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The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

Here's the apperance ardath was actually based off of.



Irontree's depiction of a character named Soul Catcher from the Black Company series..

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Curious on how everyone's doing on their character sheets :O kinda excited to see this start up.

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Yellows could heal insanity to a degree? Huh... looks like Ardath might have a reason to suffer the patient's rage :P.

"THERE ARE SCORPIONS IN MY BRAIN DEAR SISTER! Buzzing-chirping-pinching-churring-scratching-clacking-chidding-scurrying-scampering and everything in between! And you've not but riled the swarm. Sure they slumber when you heal. But sleeping dogs always awaken, but they come back angrier!"

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@Ezmeralda To phrase it better- the war's been going on for over a century now, and sending out the untrained Aes Sedai risks losing invaluable assets. It only makes sense that the White Tower would wait for an Aes Sedai to reach their full potential before sending them out into battle, lest they risk an untimely and ultimately preventable demise.

@aviendha

It is possible that a kingdom/city/army is being preassured badly by the dark forces, that her training would be continued on the field by a mentor. Behind the safety of a front line.

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Okay, now you are just sounding silly, In regards to the wheelchair/lupus thing, you have my sympathy, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. You take issue with a farm boy defeating a single Trolloc, but think you could beat one? They do have intelligence, diminished but it is present. At best you might kill one through a surprise, after which you are dead. Not trying to be rude, but be realistic, they are superior in strength speed agility range durability, and are actually skilled warriors. Aside from intelligence (I'd rank them at a 60-80 on the IQ scale), they posess everything a warrior needs to be effective.

I'm not "randomly inserting a Alchemical law from a completely unrelated universe". I'm using a principle from a popular franchise to better explain how to create a character.

So you are inserting this principle, and using it improperly too boot.

The LoEE exchange is not applicable to Characters, it is purely the actual scientific law that energy can not be destroyed or created, only changed, just phrased beautifully. Look at the big muscley dude. What problems does he actually have? He's a talented alchemist (Which you need to be smart for) A genetic mutant on the scale of Schwarznegger, a talented artist, I can't think of any real flaws... unless him being bald is that great of a detraction from him.

@Sanctus Spooki

I've had this discussion with her before X3. I personally told her that the trollocs were jokes if Humans did not actually fight for the darkside in this war.

The Trollocs are COWARDS. On a one on one fight against a human with one arm, and a healthy trolloc, if the Trolloc has nothing it fears, then it will be scared of the human for even trying to put up a fight.

There's even times when there are things more terrifying for them than those who control em XD. Like water, because they can't swim. Dogs, for reasons unknown. Channeling, for obvious reasons.

And they are incredibly stupid. They will fall for the same trick a number of times.

A farm boy can win a one on one duel with a trolloc XD.

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Superior in forms of practicality :P but I wouldn't say protection. leather is a bitch to cut with a normal sword motion, but it's doable. If it's not thick or hardened then you can stab through it easily. Gamberson would be better than Leather. But Mail, you're not cutting mail XD. You can still stab through it... but it's really... really hard. And you'd need a sword designed for that like the estoc to do it easily. Which is why you invert the sword and hammer on em.

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To make Chain Mail more annoying... it's usually augmented with a Gamberson anyways :P.

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I understand that, and the reasoning behind it, applying it to everything still seems odd, its like saying "Ok your character is x so must be y" its deliberately limiting, it also extends the LoEE far beyond it's actual meaning and perverts it into something it is not.

@Sanctus Spooki

I think it's to compensate for the fact that this RP might wind up having two players actually fight each other to the death, till injury, or till a point of strategic victory.

It's honestly not fun when when you're rolling with a more mundane character that's been through hell and back, and has been knocked around for the past few months. To fight someone who's bordering the lines of a god by simply swipping his weapon through the air, and ignoring any form of armor like butter. Leather and Quilted armors are harder to get through than people think. Yet swords tend to treat chainmail like a joke.

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I feel this is rapidly spiraling out of control.

Also randomly inserting a Alchemical law from a completely unrelated universe seems rather odd.

And a nerdy kid who grew up in a much different time, I consider myself to be pretty fit, Im not some athlete by any standards, but I am probably much healthier than the average medieval farm boy. Saying that, I would be pretty nervous to get in a fight with one.

@Sanctus Spooki

I think she means the Achilles heal. Someone who's incredibly powerful will have a detrimental and nearly ridiculous weakness. There's also the canon threat of burnouts where you can permanently lock yourself out of channeling for good.

Annnnd there is the Dumb Heroic death trope, where someone in their hubris or biggotry believe that they can overcome terrible odds by running their forehead into it... instead of taking a step back to notice they are standing in front of the equivalent of a Calvary charged by big furry men with tree trunks for clubs, running as fast as horses, and is a moving line that goes all the way to the mountains.

I've seen those players, by the way @_@;

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To be fair about the trollocs, one-four is a match for an average man on his toes. A well trained, disciplined, and clever man could probably take on more... provided he's not overwhelmed.... meaning completely surrounded and getting attacked at all directions at overlapping frequencies, Or cornered, or has an endless supply charging him through a poorly defended doorway.

What is an overlapping frequency? Look at Assassin's Creed, and notice how the enemy constant takes turns attacking you. It's definitely not that.

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@Free Faller Any chance that Laila and the Jackal recognize each other? They both have a background that seems like it'd have a cross section for the both of them at the Rogue Guilds. The difference being that Jackal was simply a contract thief, or fixer if you want to use slang, instead of being an official member of the guilds.

On a side note... the reason a Guild would hire a fixer is the security of a lack of information if that person is captured. So you'd send them into terribly high risk situations to set up a job for the guild members.