Application for Valer D'Avore

[Valer l'Ami de Harken 25]

Out-Of-Character:

-Minecraft Account Name: busynarcissist

-How old are you?: 26 years old

-Time-Zone/Country of Residence: CMT/USA

-Do you have a good grip on the English language/good grammar?: By this point in my life I would certainly like to think so.

-Small 2-3 Sentence Description of yourself: I just finished up a graduate degree and am using my time between degrees to have all of the fun I didn't have time for before. I do a lot of cooking, baking, playing videogames, and spending time with my husband.

-How much time could you be on the server weekly?: Probably between 10 and 30 hours a week depending on work and family obligations.

-How long have you played Minecraft?: About two months.

-What do you know about Roleplaying? What is it?: I know about roleplaying from being a long time D&D player. To me roleplaying is about forgetting that you are controlling an avatar or character and instead allowing yourself to be immersed in the world you find yourself in so that you can act and react as your character would.

-What do you expect this server will be like?: I expect it will be challenging compared to playing minecraft solo. I also expect that due to the laws that are in place, the number of players, and the sheer beauty of the locales that it will be a fun and immersive place to roleplay.

-What other server(s) have you played on and why did you leave them?: I have never played on another minecraft server.

-Have you read, understood, and agreed to the rules?: I have indeed read, understood and agree to the rules in addition to thanking the community for creating and abiding by them.

-Name the 4 races on this server: Human, Elf, Orc, Dwarf

-How did you hear about us?: From one website where I was reading about great Minecraft Multiplayer Servers, but unfortunately I cannot remember which website it was...

-What is your The Lord Of Craft forum account name?: thebusynarcissist

In-Character:

-Character Name: Valer D'Avore, third daughter to the sixth son of the current leader of our family. **waits for the clerk to look up a family record** We're recorded as a MINOR house?!? Yes, I suppose to those who are unacquainted with the history and indirect influence of our house it might appear so...

-What is your Race?: I should think it should be apparent by looking at me that I am a human, although I do have the distinct distinction of being one sixty fourth elven.

-Biography: You need to know what? I'm sorry, what did you say your name was? **listens for a moment** Well, I don't care who you are. As you can see, I am very busy, very important and not at all able to answer your little questions. **listens again** Oh, for posterity you say? Yes, yes, very good, it would indeed be a noble undertaking for you to record my history so that when I have made my name my glorious descendants can trace my journey of toil and hardship and then fall to their knees and weep with gratitude that they have such noble blood in their veins.

Very well, it all began with a mushroom. I was out playing with my eldest brother, in the farmlands surrounding our home. My brother and I were hungry, and there were no servants or parents around to feed us. It was quite intolerable... To continue, my brother decided to eat a certain mushroom. Now, this mushroom turned him a most delightful shade of purple, it was quite wondrous to behold. After completing his transformation from pale to purple and back, he fell into the deepest sleep. It took the combined effort of our chirurgeon, potions master, and a great number of the nursery staff to bring him out of this unnatural sleep. The answer of course being to lower his feet into a pail of water and have seven chickens cluck in his left ear. Such an elegant solution really, but I wonder if the phase of the moon might have influenced... **appears lost in thought**

I immediately resolved to apprentice to the local herbalist. Unfortunately, my mother was not struck with the same sense of immediacy I was. She would have me spend my days tending the pigs, perhaps learning how to sow... disgraceful really. You'd never know that my fourth cousin once removed was a favorite of a favorite courtier of King Edmund... I spent some time convincing my parents that it was in their interest to allow me to begin my apprenticeship. It was only when my younger brother was attacked by a rampaging spider that my parents began to understand how having someone skilled at healing poisons using basic herbological mixtures might be beneficial to our family.

My apprenticeship began, and there are relatively few events therein to describe. Of course, the most formative event being the arrival of a wandering merchant who had come by way of The Wilds with sacks full of herbs and animal specimens. This piqued my curiosity and my resolve to study specimens outside of my native Oren...

Yes, the sheer romance of it is simply overwhelming isn't it? Well, to celebrate the end of my apprenticeship, as well as to escape from the unreasonable demands of family, I gathered a knapsack, a small amount of food and my wits and ventured forth towards Al'Khazar. I thought perhaps that would be the best place to offer my services. You see, in my haste, I had forgotten that even the noblest of us have to eat, and I fear that my cloak is providing more in the way of style than it is in warmth. Say, you don't happen to know anyone in the human kingdom who might need a procurer of the fine and rarest herbs do you?

