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04-26-06, 05:34 AM
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#1 | | Recruit Join Date: Apr 2006
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|  New Character: Hagram Balkaar -- *Updated*
Full Name: Hagram Balkaar
Age: 23
Class(es): Fighter/Rogue 12/8
Race: Human
Alignment: Neutral
Deity: Katia
Bio/Description:
Born to a mother and father of comfortable fortune, all should have been peaceful and well during Hagram's youth. Sadly, it was not to be. When his parents were found dead in the basement of their home, all chances for a normal childhood were snatched from his hands. Adulthood wouldn't prove much better.
It was at the age of eight that the nightmares began. His mother and father re-animated, not as the happy couple they once were, but instead as the rotting corpses of the undead. Over and over the dreams came, and Hagram slipped into a deep depression. His life had no purpose. All he had were the dreams - the nightmares - and a consuming sense of loss and confusion. Who had killed his parents? Were the dreams a sign of something?
Being a depressed and grief-struck child didn't make life at the Orphanage any easier. Friends were hard to make, and everyone there was damaged in some way or another. Over time he would learn to defend himself, to stick up for himself - although he would gladly accept death as a means of escape, he gained resolve through these experiences.
By the time he was old enough to leave the orphanage, he had been depressed and without a social life for so long that he was almost entirely catatonic and mute. Now with nowhere to go or stay, the only thing that forced him to survive was a desire to destroy those that had been haunting him. Maybe he'd find out something about his parents along the way, but he didn't expect so.
At 6'2", with brown hair and blue eyes, Hagram was now a man. Still haunted, still possessed by demons from his past, and still catatonic. |  |   | |
04-27-06, 01:04 AM
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
First of all we do not approve PrCs upon character creation. For them you need to keep an active character development journal and then reapply when you have met the requirements. Second, the Undead Slayer class is a divinely oriented class. Follow this link to find its details. As I am assuming that your character concept is one to follow that route, you will likely need to rework the bio so that it fits that of a cleric or paladin. In either case I would like to see more detail of the character. Perhaps incidents that marked him, his personality and how he found Katia in the first place.
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04-27-06, 02:48 AM
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
Does anyone look at the e-mails submitted through the Contact form and reply to them? I sent an e-mail (as Graham Smith) a few days ago that is of some urgency, and have yet to hear back. | | | | |
04-27-06, 03:00 AM
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#4 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
PrC refers to a Prestige Class, a class that you can only gain levels after creating the character and gainig some levels in the standard classes. For the division between standard classes and PrCs refer here . For specifics on the Undead Slayer PrC you submitted to your character check the link Pankoki offered you in his post.
Also any information relevant to the character submission should be added to this thread. The Contact section in the upper right corner isn't meant for this function. If you have any specific questions you need answers to I recommend that you first try to find answers to them from LORE . If that fails you can either ask them in the General Discussion section of the forums or send a private message to any of the characte approval GMs and you should get an answer in due time. The GMs tend to be busy though so I would suggest using PMs as only the last resort.
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Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
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04-27-06, 04:02 AM
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
The question I asked isn't answered on the site (nor answerable on the site), and I'd rather not discuss the topic in public.
It also does not relate to my Character Submission - or at least, not directly. | | | | |
04-27-06, 04:19 AM
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#6 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
If the matter is so discreet you are free to send me a PM explaining the issue.
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Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.
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04-27-06, 04:38 AM
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| Re: New Character: Hagram Balkaar
Done. | | | | |
04-27-06, 05:00 AM
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#8 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: New Character: Hagram Balkaar -- *Updated*
Approved.
The server address is west.layonara.com or you can find us listed in the Roleplay section of NWN Gamespy as Layonara Online - West.
The password is layoplayer.
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Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.
- C.S. Lewis
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04-27-06, 05:09 AM
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#9 | | World Creator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oakhurst, Ca.
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| Re: New Character: Hagram Balkaar -- *Updated*
Gonnas, please feel free to contact me via PM or emai at dscott@layonara.com if you have any questions. | | | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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