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wizardsaregodtierIt's pronounced uh-VAHL-ee-en.
Yes really.
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dragonoflife
Your AIM, MSN, or Yahoo handle: Dragon of Anger
Character's name: Aibghalien Marsai
Character's LJ: for_magic
Character's canon: Player character, Birthright campaign setting under D&D 3.5 ruleset.
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Aibghalien has the soul of a Scientist -- not the clinical, actual, functional scientific-method sort of modern-day science, but Middle-Ages scientific exploration without rhyme or reason, the sort that lead Bacon to stuff a chicken full of snow (and die), or Frankenstein to animate the dead (without actual plans). His chosen field, however, is magic, and he throws himself into the workings of arcana and thaumaturgy with a glee that would spell doom to the world if his alignment weren't solidly in the "good" category. Aibghalien is long-winded, rambling, egomaniacal, self-important -- and willing to lay his life on the line to defend his principles or the people who mean most to him.
Beneath the mad-thaumaturgist facade is a surprisingly idealistic soul, one that willingly accepts responsibility and duty in the cause of "good", which is after all a very real force and concept in the D&D universe. He is generally friendly (for those willing to get past his vocabulary), stubborn to a fault (because when you're as smart as he is, how can you be wrong?), adaptable (necessary when you're wrong as often as he is), and principled to a fault.
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Aibghalien was born a few hundred years ago in the elven kingdom of Tuarhieval, in the region of Cerilia known as Anuire. Though Cerilian elves are inherently intelligent, even from a young age Aibghalien surpassed the majority of them in swiftness of thought and clarity of mind. Though sorcery is the gift of elvenkind, he had no patience for the art and proved utterly unteachable in almost any subject -- not because he was unable to learn, but because he found the slow thoughts of others downright intolerable. For much of his youth Aibghalien was at loose ends, dabbling in this and that without any real patience or success.
Though most elves view humans with cold indifference if not open hostility, Tuarhieval had marginally more open relations with the outside world than most. This openness allowed Aibghalien to, one day, simply pack up and leave. Convinced that his calling lay elsewhere and determined to find it, the young elf set out into the human lands... without really being properly equipped for the task. His wanderings took him through human lands that held no real draw for him, until by a stroke of miserable fate he ended up in a lawless, monster-infested 'kingdom' barely governed by goblins. Aibghalien's story nearly came to a horrible, bloody end right there -- except that he ran headlong into the White Flag Mercenary Company, and its leader, Archmage Kytrann Tholosst.
The electic group, under the archmage, sought to suppress the lawless goblins, eliminate the monsters, and bring peace to the lands by establishing a kingdom in which all races and peoples could live. Though an elf, Aibghalien was welcomed into the group -- he was not the only one -- and at last discovered his true calling. Not the clumsy, limited sorcerous arts, but the intellectual study and knowledge of a wizard. In this, Aibghalien flourished almost immediately, mastering the basics of the art in the space of a short year -- phenomenal for anyone, but especially for the long-lived elves. During this time, the company enacted its goals swiftly and effectively, until at last Kytrann stood at the head of a reasonably powerful kingdom, monarch and ruler.
Then an assassin's bolt felled the Archmage, and rule of the kingdom fell to his heir.
As king, Aibghalien solidified his power and control over the realm just in time for the entire continent to be plunged into a war of extermination and conquest. An ancient seal of the gods shattered, allowing a technological army to enter and drain the magical essence of the land itself. Aibghalien and a group of friends and allies embarked on a campaign that would sound suspiciously like a couple of years' worth of a Dungeons and Dragons game -- slaughtering armies, defeating robots, matching spells and sword with powerful forces from the lowest to the most divine -- until at last the invaders were repelled. At no small cost to Aibghalien: though his mastery of the
arcane and a completely unusual crystal magic technique advanced, as did his level, he sustained countless wounds, was mind-controlled and raped, killed once or twice, and generally went through hell. Little surprise, then, that at the end of the war, he stepped aside to take a breather for a bit, supplying aid, magic, and manpower to the reconstruction, but not his own personal strength. It was time for
quiet study, for a while.
