I'm feeling this itch to write more Etheris backstory, either something set when he was studying in Dalaran and first falling in with the Cult of the Damned or something from when he was a full-fledged Scourge necromancer. A story with a setting but no plot is hardly a story, however, it is a drawing and I am incapable of expressing myself thusly. (I do have a half-finished story in the latter setting, but it's horribly dirty and not anything I expect anyone to want to read and really just written to purge it from my brain.) (Yes, I fully expect one or two "I TOTALLY want to read that" replies.) So maybe that needs to brew a little longer. I had this perverse urge to bring him back in some way, to make Dariahn magically regurgitate his soul, but dead characters actually staying dead is such a rare and unique thing in this sort of setting. There's also the fact that he's pretty unrepentantly a Scourge loyalist, which would be hard to get around in a playable character. He could start taking a more active role in Dariahn's head, make the whole thing a little MORE Death's Head II* why don't I, but that might just spur on the whole magical regurgitation thing. He doesn't want Etheris talking in his head, and if it got worse than it already is he would likely try to force him out.
I'm also itching to actually try out my idea of playing an Auchenai draenei priest, one of the few who didn't go crazy with the whole Auchindoun blowing up/some naaru getting corrupted in there thing. She would still be kind of crazy by normal draenei standards, of course, but not batshit. It would be a good excuse to actually play through the Alliance side of things before Cataclysm, since my highest-level Alliance character ever is 26. Because I am totally awesome at playing things that are not my Horde mains am I right?
Speaking of that, I'm thinking I may start over with another character or two in Dragon Age before deciding on who I'm going to continue the story with. I'm kind of torn on my Dalish elf warrior, because archery is better for her as a character but I chose a warrior because I wanted to get in there and beat the shit out of things. I've got a female human noble warrior and a male human mage in the queue already. Hopefully I can dedicate some time to that game later this week. I also installed the original Neverwinter Nights on my netbook, but that'll likely end up as more of a lunch break thing than something I actively dedicate time to.
Also I need to actually RP Velthys some so I can establish him as a character before I go having him get all angsty about being a big coward and go Shadow because I can't imagine enjoying endgame healing.
*Have I mentioned recently that I have the original art for "High Noon Tex"? I don't think I have.




