I’d have put 8/10 to the elementalist, since i can’t have enough of charr-based puns.
For Oro Blanco, 5/10, that’s an armour-based nickname, not the name that was given to this Charr on his birth. Too easy. You don’t get to choose your name, as one particular member of my Charr stable knows too well…
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Our Charr had the misfortune of being born during the visit of an asuran commercial delegation well intent of selling some of Rata Sum’s latest inventions to the Black Citadel. One of those inventions was a customisable stone carving golem that they managed to push into the Black Citadel Birth Register on a free trial (the golem would deactivate itself after 30 days). As our black and red ball of fur was born, his proud sire went on his merry way to declare the birth of “Ragnar” (voted most popular cub name at the time by ‘Furball Magazine’ that year).
Unknownst to him, the Charr Stone Carver’s Guild, incensed at the possibility of losing their contract of exclusivity with the Birth
Register, had been plotting the demise of the asuran invention. Having captured a random passing-by Asura, they managed to convince him to give them basics in golem operations in exchange of showing him the way to the Bane PoI which he needed for his 100% map completion. With this information, the CSCG then sent a young-but-promosing novice to sabotage the golem, telling him it was his mandatory
initiation quest, and throwing an underleveled piece of gear (unusable by his class) as a reward should he succeed – which he did – to disconnect the pattern input console from the CPU (Carving Processing Unit).
As our cub’s sire entered the Birth Register at 9:28AM (it officialy opens at 9, but that’s only when they start to have their coffee, and if you’re unhappy about that, have fun trying to make that point to the public sector unions), he was the first Charr to declare a newborn on this fateful day. After filling out the paperwork and waiting patiently for the union-mandated coffee-break, he then spelled “Ragnar” to the Birth Register attendant, which entered it on the golem’s pattern input console, before activating it to immor
talize the new member of the Charr society in the beloved Stone of Births.
Now, Asuran technology, when well-designed and quality controlled, has lots of failsafes and redundant mechanisms to avoid embarassin
g failures. But due to the then economic hardship, the latest Rata Sum budget had felt it wise to drastically cut spending on public research, leading to a number of underfunded projects. In order to meet the deadlines, the typical process was to hire more Ph.Ds and
getting them scared enough of not graduating that they adapt to 2h sleep per night. The downside of course, was that though deadline
s were met, QC was generally thrown out of the window.
As fate would have it, that happened to be the case of the stone carving golem, who, unable to detect the presence of the pattern inp
ut console, produced the corresponding (and correct) error message, just not on the correct output. And there, in the hallowed Stone
of Births, it engraved “Keyboard Not Found”.
As one can imagine, the cub’s sire was not impressed. Multiplying the letters, administrative forms, petitions and other bribes, he f
inally had, to his great shame, to admit defeat. It is said that even on his death-bed, he was still cursing as to why good Charrs had died in droves pushing back and vanquishing the Flame Legion when “All we had to do was send them the Black Citadel Administration, if they weren’t on strike, and Flame’d have surrendered”.
This is the story of a cub that grew to be known as Ragnar only to his closest friends.
This, is the story of Keyboard Not Found of the Blood Legion.
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