Once Upon a Time (in an RP I was in)

[Swift_Assassin]

Is it really a necro if on topic?

As you mentioned, the extra levels for more elaborated profiles was essentially a carry over from Dark of Night. I remember my profile for Maddox, and Daren, both needed me to write in reasons why two guys constantly training and fighting weren't more than level 20/3 at the age of 51. For Daren, it was a bit easier, as he had retired from active duty to raise his kids(as he was already 30 when they were born) and then returned to become an officer. For Maddox, he'd have periods of time he was incapacitated and was forced to recover the old fashioned way. For 16 damn years on and off.

Maddox' next incarnation in RL was only in his 30s. In fact, the following three incarnations of Maddox he was in his thirties. In Radiance Lost, Maddox was 31/32 as I mentioned above. Here he is single and was on the cusp of a relationship with Io. In Radiance of Elibe, Maddox and Daren(who didn't exist in RL) was 37. And apparently in that timeline Shad's sister was born when he was six instead of eight. Here, is the traditional incarnation of Maddox, where he left his wife and unborn son to venture off as a mercenary. And the third following incarnation of Maddox was in Dragon Age After Effects he was 35(which meant he was born in the Blessed Age, which became the Dragon age when he was 5). That version of Maddox was unwed, Daren became Bann of their house following their father dying at Ostagar, and Maddox went off to join the Grey Wardens after the events of Dragon Age Origins but just before or during Dragon Age Awakening. And then he made his return as an almost 50 year old man in Lennox and Shad's backstory in Insurrection as a revenge motivation for something else that happened in backstory.

Oh that Dragon Age one made me remember something fully about Wolfram Caron. So, originally, Wolfram was Robert Schirmer, my Radiance Lost dragon-branded Shaman who had machinations of Kreia-ing Dark magic. He was reimagined in the Dragon Age rp as Wolfram Caron, with Caron being the default surname of the Human Orlesian Warden in Dragon Age Awakening, should you decide to carry over a save where you sacrificed your character in the end of Origins. This Wolfram was a descendant of a noble family in the Free Marches, who fled with his sister to Fereldan as a baby after the rest of his family was offed and was taken to the Circle of Mages in Ferelden after his magic developed to a point they couldn't hide him. He fled the Circle years later when the assassins came after his sister and he saved her. He made a pact with a Desire Demon while attempting this, and became a Blood Mage in the process. He then fled to Orlais and joined the Wardens there, before eventually being sent to join the Fereldan Wardens after the Blight ended.

Every single day he was with the group after they met up, he had to be tended to by their medic. By the time the rp stalled, he had used to much of his own blood attempting to stop a rampaging berserker, used up too much mana performing a magic display to celebrate a successful joining, used up a lot of blood and wounded fighting another pc(we implemented a pvp dice roll for this as the guy was too obstinate to not fight them and he cheated the dice rolls) and then when attempting to enter the fade physically, the group was ambushed on the other side which resulted in rocks shooting into his torso, which left him pretty much bedridden until the stall happened. That was all within the span of 4 days with the group.