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role Your role chapters are: From the past: < 1 > IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS, rank 1-19 Added Thu Sep 11 22:12:31 2003 at level 19: < 2 > PERSONALITY, IN A NUTSHELL Added Thu Sep 11 21:48:29 2003 at level 19: < 3 > EARLY HUNTS, AND CONVERSION Added Thu Sep 11 21:31:26 2003 at level 19: < 4 > IN THE BEGINNING Added Thu Sep 11 21:18:58 2003 at level 19:
role read 4 Subject: IN THE BEGINNING Added Thu Sep 11 21:18:58 2003 at level 19: She made the mistake of being born in a human barbarian village. And she made the mistake of being more intelligent than the men of her Village. And she had the GALL to actually show her intelligence.
Therefore, her youth and the beginning of her life ...well...sucked. She was beaten, humiliated, assaulted, and basically treated as worse than a slave, because of how brightly her strong personality and intelligence shone through her clear, unblinking, hate-filled, eyes.
Because of her situation, she did as many do when under the thumb of oppression, she sought for and found ways to convince herself of her superiority over her Oppressors.
And with oppressors that are stupid barbarians, she didn't have to seek far. The three most powerful that she came upon were that: She was more intelligent, she was female, and she was wise enough to have a sense of Honor.
role read 3 Subject: EARLY HUNTS, AND CONVERSION Added Thu Sep 11 21:31:26 2003 at level 19: She was still young when she was able to work up a decent escape plan. And she used it.
She became a ghost in the wilderness, teaching herself the rudiments of life in the wilderness. But she was not content to just survive, she had an anger burning in her from the injustice of her youth...and she channeled it against all Men. It was the Stupid lumbering MALE who had done what was done to her. In all ways, the Female was superior to the Male, and the Men needed to suffer.
In her early hunts, she traveled far. One day, she was tracking a group of male monks in a mountain range south of Galadon, planning on making them pay. But she lost their trail, and in her urgency to make them pay, walked right into a place in the mountains from which there was no escape.
She despaired. This was the end. But then she felt and heard someone walk up to her, although she could not see who. And this someone spoke, and it was a Man.
The conversation that they had was long and long. And the specifics of it are not important. So I will only touch on the highlights.
It turns out, that this invisible, hidden, or otherwise un-seeable man, in his own words "represented the fortress", and offered to free her from this prison of rock, if she would just agree to listen to his words.Gamaliel at first suspected a trick, but her sense of honor would not let her refuse to listen to words from a being willing to help her.
As I have said, the talk was long and long, and it was mostly this man who spoke. Eventually, Gamaliel began to be moved by his words. She began to see the truth of them.
She saw that it was not the MALE that was responsible for what happened to her in her youth...it was the things that drove those men. Jealousy, rage, fear, covetousness....
In short, it was the Darkness that drove those men to do what they did, not the fact that they were men.
This someone also convinced her that all of Thera was embroiled in a war. A war between the Light and the Darkness. And that to attempt to stand aside in this war was indeed playing into the hand of Darkness, doing what Darkness wished.
And her soul was changed. This unseen man led her in her prayers and she was converted to the Light forever more, then he set her free from the Mountains.
Gamaliel has some deep, suppressed, suspicions that the "man" who set her free and converted her was in some way more than Mortal but she indeed cannot help fearing what it would mean for her life if it was. On some subconscious level, she knows that she was not worthy of such aid and salvation, both of soul and body, and she fears how much her sense of honor would force her into believing she has to owe to such a one as he who freed her.
role read 2 Subject: PERSONALITY, IN A NUTSHELL Added Thu Sep 11 21:48:29 2003 at level 19: While she has turned to the Light whole heartedly, there are a number of personality traits from her former life that she retains to a greater or lesser degree,and that she tries to control,again to a greater or lesser degree.
Many might call her, in our world, a "Femi-nazi". She still has an almost inbred, down to the marrow, distrust and dislike of the "Male". She knows that such an attitude is counter productive to the Light, and she tries to control her natural urge to hate men,and she is somewhat successful, mainly with those men who have proven themselves lightwalkers.
She is also quite a bit of an introvert, and has trouble with large groups of people.And she WAS raised mainly in a barbarian village. Her manners are terrible, she almost always speaks her mind, she never beats around the bush, and she NEVER hesitates to tell someone exactly what she thinks of them, no matter who they are or how powerful they are.
In short: She is a rabid, raving Bitch by nature, but attempts to temper that now that she has turned to the Light
role read 1 Subject: IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS, rank 1-19 Added Thu Sep 11 22:12:31 2003 at level 19: Firstly, since the first night that she could hunt others who were evil, she has. And partly because she knew that she will at a time in the future attempt to join the Fortress (when she feels that she is knowledgeable enough to make a contribution), and partly because she hold the Fortress in such high esteem because of her Salvation, she began bringing steaks made from the fallen corpses of those evil adventurers who have fallen to her Hunt to the Marshall (the reason she chose the Marshall and not the Captain, is that the Marshall is female and the Captain is not), believing that as a representative of the Maran, the Marshall would appreciate the steaks.
Next, she was near ruined keep when she alone slew a Duergar warrior ( *namedeleted* ). To her shock and dismay, an elder Storm giant warrior (*namedeleted*) fell upon the spoils of her hunt with speed and with greed almost dripping from his pores.She had seen a few items on the Duergar that she wanted, and would have gladly shared the rest with *namedeleted* had he but had the Honor to ask to share in the Spoils of a Hunt that he had no part in.
But no. He did not ask, he just took, wore the best pieces, and refused to return them.
Needless to say, this angered Gamaliel. Not only that a Lightwalker would allow greed to have such a hold over him, but the DISHONOR of his actions.
So, Gamaliel set about warning all of the Lightwalkers she could see about *namedeleted*. After a few days, *namedeleted* repented, and returned the items from her hunt that he had tried to steal.
Gamaliel is not sure that the Honorless dog did this just to stop her from warning everyone of his greed, or from a sincere desire to reconcile and gain forgiveness, and she is torn between her continued disgust at his display of his honorless greed, and her desire to give him a second chance.
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