Tell me about your character :]

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Bruce was a poor blacksmith from Westfall who picked up one of his well-crafted sledgehammers when the Legion destroyed his home and family (during the Legion Invasion prepatch event).

He went from Warrior to Paladin over the years and has become a zealot against all demons, including Warlocks and Demon Hunters who claim to be on his side. He doesn’t care about the factions or other races in general. He just wants all demons (and their friends) to be dead. This includes his new red Draenei allies.

I don’t roleplay but I love Moon Guard and seeing everyone else’s RP profiles.

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That’s a tortoise.

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Doyle Thomas Dracarian at your service!
/bows

Now in his late 40s, Doyle finds himself back in Gilneas after the reclamation, sifting through 15 years of dirt, cobwebs, and rodent corpses in the home his Great Grandfather built. Most of the furnishings stolen and broken pictures are the the result of the forsaken invasion so many years ago. Doyle is a clockmaker, like his father Seamus, and his father Jaime before him. He would spend countless hours as a lad learning how to assemble and disassemble everything from clocks to weapons.

His sister Katherine was a Blacksmith and worked at Greymane Manor in the stable shoeing horses and fixing the 3 stage coaches under the estate. During the great sundering, the ground shook violently in Duskhaven and the farm she was helping at that day on the south-western shore broke loose and plummeted into the Great Sea. She was his last family connection, lost and missing all these years.

Doyle loved more than tech, he also had an affinity for nature, and learned the ways of the Harvest Witch from his mother Claire-Anne. She was a healer among the witches, but could not outrun the fever that forced Gilneas to be walled up, thanks to some very dangerous and unwanted neighbors. She passed when he was only 17, and he lost his father just a few years later to what was presumably a broken heart.

Now, in his 48th year, he finds himself longing for a home that no longer exists. Never married, and no children to speak of, this is all he has left. A small home in a long forgotten and run down realm. He found love only once, but she was betrothed to another and his family had enough gold to fill a stagecoach. He could never compete, and would not stand in her way. She understood and knew the marriage would help her entire family, and not just herself.

Now adays, he finds himself hopping aboard the first boat he finds just to see where it will take him. There is always a new adventure on the horizon, no matter the number of seasons he has already been through, there are just as many ahead.

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my character simply is.

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I don’t RP in WoW, but I’ve been a table-top RPGer almost all my life (started in elementary school, I’m 55 now) so all of my characters have “head canon” stories.

Ashnazg has no memory of his life before his ordeal at the Black Temple with Illidan. Enchanting comes easy to him, and he thinks he might have provided enchantment services in a small kaldorei village before the Burning Legion destroyed it, but that’s the sum of what he knows of his pre-Illidari life. He doesn’t even remember his actual name.

When he was going through his ordeal at the Black Temple, in the midst of his fevered nightmares, he would yell out for a ring, or the ring. He has no idea what ring he was yelling out for, or why it was evidently so important to him. The fel orcs at the Black Temple began calling him “ash nazg” - “one ring” in their demon-tainted orcish tongue - and it stuck. He’s called himself Ashnazg ever since.

The demon hunter story is well known at this point, and Ashnazg was a card-carrying, kool-aid drinking true believer. Eventually, he rose up through their ranks, reaching the position of “Slayer” and leading the Illidari in Illidan’s absence. He made good friends with First Arcanist Thalyssra and the Nightfallen of Shal’Aran, who accepted him as he was (unlike the snooty elves of Val’Sharah who were offended by the choices he made to save his people), and he planned to take up a quiet life there after the Legion was defeated. Unfortunately, the shal’dorei - including the Nightfallen - joined with the Horde. Ashnazg left Shal’Aran and Suramar and has not looked back… while he feels betrayed by the Nightfallen, he still rides his trusty Arcanist’s Manasaber, a gift from First Arcanist Thalyssra, to this day.

With the defeat of the Burning Legion, the Illidari as an organized group are no longer required. So Ashnazg now goes where he’s needed, fighting with and for the Alliance… and sometimes even alongside the Horde. But he will always distrust the shal’dorei.

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Oh, oh! You watch The Thing when you were really young and haven’t gotten over it??! :upside_down_face::face_with_peeking_eye::face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

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The mega condensed version for Rosenivy. They were born a chick and were from a pretty “comfortably rich” family. Mom wasn’t in the picture. Dad was a Blood Knight and wanted his kid to be a mage. They also set up an arranged marriage.

