Each class with its own unique skills and destructive attacks. No matter how you like to play, you'll find a profession that suits your style.

Character Creation

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When creating characters, there are five main races available: noble people, valiant norns, fierce charr, brilliant asura, mysterious sylvari.

Character Creation:

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The plot of the personal story is unique to each character. His development will begin with the character creation process. Which way this story goes will depend only on your decisions. You can call your friends for help, but they will not be able to change the plot.

"Sneakers in the Shadows"

or some aspects of the characters "assassin" and "thief"

Hello, dear readers! Today the Game Master decided to draw your attention to talk about the various nuances of game characters, and “Assassin” and “Thief” will be discussed first. Given the popularity of the Assassin's Creed game series, I would like to draw attention to the features of these complex and multifaceted images.

Let's start with the fact that almost everyone can master them: assassins existed not only in the East; variants of communities of people of this type of occupation were found in different parts of the world. Each of these communities has its own specifics, but I want to talk only about the most general points. It’s not worth talking about thieves; this is one of the most ancient “professions”. Thieves can be different: pickpockets, burglars, and they can simply form a gang of robbers to rob caravans of merchants.

So, dear authors, let's start in order. Due to the popularity of the images of the main characters of games, many misconceptions have arisen about how an assassin should behave. We should not forget that the computer game is largely a fiction, but, unfortunately, many authors believe that this is exactly what happens: Altair, Ezio, Connor and others fight with city guards, stacking them in stacks. Almost everyone forgets that the specifics of an assassin’s work are stealth missions, or, more simply put, covert and silent operations. There is no need to talk about theft: the quieter and more inconspicuously you act, the better, because not only success, but also life depends on it. You won't get a pat on the head for theft and murder.

Where do we start building the image?

First of all, let's look at the hero's appearance. For an assassin or a master thief, the main thing in the job is secrecy and inconspicuousness, which means that the character must behave as naturally as possible, and, accordingly, look like the people around him. I understand that you want the main character to look irresistible and have an unusual hair/eye/skin color. But let's remember that for surveillance, for example, your hero should be as invisible as possible. That is, if you show that short hair is fashionable in the area where the action takes place, then a person walking with a long braid or ponytail will look, if not suspicious, then at least attract unnecessary attention. A flamboyant thief simply will not live up to his rank and will not be able to achieve any significant success. The same applies to clothing: it should be the kind that is worn in a particular area. Remember, in this type of occupation, the postulate “I must stand out” contradicts common sense; the character must merge with the “gray mass.” Let us remember Altair ibn la Ahad: in his white robe he was invisible among the monks who were allowed to go anywhere. Entering their circle, bowing his head and adjusting to his step, he became one of them and the guards did not notice him.

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad(Arabic - Flying, son of Nobody) - a fictional character, an assassin, the main character of the games "Assassin's Creed", "Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines", "Assassin's Creed: Altaïr"s Chronicles", and is also one from the game characters in Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Ezio Auditore tried on many characters: he was a bard, an officer in the French army, and a courier for the papal service. He changed his clothes quite often in order to be invisible.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze e (Italian: Ezio Auditore da Firenze) is the main character of the video games "Assassin's Creed II", "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" and "Assassin's Creed: Revelations". Ancestor of Desmond Miles. Friend of Leonardo Da Vinci.

We must not forget about practicality. When an assassin or thief goes “to work,” he should be dressed as comfortably as possible: cloak and dagger workers are superstitious and suspicious people, in addition, their occupations involve both long periods of immobility and physical activity, and even success can be affected trifle. Clothing should be appropriate for the task.

“The warm weather forced me to get rid of my raincoat and put on a black jacket with a hood. My liver senses it, I’m running around that night, and the cloak is too restrictive for my movements. And you can’t jump on the roofs when he keeps trying to entangle his legs.”

Let's also think about weapons: they can be different depending on the situation. When it is not possible to get close to the victim, they often use poisons, and not just blades or arrows. In most cases, murder weapons are represented by knives or daggers of different lengths. For example, the same Altair killed his victims with a hidden blade. You may notice that the main characters of the game Assassins's Creed wore swords on their belts.

Don't forget about practicality. A long blade attached to the belt will get in the way when running, jumping or climbing walls. I will say more - even walking with long swords requires skill, let alone running.

In addition, without the need for a bulky weapon, it violates the main tenet: stealth.

“Not the master thief who cuts the throats of the guards raised by alarm, but the one who silently came, took the thing and just as quietly left, leaving behind as few traces as possible, and therefore, corpses.”

Alexey Pekhov, “Crouching in the Shadows”

If, after all, your hero is noticed, then it is more logical not to fight back, but to try to escape. Thieves and assassins are not muscular superheroes; their sense of self-preservation is high. On alarm, all the surrounding patrols will come running to the noise and screams raised in the process of resistance to give the scoundrel a beating. Even in a small city there is more than one patrol of guards. You can’t fight against an entire squad, even if your hero is superior in skill to the guards.

