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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by zedturtle » Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:25 pm

Rich H wrote:My players like Radagast; I'm pretty sure they all think he's a time lord and that his house is a TARDIS.
My introduction of Radagast:
As you follow the raven, you occasionally begin to see white stones that you never noticed before in the ground. Soon enough the white stones have become regular enough to be paving stones along the path. Wondering at this, you turn to look back at Rhosgobel... it seems faint and distant, like a sudden mist or haze has sprung up, or twilight has come early.

The path winds its way through the woods, travelling alongside the sharp-thorned brown hedge that protects Rhosgobel from the wild woods beyond, and brings the company to a small cottage in a little clearing. The lights of the cottage are warm and welcoming as the night draws in. A horse eats grass contentedly in the field beside the house. Kuäk flys up to the door of the cottage and knocks on it with his beak. The door opens, but no warden is to be seen.

As you step, you can see a vast and cluttered space... almost it seems too large to fit within the frame of the cottage*. Birds flit to and for, Kuäk flies up to the rafters and disappears into the darkness there. A thousand gifts, jugs, cages, blankets, casks of wine, woodcarvings, scrolls, and other papers are stacked in precarious towers of stuff. In the center of the space is a table set with breads, cheeses, jams and fruits. There are eight chairs, seven for you and one for the Wizard. He sits there, his eyes glinting in the candlelight. "Come in, come in... have a seat and tell me about yourselves as you do..."

[[ OOC: Formal encounter time, but everyone must speak this time. ]]

[[ * Look an easter egg, but a non-Tolkien easter egg, based on several dimensions of things away from the legendarium space. It's almost transcendental when you think about it.... ok, ok, I'll stop. ]]
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Rich H » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:53 pm

... I should perhaps expand some; they don't just like Radagast, they find his squirrel messenger hilarious - to the point where I'm having to give him a name the next time they meet him/it due to popular demand. I was thinking Acweorna but a part of me wants to call him Gary or Neil. :D
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Otaku-sempai » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:32 pm

Not having Loremastered much (or even played TOR very much), my take on favorite characters is a little different. I'm attracted to the idea of doing something with the Kingfisher Lord, who is intensely jealous of the Lord of the Eagles. He could be a fun and interesting character to use in the right adventure.
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Rich H » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:37 pm

The Kingfisher Lord is brilliant. I'm always on the look out to introduce him into my campaign.
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by farinal » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:51 pm

Yeah thanks for reminding it. I think I need to re-read the HotW sometimes to mix it with DoM better.

Only thing weird will be that the name of the bird in my language is really not very well known haha so it could even sound to my players that it is a fictional specie of birds.

Anyway, is the Lord any bigger than a regular Kingfisher bird?
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Otaku-sempai » Sun Aug 30, 2015 3:33 am

farinal wrote:Anyway, is the Lord any bigger than a regular Kingfisher bird?
The text doesn't give much of a description. I would think that the Kingfisher Lord might be unusually large, but even several times larger than a typical European kingfisher would not make him bigger than a large hawk or a small eagle.
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Glorelendil » Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:46 am

Kingfishers in Middle Earth might be an order of magnitude (or more?) larger than the version we know. In other words, just like Eagles. If they're not, then the Kingfisher Lord's jealousy isn't very interesting...

(Unless he's really, really crafty, I suppose.)
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Otaku-sempai » Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:07 am

Glorelendil wrote:Kingfishers in Middle Earth might be an order of magnitude (or more?) larger than the version we know. In other words, just like Eagles. If they're not, then the Kingfisher Lord's jealousy isn't very interesting...

(Unless he's really, really crafty, I suppose.)
Maybe. I'm not sure that he should be large enough to carry a full-grown Man, but perhaps the Kingfisher Lord and his kin might be able to fly with a Hobbit (whether he would be willing is another matter). May be one of C7's artists or game designers could enlighten us on how he was imagined to be.
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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Rue » Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:40 am

I always pictured the Kingfisher Lord to be smaller and craftier than an Eagle--sort of like the fox/wolf difference.

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Re: Favourite NPCs

Post by Glorelendil » Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:42 pm

Oh, yes. I phrased that poorly. By "just like Eagles" I didn't mean as large as Eagles, I meant "many times larger than their real world analogues." So that the final ratio of Eagle:Kingfisher stays constant.
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