Ananfel Alanuil

[Lira]

That's a wrap, folks.

Ananfel had a good run, but he finally met his fate in one of the more memorable death scenes I've had in a while. Sadly it occurred inside the Chapterhouse, so I'm going to have to omit the screenshots.

I had two things in mind for Ananfel when I made the character. First, I knew that was going to have to climb a steep learning curve: learn the mechanics, the layout of the server, the setting, PC / NPC factions, etc. That inclined me toward a character who was both inexperienced so they could learn as I learned. Second, I needed a good excuse to go out adventuring - ie, to engage in the basic unit of social interaction for a PW where leveling up is a significant part of the experience. But I have a low tolerance for playing characters who adventure for adventuring's sake, so it had to have something interesting (to me, at least) motivating it.

I do a lot of tabletop gaming. One of the themes I've been dealing with a lot lately in those games is family, and how they almost can't help but hurt each other. I ended up wanting a character motivated by that. Ananfel was really just a kid, a teenager who was used to spending his days sailing and listening to music and poetry, and his nights drinking wine and - being a teenager - having a lot of good sex. A month later he was running through an apocalyptic wasteland with his emotionally shattered lover and a young child in tow. He became an "adult" overnight, and simply wasn't ready for it. Compared to spending his nights withering under his lover's scorn and watching the child he'd come to think of as his adopted son fall deeper into a depression neither of them could reach him through, flinging himself at kobolds and hook horrors was easy.

Ananfel was deliberately antagonistic to the conservatives in the Society of the Ordered Mind. That is, everyone except Blake and sorta-kinda Rallick. Not because he was an antagonistic person - Ananfel was a sweet kid who genuinely tried to see the best in everyone - but because as a player I wanted him to be at odds with the establishment and not quite realize it. He couldn't see how his entirely reasonable, friendly, personable way of doing things was incompatible with the Society's outlook. Either the Society was going to break him and turn him in to one of their hardliners, or he was going to change it from within - mostly without realizing he was doing it.

In the end, I think we get a bit of both.

[Tratzell]

You stuck to your guns, and I have to respect that. Cool character, what I got to saw of him!

[Crump]

[The Marauder]

He will be missed. Wonderful character. :neutral:

[Vault Shrike]

An excellent PC, who I spent a lot of time getting to know and appreciate. Our interactions were always interesting and Ananfel's attachment to his family added heart to those exchanges.

Good luck with the next! :)

[Zango_Unchained]

Lol we were at odds since recruitment, Good run buddy.

[Moonlighter]

RIP elf-who-would-not-shake-Irith's-hand-and-who's-journal-I-really-enjoyed-reading.

He will be missed. o7

[Ryan]

Undoubtedly my favorite character among the wave of newbies. You've shown a lot of written ability in the past few weeks and I can't wait to see what comes next.

[SonOfGoddess]

Was hoping to get more involved with him!

[goate]

Great PC.  He brought some rationality to the Society.  I enjoyed the meeting in the Crone involving Ananfel, Jacky Flint, Ceres, and Tobit (Halcron was there too, but more in the background).  Ananfel and Jacky executed a quality good cop/bad cop tag team. Fun fun =)

[Aethereal]

Aww. I was hoping to see what became of Ananfel after the early interactions with Arantras.

Perhaps I shall catch up with his legacy at some point, it sounds like he's left a mark.

Oh and it's good to have you in EFU, a splendid first character. Wish I only had the time to see more.

[Knight Of Pentacles]

The raz alghul to my Batman