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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5678079" data-attributes="member: 5948">There's a dwarf NPC in the game I run who is named after a character in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2.  His name is Goreth Vileblack, and he's ... a barman.  After seeing the name in the game, I wondered how hard it'd be to be born into a surname like 'Vileblack', and to have lifelong ambitions of being, say, a florist.  Destiny can be a bugger.  And people are SO UNWILLING to give you a job once you've introduced yourself!Goreth Vileblack currently runs the tavern in Farshore, and regales his customers with gloomy anecdotes about his extended family members, like Dral Vileblack the vampire, or Thorson Vileblack, whose raiders destroyed the ancient elven Crystal Tree and used the shard to decorate cheap and shabby weapons to sell to gullible humans, or Jaggrad Vileblack, the infamous magesmith who sought lichdom rather than see his hammer arm weaken with age, or Tarnet Vileblack, who betrayed the ancient and unconquered deephold of Varakan to the hobgoblins in order to destroy her hated husband and all his family, etc etc etc.Some of these family members have/will show up to cause trouble of course, but Goreth has seemingly resisted the tug of his name.  So far...</blockquote>