I have been thinking of this for a while, and would like to see who can create the most original character history. There are no "character sheet" rules here. Only that the history has to be at least 200 words long, and only one entry per poster (you may edit your entry if you wish). It can be of any era of game play, and of any type of character.

I'll give you all a month to post a history for the contest. That will be June 03, 2007. (or there abouts)

Good luck, and I may post one as well.


Edit: I would like to note this is looking more at the Background of the character more than anything else.

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The victories from those skilled in warfare are not considered of great wisdom or courage, because their victories have no miscalculations
- SUN-TZU

ME FIRST!!!

Name:Cala Rive
Race:Half dragon, half elf
Age:385
Gender:Male
Height:6 foot 9 inches
Weight:233 pounds
Weapons: A rapier and a broadsword.
Appearance:He wears a long black overcoat with a collar that covers his mouth and nose, under this he has a pair of blue jeans and a white T-shirt. His clothes have been charred. He has gold scales, 12 foot wings, and shoulder length, silver hair.
History: His father died when he was age 20. At age 43 he joined a military acadamy. After graduating hae flew east and joined a small temple, he was 50. While there he learned of self peace and magic. Inbetween ages 53 and 380 nothing is known of this man's past. He is now referred to as the gold shadow. As an assassin he kills for pleasure and has gained a total bounty of $593.

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Let us bring a new Golden Age to Dragnix.

RPG: Eternal Twilight
Name: Jason Dodge
Race: Human
Age: 25
Description: Black hair, grey eyes. He wears a leather jacket and jeans. His arms and face have several scars on them from years of fighting.
Background: After watching his family being slain by vampires, Jason became the most ruthless, persistant vampire hunter in the world, learning his skills directly from Buffy the Slayer. He has killed many vampires.
Current Location: In England on a crazy adventure to rescue some people he's never met before, merely because he has nothing else to do.
Weapons: A handmade crossbow for the vampires, a Berreta and K-Bar combat knife for everyone else. He is also trained in unarmed combat.
Special Skill: Can walk and chew gum at the same time. Can also pat head and rub belly at the same time.

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The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

-Tucker Max

Name: Ashten Glade

Age: ??

Gender: Male

Race: Armor (once a half-dragon)

Looks: He is a black suit of armor that is now scratched and dented. As he was once a half-dragon he has claws instead of hands. His wings are mainly decorational as he can't fly even short distances. There are runes etched along each piece of the armor--there is even at least one rune on each link of the chainmail. His helm is encrusted with a ruby, and is of a unique design.

Weapons: A rusty Longsword, engraved with his fiance's name; Olivia.

History: Ashten was once a skilled assasin; mainly of merchants and the like. That is until he was hired by a gang leader nicknamed "The Speckled Tiger". She, through her contacts, assigned him the difficult task of assasinating the soon to be, king. He wasn't going down easy so he assembled some people he knew back from his childhood and began plotting... A few weeks later they were in, but unfortunatly one of the guards took a shortcut through the alley that they were waiting in. They silenced him quickly, but not quick enough. Arrows whistled overhead killing two of his friends almost instantly. Unfortunatly his wife-to-be was not so lucky. An arrow went right through her leg pinning her to the wall. The guards were coming so he had to act fast. He pulled the arrow out despite her urges to leave, and attempted to scale the wall with her on his back. A second wave of arrows assalted them, killing her and wounding him. He carried her dead body for almost a block before collapsing; how he never knew. Now he was dazed and halfway insane with rage. He stumbled into a shop looking for something to help him get his revenge. The shopkeeper boasted a suit of armor that would make the user invisible, and invincible. He paid the shopkeeper much more than it was worth and put it on. It melded to fit his body instantly even his claws, wings, and tail, were shrouded in chain mail. He rushed the castle but was captured before even reaching the inner gates. The man who he was sent to kill laughed at him and spat in his face. When the guards tried to remove the armor it wouldn't come off, so they through him, armor and all into the prison. It was only later, in a moonlit puddle, did he discover the armor's effects. It did make him invisible, but the suit itself did not. His body gone he could not suffer fatigue or physical pain so he was technically invincible. He tricked and killed the guards taking one's longsword, which he engraved with his finance's name. This was his way of vowing to kill the king, and all those who are under his command. He wandered the countryside for years until....

