Not updated in years; history/design/etc sections remain unfinished and unrefined; no eta

Excerpt from the Monstrous Compendium:
-warrior chaospawn, Kyanhyyktzch, whom moves between worlds reincarnating himself
-arrived during late Diablo/Ultima Online PK era
-morphed through everything from a pk to a griefer to a thief to a pvper to rper to a raider to a rvrer
-inferno ambassador of armchair design
-favours heavy armor, two-handers, war logistics
-abhors light ranged combat, elves
-lorehound, packrat
-major campaign: warhammer; minor campaigns: conan, eve, warcraft

Now back to your circa 1999 angelfire esque braggadocio


HISTORY
  • 2004 Summer-Autumn [WoW beta] PvP Server: Lv60 Dwarf Warrior, first to Lv55 cap. Beta Account: 70 days total /played. Guild member of Conquest.

  • 2004 Spring [GC2 beta] Pre-Tournament, North American Ladder: #1 at Drop-in, #7 at Sync-start. Alienware nVidia Tourament: Round 1 Runner-up Prize Winner

  • 2004 Spring [WoW beta] Phase 2: Level-capped Orc Rogue, Lynx of The Horde, Blade of the Shattered hand

  • 2004 Spring [WoW beta] Invited by Blizzard Entertainment to their WoW Friends List as a prefered beta tester

  • 2004 Spring [WoW beta] Phase 1: Level-capped Dwarven Warrior

  • 2003 Winter [FFXI] Elvaan Dragoon, "Famous" San d'Orian Knight of the Peregrine Artifact

  • 2003 Summer-Autumn [SWG] Kettemoor's Second Bounty Hunter. "Slaughterer of Anchorhead", Monopolistic Hide Trader of Mos Eisley. Guild member of Maelstrom.

  • 2003 Spring [WC3X Beta] Invited by Blizzard Entertainment to their TFT Friends List as a prefered beta tester

  • 2002 Winter [DAOC] Dominated Treadmill and Ladder of Gaheris. 4th to max level, 2nd Ranked on Stat Ladder. Co-founder of guild Legion.

  • 2002 Autumn [DAOC] Ranger of Andred, protector of the hunted wildlife of Midgard

  • 2001 Winter [BATTLE REAMS] High Ranked Lord of the Serpent Clan, creator of the Serpent War Room, on Battle Realms

  • 2001 Autumn [DAOC] Runemaster on Midgard Merlin, an original bane of Forest Sauvage, and member of the first Keep capture. Guild member of the Hostile Network.

  • 2001 Summer [ANARCHY ONLINE] One of Omni Pol's top snipers on Rubi-Ka 1

  • 2001 Summer [D2 LOD] Top curve Sorceress on USWest, member of Leveling team of Natalya, Battle.net's first Lv99 Assassin

  • 2001 Spring [D2] USEast's "Lone 500 Dex Archer"

  • 2000 Summer-Winter [D2] Over 500 Hardcore mode Player Kills

  • 2000 Summer [D2] The charasmatic telekinesis gypsy seperating rich fools from their precious treasures

  • 1999 Autumn-Spring [AOE2] High ranked Mongol Khan on The Zone

  • 1999 Spring-Winter [DIABLO] Kyan Mehwulfe leaves the Nes'Gwenth Mountains for the first time and begins his hunt for power in Tristram


    • MEHWULFE
    Mehwulfe is the human incarnation which Kyanhyyktzch sometimes takes. Also known as the Red-axe Lynx for his affinty to the snow and his splitting blades, he is a warrior that hails from the Huntusk. Situated in the Nes'Gwenth Mountains, it's a small a trading outpost for fur traders that has become somewhat of a mercenary encampment. It lays on the edge of the Red-axe Forest, a large crag of life that earns its name, with firs and pines strong enough to make an axe bleed. At Kyan's sides rest his two blades, the Bearded Ettin & the Red Tusk. He's a wanderer that travels from country to nation in search of adventure, power, and wealth - whether it be by the tip of a lance, edge of a sword, or bend of a bow. A man who loves hunting elves or orcs as much as fur trapping in a snowy mountain forest or watching the sun rise atop a mountain lake with sword rested and fishing rod in hand. He is often employed as a mercenary as though he's somewhat of a dervish spirit, he's absolutely enticed by military.

