Enfys Glaw

[Redshirt]

I've been putting this off mainly because I don't have any screenshots of my sweet loot, and I didn't want DMs knowing I had neglected taking pictures. Some of them had some lore on them that is better found out in game, but still. Sorry SFP for not taking screenshots. The other reason was that I didn't realise how impactful Enfys was to some PCs, especially while I was playing him. I first logged in as Redshirt under the expectation that I would be a ambient background prop, supporting cast at best, and then die a dog's death. The last part, at least, was achieved very successfully.

Enfys was a fey-touched druid. His druidic power and his empathy with nature came as a result or a side effect of his time in the twilit realm of the Fey. Discarded like the toy he was, he found himself amongst the other unwanted things at the edge of the city. Simultaneously jaded and sheltered, he made little attempt to hide his nature - talking to plants, weeping as animals died, and generally doing as he pleased. Even his way of speaking was intended to be archaic within the context of the setting, and not merely over-formal (I spent the first week learning how to use thee and thou correctly). I was honestly quite chuffed when the first tell I got in game was "Are you playing a fey druid?"

He was lucky to have been found early by sympathetic pondsfolk, and told that he must at all costs hide his 'changeling nature', especially from peers and the inquisitor. Without that I would not be surprised if he HAD died within the week, as was my expectation. Even then, his swings of passion, exultation, and desperation would see him shifting as they reached their most extreme.

As his connection to the City and his new environment grew, I found him rapidly sobering. He had found himself with real responsibilities, and the days of distracting himself from his loss with passing amusements had come to an end. And always there was the division between him and those closest to him, his nature and his duty walling him away and frequently pushing him into solitude, where his inscrutable goals would be realised.

While he had goals remaining, they were mostly duty driven and not personal. Enfys' story, at least from my end as the one playing him, felt very much like a coming of age where whatever his goal of the hour was, what compelled me to continue playing him to completion was to see how he would change next; how he would grow or regress. In that regard, I feel he was very much played to completion. He had started as a capricious child-minded young man without a desire to tie himself to anything, and died a far more duty driven individual. Every death that occurred because he failed to act cut him to the core and left him with a pain that he was not equipped to deal with, until he learned that the only way to avoid that pain was to BE the one who acted.

The reason for his intervention in the brawl with Vladislav Orza was to avenge the great bear that he had killed some weeks past, and his failed gambit led to a slaughter of the ponds. I would say that that was his only regret, but really he died too quickly to realise the consequences of THAT particular decision   ;D

Also some spoilers stuff happened/was learned/was set as goals, FOIG.

p.s. some other neat stuff happened that was pretty neat, like him verbally facing off with Imzel and also the Planar Paladin (before the oath was implemented! I believe he was a Book of Heroes paladin from where his priorities lay)

p.p.s A bunch of people thought he was a werewolf for some reason. I don't know if that's because Gavin Creedy had the same voice patterns or because he was so elusive or what. He wasn't a werewolf, but I'm surprised and flattered that so many people were speculating about him.

[Holy_Rage]

A delightful character, whose progress was mainly coming of age and maturing from a raw fey, child to something much deeper and multi-faceted. The PC had layer upon layer gently applied to him through IC play only and it's rare to see personal goals firmly guide IC progress so fluidly, while remaining accessible and interactive with other PCs. Kudos.

[MoneyCaster]

Enfys was the most impactful druid in my opinion who showed me how awesome a Druid can be once portrayed correctly, and most impressively you didn't falter once with your RP.
His feylike nature was a thing to enjoy, and even if he didn't live forever, he sure did go far.

[Quarterdragon]

Enfys was among the first people Eupraxia teamed up with for ringrunning, and her oldest contact to actually run with her past Ring 95.  She was so taken aback the first time he shifted into his insane cryptic form but it fit well with what was initially my plan to be an X-files barbarian.  I wish we had been able to run together longer, but the struggle to pass Ring 95 was great fun.

[Redshirt]

It was fun! Sorry I couldn't hold back with the 92 challenge coming up that same weekend :P

Among many plans half-entertained and often discarded by Enfys was one to groom Eupraxia into a worthy (read: druid/nature friendly) usurper to the King, though it seems that wouldn't have been possible anyway because of stuff related to King's blood that I only know vaguely from the sibilant invasion, and won't disclose because I think we have newer players :)

[Wakefield]

A toast to the Changed Man, his newfound duties and his successes in protecting secrets. One of the ever-growing list of awesome Pondsfolk who are gone too soon. :(

[Redshirt]

I saw Wakefield's toast to us at the pondsman ball, in stream. That he immediately crushed his next fight was no coincidence :P
I had hoped he would sweep the tournament from there, but alas