#ellen kiel

[uninterruptednonsense]

[rwpohl]

die physiker, fritz umgelter 1964

*

die elixiere des teufels, manfred putzer 1976

[ascalonianlightbringer]

Reblogging for the daytime GW2 crowd!

I decided to make an even more absurdly specific poll than my others! I've seen various Guild Wars 2 Valentine's Day polls, but none specifically tailored to my interests, so here goes:

[myriad-lights]

I just noticed that we have posters in the crafting area of the homestead!

From left to right: Southsun Cove karka warning, Metal Legion, Ellen Kiel campaign poster, Evon Gnashblade campaign poster

I love this game so much <3

EDIT: I MISSED SOME! We have a Kookoochoo poster and a miniature Joko as well. I'm laughing so hard.

[ratasum]

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day! Which of my Commanders, Commander Adjacent characters, or Wayfinder Hunter would you take on a date?

Images under the cut.

[gooseplumesart]

RAS FACTS

Married 2 a charr. his name is Barnabas and he's a fence

On the LA captain's council

Would like Ellen Kiel out of power and out of his city. death is a fine option here but is a known political opponent of hers so it'd be too obvious if he made this happen. he might still make it happen. depends

Gunning for Commodore. Somewhat literally. Lawson Marriner's days are numbered

Runs a very lucrative smuggling ring; much of the illicit substances trading around Kryta originated with him

Prolific pirate* with a reputation for being extremely tough and vicious but very fair in profit sharing among the crew

Does Not Play Fair Otherwise. @torchlight-troubles' Scraven frequently acts as a whip, a threat, a persuasive knife at your ribs, a spy, to help Ras maintain his growing control

*we have blowed up the gw2 map to be much bigger and have way more city states and trading routes to make the in-game pirates make any sense at all

[fireskarr]

Living World Season 1: changes and unused dialogue for Mai Trin

I saw a very long post cross my dash recently, about changes to the 2022 Return to Season 1 compared with the original 2013 release, plus a late addition that briefly touches on one thing that's been bothering me ever since I encountered it:

The complete revision of Mai Trin's dialogue in Season 1

Fortunately, I have been spending the past few weeks poking around in the game, the Wiki, and the game files themselves to put together a comprehensive list and comparison of all the changes to Mai's spoken dialogue.

Including audio comparisons!

And a lot of bonus unused dialogue!

(very long post, so it's under the cut!)

Back in 2013, Mai Trin was voiced by Rachel Robinson (also the old voice of Rox), but in EoD she's voiced by Kelly Hu. For the return of Season 1, all of Mai's season 1 story dialogue was re-recorded with the new VA. And I don't think this has happened to any other character that has had a VA update?

I've listed everything here in story order. For audio tracks featuring both VAs, the old one is first, followed by the new. Includes transcript below each audio file.

Ceremony & Acrimony: comparison of dialogue between Mai and Kiel after the effigy explodes

-- Old dialogue -- Mai Trin: Lionguard, what can I do? I have some skill at healing. Inspector Ellen Kiel: See if you can help the charr cultural rep. He's injured and not moving. Mai Trin: I'll do what I can.

-- New dialogue -- Citizen: Who needs assistance? Inspector Ellen Kiel: See if you can help the charr cultural rep. He's injured and not moving. Citizen: I'll do what I can.

Hard Boiled: comparison of dialogue between Mai, Jory, and Kiel during the investigation

-- Old dialogue -- Mai Trin: I beg your pardon. Marjory Delaqua: Don't fret. you'll come to no harm unless you had a hand in what happened. Hm, she's glowing. Marjory Delaqua: All right, lady. You better start talkin' Mai Trin: What? I...I swear. I had nothing to do with that tragedy. I'm an upstanding citizen. Investigator Ellen Kiel: Wait. Could she have gotten it from the dead charr that glowed? She attempted to revive him. Mai Trin: Yes, yes. That must be it. I was only trying to help.

