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takingback) wrote2016-01-11 10:11 pm
takingback) wrote2016-01-11 10:11 pm
arda marred info.
Player
Name: Celen
Preferred Pronoun: she.
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Character
Name: Thorin II Oakenshield, son of Thráin, son of Thrór, King Under the Mountain.
Canon: Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Pull-point: After dying in the Battle of the Five Armies.
Power Opt-in post link: N/A
Content Opt-out post link: N/A
Age: 195, looks to be in his 40s.
Gender/Sex: Male.
Appearance: Height: 4'10" (approx. 147cm). Dark brown hair streaked with silver, grey-blue eyes. While shorter than humans/elves, he’s actually rather tall for a dwarf. Full-body picture here.
History:
Thorin is born in Erebor in TA 2746, and only a few decades later, Smaug attacks and forces the dwarves to flee. Thorin fights alongside his kin in the battle of Azanulbizar, and there he loses both his grandfather and brother, Azog the Defiler being the one to slay Thrór. With the influence of one of the Dwarven rings growing on Thráin, Thorin becomes the de facto leader of Durin’s folk and leads his people to Blue Mountains, where they build halls and live. After Thráin’s disappearance, Thorin officially becomes the king of his people. In 2941, Gandalf convinces Thorin to try and take back Erebor, and so he sets out with twelve dwarves who volunteered for the quest, and one hobbit.
They run into trolls, seek refuge in Rivendell, fall into Goblin town, find out Azog is alive, stay at Beorn’s house for a while, get lost in Mirkwood, then captured by spiders and then after that by the Elvenking. With some help from the Master of Laketown, they set out to reclaim the mountain, where Bilbo wakes up Smaug who flies to Laketown and is there killed by Bard. Thorin is overtaken by the gold sickness that preys on the line of Durin, makes some Very Bad decisions because of it, the chief one being to go to war with the men of Laketown and the Elves. He banishes Bilbo because of what he did with the Arkenstone, but shortly after comes back to his senses and leads the Company to fight in the battle, to join his cousin Dáin. His plan is to slay Azog and end the feud once and for all, and that he does, though not without losing his sister-sons and in the end making the decision to kill Azog, even if it means killing himself at the same time.
Personality:
The first three qualities anyone meeting Thorin Oakenshield would notice are that he is overly serious, stern and stubborn to a fault. He carries himself with an air that is less self-important and more regal because of that inborn seriousness, the single-minded focus he shows at all times. He rarely smiles, laughs even more rarely and is not one for idle chatter – when he speaks, it’s for a reason, often to instruct or command.
While Thorin is slow to trust, slow to warm up to those he doesn’t know well and even outright vengeful to those he has reason to distrust or hate, he is also a born leader: he has a commanding air, the sort that can merely walk forward and others will recognize him as the leader. Of course, that is not to say the way he presents himself is without faults. Aside from outright desire for revenge and rude, hostile behaviour towards the elves, Thorin places great importance on the way he acts, on not showing weakness or unnecessary emotion, and pride and honor are what he values above all. He is often unwilling to listen to advice, and even more unwilling to accept any criticism – when he’s decided on something, changing that opinion or course of action will be like moving a mountain.
Unless you’ve won his trust, that is. Despite his stern exterior and a behavior that ranges from serious to outright rude, Thorin is most certainly not without a heart. To those he cared for, he will admit to his own shortcomings, will admit when he has been wrong. Underneath the stern and even angry front, Thorin is a person far more capable of deep caring than he shows -- in fact, most of the things he does are motivated by the will to do the best he can by his people.
Abilities:
- Swordsmanship and other fighting skills. Thorin is a skilled fighter and can fight easily with a sword, axe or whatever is at hand.
- Smithing. Thorin used to find work as a smith during the time in the Blue Mountains, and has great skill in it.
- Khuzdul. The language that all dwarves use when talking to each other.
- Understanding with ravens. The dwarves of Erebor use ravens to carry messages and are friendly with them, and can even speak with some of them.
- Basic survival skills in the wild.
- It’s worth noting he can also sing fairly well and play the harp.
Inventory: Aside from the clothes he was wearing when he died, nothing else but Orcrist.
Anything else: Thorin’s history is mixing movie canon with book canon, though a lot of the major changes (like Azog being alive after Azanulbizar) are according to movie canon.
