Brainstorming Crimson

For fifteen months I have had a character on my Guild Wars account called Crimson Misrecord; she's my assassin and takes a special place in my gaming life as she is the first of my characters that has mastered the art of running and is able to run through any route in the game.

Today I finally got her a Mask of the Mo Zing, a head piece I have been wanting to get for her for a long time. Of course, like the rest of her armour, I dyed it red (there's a reason she's named Crimson after all). When Hayley saw it she commented on the colour and I began thinking about the name. When I first made Crimson I thought of the name as her actual name, but as time has passed I've some to think of it more as a title than anything else. And recently my mind has even started to play with the idea of her ancestry and background. Stories come bubbling up from the depths of my mind forming her character and filling the empty shell of my Guild Wars character with potential.

Red is my favourite colour, it represents a vast number of my favourite things. Things like Autumn, strawberries, my first fighting fish, cranberry scented candles. Having the key to my running being painted red only seemed natural.

My mind has started breaking her up into pieces. When I say this I don't mean it in a bad way, of course I don't. I mean, perhaps I could take the title on its own and put it into something else. Say a dagger that gets handed down through the line, along with a uniform and mask. Say the Crimson Misrecord is actually an entire family of assassins, but no one knows that. Perhaps there are rumours of a single entity. Perhaps the family live in an extremely secluded location and teach their children the art of deception and then, when they're ready, they all go to do the same job, in the same uniform, and seem to be everywhere at the same time.

Of course, at the moment I'm just throwing ideas around the paper (or blog post). I'll keep you up to date on the ideas as they loom before me like uncut rock destined to become a sculpture. But anyway, that's it for now.

Have fun dear readers.