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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 4:42 pm 
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Name: Maral
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Maral is an immense and thickly muscled woman who stands three times the size of a man and twice as wide. Her arms alone are as thick as most men's trunks. She has long crimson hair that she keeps bound at the back of her neck, eyes the color of granite, and her skin is darkly bronzed by long exposure to the heat of forges, many of which include open pits of magma. Maral is a master craftsman, from a race known for their work, but though her own skills are amazing, she realizes how little she knows of her craft when confronted with the wonders hammered out in the forges of the Eternities.

The planes of Dominia are places of unfathomable and intricate beauty, shaped by forces of unparalleled creation. She has come to appreciate each and every world as a unique piece forged by time and is fascinated by the furnaces of history they were born from. As much as this stirs her though, this is not what drives her. Worlds are too large for her to learn from, but there are things that drift throughout Dominia which have truly caught her interest.

Scattered throughout the many worlds are works of art so astounding that they have shifted histories, and many of these have found ways to escape from the earthly bonds from which they were constructed. Maral is driven to find these items, to learn more about them and to study the hand that crafted them. They are artifacts of incredible reputation and power, relics that have made empires rise and ruined lives. She wants to know everything she can about them, gather them, safeguard them, and if necessary... destroy them.

Maral has used much of what she has learned to create an immense vault in which she stores the artifacts that she creates and collects, a vault that doubles as a forge she'd only dreamt of when she was a girl learning the first lessons of a smith. She has accumulated unique materials from across the myriad worlds, learned more than any of her kind before, and could be a rich woman if she so chose, but wealth is not what she desires. She would never be content with that. She is driven by that which seems to drive every artisan: perfection.

More than an architect of creation, she is a master of destruction and feels the heavy weight of responsibility to destroy relics which have proven too dangerous to be allowed to drift in the worlds. She learns of the artifacts from many sources, some from records of those she has dealt with in the past and some following rumors. She bankrolls much of her quest by selling masterworks and commissions to other walkers. She is less concerned with what others do with her creations than what havoc others could cause if left to their own devices.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:38 pm 
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This gets an enthusiastic yea from me! I like the character and I think she has a lot of interesting potential for future stories.

I think this is the first character we've voted on on the strength of her dossier alone in like... half a year, if not more.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:36 am 
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I am embarrassed to admit that, about the first five hundred times I read this topic name, I read "wright" as "wight," and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how that was relevant in this context.

Fortunately, on take five-hundred-and-one, I noticed that "r" - you know, the one that was there the whole stinking time. And, suddenly, the pieces fell into place!

I love this character. It does seem strange that we didn't have much in the way of dedicated artificers, so this fills that gap nicely. "Yea" from me.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:22 am 
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I think it's because Urza looms so large in the consciousness of a lot of storyline fans. It's hard to imagine an artificer character without seeing shades of Urza.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:46 am 
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I think it's because Urza looms so large in the consciousness of a lot of storyline fans. It's hard to imagine an artificer character without seeing shades of Urza.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 12:36 pm 
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I think it's because Urza looms so large in the consciousness of a lot of storyline fans. It's hard to imagine an artificer character without seeing shades of Urza.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:16 pm 
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My work here is done.

I will now return to my home planet.

(Which, slightly anti-climatically, is also this planet. You guys are stuck with me.)

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:40 pm 
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Okay, I lied. My work here is not done.

I must also note that, should you see shades of Urza at night, you may watch him weave and breathe his snowy lands, or keep track of the Visions cards in his eyes.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:04 pm 
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:25 pm 
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oh my god


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:58 pm 
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There's not really much I can say here. The character is intriguing and I look forward to seeing her adventures. I will say that to me, given the description here, she seems more of a passive character -- one that others will come to for help, or just that she will be a figure once something momentous has happened -- more than an a character who would have an active role as the main protagonist. It won't be difficult to change my mind on the matter, but that is what I see in her now.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:46 am 
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There's not really much I can say here. The character is intriguing and I look forward to seeing her adventures. I will say that to me, given the description here, she seems more of a passive character -- one that others will come to for help, or just that she will be a figure once something momentous has happened -- more than an a character who would have an active role as the main protagonist. It won't be difficult to change my mind on the matter, but that is what I see in her now.

She is much more of a reactive character than a proactive character. She's driven by her relationships to other things since... well, she internalizes a lot. She could very well turn into a hermit if she didn't have others to come and check on her.
Like Raleris, for example.

And I won't lie, because I said "hermit" I quickly snapped to the image of Aloise meeting her.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:46 am 
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That would probably be the most adorable meeting in all of Dominia.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:31 pm 
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That would probably be the most adorable meeting in all of Dominia.

I feel that now, upon you uttering that phrase, a challenge has gone out across the multiverse for "the most adorable meeting in Dominia", and it's likely that Raven will win that challenge.

Although I immediately thought "we need bunny-folk in Magic".


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:33 am 
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That would probably be the most adorable meeting in all of Dominia.

I feel that now, upon you uttering that phrase, a challenge has gone out across the multiverse for "the most adorable meeting in Dominia", and it's likely that Raven will win that challenge.

Although I immediately thought "we need bunny-folk in Magic".

Tempting, but I just started my soul-crushing summer job today and already I want bad things to happen to people. I doubt I'll be in a "cute" mood any time soon...

(Although if I did write a "cute" story, it would likely have a meepling in it, you know, to kill two birds with one stone...


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:09 pm 
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I voted Yea. You know my concerns about power-levels, but I trust you.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:31 pm 
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Just remembered to vote for this.

I like the character, though I have to get caught up on he "From the Vault" stuff, which I'm sure will make me like her even more.

Can't say much that hasn't been said, though.

Yea.

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