By the gods, it’s a night elven Diogenes!
It looks like he was caught in an explosion that blasted his hair off his head onto his face.
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Do you guys know what sort of Characters in Fiction I like?
I for instance like:
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Gandalf the Wizard from LotR
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Drexle the Wizard from the SNES LotR
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The Will of the Book of Darkness from Lyrical Nanoha(overpowered as she may be)
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The Darkness of the Book of Darkness Dearche from Lyrical Nanoha
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The True Darkness of the Book of Darkness Yuri Eberwein
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DiC Dub Wiseman from Sailor Moon(Voice and Appearance wise not in characterization)
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The Master of Whispers from Guild Wars
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The Transcendent One(the personification of the Nameless One’s Mortality) from Planescape Torment
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Archer from the Dark Crystal Age of Resistance
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Discord from MLP(which I barely ever watch)
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Queen of Chaos Hexadecimal from ReBoot
I seem to like the Old Traveling Wisemen and personifications of Forces beyond normality.
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I gave my soul to Cadence of Hyrule for the weekend to play the final update to the game and all its new content, and got all the achievements I wanted to:
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Reading that gave me a very “Sound of Music” vibe. So much so, I tried my hand at a verse. (For the sake of humor, not a lore point).
Like to hear it, here it goes:
Muradin Bronzebeard,
The dino, Rezan.
Maiev the Warden,
Goblins from Kezan.
Banshees who make jokes out of Human Kings.
Those are a few of my favorite things.
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Last month I had an -extremely- boring afternoon and ended up spending it thinking about themes that appealed to me in fantasy and why they did. Because that’s obviously a productive way to spend one’s idle time.
But to skip over the pointless navel-gazing I doubt anyone wants to read (because I could write a shameful number of words about myself), I realized that the appeal of the whole “misunderstood monster” thing I routinely kvetch about on the forum, for me, has its roots going way back to when I played the original Dragon Warrior/Quest games on the NES. They were just small bits, but the order of the games introducing-
DQ1: A sapient dragon villain
DQ2: Said dragon’s descendant making amends and offering friendship
DQ3: Friendly dragon assisting you
DQ4: Recruitable dragon party member
-must have really stuck with me as a kid more than I thought. It’s funny how random things at the right time can leave an impression on you.
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I’m sure I’ll astound everyone when I say I enjoy themes of Nature. The Ents and Green Elves from Tolkien, the Forest Spirit and kodama from Princess Mononoke, Xerneas from Pokémon, etc. Especially themes of Nature overcoming civilization, either through the long decay of time, or by actively striking back.
I can’t remember a specific point I started liking animals. I’d just always grown up with exotic pets (there are pictures knocking about with 3 or 4 year-old me with ball pythons, iguanas, even an emporer scorpion), until I moved in with my grandparents on their farm, with the assorted livestock. And I remember watching alot of David Attenborough and Steve Irwin with my grandpa. Sometimes Jeff Corwin, but he didn’t like him as much as Steve.
For plants, I do distinctly remember a point in my pre-teens when I first read LotR, and Treebeard’s line about the “dreams of sleeping trees” first made me stop and really consider how genuinely alive they are. TFW the Botani are more “misunderstood” than the Horde. I think it was about that time, too, when I learned that fungi are actually more closely related to animals than plants, and just came to a well-rounded respect for Nature in general.
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Y’all nerds are weird.
We’re all mad here 
Isn’t that just the Animated Hobbit Movie? The Novel just has them be Wood Elves… As in Elves that live in a vast cave under the Mountains of Mirkwood…
They are practically like Dwarves whose Mountains are in a Forest!
This treating civilization as something against Nature is an outrage to me! Beavers built dams, Birds build nests, Bees/Wasps build hives, Ants and Termites build colonies and Mammals build dens!
People treat all these species as Nature yet fail to grasp that their construction of homes is no different from Humanity’s construction of Homes.
Human Civilization is just as much a part of Nature as Termite, Bee and Ant Civilization!
Nature originates from words tied to Nurture and Birth.
Artificial originates from words tied to Artifice which in the original French means trick or ploy.
The notion that Human Civilization is an Artificial abomination against Nature is itself Artificial!
