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Welcome, new players and old players with new characters! This is the OOC Introduction post, made specially as a gathering place to meet and greet and get to know each other and our characters! Please take a moment to introduce yourself. You may do it any way you like or, if you're a fan of structure, please feel free to use this handy dandy copy-paste:

Player Name: Whatever you want us to call you.
Contact: Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you!
Pronouns: Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are.
Tell us about yourself: Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know.

Character Name & Journal: Character name and journal here!
Tell us about them: Give us a quick little introduction of your character, no more than a paragraph, to let us know a little about them. This will give people an idea of maybe how they can plot with their character and yours depending on potential interactions, but it also gives you a chance to gush about them to everyone. (We know you want to!)
Initial Ideas: We know you're just getting started off here so you may not have any solid goals for where you want to go yet, but let us know if there's anything you're looking for to start off with! Types of CR, parts of the setting you want to play with, magic you want to have your character have a disaster with, whatever floats your boat.
My Dream Aesthetic: This section is going to change for each OOC intro, we just want to put something fun each time. :) Tell us about the kind of aesthetic you absolutely adore. Roccoco? Futuristic neon punk? Do you live the floral life?
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Player Name: Samu
Contact: Personal Plurk

samuraimarmoset, or via Discord at Samu#6300
Pronouns: He/Him
Tell us about yourself: I joined last month with Chris Lightfellow as part of the impromptu Suikoden train. I work mornings/afternoons so my tagging period is usually later in the day EST, though work takes it out of me and I'm not always consistent.

Character Name & Journal: Eivor "Wolf-Kissed" Varinsdotter
Tell us about them: Eivor is a vikingr of the Raven Clan, and adopted sister to its current Jarl Sigurd. Her foster father was the last of the Norse petty kings in the time when Harald Fairhair was forging the various clans of Norway into a proper kingdom. When King Styrbjorn made the entirely sensible decision to surrender his crown and territory to Harald, in order to put an end to the wars and bloodshed that had been tearing Norway apart, Sigurd, to put it politely, lost his shit. Eivor and a good number of Raven Clan warriors agreed that this was some bullshit and they abandoned Norway and headed to England where the Great Heathen Army led by the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok was making good headway carving up the various English kingdoms into their own conquered territories, looking to cut themselves a slice of that pie. Sigurd established a colony at Ravensthorpe in Mercia, then promptly fucked off to go adventuring with a Hidden One (Assassin before they were called the Assassin) buddy of his named Basim, leaving Eivor to do most of the grunt-work forging alliances and building the colony. When Sigurd got himself captured by King Aelfred, the last Christian king of England, Eivor spent a couple months tearing up the English countryside looking for him, rescuing him from a heretic named Fulke, but not after she'd done a number on Sigurd physically...and mentally. Eivor was trying to deal with all that when she got summoned to Avalon, so she is coming in from before the end of Valhalla's main quest. Once the two DLC campaigns are out, I might consider canon-updating her, depending on how things go for her here in Avalon. In addition to her pet raven Sýnin who came with her, Eivor's familiar is a raven spirit she's taken to calling "Reisende", which is Norse for "Traveler". ~~TWO ravens? That's not symbolic or anything.~~

Also, Odin, the Norse All-Father talks to her sometimes in visions, mostly to encourage her to be more bloodthirsty, merciless, and glory-seeking.

Initial Ideas: So, because Eivor already had a link with her pet raven Sýnin in the game that allowed her to see through the bird's eyes, her learning Animal magic is going to be relatively straightforward, I think. Transformation-wise, Eivor will favour Raven, Wolf, and Bear forms (as per the three skill trees of Valhalla). The Cognitive stuff, well...that's gonna be draped in a lot more mysticism and mythology. I'm looking forward to exploring that stuff.

She'll also want to build herself a new longship and get a crew, so expect her to be spending a lot of time at the nearest set of docks. A longship could theoretically be useful for exploring later once more of the island opens up. ~~And maybe a solid bit of raiding too, but ssssh.~~ She also won't be above Dark Net tasks either; she even has a Hidden Blade to make stabbing people easier! The other thing is more spoiler-iffic as it involves revelations from the endgame of Valhalla, so spoiler warning is in effect!

Eivor is the reincarnation of Odin, or at least the precursor on whom the Norse god was based. She's what's known as a "Sage", a human with enough reconstituted DNA of a specific Isu (the aforesaid precursors) that allows their consciousness to manifest, which Eivor interprets as those visions from Odin I mentioned, because Assassin's Creed is weird. In keeping with modern video game trends, the Isu Odin was a cruel, manipulative paranoiac called "the Mad One" by his chief enemy, who used friend and foe alike in his quest to avoid the calamity that destroyed the race (i.e. "Ragnarok"). Eventually, once she's established and had some solid CR, I'd like to do a thing where Odin begins to take more control over Eivor. He's not a nice guy and will be largely uninterested in restoring his own world when a new one lies before him ripe for conquest and glory, so that will shift him into a more antagonistic role when he's driving. Eivor is largely a good person, albeit a product of the time she was raised in, and won't understand/remember anything Odin does when he's in control which I hope will make for a compelling plot.

My Dream Aesthetic: A gothic castle in a snow-swept northern forest, with a roaring fire in the great hall.

Anything else: Still topical, really.

Edited 2021-04-13 07:09 (UTC)

I haven't finished Valhalla but I've played up to Eivor's canonpoint and I love Eivor to bits. Our thread has been really fun, Geralt already meshes pretty well with her. Plus they both have the ~animal associations~ going on, although his referred to as schools rather than clans.

Possessions are also in his realm of experience (which he would def interpret Eivor being taken over as, since gods don't really exist in his world in the same way) so possibly down the line somewhere depending on how things develop, that might be an interesting point to pick at.

I was so glad to see you got in! Eivor and Geralt is a choice bit of CR, and I'm glad you're enjoying her. I look forward to seeing what else we can do with these two. Keep the TDM thread canon, yeah?