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<blockquote data-quote="Nthal" data-source="post: 8073284" data-attributes="member: 6971069"><p>Thanks.</p><p></p><p>I will say as a <em>player </em>this was not comfortable either. Writing a story or background for your own character that has unsavory or unfortunate elements is par for the course. (Question: how many characters do you know are orphans? A common trope, which can be brilliant or terrible. I digress.)</p><p></p><p>This was a situation where the overtones of slavery, and what was done to women/smallfolk/children (implied) was not a comfortable topic. Coming up with a player rationale for being "Bad Myr" was on one hand a challenge, but on the other hand almost not fun. While I admit to being "attached" to Myrai, the whole scenario was one that I would have been reluctant to include my daughter (now in high school, and an avid player) because of those depictions and overtones.</p><p></p><p>By comparison, everyone did love the Myrai and driving the communications of the 'Great Gnome Heist.' Let us say that for as dark story of the brothel's workers was, the "How do I get up stairs, and not sleep with the girls" was hilarious. There were many failed persuasion checks.</p><p></p><p>Now at the time, I had been binge watching re-runs of Game of Thrones. As you can imagine, the episodes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wings,_Dark_Words" target="_blank">"Dark Wings, Dark Words"</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climb_(Game_of_Thrones)" target="_blank">The Climb</a>" and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair" target="_blank">"The Bear and the Maiden Fair" </a>from season three were on my mind, and during the three sessions, the tragic story of Markel and Myrai emerged, to fill in gaps of her backstory of isolationism and a bit more on her own self-loathing.</p><p></p><p>What tragic story? Well...I guess it must be time to tell it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nthal, post: 8073284, member: 6971069"] Thanks. I will say as a [I]player [/I]this was not comfortable either. Writing a story or background for your own character that has unsavory or unfortunate elements is par for the course. (Question: how many characters do you know are orphans? A common trope, which can be brilliant or terrible. I digress.) This was a situation where the overtones of slavery, and what was done to women/smallfolk/children (implied) was not a comfortable topic. Coming up with a player rationale for being "Bad Myr" was on one hand a challenge, but on the other hand almost not fun. While I admit to being "attached" to Myrai, the whole scenario was one that I would have been reluctant to include my daughter (now in high school, and an avid player) because of those depictions and overtones. By comparison, everyone did love the Myrai and driving the communications of the 'Great Gnome Heist.' Let us say that for as dark story of the brothel's workers was, the "How do I get up stairs, and not sleep with the girls" was hilarious. There were many failed persuasion checks. Now at the time, I had been binge watching re-runs of Game of Thrones. As you can imagine, the episodes [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wings,_Dark_Words']"Dark Wings, Dark Words"[/URL], "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climb_(Game_of_Thrones)']The Climb[/URL]" and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair']"The Bear and the Maiden Fair" [/URL]from season three were on my mind, and during the three sessions, the tragic story of Markel and Myrai emerged, to fill in gaps of her backstory of isolationism and a bit more on her own self-loathing. What tragic story? Well...I guess it must be time to tell it. [/QUOTE]
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