was definitely a character who battled inner demons, and a shadowy past. Was a good guy for the most part, but had alot of problems with the entity that gave him his power, and with his twisted elven past. Was fun to get into him, because he was a soul abandoned, had to pick up vile entities to survive, but still strived to be a good person. NPC land wasnt very generous to him. He isolated himself and his wife in a pretty nasty place, apparently got into some pretty nasty business and became a lich at some point, and was eventually destroyed in an epic battle. He was probably my least succesful character i've played, but he was a hoot to play non the less.

Urith Konrad - an npc I ran for one of my own characters. it was his his retainer from the leadership feat. He was a an older man who had lost alot of his youthfull engergy, but was still a proud warrior of candomia. He was fun to play because he seemed to allways be an underdog in any situation, but seemed to come out on top everytime. Even though he died once, it was still epic, because he was able to stop something that would be nearly unstoppable, and held it long enough for his friends to finish the job. Very cool character with a very cool story. Eventually overshadowed the wizard that he was working for. I definitely had more fun with him. He never went into NPC land, the chronicle ended prematurely. I can only assume he died before the great collapse of old age, or during it in battle.

A footnote in history - I had one evil guy that i played. I dont remember him well, but i remember he became a were - rat. We had a pretty good run with him. I think NPC land was actually pretty good for him, he became the ruler of Glassya i think, at least for a time. cant remember the guys name, but he was definitely a cool one to play =)


ok, thats all for now. we game this evening, so i'll have another post soon =)