Re: some help please (druid)

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Davou.w@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>thats a nice start actually, thanks!

>some of her characterization;

>-arrogance
>-superiority complexe
>-apathetic with regards to fighting
>-dislikes adventureing for the sake of others.
>-dislikes people who carry large mean looking blades.
>-burning interest in games or strategy.
>-dislikes mention of 'chance' or fate.
>-atheist

Is there anything in that list which will tend to connect her with
the other PCs?  There certainly seem to be several things which
would push her away, and if this is a multi-player campaign, that could
be troublesome.

She sounds like someone with a strong need to see herself as in
control of her own future (I see why she likes go, which has no
luck in it).  That could come from having been completely *out* of
control earlier in her life.  Perhaps her life had been planned
out for her (by her parents?  Her community?) but that plan was
violently disrupted (by people with large mean looking blades? :-))
and now she is determined to make her own choices.

The "not for the sake of others" suggests that she was being
raised for a role that involved a lot of self-sacrifice.  Maybe a
literal sacrifice, maybe just doing a job that would give her no
outlet for her own needs and desires--being an oracle locked in a
cage, for example.

Hm.  I rather like the oracle idea.  Treated from childhood as
someone with superior wisdom and knowledge, but also as someone with
no say in her own future at all, the helpless pawn of her destiny.
And then the shrine was destroyed by armed force, freeing her but
slaughtering everyone she knew.  Now she's on her own, and determined
never to be helpless in that way again.  But she retains the
air of superiority, the sense that she knows more than the people
around her and is really a superior form of being.

Anyway, take whatever is helpful, leave the rest.  Sounds like you
have a pretty clear idea of her personality, which is probably more
im****tant at the start than her background.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]