Well, this character sort of came into existence on his own. But let me explain the set of events that led up to his creation.
I seem to have the insane tendency to create heavy armoured heroes that just jump into combat and hack at everything that moves until he or shes the last one standing, everything else dead, or incapacitated. This is all fine and dandy, but eventually as most people probably have noticed it gets old and rather boring. So I decided to attempt a multi versatile hero that can take on ten enemies at once as well as he can skulk down an alleyway or set ambushes and such like. This was very appealing for me at the time, having always used sword orientated characters. With a multi versatile character I could enjoy the game in many different ways that couldn�t before. .e.g. Crack some heads with Khelgar or go on stealth missions with Neeshka.
What I conceived of was a jack of all trades character. A combination of a cheesy swashbuckler and the calm and collected rogue, I used a combination of different classes to achieve what I wished, Ranger, Arcane archer, rogue, Wizard. As you can guess, doing this limits the number of levels you can advance in each class, to a balanced 5, this in turn limits the number of feats available. Hence I was forced to �cheat� a bit by giving my hero feats that would not be available other wise. I used various hero creators to fashion him. Vordans hero creator was very useful.
The character that emerged was quite a bit of a surprise. An impulsive, head strong, I idealistic, Intelligent and a �sell sword� is what emerged. Usually my characters would be lawful, but in this case he turned out to be quite Chaotic, following his own code and doing what he thought to be right, regardless of the consequences, which usually involved quite a bit of resultant fighting or brawling.
(Bear in mind this is my perception of the character and not a �split� personality ;] )
To complete my characters persona I thought about what voice set he should possess, I thought about the swashbuckler voices, but decided it was to, �swashbucklery�. Then I remembered the old nwn games character Valen (my characters name sake), I believed his voice set to be perfect. It suited the character too.
I also borrowed some ideas from V for Vendetta; I thought the character of V was brilliant!
(this character is overpowering, it was created to have fun, having challenging fights wasn�t really and issue when I created him)
The specs of my character
Name: Valen Oken-Shield
Gender: Male
Age: --
Race: Half-Elf
Level: 20 (can be re-adjusted using a character creator)
Favoured weapons:
Scimitar and Knife
Dual Knifes
Dual Scimitars
Heavy Bow
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking 9 - Outstanding, a Must Have 8 - Excellent, Recommended to Anyone 7 - Very Good, Deserves a Look 6 - Good, Qualified Recommendation 5 - Fair, Solid yet Unremarkable 4 - Some Merit, Requires Improvements 3 - Poor Execution, Potential Unrealized 2 - Very Little Appeal 1 - Not Recommended to Anyone
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