Don't worry, this will make sense in the end. I'm also going to explain the variable profession, the visible head armor, and why he hasn't gone mad when imprisoned without a purpose. This is actually the back story prior to the quest "Finding a Purpose."

All kids of ropes, plastic, and supports hold thing the head on while it dries, so don't read too much into that.

Haunt is a mine theme, wanted a creature to work the mines.







I love the look the netting gives limbs....not sure I'll have enough left for the purpose I bought it for to begin with, but it's worth it.





By design, the thing spotlights it's own pickaxe. Great shadowplay off it.



I don't know why, but my camera hates red lighting, couldn't be bothered to break out my DSLR... Looks better in person

Razah’s Development and Awareness of the World

September 17, 2011

One of the things I LOVE about writing Razah’s backstory is trying to figure out how he would see the world given that he literally has all the knowledge in the universe basically downloaded into him thanks to Abaddon. The Wiki likens him to Data from Star Trek. I like to think of Razah as having the strengths of both humanity and the demons spawned from The Mysts (plus some other bonuses). He’s sentient, of course, and has the abilities of humans (senses and emotion) in addition to pseudo-immortality (kind of like LotR elves, they can live practically forever in a happy and safe environment, but they can die when seriously wounded) and the ability to access mystical abilities from the universe.

So, with this in mind: who is Razah when he first ‘wakes up’ and given all the knowledge of the world? I imagine it as a sensory overload, which is why he spends to first part of his life in essentially a coma. When he wakes up, he’s much like an amnesiac. He can communicate, but he can’t access the knowledge that was implanted within his mind. When he finds triggers, it’s like an avalanche of information, because there’s just too much information that he doesn’t have context to. It would be like sitting in a class of astro-physics armed with ten-thousand reference books behind you. You look in one reference book for the answer, but then have to go to another and another… In the end, you’ve read about it and have the information, but you don’t really understand. Another example is memorizing a German passage, when you don’t know German. Sure, you can recite it perfectly, but you don’t know what it means. You need a dictionary to parse it bit by bit, but because of idioms, your self-translation probably makes even less sense!

Given Razah’s background, how will he develop and gain awareness of the world? In my version of his backstory, I like to think that he couldn’t do it by himself, all alone in the Heart of Abaddon area. He would need external help and exposure to outside stimuli to give him that push to grow. Specifically, he wanders Elona and meets Zinka, a 6-year old orphan girl. From here, the plan is to follow Piaget’s Theory of Intelligence and Intellectual Growth along with some of Erikson theories. According to Piaget, during the Preoperational stage, children use symbolism to understand the environment around them. In other words, the sun moves, so therefore it is alive. For Razah, seeing through the eyes of Zinka gives him the basic building blocks to understand the world around him in very simple cognitive schemes. Through assimilation, new experiences are put into pre-existing simple schemes and whenever there is conflict, or disequilibrium, the schemes are altered in order to accept the new schema.

After the preoperational stage comes the concrete operations stage where children can start inferring things by seeing other’s behaviors. Finally, the last stage for Razah, which will be the very last part of my story, is the Formal Operations stage. He doesn’t need purely logical thinking to understand the world around him. He can now ponder hypothetical situations and form - what I believe is the most important part of what makes him human – an imagination.

Anyway, this is probably going to be the only non-story update I write, so I hope this update wasn’t too boring and you’re all looking forward to reading about Razah’s Tale and his personal journey.

Update 4:

Did some light shopping for some more costume mats Still haven’t found the shoes that I want I’m feeling better that my costume won’t look *exactly* like the game model (grumble, easier to draw than physically make, grumble) after reading this bit of advice from Tzu from GWGuru:

“Personally I think accuracy is very important, but you have different levels of accuracy you can adhere to:

1) Similar silhouette: The overall shape and dimensions match, but not necessarily the pattern or colour. Examples: An A-line
dress , knee-high boots.

2) Similar colour or hue: The colour or hue matches, but not necessarily the silhouette, and the details may be off.
Examples: a red wig, a golden necklace.

3) Similar detailing: The details, pattern or decoration on the items match, but not necessarily the colour or silhouette. Examples: a filigree ring, floral pattern on a dress.

If you think of this list as graded from most important (1) to least important (2), you know you should always try to fulfill the first,
preferably the second, and then the third if you want to be perfectly accurate.”

I figure I’ll shoot for 2 outta 3 of these as my minimum goal

I also ordered some more goodies online so I should be expecting within the next week or two: my gloves, black lace, white beads, black beads, and good ol’ puffy paint!

I also tried crocheting the lace-like portion of the necklace (the part across the chest) and it came out terribad! As in, I’m not even taking a picture… Anyway, this disaster is why I decided to order the black beads since I’m going to try wire wrapping and the beads to make the pattern