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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ozmar" data-source="post: 2485697" data-attributes="member: 8021">The Party So FarApologies if I missed anyone, but I think we have so far...Mista Collins: DMOzmar: Boromar - warforged scoutShaggySpellsword: Tel Montayne - half-elf rangerJarval: Glaw - warforged rangerjkason: Midian Rightson - human druidFerrix: Teivel ir'Torn - human swashbucklerVerbatim: Patruk Sivid - human necromancerKrug: Plonk - gnome arificerComments:   A scout and two rangers? Cool! We'll have tracking down for sure, since my character took the Track feat also. (It seemed to fit...)  jkason - Cool choice for an animal companion!Boromar has probably spent some time with each of your characters. We may have shared classes, collaborated on research projects, played on sports teams (if that is applicable to this university?)  or just discussed the world in the student commons. As Boromar doesn't sleep, he has twice as much time to discuss issues with others, and he is very gregarious (for a warforged) and eager to talk with anyone who is willing to share a conversation.Relations with other PCs:Tel Montayne - Boromar does not instinctively grasp human social classes and finds their interactions endlessly fascinating. The best analogy he has been able to develop is that human nobility is some kind of superior design, like advanced warforged created for leadership roles. He finds Tel's interactions with upper class students fascinating, and doesn't understand why Tel seems to disdain the rank and privilege he is obviously designed for. Boromar and Tel have had many conversations about human society, and the warforged has come to see Tel as a good friend and an expert on human relations.Glaw - Boromar feels very comfortable with his fellow warforged. Depending on Glaw's age and/or previous military rank, Boromar feels either superior or deferential towards him. (That is, if Glaw is younger and/or of a higher rank, then Boromar sees him as a superior model and defers to his presumedly greater skill. If Glaw is older and/or of a lower rank, then Boromar considers him to be somewhat outdated, and realizes that he is more skilled in tracking and scouting.) In any case, Boromar likely appreciates Glaw for their shared experiences, backgrounds, and (I'm guessing) interests. It is always nice to have someone who is familiar, and Glaw (who may be the only other warforged in the university?) is a comfortable friend. They have probably had endless conversations about the nature of Nature. (Note that Boromar also has 4 ranks in Know-nature, so he's clearly interested and educated in the subject.)Midian Rightson - Boromar knows him from the class they took together under Byless Delavert. Boromar may not know of (or understand) the druid's family dilemnas, but they have a shared appreciation for the natural world. Depending on the druid's beliefs, they may have had many conversations about the place of warforged in the Natural world. Boromar's thinking is that warforged are not originally part of Nature (they were clearly created by House Cannith) but that they are Bound up in, and consequently now a part of Nature. After all, they can die, as all natural things do. And (as Boromar believes) they live and think and (perhaps) have souls, as all natural things do.Incidentally, to which druidic tradition does Byless Delavert (and presumably, Midian Rightson) belong?Patruk Sivid - Boromar finds his experience fascinating. Although other students may be repelled by Patruk's interests, Boromar feels only the same detached excitement he feels with all new ideas. He is intrigued that a living human died and was brought back to life, and draws parallels between that and the "birth" of warforged, which are also lifeless, and then given life by some magical process. Boromar wonders what parallels may be drawn, and how undead (which he fought against during the war) fit into the picture - are they alive, or in some magically-enhanced state? Common wisdom says they are "unlife", and yet what does that mean for warforged? If corpses can be brought to a semblance of life by magic, then are warforged also some "semblance" of life? Are they truly alive? Or are they merely a facsimilie? These and similar conversations likely kept Patruk and Boromar up long into the night between exams.Plonk - Boromar doesn't really "dislike" Plonk - he doesn't dislike anyone - but he doesn't find much about the gnome that interests him. It sounds like Plonk has interest in Boromar, and the warforged doesn't mind being the object of his curiousity, and will endlessly answer his questions. He'll even let Plonk repair him (if the occasion ever arrives in the university), but he doesn't want Plonk to experiment on him. Boromar has probably seen too many science experiments of Plonk's explode, and doesn't want to suffer the same fate. Although Boromar is interested in most things, "scientific" inventions like Plonks are lowest on his list. Boromar's chief interests are exploring new lands and cultures, the natural world, and philosophical inquiries about life and meaning.Teivel ir'Torn - Teivel sounds like a popular, athletic, and not very studious fellow. Boromar has no interest in physical pursuits (he can't get fat by being lazy, and doesn't get fit by exercising) but he is obviously superior in athletic competition. Teivel might have talked him and Glaw into playing on his team to gain competitive advantages. I can see Teival being the kind of party guy who keeps the warforged strung along as pals that he can talk into any scheme he has in mind. If so, Boromar would definitely be susceptible to that kind of charm. Otherwise, Teival did not interest him much, and Boromar knows him only in passing.Ozmar the Sociologist</blockquote>

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