[Wids]

Thanks for directing me to this thread, kta. :)

So it'll be another Level or two before Tristella's encounter with a very special visitor from Banehold bears fruit and she can emerge from her spiritual chrysalis with a Level in Blackguard. Hurray! :D

Now, any humdrum Cyricist or Banite can equate a Blackguard with black armor, intimidating glares, burned villages, poisoned wells and mounds of slaughtered peasants and soldiers...death, death, more death and all the usual stuff. But a while back I figured that, if you want a more charming and elegant kind of Blackguard who can swim through social circles with ease--and warm handshakes and kisses and comforting words--yet whose anger alone can still inspire people to throw themselves on their own swords because the last thing they want is for that passionately enraged Blackguard to take them alive...that would be a very rare and special kind of Blackguard. The kind that only a sick puppy like Loviatar can hatch. >:]

(Trist should be well on her way already, with how she alternately comforts and torments certain monsters, NPCs and PCs alike. Just ask Dark and Tainted Darkbloody Blood-Blooded about that. ;) "By the way, my dear, I LOVE your vest! Is that velvet?" *THRASH!* "Now, give me your hands and I'll take all the pain away....")

But the first post in this thread is kind of ouchie. Does Loviatar not like Blackguards? Will poor Tristella be doomed to Lay Person status forever no matter how many Blackguard levels she has? :(

(Well, at least she has access to the Manor's altar and torture chambers now. That's pretty nice. Ale party at the Manor, people! Bring your own elves. )