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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15044, "[None] Alrokhaz the Communer of Famine, Initiate of the Faithful"
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Alrokhaz the Communer of Famine, Initiate of the Faithful
DescriptionGnarled and craggy as a mountain's weathered stone, this stocky dwarf's powerful physique is solid as the cities of his ancestors. Dark eyes are buried deep 'neath his heavy, furrowed brow, often flashing with some unintelligible mixture of anger and zeal, though there is also an ancient wisdom and sadness in his penetrating, thousand-mile stare. His nose is large and flattened, shot through with red streaks and bulges. His heavy, chiseled jaw sprouts no beard, only a mess of thick, black stubble that also covers his upper lip, cheeks and pate: the coarse black corkscrews of hair that sprout from his arms, neck, and up from his chest are longer. His arms speak of work: hard work. The blocky muscles and straining sinews running from wrist to shoulder have obviously been earned from long years of labor. His broad chest and belly make his entire torso nearly square, then supported by two sturdy, stumpy legs.
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Level | 36 | Sex | male | Race | dwarf | Ethos | Orderly | Align | Good | Class | shaman | Practices | 8 | Trains | 0 | Hometown | Akan | Exp | 276333 | To Level | 8917 | Sphere | Purity | Age mature, 93 years old (65 hours) | Hit Points | 664 | Mana | 573 | Movement | 623 | Strength | 21 | Intelligence | 19 | Wisdom | 19 | Dexterity | 16 | Constitution | 23 | Charisma | 15 | Carry # | 0/32 | Carry Weight | 0 lb 0 oz | | | Gold | 0 | Silver | 0 | Copper | 0 | Wimpy | 200 | Morale | Moderate | | | Hitroll | 0 | Damroll | 0 | | |
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Alrokhaz's Immortal Comments,
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Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 1,
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Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 2,
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Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 3,
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Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 4,
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Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 5,
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Alrokhaz's Statistics,
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Alrokhaz's Timeline,
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Alrokhaz's Title History,
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Alrokhaz's Skill List,
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Alrokhaz's Supplication List,
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Alrokhaz's PK Statistics,
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Alrokhaz's Gank-O-Meter,
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15053, "Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 1"
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RoleChapter 1 The Difference Added Fri Jun 8 17:35:06 2007 at level 36:The fight continues to be brought to wherever the wicked hide and tremble and scheme. Alrokhaz keeps his heart pure (he's paid penance for the three Galadonian cityguards that have fallen as they tried to trap him) and preaches the word of God to all. However, many now seem to have heard of the One True God, the Most High, and each have some ignorant invention or falsehood they try to throw in his face.
None have succeeded in shaking Alrokhaz' faith. None shall.
His dwarven pragmatism allows him to see through the multitude of weak, flawed arguments and whines, and it has given him a clearer insight into the mind of God:
Why can there be only one true God, Muhadin An'Hallah? Because God must be all-powerful, by the definition of a true god. If a "god" is willing to share dominion over the immortal and mortal worlds with some other entity, if they limit their claim and power, then they are just yet another power, and unfit to reign over all as a True God must. Muhadin has a plan for the world, his Will is for a healed and unified world. No other power has the strength, will, or vision to do this. Muhadin is true and holy beyond all others.
How does one become one of the Faithful? he has often wondered as he tramps tirelessly back and forth across the world, scouring the lands for the wicked.We know that faith is belief and hope in the unapparent and unseen strong enough to give direction and action to the faithful. We know the Faithful work the will of God by clinging to the tenets and keeping themselves pure. What is the difference between the Faithful and the charlatans bowing down to false gods?
The difference in heaven mirrors the difference upon the face of Thera, he realized. Muhadin accepts nothing less than his Will, than complete dominion, and accepts nothing less than the most pure faith from his followers. But would the Faithful be found praying each day within a monestary, shuffling back and forth between cell and altar? Some "gods" may be pleased with such "worship". Muhadin demands the life of the Faithful. This is why Muhadin's is the true faith: other "priests" go about flawed, working side by side with the wicked within the Spire, lazing about and temporarily healing the wounded within the Fortress, or seeking to see the sights and find the treasures of this world.
Not so with Muhadin's Faithful. Their faith cannot be questioned, because it is eminently evident: they go out into the world and slay the false priests, purge the wicked, and spread the word of God far and wide. Belief is not faith. The difference is that the others may have their fair words, may have their abstractions and ideals (like Mjothvitnir's laughable Motsognir. Who in their right mind preaches a sleeping 'god'? What true god would need to sleep?!? If Alrokhaz had time for pity, then pity the fool he would.), but the Faithful have nothing but results: the blood of the wicked on their boots, the stench of their burning homes and fields caught within their thobes, the word of Muhadin on their lips, and sweat soaking through their ghoutras. Belief alone is not faith. True, pure faith posesses a belief that drives: a belief in Truth does not demand acts that prove thus, the belief IS the action.
