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Asfaloth

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Esteemed Denizens of the Illustrious White Tower,

;)

 

I would like to introduce you all to the blacksmithing Tower Guard, Anwashawn Ellasser.

 

It occurred to me recently that in the ~four years or so that he's been at the Tower he has only met two Aes Sedai in rps, one of whom is no longer playing here.

 

So, I would like to offer Shawn up for rping with any of you.  If any of you are planning a trip out of the Tower and need an escort, or if you just want to interact on a personal level, or if there is some other way in which Shawn can be of assistance, please let me know.

 

Thank you!

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I liked your idea of going out of Tar Valon on some mission, though I don't know which that might be yet. I am a little puzzled by your bio though, if you don't mind me asking? Unless I have missunderstood, Shawn came to the Tower at 16 to start his training, yet the second part says something along the lines of 'after finishing his training he became part of the elite Tower Guard and then continued his blacksmith training which he finished in four years' and yet his current age on the latest update is 20? Did he get bombarded to elite Tower Guard on the day of his arrival at the WT? Or how did that go?

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hmm.....well that would actuually be a typo that I thought I fixed before I submitted the update but apparently forgot to fix.  The age is correct, but it was two years as a trainee and then when he became a TG he spent the next two years continuing his smith training making him twenty when he finished his Masterpeice.

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ah I see :D

 

Would you like us to RP alone or with others? Up side with more is that it might be more fun, downside is that there's more chance of the rp getting stalled when players don't post regularly. I'm good either way.

 

Also, I can play Carina in retro, as a normal Aes Sedai, maybe even right after she's raised or only a few years after, if you would like there to be less of an age difference. She's 205 at the time of her becoming Head and in the main storyline.

 

As for plot idea.... *thinks* ... got a few things she might do.

 

- go visit her old family up in Baerlon and visit the site where her birthparents lived. There might be records kept there, hidden somewhere, about their life, which she could try to find. As element of danger, there could be reports of Whitecloacks in the area, which would explain the need for a guard to accompany her.

 

- she receives a report from her eyes & ears (as Head) that one of the Accepteds she expected to go Brown, that ran away has been spotted in one of the Bordeland countries and goes out to bring her back to the Tower. While they are there, a Trolloc attack occurs and she and Shawn join in the defense.

 

- A rumor came to her about men being able to talk to wolves and of one such man being kept prisoner by some villagers somewhere. She sets out to study this man and ends up saving him from being hanged for a darkfriend from Whitecloaks and they get to meet his wolf friends as she and Shawn travel with the man for a while on their way back to the Tower.

 

 

If you have some ideas, please feel free to post them. I'm pretty open to anything :)

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oh great ideas!!

 

Let's see......first of all I think doing it in the present instead of retro might be best cus otherwise for continuity reasons I would have top assume Shawn was dead in the main plotline and I don't really want to do that.  Besides, as Aes Sedai go they're almost all going to think of Shawn as a child relative to them so just how much older won't really matter too much.

 

Any of those ideas could work though I think my favorite would be the third.  This could even allow Shawn and Burrich to meet (as writer I'd love to have any of my characters meet each other).  That is, if I can think of s realistic scenario that could possibly result in Burrich getting captured.  It may make more sense to have someone else be the prisoner and Burrich meet them after, perhaps on his way to rescue and they just got there first.  Anyway, the only thing is, it occurred to me that we might need approval from the DLs for this since it'd be inter-div.  Not sure what the answer to that would be since I don't know if the WK have even met any AS.  So yeah, that one is my favorite just not sure if we can do it or not.

 

My next choice would be the second option since organizing a city's defenses sounds right up Shawn's alley and may even be able to be used for a req if I think of how.

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The third is also my favorite :) and your idea for Burrich sounds great. Why don't you go check with Tay if it would be ok to do this rp and Elgee can let us know here what she thinks. I don't see any problem with it, personally, but it's a good idea to check anyway.

 

 

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well, gosh, I dunno..... Was just a spur of the moment idea really. Based on that guy in the books that Perrin met, that was caught by the villagers and put in the barn.

 

Let's see.... *chews lip*

 

Carina has eyes & ears just about everywhere from her time wandering the world before she became Head of the Brown Ajah. This network knows her particular interest with anything to do with forest animals, considering her childhood dream of one day becoming a Ranger as well as her peculiar talent of being able to communicate with animals, but not in the way wolfbrothers do, or anything related to the OP. It is more of a mutual understanding of each other, not actual words or images or anything of the sort.

 

One of these eyes & ears sends a message to Carina, telling about a guy that got locked up in a village, that was acting as though he were a wolf. (idea taken from the book, obviously). She sets out to that village and takes a Guard (Shawn) with her. As they arrive, Whitecloaks are about to hang the boy for a darkfriend and she and Shawn save him. The three of them then set out into the forrest, where they meet up with a pack of wolves and this is where Bursius might join in. Either Burs follows them for a while and then decides to make himself known or he's with the wolves already or whatever way this might go. I haven't really thought every detail out, but the general idea would be that they meet up with a pack of wolves (and maybe a wolfbrother) and Carina gets to study the wolfbrother(s) a little (if even only by asking a few questions, doesn't need to be with the OP this).

 

Asfaloth, if you have other ideas for this rp or additional ideas, feel free to add them in. I don't want this to be my thing only, since it will be 'our' rp. These are just random thoughts so far and can still be adjusted.

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well, like you said, this started as a spur of the moment idea so I don't really have any more to add either.

 

Except to say that on the WK side I was thinking that word had gotten to the Stedding by way of the Watchers network and Burrich, by himself or as part of a group of Rangers, is sent to rescue the prisoner and see if his sanity can still be restored or not.  Personally I would actually like to see Owen or Lorelai or somebody else join in too since Burrich hasn't interacted with other Rangers much since his return.....but I haven't yet asked if anyone else is interested so I don't know if that's possible or not.  Actually, considering we would want to evaluate his sanity and if necessary attempt to bring him back from the brink a Sage might be good to have too.....hmm....this is becoming more complicated as I think about it (kinda like the last time I tried to plan an rp with the WK :) ;)).

 

Oh, and Mystica, just so you know, I'm always open to the possibility of this leading to an eventual bond for Shawn but if you're not interested in that its fine, just a thought.

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I've spoken to Tay and Owen, Asfaloth, and they prefer us to make the caged wolfbrother die at the end of our RP, so he would be an NPC character. I didn't know they had a thing like a Sage or so. Maybe this could be considered. I'll ask Tay to come check your answer out. :)

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Yeah that was part of the issue we had with it. If a WK member was captured, they'd presumably use the Dream to communicate with the wolves and the Stedding and they'd be rescued asap, long before any AS or TG could reach them.

 

Unless they were a complete new wanderer who didn't know how to speak to the wolves yet.

 

So, we considered the possibility of an NPC who would only be used for the duration of the RP and would "die" somehow by the end of it.

 

Of course, if you want other WK to be involved in the RP, then maybe myself and Kara could go with Burrich to rescue this NPC? The NPC could survive but just fade off into nothingness at the end after a return to the Stedding. One of the many nameless 'kin as it were.

 

No problem with Carina asking questions but naturally the WK would absolutely refuse any formal "studying" or anything that would invade the security of the Stedding or the 'kin as a whole.

 

Perhaps there's a way Carina could be "made" to keep quiet about anything she learns. We're open to any ideas as long as it doesn't seem unrealisitic with how the WK work.  :)

 

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