So, after doing a lot of reading I still haven't been able to pick a place where my character is from. I could use some help from someone who is more familiar with the setting. I am looking to have had my character involved in war at some point in the last hundred years or so, and having a history of living in a volcanic area. The most recent Forgotten Realms books I read had a lot of adventure on the Sword Coast which sound like the chaotic sort of atmosphere that suits my character but I'm just a little...stuck. XD

Edit: Sorry for the delay. I'm not chickening out or anything.

http://www.pocketplane.net/volothamp/images/faerunlarge.jpg

@DracheWell, Red Dragons prefer hot places to live , so I'd imagine you begin from one of the many volcanoes Faerun offers, or living in one of the many underground caves. Since you're a halfbreed, I imagine you can't be from *too far* away (though 200 years is a lot of time to get anywhere). Since you're a half breed, you're likely to have lived somewhere where you wouldn't be immediately exiled or attacked(dragons tend to not like half breeds either). I can think of Thay as being a somewhat suitable place(might want to try and avoid being too friendly with the Red Wizards). Damara and Vaasa both welcome such great assets as half dragons, though you'd be viewed with suspicion.

Any mountainous area would be a good place for you to live, though I'd avoid the ice cold north mountains since you're a Red (the antithesis of Ice). Look at the Firesteap mountains to the south south west of Two stars.

Volcanoes can be found in a few places, though almost none are active these days:

http://www.realmshelps.net/faerun/lakeofsteam.shtml

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Smoking_Mountains

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Peaks_of_Flame

You'll note that all of those also tend to be good places for red dragons.

As wars go, all the major ones have died out in the last 200 years, but we can't ignore the Kingdom of Many Arrows and its history, describes in great detail in RA Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt series. It, along with the Drow's war of Darkness (The Spider Queen's attempt to kill Drizzt) could be classed as a 'major' war in the last hundred years, and it took place between hundreds of thousands of Orcs, dwarves, drow, humans and elves, and took place in the Silver Marches (NW on the map above). Being a dragon such as yourself is a rather high profile position, so if you do want to be part of that war, feel free to write yourself in as a somewhat minor role that could have been missed by the books.

Other examples of minor wars(look from 1353, as it's 1486 now):

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Era_of_Upheaval

I suggest keeping your involvement in either of those as being a major to minor role, but not a key one.

My apologies if I'm not exhaustive on this topic, but 'I'd like to be in a volcaneous area' and 'involved in a war' are so broad that I could probably fill a novel with the information that overlaps with both of those. Faerun's history is massive.

Well @El Taco Taco hasn't responded to the multiple PMs I sent asking what's up(despite being very active on the site), so I'm assuming, from this point on, they are no longer interested in playing.

So a half-orc paladin and a half dragon sorceress walk into a bar...

The half orc walks out alone and heads for the tower.

SHould I wait for Drache to post or is there a plan?

Drache has a lot to figure out by the looks of it(she left due to real life), so go ahead and post.

This'll be a 1 on 1 RP until more players join. Working on that last part.

@knighthawkThe post I made is intended to give you a chance to interject or change anything. If you don't have anything you'd like to convey or change, I could make another post to advance the plot.

Personally, I'm not to good on 1X1 RP's. I'd really like to get at least one more on board to keep going too far. But I can put out a post or two to keep it going.

@knighthawkIf you'd rather put it on hold, that is an option.

I would prefer, but not let it be forgotten.

It's not going to be. I'm working as quickly as I can to find new players.

A new player has been acquired, expecting post soon.

Yay!

I'd like to reiterate, any of the posts I make are not necessarily considered final. if you'd like to stop to discuss something, or make an action that needs to ignore (parts of) my post, there's always the option of PMing me to work it in. Retroactively working the edits in is also possible.

My post should be up in the next few minutes.

Hey, quick question. I can't seem to find it in the storyline, but exactly what is Mr. Wizard paying us for playing bodyguard?

Ambiguous riches.

Ambiguous, eh? Sounds very mysterious. I'm in.

The wizard was never overly clear on what he was going to pay, but he's well established.

I've made a post with outlines. I'm looking forward to all the ways you guys will be able to screw up the carefully laid plans I have =).

Take a look at the modifiers. You can employ them yourself, and I will account for them when making certain rolls that affect NPCs and/or your characters. The major user(or non user) of the modifiers will be you yourself.

Never cut and dry, is it? This got interesting really fast; I suppose we're about to have to make an alignment based decision. I'll have my IC up tomorrow.