Rosenivy wasn’t having any of that so learned to summon a Imp since they can be invisible. And set up a accidental death for their set up husband.

“But why are they a dude now?” Folks ask. Well after that super Azerite laser in BfA against Nzoth. Rosenivy’s body was basically breaking down from way too much power. Azeroth pretty much went “Oh thanks for getting rid of that. Here let me just put you in some rock for a second so I can make you a new body”. So hey. Planetary HRT lol. ( Rosenivy is a lil similar to Pelagos. They weren’t aware they were trans until they got a new body and experienced Gender Euphoria )

There is way more to this ol character of mine. But I’ve been pondering their story since 08. There is a lot lol

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You stole it from a clown?

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You popped out of that oven as a tiny bread roll, but look at you now, a whole loaf!

:wink:

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Something something… I was an unnamed batman villain :joy:

Joker gif, name based off the riddler… :smiling_face_with_tear:

Just ask sylvana where she got her scars :joy:

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Just want to say great art at the top, OP, and one of the most well intended and best resulting threads I’ve seen in a minute.

Kudos. :clinking_glasses:

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There used to be a few kind folks who would do free character art for fellow forum goers, in their own unique styles. I unironically love these.


I’ve never been a serious RPer, but over the years I’ve built up a few vague little head canon details about Magnarok. Like that they have no specific gender. And that came about because for a while I kept changing my mind about it, and paid for more character redesigns than I can remember in order to swap back and forth. Then I learned about the Transmorphic Tincture item and had a stockpile of that. The barbershop option was a godsend! But for me the player, neither option feels more the correct version of Magnarok than the other. So yeah, the head canon became that however they were born they have used various magics for most of their life in order to change gender as suits them. Also with the upcoming pointy ears for humans I’ve decided they are now a quarter high elf thanks to one of their grandfathers. Which I realised also kind of works as a nod to this character’s origin, in that they were the blood elf mage I created back when TBC launched.

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While I get your point (you’re right that a nice number of people do have little headcanons regarding their characters)… I don’t, actually.

As far as I’m concerned, Watermist is basically an extension of me. She’s a dorky nerd who likes being nice (as my grandmom always said, “It’s nice to be nice”).

That being said, there are exactly two characters that I have a tiny little background for:

My female Forsaken Mage and my female Human Hunter.

Sometime into WoD (for context, I’ve had the Mage since Vanilla and the Human Hunter since the Cata pre-patch), it dawned upon me…

They’re first cousins! (Don’t ask me which side of the family. Haven’t figured that out.)

Dority is, like, one of two members of their family to have escaped the Scourge due to the dumb luck of being in Stormwind on a work-related trip (the whole family’s farmers).

And that’s pretty much it. :woman_shrugging:t3:

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I guess my only character that has any backstory is my Priest and that is because I cranked out the dark ranger appearance just for him to be the “Void/Vampire/San’layn” Priest because I wanted to play Disc/Shadow from the jump when I created him.

I love hearing people’s stories about their characters though. It’s truly entertaining.

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Imgur

She leg tired :slight_smile:

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PLEASE keep these answers coming I’m having such a fun time reading them!!!

LOL I love this philosophy. I wish her the absolute best.

Big fan of a “humble beginnings” style of character!

This is so tragic… I love a star-crossed lovers narrative aw. I love the depth of attention you’ve put into your character’s backstory!!

Hahaha I love the way you’ve taken a lotr reference name and made it make sense in the lore—really creative!!

Ooo >:) We do a little mariticide!

Thank you on both accounts. :] I love to see people’s creativity—and to hopefully encourage folks who don’t usually think about this kind of thing to maybe give it a little thought and have some fun with it.

LMFAO these are great, I have a few like this myself!!

Any amount of backstory, big or small, is fun!! I like this little flavor you’ve added into your world (of warcraft)

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There is only one toon I even try to RP on that is my mage Xyrei. She had to be exalted with the Kirin Tor since she is a mage.

This toon just sits on her Butt in SW hording gold.

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hi
im swarf
ima nub
i hit stuff
sup

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She misses her house and her hoverboard.

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:sparkles: I’M A MAGIC DRAGON! :sparkles:

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