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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11957, "[None] Llusan the Champion of the Crusades"
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Llusan the Champion of the Crusades
DescriptionTiny ornamental tattoos adorn the slender face of this elf. They are hues of blue and green, red and yellow - some barely visible, and some starkly contrasting the pale color of his skin. The largest is barely the size of a human thumbnail. His eyes, deep amber orbs, are framed by high cheekbones and slim arched eyebrows. Light, close-cropped hair makes his face seem abnormally long, even for a high elf. His body does not seem to vary significantly from others of his race - slender limbs and well-toned muscles on a six-and-a-half foot frame. But your eyes are drawn again to the minute tattoos on his face - you could swear one of them just shimmered.
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Level | 42 | Sex | male | Race | elf | Ethos | Orderly | Align | Good | Class | paladin | Practices | 34 | Trains | 4 | Hometown | Voralian City | Exp | 501034 | To Level | 15446 | Sphere | Magic | Age mature, 297 years old (92 hours) | Hit Points | 465 | Mana | 709 | Movement | 580 | Strength | 18 | Intelligence | 25 | Wisdom | 21 | Dexterity | 23 | Constitution | 16 | Charisma | 19 | Carry # | 14/37 | Carry Weight | 81 lb 10 oz | | | Gold | 0 | Silver | 785 | Copper | 2581 | Wimpy | 150 | Morale | Moderate | | | Hitroll | 12 | Damroll | 5 | | |
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Llusan's Immortal Comments,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 1,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 2,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 3,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 4,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 5,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 6,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 7,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Role Chapter 8,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Statistics,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Class Specifics,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Timeline,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Skill List,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Supplication List,
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Llusan's PK Statistics,
Death_Angel,
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Llusan's Gank-O-Meter,
Death_Angel,
04-Oct-06 10:20 PM, #1
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11966, "Llusan's Role Chapter 1"
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RoleChapter 1 Scholars of the Infinite Athenaeum, Recruiting Added Thu Apr 7 21:52:03 2005 at level 37:Recruits wishing to become a Scholar of the Infinite Athenaeum must be well-versed in their specific area of study, and shall have attained the 30th rank within their school of magic. Less-experienced students of the art are encouraged to seek apprenticeship as early as their 15th rank.
Most Scholars are of an orderly mindset, by nature. However, Magic shows itself in many forms. A balanced frame of mind can often help to view a problem from many perspectives. Scholars with chaotic predilections are more attuned to the many forms of Chaos Magic, but rarely succeed as Scholars due to the rigorous discipline needed to complete their research.
The Scholars of the Infinite Athenaeum must study all forms of Magic in the name of understanding and arcane purity, including the darker forms of magic often tied to death and disease. However, powerful arcane towers have fallen in the past to deception, greed, and lust for power, their instigators inexorably linked to the dark arts. While cautious, untainted research of Dark Magic is accepted, dark magicians will not be trusted with the knowledge of the Infinite Athenaeum. Willful deception by a Scholar of any walk of life will be punished with execution. The mistakes of Towers past will not be tolerated.
Mortal conflict is a distraction to our purpose. While it is at times unavoidable, Scholars seek combat only to defend themselves and their cause. Recruits who yearn for the thrill of combat will be denied. Scholars who become bloodthirsty will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. Conversely, a Scholar is not a fool. No Scholar is forced to stand idle when an obvious threat approaches. As well, there will undoubtedly be those who mark themselves as eternal enemies of the Scholars. They will be kept off-balance when necessary, but not at the expense of our studies and our cause.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11967, "Llusan's Role Chapter 2"
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RoleChapter 2 Scholars of the Infinite Athenaeum, Background Added Thu Apr 7 21:37:09 2005 at level 37:As Ages dawn and die, gods and godlings rise and fall, and mere mortals brush the worldly planes so briefly their impact is hardly noticed. There has been but one power that has remained constant through the turmoil of the passing Ages:
Magic.
There exists in Thera a library of infinite expanse - a cache of magical knowledge so vast that no single mortal could possibly browse each title (let alone entire texts) in a single lifetime. I have walked the bookcase-hallways of this enchanted library in awe. Indeed, in the weeks I have spent searching for a tactic to eventually take and hold the Crystal Tower, a revelation broke like the day.
