Best Character Writer of the Week: Lord Durham

[Mr. Capiatlist]

Congrats, Saithis.

[robw963]

Congratulations Saithis...and all the more impressive considering you're running 2 AARs, actively participating in many others and (demi) moderating all at the same time. It melts my brain to imagine trying to do that myself.

[Beelz]

I would say I'm surprised at Saithis winning this but I would be lying. Keep up the good work.

[Avindian]

Congratulations, Saithis!

[Qorten]

Congrats, Saithis, well deserved! You sort of owe us (or well, Zealuu) an update now of course...

[Fookison]

Congratulations, Saithis! You Rock!!!

[TekcoR]

Congratulations Saithis!

[Saithis]

Thanks to Zealuu and everyone else for this honour! I do definitely owe everyone an update, I've been rather lax on updating Valour (mostly because I'm still dependent on mod work that is taking a long time to do alone). It's an honour for my characters to be so highly respected amongst this group, judging by the fact that this is the fifth time the award has been mine. I suppose I simply have no choice but to whip up an update or two before I move this on!

[Saithis]

I'm half a day late off the arranged time to pass this on, simply because it's been difficult finding someone to pass this on to - too many good options!

There's at least half a dozen other writers who could and probably even should be named here, but in the end I think I'll make the decision to award a fairly well-known author who has never won it. He's one of the more venerable forumites but his AAR is a lovely tale of Normans, Muslims and great wars for Italy. I'm referring, of course, to hjarg and the characters in his excellent De Hautevilles- Can Anyone Stop the Norman Invasion? This is an AAR that does not necessarily match my initial thoughts for a character writing AAR, being chiefly history book and not prose narrative. However, with all of that said, his history book segments do an excellent job shaping and defining his characters. They are expressed as much through the recounting of their deeds and his own gameplay as they would be through conversation. To further enhance both the main characters and a large array of side characters, lovely interludes are laced between the chapters which give us a narrative insight into the world and the people who rule it. I can't praise this AAR enough, as it stands.

Congratulations, hjarg!

[loki100]

congrats hjarg

[Malurous]

Congratulations!

[Fookison]

Congratulations, hjarg!

[hjarg]

Oh dear, thank you all!
Especially when Normans isn't, as Saithis said, especially character-driver AAR. This is truly a pleasant surprise!

[Qorten]

Well deserved congrats, hjarg!

[Avindian]

A superb AAR, and well deserved award. Good job, hjarg!

[robw963]

Congratulations hjarg!

[hjarg]

Now it's time for me to stop basking in glory and give someone else a chance.

Just now, i realized that the one I had in mind had already received the honor twice this year... but too late to change my mind. Plus, the award is totally deserved.
A bit not traditional though, for the characters are actually not written. But they are finely drawn and are such a pleasure to read!


Selzro, your Subcontinental Subtleties: An experimental comic AAR had been a bucketful of laughs and a truly great reading. Thank you for the laughter and enjoy the well-deserved award!

[Malurous]

Congrats Selzro, at least the repeat took longer than last time!

Well deserved of course.

[robw963]

Repeat or not...it's well deserved for one of my favorite AARs. Congratualtions Selzro!

[loki100]

congrats Selzro, well earned for an enduring superb AAR .... except we haven't had an update for a wee while?