Right I excuse any earlier comments I have made, they were uncalled for.

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Anything is Possible...
And Yet, Nothing is Probable.

Well this is the first draft.

Gender: Male
Race: Half-elf
Class: Wizard (Evocation, -Necromancy –Illusion)
Name: Kantor Osanay
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Green
Age: 25
Height: 5’ 1â€￾
Weight: 145 lb

Background:
Kantor’s father is a fisherman while his mother is the daughter to a minor elf noble. Many members of her family disagreed with her choice of husband, but were talked into accepting him after he proved himself worthy of her. When Kantor was born the argument started for which family he would follow. So he was slowly groomed in to the live of both a fisherman and as a wizard.
As a young boy he was taken onboard his father’s ship as a cabin boy. He learned how to tie knots, prep the sails, pull in the nets, and many other things like that. While he was at home his mother trained him in the beginnings of his magical training. But he was fast coming to the age he needed to decide which path he needed to take in life.
When he was 14 the fishing ship was hit by a strong storm and the vessel which came to rescue them had a sea wizard aboard. He was able to calm the storm long enough for both ships to find a safe harbor. While waiting out the storm, Kantor and his father spoke about him training to use magic as that wizard did. Seeing it as a good compromise between the two families, his father agreed.
Soon Kantor was going to the school of wizardry, paid for by his mother’s family. With the eager want to appease both his father and mother he became one of the top students in the school. While returning home one day he saw a strange kitten following him. It had blue eyes, dark tail, light colored body, dark legs, and a mask. Seeing it was following him anyway he took it home and talked his mother into letting him keep it because he planned to make it his familiar.
Finally on when he was 24 he cast his first true spell, much to the fear of both his mother and father. He climbed to the top of their house and jumped off. As he fell he cast feather fall slowing his fall to an easy speed. He soon gained a number of other spells into his spellbook and was allowed to begin work on ships at sea. And used his training to give the magic connection between himself and the kitten he found. And soon one would never be seen without the other.
In his down time Kantor takes jobs with a couple of adventures, who enjoy his spell casting power. While Kantor used the jobs to get a little extra money and learn new spells. He plans to one day even craft magic items for the use of his shipmates.

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The victories from those skilled in warfare are not considered of great wisdom or courage, because their victories have no miscalculations
- SUN-TZU

Er.. fragum... what has finances got to do with your chartacter?

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Formerly DragonRider. Almost teenage me could have been more imaginative with names.

Nothing it's just a funny side thing. Or dramatic, depending on ur point of view.

Edit: I just read your post carefully. It's fiance, not finance.

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The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

-Tucker Max

hehe oh oh i wanna join ^^

Name: Akira
Age: 14
Race:Dragonkin
Gender:Female
Hair:Dark Brown, goes down to just past her shoulders
Eyes:Dark brown (easily mistaked for being black)
Appearance:Has blood red scales over her body and a long dragon tail with nine spikes and a large spike at the end. Has large dragon wings which are a darker red to her scales with black veins running through them. Has a pair of black horns still growing on her head.

