Personality: Nutty? Insane? Cracked? These words can all be used to describe Maridian. A once-normal elven child endured loss, hardship, and the strict training of the Blood Knights to become a man who demands the most powerful and dangerous forces in the universe hit him in the Titans-damned face, because he can take it. Maridian is a tank at heart, fiercely devoted to his family, his friends, and his principles. No one will suffer so long as he can stand between them and a foe; no one will come to harm as long as he has the strength left to lift his shield and take the blow for them.
But whether it’s his history, the number of times he’s been grievously injured with gushing wounds or a cracked skull, or simply the things he’s had to endure in the course of his tanking, somewhere along the line something seems to have slipped in his head. Maridian is alarmingly genre-savvy and entirely blasé about the fact, cheerfully pointing out the foibles and quirks in his world without any real mental filter than an adult ought to have. For example, he's well-aware that for some reason, they only ever fight the fiercest of foes in groups of ten or 25, after which said foes obligingly drop better weapons and armor than what he has. He cheerfully boasts that Alexstraza once sent him a red drake in the mail, and he's occasionally jumped off of Dalaran just to bubble before he hits the ground. This isn't fourth-wall, mind, just a bit meta at best; he's of the opinion that Azeroth had just had its spacial-temporal stability slapped to hell and back too many times.
Underneath this, though – or perhaps because of it – he’s a friendly, cheerful guy who wants the best for everyone. Despite the fact that the Horde and Alliance are at war, a conflict only increasing of late, Maridian will cheerfully befriend anyone willing to approach him with an open mind. Sure, he’ll mow through the Alliance with berserker glee in Eye of the Storm or Warsong Gulch, but as he cheerfully points out, he only does that because glory on the field of battle gets him better gear, and the Spirit Healers ensure that the point is to achieve the Horde's goals, not slaughter their enemies. He’ll just as willingly side with them in joint ventures like the Shattered Sun Offensive. Foes like the Scourge, the Twilight cultists, and the Burning Legion are his true foes. He has immense respect for the draenei in particular, thanks to their efforts in restoring the Sunwell despite the enmity that is supposed to exist between their people.
A shameless flirt, Mar nevertheless avoids serious entanglements -- half from lack of opportunity, half from a sad, private self-aware sense that no one deserves to be stuck long-term with a lunatic elf likely doomed to an early grave. Though his affections, friendly, familial, or romatic, manifest in bizarre and whimsical ways, in his heart he cares deeply for his friends and family. At the end of the day, when he stalks in front of a foe and raises his shield, though he may say he’s after a weapon drop, the truth is simply that he will fight – and tank – to make the world a better place for everyone he holds close. On that note, the base betrayals of Garrosh Hellscream infuriated him like nothing had since the Third War. He saw the next Lich King, or at least its moral equivalent, in Hellscream and will have nothing of it. Similarly, the corruption and decay he discovered in the Horde's forces on Draenor have at last pushed him to the point where he believes he can no longer protect his people or help Azeroth by serving with them, though that conviction has only had a very brief time to fester within him.
He has a bit of an ego, but after all his accomplishments, who can blame him?
The one sour note in all of this is that most recent development -- his sudden realization that either his suicidal risk-taking is a model that is threatening countless heroes and producing even more unsuited to the demands of it, or that the Horde legions are rife with incompetence and foolishness entirely on their own after Hellscream's downfall. This has struck him to the core, inflicting a wound that might scar, might heal, or might kill -- depending on how things go in these moments where he is now away from all that.
Abilities:
Maridian is a Blood Knight, who trades between the shield and sword (Protection) and two-handed weapons (Retribution). In Protection spec, his abilities rely on harming the enemy, protecting himself, and some minor healing. In Retribution spec, he packs a host of offensive abilities backed up by some ability to heal himself.
Beyond these combat abilities, Mar is capable of summoning numerous mounts, both flying and ground -- and perhaps more dramatically, he has imbibed a potent alchemical concoction that gives him the power to transform into a Sandstone Drake, though this is literally only useful to carry someone else as a mount; the transformation fails in any strenuous task like combat or spellcasting.
