User:Tometheus/Characters

Characters (sorted by age)
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Bilgames Rei
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Back when I was a young character...
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 * Born: May 2005 in Tyria
 * Specialization: Earth Magic
 * Pet: Iguana, "Quincy"
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
 * Core, Prophecies
 * Claim to fame: Appearing in Healbot Blues.
 * Proudest moment: Getting Protector of Tyria. (Well, the title didn't exist back then, but you know what I mean.  It was my first character through the game with all bonuses.)
 * Notes: My first Guild Wars character was an elementalist (pyromancer) named Shadow of Light during the E3 for Everyone event. (Back when Incendiary Bonds ruled the world.)  So, when Guild Wars was finally released, my first character was another Elementalist.
 * Source of names: "Bilgames" has nothing to do with "games". It's an alternate form of "Gilgamesh" from the Epic of Gilgamesh.  (Ironically, this name was inherited from a melee character I played in the Saga of Ryzom betas.)  Quincy is Jason Foxtrott's pet iguana.


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Gilgamesh Rex
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I am NOT a wammo! 
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 * Born: May 2005 in Tyria
 * Specialization: Hammer Mastery
 * Pet: Snow Wolf, "Enkidu"
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
 * Core, Prophecies
 * Proudest moment: Capping Plague Signet. This was my final skill unlock for Prophecies
 * Favorite saying:I am not a wammo! Look!  Necromancer, not Monk!
 * Notes: OK, so this is probably my least favorite character to play as I prefer playing casters.
 * Source of names: I got tired of people pronouncing Bilgames wrong on teamspeak :) Enkidu is Gilgamesh's friend in the Epic.


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Ishtari De Uruk
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''You are getting weaker... weaker...''

I Have Many Leather-Bound Books

 Mini pet: Black Moa Chick (self-hatched)
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 * Born: Sept 2005 in Tyria
 * Specialization: These days, Panic has made Mesmers desirable in PvE, but I still like going out with Illusion Magic once in a while on my own.
 * Current Weapon: Destroyer Fast Casting Scepter with Destroyer Fast Casting Focus
 * Pet: Black Widow (Everything unlocked in the zoo)
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Legendary Skill Hunter (This unlocked Kind Of A Big Deal)
 * (Advanced Skill Hunter (3) before the change)
 * Lightbringer (Holy Lightbringer) | Sunspear (Legendary Spearmarshal) | Factions (Luxon, pre 2008.11 update, Kurzick post) | Norn (Slayer of All) | Ebon Vanguard (Secret Agent) | Asura (Not Too Shabby) | Deldrimor (Legendary Delver)
 * At over 13.37M XP, I now have every standard skill in the game.
 * Completed Campaigns
 * Protector of Tyria | Protector of Cantha | Protector of Elona | GW:EN (Legendary Master of the North)
 * Exploration
 * Legendary Cartographer
 * Proudest moment: Killing Glint. This was my final Prophecies bonus for this character.  Our team had an interrupt ranger who dropped out half-way into the mission and most of the team wanted to quit then, but I told them that Mesmers could interrupt too. So, we continued on and kicked her butt, thereby finishing off my protector title -- through the magic of time-travel into the future when titles were finally created.  (Although getting Legendary Skill Hunter was a pretty proud moment as well.)
 * Notes: This is by far my favorite character to play.  Alas, this character is also the reason I primarily use heroes / henchmen now instead of trying to get PUGs.  First character to finish two chapters.  However, Panic and Zaishen Quests have brought back the fun (and agony) of PuGs again, so I'm enjoying that while it lasts.
 * Source of names: Ishtari, an Assyrian version of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, was one of the major characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh. (Yeah, yeah, I know... I had just read a new translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, so I was a little fixated on Gilgamesh lore.)
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Promethea D Ager
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Everybody look at the birdie!

