Warning: this will likely be quite long, I’ll have explanations first then a few goodbyes, feel free to skip right to the latter if you think all this will bore you terribly.

So, I created Vahletharien mainly as a protest against Rusken. Rusken, for those of you who may not know, was an elf kingpin for a time who got his align switched to neutral.
Rusken was a fun disaster, if that makes any sense. I did not write a role *at all*, but he certainly had one, and it was fun! The deal with his align change was that he made negotiations with the Empire and with Scions which basically came down to – You don’t mess with me, I won’t mess with you. Now of course this was made real pretty by Rusken saying that he would provide information or equipment when he saw fit to the Empire. (Which actually only happened once if I recall in order to secure the arrangement, it was a sword) In my mind, he was playing everyone. He had no intention of actually serving the Empire or Scions at all. And this did not seem like an evil thing to do, but rather something that an extremely intelligent thief would do to secure his prosperity. Alas, the alignment change came, I had no role to explain any of my actions, and I reacted like a foolish little boy then deleted. I would like to point out however, that you now have wine in the wine shop at Galadon. *tip*

SO, I rolled Vahletharien to be the ‘perfect elf’ so to speak. I wanted to take all the seriousness, all the goodness, all the haughty behavior, everything that encapsulates what an elf is, and pour it into one character. That was the goal.

He definitely had a lot of peculiarities. One of which, was caring very little about invocation after a time, and focusing on being a priest. Hence his lack of several spells, you might call him the worst Elf Invoker ever. Perfected Pebble to Boulder at 542 hours, lol. Vortex was even later.

This focus on being a priest of Vynmylak, who is in fact, the war god, conflicted in the minds of many people with being an Acolyte. I explained some of this in my last role post. Vahletharien had sort of an inverse rage, that is to say that he became more and more angry as time passed due to the massive amounts of injustice that he witnessed. This led to a rekindling (gotta love the pun) of his invoker abilities. I probably killed more people in the last month of playing than I had the entire span of his life. But he wasn’t all about killing anyway.

He was sphere honor, but not in the classic CF way. He didn’t rank alone or anything like that. His take on honor was more like ‘honoring your promises by fulfilling your duty’. This is why he would not marry again after his wife, Minya, died. Now, regarding PK, there were some deviations. For example, if he was in field somewhere with a buddy, and we saw some evil dude, he would NOT attack if his buddy DID. It would stay one on one. However, this did not apply to ANY retrieval situations at all. If you took the orb, he was going to do whatever it took to see you dead and the orb returned, period – and that was part of his take on honoring his duty. Zulgh’s comments were both regarding such situations.


*A few comments for the Immortals

First, damn I love this game.

Second, if you’re wondering about the title of this post “Gimme' Some Mo' - A Twisted Tale” then here is your explanation.

I felt like we were often saying this to one another, my mortal char and all of immortaldom. I could tell that you guys wanted a bit more, but I felt unsure of how to give it. I am not, at least not yet, the exceptional roleplayer that I believe Urden to be. That is to say that I have not felt comfortable coming up with fantastical roles about seeing past present and future all in one reality, or being half man half dog and worshipping nonexistent gods. Perhaps this is because I am never sure if such things will be accepted with open arms or not, and I would really hate to spend so much time working a particularly peculiar angle and not have it take with you guys.

In retrospect there are many things that I could have done to spice it up. I think my problem was that I was simply burned out with the character. I have never played a character this long, though I enjoyed it immensely, and wasn’t truly prepared to do so. The next character I have will account for all this before creation.

The other side of this, is I felt like I could have been given a bit more as a player, especially as a leader of a cabal, tatt’d follower, etc etc. Now I know that last statement seems ridiculous in itself, as I was given quite a bit. I refer to something a bit deeper. For example, I had no idea how to run a cabal. This was my first leader and much of what I was doing, I was doing completely blind and often alone. Vyn, if you remember that conversation we had at the end about me always doubting myself, this is what I was alluding to in part.

I also felt as though my role in the Fortress needed a bit of immortal intervention. I mean, a prophet, you know like the guy that has visions and proclaims the future….but I didn’t have any visions, or dreams, or weird whispers in my head, or anything. It is also extremely difficult to work with the explanation of the position as outlined in the texts within the Fortress’ library. It’s very vague, and even the texts give me very little to work with due to their brevity. I think largely, most of this is being worked on currently, which is excellent.

I was also slightly frustrated that I never got an explanation as to what the Orb actually was or why I was risking my blood to get it back. I would have loved to announce it’s history and essence to the Fortress as a way to uplift and rally people. Alas, no such chance.

On the whole though, I was very impressed with the immortal interaction that I did get to experience.

Vynmylak – I love your religion (obviously), I love your uplifting style. I just wish we could have done more.

Shokai – Man it sucked, after 635 hours I came across you three times, one of which was in person when you were telling a story to Jaegrudai. Each time it made me wish we could interact more.

Lyristeon – I would have never guessed that was you. That whole situation was stressful as I was trying to talk to you and we were being raided constantly by kiddos. I don’t think I said even one coherent thing.

Amaranthe – I love the style that you bring. Thanks for the quest, thanks for not letting me feel like a failure in it.

Obaznuk – I know you’re gone, but if you read this, I loved our talks, still cracks me up.

Soucivi – I was Rusken, MuAhAhaHaHaHAHa