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Re: Drawings of Aetolia
Did some watercolor for the first time in... I dunno, almost 8 years?
Rasani
4
Re: Character Breakdown
THE ESSENTIALS
Race: Idreth/Human heritage
Gender: Male
Guild: Archivist
City: Spinesreach
Order: None
THE LOOK
Hair: Black hair, short and neatly parted to the side.
Eyes: Dull/grey, heavy lidded. A slight golden tinge/aura around his irises since he ascended
Height: 6'0"
Build: Lean and skinny, but sinewy.
Defining Features: Pallid skin, tired lidded eyes with dark eye circles.
Clothing: Typically formal(ish) clothes. Suit jacket, pants, leather shoes. Plus a scarf for that cold Spirean air.
Tattoos: None observed
Piercings: None observed
Scars: Lips has the scars of poorly healed cracks from previous poor maintenance
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Neat, polite, well-groomed, respectful
Weaknesses: Standoffish, reserved, insecure, quiet, judgmental (but never to peoples’ faces)
Attitude: Keeps to keep to himself. Neatness and cleanliness is king, possibly a bit of a germophobe, although ironically he doesn’t really take as good a care with his own health compared to his grooming. Tries to keep his emotions locked up behind a mask, because to show it is a sign of weakness! (to him)
Morals: Without cutting corners, takes the shortest path to the best results. Ends justifies the means.
Pet Peeves: Unkemptness, messiness, disrespect (but tolerates/maybe even expects it from his superiors)
Best way to piss them off: as pet peeves.
Best way to get on their good side: Shared admiration & hunger for knowledge, or be a well known scholar
FAVOURITES
Color: Duller colours, prefers to not stand out.
Location(s): Spinesreach Greenhouse. Despite being Spirean born and raised, the cold and dry air doesn’t really agree with him
God/Goddess: None
Guild Master/House Head (all time): None
Artifact (don't have to own): Shopping guidebook. Efficiency!
Commodity: Wood
Animal: His mare? Only because that’s the only animal he’s really known.
Item owned: His journal – contains all his thoughts, musings and sketches
Village/forest/region: None
Memory: Probably the number of times that Taye’s bogged him down with food and drink to get whatever’s bothering him off his chest.
Song: None
Drink: Nothing in particular
Food: Lemony deserts
MINDSET
Goals: Learn everything there is to learn about souls
Ambitions: Censored (for now!)
Nemesis: None
Rival: None
Best Friends: At this stage, Taye but she's the only other person he’s talked to in any depth since joining the Archivists
Idol: None
Best personal achievement: Nothing yet!
Worst personal achievement: Accidentally unweaving himself and ascending to Idreth while trying to clean the dirt off a coffee cup with Numerology
Proudest moment: Also nothing yet
Most shameful moment: Realizing he can’t just charge forward with soul research (and experimentation on himself) when he realized just what exactly he’s dealing with while observing a soulstone being used.
Secret dream: Censored (for now, linked to his ambitions!)
If they could make one wish: To possess a single journal containing all of Aetolia’s secrets and knowledge.
Race: Idreth/Human heritage
Gender: Male
Guild: Archivist
City: Spinesreach
Order: None
THE LOOK
Hair: Black hair, short and neatly parted to the side.
Eyes: Dull/grey, heavy lidded. A slight golden tinge/aura around his irises since he ascended
Height: 6'0"
Build: Lean and skinny, but sinewy.
Defining Features: Pallid skin, tired lidded eyes with dark eye circles.
Clothing: Typically formal(ish) clothes. Suit jacket, pants, leather shoes. Plus a scarf for that cold Spirean air.
Tattoos: None observed
Piercings: None observed
Scars: Lips has the scars of poorly healed cracks from previous poor maintenance
PERSONALITY
Strengths: Neat, polite, well-groomed, respectful
Weaknesses: Standoffish, reserved, insecure, quiet, judgmental (but never to peoples’ faces)
Attitude: Keeps to keep to himself. Neatness and cleanliness is king, possibly a bit of a germophobe, although ironically he doesn’t really take as good a care with his own health compared to his grooming. Tries to keep his emotions locked up behind a mask, because to show it is a sign of weakness! (to him)
Morals: Without cutting corners, takes the shortest path to the best results. Ends justifies the means.
