Shattered Kingdoms

Turon was a very very proactive character. If he was online, you knew something was going to happen. He could be a minor nuisance, or initiate a huge attack, or something between that. But there was going to be action.

My RP with Turon was ofcourse, bad. His lack of respect for me oocly shone right on through to the character. There wasn't even a veil or RP there to hide the anger. Turon was not a character for me, but was a continuation of forums bickering. Something I found so distasteful and pathectic on Braxis that I vowed to never ever break character in that way myself, and I never have.

Having said that, I think the bad rp was just for me and I suspect others in the game had the exact opposite experience. Without a doubt, Turon was the leader of team darky. If there was going to be an attack he would be leading it. He would assemble everyone, the hand, the cruc, the mc. And he would direct it. Only a strong character with good rp that earned respect could be that.

Turon was the heart and soul of the darkies, and he died and died and died because of it. He was visible. He was active, and he was the number one target all the time of alot of factions. He was the one to get, that would scatter the rest of them.

The respect that this player has from those who played with him or her, I never knew Edoras gender, shows that inspite of the bitterness directed at me, the bitterness directed at the game (Sith 'a' niel is to tough to raid which is wrong, and the hedgehog is unhittable which is an outright shocking statement) and at Dulrik. I think this character was a big big plus for SK.

Besides Ealuriel, no one else invoked the kind of fear and dread that Turon did among alot of the pbase. I'm not sorry about OOC stuff. It was very one sided and I think it was someone lashing out in frustration and anger at the many defeats that were deemed unfair by the defeated.

I did the same thing when Benjamin raped Exile over and over and over and I had no help or very limited help as Bromus. I always got along with Peso until then.

All in all, inspite of your interaction with me; your bad sportsmanship where I was concerned and your outright bitterness and resentment of my pking which was either bad in your words or something you wouldn't admit even existed. Inspite of your bad rp with me, by that I mean the constant insults of you idiot, you moron, you're nothing but an idiot, which translates to me as you saying "I hate this, it wasn't supposed to be this way! I was supposed to win! I don't want you to be better then me!" I think that you really do have a character to be proud of.

When you look at the big picture, the impact you had, the prominence of your character, the respect your char earned from his peers and from his foes, if you look beyond your contempt for me and bad sportsmanship from my pov, I think you really did something good. I think it would be very good for SK if you were to come back again and do something else that you enjoy on the mud.

After Estobar I will likely conceal my identity again, unless I wind up leading a faction then I will become known because I don't think leaders should hide who they are, so you likely won't be razzed on the forums so much or egged on which I confess I am guilty of. When baited I usually walk right in and start flaming.

This is a big long winded post, I admit it, but I think more then anyone else Estobar and the player behind him got to you. Toward the end you really dumped alot of frustration on me, so I thought I would cover it all.

Good job, come back when you're ready.

Turon was out prioritized.

1000 hours of a villain, I hope it was fun and that you learned something about yourself. Maybe now you can get some more healthy habits and hobbies than sinking (60-26=34 | 903/34=27) 30 hours a week, 4 hours a day, into fantasy roleplaying entertainment.

Are you kidding effing kidding me? The only reason I kept my character in the MC so long is because of Turon and now I am just sad. bleh. But I understand! I really enjoyed playing with your character!

This kinda took my by surprise when I checked out the boards tonight. I guess I don't even know where to begin. You were a hell of a leader, and you had a great character that you played superbly. I have to say that I am sorry that Kolnok couldn't of been more of a help to Turon. I have only been a part of SK for under a year, and that is a very short time compared to alot of you guys here. I don't know the game very well, but being around you for the few months that I was helped me out. You taught me some things, and I wish I could've had more time with Turon to learn even more. That being said Thank You for what you brought to this game with this character. Turon will be missed. Take a break for awhile, and maybe some day you can come back with a new one.

Just wanted to say a few more words.

I was thrilled with Turon being in MC and Sargas when I ran that faction and that church. It was a huge relief to have a strong player around because I needed someone to pass off responsibility to. Thank you for that.

Turon impressed me every time I interacted with him on Aldric. Except for all those times that you cast curse on me instead of your no-dachi.

Before this character, I would have -sworn- that hellions were very underpowered. Actually, I think I did swear it at some point in these forums. Turon proved me wrong.

