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Rocas

Location: Michigan/Midrealm

Home or favorite faire It was Silverleaf but that was in the old days when it was fun. Now I call the Canton of Ealdnordwuda In Midrealm home.

About Me I'm just your average 15th century adventurer. Mine is a tale of woe...and pain. Oh, and misfortune..yeah there's some misfortune there too.
It all started when was the young heir to a noble family...noble but not wealthy. We did have money once but my great grandfather spent it all on wine women and amature dramatics. We were reduced to being little more than peasants. Then my father made us vassals to a dispicable family with a weasle faced son who viewed my sister as his personal plaything. When I found him trying to rape her..well I have always had a temper. I killed weasle boy...and then I ran. Well I was meaning to leave anyway. I had ambition and a good sword arm. Anyway there is no point in being the heir to a non-existant fortune so I thought I would be better off making my own way in the world. And now that I was a fugitive it seemed the right time to go.

I caused a little trouble once I was on my own. Like I said I had a sword and a temper. Eventually I fell in with a band of mercinaries called the BLUE DRAGONS. For some time I and my fellow dragons fought for who ever could pay our bar bills. Much of the time our employer was the Queen of the land of Silverleaf. Many adventures I had there. But you can't fight all the time. Sometimes a terrible stretch of peace breaks out. Fortunately I discovered I had a talent for cooking, so when there was no work as a soldier I apprenticed as cook and plied my culinary skills where I could. It's an odd combination of skills I grant you but..eh, ya do what you gotta to get by. And I excel at both. In fact I don't know if my food or my sword has taken more lives! But I digress. I met the saucy wench who is now my wife while raiding an enemy village. She was a nun living in a small hut on the outskirts of the village. One look at her and I knew that a life of pious contemplation and senseless chastity was not for her. I wisked her away and promised her a life of adventure. I thought I would just get a quick conquest, but she wasn't that easy to get rid of. She was...in a word...CRAZY! I later found out that her family had 'given her to God' because no-one else could handle her. The people in her village thought of her as reclusive madwoman and tended to give her a wide berth. Was I that smart? Nope. And once I had my way with her she decided she would have her way with me...permanently. For months she followed me where ever I rode. Eventually she caught up with me and 'convinced' me that we belonged together. So what could I do? I proposed to her. Well my exact words were something like "Okay..untie me and I'll marry you." Anyway..I continue to wield the sword and the spatula. I also brew a pretty mean mead!!

Music Players of period music such as...New World Renaissance Band, Belfast Gin, Medieval Babes, Azam Ali, others. [Contemporary artists]...Queensryche, Nox Arcana, Night Wish, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Garbage, Within Temptation, Bif Nakid, I am ghost, Garbage, Prince, U2, Tori Amos, Weird Al Yankovich. [Classical].....Mozart, Bach, Bethoven.

Movies LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-men, Interview With the Vampire, Dragonslayer, The Three musketeers (1973 version, not that Disney parady), The Name of the Rose, Mongol, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Rob Roy, Fahrenheit 9/11, Religulous.

TV Rome, True Blood, Robin Hood (the 1980's BBC series), Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica (classic and new), Red Dwarf, Dr. Who(classic and new), Farscape, The Big Bang Theory, M*A*S*H, NCIS, WKRP in Cincinnati, Mythbusters

Books WAY too many for a complete list but some of my favorites are...The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three musketeers, The Name of the Rose, Pillars of the Earth, Imzadi, Dune, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them...

Likes Bush is OUT! Obama is IN!!!

Dislikes That Bush was never impeached!

Hobbies Mead makng, period cooking, fencing, archery, Games like nine Mens' Morris, Chess and Klinza. I am a fluent Klingon speaker and am resonable with Spanish as well. I also enjoy glass etching, woodburnig. I am currently involved in the production of a video series on medieval cooking for Youtube. The working title is "COOKING WITH ROCAS; THE RECIPIES AND RAVINGS OF A MAD MEDIEVAL CHEF." I am looking for volunteers to appear in the episodes!

Vices Oooh no thanks. I don't care for vices. I caught my thumb in one once...it hurt!

Heroes Heroes? Hmmm..I'm not sure what that means. If it is people I admire and would like to meet then....[From History/No Longer Alive]: Hypacia, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Clarence Darrow, Isaac asimov, Gene Roddenberry, Carl Sagan.

[Currently Alive]: Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Bill Maher, Cindy Sheehan, Leonard Nimoy, Janeane garofalo

Here For Friendships, Networking

Relationship Status Married

Orientation Straight

Children Proud Parent

Number of Children 1

Body Type Athletic

Height 5'11"

Religion Atheist

Ethnicity Not Specified

Smoke No

Drink Socially