Wow. Where to start.

Somewhere deep inside my ale-soaked gut, I had a notion that you were
one of the older players with a fundamental basis for what Battle
was. Somewhere along the time-line of Battle, things changed. The
idea was, that the BattleRagers started to learn something more
about conflict and how to best prepare/defend against it. Remember
this, if you ever reconsider creating another Battlerager.

As a follower of Thror you were extremely impressive. I watched
you deal with trial after trial and face each one without bickering
or complaining. This not only made me admire Marlek but it made
me want to know Marlek. I really think the things you had to face
made you a stronger individual and in the end, that is the purpose
of my religion. If you think you failed in the eyes of my religion
you are sorely mistaken. I think you did an excellent job.

As a BattleRager, I was somewhat disappointed. There is no
particular 'style' of a Rager that is bad. So long as each style
can compliment the 'whole' of the village then you can't really be
doing wrong. - Unless - you manage to be dying constantly. Balls
to the wall is a great role, if you can pull it off. Some people
can, others cannot. If you find yourself going balls to the wall
and dying all the time, you aren't just putting yourself at risk, but
you are putting other villagers who raid/defend with you at risk.
This constant defeat is more than likely going to either cause you to
delete or to become desperate.

In the world of CF, naked men tend to do desperate things for
clothing (insert ruby-hilted dagger here).

I wasn't too concerned when you died to the Archmage by yourself. I
saw it and grumbled to myself. I saw you again gang-banged after
trying to coordinate an attack. I saw you die again by being slept
due to being overconfident about being able to kill a necromancer.
Each time you would manage to drop link immediately after you died.
I would assume this was to keep from deleting and to allow the
frustration to simmer down. It was a bad sign and I warned you
about it. I watched you a few times more and realized that you were
sticking it out and the very same day I was going to induct you, the
incident with the healer occured.

There was a stretch of time when I wasn't online much and I'm
assuming during that time we managed to miss one another. Regardless
of this, I was intent on seeing how you did and re-inducting you if
you had managed to stick it out. Actually, earlier today I checked
to see if you were still active and noticed that you were not.

So in all regards, yes, I did think Marlek was a character who faced
an enormous amount of difficulties. Just facing them made this
a remarkable character. I applaud you for that.

Good Luck.

HammerSong