Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26295802-20160320175748

Today I realized that some of my factions and characters actually have interesting origins behind their creation, and I thought you might like to hear them!

Imrahil Alqua: 

Imrahil, was obviously named after my username and the last name "Alqua" was actually Red's idea who claimed it meant "swan" in Sindarin. I've still never fact-checked that.....

Imrahil's character first came about in The Last of Middle Earth RP, and was based off of the "Adventures of Prince Imrahil" Imrahil. He had the Blade of Herendil, the signature armour, and was practically identical the Imrahil we know and love today.

Travian:

Technically, I created Travian as a character, as Travian wasn't there to control him until later in the RP :P

It started on the Awakening Server, back before the days of the Kingdom of Dol Amroth, when we were just a humble fiefdom of three players. Among these players was Sloppyjoe100, a good and loyal soldier that went by the name "Travian"

I swiftly saw his potential, and made him my right hand and squire, and soon a friendship was forged that would outlast even the proud walls of Dol Amroth City.

So when it came time to make Imrahil's character in the Last of Middle Earth RP, and he needed a companion, who better to fashion it after then Travian? Travian, the brave squire and loyal seneschal to Imrahil was born.

I didn't even know it, but sloppyjoe100 also had a wikia account: Sloppy's Last Joe. As soon as he heard about Last of Middle Earth, he jumped in and took command of Travian, and Travian has been a famous character ever since.

Elphir/Amrothos:

These were canon sons of Imrahil, and I liked the names, so they became signature characters as well

Aearion:

Aearion, is, of course, named after Warpig who played as my son on the Awakening server.

Commander William Kentis: 

Actually, this has more of a back-story then everything else combined.

When I was just 5 years old, I owned a MASSIVE collection of Legos, most of the hand-me-downs from my older brothers and sisters. I very much liked playing with them, and soon I had my own little Lego world with its own plotlines and its own histories and mythologies.

The main plotline was the "Evil King" (I was very creative with names) was constantly trying to take over Legonia (REALLY creative) from King Leo, the rightful king. Soon this plotline escalated as all my other toys from GI Joes to stuffed animals to Playmobile entered the picture.

I guess I really was born a writer, because this stuff was so intricate, I don't even know how I remembered it all. There were dozens of factions and characters, each with their own culture and personality. Literally in my entire childhood, the plotline never changed, it just got more and more complicated. I'm being serious, the same single plotline was all I ever played for the entirety of my childhood.

I swear, if I could've written down everything, I could have a story larger then Lord of the Rings.

Anyways, I always had a love of space ships, and I liked to try and build the largest spaceship I could. This gave rise to the Lego Spacefleet (REALLY CREATIVE names) a huge fleet of spaceships that helped out King Leo from invading aliens.

What was the name of the brave and loyal head of Lego Spacefleet? Commander William Kentis. Everything from Kentis' personality to his looks is based off of my Lego character :P

The Knights Templar:

Okay! So I wanted to name my space character after, and base him off of, a Lego figure I owned when I was seven. But he needed a faction to rule!

I have always been very interested in crusaders, from the cruel and evil Teutonic Knights to the brave and kind Knights Hospitaller. But what I liked and thought was most interesting was the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar are actually shrouded in mystery. The Free Masons, and yes, even the Illuminati, are descended from the original order of the Templar.

The Templar were mostly about helping and protecting pilgrims in the holy lands, and I thought this would be an excellent idea for a space faction: a faction that would protect merchants from marauding pirates, and try to keep the peace in a war-filled galaxy.

The rest is history…

Alex Steele:

Although I only use him in a few RPs, Alex is very close to my heart. Why?

Like Kentis, Alex is based off of a Lego figure. The first brand new Lego set I ever received was a Mars Mission Astro Fighter, a sleek orange-and-white ship that came with a single pilot.

I always read Calvin and Hobbes, and if you have you no doubt remember Spaceman Spiff? In that fashion, my little nine-year-old self named my pilot Astronaut Alex, and he became the bravest and most courageous space pilot in all of John's toyland.

The last name Steele is because I had never really used a last name for Alex when I was little. When I created Alex's character on this wiki, I was reading Left Behind, and I really liked the last name of the main character "Rayford Steele".

Captain Alexander Steele was born.  