Alignment: Peromei. Mar's recent discovery of the rot within the Horde has proved a powerful counterpoint to the hope he feels when he protects and defends and strikes down the deserving. Other: I APOLOGIZE FOR HIM BEING META
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Nutty? Insane? Cracked? These words can all be used to describe Maridian. A once-normal elven child endured loss, hardship, and the strict training of the Blood Knights to become a man who demands the most powerful and dangerous forces in the universe hit him in the Titans-damned face, because he can take it. Maridian is a tank at heart, fiercely devoted to his family, his friends, and his principles. No one will suffer so long as he can stand between them and a foe; no one will come to harm as long as he has the strength left to lift his shield and take the blow for them.
But whether it’s his history, the number of times he’s been grievously injured with gushing wounds or a cracked skull, or simply the things he’s had to endure in the course of his tanking, somewhere along the line something seems to have slipped in his head. Maridian is alarmingly genre-savvy and entirely blasé about the fact, cheerfully pointing out the foibles and quirks in his world without any real mental filter than an adult ought to have. For example, he's well-aware that for some reason, they only ever fight the fiercest of foes in groups of ten or 25, after which said foes obligingly drop better weapons and armor than what he has. He cheerfully boasts that Alexstraza once sent him a red drake in the mail, and he's occasionally jumped off of Dalaran just to bubble before he hits the ground. This isn't fourth-wall, mind, just a bit meta at best; he's of the opinion that Azeroth had just had its spacial-temporal stability slapped to hell and back too many times.
Underneath this, though – or perhaps because of it – he’s a friendly, cheerful guy who wants the best for everyone. Despite the fact that the Horde and Alliance are at war, a conflict only increasing of late, Maridian will cheerfully befriend anyone willing to approach him with an open mind. Sure, he’ll mow through the Alliance with berserker glee in Eye of the Storm or Warsong Gulch, but as he cheerfully points out, he only does that because glory on the field of battle gets him better gear, and the Spirit Healers ensure that the point is to achieve the Horde's goals, not slaughter their enemies. He’ll just as willingly side with them in joint ventures like the Shattered Sun Offensive. Foes like the Scourge, the Twilight cultists, and the Burning Legion are his true foes. He has immense respect for the draenei in particular, thanks to their efforts in restoring the Sunwell despite the enmity that is supposed to exist between their people.
A shameless flirt, Mar nevertheless avoids serious entanglements -- half from lack of opportunity, half from a sad, private self-aware sense that no one deserves to be stuck long-term with a lunatic elf likely doomed to an early grave. Though his affections, friendly, familial, or romatic, manifest in bizarre and whimsical ways, in his heart he cares deeply for his friends and family. At the end of the day, when he stalks in front of a foe and raises his shield, though he may say he’s after a weapon drop, the truth is simply that he will fight – and tank – to make the world a better place for everyone he holds close. On that note, the base betrayals of Garrosh Hellscream infuriated him like nothing had since the Third War. He saw the next Lich King, or at least its moral equivalent, in Hellscream and will have nothing of it. Similarly, the corruption and decay he discovered in the Horde's forces on Draenor have at last pushed him to the point where he believes he can no longer protect his people or help Azeroth by serving with them, though that conviction has only had a very brief time to fester within him.
He has a bit of an ego, but after all his accomplishments, who can blame him?
The one sour note in all of this is that most recent development -- his sudden realization that either his suicidal risk-taking is a model that is threatening countless heroes and producing even more unsuited to the demands of it, or that the Horde legions are rife with incompetence and foolishness entirely on their own after Hellscream's downfall. This has struck him to the core, inflicting a wound that might scar, might heal, or might kill -- depending on how things go in these moments where he is now away from all that.
Abilities:
Maridian is a Blood Knight, who trades between the shield and sword (Protection) and two-handed weapons (Retribution). In Protection spec, his abilities rely on harming the enemy, protecting himself, and some minor healing. In Retribution spec, he packs a host of offensive abilities backed up by some ability to heal himself.
Guides which describe what exactly Mar would be doing in either spec can be found here for Retribution and here for Protection.
Beyond these combat abilities, Mar is capable of summoning numerous mounts, both flying and ground -- and perhaps more dramatically, he has imbibed a potent alchemical concoction that gives him the power to transform into a Sandstone Drake, though this is literally only useful to carry someone else as a mount; the transformation fails in any strenuous task like combat or spellcasting.
Alignment: Peromei. Mar's recent discovery of the rot within the Horde has proved a powerful counterpoint to the hope he feels when he protects and defends and strikes down the deserving.
Other: I APOLOGIZE FOR HIM BEING META
Sample: In which Mar believes a pony princess is a huntard
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