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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2368715" data-attributes="member: 7280">Ok, my new character is almost done. Just trying to work over the magic items (which I think I'm going to need people more accustomed to designing the complex ones look over) and derive the numbers/tweak things that I think need tweaking.Here's the teaser and background information, which I shall replace with badass wizardry once I'm more comfortable with the character. On the advice of our "Good doesn't have a spellcaster" I introduce Mr. Wizard 30.BackgroundAalim Maalik (Ah-LEEM mah-LEEK) is older than legends, some mountains, even some gods. In the depths of history Aalim Maalik was one of the first mages to journey to the other planes of existence, to master his craft, and to anger the gods and incur their punishment. Before the youngest of races drew first breath, Aalim Maalik created some of the first laws that the world had ever known by journeying to the outer planes and taking the essence of lawfulness into the wilderness. He forged a city there, creating language and culture marveled at by all and regarded with jealousy by the forces of evil. Being neither a saint nor an appeaser, Aalim Maalik made no treaties with the good gods and discouraged their worship. When the proto-demigod Venalvee attacked his grand city though, Aalim Maalik was infuriated at the forces of good and lawfulness. After banishing the deity to his home plane, he set out upon a mission of vengeance and fury upon Celestia. His madness was pure; his purpose was clear, his mightiness unquestionable; but the forces of good vanquished him and placed upon him a powerful Binding. Centuries passed, and the prison that Aalim Maalik resided in was forgotten by all in the time it took to reduce his once great city to dust and ashes. Great kings and heroes came to meet their dooms seeking to plunder his prison, and spellcasters of great wisdom sought him out to seek his counsel.  Stuck in his ageless confinement, Aalim Maalik tempered his fury if not his supreme arrogance. His created servant Melkaa (mel-KAH) brought him news and items from the outside world, albeit slowly and ponderously. Of course, when the world began to end Melkaa was out. Aalim Maalik’s prison was an ancient impenetrable castle in a stabilized zone between the intersections of the elemental planes. To the abominable monstrosities that walked through it though, it was little more than a stepping stone to larger things. Thankfully, at least, the goodly beings who imprisoned the imperious mage designed his Binding so that if his life were truly in great peril his imprisonment would be finally over. Gathering a small portion of the horde of magic items a powerful, extremely bored mage can manage to make over millennia Aalim Maalik was happy enough to escape his prison some small moments before it was reduced to rubble.Remember what gets Aalim Maalik really mad again? Oh yeah, it’s messing up his stuff.He doesn’t care if they’ve killed gods or not, those bastards are gonna pay. AppearanceAalim Maalik looks very much like what he is most definitely not, ordinary.  In fact he doesn’t particularly look much like anyone’s preconceived notions of what a mighty wizard from before time should look like. Except when he’s wearing his full regalia of magic items he tends to look like someone’s dad perhaps, or maybe a baker or accountant. His sandy brown and gray hair, nondescript brown eyes, the softly wrinkled lines of his somewhat-darker-than-is-usual face, and portly pot-belly just don’t scream WIZARD to most people. In fact, some people fail to notice him at all when Melkaa is present. Giant hulking constructs stained with eons worth of bloodstains and repaired damage are just more impressive.PersonalityAalim Maalik is quiet from eons of imprisonment, but when he does choose to talk it is from the certainty of a man convinced of his own godlike ability and self-importance. He has anachronistic habits and attitudes, tends to refer to things that happened thousands of years ago as if they were still happening, and might comfortably be called a dinosaur if it weren’t for his essential brilliance. More than anything else though Aalim Maalik believes in rules, not prissy rules concerned with the welfare of old people but hard, concrete rules that younger, less intelligent beings just can’t understand. He spouts them off occasionally when he thinks he’s doing you a favor. A lot of them though, basically revolve around not touching the mean magi’s things and why Baleful Polymorph is an appropriate response for waking up a millions of years old wizard before 9am.</blockquote>

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