-- New dialogue -- Citizen/Mai Trin: You must be kidding. Marjory Delaqua: Don't fret. you'll come to no harm unless you had a hand in what happened. Hm, she's glowing. Marjory Delaqua: All right, lady. You better start talkin'. Citizen/Mai Trin: Are you accusing me? Investigator Ellen Kiel: Wait. Could she have gotten it from the dead charr that glowed? She attempted to revive him. Citizen/Mai Trin: The detective would know that too, if she paid better attention to her crime scene.

No More Secrets: comparison of dialogue when Kiel tries to arrest Mai.

--Old Dialogue-- Investigator Ellen Kiel: Mai Trin, you're under arrest, by Lionguard authority. You will present yourself- Mai Trin: If it weren't for that detective and her cronies, you'd never have known it was me. Mai Trin: (laugh) My plan was to open a seat on the council so I could fill it. Now, it's to punish you all for spoiling my first one. Mai Trin: Come out, my clockwork crew! Let's show them what it feels like to be impaled on the sharp tip of misfortune.

-- New dialogue -- Mai Trin: Marjory Delaqua. I'll remember that. Investigator Ellen Kiel: Mai Trin, you're under arrest, by Lionguard authority. You will present yourself- Mai Trin: So much for discretion. Mai Trin: Crew! It's time to earn your pay.

Aetherblade Retreat: comparison of dialogue between Mai and Horrik before the final fight

-- Old dialogue -- Mai Trin: This has all gone to crud. Scarlet's gonna have my noggin for screwing this up. Champion First Mate Horrik: What now, Captain? It'll take cannonballs to get out of here alive. Mai Trin: Either way, I'm dead. So let's wind our springs and ride this escapement to the end. Champion First Mate Horrik: You got it. I'll undock the airships. Mai Trin: You and your brothers give good battle, old friend. Now, let's dig in before they show. I'll raise the gangplanks.

-- New dialogue -- Mai Trin: Scarlet's gonna have my skull. Champion First Mate Horrik: What now, Captain? It'll take cannonballs to get out of here alive. Mai Trin: I'm dead either way. Might as well strap in for a decent fight. Champion First Mate Horrik: You got it. I'll undock the airships. Mai Trin: I'll raise the gangplanks.

Aetherblade Retreat: comparison of Mai's boss encounter dialogue during and after the fight

Mai Trin: This is what your curiosity gets you. (old v new) Mai Trin: Horrik! Unleash the cannons. (old v new) Mai Trin: No more half-measures. All hands on deck! (old v new) Mai Trin: Enough! You've won. Give me quarter and I'll tell you everything. / Enough! You've won. Next time just ask a little nicer. (old v new)

Interlude:

Between the original release of Sky Pirates and Edge of the Mists, Mai could be spoken with in her cell in Fort Marriner. This part wasn't brought back for the re-release, but the Wiki still has the dialogue:

Edge of the Mists: The Juncture

A hologram of Mai appears every half minute or so, saying one of several lines at random. The GW2 Wiki seems to have only a few of these documented.

-- Old dialogue -- Captain Mai Trin: Aetherblades, muster up! Scarlet wants this whole region conquered and ready for her when she returns. Captain Mai Trin: Aetherblades, muster up! We can't claim this territory if we don't control it. Move out and start conquering. Captain Mai Trin: Until Scarlet arrives, this is our new base of operations. I want Aetherblades controlling each and every sector. Captain Mai Trin: Until further notice, this is our new base of operations. I want Aetherblades controlling each and every sector. Captain Mai Trin: Scarlet wants this space and so do I. Even if she never comes back, I plan to be here for a good long while. Captain Mai Trin: Dig in and get comfortable Aetherblades. I plan for us to be here for a good long while. Captain Mai Trin: I'm not just a pirate captain anymore. Until Scarlet comes back, I'm the governor too. Captain Mai Trin: I'm not just a pirate captain anymore. Around here, I'm the governor too. Captain Mai Trin: Scarlet's planning something big and controlling this area is essential to it. Move out and start pacifying the locals.