If one says they believe in the strength of a bridge, yet re
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15054, "Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 2"
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RoleChapter 2 The Road of the Righteous Added Tue May 22 03:47:37 2007 at level 33:And so Alrokhaz has soldiered on in the bloody crusade of the Bleeding Scimitar, the One True Path of Light, in the name of Muhadin An'hallah. It's often been a lonely one: he seldom sees the other Initiates of the Faithful, but instead good-hearted priests of false gods, and hordes of the wicked even more. The task is difficult, there is no question. The road is hard, the path of the pure fraught with danger and temptation...
But Alrokhaz remains steadfast.
He takes hope in the death of each worker of evil, in watching the life flee their body. Mercy has failed. Words have failed. They shall hear of Muhadin and of his purpose for them. Then the wicked shall die, and the good shall finally come, or be dealt with. It frustrates and pains him that the good will not come, will not share in the Paradise that awaits. He dreams of having each dwarf, elf, storm, human, and any other that will give themselves over to the greatest power, Muhadin, united.
Imagine it! One true Faith! All good children of the world, living in light and goodness and safety, all joyful as the Faithful of their benevolent God. All finally pure. He has tried to discuss with the receptive ones, to show them this dream, to demonstrate that all other paths are failed and corrupt, but few are willing to see. They cling desperately to dead dreams and spout misguided assumptions, calling him and his God crazed fanatics (in so many words), telling him that he shall inevitably fall to darkness for his tenacity, his zeal.
Speaking with his... almost friend, Granthar, the giant insisted this. It gave Alrokhaz pause for one of the first times in his life... what indeed were the lengths he would go to? What WILL be done about the good-hearted followers of the false gods?
After much prayer and meditation, the turmoil in his heart was stilled, though. He will cling to the tenets. Muhadin has given them, they are the Path to Righteousness through Him. This will keep him pure. He will always examine himself, his soul, his actions, to ensure he is not leaning toward darkness.
As for the misguided good? The wicked yet breathe. The holy work remains to be done.
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15055, "Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 3"
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RoleChapter 3 The Forming of the Faithful Added Wed May 16 13:01:39 2007 at level 25:Alrokhaz went and Alrokhaz did the work of God. He preached the word, that all may understand that the world has changed: Muhadin is ascending to supremacy and naught may stop him, naught will ever be the same. He knows his actions and words, and that of the other Faithful, are helping to bring Muhadin's final victory over darkness to the world, closer to ushering in the Paradise that Thera shall be when all darkness is but a memory, and all Thera's good children are united under one god, as one people!
He's realized, walking through the halls of Castle Akan hunting for the wicked, that indeed the people are fallen and corrupt: witnessing the greed and madness of King Kirgni and the indifference of most his brethren, the self-absorption of the elves, and the antagonism of some of the few storm giants he's met leaves no hope outside Muhadin.
He'll continue to do Muhadin's will and is trying very hard to learn how to walk in his thobe without tripping, and how to stop his ghoutra from falling in his eyes. Possibly the most trying test he's had.
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15056, "Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 4"
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RoleChapter 4 A Place to Belong Added Fri May 11 04:53:41 2007 at level 20:He'd found a place. To his sorrow it was not in Akan, not deep beneath in the halls of his ancestors.
But there was joy, too. He'd found a place. He'd cast off his dwarven surname, Bwordoch, and cut off his beard. He was no mere dwarf anymore. He needed no more ale, no more foolish vanity and fussing over facial hair. He was freed of all that: he was an initiate of the Faithful now, a truly holy warrior.
It felt right. Alrokhaz looked forward (indeed, he already had) to preaching to the lost children of Thera, to bring them together into the righteous arms of Muhadin. He looked forward to offering up the corpse of his first enemy in Muhadin's holy name. Many young priests with good heart are arising in these dark times, and it frustrates Alrokhaz to no end. Why do they not understand a new day has come? Why can't they anticipate Muhadin's inexorable supremacy? He would have to figure out a way to reach them, misguided by their false gods.
Alrokhaz does miss his people, his old way of life, but knows that it wasn't what he needed. It was not his calling, his life work. He is lonely now, and cannot reach out to other priests but to preach for conversion. He is committed, and will show Muhadin that at least some of the dwarves are not wholly corrupt: that their sturdy strength will help usher in Muhadin's new world.
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15057, "Alrokhaz's Role Chapter 5"
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RoleChapter 5 Not Enough Added Fri May 4 04:09:10 2007 at level 1:"Alrokhaz, me son. Ya've fought brave and hard. The gods, the ancestors, an' all o' us are humbled and proud of yer example. But, me son, where do this anger be comin' from? This rage? Surely ye know that to let yeself be givin' o'er to the fury may lead ye astray inta the darkness o' a righteousness o' yer own, an' not of the Good Lords an' Ladies o' the Light." The priest gazed upon the hardened dwarf before him, questions and pity within his rheumy eyes.
