LOTRO: New Eibwen

I started a new Eibwen over in the Lord of the Rings Online game. This time I started over in Laurelin to be on an rp server. I had gotten back on my first Eibwen on Imlandris and was enjoying some fireworks from some friendly and random people, but then someone named Imnotfat or something like that ran up. And that's fine if you don't care about role playing, but it breaks my rp groove so I went to a server where there are name rules.

Now I just have to remember to take more screen shots, take notes on the names of the people I interact with, and remember how to write my journal entries.

Name: Eibwen

Class: Guardian

Age: somewhere between adult and middle-age

Height: Average

Eyes: Grayish blue

Hair: Light Auburn

Race: Man

Gender: Female

Languages Spoken: Common (and one elf greeting)

Weapons: Prefers a one handed axe

Armor: Heavy

Hobbies: Fishing, pie eating, listening to minstrels.

Basic Characteristics: She has a high desire to defend others, though she is new at the hero thing and is often frightened. She masks her fear by overly talking of pie and pretending to be more drunk than she is. Though she has been known to get drunk and flirt with one of the cats in The Prancing Pony.

Personality Quirk: She is currently afraid of most people in hoods. Also she has wanderlust and will roam aimlessly.

History:

Eibwen's mother is from the Dale-lands. She had a love of adventure and travel and took off when she was young to find both. The journey of the mother took her to Bree where she met Eibwen's father. She would stop when she passed through to see him, and after a few years he was able to talk her into settling down with him. Part of that reason was probably because she'd discovered she was pregnant. So she settled down in Bree-Town and married Eibwen's father. But wanderlust hit the mother again when Eibwen was still just a girl and so she lost her mother to the road. Eibwen was raised in Bree by her father, but favors her mother more in looks.

Eibwen too has discovered a love of of travel, but she returns home often to worry over her father. She masks her love of travel as a quest for pie. She has yet to admit to herself that she may be like her mother. There is still a lot of resentment and sorrow in her heart for being left behind, not only for herself but also for her father. She doesn't wish to also leave her father as her mother has.

Eibwen's start for adventure has not been as grand or as fun. She'd learned to use a weapon and a shield fairly young because her father wanted her to be able to defend herself. She never really thought about using either for more than that until the night Archet burned. Eibwen was there with her best friend and her fiance. Eibwen was at the Mad Badger with her friends getting drunk and had passed out with the city burned. She woke up outside to find her fiance dead and her best friend missing. Bandits had taken her and so Eibwen took up her axe and shield against evil for the first time to try and save her best friend. She did not make it in time. She makes her pain behind jokes of pie and being drunk, but has a renewed sense as a guardian to defend others. She knows that if she'd not been drunk things might have turned out differently in Archet. If she'd had her axe and shield and knew better how to use them, she may have saved her love and her best friend.

She pretends she's carefree, and still gets drunk, but tends to do it in safer places where it doesn't matter. Also she doesn't get drunk nearly as much as she tells people she does. In fact she was sober the day she met Gilgarad, the Knight Commander of The Order of Dol Amroth. He obviously saw something in her that she has yet to see in herself and recruited her to be a knight. Now besides fear of hooded male figures, she also fears letting Gilgarad and the other knights down in some way. She started getting drunk far less often, and attacks more bandits when she sees them, but her quest for pie has not lessened.