Character Interviews: Prince Arrious
As I did previously with Saif (Forgotten Legends), Saif (Forgotten Paths), and Mark (Forgotten Paths), I decided to make an interview with Prince Arrious from the ruling house of Atarnor just For The Lulz and (to a lesser extent) character development and world building purposes, presenting him as an example of the typical Atarnor citizen.
Derrick_Mace: May Anvar light your life, readers. Here, we have Prince Arrious humbly accepting an interview with Anorian Character Development. Good afternoon, Prince Arrious.
Arrious: May Anvar light your path.
Derrick_Mace: For the purposes of world building and character development, I intend to make this interview a bit long. I hope you don't mind.
Arrious: You're breaking the forth wall.
Derrick_Mace: So are you. We're even.
Arrious: I walked right into that one.
Derrick_Mace: Now, Prince. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Arrious: Well...I'm from a fairly distant branch of the ruling house of Atanor, so I'm not the first in line for the throne....except if all my relatives suddenly die or something.
That wasn't wishful thinking.
Derrick_Mace: Of course it wasn't.
Arrious: I don't mean that I'm cruel or something. Look, I mean that I'm only talking--
Derrick_Mace: I know! I made you!
Arrious: Man, these interviews can really be taken out of context.
Derrick_Mace: Like almost everything. Regardless, tell me more about yourself.
Arrious: I'm not pretentious, you know.
Derrick_Mace: Just go on with it.
Arrious: Fine! I'm a bit popular for doing some of King Assador's jobs, and I am a semi-frequent visitor to Tharnil, the Seaside kingdom.
Derrick_Mace: What would you say about Dardeep?
Arrious: I don't like it there.
Derrick_Mace: Why?
Arrious: *Grumble* Religious differences. It's like a diplomatic mission going there...
Derrick_Mace: I established Anoria to have three main religions, and two philosophies which I haven't fully fleshed out completely. The state religion of Atarnor is similar to the state religion of Dardeep and Thrarnil, but only in origins. Some arguments esculate, and I try my best to make the world seem alive with religious difference and various shades of tolerance and intolerance. Give us an example, Arrious, of any uncomfortable, religiously-related event that happened to you in Dardeep.
Arrious: When I was in the countryside with Princess Thiadris as a child, I accidentally stumbled upon one of their worship buildings. They didn't really enjoy it when I was still swinging my mock sword in there, and they kicked me out. Atharavv had a hard time helping me out. Some of their clerics thought what I did was intentional. (*Grumble mumble*)
Derrick_Mace: What did you do when Thiadris entered the fifth Hall of Prayer?
Arrious: Well, that's different. I asked her politely to leave.
Derrick_Mace: you didn't inquire if she entered Atanorian faith!
Arrious: ...I was 12. I thought she was pulling pranks.
Derrick_Mace: And Tharnil's state religion?
Arrious: Almost exactly like Dardeep, except less extreme. They have parties in their places of worship.
Derrick_Mace: How do you respond on accusations against Atanorian faith by saying it's copied off soraiden faith?
Arrious: Assador and numerous scholars state that the Ar'Sorai had their faith long before any contact with them.
Derrick_Mace: And allegations stating it was a sorai consperacy?
Arrious: People can twist everything to their liking. (*Grumble*) The sorai won't be harmed if Atarnor followed Tharnil or Dardeep's faith.
Derrick_Mace: There's a surprise for you, Arrious! When the time comes and first kingdom of Men's history is clear to you, a lot will make a lot of sense.
Arrious: What kind of sense?
Derrick_Mace: It'll sound good to you. I promise. Regardless, tell me about dragons.
Arrious: I hate them.
Derrick_Mace: Fair enough. They don't like you much either. Tell us about your training.
Arrious: Early-year combat training focused on several branches: positioning, pace of movement, profeciency with weapons and use of negative magic.
Positioning is the most important thing in Atanorian style of combat. How to stand, how to hold your weapon and how to move is everything when the going gets tough. Pace matters with heavy weapon, namely dragon-slaying great swords and medium cannons, and even the occasional Blackwood bow.
Derrick_Mace: The Blackwood bow is considered a heavy weapon?
Arrious: not officially, but it is an exotic weapon to Atarnor tastes. With the environment being somewhat damp across the year, typical threads woven by the Ar'Sorai do not suffice. That is where custom bowstring comes in. Not to mention that Blackwood bows are powerful bows, and it takes a lot of training to draw it, least of all in the heat of battle. In Atarnorian military, archers stand in the far end and aim to where they can, and not in the middle rows of the army like Soraiden armies.