(I don't have audio for the new lines here, Gw2Browser won't load these specific updated lines for some reason and I don't have time to sit around in EotM. I'll just trust the Wiki on this one, but there's probably a few extra undocumented lines to go here.)

-- New dialogue -- Captain Mai Trin: Dig in and get comfortable Aetherblades. We're gonna be here for a while. Captain Mai Trin: Don't let your guard down. Captain Mai Trin: We won't let Scarlet down. Captain Mai Trin: Eyes up Aetherblades.

~~ Unused lines ~~

I was first made aware of these in a post made about a year ago by Reddit user e-scrape-artist, and I decided to poke around in the files myself. Turns out there's a huge amount of unused dialogue in the game, from multiple characters across the whole season.

These first few sound a lot like NPC interaction dialogues. Except this is Mai Trin, so it's possibly a different scenario where we originally meet her character before it was scrapped?

Mai Trin: The sky’s the limit. Mai Trin: I’m in the shipping business. Mai Trin: Ah, the smell of the sea and the sky. Mai Trin: You have my attention. Mai Trin: Lion’s Arch is just the beginning for me.

What's more interesting than unused lines?

Unused lines that get re-recorded with a new VA and still don't get used.

Some of these are found alongside the previous unused lines, while the others are bundled in with the Aetherblade Retreat boss encounter lines. Maybe the extra combat lines are intended to play but they never triggered due to a bug or something?

Mai Trin: Ready the ship. We’ve outstayed our welcome. (old v new) Mai Trin: You just had to tamper with the plan didn’t you? (old v new) Mai Trin: Come on out, I’ll make it quick. (old v new) Mai Trin: To your captain's side! (old v new) Mai Trin: Fresh meat gang! Slice them to pieces! (old v new) Mai Trin: Dead like that councillor, serves you right. / Dead. Just like that councillor. (old v new) Mai Trin: I’m wound down. You got me. (old v new)

But wait, there's more!

What's more interesting than re-recording unused lines?

Re-recording unused lines for content that was never implemented in the first place.

Wait, what?

Sooo...when I was looking for Mai's EotM lines in the game files, I stumbled across something pretty significant. There's several hundred lines involving various Aetherblade characters in Edge of the Mists plus two Lionguard officers and apparently Vorpp too?

A lot of it seem to be event dialogue; for collection events, escorts, orders to attack/defend keeps and towers. But anyone who's spent time in EotM knows that none of the events involve Aetherblades, just generic NPCs with barely any voiced lines.

EDIT: According to @konig-varorson there were some open-world portal events involving Aetherblades and Lionguard during the initial release, so those lines were in the game at some point. But the lines spoken by the Aetherblades and Mai Trin inside the Mists appears to be completely unused? I plan to do more research into this.

Were the Aetherblades originally planned to have a bigger role in the events there? I dunno. But some of the lines are pretty interesting.

67 of these lines are spoken by Mai (not including the Juncture lines) and here's just under half of them.

Mai Trin: I knew prison couldn't hold me. Mai Trin: It's good to have a gang again. Mai Trin: This place is ripe for the picking. Mai Trin: I worked hard for this place, don't lose it. Mai Trin: I knew you were a bilge rat. Mai Trin: See that? That'll be mine one day. Mai Trin: I have a job that needs doing and I need volunteers. Good pay, plenty of violence. Mai Trin: An impressive haul. This should be plenty. For now. Mai Trin: Follow me, I need your help with this. Mai Trin: Stay close to me. I don't have time for stragglers. Mai Trin: You have your instructions, go to it. Make me proud. Mai Trin: I'm going to find out who screwed this up and slit their skin off. Mai Trin: Wrap it up, we have work elsewhere. Mai Trin: This is what I like to see. Mai Trin: Listen, I don't wanna lose this place. Protect it. Now. Mai Trin: You have my...thanks. Mai Trin: Take care of yourself. Don't get robbed or anything. Mai Trin: You look like warmed over flotsam. Mai Trin: Yes. (laugh) Oh my, yes. Mai Trin: Do you have what it takes to be my first mate? ;) Mai Trin: Do better. I'm not going back to prison. Mai Trin: Your captain is pleased. Mai Trin: Let's move. This place isn't gonna rob itself. Mai Trin (hologram): I want that tower. Kill everyone inside. Mai Trin (hologram): No-one takes this tower from us. No-one. Mai Trin (hologram): Your captain wants that keep. Mai Trin (hologram): We have intruders. Show them what Aetherblades can do. Mai Trin (hologram): Rattle the gates. Let them know Captain Mai is here. Mai Trin (hologram): Crack the walls, I smell riches inside. Mai Trin (hologram): Sea or sky, I can sail anywhere.