"Ah cannae attest tae this, Father. Ah've only doon what needs be doon, an' Ah'll never be apologizin' or lookin' back. There be real evils out there, an' Ah'll nae stop fightin' 'em." The younger dwarf rumbled in a matter-of-fact tone. He was stoic, unmoved.
The old priest heaved a great sigh. "Nae be sayin' yer fight an' yer fightin' be in the wrong. Ah say ta ye guard yer heart, boy, or ye may find yeself fallen, me son. Ah've seen't before now, an Ah dinnae wanna see't again." He ran a bony hand through his coarse, gray beard and prayed silently to the gods: save this angry young dwarf's soul.
But he did not need the saving...
Alrokhaz was born and lived to manhood just as any other dwarf: clinging to his mother's beard in Akan, then taking up mining and smithing as he grew older. Always did he love the pure, primal power of taking the shapeless, and through determination, willpower, vision, and faith, giving it form, purpose, meaning. He worked harder than any dwarf we know of in his or his father's generation: the sheer volume and matchless quality of the weapons and armor he crafted spoke for themselves. Eventually, his indomitable will and powerful arms were called to war: the conflicts with Mortorn and the orc village ever did (and still do) call for fresh recruits to be thrown into the fray.
War took it's toll upon Alrokhaz, none can dispute. He was a fierce fighter, some would say merciless. He ably dispatched duergar and orc with a ferocity and zeal none of his mates had ever seen. Dwarven rage, as immortalized in the sacred warsongs are familiar to any unlucky enough to face down a determined son of Nordiach, but Alrokhaz often stunned his peers and superiors with his brutal tenacity: crushing the skulls of the fallen foe to ensure no survivors, the burning of their bodies within their dwellings (along with their families, dead or alive), and crushing their arms and armors with mighty blows from his hammer. Truth be told, these displays of righteous anger made many witnesses quite uncomfortable.
So, after a long campaign, Alrokhaz was sent to the priests for a time of recuperation and purification, in hopes that the touch of the divine could perhaps quell slightly the fire in his heart, the rage in his soul. He'd been a good and pious dwarf all his life, he'd worked hard for himself, for the gods, and the good of his people. He'd fought bravely, and come through many dangers by more than strength, carried to victory by his will and righteous faith in his cause. These were ancient battles he had helped fight, surely his ancestors were proud. His courage in the halls of Mortorn, in the filthy pits of the orc encampments had never been questioned, why now was his heart, his sanity under scrutiny? He foundered for a while in a sea of doubt: the constellation of the Skyborn had indeed
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15045, "Alrokhaz's Statistics"
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StatisticsExperience BreakdownExperience from Cabal raiding | 0 | Experience from Skill improvements | 6501 | Experience from Exploration | 1200 | Experience from Quests | 23150 | Experience from Commerce | 3250 |
Adventuring StatisticsCharacter Created   | Fri May 4 03:10:54 2007
| Quests Completed   | 18 | Exploration Points Found   | 8 | Bonus Experience from Immortals   | 4250 | (WANTED) Criminal   | 2 times | % of lifetime in the wilderness   | 27 % | % of lifetime in the cities   | 15 % | % of lifetime in the Inn of the Eternal Star   | 0 % |
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15050, "Alrokhaz's PK Statistics"
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PK StatisticsPK StatisticsTotal PK Wins   | 10 (0 at level 36) | Total PK Losses   | 5 | Total Mob Deaths   | 5 |
PK Wins by Class | VS. thief   | 1 | VS. warrior   | 3 | VS. anti-paladin   | 1 | VS. assassin   | 1 | VS. ranger   | 1 | VS. necromancer   | 1 | VS. healer   | 1 | VS. berserker   | 1 |
PK Wins by Cabal | VS. None   | 9 | VS. EMPIRE   | 1 |
PK Wins by Align | VS. Good   | 0 | VS. Neutral   | 1 | VS. Evil   | 9 |
PK Deaths by Class | VS. anti-paladin   | 3 | VS. assassin   | 1 | VS. shaman   | 1 |
PK Deaths by Cabal | VS. None   | 4 | VS. EMPIRE   | 1 |
PK Deaths by Align | VS. Good   | 0 | VS. Neutral   | 0 | VS. Evil   | 5 |
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Death_Angel | Sun 08-Jul-07 08:36 AM |
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#15051, "Alrokhaz's Gank-O-Meter"
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PK Gank-O-MeterPK Gank-O-MeterTotal PK Wins   | 10 | Total PK Assists   | 3 | Average Group Size Per Kill   | 1.62 |
Death's Gank-O-Meter says: Somewhat Ganky Average Group Size Per Death   | 1.40 |
Death's Ganked-O-Meter says: Murdered By The Self-Reliant
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