Off topic #3

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world” - Harriet Tubman

-Don't know what I'm talking about? Well you better keep reading!

Hey guys, I am redninja685/ Henry/ Lord Chadimus nav-Sa'arav; today I’ll be talking you through my inspirations! Now I'd like to point out, I'm a not a brilliant builder, but I build to a substantial standard to ensure that its a perfect piece for what ever, or who ever I'm building for. Not only am I going to tell you about my inspirations for that, but also my character, and my traits; all leading up to building my crescendo for A'therys Ascended Version two!

My way of building...

Building is normally the sideline thing I did when I was in Nasa'ar; but since I joined the Andronesia team, building has been my greatest achievement in my Minecraft adventure. I was originally taught how to build the “proper way” by my best companion Onkelcuno; I owe him so much to teaching me, and its made me the builder that I can proudly say I am today. After spending a great deal of time with Spajn, Frog211 and Lolbroek101, I learn that every builder has a way of building, now bearing in mind Onkel constantly told me to use more than just the average block, I had not activated my creative spark.

Some people like Onkel himself can build amazing structures out of thin air, where as I could not barely think of where to start or what to build. So I worked out what worked best for me, eventually I found it! My way of building, my triggering inspiration, is merely browsing through google and finding a building which triggers a chain reaction... first I'd think of the theme, then the time period, then the palate, then I go off and find some amazing structure from google. From there I attempt to build it into Minecraft, whilst also implementing my own ideas to modify the building... here is an example below! 

Picture from google:

 

And here is my version in MC:

 

What I built here is “The Royal Manor House of Sanderion” - seat and official home to the Sa'arav family. Something that I hope to build near the Selukkite capital Qhul-Rahav in the very distant future! The theme was royal-looking, I thought of the Victorian period, palate would be sandstone and variants of stone; searched into google Victorian palace's and I found this, the very old and original Alexander Palace. *Coughs Excuse me... may I mention, that it is incomplete, I yet to insert the middle tower and roof designs/ roof windows. Another example that I got in fact today was the library... Lolbroek allowed to design the library, so I thought to myself think of something to trigger my “Inspiration reaction”, I though of the theme a Library, for some reason I though of the library from Dragonspire in Wizard101... which made me think of a rounded room... then it hit me! The Great Sept of Baelor from Game of Thrones! Anyway, that enough on that subject... not let me tell you about my character!

My character development...

For AAv2 I decided to keep Chadimus nav-Sa'arav, mainly because I love his name and what he looks like; but however, he will be a completely different person from the last one, with a whole new character lore, which has driven him as his main motivator! But that is yet to be released so shush! (Hopefully I can release it with the Lithaearian Lore). So Chadimus, head of a tribe/ house... this makes him a lord and puts him into nobility; when I though of colours for him, I wanted to express power, where I see power is in the Fire Nation from Avatar Legend of Aang! Red and gold, so I created him a custom skin from that.

Next greatest inspiration was basing Chadimus on another character... at first it was hard to think of someone to possible match the criteria for Chadimus. One day I got board and my friend told me I should go with them to the cinema, the moment I saw it up on the advertisements... I wanted to watch it, The Hobbit! Since that day I had been addicted to the amazing story; but over the past year I grew to adore one particular character who I based the new Chadimus on, he is the one and only Thranduil, the Elven king! Upon deciding this about a month ago now, I took charge to change Chad's crown to look like Thranduil's, but with my own touch, you can see a picture below. Now he looked, graceful, powerful, rich and... Melevolent (I say no more than that). Dare I say he carries a lot of Thranduils traits to; wait to you see what lore I have for him! Btw dont get Chadimus confused with Henry/ Redninja685, seriously he may sound like an evil guy, but I'm not :P 

 

Me in Lithaear...

So I wanted something else to do, yes I did get tired of Nasa'ar, and that was that... I am here now and I LOVE IT HERE. I can not express how great the people are, longingly had I adored Andronesia and now I'm glad to be part of something greater and more epic. To make sure *Coughs Again I leave my “Hallmark” here, I am the so called assistant who named the town Lithaear, elvish for Sand and Water. This is my token to the existing town members, Lolbroek101, Frogy211 and Mayor Spajn, that I will love this town, be dedicated to it, and assist it through good and bad, just as I did for Rim. I find it a complete privilege to be with you guys, and I look forward to the future!

Nor do I look at my past with any regrets ;) Now I leave you with a final quote!

“Rome wasn't built in a day... Rome wasn't built in a year... In fact Rome was never completed, but its great Empire fell because the people stopped believing and gave up. It is in that moment when you give up your dream, that it becomes incomplete; nothing can ever be completed, but its what you do along that way that makes YOU complete.” So do you wanna know who came up with this quote? Well... hahaha:

– Signed Lord Chadimus Pius nav-Sa'arav (Aka redninja685 aka Henry).