Six of the unused lines were re-recorded with the new VA:

Mai Trin: Dispose of the bodies. (old v new) Mai Trin: Ugh, get me up. (old v new) Mai Trin: We're overwhelmed, pull back! (old v new) Mai Trin: Come over here and protect your captain. / Protect your captain! (old v new) Mai Trin: Cut them down, no quarter. (old v new) Mai Trin: C'mere, I won't bite. (old v new)

Little side note: I think Mai's EotM-based lines sound a little different compared to the Sky Pirates chapter, like the old VA is slightly leaning into her Rox voice in some areas?

Anyway, I think that's all I have on Mai Trin's dialogue changes. Did I miss anything? I know there's some text lines I didn't include, but I was focusing on the voiced lines. Do you prefer Mai's old VA or the new one?

If anyone's interested in other unused/undocumented lines, I plan to post some unused Horrik and Canach lines I found, as well as the other Aetherblades in the Mists.

But now I think I need a nap

[guildtree]

Silly Things Tree Has Done

Sadly I am not a gifmaker and I do not know how to edit wikis or make videos in general, so I cannot contribute my own work to the latest appreciation post, but here are a few semi-artistic or slightly impressive things I HAVE done on a whim that I am still rather proud of:

got map completion on Laurel before mounts existed

attempted to sync up a griffon ride through Verdant Brink to Guns and Roses' Welcome to the Jungle

got ALL the Season 2 story achievements done by myself before the Aurene amulet came out. apparently I just felt like doing it. then I ran some guildies through the achievements because they needed them

attempted to scientifically measure how tall each NPC character was by comparing them to my own toon. my procedure was ultimately flawed, but I did learn that Logan is kinda short and Ellen Kiel is very tall

found a build that would allow me to kill the 3 bosses underneath Zen Daijun BY MYSELF in order to farm jade runestones from them

spent a solid 3 days doing the Halloween clock tower jumping puzzle one year until I finally completed it. after that it became super easy and i now farm it for trick-or-treat bags

got all the fishing achievements

ran an impromptu scientific experiment while doing Belcher's Bluff with a friend, which ultimately led to them editing the wiki

compiled all the Bottle Your Emotions dialogue in the What Lies Within update here

The fun thing about a game as big and expansive as Guild Wars 2 is that there's a lot of stupid stuff to waste time doing! If you're me, that is. Oh well, I'm having fun, that's what matters.

[conradscrime]

Albert Fish

March 30, 2023

***Trigger Warning: Lots of graphic nature and abuse of children***

Albert Fish was born Hamilton Howard Albert Fish on May 19, 1870 in Washington, D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. Randall was 43 years older than Albert’s mother Ellen, and was 75 years old when Albert was born. The pair had multiple children together, with Albert being the youngest. 

Albert began using the name Albert as a child, named after his dead brother so that his peers would stop calling him “Ham & Eggs” a childhood nickname he despised. 

Many of Albert’s family members suffered from different mental illnesses. Albert’s mother, Ellen, had what was known as “aural and/or visual hallucinations.” Albert’s father, Randall, had a heart attack and on October 16,1875 he died when Albert was only 5 years old. 