The library is not complete, nor will it ever be. New research must always be conducted and new knowledge must be continuously added - it is the nature of the Infinite Athenaeum. But it has been neglected for years, its originator, Phaelim, the Lord of Reason, slain by the barbarian god Ordasen for practicing his magical craft. It is in his holy memory that I shall recruit and initiate the Scholars of the Infinite Athenaeum.
The Scholars of the Infinite Athenaeum are a diverse group of magi tasked with the upkeep of the enchanted library known as the Infinite Athenaeum. Scholars perform arcane research independently and cooperatively to further their own understanding of Magic and its interaction with Thera, and to provide new texts for the Infinite Athenaeum. In turn, the Infinite Athenaeum acts as a focal point for the Scholars' studies and concentration.
As Jionus serves as the library's Keeper, so shall I serve as its Curator, ensuring it remains safe (and its location secret) while I recruit the first of the Scholars.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11968, "Llusan's Role Chapter 3"
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RoleChapter 3 Fallen God, Risen Acuity Added Tue Mar 8 19:16:25 2005 at level 34:I did battle with my pursuers from the Crystal Tower, fleeing when confusion riddled their ranks. Weeks passed before I lost them entirely. And I returned to the place that had called to me from the beginning - the shrine of Phaelim, Lord of Magic.
What was once a shrine to knowledge and Magic was now but a husk, a shell of its prior glory. A deep forboding settled within my chest as I wandered the empty halls. It was then that I realized how I could have been taken so unawares within the Crystal Tower. A block was not placed between myself and the ethereal source. Rather, it seems I had associated my power through the god Phaelim, and with his apparent demise, my link was severed.
But while even gods may fall, the ether, and Magic itself, lives on eternally. It was not an ethereal block I was overcoming in captivity. I was establishing a new link - a direct link - through my own soul, with my own willpower, to the ether. Only in a time of great weakness was I able to forge my new strength. Now, truly I can see the path laid before me.
Lord Phaelim's guidance will be sorely missed. But his absence has taken away my crutches and given me strength. Strength, to seek power within. Strength, to enhance my link with the ethereal source. Strength, to study and worship Magic unhindered.
Strength, to protect the purity of Magic, and those who seek to understand it.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11969, "Llusan's Role Chapter 4"
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RoleChapter 4 Enslavement in the Crystal Tower Added Tue Mar 8 19:11:21 2005 at level 34:It has been years since my capture and imprisonment within the Crystal Tower. At last, I have found rest to chronicle my time there, but I could not have imagined how vastly my world would change in so little time.
I had become obsessed with the Crystal Tower - what methods were used to carve this magnificent structure? What strengths and weaknesses did it have? Was it, or could it be, empowered with the Runic Arts to become further defensible? Hundreds - thousands! - of Lord Phaelim's collected books passed through my hands in my research of raw earth-borne crystal, but nothing could prepare me for the mystical strength of it in person.
It was truly magnificent, but these current occupiers had no clue as to the true potential power of such a structure. Earth-borne crystal acts as a link between the physical realm and the metaphysical. Enchanters often house crystal in staves or globes as a focal point to enhance the effects of their magic upon the physical world. But the crystal acts as a two-way gate, also focusing the powers of the physical plane into raw mana (obvious to those attuned enough to sense it!). Untapped, the raw mana eventually dissipates into the ether, the widely available source through which a mage may draw her power.
But just imagine! Imagine the research, the knowledge, the magic that could be discovered, if a coven of like-minded sorcerors could take root there. It would be difficult to clear the Crystal Tower of its inhabitants, true. The counterattack would be ferocious to defend. After that wave, word would surely get out, and those who do not understand the sorcerous arts would be inclined to attack. But it could be defended!
And so, I was explicably drawn toward the Crystal Tower. But I let my guard down while I was examining a crystal specimen, and I was ambushed and taken captive. My link with the ethereal source was severed, my prayers were answered by silence. At first, I thought my life would pass, unnoticed. Then, I gradually found the strength to live. The beatings slowed and stopped over the course of several months.
Gradually, I was elevated from lowly prisoner to laboring slave, with no choice but to chip away at the crystal and bide my time. It was the perfect opportunity to learn the strengths and weaknesses of this ground-borne natural crystal. Daily, I probed inwardly for the source, and daily I could feel my block weakening. I could not count the number of years that passed before I made my escape. But those years brought me to a grand conclusion:
The Crystal Tower could, indeed, be taken and held for the study of pure Magic.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11970, "Llusan's Role Chapter 5"
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RoleChapter 5 Toying with Fire, a Revelation. Added Tue Jan 4 21:19:14 2005 at level 29:I will never forget Tiera.
