Quote from: mansa on June 21, 2008, 12:29:14 AM
Sargax was a character that got higher than "lieutenant" in his respective clan.

Ysania was the house head of her clan she created.

Pearl was also the head of her clan she created.

All three characters survived for over 2+ years of real life time.

     *raises lowbie hand*  All right, I'll bite.  Over the years, I've seen Ysania and Pearl's names mentioned with some regularity, whenever Great Characters are getting tossed around.  If the answer isn't "Find out IC" (which is fine), I'm really curious:  What Clans did these ladies create, and aside from that feat, was there another reason they're on nearly everyone's short list of "Greats" (longevity obviously being part of the equation, but that in-and-of itself can't have been enough)?

IIRC:

Pearl was the founder of House Terash, a minor merchant house in Allanak, which owns/runs the Atrium. Pearl also built the Silver Ginka.

Ysania was the founder of House Morlaine, also a recognized minor merchant house in Allanak, with an estate in Tuluk during the occupation--but the house was destroyed due to political outfall when Ysania was accused of collusion with the rebels. (Which is why Ysania has a street named after her in Tuluk.)

Their players wrote the stories of these characters' lives on the old GDB, in the OOC forum, when we were having an old characters thread once. But I believe the thread may have poofed due to the old OOC's forum thread-deletion setting, which is really a shame--they were great stories.

Sargax was Kurac.

     Thanks!  With this info as a start, I should be able to dig around some more.  PC-generated history that has become part of the shared world-story always fascinates me.

There are a handful of PCs in-game who are basically at Historical Status, too. While some of them, understandably, aren't well-known, others are very public and probably accessible.

If you really wanted to get into PC history, you could always app, say, a Negean noble who travels, interviews people, sees the sights and then writes the history down. There definitely is a fair amount going on at every level; it's just that not everyone is directly affected by or privy to all of it.

Quote from: Gimfalisette on June 23, 2008, 11:21:39 AM
IIRC:

Ysania was the founder of House Morlaine, also a recognized minor merchant house in Allanak, with an estate in Tuluk during the occupation--but the house was destroyed due to political outfall when Ysania was accused of collusion with the rebels. (Which is why Ysania has a street named after her in Tuluk.)

That's actually not true.  House Morlaine was given status as a full noble house though on the lowest tier.

Quote from: psionic fungus on June 19, 2008, 03:56:10 PM
The "second part of the Gith Wars", or whatever, was not the NPC invasion (a result of it, yes)...

The invasion itself was very one-sided, PCs vs NPCs.  Definitely not the way I like to see things. There was no way the Gith were going to destroy Allanak, the 'Rinth, breech a wall, or do anything that wasn't already decided by the Staff.  The players had no real sway in anything that happened. It was a pre-determined plot, mucg like watching the cut-scene in a game, to me... And that is what I don't like.  It's nice that more happened after that... But I would prefer to see the Gith opened as a PC race for a few months before they try to invade Allanak, and I think there should be more than one possible outcome of the raid...  Really, I don't like having any intelligent/humanoid group that has no PCs, it just seems too "us vs them" or black and white...

Of course, I'm not saying that there weren't some PvP and/or dynamic elements in the Gith Invasion... I'm just saying that the major aspects were not PvP and did not seem dynamic, and I find much more enjoyment in plots that are.
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The gith wars could have very well been NPC vs PC group vs PC group vs PC group. It was entirely due to a lot of PC actions that their groups were on the same side, and aiding each other. AFAIK no groups were 'forced' to cooperate with each other, but instead reached that decision on their own.

Quote from: psionic fungus on June 19, 2008, 03:56:10 PM
The invasion itself was very one-sided, PCs vs NPCs.

This is, in fact, not true, though most of the main action most PCs saw fit this paradigm. An argument might be made, however, that the best RPTs avoid giving their participants this impression.