#k'ure

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how would you character act if they were an in-game follower?

K’ure Sin’gokh

In-Game Title: Warlord/Battlelord (switches when on non-Azeroth worlds/Azeroth)

Class: Barbarian (fury warrior; dps)

Weapon/s: 2-handed axes, swords, hammers, polearms... nothing really fancy.

Mount: Grinning Reaver

AI Behavior: (Battle) Leaps/charges into the middle of a fight after an enemy is aggro’d. // Will periodically taunt/stun any enemies that go on the healers/player. || (Idle) Takes her weapon off of her back and will either flip it, swing it, or polish it. // Will look at a map of the area they’re in and talk about a nearby raid/archaeological site.

Selection Line: “Xa’zak uya hach’i.” (Be strong and blessed.) [sha-zack oo-ya hawk-ee] // “Yes, what is it?” (K’ure says this if she’s been selected several times in a row; on the next time she’s selected, a debuff is set on the player for 15 seconds, “Blocked,” that has K’ure run a few paces away every time the player attempts to select her again)

Battle Lines:

“You’re confident, I’ll give you that – but today is not your day to claim victory!” (When attacked by enemies first.)

“Do not worry, I’ll protect you!” (Taunting/stunning an enemy that’s aggro’d the player; also, when casting Non-Believer’s Prayer.)

“It is quite unfortunate that we are so divisive. Can we just share stories at Stormstout Brewery over a few kegs instead?” (When entering battlegrounds/pvp areas.)

“Do not be so bold as to assume you will walk away from this betrayal!” (Spoken to once-friendly NPCs that become an enemy during a questline/raid.)

Cool Downs:

“Snack Time” AOE support buff, 10-minute cooldown/1-hour duration (not persistent through death): any time the player/raid loses a food buff, selecting this buff allows K’ure to give them another randomized food buff (if it’s the player, it’ll be strictly buffable food from the expansion available to their current level; for a raid, it’ll be whatever table is available for their average level).

“What’re Those!” combative / “Thanks, It Has Pockets” non-combative buff, 15-minute cooldown/10-minute duration (persistent through death): gives minor defensive stat increases to the player once selected; otherwise, increases bag space by 10.

“Non-Believer’s Prayer” support buff, 6-minute cooldown/30-second duration (not persistent through death): 5% of the player’s health/mana is instantly given, with a shield encompassing the player for 20 seconds that turns into 20% health once the timer ends, giving the player with roughly 25% health and 5% mana overall. (Gives the player a 150-second buff called “Hallelujah,” where any healing coming from another Light-user will be increased by 5%. If Bhoj’ir is in the party as well, it will be 8%.) [This replaces the draenei “Gift of the Naaru” and makes it more support-y!!]

“Calculated Sacrifice” combat buff, 10-minute cooldown/3-minute duration (persistent through death): when the player is soloing a raid/quest that usually requires others, using this buff increases all of their stats by 35% for 90-seconds, but will temporarily reduce that much of the player’s max health for 90-seconds. (Death will not reset this reduction of health; using this ability will put on a debuff for 3 minutes after its use, “Recovery,” in which the player will regain 5% of their max health every 30 seconds. Eating a non-buffable food item decreases the amount of time Recovery will be active by half.)

Exiting Battle Quotes:

“Sûc’x-aru, that was a close one.” (Basically, ‘goddamn.’ [sue-tch a-roo] Used when a battle is ended and she has less than 50% health.)

“We did what we had to. Come, let us dwell on this no longer; we have dead to mourn and a fight to finish.” (Neutral; not dependent on health percentage, but rather how many times the raid/player has died. If more than 75% of the raid died, she’ll change it to “allies to avenge and a war to win.”)

“Hey, it could have been worse. Let us use this shortfall of our enemy to our advantage!” (Used when she has more than 50% health after a battle is over.)

“What a pathetic end! That wasn’t a challenge at all.” (Said when an enemy is killed under 30 seconds.)

KO Quotes:

“Not... yet... there is much I... still have... to protect...” (Usually said if she dies but the raid/player does not.)

“Is this... what peace... feels like?” (Usually said if the raid/player wipe.)

“Please tell my love... that I... tried my best.” (Said at any point; alternatively, if Bhoj’ir is in the same fight, she’ll say, “Maybe in the next life, I won’t fail you so horribly.”)

“Light, do not send me to that Hell again...” (Said once she’s been resurrected once and dies a second time in the same fight.)

Resurrected:

“Back into the fray.” (Said when rez’d during battle; depending on how many times she’s died already, it starts off as a battle cry then goes to a sigh. Said in conjunction with her last KO quote.)

