My first MMO character was…
Karokan, Half-elf Something
Born: 1999
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Game: EverQuest
Karokan’s is a simple tale. When I was six years old, I saw my dad having a good time in a then-new release called EverQuest. Obviously, I wanted in on that, and badgered pops into helping me make a character.
My dad played a gnome magician, but I was revulsed by the idea of being as short in the game as I then was in real life. Also, magicianry sounded complicated. I settled on a half-elf whose class I no longer remember, and came up with a basically random series of syllables to serve as a name.
And then! I went nowhere. I was terrified. I wasn’t so much scared of dying (though I was a bit scared of dying) but of getting lost. EverQuest felt impossibly vast, and I knew for sure that the second I stepped out of Freeport I’d never be able to find my way back. So I spent Karokan’s life just outside the city gates, fighting orcs and rats, and never venturing further. It was a simple life, but a happy one.
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