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Paradox · **06-28-2015, 02:10 PM**

A'rklonn is simultaneously moderately refined and an angry bastard. He grew up quite poor, and made good for himself with various Aether breakthroughs in his magic synergy studies as well as trading (*cough, smuggling*) various relics and artifacts from digs he's conned or bought his way into. He tries to be refined and philosophical and even succeeds..but when he gets angry, that orphanage kid comes out and he sounds like someone you'd expect to hear in a back alley tavern. So cross-culture characters can be such a way as well. They can keep up a trained mask because they eased into a type of culture, but you can't take the street rat or soldier out of them in the end. A'rk's the type to actually say things like great philosophers would to teach a grand lesson, but internally he's just like. 'Fuck it'.

Barbarccia Valadis · **08-24-2015, 11:21 PM**

Mmm! I've learned that after recent events unfolding people generally lean towards being spiteful or rude towards the noble caste so much in such that I've had people get defensive when the character it's self is unable to relate to the general ongoing issues a commoner would face.

I've forgone announcing the character as a noble IC and have just gone with being a well dressed business woman making casual chit chat because the walls people put up are MUCH lower when they suspect you worked for status instead of being born to it.

It's a tough stigma to break and as mentioned before, RP encourages people to challenge authority. If you look through the forums you'll find the plight of many lawful aligned characters pulling out their hair trying to figure out how to play a upstanding member of society without having to physically engage with every rapscallion who doesn't adhere to the canonical law.Â

Being Noble means being Noble. You can be or do whatever you'd like, but if you typecast yourself, you have to at least pretend to play the part and sadly that typically means making the tough decisions, having the general population not like you despite your best intentions and then having to firmly defend your status and beliefs over and often.

This is why large extravagant parties are the go-to for most people of status. It inducts people into your playing field and forces people to behave in the spirit of RP. Personally, I'd like to see all dimensions of caste, gender, and races represented to make the world that much more atmospheric, vivid, and rich. It all comes full circle.

Those snooty people that keep you from having fun? Yeah, they are often great RPers with large arching themes, an easy second opinion, greatly connected, of if anything else, they add flavor and intensity to your current RP by bringing in Politics, Intrigue, Business, Sciences and other big picture, big schemes that take a great story and makes it into an Epic.

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