Ellen, being overwhelmed with her husband now gone placed Albert in the Saint John’s Orphanage where Albert was abused regularly. Albert would later begin to enjoy the pain he endured at the orphanage, the beginning of him experiencing sexual pleasure during pain or inflicting pain. 

In 1880, Ellen got a better paying job and was able to get her son back from the orphanage. In 1882, Albert had begun a relationship with a boy who introduced Albert to drinking urine and eating feces. Albert also began visiting public baths where he could watch young boys undress. 

Albert also began to write obscene letters to women who he would see their names in classified ads in the papers. 

In 1890, at the age of 20, Albert moved to New York City where he was a male sex worker and began to rape and molest boys, most of whom were under the age of 6. In 1898, Albert married a woman named Anna Mary Hoffman, who was 9 years younger than him. This was an arranged marriage Albert’s mother had set up. Albert and Anna had 6 children together: Albert, Anna, Gertrude, Eugene, John and Henry. 

In 1903 Albert was arrested for grand larceny and incarcerated in Sing Sing. Albert later said he had gone to a wax museum with a male lover once and became fascinated by the bisection of the human penis, which led to an obsession with sexual mutilation. 

In 1910, Albert met a man named Thomas Kedden. It was said that Thomas was intellectually disabled. The two began a sadomasochistic relationship, it is unclear whether Albert forced Thomas to do any of the acts. After 10 days, Albert took Thomas to an old farm house where he tortured him for two weeks, tying him up and cutting off half of his penis. 

Albert’s original plan was the kill Thomas and cut up his body. Albert feared he would be noticed if he tried to bring Thomas’ body back to his house, so he poured peroxide over the wound, wrapped it in a Vaseline-covered handkerchief, and left him $10. 

Albert never contacted or tried to contact Thomas again and does not know what happened to him after that. 

In January 1917, Albert’s wife left him for another man who had been boarding with them. Albert was then left to raise his children on his own, saying that his wife had taken almost everything they owned with her. 

Albert often began having auditory hallucinations, once wrapping himself in a carpet saying he was following instructions from John the Apostle. 

Albert began to self harm by embedding needles into his groin and abdomen areas. After he was arrested, the X-rays showed that Albert had at least 29 needles in his pelvic area. He would also hit himself with a nail studded paddle and would put wool covered in lighter fluid into his anus and light it up. 

It was never reported that Albert ever abused his own children physically, however it is said that Albert would encourage his children and their friends to hit him in the buttocks with the nail studded paddle. 

Around 1919, Albert had stabbed an intellectually disabled boy in Georgetown. Fish claimed he would go over intellectually disabled or African-American people because he did not think they would be missed. 

On July 11, 1924, Albert saw 8 year old Beatrice Kiel playing alone on her parent’s farm in Staten Island, New York. Albert offered the little girl money to come help him look for rhubarb. Beatrice was about to leave the farm when her mother chased Albert away. Albert later returned to the Kiel farm where he tried to sleep in their barn, but was discovered by Beatrice’s father. 

During 1924, Albert was suffering from psychosis and claimed God was commanding him to torture and sexually mutilate children. Three days after the Kiel’s, Albert murdered Francis McDonnell on Staten Island. 

Francis McDonnell

On July 14, 1924, 9 year old Francis McDonnell was reported missing when he did not return home from playing with friends. A search began and his body was found, hanging by a tree in a wooden area near his home. 

Francis had been sexually assaulted and then strangled with his suspenders. His left hamstring had been almost entirely stripped of flesh. Albert denied responsibility for this but did say he planned to castrate the boy but heard someone approaching so he ran off. 

Francis’ friends told police Francis had been taken by an elderly man with a grey moustache. A neighbour also claimed to have seen Francis with a similar looking man walking towards the woods. 

Anna McDonnell, Francis’ mother, said she also saw that man earlier in the day, claiming he had been coming up the street mumbling to himself and making motions with his hands. Anna said the man appeared faded and grey, this description eventually leading to “The Grey Man” nickname Albert was dubbed. 

