[quote=@SillyGoy] You know, I was hoping that our Dark Lord would be more serious, and not an uninspired ripoff of a well-known Warhammer 40k character. No, not awesome. It's an insult. The rest of us are trying to at least make something original, and all you do is plop an image of a space marine and come up with a half-arsed backstory where he falls into a well and becomes a dark archmage for no reason. My incomplete character, Vizir, at least had to [i]go to school[/i] to learn some magic; Kalar Splint actually had a reason to found the Rangers and went through a soul-searching revenge phase; King Furlong is a monarch by birthright, but Ahriman version 0.01a pre-alpha just falls into a well and now he's a master elementalist [i]and the man whom we must [b]kneel and bow to?[/b][/i] No way, dude. [/quote] Oh my god, I'm having fun. SOMEBODY STOP ME! My very first post had a wizard driving a muscle car through the heavens, ON FIRE, with N0F4TCHX as a numberplate. So what if I really am having fun just playing a walking talking cliche in gauche armour. Yes it is a powerfantasy, yes it is a touch immature, yes it shall lead to an unfortunate and ill timed fiery demise. I. Do. Not. Care. I did not sign up for this RP to have a deep and emotional story arc, I signed up to become fantasy Doctor Evil. To become a foil and a walking talking plot device. To give the speeches, to lead the armies of doom, to have that Fortress of Doom. Remember the name of the site, [u]Roleplayer[/u] guild? I choose to [i]play [/i]the [i]role [/i]of Evil Overlord and I plan to milk it for every ounce of ham and cheese I can get out of it. Besides when the character fell in he was 16. In that abyss something horrible has been doing nothing but pouring Dark knowledge into his brain pan ever since (note his current age). How much is still really Ahzek after all that and how much it is just Darkness made manifest is up for debate.