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I have made a post at last. Aaaaand forgot to mention @The Fated Fallen in it, because I am forgetful. So, yeah, that's relevant to you, Fated.
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I have made a post at last. Aaaaand forgot to mention @The Fated Fallen in it, because I am forgetful. So, yeah, that's relevant to you, Fated.


:O

I feel like I might make a post anyways despite being out of order, we shall see

I also noticed both your posts were so important the guild gave you a new page for each of them
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Though he'd be rather annoyed if it turned out she too was a mage of some sort,
BCTheEntity


XD

They're everywhere! Wizards are common as muck and about as liked apparently
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@The Fated Fallen Yes, they were important; and it's probably just Settionne being upset that magic makes it harder to get valuables from rich people.
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@BCTheEntity Illusionists are the worst, you go through all that effort of planning and then the risk of the job and after all that it's not even real (sigh)
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Or maybe some sort of Qunari-man dude.

Or maybe the name of a character out of Conan the Vegetarian.

Or maybe just a top mossad agent.

Or maybe some kind of spicy soup dish.

It could be a brand of luxury cars.

Or a sci-fi space syndicate; "Pass me the hydrospanner, yeah the An-Haast one, not that crappy Kuat garbage."

Or it could be a fictional desert city

The list can go on (but has already gone on long enough methinks)


Perhaps it is time to explain how I actually came to this name ^^
In German, there is the verb 'hassen', which translates to 'to hate'. The third person singular in present tense of this word actually is 'hasst'. So An-Hasst could be translated to 'An-hates'. The 'An' prefix basically is there because it sounds a bit cooler, longer and, most importantly, allows to read the translation of his name really as the short sentence "An hates", interpreting his name to be just 'An'. Hatred quite often is a good approximation to his personality.
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Perhaps it is time to explain how I actually came to this name ^^
In German, there is the verb 'hassen', which translates to 'to hate'. The third person singular in present tense of this word actually is 'hasst'. So An-Hasst could be translated to 'An-hates'. The 'An' prefix basically is there because it sounds a bit cooler, longer and, most importantly, allows to read the translation of his name really as the short sentence "An hates", interpreting his name to be just 'An'. Hatred quite often is a good approximation to his personality.


And to think I just pick a name that sounds good. You sure know how to make a gal feel inferior XD
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And to think I just pick a name that sounds good. You sure know how to make a gal feel inferior XD


Yeah, I just stuck my finger in a couple of random RPG world books and smushed some NPC names together. I HATE naming characters, there is almost too much at stake. I can't imagine what its like to name a child...
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Yeah, I just stuck my finger in a couple of random RPG world books and smushed some NPC names together. I HATE naming characters, there is almost too much at stake. I can't imagine what its like to name a child...


To be fair, you'd probably have someone else's help with that one
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I have to admit that the creation of An-Hasst was an unusually high effort, but I once have GM'ed a fantasy game in a small german community and have invented an entire race named 'Hasst', so the idea was readily available.

My way of finding names can roughly be divded into two different approaches:
  • Usually I take the name of something ordinary, a person, a landmark, a chemical element, a unit name in an RTS, whatever, and manipulate single characters or syllables until I come out with something that sounds good.
  • Hidden innuendos as it is the case with An-Hasst. For this case I go into old myths, folklore etc. to find a name of some creature that is really not commonly known and that has some similarities with the character.


The step I always perform afterwards is to hack it into google and check if it does NOT appear on the first page or does appear only in some weird circumstances. The top rule is to find something that is not popular and frequently used.
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This episode of INTO THE DARK Z


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Triple your daily grimdark quota
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The DM hates us ? Shit... An Asshat is currently alone in the forest :O I get to roll a new character...