He made it to sixty years old, so he had a good run of it as far as I'm concerned. I'd imagine the concept was a bit stale for you at that point. Have fun with whatever you're doing next.

Great character, great player, although the bitterness on the log site is a bit silly.

Also Orac's post is sort of funny, because all you have to do to spot his characters is play a class with any sort of support ability and wait for the borderline ooc spam tells to commence.

A couple of things. Number one, I'm shocked anyone read my post, I don't even know if Edoras will read the whole thing. Number two you are wrong.

Turon rocked, that is all.

Lifetime: As with most of my characters, the backstory was short and allowed me to play "make up my past" as my life unfolded. Almost everything that happened to forge Turon's personality happened after he was rolled.

Almost as soon as Turon started honing his knightly skills as a warrior, Aldric showed up (chance meeting? Maybe he just got a tell when I rolled) literally within 10 minutes, outfitted me with armor, spoke to me of strength and Honor, and Turon was already chosen to follow War. Granted, this was something that I had planned to do anyway, but Aldric being there from the very beginning easily sealed the deal. Turon ended that conversation with a "Long Live the Emperor" to which Aldric seemed less than enthused. I was always intrigued by that, though Turon would never have asked for the reasoning behind it.

Not long afterwards Turon was invested into the following of Sargas by Aldric, and he also made known his desire to join with the Council to best serve the Empire: As far as Turon was concerned, he owed the Empire his life and soul because without him, he never would have even lived past his childhood. He grew in strength, probably making a few leveling friends along the way that I don't really recall, tutoring under Dame Shadeh of Sargas.

Turon eagerly tackled the tasks given to him by Dame Shadeh, and learned much from them. Among those tasks he was sent to challenge three prominent paladins of the realm, and eventually chose Aramith and some other paladin whose name I don't recall right now: I feel bad because I crit cleaved her in our duel. Turon also beat Aramith, but was unable to find a third paladin to answer his call to a duel. Shadeh seemed to fall behind on her giving of tasks to Turon, and after a couple weeks (I think) of her not dealing much with the matter, Turon decided to himself that at their next meeting he would challenge her directly for knighthood, and after defeating her declare himself knight if she refused to do so: He felt especially interested in being knighted as he decided to himself that he would not join the Midnight Council until he achieved knighthood.

As it turns out, challenging Shadeh for knighthood wasn't necessary. At their next meeting Shadeh informed Turon that he had performed well enough as a squire to be knighted, and the place that Turon chose for the knighting ceremony was the Mesa of Sargas where Calrion and Sargas fought. After the knighting ceremony, Turon challenged Shadeh to a duel, allowing her the first blow. It was a close battle that Turon barely won, and also the reason why I chose to never whine about resistance again, because it saved my life and made me look totally awesome.


Baldric doesn't know this, but Aldric was the only father figure that Turon ever had. After being brought into the Council, he followed him more closely than any squire, and was often times saddened by the fact that he desired to work alone in the arena of combat. Petrus, the old Knightlord, spoke disrespectfully to Aldric in the Waxing Moon, so Turon challenged him to solo combat and killed him, no pets involved (Though Petrus was rather poorly equipped, I think he was using a one hander and no shield at the time. Turon wasn't GM at this point, maybe high master/low champ) This was also the first time I cursed 'no' instead of 'no-dachi', hitting Aldric accidentally at first. He apologized deeply and swore that he would never do it again.

When Turon joined the Council, the relic was taken by the Hammer of Light, and so Turon made it a point to try and retrieve it as soon as possible. I don't think I actually succeeded with this, as I recall the crucible or something returned it after I died a couple times trying. Turon continued to grow in strength, once repelling an attacking force on Losache keep after the relic was returned. He and Mormadon saved the relic from capture by assaulting the attacking party at the inner guardian, after two of the other Council members had sat outside the keep and died to the invading force. Later, while preparing to slay a dragon, I acidentally cursed Aldric again instead of my no-dachi (which prompted me to make an alias for all four maledictions changing) and as such was extremely dishonoured and accepted whatever punishment Aldric deemed for it. He was tarnished for one IC year, and ironically enough repelled a defending force while tarnished, though granted they mostly tore themselves apart dying to Midnight guards. (It was the Baudon before Baudon, Tuckory and some other hammer warrior at the time) I think that was one of the first suits of nice adamantite I had on Turon.