“Many blessings upon you! Just... do not let my love know of this, okay?” (K’ure says this to anyone that rez’s her, in battle or out of it. If Bhoj’ir is in the party too, she’ll add, “He worries enough as it is.” Otherwise, she’ll end it with, “This will be our little secret.”)

“What did I miss?... oh, that’s quite disappointing.” (Said if the enemy has been defeated and she is rez’d after the fight.)

“How embarrassing... I hope no one was watching that.” (She’ll say this if she is killed by an AOE/DOT that could’ve been easily avoided.)

Tagged by: @thekinginblue

Tagging: EVERYONE lol please tag me in this whenever you do it, I want to see what you come up with!!

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Random Facts About My Muses, Part 1/??

Sungrisk hates kissing someone after they’ve had something so ungodly sweet. Like, it’s that “chill in your bones”-type of sweet that he swears makes his Scourge-tainted mist change colors. If he’s willing to shell out hundreds of gold for a decent mouthwash to hide the bitterly cold Scourge breath he has, then the least they could do is not allow him to be on a sugar rush for the next decade.

Don’t ask him why, but Bho’jir hates oranges (the color, the texture, the pulp). Just. He will literally curse you into the next realm over in retaliation.

Enmesarra gets the title ‘Apothecarist’ as a sick, twisted joke. She was once the proud owner of the Azerothian equivalent of a cocaine-meets-opioid lab, and was as quick with her words as she was with slipping something into an unsuspecting rich guy’s drink to steal everything he was worth. As a death knight, her old “job” is doubly damning as she uses her drug-making skills with her unholy classification to spread the Scourge in the new drugs she passes out.

She is also hyper-allergic to mangoes, despite the fact that is her favorite fruit, ever. Every time Enmesarra eats one, she puffs up and turns the literal color orange, but denies being allergic because “it hasn’t been scientifically proven yet.”

Every dwarf has the knowledge of what they are made up of (diamonds, sapphires, clay, limestone, etc…), and it’s an incredibly private matter. Singlar doesn’t let just anyone know about the fact he’s made of diamond (because, look, King Magni literally turned into a diamond and went immobile for nearly a decade, and whatever he has Singlar does not want to repeat). So as much as he’d love to say ‘Diamond-Tipped’ means his genitalia, it doesn’t. (On the flip side, when he uses his racial ability to become stone, his skin turns into a steel-grey diamond. It looks pretty cool.)

Khkoaytsma uses the title ‘Liberated,’ though it’s really only used in draenic/shamanic ceremonies. Similarly to those that escaped the Soul Engine and experiments of the orcish Horde (in the Outland and on Draenor), she and others that hold the title are few and far between. It is more symbolic than an actual position, but they can share their trauma with a single word than having to relive it.

Each of them has had their moments of luck, where either fate will intervene to help or make a situation that much worse (but eventually get luckier later). Bhoj’ir is the luckiest out of them all (10 out of 10), but hates to admit that it’s luck and not “skill.” Then (out of the main ones) it comes Totality (who doesn’t believe in luck but often blushes at the thought of being called ‘lucky’, with him being 8 out of 10), K’ure (who uses it to her advantage as best as she can, 7 out of 10), then Ereish (who hates the thought of not being lucky, but she’s like, a 3 out of 10, lol).

Ahilyah spent decades in the Emerald Dream after she was infected, attempting to control her worgen sickness with the help of those in the Dream. When she succeeded, she emerged with other night elves when the Gilneans were cured of the madness (to reintegrate into society). Due to the fact she spent so long in the Dream, the warrior can sense so many more connections between everything, sometimes disorienting her if she’s close to a leyline/Dream entrance.

Despite the fact that her fingers have been nearly worn down to the bone (from the cold or a furnace, she cannot tell), Rohinii is very delicate with her detailing work for jewelcrafting commissions. Silver and saronite is her favorite combination, somewhat of an obsession for her to work with it as it gives her some catharsis whenever she feels stressed out (almost like smoking? but not as damaging in the long run).

Hjörrdís paints her nails glow-in-the-dark so she doesn’t accidentally hurt herself. She says it’s because she isn’t used to being “so leathery,” but really it’s because she can’t stand seeing how malformed her body has become since choosing to follow Illidan (and c’mon, glow in the dark nails are so cool).

H’di is afraid of the dark.

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K’ure’s Temperment

TEST HERE

Melancholic

"The melancholic temperament is traditionally associated with the element of earth. People with this temperament may appear serious, introverted, cautious or even suspicious. They can become preoccupied with the tragedy and cruelty in the world and are susceptible to moodiness. They may be focused and conscientious. They often prefer to do things themselves, both to meet their own standards and because they are not inherently sociable. Pedagogically, they can be best met by awakening their sympathy for others and the suffering of the world."