Yeah, that worked out great. Luckily, mental stimulation is like a drug to him.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
The substantial explosion didn't harm Aibghalien... as such. The flames and the shockwave hit his wards and splattered out. All they managed to do was hurl him out of the laboratory, leaving him collapsed in a heap on the floor some twenty yards away.
Not bad for a first trial. The elf leaped to his feet, almost bounding back towards the lab in a flurry of robes and hair. "Clearly the biotechnological construction resists the direct application of arcane force!" he said out loud. " But is that confined purely to evocative magic? Perhaps the introduction of the invoked forces itself rather than the fundamental arcane energy was at fault. I'll have to repeat that with a different spell... Where's a cleric when I need one?"
He was asking for the sake of access to divine magic, not the need for healing. On the other hand, if he kept this up, he'd probably need the latter function more.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
Aibghalien is a high-level wizard in the Dungeons and Dragons style. (Reference: http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/
For the purpose of average scenes and in the tradition of novelization efforts for decades, in standard scenes the spell mechanics will be handwaved and Aibghalien will just do cinematic magic for style. Exact spells will be cited and spell lists maintained in important situations such as plot scenes and meaningful encounters with other players.
Aibghalien can scribe scrolls and create wands, although these can only be used by another wizard with the same mechanical foundations as his (i.e. D&D), or someone really good at faking it.
In addition, Aibghalien can create and utilize magical crystals which can power or modify spells, and interact with other magical energies in unusual ways (depending on the nature. For example, divine magic will create a crystal which can cast that spell, and slowly recharge). The energy has to be entirely magical in nature, however.
Aibghalien is a scion, which means he has trace amounts of the divine in his blood. This divine heritage grants him heightened intelligence and the ability to summon an illuminating light.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
As a Cerilian elf, Aibghalien is effectively immortal, in the no-death-of-age sense. He is inherently more intelligent and dexterous than a human, but comparatively weaker and more frail. He does not need to sleep and cannot be put to sleep. He is slightly more perceptive than humans and able to see better in low-light conditions.
Aibghalien is ludicrously intelligent. An IQ score of 370 would be approximately correct, if IQ scores were meaningful at that range.
Yes really.
Your LJ:
dragonoflife Your AIM, MSN, or Yahoo handle: Dragon of Anger
Character's name: Aibghalien Marsai
Character's LJ: for_magic
Character's canon: Player character, Birthright campaign setting under D&D 3.5 ruleset.
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Aibghalien has the soul of a Scientist -- not the clinical, actual, functional scientific-method sort of modern-day science, but Middle-Ages scientific exploration without rhyme or reason, the sort that lead Bacon to stuff a chicken full of snow (and die), or Frankenstein to animate the dead (without actual plans). His chosen field, however, is magic, and he throws himself into the workings of arcana and thaumaturgy with a glee that would spell doom to the world if his alignment weren't solidly in the "good" category. Aibghalien is long-winded, rambling, egomaniacal, self-important -- and willing to lay his life on the line to defend his principles or the people who mean most to him.
Beneath the mad-thaumaturgist facade is a surprisingly idealistic soul, one that willingly accepts responsibility and duty in the cause of "good", which is after all a very real force and concept in the D&D universe. He is generally friendly (for those willing to get past his vocabulary), stubborn to a fault (because when you're as smart as he is, how can you be wrong?), adaptable (necessary when you're wrong as often as he is), and principled to a fault.
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Aibghalien was born a few hundred years ago in the elven kingdom of Tuarhieval, in the region of Cerilia known as Anuire. Though Cerilian elves are inherently intelligent, even from a young age Aibghalien surpassed the majority of them in swiftness of thought and clarity of mind. Though sorcery is the gift of elvenkind, he had no patience for the art and proved utterly unteachable in almost any subject -- not because he was unable to learn, but because he found the slow thoughts of others downright intolerable. For much of his youth Aibghalien was at loose ends, dabbling in this and that without any real patience or success.
