Post by LordStripetail on Sept 7, 2014 11:58:01 GMT -5
Today is the 10th anniversary of my signing up to join this forum. its Hard to believe at times but its true. This board has been around since at least 2003, as at the time i joined there were threads from that year still visible. the forum has gone through ups and downs and lulls in activity since then with the biggest lulls being from 2012 to this year. fortunately a few posters from another forum I frequent have signed up and we have an active rp going to the magic realms., so this place isn;'t dead.this was the first forum I joined that had rping in it, and since at the time I was deep into reading the Redwall series it was natural for me to create a character from the species that frequent the books. A reason why I decided to make Stripetail a wizard, and an extremely powerful one at that, was my love for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. the three films had just finished being released into theaters and were rewriting the rules on how successful a fantasy series could be at the box office, it was the "Star Wars' of this generation. There are seers and some magics in the Redwall series- how else is Martin's sword unbreakable? But since there was little in the way of active magic use in stories from the series, I decided to change that. Stripetail is what Gandalf would be, if he was a squirrel- ancient, wise, and not to be trifled with. so in a sense i combined my love for Tolkien and Redwall into a single character, and I've tweaked and refined the character over the last 10 years. I have enjoying rping here for the last decade and have been managing the place in Cerridwens absence for that last few years. i hope that i am still here in 10 years and that this place sees a rebirth of interest and new member come in to add their own chapters to the story of this board.