No, the Green Elves are from the Silmarillion. They were Denethor’s people, but after he died, they refused to take a new king, and went into hiding. After that, the only times they were really seen was after Men migrated into western Middle Earth and unknowingly started squatting in Green Elven lands. After Men befriended the High Elves, the Green Elves sent messengers to the High Elves telling them that the Men had been cutting down their trees, and hunting their beasts, and if the High Elves really liked them, they should take the Men somewhere else before the Green Elves started hunting them (which sounds vaguely similar to a certain WCIII race). After that, they went back into hiding, until the big feud between the Elves and Dwarves. After the Dwarves killed a Grey Elven king and pillaged his palace, the Green Elves ambushed them and killed most of their army, and drove the survivors deeper into the forest, where the Ents finished them off.
Really condensed, but that’s really about all they did, until they either died out, or were assimilated into the few surviving Elven kingdoms of the Second Age (and thus, weren’t around in the Third Age, during The Hobbit and LotR).
Wood Elves are yet another branch, related to the Grey and Green Elves (but closer to the Green).
In other news, since I’m apparently catching up on that, instead of sleeping:
https://www.wowhead.com/news=318798/chris-metzen-announces-warchief-gaming-tabletop-company
And, coincidentally:
https://critrole.com/announcing-darrington-press-our-game-publishing-company/
In other news: According to The Three Jokers ending Batman knew who the Comedian Joker’s name is one week after meeting him(not that it was hard since the guy blurted out his backstory near the end of Killing Joke with Edward Nygma confirming his name being Jack Napier).
Of course Batman treats Jack Napier(whose wife faked her death to get away from him according to The Three Jokers) as being the mastermind behind the creation of the the Criminal(the Golden Age Joker) and the Clown(Silver Age Joker). He clearly forgot that he threw Alfred Stryker into a tank of Acid!
It seems Batman encountered the Joker and within a week discovered the existence of Jack Napier who abused his wife and was on speaking terms with the Red Hood Gang and was later recruited by them.
He immediately assumed Jack Napier was the true Joker based on that information without looking into Alfred Stryker at all.
If Alfred Stryker is the Golden Age Joker then the whole Red Hood Gang took advantage of the scared wife of a lunatic working for Stryker’s old company to get both the lunatic and the Clown into a tank of Acid through the Red Hood Incident thus providing him with a clever Backstory for Batman to eat up keeping him from the truth.
Jack Napier recklessly assumes the Clown is going to be permanently dead thanks to Jason Todd yet if the Clown is the Joker that attained Dionesium(heavily implied) then he will probably be back and get ideas to resurrect the Criminal!
Once the Clown and Criminal watch Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd long enough they will figure out that Batman knows who the Comedian is and that he made assumptions about Jack Napier being the mastermind of everything(rather than the unwitting pawn of the Clown and the Criminal) then start guffawing at Batman’s ignorance at their identities.
Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd lack the level of secrecy of Batman so word of the Comedian’s identity being known will come out one way or another which will lead into the mystery of the true Joker’s identity not Joker number 3’s identity which was known for years.
BEHOLD
I have regained my natural skin tone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGtIPd8yDk
N’Zoth’s interaction with Garrosh shows rage at him for using the Y’Shaarj’s Gifts as a weapon. Truly Garrosh’s maintaining his free will is still a thing as far as Blizzard is concerned!
Just noticed: Y’Shaarj’s attack in Hearthstone(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hearthstone_gamepedia/images/2/22/Y%27Shaarj%2C_the_Defiler_full.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20201023194109) resembles the Color of Apocalypse which has the ability to inflict the Vices according to Artifact Lore…
The Unholy Death Knights’ Artifact Weapon might for all we know be the Claw of Y’Shaarj traded to the Dreadlords in exchange for Xal’atath(who seems likely to be a Naaru reforged by the Nathrezim into a Blade in the Tower of Unseen Guests)!
I thought for a moment Chris Metzen was making yet another video game company and that baffled me
Yeah, from the sound of it, he’s pretty much done with video games. Unless there was a way he could manage to keep it small and indie.
Let’s see, themes i like outside of subverting overdone tropes…
Nature themes. Not the hippy type, but the survival of the fittest type.
Elves or aliens with a non-relatable morality. Sometimes just plain evil. Bonus points if they are appropriately smug.
Exploration for the sake of Exploration.
Humans being actual underdogs. See babylon 5.
Religious zealots
Psionics (yes, get that old book out)
Heavy philosophy topics with very deep lore.
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Loa revered by the great Gurubashi
Vol’jin and Sen’jin and Siame-Quashi
Answering calls when the Earthen Ring rings
These are a few of my favorite things
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I actually don’t wholly disagree (having used similar arguments before against overly zealous conservationism). Though, I don’t entirely agree, either.
But I did eventually remember this that my DnD group sent me a while back.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613598356954152961/770904306722275358/dungeons-and-dragons-classes-04.jpg
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