Rakai

HOW A MOON MAGE SUCCEEDED IN THE BARBARIAN GUILD

Rakai hails from the Wolf Clan, a village somewhat west of the Crossing. He began his journey at the age of 16, when he left the Clan for the Crossing. In celebration he got rather drunk at the Vipers Nest, and rather poor, as he was robbed. He decided not to turn back to his home in defeat, and instead sought out the Barbarian guild.

But alas, our poor Rakai mistakenly stumbled across the Moon Mage tower in his drunken state, not knowing it. The next day after sobering up, he fled the tower and found Agonar. After a rather stern lecture, Agonar reluctantly permitted Rakai to join, but stated that he doubted a mage could succeed.

And so Rakai became a Barbarian, after being a Moon Mage for a day. Because of his moon mage incident, Rakai promised to himself that he would not drink again...And managed to hold himself to that standard, untill his best friend's marriage.

You see, marriage has this effect on Rakai, to put it bluntly, it scares the crap out of him. So to keep his mind off of marriage and commitment, Rakai got drunk...and kicked out. Pretty bad considering he was the best man! As a matter of fact, Rakai has a little streak going, he's managed to be kicked out of all three weddings he has attended; personally I think he does it on purpose, just so he can escape.

Anyway, moving on, at the young age of 19 Rakai earned the title of Warrior in his guild, and to celebrate he marched southwards to the fair city of Shard to challenge the Adan'f. Well...that didn't turn out too well, but Rakai did escape with at least one of his arms. Luckily he was rescued by a great warrior, by the name of Hartblest.

Not too much further down the road came a great discovery, that of the island of Ratha! Well, Rakai set off on the long ship ride with a couple friends and came to be one of the first from the mainlands on the Island. He had a lot of good times the next few days with his friends, like hunting down scorpions, and being hunted by Kra'Hei in the sewers.

Rakai even managed to get turned into a frog! After a long while of debate, his friend decided to kiss the frog to bring Rakai back, but made Rakai promise not to tell anyone about it, so this is just between me and you.

Rakai was making such good progress, buying lots of new weapons to play with, when all of a sudden...the Void! Alas, he was warped back in time somehow to the mainland city of the Crossing. He lost all of his newly bought possessions, and a newly gained rank in his guild, but he did keep the memories at least.

It wasn't too long after this that Rakai found his new true home, Mer'Kresh. Fighting peccary on the small island and passing his time peacefully, Rakai gained skill. At the young age of just 25 years, Rakai became a titled WeaponMaster in his chosen profession, proving Agonar wrong, that yes, a Moon Mage could switch careers and become a great Warrior.

Last Revised: 9/14/00