Francis McDonnell’s murder went unsolved until Grace Budd. Albert denied the charges until March 1935, after the trial of Grace Budd’s murder, where he admitted to killing Francis and another boy, Billy Gaffney. 

Billy Gaffney

On February 11, 1927, 4 year old Billy Gaffney was playing in their apartment hallway with two other boys, ages 4 and 12. When the 12 year old left, the two smaller boys disappeared. 

The 4 year old, a boy named Billy Beaton was found on the roof of the apartments. Beaton said that the “bogeyman” had taken Billy Gaffney. Gaffney’s body was never recovered. A man named Joseph Meehan, a motorman on the Brooklyn trolley eventually recognized a picture of Albert, claiming that was the man he saw on the day Billy went missing. 

Meehan claimed the man had been trying to quiet a little boy on the trolley. The boy was not wearing a jacket and was crying for his mother. It was found that Albert had been working a few miles from the location Billy was taken at the time. 

Albert later confessed he had taken the boy, tied his hands and feet, and gagged him. He burned his clothes and left. The next day he went back with his tools and whipped Billy, cut off his ears, nose and slit his mouth from ear to ear. Albert also gouged out his eyes, and drank his blood. Albert cut off the head, arms, hands, legs and feet, and threw them in sacks with stones, throwing them into water. 

The rest of the boy Albert took home with him and ate. Billy’s mother travelled to Sing Sing to ask Albert about her son’s death but he refused to speak with her. Albert began to weep and asked to be left alone. After two hours of asking questions through his lawyer, Billy’s mother gave up and was not convinced he had killed her son. 

Grace Budd

On May 25, 1928, Albert saw an ad in the paper by a young man who wanted work. The young man was 18 year old Edward Budd, who lived at 406 West 15th Street. 

On May 28, Albert went to see the Budd family in Manhattan, claiming he wanted to hire Edward but was really planning to tie him up and mutilate him. Albert introduced himself as Frank Howard, a farmer from Farmingdale, New York. Albert told Edward he would take on him and his friend Willie, and would come back for them in a few days. 

Albert never showed up a few days later, sending a telegram that apologized to the family, setting up a new date for when he would return. 

When Albert came back, he met Edward’s little sister Grace, who was 10 years old at the time. Albert knew he immediately wanted to take Grace instead of Edward, so made up a story about going to his niece’s birthday party, asking Delia and Albert Budd if Grace could come along with him. 

Albert took Grace to an abandoned house, a house he had previously picked out for his next victim, before his plans changed and he took Grace instead. Albert murdered Grace Budd and claimed he ate her after as well.  

The police arrested a man named Charles Edward Pope on September 5, 1930 for the murder of Grace Budd after his estranged wife accused him. He spent months in jail and was his trial began on December 22, 1930. He was found not guilty. 

In November 1934, an anonymous letter was sent to the Budd family, claiming that whoever wrote the letter had murdered Grace and detailed how they had tortured her and then taken 9 days to eat her body. The letter did say that Grace had fought back, and that the writer, who was obviously “Frank Howard” had let Grace die a virgin. 

The letter eventually led police back to Albert Fish, who did not deny the murder of Grace Budd. He actually told police his original plan was to kill her brother, Edward. Albert claimed he had no intention of raping Grace, but when he was strangling her he had two involuntary ejaculations. 

This was used in trial to determine Grace’s kidnapping was sexually motivated, and it avoided the cannibalism. 

Albert’s trial for the murder of Grace Budd started on March 11, 1935. The trial lasted 10 days, where Albert pleaded insanity, claiming he heard God telling him to kill children. It was said that Albert was a “psychiatric phenomenon” and that there was no other individual in medical records who had this many sexual abnormalities. 

The jurors all believed that Albert Fish was insane, but they believed he should be executed anyway. So they found him sane and guilty and he was sentenced to death by electrocution. 

