Shattered Kingdoms

I deleted. This will probably be my last prolific character in this game. Too much time and effort goes into building a successful faction where everyone's enjoying membership, when it can all be ruined in two seconds by a child having a temper tantrum and that gets supported by the staff.











Those aren't naked stats. The stat build on this character was extremely difficult for me to plan, given the intent I had to have her be a beastly tank/maledictor. I'd maxed int and wis naturally, had nearly max art, and three or four mana trains that mostly came from mentor points. Str and Dex were 3-4 short of max each, Con was 1-2 short of max.

I started this character with very little backstory in mind, and had the intent to shape her personality based on a few early interactions with other characters. That worked out pretty well.

She was originally from a tribe of mixed blood sprites that were nomadic in that they made their homes in the valleys between sand dunes in the Zhang, and moved as the wind moved the dunes. She left her home village to explore the wider world, having a bit of wanderlust in her from an early age. She came to Nerina, and had just begun to really explore Pyrathia (jman level, as I recall), when she ended up in a verbal altercation with the then-leader of the Talons, and was deported for disagreeing with him.

Huneria had gotten some mentoring from Keleza, and turned to her for help after being deported. After a meeting with Iureana, where it was explained that if she was going to live in the North it would be a life devoted to strength, Huneria was imigrated to the Wastes. Huneria took Iureana and Keleza's advice to heart, and from that point forward her entire life was devoted to being the strongest in every possible way. The only part of Huneria's life where she failed at that was that she remained almost completely illiterate her entire life.

Huneria initially had been interested in joining up with the Black Hand, looking up to the example of strength that Iureana and Keleza presented, but eventually the dissent from within that organization turned her aside from it. She ended up falling in with the Harlequins as a means to an end, seeing Ranoan as a new example of strength. She helped him grow the strength of the Court, and when he died, worked to continue his efforts to strengthen the Court, and herself as a result.

Huneria's personality evolved a fair bit from beginning to end. Once she'd attained enough strength of her own that she felt like she'd surpassed the icons of hero worship she'd had as a youth, she started to stretch farther and farther, demanding more and more of herself and those around her. Anyone who tried to step up and take charge of anything in the Court, she was most demanding of, insisting that they prove their worth and strength before she would entrust them with the responsibility of even holding a group. For herself, she often would throw herself into the most difficult situations just to see if she could triumph (OOCly, I appologize to some of the faction leaders, as Huneria would often go solo their Guardians as a warm up and I know that the coin farming is a nuisance). By the time she was an established leader of the Harlequins, she respected one thing only, strength and the ambition to achieve it. Anyone she ever interacted with who was weak was oppressed, slaughtered, or used to further her own strength, unless they were demonstrative of a desire to be stronger themselves. Those, she helped as much as possible.

OOCly, I tried to lead the Harlequins as more of a mafia than a pack of drunken revelers. It worked well, too, in so far as it created additional levels of responsibility within the Court for numerous characters, and generated a good deal of conflict throughout the game and within the Court itself as different characters competed to be top producers. It was fun while it lasted.

Since I pked Zerel and Huneria shortly before their deletions, I am adding you both to my pk'd into deletion file. But really, I enjoyed our interactions a lot. I had fun both as a harly, and with other characters who where able to interact with you. Thanks for sharing Huneria with us and best of luck with whatever else you plan on doing with your time.

This was a great character in a lot of ways. Huneria did a lot to keep SK interesting and I know everyone in harlies liked having her as a leader and respected her greatly. I also like that you tried to bring harlies in a goal-oriented direction.

I'm disappointed you let that jerkoff win by deleting in response to the tantrum.

My main criticism of this character is that while the "oppress the weak" rp is valid RP, I think you should have done less looting while you were spam killing newbs. It has to be discouraging for these RPers to be getting killed repeatedly and looted because they are bad at pk, and are trying to avoid pk. There are several players who would rack up absurd k/d ratios if they were spam killing newbs, but they give a bit more ooc consideration. That's just an outsiders perspective and I apologize if my analysis is off. There are also multiple players who clearly were not emotionally equipped to handle the pk they felt was being forced on them, and while you were within your rights to kill them, you could have responded in a nicer way to their difficulties coping.

Huneria was effective in pvp and there are some great logs up of her, even if it's mostly against unskilled opponents. While OA's enemies might have often appeared to be in a state of panic, OA consistently demonstrated skill in pvp and should be considered a force to be reckoned with if/when he returns.

Overall I think you are a huge asset to the game and it's unfortunate for the game that you are done with this character and possibly the game in any serious way.

Baldric, I let the staff win. They obviously wanted it to play out the way it did, and green lighted the entire fiasco. I'm not going to hit my head against a wall for no gain.

As to looting, Huneria had a very strict policy on looting. The first kill, nothing is taken. Second through fifth kills, coin and consumables are taken. Anything beyond that, when the characters she was killing were given ample opportunity to submit and pay their way out of more, she starts taking their stuff and selling it.

Very rarely did Huneria actually keep anything taken from PK. If it wasn't a consumable or a coin, she sold it off for profits.

Awwwww someone stomped on your RP and it sucked. LOL Karma is amusing.

Thanks for all the help in game. As a noob, I received tons, of help and support,
for ic reasons, or even ooc (help the noobs) attitude, who knows.

Anyway. I really liked where you were heading with the harlies, and the whole story really was nice.
Due to your latest rituals, I've manage to get myself invited into the quest of being against them,
along with the great Imm rp involvement, and the great Tragonis rp and helpfulness.

In a way I am glad I didn't joined the Harlies, since you and another characters were the only ones,
that I liked inside, for they seemed really helpful and involved.

Sad it ended like this. I expect you to come back, and have fun.

I'm also sad that it ended like this. It certainly didn't have to, because none of the staff wanted it to go where it has. The only thing that needed to happen was for rational people to work out a power sharing arrangement in light of the fact that there are multiple leaders. If you felt you couldn't update your character's RP to this reality, it's a shame but it was your choice.

I hope the sting will wear off in a few days and you will see things in another light, but in all the years you've played, I've never seen you reconsider a position that you've so clearly staked down. (And in this regard, you aren't all that different from me.)

If Emiline wanted to share power, as far as Huneria was concerned she just had to earn the respect to have it. Emiline, instead, spam uninducted the entire cabal and hid from any in-game retribution for crossing the other leaders and characters involved. That's cowardice, not strength, and cowardice would never have gotten any kind of respect from Huneria. The character expected leaders to act like leaders, not just have some mystical coded flag that named them that. And really, I don't think that's unreasonable, whatever your expectations on an OOC level are.

Huneria had been a hated sprite to Toji. Hated, but respected for her display of power and absolute control.
While not seeing most matters on the same level, Toji always believed that Huneria was an Asset to the Court and simply wished she was just more receptive to criticism and other people's views.

On an OOC level, I truly enjoyed every single minute chafing under Huneria's leadership and I'm really sad to see you gone, especially for the reasons you are gone.

As I have said on our private chat, I'm very sorry we could not come to any sort of common ground with this, because every inch of it was you saying "F u".

So. Good luck, I'll save you the pleasure of having me stoop to a very base and immature response on here, and maybe we'll see you next time.