I also already knew that she was going to be friends with Elerlissa (Gharr’s succubus who had taken over the body of a Sin’dorei.) I knew she was going to be a pawn and end up taking a fall.

What I didn’t plan on was little casual RP interactions ending up blooming into a fullblown romance with Keltyr. Or that she would be as sympathetic a character as she is. Dorri’s not a good person. She’s loyal to her friends and tolerates others, but she’s Sin’dorei to the core. You’ll note that all the people she calls friends are Sin’dorei. She has some fondness for Caargon and a great deal of respect for Ghaar.

I never expected to enjoy playing her so much, or to enjoy delving into her story and colaborating with Keltyr, Ambika and Destril.

I always intended for Then’liath to be the more sympathetic of the two of them. Yet, Then has her own inate problems.

Esentially, I never expected them to have such depth to themselves.

Then again, I never intended for Pill to be liked as much as she is. Problem is people have figured out that she’s just an old softy.

Things started off very slowly – I left her history vague, I think the only thing I was “concrete” about was the fact that I made a point of Illi not revealing her last name. She still doesn’t. Her “amateur” demonhunting status came along, and the details of her history started becoming more solid, and with them, Illi’s associated issues – her abandonment complex, her defensive superiority complex, et al.

Nowadays, her personality and history are very much set in stone, and real. She basically plays herself now – she goes and does thing, or says thing, due to her personality or history, that leave me, her player, sitting there with my face in my hands, thinking she’s a fucking idiot at times. She’s off doing her own thing now, and I just facilitate that. I really like the fact that she’s gone from this tabula rasa alt through to a personality that influences characters and storylines even when she’s not there participating.

One of the biggest rushes I’ve gotten from RP is explaining Illi’s background, situation, et al to people OOCly (as she’s very tight lipped on most matters), and basically having people say; “Oooooh – that makes so much sense now.”

And then, through meta talk with Fells, I realized it wasn’t Haemon at all. Era had been pretending to be his counterpart, fooling even me.

Era never ceases to surprise me.

He has always been a bit of a anti-establishment character. But given the events of Wrathgate, he’s gone from mild disinterest and occasional sedition to full on class warrior “nobility is a shite form o’rule.”

But the biggest surprise he had in store for me was his willingness to changer after the whole Indarra debacle. I’m not talking about Fedwynn and all that, but the night Indarra and Ulth started their “thing.” He chose to walk away from it and be less selfish (he could of walked over to them and started a fight or worked to ruin their relationship). He chose to be less-than-a-bastard. That path led him to Threnn, kicking the booze (an increase in smoking) and more cooking.