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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharivious_Meliamne" data-source="post: 2558549">Excellent topic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Hmm, character flaws / quirks.... Let me see, I'll only handle one, as his is a long and twisted history:ThariviousAs some of you who know him might or might not know, Tharivious wasn't always the same as he is now.  When I first brought him here, he came straight from my local table top campaign.Now, in the campaign, he was a neutral evil assassin, the favored of a very evil goddess, and a cruel, and mean spirited individual.  He held very few limits back then, but, there was a reason for this: He was driven over the edge by his life.His family was killed by a horde of goblins before the campaign began.  He got stuck with a group in the campaign that made him miserable.  He wound up dealing with the ones responsible for the death of his family, but his revenge was taken away from him by one of the other party members.  Cut to a time when he left the campaign: He found someone who he thought was the love of his life.  He made a few friends, and eventually found his way back to the campaign.  Shortly after ( In a part of his story line that I've altered a bit to rationalize the situation better ), his wife at the time started to make him miserable.  This  drove him further over the edge.  His friends betrayed him eventually, and then there's the matter of his guild in Dykal ( Nugan's campaign setting ).  He wound up stuck working for Nugan of all people ( Thus his hatred for him ), and eventually lost his guild to him.Now for his current faults.He hates necromancy in almost all of it's forms.  He views undead as being nothing more than something that needs to be destroyed.  He deems liches to be the worst of them, and though he doesn't attack them on sight as he used to, he does view them with an immense amount of distrust and will not be likely to interact kindly with them, even the rare good liches ( Like the Baelnorn and Archlich of Faerun )  This stems from his family's slaughter at the hands of the horde, it was led by a necromancer who later became a lich.  Because of the things he went through, he's gotten accustomed to evil being around him.  He's used to it, and it doesn't bother him like it should.  He doesn't react to evil like a normal good character would, simply because he's been so desensitized to it by his past that it doesn't register.  He's normally easy going and relaxed, usually just observing things and watching what happens around him.That's not to say he's a pushover by any means, as there are ways to really set him off, anyone who's seen him be set off already knows what those are:  If anyone threatens the people he cares about directly, he reacts as harshly as the trained killer that he was for so long should.  He may be one of the 'good guys' but he doesn't hold back when something threatens those he cares about.  I'm sure that some who witnessed him literally erupt in anger one day in the tavern due to someone boasting that they had kidnapped Morgana and were holding her at their home.  When something like that hits him, he tends to forget the limits that morals can place on someone's actions, and that can of course lead to problems for him and those close to him.  Although he did polarize the room during that eruption, into his favor for the most part.And of course Nugan can set him off with just about a single sentence at most times, simply because Tharivious only wants a reason to kill Nugan, since no longer being evil he doesn't actively seek anyone's death unprovoked.  Although he's taken to a more mock and mock back battle with Nugan as of late.Add to that his usual silence.  He's a trained assassin, he knows how to keep quiet, and he's used to silence being his constant friend.  He's quiet because of habit, but as many who know him have learned, when there is a reason for him to be talkative, he can hold his own in a conversation.  Those are only the one's that I've made obvious thus far, there are others that I keep secret until the situation where they come forth shows itself.~ Tharivious Meliamne's player</blockquote>

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