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Ash - Is there something or someone from your past that you miss? 

(Thanks for the ask, @dardillien-ward !! Sorry this took forever!)

K’ure misses her parents – the opportunity to have grown up and known her parents in that “child becoming an adult” way. She wishes she had a decent life so she could’ve probably given them grandkids, and she would’ve been just fine as a blacksmith, with her kids growing up in the ash and fire of the smithy. (But now she’s convinced herself that children equals tragic death, and refuses to have any. :c)

Bhoj’ir misses his siblings. He aches when he thinks about their sacrifices to save the draenei, and yet disaster falls on their people anyway. He hates they sacrificed their lives for a people that are doomed to die off anyway, and would much rather his siblings all be alive and safe rather than dead.

Ereish misses her parents, too. Had her father not died, her mother wouldn’t have become sick with heartache and married someone else. Ereish wouldn’t have had an abusive step-father, wouldn’t have killed him in self-defense, and wouldn’t be a criminal.

Ahilyah misses Singlar, but not as a husband: she misses their stupid, loathing friendship. She doesn’t regret telling him about who she really is to him, but she does regret telling him during an already heated argument (which she believes killed her chances at telling him slowly). She would’ve been much more comfortable staying his friend and continuing to help him get over her past identity, rather than him actually, full-on hating her for it all.

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94. When are you both “in your element” together? (your pick)

(Thanks for the ask, @belillinafireseeker !! Sorry it took ages<3)

For Bhoj’ir and K’ure, it’s always a battlefield. Up until Legion, they were inseparable – her axes swinging into the nearest enemy’s chest while taking a heavy beating from the next guy over, his healing keeping their allies and his idiot wife alive while curses fly over their heads – and they would want it no other way. From their first battle millennium ago until the one right before Legion, these two draenei have never been apart. They have more stories about the intimacies of battle than their own home life, since it was mostly just a room on the Exodar with a little garden and tailoring station. They’re simple house makers, lol.

To Totality’s credit, he’s become a great liar and thief. When he and Ereish are out on a mission, he’s her bodyguard and certainly acts like it. (Even when not on a mission, he holds that role very close to his heart.) When they’re at their best, however, is when they’re out on a road, in the middle of nowhere, the stars as their guide and the tree canopies as their protection. It’s them literally against anything the world throws at them, and he gets the chance to step away from his life as a paladin and just survive. It’d be poetic if they weren’t so immature towards each other.

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Her transmogs are troll-inspired. I love both of them.

Definitely a more vibrant coloration for the first set, inspired by parrots and the jungle; the second, I love the Throne of Thunder crackling-blue electricity of the shoulders, so I tried basing the look around them.

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8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell?

(Thanks for your patience on this ask, @dardillien-ward <3)

Before Pandaria, she was most comfortable in Uldum. She loved the atmosphere, the dungeons, the environment. When she came to the Isle, however, she ended up falling in love with Sunsong Ranch. She used those skills and, after SOO, retreated to the edges of the Krasarang Wilds and built a little house on top of one of the sea spires overlooking the ocean, making herself a small garden to keep herself occupied with something.

Each place she ends up falling in love with, she’ll settle. Actually, fully, settle. It makes her wonder if this is what having a home feels like, until it’s ripped from her (or she destroys her connection to it and discards it before it can be taken from her).

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What is their favorite meal of the day?

(Thanks for your patience, @serelia-evensong !)

Before Legion, K’ure was maxed archaeology, first aid, cooking, skinning, mining, and was about 2/3rds to fishing (I hate it so much). She’s the only one that I have actively pursued getting every single cooking recipe, and I’ve lost tens of thousands of gold just on recipes alone, let alone mats for it. In MoP and Draenor I was the first person to put down tables in dungeons and raids, and I would spam people to trade to give them a stack of food (I had a lot of food).

ICly, saying she loves cooking is an absolute insult. She hears you ask what’s for dinner? She’ll whip out something and give it to you. She hears you complain in a raid you don’t know when you’ll eat next? Your mailbox is filled with a week’s worth of food. When she entered Pandaria, she (politely) pestered every cook in existence until they gave her their recipes. She feeds Horde; she feeds Alliance; she’ll feed your pets and mounts if you give her their favorite foods (Hell, she might just ask them herself).

She has a problem with food lol. But she loves cooking, and loves the way it brings people together.

Her favorite meal to cook for, however, is dinner. You get to go all out, because it’s the last meal of the day (generally). She’ll go above and beyond in presentation, food quality, and service.

If things had been different in her life, she might’ve opened up a restaurant. Instead, she’s an angry ball of rage that can throw an axe with the same force she puts into her work as a blacksmith.