RPing as Your Ancestors (Middle Ages)

[TJByrum]

I was thinking about a historical-fiction epic revolving around a cast of characters as they traverse through Medieval Europe and beyond. But your character has to be somewhat ancestral to you. If you know your ancestors well, that's cool, but I'm basically suggesting a similar surname and cultural background.

For example, I have Irish in me, and possibly Danish. So my character might be an Irish warrior with the last name 'Byrum' (my last name) who may also be half Dane. I'd be restricted to using historical Irish weapons and attire, probably have to be Christian, and probably in a low social standing.

Your character just has to be a fictional imagining of who one of your ancestors may have be; have fun with it!

So I'm interested to know who you guys would end playing as.

[ArenaSnow]

I have a feelign we would be all over the place. I would be an east-germanic something with a military background (in case anyone's wondering, I'm talking about 1800's military here, I did in fact have one ancestor that I know that was just below general in rank).

[Sombrero]

I don't know much about the Old Welsh, except that they lived in a world of hills, sheep, and rain, William Wallace may have been one of them, and they suck in Total War Medieval 2.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Not sure what the fuck a chinese person would be doing in Europe in the middle ages though, its not exactly like we were common sight back in those days.

[Sombrero]

Not sure what the fuck a chinese person would be doing in Europe in the middle ages though, its not exactly like we were common sight back in those days.

@ClocktowerEchos

Their teacher got crossbowed to death by a cowardly asshole, so they elected to walk the earth spreading justice in far-off lands...

[Chapatrap]

I have the choice of Irish people under British rule or English Jews. Neither seem particularly easy to play as.

[ClocktowerEchos]

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Their teacher got crossbowed to death by a cowardly asshole, so they elected to walk the earth spreading justice in far-off lands...

@Sombrero

So basically...

Some angry german/french/english/whatever man got drunk off his ass, picked up his crossbow and decided to wander off into the sunset and eventually walk to China through the fucking silk road. Then once they sobered up, he decided to 720yolonoscope some random ass Chinese guy who turned out to be a sensei or whatever before wandering back up the silk road to europe. So in a (drunken) rage, the student decided to do the exact same thing and wander his ass up to Europe via the silk road to go and falco fist this random ass european who rekt his master in the anal rectum yaoi hole.

Seems legit.

[Sombrero]

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So basically...

Some angry german/french/english/whatever man got drunk off his ass, picked up his crossbow and decided to wander off into the sunset and eventually walk to China through the fucking silk road. Then once they sobered up, he decided to 720yolonoscope some random ass Chinese guy who turned out to be a sensei or whatever before wandering back up the silk road to europe. So in a (drunken) rage, the student decided to do the exact same thing and wander his ass up to Europe via the silk road to go and falco fist this random ass european who rekt his master in the anal rectum yaoi hole.

Seems legit.

@ClocktowerEchos

Hey, the Chinese had crossbows too. It could've been a Chinese nobleman who shot their teacher because he was bad, and therefore wanted everyone involved with the guy to be killed too, so he ran off to the far west?... Y'know, more or less the exact same reason Kwai Chang Caine decided to go beat up cowboys.