You've run out of paper? The short version you say? **appears quite outraged at being interrupted thusly** Fine very well. Once upon a time my brother ate a mushroom to a curious effect. I determined that I should make it my life's work to study the plants and fauna of our native Oren, as well as those in the surrounding kingdoms such as Malinor. I am one sixty fourth elven you know. As soon as I finished my apprenticeship, I ventured out with only the knowledge held in the cavernous reaches of my mind, and here I am.

-Character Age: Now really, that is quite a rude question to just up and ask someone. **mutters to self** "It seems to be true what they say about civil servants around here..."

Oh, what? Very well, I am 18 human years old.

-Character Appearance: Are you daft? I mean honestly, I am standing right in front of you. Are you blind? **listens** Oh, you are in fact blind. Errr, well, I mean, how was I supposed to be able to know that? Oh, very well. I am tall, pale, dressed as befits a daughter of such an esteemed house, with eyes like the palest blue of gems and hair like the darkest depths of night. I must at times keep my hair very short, as crawling through swamps and The Wilds are not conducive to maintaining long and beautiful locks of hair...

-Character Personality: Well, this is really rather an odd question. Is it really possible for us to know ourselves. Aren't others the mirrors we use to gauge such a question? Hmmm **thinks for a moment** I am swift of foot and of mind. I am strong of heart and perhaps not so strong physically. But really, I am very much strong of heart. My flaws? How can you ask a woman that? I suppose I have been told by my insufferable relatives, especially my mother that I am vain, prone to exaggeration, and arrogant. But really, what does ones' family know?

-Your ambitions: **taps foot impatiently** As I've already explained to you repeatedly I am currently engaged in doing research on the native fauna and animals of Oren and Malinor. **listens a moment** What do you mean what do I hope to accomplish?! I am a scholar **raises voice** Do you understand me... S-C-H-O-L-A-R.... **lowers voice** I do scholarly things, such as travelling to places and collecting samples and data. I shouldn't expect you to understand the complex workings of mind and body that are used to facilitate discovery and invention. Oh, and not that it is any of YOUR business, but I do one day hope to found my own academy.

-Can your character read or write?: Have you been listening to a word I say? Dear me, I really must speak to my family about increasing the minimum requirements to work in the immigration offices around here. Yes, my dear, I can in fact read, and if I do say so myself I am an exquisite writer. A great deal better of a writer than that insufferably loquacious fool who wrote "On The Superbly Numerous Occasions and Uses of Sugar Cane." Do you know he literally stole the entire substructures of chapters five, eight, and seventeen directly from my field notes?

-Can your character mine?: I am able to mine simple ores so that I may study their properties, but I'm afraid that those that rate higher on the Kingdoms Rating Scale for the Hardness of Materials are quite beyond me. Once I establish myself, I simply *must* find someone who can either show me how to extract them myself, or would be willing to climb around in a dank dark pit for me in order to acquire them. Perhaps if I started with a sufficiently adroit bovine **appears lost in thought**

-Are you a capable builder?: Hmm, now that is an angle I hadn't thought of for the founding of my academy.... While I am quite adept at the designing and decorating of buildings, the actual physical labor is quite beyond me. Oh, with the notable exception of being able to build the structures I live in while doing field research. You should see what I can do with mud and sticks!

-Can you wield a sword?: Well, as you can imagine sword fights are rather messy, and the results can be disastrous to both ones' person and their attire. I can wield one when I must, but prefer to leave such pedestrian activities to servants and bodyguards.

-Enjoy Farming?: As I told you before, I am a master of field work.... I obtain samples, I either ingest them, preserve them or study them for further use. I suppose if you were quite simple **pointed stare at the questioner** you could say I AM a farmer, though certainly not of the common grubbing about in the dirt just to put food on the table sort. **pauses** Not that there is anything wrong with that my dear.

-Does your character have any special skills?: I can build a fire in a downpour. I can build a mud hut that would withstand a hundred years. My soups and stews are said to be so filling and delightful that grown men have feel to their knees and blessed my ancestors for having fathered such scions. I can coax plants to grow from solid bedrock.

-A screenshot of your skin:

-Other Information: Don't you think you've detained me long enough. I mean, honestly, while we were standing here and talking I'm sure my plant specimens have all but rotted. Oh, look here, they have! I expect the crown to recompense me for such valuable samples!

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