Background: Grew up in another world in the eastern empire of the world with her twin sister Kia. At this time her only draconic features were her scales. When she and Kia were born they both had green scales so to avoid confusion they changed Akiras scale colour to red though due to a flaw in the spell she can change her scale coluor from red to green at will and when she was started on learning magic she cast the spell on kia so she to could change between the two coluors. Akira was skilled ion magic at a very young age, unlike her twin sister who took to a different path. While Akira was learing magic Kia was learning the path of the theif, assasin, sneak, someone skileld in deceiving and using daggers and throwing weapons. This repulsed there parents as they wished for Kia to be like Akira. This did not change the sisters relationship with each other and they were always together pulling tricks and combining there skills. But there older cousin Haki hated Kia and treated her horribly blaming everything and anything on Kia. No matter how hard Akira treid to protect Kia she was unable to which left Kia feeling angry with hatred inside her. When they were onlpy seven Kia snapped and used al lthe skills and hatred she had gathered over her years to kill all who stood i nher way of killing her family, namely akira as her mind had become clouded and she could not see that her sister had treid to help her. After 2 years of chasing The sisters had a last stand planned by Haki and others in which Akira fought with her and tricked her into a ritual circle in which she transported and trapped Kia i nanother dimension. Haki then took Akira away to another part of there world to the main central city of the world. Akira put her past ebhind her and started a new life helping the people she had now met to fight against anything that threatened the world. Hpwever one year later a ritural went wrong destabalising the ritural circle. The next day Akira got to close and was sucked in and transported to this world. She is now presumed dead by her world. In the new world she met many new freinds and her wings and tail sprouted during her time there. When Akira was 13 Kia reappeared having escaped and They once agai nthought but with the help of her freidns she was abvle to be retrapped in another dimension, but Akira let her back out soon after on the condition on her help to destroy a demon lord. Kia aggreed and the twins started a clean slate. The demon lord had many brothers one of which mindcontrolled Kia into killing akair. When Kia snapped out of it she broke down and tried to bring her back with a spell but due to her lack of magical ability she caused the demon thorn who had been a childhood freind of Akiras and had died after she had left to possess her body. When One of there freinds E.D sacrificed her soul to reverse the damege and destroy the demon lord both Akira and thorn were brought back to life.Akira now lives with her sister and Thorn and she keeps in contact with ehr home world thuogh is refuised to go back home as everyone still beleives she is dead.

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go on press the link you know you wanna
http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?akira%20dragonhalf

Name: Rok (but of course since it is only the most awesome name in existance, well next to Caritt and Aldermagnin [alder for short})

Hair: Varies in length but is always bright blonde.

Clothes: A wool long sleeved gray tunic with a basic leather belt around the waist and wool long gray pants, wears deer hide pants in the winter. When in battle also wears a hardened leather curiaiss (Vampirehunter42 please help me with the spelling on that}as well as a basic round shield made of the finest oak.On formal occasions he also wears a tabard bearing the colors of his clan. Also always wears moccasins that come halfway up his shin and a leather pouch over his shoulder.

Weapons: A 33" sword , a mace 16" in diameter in the ball and the shaft is 24" long as well as a 6' spear.

Race: Troll, basically human features but he is about 8' 4" tall, is strong for a troll but has his share of fat on him as well. He is a slow runner but can run for long periods of time without stopping. His skin is also pale but not to the extreme. His eyes are blue/green.

History: Born in the middle of a war with the humans of Britain he was a small child. At the age of 8 his mother was killed on one of the many raids led by the human general Peter Colwell. However the general saw a free slave in Rok and sent him to work a farm where he was beaten and nearely worked to death. Then he would be allowed to heal and rest and then ot would start over again. On his 20th birthday his master came and told him to stand up. Rok ,having been a slave as long as he could remember, did so without question. Then his master took the whip off the wall and began whipping Rok all the time yelling about problems on the farm and in his life and blaiming them all on Rok. Rok crawled into a corner and cowered winceing at each fall of the whip. He lay there for almost an hour when the whip stopped falling and Rok was aware of people screaming and the smell of smoke. Rok looked up and saw light coming in through the windows of the barn where he slept and saw his master run out the door. Rok jumped up and ran to the door. He looked outside and saw the house was on fire and his master on his knees with a great creature holding a sword. Rok yelled as the creature brought down the sword but stopped when he heard Rok. Rok ran forward yanked the sword from the creature and beheaded his master. Rok then proceeded to hack and chop the man into little pieces all the while tears falling down his face the creature looking at him in wonder. Finally the creature grabbed Rok's arm and stopped him. Holding him by the shoulder the walked over to the house. Rok saw the bodies of the family burning. except the mother who stood holding the body of her daughter and crying. The creature then took off running into the woods and soon came to a group of the creatures. They looked him up and down then ran for 3 miles to a river wear a boat was docked. He was thrown into the boat placed at a seat with a oar and made to row. The did this until the river joined the sea. Then the leader came up to Rok and to make a long story short Rok was told what he was who was and what had just happened.

More to come. I wrote this in class and posted it before I went to bed.

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There is no greater honor than dieing in glorious combat with a superior opponent. *Thrust... thrust.... parry....sweep.....THRUST!! Good.* Ah the joy of a Boar Spear.