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06-17-06, 04:11 PM
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#1 | | Giant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nor Cal
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|  Hrothgar the Slasher
Hrothgar The Slasher
Race: Human
Class: Barbarian [through level 20]
Age: 27
alignment: Chaotic Good
Deity: None
Subrace: None
Bio:
Hrothgar the Slasher began life on his parents' small farm, though his given name was Vic Firth.
His parents owned a small plot of land outside a village that sat at the base of some foothills.
Vic's chores included feeding and milking the family cow, and gathering the chicken's eggs. At
about the age of seven, he began playing the rhythm barrels with the local bards and musicians.
When Vic was twelve years old, his village was raided by orcs and he was taken back to their tribe in the foothills.
Originally the orcs forced Vic to play the war drums during the raids, but that changed as he got older and grew stronger. One night the tribe's shaman caught him slashing rats in half with a stolen crude short sword. At that point he began his forced barbarian training. first with the short sword, and then with increasingly large weapons until he became proficient with the Great
Sword. Due to his rat slashing, he became known by the tribe only as what he could discern as 'Hrothgar Slasher'.
By this point, he was being forced to accompany the warriors on their raids. Although he detested it, he was viciously beaten if he did not cooperate. Many times he was beaten to the edge of death, only to be sustained by the shaman in order to fight another day.
About 13 years after being abducted, Hrothgar was strong enough and felt confident that he could
challenge the chieftain for leadership. He was fed up with being forced to brutally kill and
pillage in the raids, so he planned to kill the chieftain and flee while the tribe was in the chaos of the chief's death.
After recouperating from the most recent raid, Hrothgar made the announcement at the feast that he was challenging the chieftain for leadership over the tribe. Being human, his orcish had not
developed the guttural reinforcement needed for forceful speaking, and the tribe initially laughed him off. After he drew his Great Sword, the laughter died and the chieftain rose slowly from his seated position at the feast. What followed was a vicious battle that felt as though it lasted for hours. In fact, it only lasted about twenty minutes, and was ended with Hrothgar running the full length of his great sword in to the chieftain's stomach.
After the chieftain's death, Hrothgar fled the tribe and began searching for his parents. He has
now been searching for two years with no leads to there whereabouts, or even if they are still
living.
Hrothgar now holds a deep seated hatred for full blooded orcs, though he is sympathetic of
half-orcs and feels they are the product of unnatural parenting through no fault of their own.
Since he lived with orcs for about 13 years, I'd like Hrothgar to get the orcish language ear as
well as the common, though it's not a necessity. It may provide little roleplay value, but I
figure after 13 years a human *should* be intelligient enough to pick up on a language, and it fits in with the back story. The intelligience stat is planned to be set at 10. |  |   | |
06-19-06, 03:42 AM
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#2 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: Hrothgar the Slasher
The submission has been reviewed and the issue of an orcish ear has been brought up to the Team for a short discussion. I apologise for the wait and ask you to be patient for a while longer. Hopefully we can get you an reply in less than a day.
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What would have followed if you had.
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06-21-06, 01:05 PM
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#3 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: Hrothgar the Slasher
Alright I'm going to offer you the following suggestion: During his stay with the orcs Hrothgar learned the basics of the orcish language. His mastery of it isn't perfect but he can understand it and speak it in limited fashion. On the other hand after losing his connection to the human culture at such a young age his grasp of the common has deteriorated and he can't speak it even as well as he can speak orcish.
This means you will get the Ear of Orcish but you will be speaking both broken common and broken orcish. Your character can slowly learn to master these both languages better but this process will have to last for many real life months.
If you do not like the offer we can just approve you without the orcish ear with normal common.
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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.
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06-21-06, 03:53 PM
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#4 | | Giant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nor Cal
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| Re: Hrothgar the Slasher
I appreciate the time and consideration that's gone into this character. At this time however, I'd rather not RP a character with two broken languages. Maybe another character later though. Go ahead and just approve for the common, we'll leave the orcish for another time  | | | | |
06-22-06, 02:28 PM
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#5 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In Hollow Halls beneath the fells
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| RE: Hrothgar the Slasher
Approved without the orcish ear.
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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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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