[Havik84]

I'm trying to figure out how to RP an Aquilonian Dark Templar, specifically the role of the Templar. I understand the selling of their humanity to become more powerful and such, but the selling to who and what and such. Any help would be considered fabulous! Thanks.

[lamiastrix]

1) Read the RE Howard books.
2) Read some Lovecraft.
3) Demons in Hyboria are very Lovecraftian in nature. With a grounding in one and two, you will find your questions answered.

[Havik84]

I'm sorry, what is "lovecraft"?

[Kauket]

From Wikipedia:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Christian humanism.[1][2] Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

Lovecraft was also a contemporary and correspondent of Howard, and there's more than a little cross-pollination of concepts between the two.

Now please excuse me while I go cry about the lack of literacy or ability to run a basic search...

[Pakhet]

Originally Posted by Havik84 I'm trying to figure out how to RP an Aquilonian Dark Templar, specifically the role of the Templar. I understand the selling of their humanity to become more powerful and such, but the selling to who and what and such. Any help would be considered fabulous! Thanks.

I can't really help much with this but perhaps you'd have better luck in the lore forum: http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30

[Havik84]

Now please excuse me while I go cry about the lack of literacy or ability to run a basic search...

A) Didnt know if Lovecraft was a type of RP thing or something of that sort. With the phenomena of adding "craft" to the end of everything (Like Warcraft) who knows what people are talking about these days.

B) Laziness is Godliness.

[Cyberqat]

Originally Posted by Havik84 I'm trying to figure out how to RP an Aquilonian Dark Templar, specifically the role of the Templar. I understand the selling of their humanity to become more powerful and such, but the selling to who and what and such. Any help would be considered fabulous! Thanks.

Any magic that isnt priestly is demonic.

Doesnt leave you much in the way of choices

[Regulus]

Are you trying to be good or evil?

If you're trying to be good, you could say that your character was punished by some god and cursed to forever use evil magic, and feel guilty for doing so, and the weight of the pain/deaths of his victims weighed heavily on him.

Many are skeptical on using evil magic for good, but you just have to be creative, assuming that was your aim. If you wanted an evil character... Well, it's already written for you. Your character sold out to an evil god so that he could make people suffer with evil power :P

[lamiastrix]

Originally Posted by Kauket From Wikipedia: Lovecraft was also a contemporary and correspondent of Howard, and there's more than a little cross-pollination of concepts between the two. Now please excuse me while I go cry about the lack of literacy or ability to run a basic search...

I feel your pain. /sigh

[Enoseph]

Originally Posted by Kauket From Wikipedia: Lovecraft was also a contemporary and correspondent of Howard, and there's more than a little cross-pollination of concepts between the two. Now please excuse me while I go cry about the lack of literacy or ability to run a basic search...

Now, let's be realistic on the literacy comment. First, I love Lovecraft, but let's be honost both of these men were pulp writers. It's very common to find literate people that have never heard of either one of these writers. Their appeal is more cult than a wide reaching literary impact on culture as a whole. I have yet to find Lovecraft or Howard on a library's top 100 list of books of the English language. If they do appear on one, I would really like to check out that library.