Curse

Neriandal Freit · Nov 04, 2007, 09:00 PM // 21:00

So, here is a rather fun question I thought I would ask of the Guru Community at whole. Rather then getting into a strong debate as I often might with persons in this forum, or attend to a silly topic, I have decided to start this topic. It is placed within this forum due to it not exactly being a story, but rather a question about your characters!

How many of you really have a story to tell about your characters?

It's something I personally do have with all my characters, even the ones I've created just to take up that empty slot. I'm wanting to know if you, as a fellow player, have the same for your character as well?

Alexandra-Sweet · Nov 04, 2007, 09:12 PM // 21:12

I always keep track on things I get on my Main Character for the first time.

First Charr Bag.
First Charr Salvage kit.
First minipet.
First green.

I even kept my first Ecto in storage and still have it.

Tender Wolf · Nov 04, 2007, 09:16 PM // 21:16

Well do you mean like fictional stories, or each character having their own goals or whatever? Each character I make, I have a little side story that I can see happening with them. Makes me get into them even more.

For instance, I'm currently working on a Legendary Defender of Ascalon mesmer. I can picture that happening, and for some reason I can vision her being friends with Anton and they grow up together. Then they get separated during the Searing and as time passes, they don't know what became of the other. Both are presumed dead. My character would go on and save Tyria, Cantha, and Elona, then meet up with Anton again in GWEN time. And she'd remember Gwen as well. I envision my character as being about...maybe 16 during pre-Searing, and in her 20's or so during GWEN time. After all these years, she and Anton get married.

I also have a ranger (well two actually) with jewels in her hair. To me, that spells princess. And of course all my characters pretty much look the same (tried to make them all look as much like me as possible lol), so I envision her as being a reincarnation of my main character in a princess's body. As such, she wants to fight but can't because her father fears for her safety. I see her as being a princess of Vabbi, and she and two other princesses (an elementalist and ritualist, each with the jewels in their hair-those hairstyles that is) like the princes in the Nightfall storyline. Of course, this is many years later. And then Vabbi gets attacked so the princess goes off on her own, falls in love, and then comes back with her husband, who becomes prince.

And I saw my main (back when she was Kurzick) being best friends with Danika up until her death and falling in love with a Luxon, until they both left their factions to join the Sunspears. lol

Yeah, those are my stories. It's safe to say I'm a sucker for love stories. lol I'm not sure if this is what you wanted but I figured I'd share them. I like to write short stories for a hobby so I might even write one based on these.

BenjZee · Nov 04, 2007, 09:18 PM // 21:18

lol thats great

some people have little stories but your is so imaginitive

Tender Wolf · Nov 04, 2007, 09:19 PM // 21:19

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Originally Posted by SmithyBen

lol thats great

some people have little stories but your is so imaginitive

lol Thanks. Yes sometimes I might even get a little carried away.

BenjZee · Nov 04, 2007, 09:24 PM // 21:24

i have a few small stories but it mainly involves my monk being a kick ass.
My monks the oldest of my strange family btw, funny how neither of them really look alike and they have different surnames but they still look up to him.

Magixo defeated the undead lich but then again so did all my other characters? major paradox problems

KamikazeChicken · Nov 04, 2007, 09:52 PM // 21:52

If you're asking whether I role play with the character, the answer is no. If you want to know whether I can recall events that have happened while playing a charcter, that would be a yes.

Neriandal Freit · Nov 04, 2007, 09:53 PM // 21:53

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Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken

If you're asking whether I role play with the character, the answer is no. If you want to know whether I can recall events that have happened while playing a charcter, that would be a yes.

No, neither. I'm asking more or less either on paper, computer or in your mind if you as a player of your character have a story for them?

Fril Estelin · Nov 04, 2007, 09:53 PM // 21:53

My main char actually has a very very long history...that ends when he was created in GW! I've created in GW at Semi-Elf Water Mage that I played during countless hours with friends in a very long Lord of The Rings role-playing campaign years ago (we fought the Nazguls and a Balrog! he could unravel very powerful natural powers). I logically created an E/R, specialised in Water and with a nice Bow (but I'm using my staff more). My game master (oldest friend irl) even draw a nice pretty picture of what he looked like, and I imagine that now Fril grew up and left Middle Earth to travel to Tyria-Elona-Cantha

. I look forward to creating his grand-sons in GW2

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Neriandal Freit · Nov 04, 2007, 09:54 PM // 21:54

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Originally Posted by SmithyBen

i have a few small stories but it mainly involves my monk being a kick ass.
My monks the oldest of my strange family btw, funny how neither of them really look alike and they have different surnames but they still look up to him.

Magixo defeated the undead lich but then again so did all my other characters? major paradox problems

Which is where you have to decide as a story - did all of your characters get together for certain events, and did one take on Keep while another three where in D'alessio yet all meeting at the end?

BenjZee · Nov 04, 2007, 10:09 PM // 22:09

it's fun isn't it

I could always say different time dimensions etc

I would have to say theres some mains for different continents.
my monk from prophecies, ritualist from factiosn and paragon from nightfall.