 Runner up: Killing Galrath on the first try. Well I remember the agony I went through with Bilgames trying to do that quest. I'm also rather proud of finishing Nightfall -- pre-easy mode -- as a beast master when so many people were saying you couldn't do the Realm of Torment with pets. (The only mission I had a difficult time controlling the pet on was Gate of Pain.)
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 * Born: May 2006 in Cantha
 * Specialization: Marksmanship and/or Beast Mastery right now. (My computer is too old to pull off a true 'sin, which requires speed.)
 * Current Weapon:Barbed shortbow of marksmanship
 * Pet: Phoenix, "Pyrophobia"
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Factions, Nightfall
 * Core, Factions, Nightfall
 * Claim to fame: Appearing in Healbot Blues.
 * Proudest moment: Killing Shiro. This was my first character through Factions.  (To date, one of only 2 characters all the way through it.  I was offline for a while while Factions was king.)
 * Saddest moment: Killing Siege Turtles in Eternal Grove
 * Notes: This was my first character to a million XP.  She's probably my second favorite character to play.  And yes, she did use a Critical Barrage build, but I came up with it on my own before I found out it was a popular build :P  Really!  It was difficult getting parties as an assassin, and henchmen didn't behave well if you were constantly shadow-stepping, so I went with the bow and saw that Sharpen Daggers worked with Barrage, so I used it.  (Also, I'm ashamed to admit, my computer is too old to be able to pull off a good Shadow Arts assassin, since I usually get around 1 frame per second in K City -- if I'm lucky.  One works with what one has.)
 * Source of names: Prometheus Bound is my favorite piece of Greek mythology. This is also the source of my net personna, Tometheus.  (Yes, I know D'Ager is a cheesy name for an Assassin, but you should see my guild leader's names.  Call it temporary insanity under the influence of someone in authority.)  Pyrophobia:  the Phoenix (pet) is the Chinese version rather than the Egyptian phoenix associated with fire, so she had a bit of an identity crisis, which developed into a fear of fire.  It's a long story involving a Hydra, 3 rolls of toilet paper, and an albino moose.
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Maatkare Hatshepsut
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''Oooh! Can we stop at the cemetery? I need more ashes.'' 
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 * Born: May 2006 in Cantha
 * Specialization: Communing / Restoration Magic
 * Pet: Tiger, "Shere Khan"
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Factions, Nightfall
 * Core, Factions, Nightfall
 * Proudest moment: First of my characters to finish Nightfall.
 * Notes: This character is growing on me.  I decided long ago not to do a Monk primary since our guild at the time had a surplus of monks.
 * Source of names: Egyption pharaoh Hatshepsut took the throne name Maatkare. Too bad I didn't know where Ch 3 was going to be located or I would have held off on the name for a Ch 3 character.  Shere Khan is the tiger from the Jungle Book.
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Morticia Frump
Mmmmm bodies 
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 * Born: Oct 2006 in Elona
 * Specialization: Death Magic (Minion Master)
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Core, Factions, Nightfall
 * Proudest moment: Taking a team through Vizunah Square to get the Masters reward. I hate that mission with a passion.  I don't know how many times I've attempted that mission with my other characters only to fail because the other team didn't keep their NPC alive until we could meet.
 * Notes: When I was going through prophecies with Gilgamesh, I saw my first minion master at Yak's Bend that first month after release.  I've wanted to do one ever since, but my W/N just didn't have the energy to do it.  Now that I had extra slots, it was my chance.  This is just a really fun character to play in PvE.  You noticed I have a thing for redheads did you?
 * Source of names: Morticia Frump is Morticia Addams's maiden name. I know she looks nothing like Morticia Addams, so just pretend it's what she looked like in her rebellious teen years :).


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Odysseus Laertiades
*mumble* Where's my atlatl?? 
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 * Born: Oct 2006 in Elona
 * Specialization: Leadership
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Nightfall
 * Proudest Moment: Defeating Abaddon. I could finally unlock that last Nightfall skill that had been trapped in the Garden of Seborhin by the Nightfallen Garden.
 * Notes: I created him to look like how I imagine Odysseus looked at the end of his odyssey. Strong, rough beard, deep tan, scowling -- tormented by the gods.  Just someone who would make me wish I'd never heard the name Penelope if I happened to be caught in Ithaca anywhere near his home when he returned.
 * Source of names: Spears just always make me think of The Odyssey


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Binky Rider
COME 
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 * Born: Oct 2006 in Elona
 * Specialization: Earth Prayers
 * Completed skill unlocks:
 * Nightfall
 * Proudest moment: Defeating Varesh... that poser. Ooooh.  Look at me, I have a scythe!  But I change to a Paragon when the going gets rough!  Wimp!
 * Source of names: Of course, everyone who created a Dervish used a name involving Reaper or Death. So, I decided to approach it obliquely -- Binky is the name of DEATH's horse in the Discworld series.  I just always crack a smile when I think of that name.  (Of course, a few months after creating the character, I realized that "Binky Rider" might have a different connotation in other parts of the world.)


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Tom Elmer
Call me Fred
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 * Born: March 1974 in MO
 * Profession: Physics
 * Level: MS
 * Secondary: Computer Science
 * Location: Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, IL
 * Proudest moment: Winning an R&D 100 award
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