    PERSONAL HISTORY
    Started gaming in the late eighties but never became an avid gamer until the start of the next decade with the original Dragon Warrior on the NES. My addiciton to RPGs was spawned soon after in part thanks to Enix and in part thanks to TSR for Dungeons & Dragons. Computer gaming never turned from a hobby to a passion until the SNES though and I played Final Fantasy IV. For the next few years, my gaming love revolved around Square roleplaying games. In 1996 I was awarded as a runner-up for a game design competition that was hosted by Nintendo and CBC Televisions' Game Nation. Near the end of the mid 90s, I got started into PC gaming and the internet. Within a couple years of using the world wide web as a resource and chat tool, I entered into the world of online gaming and my persona Kyan Mehwulfe, was born. Since them I've stayed an avid single-player game but that interest has always come secondary to online gaming. Out of game I've been a three time member of Blizzard Entertainment's Friends List of prefered beta tester (meaning they send me an invitation when beta starts without application), partook in many game design challenges and beta testers, and had a number of my guides and articles hosted on popular fansites. I began work in the forest industry soon as I became a teenager, grew up playing living and breathing hockey, and take much pride in heavy university focus and academics in general. I make my home in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

    GAMING
    I favor cliched high-fantasy or cyberpunk settings. I also find much interest in settings based on Norse mythology. Story, setting, and cast is a very import attribute for me; simple having great gameplay isn't enough. If I dislike a game's unappealing art style, cast of characters or landscapes, it can hurt or ruin a game experience for me. Music is also critical for me, and an epic and emotional soundtrack can seperate a good and amazing game. An RPG to my tastes is hard to find; western RPGs usually lack the characterization or plot that I prefer, and eastern RPGs usually contain art styles and casts which I abhor. As such, I often favor playing more non-linear games such as open-ended RPGs and even RTS or TBS strategy games with a heavy RPG-esque focus.

    Gaming is more than simply a hobby for myself; it's my passion. Whether I'm losing myself in the story of a console roleplaying game or immersed in a virtual fantasy world, I consider the experience to be beyond "playing a game" and would go as far to say that such a term trivializes how advanced and deep many "games" have technically and socially become. It's my to see the social, creative, narrative, cinematic, and artistic boundries of gaming pushed to levels of greater mainstream acceptance and respect. It's why I deeply focus on the respected academics and arts in an attempt to bridge their gap with the gaming medium.

    ONLINE
    I'm inspired by fantasy novels: Dragonlance, Pendragon, Legend of Drizzt Do'urden, and so forth. The passion I derive from those tales are what I try to achieve online. The dedication I put into online fantasy games is done to grasp at epic legends of dragon slaying, bloody tales of war, or simply sharing stories at a haborside tavern in Waterdeep. The incentive I find is to kill elves and orcs, not simply players with toons. As much as I pursue the statistical nature of the genre in a hardcore fashion, I hate what it often does to the gameplay and userbase at the same time - it puts numbers and stats before adventure and legend. There is enjoyment to be had in that, but it's not why I fell in love with the genre. It's certianly not what drives me.

    OPINION
    Thoughts on Various Media Sources
    Has Game Quality Changed?
    Immersive Experiences
    Memorable Realm Conflict
    Living Star Wars
    Intense Turismo
    Greatest Female Character
    Time for PS3?

    FICTION
    Journal of a Bounty Hunter
    Raid of the Red Noon
    Kyan the Blademaster

    USER PROFILES
    Generally I always use KyanMehwulfe for forum accounts. I opted to use one word as I'm not fond of under_scores and not all board accounts support character spaces in account names, and forming it into one word would let me use it universally and thus be more idendtifiable. In-game I've always opted for Kyan Mehwulfe or just Kyan rather than butchering the full name into Kyanmehwulfe. Rarely, I've used Snowtracker or a variation of the Red-axe Lynx/Grim but always under irregular cirscumstances, such as training in a new game. I put forth great pride into my persona and prefer to keep it to a certian standard of success or skill.

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    GameSpy
    GameSpot
    HeavenGaming
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