Derrick_Mace: And what is negative magic?
Arrious: With the Ar'Sorai elemental magic and judges' and paladins' light magic, combat troops are taught rudementary knowledge in negative magic, which mostly neutralizes magic from other sources, save for black and light magic. The average troop is supposedly able to block a minature magical thunderbolt or a medium blast of elemental magic. This proves invaluable with some Adorai apperences in our boarders.
Derrick_Mace: Tell us about the Adorai.
Arrious: Can't do that.
Derrick_Mace: What? Why?
Arrious: It's almost dusk.
Derrick_Mace: Whatever. I'm above my own story.
Arrious: Fine, but you'll handle Illun when he finds you.
Derrick_Mace: I'll interview him, too. A good antagonist is great to listen to.
Arrious: Very well. In sorai and to a lesser extent, Atanorian faith, dusk is a magical time. In some stories, it is said that when the sun sets out, the light magic that holds the order of Anoria weakens, and thus the mirror world, Airona's features appear in our world. That's why sorai never allow their children to stay out during sunset, but allow it during nighttime.
Derrick_Mace: Airnoa sounds like a cheap reverse to Anoria.
Arrious: What am I supposed to do? You did minimal world building in Airona!
Derrick_Mace: Fine. I'll find a better name. Continue.
Arrious: That's all I know so far. Some paladins took upon themselves the duty of discovering what happens, and many returned, but some looked just shellshocked, and some kept wondering, but most retired to soraiden lands. Even Ar'Sorai hunters fear the dusk, and hide whenever they are able. A lot of nightmares happen in that time.
Derrick_Mace: I see. This has been enlightening, Prince Arrious.
Arrious: I guess.
Derrick_Mace: And you achieved some status in badassery when you one-shotted Saphira.
Arrious: She walked right into it. (*distant gaze*)
Derrick_Mace: I will involve you in any other stories that irk me as cameo apperences, if that's ok.
Arrious: You're the writer.
Derrick_Mace: And you're the man.
Thank you, dear readers for sticking by. I promise to bring out a proper post regarding Airona world building and some more human culture worldbuilding.
If anything, I will strive to make this real.
May your vampires sparkle eternally.
Illun: I am so going to kill you for that.
Derrick_Mace: May Anvar light your life, readers. Here, we have Prince Arrious humbly accepting an interview with Anorian Character Development. Good afternoon, Prince Arrious.
Arrious: May Anvar light your path.
Derrick_Mace: For the purposes of world building and character development, I intend to make this interview a bit long. I hope you don't mind.
Arrious: You're breaking the forth wall.
Derrick_Mace: So are you. We're even.
Arrious: I walked right into that one.
Derrick_Mace: Now, Prince. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Arrious: Well...I'm from a fairly distant branch of the ruling house of Atanor, so I'm not the first in line for the throne....except if all my relatives suddenly die or something.
That wasn't wishful thinking.
Derrick_Mace: Of course it wasn't.
Arrious: I don't mean that I'm cruel or something. Look, I mean that I'm only talking--
Derrick_Mace: I know! I made you!
Arrious: Man, these interviews can really be taken out of context.
Derrick_Mace: Like almost everything. Regardless, tell me more about yourself.
Arrious: I'm not pretentious, you know.
Derrick_Mace: Just go on with it.
Arrious: Fine! I'm a bit popular for doing some of King Assador's jobs, and I am a semi-frequent visitor to Tharnil, the Seaside kingdom.
Derrick_Mace: What would you say about Dardeep?
Arrious: I don't like it there.
Derrick_Mace: Why?
Arrious: *Grumble* Religious differences. It's like a diplomatic mission going there...
Derrick_Mace: I established Anoria to have three main religions, and two philosophies which I haven't fully fleshed out completely. The state religion of Atarnor is similar to the state religion of Dardeep and Thrarnil, but only in origins. Some arguments esculate, and I try my best to make the world seem alive with religious difference and various shades of tolerance and intolerance. Give us an example, Arrious, of any uncomfortable, religiously-related event that happened to you in Dardeep.
