After my post Struggles, I took a break from WoW for a little while.  I had expected it to last longer than it did but after a while, the idea for a new RP character was too much and I wanted to get it started. 

There were lots of weird back and forth cobbling together of character and potential story that is how I work, but in the end, I went a completely different direction than what I had initially had in mind.  And that was ok.

The story that I had in mind for the character was to be a healer, yes - but I'm also incorporating books (she's a scribe!) and herbs and inks (scribe!  She is one!)  It's odd how fun a new profession can be.  She has many elements of my earlier RP personalities, but that's because they are things that I want to have for my RP, they just hadn't found the right home for the ideas.  Everything fits together very well in her, so I feel confident.

Tonight, she ran into the tavern in the Dwarven District with the intent of seeing if any books were laying around to be read, but she ran into a few people sitting around and drinking.  My first thought was just to run back out rather than RP "before I was ready" but I figured what the hell.  No time like the present, hey?  It was quite nice, really.  A little scary, because the only other people I had RP'd with before, I knew through Twitter or blogs, but these people were totally new to me so I didn't know what to expect at all.  It was a nice little chit chat - a good exercise in RP, I suppose. 

(Actually, I may post my character concept here eventually.  That's an idea!)

While she was poking around looking for books, my new priest did find two that she found particularly interesting and sad.  While she stopped in at Saldean's farm, there was a book upstairs titled Aegwynn and the Dragon Hunt that was interesting for me to read - I hadn't known anything about Aegwynn.  Conveniently, at the inn in Sentinel Hill there was a continuation of the story, The Last Guardian.  I found them very tragic.

I hope that if I pace myself and only play when I truly want to (not because I feel like I ought to, just so I can get to 80 quicker) the game will still be fun.  It's still hard remembering Lus at odd times and missing him but I think that with all the great people in the guild and on the server, it'll be alright.

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One thing that occurred to me today is that I have a difficult time thinking up a backstory because I don't know any more than what I can find on WoWwiki or similar pages and that information - while helpful - isn't enough for me to feel sure that I have enough information.  I always knew I wasn't as educated in lore as I might be, but to think up a person's history and life story with such limited resources is rather difficult - especially if it's a Night Elf who is hundreds of years old.  That's a lot of history to cover.

I love to read.  My favorite genre is historical fiction.  Because I have read so many books covering a large variety of time periods, I could quite easily make up a story about a person in (insert time period here) - through all these years of reading, I've become familiar with events that happened in many periods, lifestyles, culture, speech, dress... all the things that are wrapped up in a person and are part of their story.  All the things that I don't know about for my characters.  I know that there are "Warcraft books" out there - I haven't read them (not my genre) but now I wonder if I should.  I doubt they'd have all the information I'd want in them, but it would certainly be more than I know now.

Or is that some of the appeal for RPers?  They only know so much about the world and what may have happened to their character, derived from what their particular race has been through.  After that, it's up to them to embellish and create.  Is that the appeal for some of you?  Or are others like me,  preferring to stay as close to canon as possible?