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Originally Posted by Folwren
Nogrod, are you keeping up with this? Are we imagining Athanar wrong, or something? It really amuses me how different people view different characters in RPGs...especially the disparity between the writer's view of their character and other reader's view of a same character.
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I kind of like this tension arising from different perspectives on different characters in the story.
Lord Athanar sure is more or less a blank paper still as he's such a new character. What is said of him in the BIO will hopefully stand - and I have discussed the personalities of Athanar and Wynflaed and their relationship with
Mnemo - thus we have some more info on them which I think we're not willing to give up as such. Not that there is a grand conspiracy awaiting you or any great surprises. Just things of their history & background to guide us into writing them and hopefully becoming "flesh and blood" here in the story.
So what happens in the next months will surely be decisive for the molding of lord Athanar's character. I gave myself only one rule of thumb in the beginning, which I have and will follow quite intuitively: the more resistance there is the nobler and the more reasonable I will write him - and the smoother the things would go, the viler person I'd write him to be. So the balance of dramatic tension has been my guiding star.
Right now I think I have gotten him somewhat to the noble and reasonable side of things as it clearly has not been a warm welcome or obedient and respectful welcome to someone appointed to the place by the king himself.
But what comes will decide his personality and there are still I think many things that we can't yet see to decide that... like how would he react to her daughter being beaten in like two hours from their arrival?
On an unrelated matter: I just love the way the tensions, the strong feelings, the struggle shown all around the Mead Hall... are intercepted with Lilige and Wynflaed speculating on different gowns and just living in a world of their own! That's absolutely hilarious and at the same time thought-provoking!
I'm going to post for lord Athanar a short post but he probably shouldn't notice the fight between Aedre and Javan. It would be better if Lilige or Coen took Aedre to Wynflaed and Athanar learned the thing only later. Otherwise we'd have such heated posting and the whole place exploding that we'd reach the welcoming banquet at Christmas-time the earliest... if there would be one any more...