Also:
Pre-emptive apology to all the elves. All of them.
Name: Celen
Preferred Pronoun: she.
Contact:
Character
Name: Thorin II Oakenshield, son of Thráin, son of Thrór, King Under the Mountain.
Canon: Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Pull-point: After dying in the Battle of the Five Armies.
Power Opt-in post link: N/A
Content Opt-out post link: N/A
Age: 195, looks to be in his 40s.
Gender/Sex: Male.
Appearance: Height: 4'10" (approx. 147cm). Dark brown hair streaked with silver, grey-blue eyes. While shorter than humans/elves, he’s actually rather tall for a dwarf. Full-body picture here.
History:
Thorin is born in Erebor in TA 2746, and only a few decades later, Smaug attacks and forces the dwarves to flee. Thorin fights alongside his kin in the battle of Azanulbizar, and there he loses both his grandfather and brother, Azog the Defiler being the one to slay Thrór. With the influence of one of the Dwarven rings growing on Thráin, Thorin becomes the de facto leader of Durin’s folk and leads his people to Blue Mountains, where they build halls and live. After Thráin’s disappearance, Thorin officially becomes the king of his people. In 2941, Gandalf convinces Thorin to try and take back Erebor, and so he sets out with twelve dwarves who volunteered for the quest, and one hobbit.
They run into trolls, seek refuge in Rivendell, fall into Goblin town, find out Azog is alive, stay at Beorn’s house for a while, get lost in Mirkwood, then captured by spiders and then after that by the Elvenking. With some help from the Master of Laketown, they set out to reclaim the mountain, where Bilbo wakes up Smaug who flies to Laketown and is there killed by Bard. Thorin is overtaken by the gold sickness that preys on the line of Durin, makes some Very Bad decisions because of it, the chief one being to go to war with the men of Laketown and the Elves. He banishes Bilbo because of what he did with the Arkenstone, but shortly after comes back to his senses and leads the Company to fight in the battle, to join his cousin Dáin. His plan is to slay Azog and end the feud once and for all, and that he does, though not without losing his sister-sons and in the end making the decision to kill Azog, even if it means killing himself at the same time.
Personality:
The first three qualities anyone meeting Thorin Oakenshield would notice are that he is overly serious, stern and stubborn to a fault. He carries himself with an air that is less self-important and more regal because of that inborn seriousness, the single-minded focus he shows at all times. He rarely smiles, laughs even more rarely and is not one for idle chatter – when he speaks, it’s for a reason, often to instruct or command.
While Thorin is slow to trust, slow to warm up to those he doesn’t know well and even outright vengeful to those he has reason to distrust or hate, he is also a born leader: he has a commanding air, the sort that can merely walk forward and others will recognize him as the leader. Of course, that is not to say the way he presents himself is without faults. Aside from outright desire for revenge and rude, hostile behaviour towards the elves, Thorin places great importance on the way he acts, on not showing weakness or unnecessary emotion, and pride and honor are what he values above all. He is often unwilling to listen to advice, and even more unwilling to accept any criticism – when he’s decided on something, changing that opinion or course of action will be like moving a mountain.
Unless you’ve won his trust, that is. Despite his stern exterior and a behavior that ranges from serious to outright rude, Thorin is most certainly not without a heart. To those he cared for, he will admit to his own shortcomings, will admit when he has been wrong. Underneath the stern and even angry front, Thorin is a person far more capable of deep caring than he shows -- in fact, most of the things he does are motivated by the will to do the best he can by his people.
Abilities:
- Swordsmanship and other fighting skills. Thorin is a skilled fighter and can fight easily with a sword, axe or whatever is at hand.
- Smithing. Thorin used to find work as a smith during the time in the Blue Mountains, and has great skill in it.
- Khuzdul. The language that all dwarves use when talking to each other.
- Understanding with ravens. The dwarves of Erebor use ravens to carry messages and are friendly with them, and can even speak with some of them.
- Basic survival skills in the wild.
- It’s worth noting he can also sing fairly well and play the harp.
Inventory: Aside from the clothes he was wearing when he died, nothing else but Orcrist.
Anything else: Thorin’s history is mixing movie canon with book canon, though a lot of the major changes (like Azog being alive after Azanulbizar) are according to movie canon.
Also:
Pre-emptive apology to all the elves. All of them.