Though most elves view humans with cold indifference if not open hostility, Tuarhieval had marginally more open relations with the outside world than most. This openness allowed Aibghalien to, one day, simply pack up and leave. Convinced that his calling lay elsewhere and determined to find it, the young elf set out into the human lands... without really being properly equipped for the task. His wanderings took him through human lands that held no real draw for him, until by a stroke of miserable fate he ended up in a lawless, monster-infested 'kingdom' barely governed by goblins. Aibghalien's story nearly came to a horrible, bloody end right there -- except that he ran headlong into the White Flag Mercenary Company, and its leader, Archmage Kytrann Tholosst.
The electic group, under the archmage, sought to suppress the lawless goblins, eliminate the monsters, and bring peace to the lands by establishing a kingdom in which all races and peoples could live. Though an elf, Aibghalien was welcomed into the group -- he was not the only one -- and at last discovered his true calling. Not the clumsy, limited sorcerous arts, but the intellectual study and knowledge of a wizard. In this, Aibghalien flourished almost immediately, mastering the basics of the art in the space of a short year -- phenomenal for anyone, but especially for the long-lived elves. During this time, the company enacted its goals swiftly and effectively, until at last Kytrann stood at the head of a reasonably powerful kingdom, monarch and ruler.
Then an assassin's bolt felled the Archmage, and rule of the kingdom fell to his heir.
As king, Aibghalien solidified his power and control over the realm just in time for the entire continent to be plunged into a war of extermination and conquest. An ancient seal of the gods shattered, allowing a technological army to enter and drain the magical essence of the land itself. Aibghalien and a group of friends and allies embarked on a campaign that would sound suspiciously like a couple of years' worth of a Dungeons and Dragons game -- slaughtering armies, defeating robots, matching spells and sword with powerful forces from the lowest to the most divine -- until at last the invaders were repelled. At no small cost to Aibghalien: though his mastery of the
arcane and a completely unusual crystal magic technique advanced, as did his level, he sustained countless wounds, was mind-controlled and raped, killed once or twice, and generally went through hell. Little surprise, then, that at the end of the war, he stepped aside to take a breather for a bit, supplying aid, magic, and manpower to the reconstruction, but not his own personal strength. It was time for
quiet study, for a while.
Yeah, that worked out great. Luckily, mental stimulation is like a drug to him.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
The substantial explosion didn't harm Aibghalien... as such. The flames and the shockwave hit his wards and splattered out. All they managed to do was hurl him out of the laboratory, leaving him collapsed in a heap on the floor some twenty yards away.
Not bad for a first trial. The elf leaped to his feet, almost bounding back towards the lab in a flurry of robes and hair. "Clearly the biotechnological construction resists the direct application of arcane force!" he said out loud. " But is that confined purely to evocative magic? Perhaps the introduction of the invoked forces itself rather than the fundamental arcane energy was at fault. I'll have to repeat that with a different spell... Where's a cleric when I need one?"
He was asking for the sake of access to divine magic, not the need for healing. On the other hand, if he kept this up, he'd probably need the latter function more.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
Aibghalien is a high-level wizard in the Dungeons and Dragons style. (Reference: http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/
For the purpose of average scenes and in the tradition of novelization efforts for decades, in standard scenes the spell mechanics will be handwaved and Aibghalien will just do cinematic magic for style. Exact spells will be cited and spell lists maintained in important situations such as plot scenes and meaningful encounters with other players.
Aibghalien can scribe scrolls and create wands, although these can only be used by another wizard with the same mechanical foundations as his (i.e. D&D), or someone really good at faking it.
In addition, Aibghalien can create and utilize magical crystals which can power or modify spells, and interact with other magical energies in unusual ways (depending on the nature. For example, divine magic will create a crystal which can cast that spell, and slowly recharge). The energy has to be entirely magical in nature, however.
Aibghalien is a scion, which means he has trace amounts of the divine in his blood. This divine heritage grants him heightened intelligence and the ability to summon an illuminating light.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
As a Cerilian elf, Aibghalien is effectively immortal, in the no-death-of-age sense. He is inherently more intelligent and dexterous than a human, but comparatively weaker and more frail. He does not need to sleep and cannot be put to sleep. He is slightly more perceptive than humans and able to see better in low-light conditions.
Aibghalien is ludicrously intelligent. An IQ score of 370 would be approximately correct, if IQ scores were meaningful at that range.
