I’ve been making progress on my blog lately by adding some things behind the scenes and making it look nice and presentable. I’m working on adding my Fan Fiction to the site as well, but that may take some time. What I like about this blog is that I can do things here that I can’t do on other sites (I’m kind of a forum troll in my spare time).

I have added a couple page tags to the blog and I intend to add some more. The first tag gives a brief description of Belzan, his history and aspirations. This is very brief in comparison to the Fan Fic. It also lists my progress on in-game title, which is really more for me anyway. I have also added a page that talks about Guild Wars for those of you who peruse my page and are like “what is that crazy guy talking about?”

Finally, I have a “Characters” page in the works where I will be presenting a brief bio of characters that appear in Chronicles of the Eremite. Some of these characters are my alternates in-game, while others are characters created and played by friends, guild members and allies. I will prolly do a bio on NPCs (non-player characters) as well for a bit of flavor. I’d love to use this as a springboard for people to post bios of their characters.

Food for thought.

One of the first NPCs I met in GW, I was curious about his story after the man who helped me in Pre-Searing by teaching me new Necromancer skills, turned on me in Post-Searing Yak’s Bend. All necromancers are evil though, so I guess he can’t be blamed…

I chose to write Verata into Belzan’s story when I reached Lion’s Arch and ventured into Kessex Peaks to find many of his cultists. Apparently he and his cult posed quite a threat to Tyria, though it was clearly shadowed by the game plotline.

I wrote this enigmatic character into my story as Belzan’s Master when he arrived in Ascalon. I wanted to fill in some gaps in the ambiguity that was Verata’s story. My take on things has Verata in search of power and beholden to Grenth. He seeks to overrun Tyria with his minions and rule on high as their master. Anyone who opposes him will die at the hands of his minions and soon become one of them. I played off of ANet’s plotline by having him experiment on people to create stronger, longer lasting minions. In Chronicles of the Eremite, I consider Verata to be Belzan’s nemesis. Both seek to be powerful Necromancers and each stands in the other’s way. This plays out in CotE.

Sadly, like many of the characters in GW, Verata’s story is short and wide open. I’d hoped, with the addition of the Eye of the North expansion that we would hear a bit more about him, but I guess not. And so, his story lives on as I tell mine.

“Verata? He taught me much and then betrayed me. He murdered many innocent people in Ascalon, threatened my friends and terrorizes my homeland. I have a great respect for his ability, but he is a cancer and, if left to his own devices, he will grow to consume Kryta, Ascalon and all of Tyria with his minions. He must be stopped.” -Belzan Furu