The People of Order
Greetings to all,
When I log in and prepare for a few hours of high adventure and feats of daring, or perhaps something a bit more mundane such as hauling materials for my lair, I enjoy the ambiance of the goings on in the chat channels and being a part of the life of Istaria.
What I find myself wanting though is a better mental picture of the people I share this wonderful world with; what do they look like? What are their quirks and foibles? What are their stories?
For the folks who have shared server space for years, knowing the person on the other end of the chat is second nature - for the newer folks, we have to listen in for quite a while to build up a fairly vague image of the speaker.
So, to this end I'd propose creating a central repository here on the forums for the character details we cannot get in-game - things such as public backstories, interesting appearance, or even simply the old standby of height, weight, and eye color.
Being as we are all basically neighbors, the chances are good that we would all have a fairly good probability of identifying each other at range. So, rather than making simple gender mistakes or getting colors mixed up in a chat channel, we can all have a centralized location to get familiar with each other.
Now, due to the editing limitations on the forum here, one should probably stick to things that arent likely to change for some time. For example, you might want to leave out 'hatchling' if you're planning on becoming an adult any time in the near future. The same goes for explicit home (plot/lair) information unless you've been living in the same place since 2004...
So, by way of example:
- Name: Kayden Talonspark
- Race: Dragon
- Appearance: Kayden is small and lightly built for a Dragon, something that does little to offset his bookish Helian nature. His plated scales are a dark cerulean color but covering him snout to tail are whispy light blue patterns - making him look a lot like a primal spell-shard. Kayden is hornless and has little in the way of personal decoration, sporting only a lone silver band threaded through one ear-fin.
- Quirks: Kayden has learned to read a few of the languages of the bipeds, but in order to comfortably read their tiny (by Dragon standards) text he has commisioned a custom pair of Gnomish reading glasses. These glasses, when not engaged in more rigorus persuits, sit either perched upon his snout or dangle from a fine silver chain around his neck, and are a prized posession. Kayden also speaks a few languages - most fairly well - and finds bipeds endlessly facinating, from a purely scientific standpoint of course.
- Hooks: Kayden wants to be the world's greatest primal master, and he spends a great deal of time in study to achieve this. He is often found in Chiconis studying with Lisandia the Primalist, or out in the field delving ancient ruins for lost knowledge. He's a sucker for any tale of old and will listen intently to any elder's recounting of days gone by - then trot off to find where the story took place, look for artifacts, and carefully document the whole thing.
Originally Posted by Sssargon
