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[@ZAVAZggg] If I'm being honest, that sounds really sad. Maybe excitement is the wrong word, but shouldn't you have some kind of investment in your characters? What do you get out of writing them if you don't care about them as people and only see them as tools? Maybe try asking yourself, what part of you are you imbuing into the character. What part of them is a reflection of you, the piece that no one else could write, even if they had the same base concept, because they aren't you?

Again, really trying not to be mean, but what part of the vampire lord who killed the ancient Harkon, final boss of one of the Elder Scrolls games and only being capable of siring pure-blood vampires, took his throne, his sword, and his court, and has a bunch of gems made for stealing the souls of powerful beings, wasn't a power fantasy?

As for Arcamor, if you've decided he won't work, he won't work. It's that simple. You're the author, you can make changes to alter the character so they suit the setting. Naturally if you don't want to do that then they aren't going to suit the setting so a new concept is probably warranted.
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I mean a major weakness is sunlight. I'm not going the ES route of being weak to it, I'm going the route of if he stays out longer than say a minute at stage four, it's going to incinerate him. Something like that which effectively forces him to work at night or from within the shelter of some manner of darkness. And granted, he killed Harkon. I've written characters that casually destroy entire universes with nothing more than a thought, hence why it doesn't seem as much of a power fantasy, at least at first glance for me. Because my typically experience regarding power fantasies are characters who can literally just move the plot from a necessity to a suggestion.

Given all that him killing the sire of an entire vampire clan seems rather inconsequential in my eyes, again, at least from the get-go.

As for the first part, excitement is indeed not the correct term for it, though honestly I have no idea what the correct term is myself. In any case I suppose there's enough investment to keep me writing for some of them, but I can't count the amount of characters I've just left to rot because they no longer interest me. As for what part of myself I imbue, that I do not do. One because it feels dangerously close to self-insert territory, and two because there's not a lot about myself that should be put into something else. Unless you want more edgy characters that is. As for meanness, don't worry about it. Again your points are valid, though again compared to what I have written Arcamor is the least powerful being I've ever thought up. He has weaknesses, he actually has some character, and he can't shatter a universe simply by snapping his fingers. He can also be injured, he'll need to heal himself using Vampiric Drain or feeding, hence why there is a noticeable lack of healing spells in his sheet, and he can't even access his most powerful ability for the majority of the roleplay. At least not if we start out in direct sunlight anyway, and that itself is a threat as I've mentioned.

Finally, touching on the soul gems, I honestly only have them there in case he ever needs to recharge his weapons. It didn't even occur to me to use them for more powerful entities until it was brought up, as again, they were just a logical fallback for his enchanted weapons.

Granted, I might genuinely just make a new character. It honestly doesn't seem like he'll fit even with the above.