We all remember our first loves!...Thats right! I mean our first rpg characters of course. For many of us, it included a ratty piece of paper, a #2 pencil, and six sided die. Didnt need much more than that back then :D.

Got this idea while reminiscing with Scras. Just post your first character, a few lines to a paragraph, thats all I ask. In the words of Fiddler on the Roof, 'Those were the days my friends.'

...and walking sticks, and crosiers, and goads, and scepters, but no wands!

"A-Wan, A-Wan, A-Wan". Awanggis is an unassuming place blessed with good clean water from a subterranean source.

The sea is calm, the morning mists clear, the seagulls cry out, and land comes into view

Pets mind you. Not exotic monster companions. No saddled dire-boars to be found here. No purple worm caravans.

A peculiar guild of specialists. "Flick your ticks, slice your lice, squeeze your fleas."

Font of Damnable Contemplation

'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,'

-Shakespeares 29th Sonnet.

Spare me your Epics!

Or Bearshrews if you prefer. The debate rages on among naturalists. Both names are used interchangeably for these creatures.

Therianthropes? Lycanthropes? Animorphs? Homo-Zoological-Hybrid-Sapiens? Manimals? Take your pick.

Torture...pure and simple.

The City of Bells, home of Bornegault's Tongue.

Everyone can think of a favorite song or two (or three) which can easily be translated into a fantasy rpg concept, be it an item, plot, location, or what have you. Just take the lyrics of your favorite real-life ditty, and go from there!

Once a year, and each year in a different place, the wandering bazaar and social gala that is the Thieves Convention is held. Invitations Only!

Outtakes from the duo's many travels beyond the Polished Sea, cataloging some of the stranger creatures they encountered.

Come visit Qacha’s Neck. Home of the Worlds Oldest Cat

During certain years, people in Akgku claim to observe a green flame coming from the sea and erupting upward. It can be observed from a distance of two days' journey or more. After burning for a considerable time, the flame disappears.

—Falklyde Wodinger, Haraconian scholar, in route to wondrous Udross and legendary Akgku.

The Whales Graveyard.

Shadows gather...and linger.