10Oct

Friday Five — Living Arrangements

Anna from Too Many Annas posted her Friday Five this morning, thereby giving me a topic to wrte about on a day that is usually dedicated to raid preparations and five hours of raiding.¹ In “RP Friday Five - Living Arrangements,” Anna wants to know more about where your character lives. She asks:

What does your character’s living room look like? (If they don’t have a stable home, describe an inn room that he or she has rented steadily.)
Does your character have any pets?
Does your character collect anything? Is that collection of any value to anyone other than them?
Does he or she have any “side” jobs or professions, other than their class and/or talent professions?
What would you find in his or her sofa cushions?

Contrary to previous weeks, I’ll be answering these questions for only one character and this time for the cantankerous kal’dorei priestess Rahel Isera’duna.

What does your character’s living room look like?

Rahel resides in a modest-sized single room home in the Forlorn Cavern of Ironforge. She chose to live among the dwarves because, well, she didn’t feel any connection with her kin, on bad days she can’t tolerate the frenetic humans, and despite being a cantankerous bitch she does require some sort of social interaction. However, the dwarven lifestyle emphasizes a need for structure and law that the kal’dorei desperately craves. Her sole room reflects this. There is a small desk against one wall with a wobbly chair beside it, a clothes chest, and a bed large enough for a six foot kal’dorei to sleep in.² The bed is immaculately made in the strictest military fashion. This is a place where someone comes to sleep, not live.

The only sign of any sort of person actually living here are a number of empty bottles that litter the floor by the bed, a jarring presence in an otherwise empty room.

Does your character have any pets?

None. The end. Pets are just a hassle and Rahel has enough to do with tending to her own business, thank you very much.

Does your character collect anything of value?

No, not really. The room is ridiculously sparse and the kal’dorei has very little attachment to anything. Hidden beneath her clothes in the chest, however, are a number of novels that follow stories of a more amorous nature. It’s of little worth to anyone else, but the kal’dorei would rather that nobody learned of its existence.

Does he or she have any “side” jobs or professions?

Rahel fancies herself a bit of an engineer, which isn’t as surprising as it should appear. At well over 12,000 years old, she remembers a time before the sundering of the world when the kal’dorei pursued interests that included the arcane and even technology. She sometimes wanders over to the the Library in the Hall of Explorers to see some of the artifacts that the dwarves have collected and surmise are elven in nature due to their age — though she’d never tell.

Despite her lack of -– or stubborn unwillingness to build -– a rapport with others, Rahel is something of a logistical genius and has an eye for details. The kal’dorei can be relied on to find a way to get things done efficiently and effectively, albeit amidst a continual torrent of complaints and thinly-veiled curses. Until recently, she was serving as an officer in The Regiment, an independent military force located on Azeroth. Until another such opportunity arises, Rahel’s skills languish.

What would you find in his or her sofa cushions?

Rahel’s house lacks any extraneous furniture beyond a desk, chair, and bed, so this question isn’t quite applicable.

Bless her soul. ↩
It was ridiculously difficult to acquire one of the right size in Ironforge! ↩

Y Halo Thar!