Albert Fish was executed on January 16, 1936, in the electric chair in Sing Sing. It was said that Albert had actually helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body before he died. He last words were, “I don’t even know why I’m here.” 

According to a witness, it took two jolts before Albert died, and rumours circulated that it was due to the needles that he had inserted into his body for years. These rumours turned out to be untrue, as it was claimed that many individuals in the electric chair take more than just one jolt to die. 

After Albert’s execution, his lawyer, James Dempsey said he had Albert’s final statement, which was multiple pages of hand-written notes that Albert had written hours before his death. When journalists asked Dempsey to say what Albert had written, he replied, “I will never show it to anyone. It was the most filthy string of obscenities that I have ever read.” 

[meeeeeeese]

So when Ellen Kiel was dating Zalambur, you could probably say she was receiving his

[knight-of-the-thorn]

meet me in front of ellen kiels airship if you want an ass kicking

[ursbearhug]

Who's that man with the big hat? Well captain Ellen Kiel, he's none of your fucking business. Leave my man alone you filth. I licked it, he's mine.

[evoldir]

Fwd: Conference: Olhao_Portugal.HostMicrobeSymbiosis.Jun10-13

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[shaolinmexico]

Tai Chi y las fracturas en mujeres

Impacto del ejercicio de Tai Chi en múltiples factores de riesgo relacionados con fracturas en mujeres osteopénicas posmenopáusicas: un ensayo piloto pragmático y aleatorizado Por Peter M Wayne, Douglas P Kiel, Julie E Buring, Ellen M Connors, Paolo Bonato, Gloria Y Yeh, Calvin J Cohen,  Chiara Mancinelli y Roger B Davis Resumen Fondo El Tai Chi (TC) es un ejercicio mente-cuerpo que muestra…

[ratasum]

Goodness I've had so many new guys this year! Had a big roster shift.

There's so many of them, I'm going to put them under a cut so as not to kill everyone's dashes. I've skipped some I don't have a lot of detail on yet.

Signe Robbasdottir, a young norn who was injured by Svanir as a child whiel at the Snow Leopard shrine, and she has since dedicated her life to becoming a shaman of Snow Leopard... and absolutely wrecking the days of any Svanir who cross her path. Generally solemn, she has a dry wit and a very subtle sense of humor.

Naqai! The granddaughter of Councilor Flax, she is a very rebellious young woman. Despite how much she loves her grandfather, she disapproves of how the council beds with the Inquest. Beyond that, she's energetic, bubbly, and perky... think a bit like Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls if she could strike you with lightning.

Xeonna, an asura from Rata Novus who was knocked into a specimen containment tube during the city's last moments and was awakened by Taimi's research team when the city was rediscovered. Lost and bitter, she struggles to find her way in this modern world, though she has found some companionship in the gladium charr Umbra.

Rosamund "Rosie" Marriner is the great-grandaughter of Cobiah Marriner himself, and one of my alternate commanders. The younger of four children and the only girl, she's bright, determined, and fiercely protective of the city her grandfather helped build. She has an extreme dislike for Ellen Kiel and what she's done with the city.

Another of my alternate commanders, Rhenn is my Inquest golden boy. Genetically engineered by his father to be the "perfect asura," he actually remained with the Inquest through most of his tenure as commander, until just after Joko's death. He's cocky, headstrong, and stubborn, but deep down he's a lonely young man who desperately seeks approval.

My girl Leyya! Absolute tragedy who's going through it in SotO. A childhood friend (and definitely something more throughout their lives) of Zojja's, she disappeared in HoT after getting possessed by a cursed dagger in her guilt over what happened. Though she used to be very friendly and a bit sly, she's much more closed off these days.

My poor girl Ouiima was a gate tech intern working at Ulta Metamagical in Brisban. While there, working alone on a gate, she was grabbed and dragged off by a group of Nightmare Courtiers. Kept for four years, forced to fight other captives for food and even her own life, a once shy, gentle girl instead left angry, bitter, and violent. Probably not the best person to cross.

