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Old 02-27-2011, 01:15 PM   #66
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Yay! We have a playwright! Welcome aboard, phantom!

And here's my bio.

NAME: Coldan.

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 25, male, Man of Dorwinion*.

APPEARANCE: A few inches short of medium height, of stocky, heavy build; greyish eyes and short, thick, dark hair; speaks Westron with a marked accent and may occasionally be mistaken for an Easterling by ignorant Gondorians (much to his annoyance).

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Son of a wine merchant with long-standing trade connections to Esgaroth and the Wood-elven realm of Mirkwood, Coldan was supposed to inherit the family business, but his father's attempts to train him have been largely unsuccessful, as he's fond enough of wine but no good at all with numbers. He has a vivid imagination and a certain talent with words, both inherited from his maternal great-grandfather, who was court bard to some Dorwinian lord.
A few years ago, while accompanying his father delivering a shipment of wine to Dale, he had a chance to watch the Players performing and instantly decided that his true calling was the stage (it probably helped that he developped a huge crush on Asta - if that's OK with you, Nerwen). After a bitter quarrel with his dad (who promptly disinherited him) he stayed behind in Dale and joined the troupe.
It was soon discovered that his acting is too wooden for a substantial role, so he tends to get only minor parts, and his chief responsibility is prompting. His true ambition, however, is to write a historic tragedy, The Fall of King Bladorthin, and see it performed by the Players some day; he's been 'working' on it for a number of years (or so he claims), but due to his lack of discipline, the only parts written down up to now are a list of dramatis personae and a fragmentary prologue.

*I'm going with the theory (presented on this site) that Dorwinion - situated on the north-western coast of the Sea of Rhûn - used to be a province of Gondor during the height of its power, but was cut off by the expansion of the Wainriders and subsequently became an autonomous kingdom, and that the mysterious King Bladorthin mentioned in The Hobbit was one of its rulers. Its later history is largely unknown, but we know from TH it was still independent and West-oriented enough to trade with Esgaroth and Thranduil's people in Bilbo's time. I suppose the Dorwinians, like the kingdoms of Dale and Erebor, were attacked by Easterling forces under Sauron's sway during the War of the Ring and just barely managed to resist until Sauron was overthrown. Several of Coldan's elder male relatives would have fought in the war and told him about it, but of the bigger events in Rohan, Gondor and Mordor he has only heard the vaguest of rumours.
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