Amidst the kittentorm surrounding the latest patch, I’d like to get people talking again about facets of the game that are actually interesting to read.
This thread’s topic is simple:
I’d really love to hear your character’s names and backstories. If you guys wanted, you could even rate the person’s characters above you.
Well, I’ll start :’)
Fhlex – Asura, Male, Warrior
Fhlex was a member of the College of Dynamics where he had dedicated his life to overcoming the challenges that accompany the inevitable physical inadequacies of his race’s short stature.
Spurred on after suffering humiliation at the hands of a drunken Norn in his youth, Fhlex soon became Rata Sum’s leading expert in his field.
After being inspired by the raw strength of Zojja’s golems, Fhlex initially attempted to overcome his physical weakness by creating a suit of armour that would drastically improve his strength, durability, and mobility, a feat in which he succeeded. Fhlex’s suit of armour is powered by the Eternal Alchemy itself, and uses a set of complex magic-powered Hydraulic contraptions in his arms and legs, that allow him to wield Great Swords and Hammers with incredible strength and dexterity. Indeed, the velocity in which he swings his hammer whilst in his suit cracks the Earth in ways far more impressive than any Elementalist can. Fhlex’s suit also boasts revolutionary anti-gravity devices which allow him to jump and ‘hang’ in mid-air whilst attacking, improving his fighting style by allowing him to incorporate a level of acrobatics previously unheard on in Asuran Martial Arts.
In short, Fhlex’s suit was a massively impressive success. In fact, the suit is so complex and revolutionary that to this day, Fhlex still possesses the only suit of its kind, for Fhlex is the only Asura with the level of genius to understand the blueprints, much to the Inquest’s dismay after a successful attempt at stealing his research.
But alas, Fhlex’s hunger for physical superiority over Tyria’s other races was yet to be satiated. Yes, he had created a suit of armour that would allow him to crush even a Norn’s skull, but what about when he took the suit off?
No, his success was unacceptable, and so he shifted his focus to the science of elixers. He experimented with rapid-growth enhancement formulas, amongst other things far complicated and dangerous than you and I could ever hope to comprehend. But Fhlex knew what he wanted: strength, powered by the Eternal Alchemy and totally improportionate to his physical body.
Test subjects were strictly forbidden by The Council, however, and so one night, desperate and alone, he drank his own elixer with both wonderful and terrible results.
Fhlex’s dreams had come true, for he was granted power beyond belief, even going so far as to breaking a Norn’s arm during an arm-wrestle. But with his new power came a grave side-effects, the most dangerous of which was a bloodlust that could never be sated.
Now, Fhlex had spent his whole life consumed and obsessed with the pursuit of power, but he was not an evil Asura.
After his side-effects had been officially diagnosed, he gathered his armour and left Rata Sum behind, to join The Vigil, where he could kill The Risen every day, putting his amazing strength and battle knowledge to good use, whilst feeding his bloodlust on enemies that always came back for more, no matter how many times he killed them.
Cheers all
P.S. just a reminded if you decide to reply to this thread, please, nobody wants to hear you cry about how you think the game sucks, cry elsewhere. I just want to hear the stories behind your brilliant characters
NOT ‘I had a toon calld hot4urmom he was a massive norn thieflol but we got nerfed so im a warriour now’.
(edited by Romeo.4378)