It was in Seantryn Modan that I first encountered the young half-gnomish invoker. She seemed lonely, but proud. Her tale was enticing, heart-wrenching even: a violent conception, a life of slavery, a secret apprenticeship, and at last she roams free. Free and proud, but not free of her shameful past. Long before her escape, her slavers had inscribed a rune, an identification, on the back of her neck. She had previously tried to carve it out with no luck. Her healer could not touch it.
As she told her tale, an idea sprung like a trap in my mind. Perhaps - just perhaps - I could help her pitiable soul. Perhaps - just perhaps - I could channel Magic into her, while she touched the ether herself, drawing on the element of fire. Perhaps - just perhaps - we could create some sort of feedback through her and by combining our energies (from inside and out), sear the rune from her skin and overcome its power.
Perhaps...
But as fortune would have it, we were intruded upon at the last possible second. The excitement of discovery broken, I could not help but become introspective. Prayer and meditation granted me the ability to reason through the process.
She could have been burned to a cinder!
Her death would have been on my hands, and for what? Because I so pitied her situation that emotion clouded my judgement? Or was I so caught up in proving my theory that I was blind to the risk it posed?
In either case, two things are now clear. First, the amount of power safely channeling through me is growing. I can feel the pull of Magic, tugging from within, aching to be used...for...what? Second, I must carefully continue my study of Magic if I am to learn, but I must fall back on my training and rely on logic rather than emotion to drive my decisions.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11971, "Llusan's Role Chapter 6"
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RoleChapter 6 Musings: Dark Magic and the Paladin's Code Added Fri Dec 10 18:35:50 2004 at level 1:How can magic itself be evil? True, a mortal may corrupt Magic when he becomes crazed with power and attempts to alter Magic itself, or challenges the gods themselves. But the opposing power of Magic is Nature. Death occurs in nature and while unpleasant, it is not considered evil (a wolf kills a cute baby deer to feed). Is not dark magic - a mirror of dark nature - then simply a potentially unpleasant, but not necessarily evil, force of pure Magic? If a man - a natural being - slays another innocent man for a nefarious purpose, then that death is indeed an evil natural act. Likewise, an act of dark magic in the destruction of an innocent man is an evil magical act.
Where is the line drawn? The act of magically poisoning a child to kill it is no doubt evil. But magically poisoning a horde of marauding invaders, who are otherwise impervious, to save your family? The act of raising the dead to pillage a peaceful town is no doubt evil. But a horde of mindless animated dead could restore a destroyed village to its original state in short time. Unnatural, yes, but Magic is unnatural by definition.
What, then, is evil, and what is merely unpleasant to consider? Evil seems to be determined not by one's father and mother, but by one's actions. Along the same line, evil magic must be defined by one's actions with magic, and not the perceived actions or possible outcomes of the magic. Dark magic may lend itself more easily to nefarious and corrupt purposes, but it cannot in and of itself be evil.
(This haunts Llusan daily, and dark magic will always be a source of internal conflict for him)
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
Member since 20th Sep 2024
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#11972, "Llusan's Role Chapter 7"
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RoleChapter 7 Character Background - Humble Beginnings Added Fri Dec 10 18:28:57 2004 at level 1:Llusan had heard the story many times before: Generations ago, a small farming community near Tar Valon swelled with fleeing citizens when the White Tower was destroyed. A handful of refugees were Sisters of the Aes Sedai. After a hundred years of hardship, the farming community had grown into a small village. Most of the average citizens were humans, but the dozen or so village elders also had elves in their ranks. The village's elders - mages and healers descended from the Aes Sedai and other travelers - sought to retain knowledge of Magic. While the average citizen went about his day-to-day life, the elders would spend their time simultaneously studying and worshipping Magic, the most divine of godly gifts to Therans.
He smiled and listened anyway. His mother was busy packing some of the basics for him to make his way in the Ruined City. She was worried for him - the Ruined City had become a rough place after the fall of the White Tower - and it calmed her to tell the story of the village's history again.
