Clarion

Looking at my plans to create the Lonnie and Talasphir mod, I noticed something glaringly obvious.

I'm an idiot.

Two romanceable NPC's with all the dialogue trappings I have in mind for them, and I'm not even a modder yet. They're a bit ambitious for me to cut my teeth on. In the meantime, I thought up a character to learn modding on. At least, when I've got the proper technology. A fully functioning computer helps.

Meet Andante Legato Maestoso, human, male, sorcerer, non-romanceable, Lawful Evil, and possibly the only evil character that will only leave if your party's reputation gets too LOW. He dislikes unsophistocated gutter trash who think they have to prove to the world that they're the evilist bastards that ever did walk Faerun, after all.

STR: 10, DEX: 15, CON: 11, INT: 18, WIS: 14, CHA: 15 (His stats are flexible. I realize they may seem too high, but he has no special abilities and no special items, as well as no real quest aside from giving the Cowlies hell, and you're planning to do that anyway)

HISTORY
When asked about his history, ANDANTE gives you an appraising look and apparently decides you're worth his time. He explains that he is the bastard son of an Amnish noblewoman who wanted nothing to do with him and a traveling bard who was also too self-involved to care for him beyond giving him his musical name. Andante also tells you that his uncle has been grooming him to become a Cowled Wizard, though he wants nothing to do with them. The Cowled Ones have balked at the idea besides - this sorcerer is not easily manipulated, and therefore too dangerous to be trusted. He directs another evaluating stare your way as if to ask, do *you* trust him?

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Andante Maestoso is not particularly picky about who he travels with, so long as he is treated with some sort of respect. If he is being lauded as a hero beside Charname, he's not getting thrown in jail or worse. Though he is evil, a high rep won't bother him in the slightest. As stated before though, if he feels that Charname is unsophisticated gutter trash trying too hard to prove their ebilness, he will leave, and he will not be back.

There is no romance planned for him. However, there will be chats on the nature of morality. Rather, Andante will talk about how contrived he thinks the concepts of morality truly are, and you can try vainly to argue your case if you so choose.

There aren't that many evil Bioware characters. Four, if I remember correctly, two of them redeemable, all of them trying so hard to prove their evil intent that it feels contrived and insincere to me. Why can't evil be subtle, charming? Why can't evil characters do the right thing for the sake of not drawing undue attention to themselves, or appreciate that having a high reputation makes it easier to manipulate people? Andante is a long-thinker, a strategist, a tactician, and definitely not a guy you want to be playing chess against. He knows that randomly killing people for the sake of being evil is likely to get him killed by someone of authority who happens to be stronger than he is. He also hates getting his hands dirty (Eh, figuratively. He has no problem with travel dirt from adventuring, but he's no murderer. Too classy to be an outright murderer).

Oddly enough, the Bioware characters he's likely to be most fond of are Imoen, Jaheira, Mazzy, Valygar, and Cernd. The ones he'd like to see hanged by the neck until dead are Edwin, Korgan, Sarevok, Keldorn, and Haer'Dalis. Everyone else is just annoying to varrying degrees.

And I know there's that guy on Brynnlaw named Andante. My Andante might comment on how it's entirely possible that they just happen to have the same name. No relation at all. I named the poor fellow a bunch of musical terms that seem to fit his personality.

So, this is Andante, whom I will commence working on once there is a computer available to me with all of the proper stuff on it. Maybe if I ever introduce my laptop to the internet... Feel free to comment. It's why I'm even mentioning this bastard after all

Allow me to open my ideas up for uber-flaming

Lonnie and Talasphir, friends forever:

Talasphir Elandinai, male Avariel Diviner. The only winged elf in the Realms afraid of heights. Chaotic Good. Romanceable by males of any race/stats, of any Good/Neutral alignment. Talasphir likes everyone, tries his best to get along. He'll chat with Keldorn and Mazzy as easily as Edwin and Korgan, though, not everyone will like him in return. Well, such is life. Bioware's elves are all so angsty and woe-is-me, or at least extremely serious. Talasphir is decidedly not serious.

His own Stats:

Str: 9
Dex: 14
Con: 10
Int: 18
Wis: 14
Cha: 16

Lonnie, male tiefling(there's so many lady tieflings out there, and HD's not always everyone's cup of tea...), kitless Fighter. Chaotic Good. Born to a human mother on the Prime, has no idea what the Planes are like and doesn't really care. Romanceable by females of any race/stats/non-evil alignment. Affectionately known as Lonnie the Lush, Lonnie is possibly the happiest, goofiest drunk you'll ever meet. Maybe he's not the brightest plate in the kitchen sink, but he's (at least he's supposed to) got a charm all his own.

Str: 17
Dex: 14
Con: 15
Int: 9
Wis: 8
Cha: 14

If anyone ever wanted to go looking for these two, assuming they ever make it to mod status, they would be found in the Den of the Seven Vales, Lonnie finishing patrons' leftover drinks, and Talasphir working as a prostitute to work up the funds to pay for a magic liscense. Assuming anyone would want to take them along, there would be much bickering between the two. Best friends they've been for several years, and picking at each other is a hobby.

There aren't any real bios, and won't be unless someone finds these two interesting, but I do have a way to explain Talasphir's lack of wings. His last lover was a wild mage. Their breakup was ugly, and Ellis(the wild mage) challenged Talasphir to a mage duel. Ellis lost, riding the crest of a wild surge. He turned Talasphir's wings invisible, and then turned himself into an imp.

I know elves and tieflings have been over-used. On that note I wanted to make some a-typical characters, mostly just there to make people smile. Romances that start physical (if that's what Charname wants) and grow into emotional, romances where you don't have to help your lover through some epic problem (Aerie's wings, Anomen's sister/knighthood, Khalid's death, etc...). The most dramatic sub-quest would probably be dinner with Lonnie's family. Of course, his mother's the south-bound end of a north-bound ogre with a penchant for collecting unusual mates, but she's no Lord Cor.

So, flaming/shooting down season is officially opened Think fun-loving Lonnie and Talasphir would be fun to play with despite everything? I'd try to make their mod myself, but there's just certain things I shouldn't be trusted with. Like playing with anything technical. On that note, I'm going to hide now...