Persona profiles

[Sir Edward]

really cool! can't wait. hehe maybe I can put all my personas up hehe got that much bandwidth?

lol! Well, the text blocks are allowed to be fairly large. If you devoted a paragraph to each, you could probably do it. lol!

[Sir Wolf]

THAT many? ~ You could be considered the "Sybil" of the ages!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ardell_Mason

5th century BC Greek
3rd century BC Roman
2nd century BC Celt
1st century BC Roman
1st century AD Roman
3rd century AD Roman
4th century AD Roman
5th century AD Frank
8th century AD Saxon
9th century AD Viking
10th century AD Irish
11th century AD Norman
12th/13th century AD Hospitaller
13th/14th century AD knight
15th century AD Archer
15th century AD Billman
WWII US Infantry (Ranger)

[Sir Gerard de Rodes]

Well well well.
I`ve been off the net for a little while and haven`t you been busy bees lol. I feel very proud that a few of you (who I consider my peers) have felt inspired.

Sir Brian, that really is a nice piece of work. You have mixed factual research with imaginative, interesting fiction and thrown in a little artistic licence to tailor your persona to be suitable to your hoby. I like it alot. It`s very similar to what members of our group have endeavoured to achieve ( you have put some of our guys to shame by the way lol).

Madmanpsu, Another very thorough and informative bit of work. It has all the things needed to arm you for any questions that MOPs might throw at you.
I like the way you have both gone into the smaller and deeper details of your personas life.

Some times it really isn`t as easy as just portraying an actual character from history, because sometimes they simply aint interesting enough or they are so well known, or their life is so well documented, that there is simply no room for bending their story to suit what ever event, or location, you are re-enacting at the time. We found that choosing a relatively unknown personality gives you that flexability.
Well done guys.

I`m just about to have a look at Sir Eds bits  
G

[Sir Gerard de Rodes]

Sir Ed,
 What a great idea. Hope you get a persona together soon ( I`m sure it will be amaizing)
Just one question, (I`m a PC idiot) how do I upload my persona onto that section

Cheers,
G.

[Sir Edward]

Sir Ed,
 What a great idea. Hope you get a persona together soon ( I`m sure it will be amaizing)
Just one question, (I`m a PC idiot) how do I upload my persona onto that section

Cheers,
G.

While you're still logged into the forum, just click through to the Knight Pages, then you should see an "edit" button up near the top. That'll give you a link to create and then edit your page. You can just paste your text into the provided input boxes.

[Sir Brian]

Sir Brian, that really is a nice piece of work. You have mixed factual research with imaginative, interesting fiction and thrown in a little artistic licence to tailor your persona to be suitable to your hoby. I like it alot. It`s very similar to what members of our group have endeavoured to achieve ( you have put some of our guys to shame by the way lol).

Thank you kindly sir and thank you for getting the ball rolling with starting this thread. 

I do apologize if my "artistic embellishments" seemed a bit over the top, but I do fancy myself a little bit as a writer and relish any chance to exercise whatever meager writing skills I possess.
~ If I was truly gifted I'd be able to make a living at it! 

[Sir Edward]

Well, clearly unless you're portraying a specific historical character, you have to blend in a certain amount of fiction. As for fantasy elements, it's useful to remember that myths and folklore were an important part of period culture.

[Sir Edward]

I have photos working in the knight pages!

It resizes for you, so you can upload large photos.

[Sir Brian]

Excellent! Thank you Sir Edward!

I noticed the pictures don't display the captions however. 

[Sir Edward]

Doh! Yeah, they work for the ones you assign to text blocks, but not the ones at the bottom. I'll work on that. Right now it's just lining them up in a row and letting the browser auto-wrap down there. I'll have to change it to a grid layout to put the captions on.

[Sir Edward]

Doh! Yeah, they work for the ones you assign to text blocks, but not the ones at the bottom. I'll work on that. Right now it's just lining them up in a row and letting the browser auto-wrap down there. I'll have to change it to a grid layout to put the captions on.

OK, I think I have this working.

I've edited mine a bit, and you can look there as an example.

[Sir Brian]

Excellent! Your page is looking good!

[Sir Edward]

Thanks!

BTW, if you want to put pictures inline with the text areas, you can do so from the Edit page.

[Sir Edward]

BTW, I made some small edits to the program. I fixed a sorting issue in the list view, and also you now have the option to hide your page from the list view, which will automatically happen if you don't enter any text for your page.

[Sir Edward]

I also added the following to the "about" section. Does it sound good?


"The Knight Pages do not imply any sort of official knighthood, beyond what you
already have or consider yourself to be. Since we can not tell you when or if
you are worthy, and when you can be a knight, it is entirely up to you.

Spend time in introspection, or prayer if that suits you. Spend time with the
tools of your trade, whether it is a pen, sword, computer, etc. Assemble your
armor or uniform, and clean your sword. When you feel that you are ready to
bear the title of Knight, do so with humilty and honor, and bear it well."