Posted by Tournevis on November 01, 1999 at 10:06:12:
In Reply to: maran helpline call #11035 posted by Shokai(IMM) on November 01, 1999 at 08:35:11:
I got my tattoo when I was hero, was always on the run, perfecting a skill, trying it on evil, destroy the evil ones, praying, then rank again. Everytime someone would tell me there was someone evil I could harm somewhere, I would go. Live to destroy evil. Very simple.. my english is very bad so I don't have the best roleplay but.. act it, don't just say you destroy evil. Tournevis, that should show up a little more N.B. Warriors really sucks at hero :)
I remember when I was under rank 25, I would buy a mercenary and a potion of return, run into the first group of evil ranking that I could find, attack one randomly, had the mercenary rescue me and bash the hell out of them. When you are really hurt, flee, quaff the potion or run, rest, heal and go back. Most of the time, you will kill one if you are a warrior or something strong at low rank.
Anyway, I was doing that all the time, but no tattoo. When I got to the 40th ranks things were different, warriors suck at hi rank, so be ready to die a lot but fight hard. I remember going praying at low ranks with kick ass gear from my kills.. when I got the tattoo I was barely naked but covered with evil blood. Didn't really know what to say to Shokai.. he just told me that my acts speak for me and I was a maran.
One thing you should think about, in a previous post Shokai said that he sees the Marans a little bit like the white cloaks in Jordan's books. Now think.. who is evil? what is evil? then destroy it.. empire and scarab is the easy part. Ragers are evil, all necromancers are evil so you'll have to deal with both, masters and ragers. By the way, as a follower of the destruction's sphere, you should think that Dawn are a bunch of wimps (most of them at least) so don't count on them... only thing they want is rank to hero and gather the best gear possible, Sylvans are ok.
That is my point of vue on the Marans, I know most of you disagree with it but... only Shokai really knows