Pet Peeves: Unkemptness, messiness, disrespect (but tolerates/maybe even expects it from his superiors)
Best way to piss them off: as pet peeves.
Best way to get on their good side: Shared admiration & hunger for knowledge, or be a well known scholar
FAVOURITES
Color: Duller colours, prefers to not stand out.
Location(s): Spinesreach Greenhouse. Despite being Spirean born and raised, the cold and dry air doesn’t really agree with him
God/Goddess: None
Guild Master/House Head (all time): None
Artifact (don't have to own): Shopping guidebook. Efficiency!
Commodity: Wood
Animal: His mare? Only because that’s the only animal he’s really known.
Item owned: His journal – contains all his thoughts, musings and sketches
Village/forest/region: None
Memory: Probably the number of times that Taye’s bogged him down with food and drink to get whatever’s bothering him off his chest.
Song: None
Drink: Nothing in particular
Food: Lemony deserts
MINDSET
Goals: Learn everything there is to learn about souls
Ambitions: Censored (for now!)
Nemesis: None
Rival: None
Best Friends: At this stage, Taye but she's the only other person he’s talked to in any depth since joining the Archivists
Idol: None
Best personal achievement: Nothing yet!
Worst personal achievement: Accidentally unweaving himself and ascending to Idreth while trying to clean the dirt off a coffee cup with Numerology
Proudest moment: Also nothing yet
Most shameful moment: Realizing he can’t just charge forward with soul research (and experimentation on himself) when he realized just what exactly he’s dealing with while observing a soulstone being used.
Secret dream: Censored (for now, linked to his ambitions!)
If they could make one wish: To possess a single journal containing all of Aetolia’s secrets and knowledge.
Holbrook
3
Re: New show, the successor to the podcast
You guys had a good first episode, it was fun listening and you got the viewer engagement down perfectly. I'll be doing my best to tune in next week.
Xavin
1
Re: RL Struggles, Strife, and Sadnesses
I don't mean to make this post so soon after my last one in this thread, nor take any attention away from the hardships posted between my two posts, but I held this in for the last 8 hours or so and I've talked to @Erzsebet about it first and then also my real life best friends, and I just want to write about it here, since I spend so much of myself on this game.
My grandmother I mentioned before, did pass away in hospice this evening, around 6 pm EST, which was about an hour or so after we wrapped up the first stream earlier today. My family is all rather you know, happy that she's not in pain anymore from the brain tumor, and the hospice care all week did a good job of keeping her pain free. I went up to see her every other day this past week, which is why some of you may or may not have noticed my absence from the evenings and so forth off and on.
For me, I am very sad about it...I had my cry a bit about it earlier tonight, and I know its good she isn't in pain anymore, but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with emotionally. Early on in my life, we weren't super close and so forth, but these last few years we've done our best to look out for each other after my mom passed away. This house I'm staying in now belonged to my grandparents, and she was adamant the last couple of years she wants me to own it. I don't know how all that really works but I'm probably going to find out in the near future. I imagine I will be scarce in the near future for a little while while I am with my family and we do the services and things.
I know this is a part of life, I know many other people deal with it too. I'll be okay, my family will be okay. I guess I'm also glad that I moved back when I did, because she passed away almost exactly to the hour 2 weeks after I finished driving back and moving back in here. Is it some higher power, is it fate, or is it just random chance, I don't know.
Life, emotions, everything is so temporary. When you get down to the daily grind, and life feels regular and constant, just know that it isn't. We're all very fragile creatures, and we can only hope to live as long and fruitful of a life as some of our ancestors were lucky enough to do. 87 years, raising 5 children, and helping raise some of her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren, that's a lot of life lived, a lot of wisdom passed on, as worthy of a life as anyone can hope for.
There's a lyric in this song by Volbeat that I like, called Goodbye Forever, and it always touches me when I hear it and think about the fleeting nature of life.
"The final is a warning, wake up before you go
There'll be no second chances, that day you're on your own
Let out the feelings, tomorrow may not come"
I agree whole heartedly, all that you have is who you are, so share yourself while you can...you never know when tomorrow may not come.
