Just a fun little tidbit I'd like to share - Zeke outlines his family history.
Everyone settled inside and it was demanded that I explain exactly who I was, where I came from, and give a brief
run-down of my family history.
"Wow. Not real good on the whole trust thing, are you?" I asked.
"No, not particularly," said the black cat, named Luna.
"It doesn't help that we've had more than one breach in security, so to speak," said the white one, a male named Artemus.
"Okay then. You guys want a history lesson, you got it.
"The most prominent figure in my family is Agatha Rachel Steam from my father's side, of the infamous Steam family that revolutionized mechanized
locomotion in the mid-eighteen-hundreds. It was Agatha that made the first steam-powered mecha that became the predacessor of the Khobu."
"Wait a minute... You're a direct descendant of the Mother of All Mecha!? THE Agatha Steam!? I guess that explains your engineering
fetish."
"Exactly. When she married into the Darkwood family they allowed her to retain her family name out of respect for the Steams. However, all the children
bore the Darkwood name. One of Agatha's grandchildren is my Grandfather, Conrad Shanus Darkwood."
"So why wasn't he some great inventor?"
"Darkwood genetics at work. We usually tend to be fighters, not builders. Supposedly they're descended from one of the great families of the Knight
Templars. I'm the first Builder-type Darkwood since Agatha Steam married into the family."
"But that's not all that you are, are you?"
"No. What seems to have worn down that fighter-bug in me enough for other aspects to pop up is the influence from my mother's side - a direct line
into a lineage of Native American shamen and medicine men, and all the mythology and mystery behind it. That lineage is harder to trace since they didn't
really keep official records up until about four generations ago, but rest assured that its just as impressive as my Father's side."
"So what exactly are you then?"
I shrugged. "Mage, engineer, warrior? Maybe all three? Maybe just one, but definitely not none. I can't say just yet. I'm still developing.
I know that I am unique in both sides of my families, and that is part of why my Grandpa Bear, my Mother's Father, said that I must find my own path, even
if I have to blaze one of my own."
Everyone settled inside and it was demanded that I explain exactly who I was, where I came from, and give a brief
run-down of my family history.
"Wow. Not real good on the whole trust thing, are you?" I asked.
"No, not particularly," said the black cat, named Luna.
"It doesn't help that we've had more than one breach in security, so to speak," said the white one, a male named Artemus.
"Okay then. You guys want a history lesson, you got it.
"The most prominent figure in my family is Agatha Rachel Steam from my father's side, of the infamous Steam family that revolutionized mechanized
locomotion in the mid-eighteen-hundreds. It was Agatha that made the first steam-powered mecha that became the predacessor of the Khobu."
"Wait a minute... You're a direct descendant of the Mother of All Mecha!? THE Agatha Steam!? I guess that explains your engineering
fetish."
"Exactly. When she married into the Darkwood family they allowed her to retain her family name out of respect for the Steams. However, all the children
bore the Darkwood name. One of Agatha's grandchildren is my Grandfather, Conrad Shanus Darkwood."
"So why wasn't he some great inventor?"
"Darkwood genetics at work. We usually tend to be fighters, not builders. Supposedly they're descended from one of the great families of the Knight
Templars. I'm the first Builder-type Darkwood since Agatha Steam married into the family."
"But that's not all that you are, are you?"
"No. What seems to have worn down that fighter-bug in me enough for other aspects to pop up is the influence from my mother's side - a direct line
into a lineage of Native American shamen and medicine men, and all the mythology and mystery behind it. That lineage is harder to trace since they didn't
really keep official records up until about four generations ago, but rest assured that its just as impressive as my Father's side."
"So what exactly are you then?"
I shrugged. "Mage, engineer, warrior? Maybe all three? Maybe just one, but definitely not none. I can't say just yet. I'm still developing.
I know that I am unique in both sides of my families, and that is part of why my Grandpa Bear, my Mother's Father, said that I must find my own path, even
if I have to blaze one of my own."