Llusan was raised the son of two elven sorcerers, both elders in the village (his numerous tiny facial tattoos denote his lineage within the village). He worshipped Magic, and discovered quickly that he had the ability to channel magic to mend lame animals in the village. He understands that mana flows through him differently than the sorcerers. Mages request Magic to submit to their will, like a shepherd boy drawing water from a well - it is their rigorous training that keeps them from drawing too much and being consumed in a torrent of power. It is different for one touched as he. Power divined from the sphere of Magic flows through him - he could no more separate from it than he could from the blood in his veins. It is a privilege and an honor for him to be touched by Magic in this way, and he knows it. Other priests may be chosen or bound by worldly or elemental influences, or virtues of the soul. Rarely does Magic choose for itself a priestly vessel. But why would it choose him? And why now?
The elders longed for a return to "the way it was" at the White Tower. After all, that was how pure Magic should be treated - research for the sake of knowledge and advancement of magical understanding itself. He was told that the White Tower fell when its leader corrupted it for her own dark quest for immortality.
Llusan has been taught that Magic is the power of the gods, freely accessible to those advanced enough to understand its nuances. His belief is that in its true, pure, uncorrupted form, magic provides hope to Therans to provide a better life for all. Corruption occurs when a mortal hungers for more power, daring to use Magic to challenge the gods themselves, or to alter the sphere of Magic as if they were a god. It is Llusan's belief that even the darker paths of Magic must be studied, albeit carefully. Dark magic tends to bring its wielder dangerously close to corruption, but perhaps under controlled conditions, it can be studied to better avoid corruption of all Magic in the future.
Knowledge and research are essential to further the understanding of magic and to keep it pure. It is this desire for knowledge - and his everlasting quest to understan
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11973, "Llusan's Role Chapter 8"
In response to Reply #0
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RoleChapter 8 Brief Summary and Character Overview Added Fri Dec 10 18:20:24 2004 at level 1:Llusan is a priestly vessel of Magic, something rare, according to the elders of his village. He believes in the purity of Magic, and knows that only knowledge can reduce the likelihood of the mortal corruption of Magic. His facial tattoos are, to his knowledge, nothing but a rite of passage into adulthood, denoting him as the blood relative of elders in his home village.
He has trained as a Paladin, closely guarding the source of his divine power at first, at least until the gods of Magic have blessed him and judged him worthy. He follows the Paladin's Code, but a source of internal conflict for him is in regards to "evil" magic. He believes that Magic itself cannot be evil, but rather the use of the darker magic treads dangerously near the border of knowledge and corruption, leading weaker-willed mortals astray into evil deeds.
Llusan has set off on his own to become a noble Paladin of Magic, the priestly vessel chosen by Magic to teach those who misunderstand the ways of Magic, and to defend all those who seek knowledge of Magic and an uncorrupted Source of Magic.
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11958, "Llusan's Statistics"
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StatisticsExperience BreakdownExperience from Cabal raiding | 0 | Experience from Skill improvements | 12894 | Experience from Exploration | 1900 | Experience from Quests | 2825 | Experience from Commerce | 123 |
Adventuring StatisticsCharacter Created   | Sat Dec 4 21:22:28 2004
| Quests Completed   | 4 | Exploration Points Found   | 9 | Bonus Experience from Immortals   | 1100 | (WANTED) Criminal   | 0 times | % of lifetime in the wilderness   | 31 % | % of lifetime in the cities   | 16 % | % of lifetime in the Inn of the Eternal Star   | 1 % |
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11959, "Llusan's Class Specifics"
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11963, "Llusan's PK Statistics"
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PK StatisticsPK StatisticsTotal PK Wins   | 0 (0 at level 42) | Total PK Losses   | 6 | Total Mob Deaths   | 2 |
PK Wins by Align | VS. Good   | 0 | VS. Neutral   | 0 | VS. Evil   | 0 |
PK Deaths by Class | VS. warrior   | 5 | VS. necromancer   | 1 |
PK Deaths by Cabal | VS. None   | 4 | VS. BATTLE   | 1 | VS. EMPIRE   | 1 |
PK Deaths by Align | VS. Good   | 0 | VS. Neutral   | 1 | VS. Evil   | 5 |
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Death_Angel | Wed 04-Oct-06 10:20 PM |
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#11964, "Llusan's Gank-O-Meter"
In response to Reply #0
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PK Gank-O-MeterPK Gank-O-MeterTotal PK Wins   | 0 | Total PK Assists   | 2 | Average Group Size Per Kill   | 3.00 |
Death's Gank-O-Meter says: Holy Mother of Sissies Average Group Size Per Death   | 1.33 |
Death's Ganked-O-Meter says: Murdered By The Self-Reliant
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