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Vrahl-Mezar

 Vrahl-Mezar


Class: Mortal
Age: 1773 lunar years

Sorcerer and medicine-man.
Has many powerful skills and shows absolute calmness under fire.
He is feared by the local villagers.
He disagrees with mortal kind's brutal ways. This has made him lose faith in humanity and it's ability to survive the destruction and chaos that is coming.
   












 

Technical information:
"Yes. I know, I know: hey its Gandalf! No it isn't. I designed this character back in high school(1986). I only read the lord of the rings in 1999 (at least I tried couldn't finish it. Not enough action... but peter Jackson took care of that :)!) . I realize this character resembles gandalf alot because of the long beard. Then again what do you want me to do. If I cut his hair you get Ben Kenobi... there's just no way out of this. So I simply left him as is. Besides, in terms of personality, it's a completely different character.....

I came across this passage of chuan-zu describing an old wise man and it reminded me of what I wanted to convey though this character:

" A very old yet vital man. Skin and flesh as white as snow
his manner was elegant and delicate. He did not eat any of the five grains but inhaled the wind and drank the dew. He mounted the clouds, drove along the flying dragons, rambling and enjoying himself beyond the four seas. By the concentration of his spirit like powers he could save men from disease and pestilence and secure every year a plentiful harvest."

In order to move away form the "gandalf box" I let myself be inspired by those really cool martial arts kung-fu masters as portrayed in Asian martial arts movies (pai-me, aka-hige, the bad guy in fearless hyena, etc...)
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Through this character I'm trying to release the sadness and disappointment I feel when I look at how we behave as human beings. I thought we were more evolved...