(11-01-2013, 02:14 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: It's pretty questionable to role-play one's character as being royalty. It doesn't matter if it's a huge secret either. In fact, if you're unlikely to ever reveal something like that to begin with it seems rather redundant to tack it on as a potential plot hook in the first place.
I saw a lot of role-players try to do something similar in WoW as well. No role-player is special enough to be able to create an entire country to justify their character's existence. Why not simply work with the setting as it is currently depicted instead of trying to add various 'hidden' locations that don't even exist as far the canon lore is concerned?
The majority of WoW nobility I ever saw were humans or Blood Elves. Blood Elves sort of kind of make sense of you take in the Convocation of Silvermoon-- as at least five of the houses were unnamed so far as I've ever found. One large effort on Ravenholdt was to re-establish seven houses (not including Sunstrider or Drathir) in place of the seven that had fallen in RP. It was done entirely through roleplay and for a while it worked out really nicely, consolidating smaller houses into larger one and generally using political marriage and manipulation to get things combed out.
Humans... I dunno about humans. I know there are lords and there were kings of different areas. I'm not too well informed about the various stories and origins so anyone who told me they were a lord of some odd place or another I would generally have to accept on my Night Elf who gave about two poops for human bloodlines and nobility. Siobhain would probably respond much the same way-- if someone looks like a noble, and they act like a noble, and they have enough people to back them up, why wouldn't she assume they -were- in character unless she had strong reason to doubt them such as having lived in and being well acquainted in the particular area they should have been well known in? Even then she likely wouldn't doubt it. It's mostly about appearances.
1. the quality of being noble in character, mind, birth, or rank.
2. the group of people belonging to the noble class in a country, esp. those with a hereditary or honorary title.
Honorary title is up there with hereditary. Honestly, if you have enough money and you have enough sway over the locals, even if you're NOT acknowledged by the primary ruling body of an area, you might as well be a noble.
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