My grandmother I mentioned before, did pass away in hospice this evening, around 6 pm EST, which was about an hour or so after we wrapped up the first stream earlier today. My family is all rather you know, happy that she's not in pain anymore from the brain tumor, and the hospice care all week did a good job of keeping her pain free. I went up to see her every other day this past week, which is why some of you may or may not have noticed my absence from the evenings and so forth off and on.
For me, I am very sad about it...I had my cry a bit about it earlier tonight, and I know its good she isn't in pain anymore, but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with emotionally. Early on in my life, we weren't super close and so forth, but these last few years we've done our best to look out for each other after my mom passed away. This house I'm staying in now belonged to my grandparents, and she was adamant the last couple of years she wants me to own it. I don't know how all that really works but I'm probably going to find out in the near future. I imagine I will be scarce in the near future for a little while while I am with my family and we do the services and things.
I know this is a part of life, I know many other people deal with it too. I'll be okay, my family will be okay. I guess I'm also glad that I moved back when I did, because she passed away almost exactly to the hour 2 weeks after I finished driving back and moving back in here. Is it some higher power, is it fate, or is it just random chance, I don't know.
Life, emotions, everything is so temporary. When you get down to the daily grind, and life feels regular and constant, just know that it isn't. We're all very fragile creatures, and we can only hope to live as long and fruitful of a life as some of our ancestors were lucky enough to do. 87 years, raising 5 children, and helping raise some of her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren, that's a lot of life lived, a lot of wisdom passed on, as worthy of a life as anyone can hope for.
There's a lyric in this song by Volbeat that I like, called Goodbye Forever, and it always touches me when I hear it and think about the fleeting nature of life.
"The final is a warning, wake up before you go
There'll be no second chances, that day you're on your own
Let out the feelings, tomorrow may not come"
I agree whole heartedly, all that you have is who you are, so share yourself while you can...you never know when tomorrow may not come.
Aeryx
7
Re: New show, the successor to the podcast
As I said in Twitch chat, I'm willing to pop in for a shadow perspective - both as player and leader. Just lemme know!
Saidenn
2
Re: New show, the successor to the podcast
If you ever need someone to go off about crafting for a million years you lemme know XD
Rasani
2
Re: New show, the successor to the podcast
Alright, we're live. Going to have the starting soon screen and music up for about 15 mins until some people come in!
Aeryx
1
Re: Drawings of Aetolia
I drew my girl. She's gone Sentaari so she gets to be as unclothed as she wants.
Rasani
6
Re: LOVE
Tahm got his first real roleplay experience today, and despite getting circles ran around me in the fancy emotes department, it was an absolute blast. 
Tahm
4
Re: Aolin
I cannot properly express what a surprise it was to run into that feisty little street urchin of an Imp in a tavern in Spinesreach. Aolin was the first character I encountered who acknowledged everything that Qelres is (filthy, smelly, malformed) and still chose to like them. It was a choice which immediately endeared her to the Nazetu. I am so, so, so glad you made it.
Being allowed to watch Aolin grow, even from the sidelines and in passing moments of friendly closeness, has been a joy. She's matured over the years in a believable way that makes her feel alive and part of the world. She is a whole character; whenever I interact with her, there is the sense that something else is going on off screen that I am not allowed to witness. These are the characters I treasure most in the game, because they are always new and always vibrant.
And your writing! Ugh! It is light and descriptive, full of movement and charm. It matches the character perfectly, and I really can't get enough of it.
P.S. Also your character design and outfits are always really aesthetically pleasing and on point. A+++
Being allowed to watch Aolin grow, even from the sidelines and in passing moments of friendly closeness, has been a joy. She's matured over the years in a believable way that makes her feel alive and part of the world. She is a whole character; whenever I interact with her, there is the sense that something else is going on off screen that I am not allowed to witness. These are the characters I treasure most in the game, because they are always new and always vibrant.
And your writing! Ugh! It is light and descriptive, full of movement and charm. It matches the character perfectly, and I really can't get enough of it.
P.S. Also your character design and outfits are always really aesthetically pleasing and on point. A+++
Qelres
2