Sounds good to me, maybe this will help me get motivated to expand my little 'area of the world'.Originally Posted by 12rounds
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Heh.. you know what they say about great minds and all. Not exactly sure how that applies to us, but you know..
That was kind of the point. Well that, and the area fit.Sounds good to me, maybe this will help me get motivated to expand my little 'area of the world'.
-IG
Name: Count Ludwig Morton "The Crimson Knight"
Race: Human
Location: Morton, Thrubmorton Fens
A member of a long line of knights and other noblemen, Count Ludwig Morton is the current ruler of the city of Morton - one of the biggest cities of Thrubmorton Fens. Count Ludwig is the primary ruler of the city and the lord of the lands surrounding Morton (the fortified city of New Mere Fort and the trade city of Mullion both fall under Count Morton's rule). Count Morton is known throughout the lands as "The Crimson Knight" - a nickname that originates from the youth of the then-aspiring knight. He defeated a red dragon that was said to be the mother of a strange variety of reddish brown lizardmen that have been seen from time to time but who seem extremely rare or elusive now. He brought the remains of the dragon to Morton where it was seen by a thousand people in the market square of the city. Ludwig then hired a well-known dwarven alchemist Durgar to extract the fiery redness of the dragon and instill it's power onto hardened armor plates that would then be moulded into a suit of armor. The process lasted for two years. Count Morton's red armor is said to contain extreme magical properties but those can as easily be old wives' tales than absolute truth.
Count Morton is married to Lady Sullivan and they have two sons and one daughter now. The immediate family of Morton's include a total of 24 living persons, most of whom live in the city of Morton or Mullion. That fact makes the Morton's family a rock solid clan that is likely to stay in power long after a single of it's member is gone. The family is close, effective and stable unit whose members share common interests and strong beliefs in the feudal hierarchy. They also maintain a strong presence in every possible city function and eventhough the family is well liked by the citizens, their apparent need to control everything is frequently causing problems within the city populace.
Count Ludwig Morton is a rather well-mannered and civil man despite his reputation as a fierce combatant. He is comfortable in a leading position. He is very much a hard-working man and regularly accompanies common citizens in even menial tasks such as bridge-building, tree-cutting, roofing etc. He gains enormous amounts of respect thru these events but in all honesty he doesn't do those to win popularity contests. He simply enjoys manual labor and getting his hands dirty.
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Last edited by 12rounds; 06-20-2016 at 02:41 AM.
Well you know what this means... it means I (or anyone stepping up to the plate) will definitely have to map Morton now ! I wonder if the next months challenge can wangle a big castle into it ?
How cool is he. I like the armour with imbued red dragon essence. Fantastic. With Hoels new found red dragon eggs in the goblin encampment I think there could be a tie in...
Nicely done as usual. Always gotta stop what I am doing when a 12rounds email pops into the box. Very impressed.
Another fantastic piece!
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Let's just start with a sturdy riding horse, shall we.
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Excellent - the company of six ride forth
Cool idea RR!
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It's been a month since last image update.
Now I have a new computer rig set-up and today's update is the first produced with the new set-up. I've got myself a 64-bit Ubuntu Linux running on a very fast 6Gb RAM, Intel i7 920 quad-core with 4 disks (1Tb, 500Gb are data disks, 10000rpm 150Gb Velociraptor is a systems disk and a 60Gb solid-state drive for uber-fast data access for 3D resources). It took me some days to get things going, but the speed difference is remarkable for both 2D and 3D work.
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Name: Carl Falcone
Race: human
Location: Warder Keep, Akron
Carl Falcone is not a born-and-raised Akronian eventhough a good number of his large family lives in the City State of Akron. His story begun on a merchant boat where his mother gave birth enroute from Akron to an unknown location in the Thanelands trying to reach her husband and Carl's father. His mother died in child-birth and took with her the identity of Carl's biological father. The ship's captain felt pity for the newborn and later on adopted him. Carl's adopted father was from the Thanelands and thus Carl was raised there and accustomed to a foreign culture. His childhood was not easy and he was always considered an "outsider" by even his half-brothers and friends in the community. At Carl's 16th birthday his father revealed him the truth of Carl's origin and gave him all the knowledge he had gathered about Carl's mother. A few years later when it was time for him to leave his childhood's nest, he took upon himself a quest to seek out his mother's family not knowing what to expect. A year later he had rejoined his biological family in Akron, but he had grave difficulties blending in the Akronian society. He was largely considered a Thane and things hadn't been quite right between Akron and Thanelands for quite some time. After several difficult years, Carl eventually reached a conclusion that he was not a welcome presence in the city and started a short, but bloody career as a caravan guardian for the Alleuri merchant family.
5 years ago Carl met Artor Cambori at a tavern in Karthis. Both of them had had too much to drink and they ended up starting a massive bar brawl that eventually needed 20 members of the city guard to cool down. They were thrown in the same cell in the hopes they would just kill each other and be done over with, but lo and behold the two men actually befriended that night laughing their heads off at the mayhem they had caused. Carl had just ended a 2-week long merchant caravan guard duty and a few days later Artor approached him offering him a position in his mercenary group. Carl took on the offer and has been a member since. Warder Keep and Cambori's group offered Carl a safe haven in which he felt accepted and at home the first time in his life.
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Last edited by 12rounds; 10-28-2010 at 11:04 AM.
Excellent ! You must have been typing that whilst I was uploading some of your characters to a set on my site - thanks for that btw. This guys just missed out it seems. Sounds like a nifty PC you have there. Mine is pretty fast but the disk speed is low. Your 10K + flash disk should cure that issue. I find now that I have multi gigs of ram swapping is a no goer cos it takes minutes to shuffle that onto HDD. You should try a linpack run ! Blender and POVray both fly on quads. I like this character cos he is quite generic. You could use him in a number of roles from woodsman to guard and in several classes in RPG too esp if slightly tweaked in each case. Great stuff, ill see if I can rep again but I bet it wont let me.
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