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Character Name: Dame.Maygen Yarwyck (The Fearless)

Race/Species:Andred/Human

Gender: Female

Age:42

Career/Class:Kingsguard/Knight

Weapons:
  • Greatsword
  • Survival dagger
  • Bastard sword


Physical Description: Maygen is tall for someone from Andred especially for a woman, standing fully at six feet and two inches with broad shoulders and powerful muscles; weighing in at a hundred and eighty seven pounds. Her hair is coal black and cut above her ears in a somewhat messy manner, her eyes matching the coal black of her hair with two different sized pupils upon close examination. Maygen is a veteran of many wars, as well as an incredibly deadly single combatant in duels not to say she doesn't bleed like anyone else; which is evident by the long scar which she carries from her collar bone to the navel. A token given to her when she was far younger and much more reckless in training, her face has high well pronounced and dense bone structure with an average sized nose which is slightly crooked to the right from having it broken.

Armor: Maygen wears a suit of full steel plate armor, colored reddish black with a large three pointed crown on the breast plate trimmed in gold; the quality of the armor being next to none as it was given to her on her introduction to the Kingsguard. Her helm is custom made and colored the same reddish black to match her suit, the helm sporting a closed face with a three headed dragon extending upwards from its crest around a half foot tall small rubies set into the eye sockets. Beneath this layer of hardened steel Maygen has a suit of steel mail which wraps around her head in a hood and flows to just below her kneecaps, with one more padded layer of cloth and supple leather to absorb impacts and prevent the metal from chafing her flesh. In total her armor weighs ninety pounds, and her upbringing as a knight and many years experience warring in it has made her much more nimble than one would expect from someone of her stature.

Equipment/Other: Bedroll, basic cooking pot, fire starting flint, maps and charts, whetstone, thirty five gold pieces, ten silver pieces, black stallion warhorse.

Mental Description/Personality: Maygen is incredibly loyal to the King of Andred, having been knighted personally by the King at the age of nineteen; rising to the station of kingsguard after fighting in many more conflicts for her country. Her stature and ruthless nature assisting in gaining the attention of the King, as well as giving her the title of The Fearless; not one to ever flee from a fight without causing significant damage. Maygen is an honorable warrior, as such she will not use poisons, and feels that ranged weapons are the tools of cowardly opponents albeit as a veteran of war she isn't below using tricks and ruthless tactics in battles.

Goals:Maygen was charged by the King to attempt to chart and map out as much of the wild southland as possible, hunting for sources of valuable resources and places for future forts and settlements.

Background/History:Maygen was born to a noble family in Andred, both of her brothers knights before she was; as the youngest child she always looked up to her brothers and father who were powerful warriors in their own right. When she came of the age to hold a sword properly Maygen's father began training her in combat, it became quickly apparent the child was a prodigy of the blade at fifteen she was already matching her brothers and by seventeen she was participating in battle. But beyond her combat training Maygen was a very learned child, reading quite a lot trying to gain as much knowledge as she could; becoming a heavy study in war strategy and the leading of troops in battle. When Maygen was nineteen she was part of a siege against the Ra'sheek rushing headlong and first into a breach in the wall; the city was sacked when the army flooded through. Her bravery and action catching the attention of King Connrad whom attended the siege himself, and knighted the young woman there before the great stone walls of the ruined city. Several years and many crusades later and Maygen was drafted into the Kingsguard a great honor for any knight, this brought great renown to her house being that she was the first woman to be included in the elite group of guards; from then on she protected the King and the royal family, along with leading King Connrad's armies in the field. She was one of the senior most members of the Kingsguard when the King brought the Southlands to her attention, having sent observation crews before only to have the majority never return or return with subpar results; leading to Maygen becoming the King's personally chosen mapper.

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The DM hates us ? Shit... An Asshat is currently alone in the forest :O I get to roll a new character...


https://youtu.be/NAlPx7ll7kA?t=10s
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They should produce a remake of this game with recent technology... Best plot I've encountered in a game so far.
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I've played it but never had the commitment to complete it, I'm lame like that
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I'm posting now lads and lasses. Be forewarned, for ye willnae survive!

....perhaps I am being overly dramatic
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