As i write my TRP i always get stuck at the family dynamic my character has gone through. everyone comes from someone but who made who? who made you?
what family does your character have?
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Much like most in this perilous world of Azeroth, my deathknight had it rough growing up (when he was alive).
Son to Grundig Darkcloud and Cedar Slatehoof of the Grimtotem tribe in Darkcloud Pinnacle, Ebow’ji Darkcloud has many brothers and sisters… albeit scattered throughout the lands of the Tauren, almost all of which he never was able to meet, due to the father having multiple families.
Grundig was killed by adventurers of Azeroth (this is a horde quest in vanilla wow in stonetalon), and Cedar was killed when Ebow’ji was very young, at 6 years old.
She died defending Ebow’ji from a Quilboar champion, but was ultimately killed in the process, right before his eyes.
So ya.
That old chestnut.
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There are currently about 4 different characters I may rp on this and some other Monks. All are related in some way to another creation of mine, the Cloudpaw Shao’din; a collective of Pandaren martial clans.
Two of these are Zhaoyang and Pingyang, daughter and mother. Both have great enthusiam for martial science, with Pingyang as a teacher in the way of the monk and Zhaoyang as one of her former students. I always saw Pingyang as being a supportive parent, encouraging her daughter and giving her space when she thinks it necessary.
Next there is Liangyu, of the Wintergale clan, vassals of the Winterclaw clan and collectively vassals of the Cloudpaw. I haven’t written much about her relationship with her family specifically. I suspect she’d be under some pressure to succeed, as I did write a prestigious legacy for her family, but otherwise there were other things I felt would be more interesting about her background to focus on.
There is even less interesting about the fourth one, Ngo-Kwang’s upbringing. She did have a son who was abducted after a destructive event and later used as tool to coerce her into being an assassin, however. She never truly learned his fate and now assumes he’s dead. I assume such events may inform her present disposition, given that she is inwardly gloomy and somewhat suicidal.
There two other cases that might be interesting to note. First is with my Pandaren Death Knight, Yun, once an heir of the forementioned Winterclaw Clan. The Winterclaw were assassins with close ties to the elements, and as the clan’s oldest heir, Yun was expected to be something of an exemplar of their ideals. While her parents weren’t too hard on her despite this, I imagine that pressure remained to some extent. Combined with the traits of her occupation, her upbringing likely contributed to the stoic remorseful warrior-noble she currently is.
There is also Keermiel Lightriver, one of my Highborne Mages. A big part of her backstory entails a grand political plot with her mother to manipulate her way into higher power. I think of two at this point as being so consumed by the pursuit of power that little else had value, which is further informed by the arguably extreme methods they resorted to in order to make their plan viable. Since the War of the Ancients, Keermiel has mellowed, and her mother became a Naga. The latter’s madness only got worse and the two occasionally clash in their individual pursuits, with Keermiel harboring a sense of responsibility for her.
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Halandor had a Thalassian elf father and a Lordaeronian human mother. He was raised within a loving marriage and his father was active in trying to train him to become a priest.
He has an older sister from that marriage, and later, he found out that his father had once been married to a woman in Quel’thalas and had a son with her. That wife died bearing their second child into the world, and he fled Quel’thalas, roaming the human kingdoms before settling down in Corin’s Crossing and marrying Hal’s mother. He is connected to his half brother, who serves with him in the Argent Crusade. His sister wants nothing to do with either of them.
Halandor’s father has recently been found to be a Death Knight, and his mother has been among the Forsaken since the Fall of Lordaeron.
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I am a Wildhammer Dwarf of Arie Peak. Was born a couple centuries ago ((I am in my 200s)) to a lovely dwarven couple. Who themselves moved there from Grim Batol after what happened there. My Father was quite strict and we didn’t quite get along when I was little. He was a survivalist and a Troll hunter. He tried to teach me about the land and how to survive off it.
It wasn’t until after I had run away to join a “merchant Vessel” only to become shipwrecked on Kalimdore that I realized how much he’d taught me. By the time I returned home both my parents were gone and my younger brother had become Thane of our clan. So I never got to thank them for giving me the foundation I needed to survive in an unknown land.
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“I never new my Father!!” T.T
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Something to keep in mind is that family dynamics will affect the person your character has become. An orphan who had to fend for themself at a young age will be a wildly different adult than someone who was raised in a loving family. For that reason I tend to avoid my characters having super grimdark family dynamics, and if I do I’m very careful about what I divulge. You don’t know what your fellow RPers have experienced IRL. Always avoid graphic depictions or descriptions of ab*se. I wish I didn’t have to say that, but common sense ain’t so common.
Selrien Stormrunner is roughly 500 years old. Her mother, Keilya Stormrunner, was a young adult when the Sundering happened, and later became a Sentinel and then an Admiral in the Kaldorei Navy. Selrien’s father, Enrin Evenshadow, was a Druid of the Fin who taught Selrien druidic magic despite the Cenarion Circle’s historic exclusion of women from its ranks. Sel also had an older half-sister, Alanea Stormrunner, who was a Sister of Elune and older than Sel by over 1000 years.
Since Selrien grew up on ships, travelling to Night Elf settlements all over Kalimdor (and later to other places across Azeroth) I RP that she was raised communally with the other sailors who made her strong and confident, and taught her the value of working hard as a team.
Her father was lost to the Nightmare about ten years ago. Her sister died when Teldrassil burned, and her mother died fighting in Darkshore. So, happy childhood that ended in tragedy, which also gives me something in common with a lot of other Nelf RPers.
In contrast, my goblin Sazzaxxi (who I’m still working on) is a Steamwheedle born and raised in Booty Bay, where you have to learn to fend for yourself very quickly. She was very poor and was pitted against her brothers and sisters which made her extremely competitive, resourceful and cutthroat. I’d love for her to have PC relatives bopping around but from what I’ve seen there’s not a lot of goblin RPers anyway, so I’m happy for her to just be hanging out for the minute.
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Her parents met when Lianna rescued Drahlan from a bug insurgence in the territory we know today as Silithus.
Drahliana was born a few years before the Alliance landing on Kalimdor. So she is young enough never to have known the immortality her people once posessed.
Drahlan was doing research fishing for the temple of Elune in the harbor of Auberdine when Deathwing passed over the harbor. His small boat was dashed against the rocks, killing him instantly.
Lianna would die years later herding refugees and working to save people during the Burning of Teldrassil. She occasionally haunts her daughter as a wisp.
She has no siblings. Up until the time of their deaths, Drahliana maintained good if infrequent relations with her parents who made their home a cove just around the trunk of Teldrassil from Ru’theran Village.
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Killed during the fall of Gilneas. They tossed him a gun and told him to escort refugees while they stayed behind. Both mauled by worgen.
Later in life he switched over in favor of a bow after learning archery from kaldorei