Somewhere during all this, Sakizar, a knight of the Raven, turned against the Council and was branded an enemy of the Empire. In addition, he stated that he planned to stage a coup of the Empire, so Turon hunted and killed him, first in Teron then later during a duel in Menegroth which Sakizar challenged him to. Both battles were complete massacres.


I'm running out of steam, so I'm just going to hit the high notes of the rest of his story.

It wasn't long before Aldric informed Turon that he needed a second-in-command, and that Turon was his choice. Turon asked Aldric why the war with the Hammer and Peacekeepers had been going on (They'd been warring since Turon's induction) and Aldric essentially told him that it was just to keep the men busy and there weren't really any goals. This was when Turon decided that his goal as leader of the Council would be to subjugate Taslamar, either by stomping it into nonexistence, or by forcing the leaders to surrender to limited Imperial control once again. Turon felt that Taslamar stood in defiance of the Empire's Might, and that if left unchecked proved that the Empire was weak. Aldric also informed Turon that under no circumstances was he ever to induct Ealuriel, because even though she was a good ally, she was too self-serving, power-hungry and maniacal to be fruitful within the Council. Not long after this, earmarked by Turon and Aldric's defeat in Taslamar by Bregindor and co., I believe it was, Aldric faded away and left Turon with leadership. As Turon still saw Aldric as a father figure, his relatively sudden departure left him with a sense of anger and loneliness that fueled his rage and desire for Conquest. Since not letting Ealuriel back into the Council was one of Aldric's few requests made near his time of passing, Turon also vowed to himself to never let her enter the Council. So yeah Syndal, blame Baldric. You would have had to give a LOT of reason to get back into the MC.

Everything else is history. Turon tried time and time again to achieve even a four-year surrender with the Peacekeepers while still warring with the Hammer, first over Xylia who ended up deleting, then later over Caquartien after Bregindor passed, and again over Rinqo after Caquartien faded away towards the end of finalizing terms of surrender. The first truce was more than likely first violated by Vaalim, the aptly named "guard dog" of the Council, though no one ever called him that to his face. Vaalim was the -only- person within the Council that Turon felt threatened by, and there was always a struggle for power once Turon achieved leadership over Vaalim. The first truce officially faded when Bregindor defended Ceciro in the Hart and Rose, killing Turon in the process. The second truce, years later, faded when Virgil, a random swashbuckler of the Peacekeepers, told Turon to get out of Exile when he was hunting, and being hunted by, Hammer warriors. He declared war and killed Virgil a couple times.

After the "powerful" Council members Vaalim and Aldric faded away, Turon was left with few truly skilled allies within the Council. He allied with the North to bolster his numbers in Conquest of Taslamar, and held a quasi-alliance with the Crucible for a time. Towards the end of his reign, right before his downfall, the Council had grown strong again, with a few powerful members present within it that he was looking forward to fighting alongside.


Among Turon's greatest enemies were Terrell and Paddah. Terrell, though he knew Turon peacefully for a time, branded himself as an enemy of the Empire when he killed the Magistrate, warparty, and Flavian just for a staff that he thought the warparty held. Things with Terrell escalated from there, with Paddah joining as one of Terrell's allies, as well as Nico, who was at that time the Regent of Ayamao. Turon never stopped warring with Ayamao once Nico allied himself with Terrell. In the end, Terrell was defeated once by Turon with the assistance of Jydel the Deathmage, and then many years later Terrell was slain by Ealuriel and Tristala. Terrell's last act which sealed his fate as an enemy of the Empire was to final strike the inn with about seven or so prominent people in it, which also resulted in Ealuriel's deletion. Turon was extremely pissed about this, because Ealuriel was the ONLY useful sorcerer he knew. He hunted Johanin, the rogue who walked Terrell in for the final strike, with every resource that he had, and eventually caused him to delete (I think?)

I could go on forever with anecdotes, but honestly I doubt that most people will really read all of that. So I'll stop by thanking everyone I fought against, everyone I fought with, and everyone who I interacted with at all. Special thanks to Aldric, Vaalim, Kirken, Hagrel, Halsted, Ealuriel, Maladash, Ericos, crap, I can't remember all these names. You know who you are.

I'll miss you....you kicked my butt with Aramith too many times, near the end I did learn to put a lion in front of me but w/e. GL with your next