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[esperanta-dragon]

Hi, hope this question finds you well!

Read the whole series Memories of the Dawn and it's amazing! Hope, you will finish it. Your Darion is the best. I'm running a DnD campaign in warcraft setting, wotlk timeline, and soon he will show up. So, I wanted to ask you for some tips, or advices on writing his character and how to play him in an rpg.

Thanks!

Hello! Ok, this ask brightened my day as it's not every day that somebody writes me about my fanfics.

Memories of the Dawn is finished, it's only 3 chapters. Maybe you have Of Lucid Dreams and Nightmares in mind which comes after that and that will be ongoing for many chapters as it's a slice-of-life kind of fanfic.

About Darion well... It's been a long journey to develop him until this very moment because the only thing you have is the Ashbringer comic and then some bits and pieces in-game + We Ride Forth (which is a blessing and Darion has exactly the vibe he needs to give). I would say he is very complex and he shows only a little part of himself, he hides the majority of his thoughts = a quiet person with a loud mind.

What helped me the most when I was trying to figure him out was his MBTI. Just a disclaimer, I use this from time to time and everybody is different anyway depending on their trauma, experience, etc.

Darion is INFJ which means he is introverted spending most of his time learning stuff and thinking.

He is great with connecting dots and seeing the full picture, not only the surface. I would say he sees things hidden from others.

He is a perfectionist and if he is doing something, he wants to do it well, which means he spends a lot of time perfecting his skills and knowledge. If he doesn't know something, he goes and does research.

He has a strong moral compass and he puts the safety of his people before his own safety or needs. He actually does not care about himself too much as he has the safety of his people in the first place. This means that he does not hesitate to jump in or take a risk. According to Ashbringer he never cared about differences or different races. If he cares about something (the Ebon Blade in this case) he will do everything to keep it safe (second Light's Hope).

He sacrificed his own soul to save his father from damnation, so you get the idea how far he can go to keep his soldiers safe.

He is tough and shows very little emotion, but he cares and he is fair. But hurt his soldiers and he will erase you from existence.

This is probably my own thing in how I write him but he is trying to manage everything himself, otherwise, he feels he is failing in leadership, so his soldiers have to find a way how to help him without him knowing.

He does not share personal things and even those who know him for years and managed to befriend him don't know everything. So it does not happen easily he will go to somebody and say "hey I need to talk because I am losing it". It's his way to keep his soldiers away from worrying about stuff plus it's his problem and nobody else has to hear it.

The behavior above was built after Light's Hope and during the war in Northrend when the Ebon Blade still did not know each other and Darion was still building trust, so he couldn't afford to show that he is having doubts and he is struggling. No need to do it now but he kept it.

He is incredibly stubborn, if he chooses a goal, he will not stop until reaching it. You can't possibly make him change his mind if he thinks he is doing the right thing.

His soldiers believe in him because they know he has their back.

He is very reserved, and he rarely uses swear words. If he uses them, everything is going to hell. If he wants to offend somebody, he does it without swear words.

I use the Ashbriger version: a blond teenager. It sounds lame and I bet you want a grizzled veteran in his place. But after I found out how many situations you can make with Highlord of the Ebon Blade being a young teenager who doesn't seem like a threat... well have fun figuring it out! Because that means he had to try twice as hard to earn respect and his reputation.

It really depends if you want to show him on the surface as NPC. If yes then I would recommend keeping it on the surface because he is not sharing much but you can get some idea about him. I recommend reading We Ride Forth if you didn't. It's beautifully shown that he cares and if he chose a goal, he doesn't let it go.

Please feel free to use this as some guide but do not think you can't write him differently. Everybody has their own version of the character but I vibe with this one the most, especially after I saw that Brooks in We Ride Forth had the same vibe.

I apologize for the wall of text, he is more complex than that, this is just a surface but I hope it helps.

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How did Timmy react to Peri’s name change?

Timmy was the first person to be told of Peri's name change! When Peri was sent to boarding school, he figured it'd be a good time to switch things up a bit. Maybe reinvent himself some!

Timmy accepted his new name change wholeheartedly!! It took a bit to get used to, but Peri's very happy that his brother supported him for it.

Peri didn't tell his parents until they met again after he became a Godparent. Timmy never told his parents that Peri changed his name, either.

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[luminarai]

Attempting to get the beast used to a dental hygiene routine is… well, it’s going.

(She stayed that way for a solid 8 seconds despite hating being held belly up so I think it’s safe to say that Mim is not beating the ‘tiny speaker playing elevator music instead of a brain’ allegations any time soon.)

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[esperanta-dragon]

And one more question, sorry for pestering you! This one will be about Shadowmourne. In your work, the axe is guarded by dk, and Anduin caught a panic attack (which is understandable) just being in it's presence. Only three classes can use Shadowmourne, and if there are no questions with a dk and a warrior, then how can a paladin decide to take an axe and not comparing himself to arthas?

The biggest issues I see with these things and why people struggle understanding lore or they can't decide how something work is...

In-game mechanic doesn't mean it's canon

Ask yourself:

Would powerful and important lore characters ask for help heroes all the time? Why they don't do stuff themselves?

Why Forsaken priests can use the Light?

How healers of any kind can heal death knights or Forsaken when they are dead already? How paladins or priests can heal them when the Light is hurting undead of any kind?

Why Darion or Sylvanas, Varian or Muradin were not up there on the Frozen Throne with Tirion to put an end to Arthas when they wanted to do it for years? Why they were suddenly not present?

Easy. In-game mechanic. Lore characters probably do all the important tasks themselves. But then players would have nothing to do. They wouldn't even kill some of the raid bosses because lore characters would do it themselves. Forsaken or Death knights would be dying all the time during raids because you would be damaging them instead of healing them. Death knights can even drown in-game which is stupid because they no longer need to breathe.

Same goes for Shadowmourne.

Darion went through a lot to forge it. He knows the weapon the best. Why would he give it to some random hero? If you would want to explain it in a book, then you would have to create a character with own goals, history, etc. Why would he not hold it himself against the Lich King? He was driven to kill the Lich King, that's why he forged the Shadowmourne. And suddenly he stayed in Light's Hammer and gave the Shadowmourne somebody else when he barely trusts anybody outside of his order.

In-game mechanic. Because players need the legendary weapon. Lorewise? Darion would not give Shadowmourne to anybody because he forged it, he wanted to kill the Lich King himself and he wouldn't trust anybody to hold it. But it's still very volatile weapon so Darion decided to keep it under the lock and key and he is using his swords instead. I still have a headcanon he took the Shadowmourne when he went to Shadowlands. Not sure if I will use it as I am trying to delete SL from my head.

Saronite has the amazing ability: living can hear whispers and it can drive them mad. It also absorbs Light. So imagine giving weapon forged from primal saronite to a paladin. Or a warrior who is not undead. Lorewise, living can't wear saronite armor or use saronite weapons because of that. Also that's why the undead or death knights wear it. It's lighter than steel and absorbs Light so it protects them from it.

I am talking all the time that I hate breaking canon and I like filling out gaps instead and still not twisting canon.

But I've learned to distinquish lore from in-game mechanics and asking myself what would make sense if in-game mechanic was not present.

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