Engin and Darina Rawtharn
Engin thought that his wife Darina was a very clever woman. He would even use the word sly when describing her but he did not consider it an insult. Back in the city before the invasion they had been struggling to make ends meet and now here they were in the same boat (literally) as lords and ladies. And even the king and queen! Yes Darina had been clever when she suggested they accompany Eallair and his other subjects to Mhalwae. They would all be starting almost from the same place here… yes they would soon have their castles but surely they would come to rely on and know the peasant-folk here which would never have happened back home. He was glad he had married Darina, others thought she was a sharp woman, greedy and a gossiper, but he saw her true worth.
Darina herself had always wanted to be great but now knowing it would never happen for her, her ambitions lay with the children she would have. Surely on a small island such as this her children might be picked to marry into nobility. And she would do everything in her power to make it happen. As she and Engin stood together looking out towards Mhalwae she was perhaps the only one who was not unnerved by the dark form rising out of the raging ocean.
Oooh, a sly and sneaky woman? I wonder what mischief she’ll bring to the already mysterious island! I am really loving how different the characters are turning out to be… with such a large neighborhood, it will make it easier to distinguish between them.
Yes… I guess it is a pretty big neighbourhood. Sorry for taking so long to introduce everyone. I went a litte bit overboard when I made the characters and randomly generated their names. Then I got a bit attached and couldn’t cut it down. But I guess it will make it interesting. So that’s pretty much it for the families actually. Only one more post to intro characters (the church) and then on with the story hurrah =).
I think it’s great to have a lot of characters (even if it makes us wait for the story, which it doesn’t for me since I am reading this late–*cough*). I forget, are you playing this as a challenge or simply telling a story?
Darina seems a wee bit creepy, but if she’s ambitious then she made a wise move I think.
Lothere… I am just telling the story. I think I would get to annoyed with having my medieval characters go off to work as chefs and mailroom clerks. That sort of inconsistency really bugs me for some reason =). I really don’t like it when my characters suddenly change out of their medieval clothing and into a superhero outfit =). Anyway… this way I can just focus on the story and not get tied down with the playing. I have another neighbourhood that I am actually playing (albeit very rarely) which is fairly normal.
I guess Darina isn’t the nicest of people. I can’t remember what her niceness was but it is very low. Engin’s is pretty low too. They will make for some interesting stories I think.
She doesn’t have to be nice in order to do what she thinks is best for her family. She strikes me as ambitious for them, and sneaky and sly will likely work to her advantage. I like this story a lot so far, and I don’t think there are too many characters. Yet. LOL They’re going to spawn ankle biters soon, though.
I have to admit the story is moving so slowly all the ankle-biters are still babies. I really need to speed it up but it is quite hard to do that. But damn, I want kids and then I want them to grow up. But Mhalwae is almost going real time at the moment which is very bad, at this rate I will be 40 when the kids start becoming teenagers