Arrious: When I was in the countryside with Princess Thiadris as a child, I accidentally stumbled upon one of their worship buildings. They didn't really enjoy it when I was still swinging my mock sword in there, and they kicked me out. Atharavv had a hard time helping me out. Some of their clerics thought what I did was intentional. (*Grumble mumble*)
Derrick_Mace: What did you do when Thiadris entered the fifth Hall of Prayer?
Arrious: Well, that's different. I asked her politely to leave.
Derrick_Mace: you didn't inquire if she entered Atanorian faith!
Arrious: ...I was 12. I thought she was pulling pranks.
Derrick_Mace: And Tharnil's state religion?
Arrious: Almost exactly like Dardeep, except less extreme. They have parties in their places of worship.
Derrick_Mace: How do you respond on accusations against Atanorian faith by saying it's copied off soraiden faith?
Arrious: Assador and numerous scholars state that the Ar'Sorai had their faith long before any contact with them.
Derrick_Mace: And allegations stating it was a sorai consperacy?
Arrious: People can twist everything to their liking. (*Grumble*) The sorai won't be harmed if Atarnor followed Tharnil or Dardeep's faith.
Derrick_Mace: There's a surprise for you, Arrious! When the time comes and first kingdom of Men's history is clear to you, a lot will make a lot of sense.
Arrious: What kind of sense?
Derrick_Mace: It'll sound good to you. I promise. Regardless, tell me about dragons.
Arrious: I hate them.
Derrick_Mace: Fair enough. They don't like you much either. Tell us about your training.
Arrious: Early-year combat training focused on several branches: positioning, pace of movement, profeciency with weapons and use of negative magic.
Positioning is the most important thing in Atanorian style of combat. How to stand, how to hold your weapon and how to move is everything when the going gets tough. Pace matters with heavy weapon, namely dragon-slaying great swords and medium cannons, and even the occasional Blackwood bow.
Derrick_Mace: The Blackwood bow is considered a heavy weapon?
Arrious: not officially, but it is an exotic weapon to Atarnor tastes. With the environment being somewhat damp across the year, typical threads woven by the Ar'Sorai do not suffice. That is where custom bowstring comes in. Not to mention that Blackwood bows are powerful bows, and it takes a lot of training to draw it, least of all in the heat of battle. In Atarnorian military, archers stand in the far end and aim to where they can, and not in the middle rows of the army like Soraiden armies.
Derrick_Mace: And what is negative magic?
Arrious: With the Ar'Sorai elemental magic and judges' and paladins' light magic, combat troops are taught rudementary knowledge in negative magic, which mostly neutralizes magic from other sources, save for black and light magic. The average troop is supposedly able to block a minature magical thunderbolt or a medium blast of elemental magic. This proves invaluable with some Adorai apperences in our boarders.
Derrick_Mace: Tell us about the Adorai.
Arrious: Can't do that.
Derrick_Mace: What? Why?
Arrious: It's almost dusk.
Derrick_Mace: Whatever. I'm above my own story.
Arrious: Fine, but you'll handle Illun when he finds you.
Derrick_Mace: I'll interview him, too. A good antagonist is great to listen to.
Arrious: Very well. In sorai and to a lesser extent, Atanorian faith, dusk is a magical time. In some stories, it is said that when the sun sets out, the light magic that holds the order of Anoria weakens, and thus the mirror world, Airona's features appear in our world. That's why sorai never allow their children to stay out during sunset, but allow it during nighttime.
Derrick_Mace: Airnoa sounds like a cheap reverse to Anoria.
Arrious: What am I supposed to do? You did minimal world building in Airona!
Derrick_Mace: Fine. I'll find a better name. Continue.
Arrious: That's all I know so far. Some paladins took upon themselves the duty of discovering what happens, and many returned, but some looked just shellshocked, and some kept wondering, but most retired to soraiden lands. Even Ar'Sorai hunters fear the dusk, and hide whenever they are able. A lot of nightmares happen in that time.
Derrick_Mace: I see. This has been enlightening, Prince Arrious.
Arrious: I guess.
Derrick_Mace: And you achieved some status in badassery when you one-shotted Saphira.
Arrious: She walked right into it. (*distant gaze*)
Derrick_Mace: I will involve you in any other stories that irk me as cameo apperences, if that's ok.
Arrious: You're the writer.
Derrick_Mace: And you're the man.
Thank you, dear readers for sticking by. I promise to bring out a proper post regarding Airona world building and some more human culture worldbuilding.
If anything, I will strive to make this real.
May your vampires sparkle eternally.
Illun: I am so going to kill you for that.