is so obvi­ous that you fail to see it. I had that prob­lem with my gob­lin Cleeyah. She never really clicked for me as a char­ac­ter even though she had one of the most elab­or­ate character-concepts I ever cre­ated. I was never able to put my fin­ger on what was wrong and that irked me because I just knew that role­play­ing with her would become so much bet­ter if I could just resolve that little bit that was wrong. Not that I lacked for role­play with Cleeyah. I just knew it could be much better.

Last week­end a new face in my little posse of WoW role­play­ing bud­dies whispered me: “You know, Cleeyah should really be a troll. Everything about her screams troll.”

I think I sat there for at least a minute and was dumb­foun­ded. Because he was abso­lutely right. I cre­ated Cleeyah shortly after Cata­clysm came out, and some­how felt com­pelled to roll a gob­lin. Even though I really don’t like gob­lins that much. They are quirky and funny as NPCs, and I really enjoy the gob­lin char­ac­ters a few of my rp bud­dies cre­ated. But I am not a fan.

I really should have figured that one out on my own. *sigh*

So, to make things short: Good­bye, Cleeyah Goldeneyes. Wel­come, Cleeyah of the Dark­spear. You have no idea how good it feels when all of a sud­den everything that irked you about a char­ac­ter falls into place.

I am not play­ing WoW any­more, but this still fills me with joy. Because the Argent Archives are awe­some, and they were the inspir­a­tion for Codex Ulgo.

Hon­estly if you are a role­player, check both sites out, even if you do not have char­ac­ters on the servers.

Some people might remem­ber me men­tion­ing my Wow darling char­ac­ter Khel­daris. I love this char­ac­ter dearly because it is the first one where I made everything right, res­ultin in me hav­ing a lot of bril­liant role­play on him. He was not über-powerd, not blind­ingly good-looking (just plain old good-looking *cough*), had a quirky sense of humour and some very nice weaknesses.

And I miss play­ing him. A lot. So I por­ted him to SWTOR under a new name: Imper­ial Agent Thairen. Now I am pon­der­ing pos­sible guilds he can join once he hit 50.

The rename happened because ori­gin­ally I just wanted to roll an IA. Dur­ing my first rp ses­sions with him it became clearer and clearer to me that he is Khel­daris, now with blue skin and a sniper gun. He is still a foodie, still omni­sexual, and still a sneaky bas­tard with a heart of gold who prefers to save lives if he can instead of mind­less killing.

The trans­ition from one game into the other went sur­pris­ingly smooth, and the new SW back­ground opened up a few pos­sib­ilites for Khel/Thai that weren’t there in WoW. I am also read­ing all the James Bond nov­els by Ian Flem­ing right now to get inspir­a­tions… *harr-de-harr*

Hey, read­ers, have you ever por­ted char­ac­ters that you grew to love to another game? How did that work out for you?

Dear gods, I think I took a wrong turn some­where and ended up in bizarro-land, where Blizzard’s new WoW-Expansion is full of Kung-Fu Pan­das, fea­tures a mini-game that is a shame­less Poke­mon rip-off, and where stat­less armor is hid­den away in their new, hard as fuck, timed instances. Stat­less armor that would be per­fect for, you know, role­play­ers. WHAAAARGARBL!

Oh, and while I am already raging, com­plete with horns, tentacles, fangs and claws? THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMAZON, FOR DELAYING THE DELIVERY OF SW:TOR TO THE 23. OF DECEMBER! I REALLY APPRECIATE HOW YOU TRY TO FORCE ME TO INSTALL ORIGIN ON MY COMPUTER — WHICH WILL HAPPEN WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!!!

Can somone whack me over the head with a large trout, please? I want to wake up NOW!

On an alto­gether unre­lated note, I have been busy plan­ning out new con­tent for this blog. Like a new series of art­icles where I will go out of my gam­ing com­fort zones. Cleeyah in danger! Watch as our intrepid heroine faces open world pvp! Laugh your­self silly while you watch her raid! *cough* Yeah, some­thing like that.

Clever trans­itions between top­ics are for pussies.

I also am a mem­ber of a guild now! YAY! After it took me forever to come up with a new char­ac­ter for SW:TOR (I didn’t just want to turn Khel­daris into a TOR char­ac­ter, even though the tempta­tion is so eff­ing there. I miss him so much…) I applied for mem­ber­ship with First Know­ledge and got accep­ted. Feels good to have a rp home again.

And now I am going back to rage about pan­das again… RAAAAAR!

Do.WANT!

I do want this for my huntery gob­lin girl.

Yes, that means that I am back play­ing WoW again. At least for this month. I just want to see if the bug bites me again. If not I will free pre­cious hard­disk space.

It is really inter­est­ing to see how much a server can change dur­ing a few months’ worth of absence. Or a class, at that. I was shocked to see pet-happiness gone. Not that I was overly fond of this, not that it played any role for my hunter. It just felt odd.

And I so did not have to retrain where all my key­bind­ings are… >.>;

I just hope that attack-critter makes the same noise as my shale spider when she goes for her vic­tim… *screeeeeee*