I rolled a new Cham­pion on Brandy­wine. It’s one of the few classes I’ve not even attempted to play as in the past. So far I’ve been hav­ing fun with it because it feels so new. This is cou­pled with the fact Archet and Bree-land have been revamped a bit since I last played. I really feel like there’s more of a nat­ural flow now. Before it was easy to iso­late your­self into a sin­gle area .… You can still do this (there’s cer­tainly plenty to do), but now I have quests that obvi­ously sug­gest check­ing out Buck­town or The Shire and so forth. Before it was easy to skip that zone entirely as a Man, but I think they’ve come up with a great balance.

Any­way, her name is Aleneth and these are my expe­ri­ences play­ing as her.

Get­ting Started

Today Aleneth arrived in Archet with­out much fan­fare. Here she was just yet another adven­turer, most likely doomed to be killed by some no-name gob­lin and eaten by a smelly, bloated Warg. After rest­ing, her first encounter was with one Mundo Sackville-Baggins. Like all Sackville-Baggins…es, Mundo wasn’t the least bit pleasent. Still, she got some new clothes out of both­er­ing to put up with him.

Look­ing through her pack, I set­tled on my typ­i­cal go-to cloak: [The Ranger’s Cloak]. It’s one of sev­eral she has packed away, includ­ing the [Harbinger’s Cloak]. As cool as that would be, Aleneth could use 42 Armour a heck of a lot more than 5.

After whack­ing a few wolves and boars in the head with her trusty, [Worn Mace], the locals trusted Aleneth enough to talk more about the local ban­dit prob­lem. Of course, as with most things, this prob­lem turned out to be a lot worse than expected. Archet was soon destroyed, leav­ing the sur­vivors to pick up the pieces. Aleneth decided to con­tinue to lend a hand, espe­cially after find­ing that the spi­ders pre­vi­ously hang­ing around the out­skirts of Archet were now nearly every­where. She cleared out as many as she could, includ­ing their queen: Ior­neth. She was rewarded with its grotesque head .… For some rea­son she is still hold­ing on to it, it just doesn’t seem worth selling.

Another local rewarded her with a new hat. She had a hard time wear­ing this one instead of her feather topped hat, espe­cially since it kind of looked like a bucket with a jock strap attached to it. She dealt with it. Soon after she sum­moned her first helper too: a her­ald bearer she decided to refer to as “Rudi­ger”. They’re not get­ting along too well yet.

Aleneth is also both­ered by some of the more “fiesty” males in the area. After notic­ing a nearby admirer (read: strange per­son), she attempted to run. No luck! Then she ran in cir­cles and at unusual angles. No luck there either! This was finally fol­lowed by a quick whis­per of hello and some kisses in her direction.

She had enough adven­tur­ing and soon retired.

Next time: Ven­tur­ing into new areas and learn­ing how to craft!

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