Kippa is a big part of Rhenn's story. Born and raised in the since-destroyed asuran city that sat above the Thaumanova reactor, she's an elementalist with powerful healing abilities that had been at the Durmand Priory. Soft, gentle, and exceedingly kind, she comes off as very unasuran in many ways. She chooses to put her pain back into the world as warmth and care.

My boy Rhenn's mysterious older sister who ran away right after he was born, when she was fifteen herself, Rhiia. Though she was aware her parents had "created" a younger sibling for her, she knew her days were numbered as a result. She hasn't been home since, but genuinely feels bad for leaving Rhenn in the horrific conditions he wound up growing up in.

Praxxi is the last of my three alt commanders. Widowed when her spouse, who would have been commander, died at Claw Island, she chose to continue the mantle in their honor, and for the life of her teenage son. Lonely and lost, she has done her best to carry on, even as the responsibilities grow heavier with every new one that gets laid on her shoulders.

Silas Dreadpyre is a former Flame Legionnaire and adherent to Efram's teachings, sent out into the world to get a feel for the world beyond their ranks. In doing this, he eventually met Ahlma, a member of the Order of Whispers, growing close to her to the point of a relationship. He always looks very serious and is generally very chill, but he has a good sense of humor and loves to cook.

And speaking of Ahlma! A necromancer and cousin to one of my oldest characters, Qirri, she's a sassy, elegant, dramatic young woman that doesn't take any grief from anyone. One of the first people Silas got close to as he began to move outside the Flame Legion, she gladly took him under her proverbial wing... even if she initially had to break him of his outdated thoughts on her being trans.

The legionnaire of the Fist warband, Butch Crushfist is rowdy, vicious, and loyal to a fault. As the leader of an all female warband (that includes only one male, Dinky), she's quite proud of her position. Having formerly been a gladium who proved herself by putting together her group from other outcasts. All members of the warband use their fists to fight, regardless of their actual class.

And my very newest girl, for whom I'm using her art instead of a screenshot since she's off model, Pyxsi! With her mesmer construct prosthesis, as she was born without her left arm. The grandniece of Councilor Haia, she is as cunning, sly, and meticulous as her grandaunt... though that wasn't by accident. She recently pieced together that it was her aunt who arranged the deaths of her parents and grandparents in order to take her in.

Not that anyone ever needs a reason to post their characters, but I know some people get inside their head and squirrely so here you go, community prompt: Show off characters you have created this year! Go!

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(Disclaimer that this is very much a "my character's opinion's don't reflect my own okay thanks" moment.)

Thinking about Kippa in the aftermath of Rata Thauma and Thaumanova again today because like...

When word of the true driving force behind the Thaumanova disaster got to Rhenn through Ellen Kiel, and eventually Kippa, she developed SUCH a burning bitterness towards Scarlet, bordering on the closest Kippa could ever come to hate.

Because an entire city was wiped off the map, HER CITY, filled with people with full lives and jobs and families and loves and hopes. She lost almost EVERYTHING, with just a handful of scraps to cling onto, and I don't think she can ever forgive that. And I really don't think anyone could blame her bc it isn't like Scarlet wasn't involved. In fact she was incredibly involved, almost moreso than the Inquest.

The handful of Inquest in Rata Thauma may have deserved to die, but the hundreds of other asura just living their lives in there didn't, and Kippa has boiled over that for YEARS. Since it wasn't just her college. It was her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and colleagues, college professors and classmates, acquaintances. There were even some Priory members there recruiting that she was friendly with.

Anyway it's fascinating to me bc like. Kippa doesn't really hate people?? She tries to see the good in people as much as she's able. But there's a reason she viscerally distrusted Rhenn at first, and it was the Inquest's connection to Thaumanova. Learning about Scarlet's direct involvement and overall strong handed push that resulted in the reactor's destruction?

There's no walking back from that, really