My monk defeated the lich and then met up with my ritualist in factions to defeat shiro. Then these two met up with my paragon in nightfall to defeat abaddon. I also count all my heroes such as koss on each character as the same person. Koss met both of my characters at the same time. My heroes are mainly friends of my monk magixo and they help out my family when needed.

My other characters may have helped out along the way but some may not of ever done the missions. My necromancer is on his own quest to just explore the continents.
One of my youngest characters is my warrior in pre searing. Pre-Searing is suppose to be 2 years before Post searing. I am yet to come up with a reason to explain this. Even though he's the youngest, it could be seen as him being the eldest.

sorry about the terrible grammer and spelling.

Maximumraver · Nov 04, 2007, 10:10 PM // 22:10

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Originally Posted by KamikazeChicken

If you're asking whether I role play with the character, the answer is no. If you want to know whether I can recall events that have happened while playing a charcter, that would be a yes.

Nothing to add.

Age · Nov 04, 2007, 10:16 PM // 22:16

I have made up some lore for my main chars that I have posted on anther board but here is a an eg.My Monk was born in Rin and has 3 sisters and 2 brothers her Father was a Warrior and her Mother a Monk hence why she became a Mo/W.She had a 5th great uncle ((Guild Founder now officer not active)) that was a Ranger and that is the reason of the Guilds name being what it is.She has a few cousins as well((second account))that share the same name.That is it in a nut shell.
This why I would like to see Rin restored and get access to it.

She is the second oldest her brother being older than her.

PureEvilYak · Nov 04, 2007, 10:38 PM // 22:38

You can't play an MMORPG properly without roleplaying your favorite character at least a little, in my opinion. My roleplay also involves my playing buddies characters (not to his knowledge, though).

My favorite character is a Tyrian Ranger which I've been playing for 27 months, my entire GW span. Pre-searing, he was a librarian in the employ of the Great Archives of Rin (yeah, I made that place up), with a penchant for archery.
However, after the searing, he had to learn to use his archery to protect himself. During a fight with Charr which he was losing, he suddenly felt a surge of energy. All his arrows burst into flame and set the Charr's fur on fire. Thus, he found out about his secondary profession (I rarely play R/E, but I use it to explain how I use burning arrows, explosive arrows, etc.).
During the first mission in Tyria, he met a mesmer (my friends character). They fought their way through the Tyrian campaign together, my character drawing maps as he went along (cartographer), as his love for knowledge was still there, even with his current "job" as a hero.
However, in the final mission of Tyria, his friend was killed by the lich, sacrificing himself to throw the final blow. (my friend switched to an assassin in Factions)
He fought through the rest of the campaigns with this assassin. However, after defeating the great destroyer, though there were no other great threats, he could never settle down again. This lead to his demise, as, on the first mission to explore Orr since its destruction, all contact was lost with him and the rest of the team, and they were never seen again.
However, in GW, one mission (should) be to fight this group of dead adventurers, now the unwilling servants of our next great threat. In dying, he will be freed of his chains, and will pass on knowledge to my next character (who will definitely be a ranger or similar) before passing into the Mists, and give him the key to the Hall of Monuments, so he may take what lies within.
While I could tell you about a lot of his exploits, I shall tell you only one. During the first "mission" in GW:EN, all of the party was being chased by the destroyers (as in the mission). However, they were stopped when my character pulled out 6 highly explosive arrows (an invention of my own), lit all the fuses with a sweep of his hand, and (barrage) fired them into the ceiling. The first destroyers were crushed under the rock, the rest found their passage blocked, and the Dwarves, Asura and Heroes were able to make their escape through the asura gate.

Konrow · Nov 04, 2007, 10:58 PM // 22:58

I love writing. A LOT. So i decided a while ago to write character stories for each of my characters on the side. Of course i can't start that until i finish my main writing or run out of ideas/willpower for it.

Rexion · Nov 04, 2007, 11:10 PM // 23:10

My main character's name is Heal N Fifty Fiver...
past 3 days, I've been trying to get into UW or FoW group, people turn me down cause they think i'm gonna 55 it.
I quit 55'in after the loot nerf... i want a name change!!

Aera Lure · Nov 04, 2007, 11:18 PM // 23:18

I do. Most of my names come from a science fiction RPG campaign I was running for a long time. Its still ongoing, and I revisit it from time to time. I dont role play in GW though.

Zahr Dalsk · Nov 04, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25

I don't RP in Guild Wars. Guild Wars is not really an RPG (yes, yes, an MMO, but is there the level of choice and detail in it that you'd see in, say, Baldur's Gate? No? Didn't think so.), and I don't treat it as such.

I roleplay in Mask of the Betrayer (spiritual successor to Planescape:Torment in all respects). I roleplay in KotOR/KotOR2. I roleplay in stories I write. Not in GW.

Lord Sojar · Nov 04, 2007, 11:29 PM // 23:29

I don't really role play much in GWs. But my monk Lord Sojar and my dervish Deux Du Machina have some lore I created with the Ball and Oktoberfest.

william1975 · Nov 04, 2007, 11:31 PM // 23:31

no stories whatsoever, im not a writer, and even if i wished to be, i would udoubtedly suck so badly i'd fall into an eternal pit of despair never to recover from the damage done to my own fragile ego.