SOLITAYRE'S PROFILE

Bowden casts WALL OF TEXT! It's super effective! Alaron fainted!

As I mentioned before, I never finished this game myself; I was defeated by the unsolvable lighthouse which I guess is only about half way through the game. But I did read an LP of the game later since I was curious about what happened.

I feel like a lot of people don't really take the time to think through what a character who was hundreds or even thousands of years old would actually act like.

This is someone with several lifetimes worth of learning experience. Almost anything happening in their world at the moment probably doesn't seem new to them; they've almost always seen something like this happen before (and if they haven't, it must be something truly new and frightening).

A character like this would probably be very talented at what they do, for more so than a human equivalent, because they've been doing it a lot longer, or perhaps they've developed a wide range of skills from trying a lot of new things across a long life.

A thousand year old character who fights would probably extraordinarily badass and be totally out of the league of anybody else just by virtue of how much more experience and practice they've had.

A character like this would probably seem astonishingly wise to a young person, because they've done it all. Things that bother a human probably seem ridiculous to them. There's probably no problem that can come up that they haven't had to solve before.

I can't think of many stories that try supernaturally old characters with that kind of deference. Master of the Wind tries, with mixed results. A lot of other stories like Lord of the Rings tend to portray supernaturally long-lived races like elves as sort of 'above it all' as though they have become so wise and evolved that fighting is beneath them, which I think has merit but causes other problems.

There's a book I read as a kid called Into the Forge where the heroes and their two elven allies are preparing for a war. When assessing their numbers for a major upcoming battle in which the good guys are terribly outnumbered, one of the heroes' supporters encourages the field commanders to not forget to include the two elves in the headcount. One of them laughs, wanting to know what difference two elves will make, and promptly gets a dressing down as the heroes explain that having two warriors with that much combined experience, knowledge, and wisdom on their side will make for a huge advantage. It's maybe the only time I can think of where a supernaturally long-lived race really gets their props for being good at what they do.

Godric comes across as wacky to a first-time player, but if you've played the game you realize he's actually pretty sharp and that maybe he read the script.