Everyone has their beloved character here.. but.. where did the inspiration come from? Show and tell time!
Weston Pendrot...
A kindly older gentleman who is more paladin than sorcerer, weilds the arcane as though it were a divine gift and serves Lucinda with passion and honor. Chivalrous, Noble, Charismatic, and completely daft.
Weston was the by-product of my first real experimentation with RP characters.
On a server called "Astoria" I was surprised to discover that everyone played three types of character... Young Man, Old Man, and scantily clad vixens (in +6 plate mail bikinies no less) known as Young Women. To this mix I added my first non standard character, the Old Woman.
"Astoria" Elindra Farsndown
An old matron, well to-do and wealthy. Wizard Specialist of Enchantments and producer of potions of various abilities. Elindra wore only the finest clothes and looked down on everyone. Due to server trouble and an explosion in vampire players I took the character concept to another server
"Lands of Acheron" Elindria Farnsdown
While attempting to recreate the origional character I discoered I had misspelled the name. Elindria started off with nothing in this server. She wore only a sack cloth robe and I played her as being an kindly old woman who wore only the most mundane of clothing. Here I developed the relation of magical study with personality type. Enchanters do not deceive as an Illusionist does, so Elindria took on an aspect of behavior that built trust in people and encouraged those values and ideas that would promote actions and responses that were desireable to Elindria. Just as an Enchanter goes for the mind so did her actions and behavior take on an aspect of RP that required a great deal of attention and persistance to hold an entire city sway to her soft spoken influence.
It was here that I learned to "play your attributes" as Elindria had 8 in each of her physical stats, she walked everywhere. Took frequent rests and carried only her walking stick and her famous yellow umbrella (that umbrella smacked many hands of many villains in it's day). Elindria also developed a style of play where her spell selection and casting was based directly on her school and her attitude. Enchantments filled virtualy every slot with only one or two offensive spells. What ever group she was in benefited from having their enemies suffer confusion and blindness. Though Elindria never actualy did much damage herself, she could turn whole battles in a matter of one or two spells.
In the latter days I explored a method of RPing a character's skills and abilites to completely fit a class, and so... having a firm grip on this I explored the growth of a character beyond the standard boundaries. Elindria's long dead husband was a cleric of one of the gods in that world and so she was very faithful to the tenants and doctrins of that faith. With higher levels skills and spells were selected to reflect a sort of blessing by the god "Saint Cuthbert." Granting her the ability to cast a few clericesque spells. I.e. Planar binding and cure curse and cure blindness/deafness
"Lands of Acheron" Weston Pendrot
With the successful creation of a nonstandard character that exemplified the very class of Wizard "Enchanter" I decided to take a less common character type "Old Man" and attempt to fully explore the possbilities of Nonstandard Class. Weston was to be a fighter/sorcerer... only without any fighter classes. Feats, abilities, and spells were specificly selected that would emulate the fighter class as closely as possible. Weston started off with his trademark Chilvarly and bad brittish accent, but lacked the loved attitude of being completely daft.
Armed with touch spells and protective spells of vituay every type, Weston accelled to Lv8 where he became mired in an unfortunate state where his stats could not support his RPed desire to Fight and defend. Though he had a great deal more HP than other mages his level he had no ability in melee or spell casting.
Counter spell, Weston's legendary to counterspell and destroy the enchantments of any and all mages in an area came from desire to show another character "Aleister" (Synpox) that I knew how to employ spells and tactics better than he. During single player the counter spell feature had been discovered and with Weston as a sorcerer I snapped up every dispel and anti-magic spell I could at my next level (
. When next "Aleister" shot a "Ray of Ice" at Weston for a particularly witty comeback Weston was able to counter the spell and the reaction of "Aleister" to the effect cautified the practice as Weston's greatest Asset. Weston's abilities and feats were perminenet so the Chivilrous aspect became somewhat twisted into the rediculous idea that Weston was a warrior and that he was desperatly trying to relive his younger glory days.
"Layonara" Weston Pendrot
With his trademark accent and silvery hair Weston has marched enthusasticly around virtualy every major city. Though still unable to be effective as a warrior Weston's great Charisma coupled with the successful emulation of clerical practice with Elindria, Weston's behavior took on a less insane manner and more of an ancient sense of Nobility, Chivalry, Respect, and Charismatic flamboyance that infects his every move, word, and action. Taking on the faith of Lucinda Weston's behavior has been that of a Pseudo Paladin, Living life as though he were one of the Honored Knights in a sort of sad and yet inspirationaly motivating dream of being more than he really is. Taking the idea of rping outside ones class has affected every part of Weston's persona... everything about him is above and beyond. Simple tasks like walking through a trap infested hall becomes associated with the same periles of a dance at the local Ball. Where each trip wire and pressure stone is a chance to mangle the delicate toes of a fair maiden, and the deadly results of her ire is equivilant to effects of said traps.
Charisma accelerates the already rediculoul level of lunacy in Weston by creating a PseudoPaladin sense of confidence and courage, by which Weston will rise up to face creatures and people that would normaly mean his immediate death. This combination of extraclass behavior and thinking has left Weston with stats and quirks that make him irrelivant in all situations that don't directly involve a hostile magic caster. Irrelivance, however, has become Weston's standard and banner. His irrelivance to a situation never stops him from compounding a situation or cavalierly dismissing the dire predictions of enemies and encouraging them to "Have at, you fiend!" and shaking his sword in a rediculous display of abusrdity while at the same time being completely convinced in his convictions as to be bordering on righteous.
In his present state Weston offers nothing to a group stat wise, offensice or defensive he causes more trouble helping then staying at home in Hlint on a bench. Yet when given the chance this character has proven to be my most favored as he is.. by his very deffinition ... irrelivant, useless, rediculous, and without effectivness. And yet he rises above all in his attitude, his mannerisms, and his approch to every enemey, be it goblin, badger, or lv 40 hell spawn. Weston has come to embody my most favored attributes, Charisma, Chivalry, Honor, Respect, Determination, Humor, Honesty, and Luck. I don't know who first said it, but it's true.. Weston is as clueless as Inspector Cleuso, as powerful and prone to accident as Inspector Gadget, oblivious to danger as Mr. Magoo, and as absurd and rediculous as Baron Munchousen.
So .. that's how Weston Pendrot came about... I decided.. a character isn't just a receptical to put a few ideas in, as though it were just an aspect of mysef.. but instead, a work of Art.
Now.. lets hear about your work of art!
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