Now let's touch on the topic of environment. It’s no secret that workers in the “shadow” trade are known in certain circles – and have a proven “reality” reputation. Let's be realistic: when making your hero a newcomer to the criminal world, you shouldn't write about the fact that he was sent on a difficult task that no one has ever done, but he can do it. The thought will involuntarily arise that they simply want to set up a young and inexperienced guy or get rid of him. A difficult task can be given to a newcomer in cases where there is no choice left: many are dead, half are sick, and some are unable to do so. The stars aligned, and your hero was so lucky.

If the character is a master, then he will not go on a difficult task simply because he was promised good money. People who earn their living in an unrighteous way are well aware of the degree of risk and the consequences of failure; their prudence comes before the desire to prove their talents to their colleagues, and therefore professional thieves and murderers first try to find out as many details as possible. Therefore, when sending a professional to “impossible tasks” during the plot, one should not forget that he will definitely discuss the nuances with the customer.

“-...Your Majesty, I need access to the Royal Library.

Why else? – the old magician was surprised.

I don’t want to wander around Hrad Spain like a lost idiot. There the Unnamable One will break his leg. I need plans and old maps. At least the part that is called human. Grok isn't buried in the lower tiers, is he?

No. His grave is on the eighth level.

I sighed to myself with relief. At least some good news. Even if it’s small. Climbing into the tiers of ogres is suicide. I simply won’t get to them alive. They'll eat you on the way. And until the eighth you can take a chance.

That's good, I guess the library has some old plans?

Eat. Only Grok’s grave is not shown on them.

But are they somewhere?

Eat.

And where?

In the Old Tower of the Order.

Where is the old Order tower?

Somewhere in the closed part of the city.

That’s when I realized for sure that I was stuck under the trumpets of the royal heralds.”

Alexey Pekhov, “Crouching in the Shadows”

So, as you can see, describing the craft of the people who hide in the shadows is not so easy. Writing tips, of course, can be ignored entirely if your character is not human, or has some special ability that would make him accepted on a mission regardless of reputation, such as magic or unique racial talents.

But we should also not forget that frequent use of such a “trump card” is not good, Mary Sue is not welcome anywhere, and an invulnerable and super-talented character with a piano in his pocket falls exactly into this category. In addition, the less noticeable your character is, the better, so you should not give law enforcement agencies the opportunity to create a unique composite photo.

When describing the characters of such a craft, one should not forget the main thing: the assassin and the thief are shadows, they are not seen or heard until it is too late.

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A little history. Return of the thief.

The world of the new Thief maintained in the atmosphere of previous games in the series. It's dark, but certainly beautiful. Shrouded in mystery and thick fog, fraught with danger and considerable profit, engulfed in chaos, it is an ideal place for a person in the thieves' profession.

The first part at one time became a cult game, giving rise not only to a whole series of games, but also essentially became the progenitor of the genre, becoming the grandmother of the well-known Dishonored, due to which you can see many similarities between both games. I'm almost sure that Dishonored fans will wholeheartedly love the new Trief.

On the pages of books.

The trilogy is called "Chronicles of Siala" and tells us... About the best of the thieves named Garrett. And although in one of the interviews the writer himself seems to deny the involvement of the main character of the game series in his books, I can assume that he is being disingenuous. Firstly, the main character is indeed a thief, his name is indeed Garrett, and the fate of his youth is strikingly reminiscent of the little that the developers revealed about the thief's past in the first part of the franchise.

What do we know about the main character?

The main character, who has become an adult, brings a lot of problems to the head of the Thieves Guild, and all attempts to persuade Garrett to join the criminal structure and pay interest on each “case” are unsuccessful. Hired killers are sent after Garrett, but he manages to avoid death and visits the mansion of the authority himself. Well, after that we get our first
"thief" task.



It's funny, but the story of Garrett Shadow from Pekhov's books is almost a copy of Garrett's story from the game series. As a boy, he really gets into the pocket of a certain person, who later turns out to be a member not only of the mysterious Order, but of the Thieves Guild, who, seeing talent in the boy (this time as a thief), takes him under his wing and teaches him everything he needs to know any self-respecting thief. The grown-up Garrett still annoys the leader of the Thieves' Guild by still refusing to pay a percentage of his work, for which they still send hired killers to him, who, as you already understand, were unable to kill our thief.

I don’t want to reveal the entire plot of Pekhov’s wonderful trilogy, leaving you to enjoy the unexpected plot twists, but I want to point out that such similarities in the beginnings of both epics are not the only one. So, throughout the entire series of games you can
note that Garrett is, if not a believer in God, then certainly a believer in luck. Likewise, in the book, Garrett Shadow treats the patron god of thieves, Sagot, with strict spiritual “obedience,” because it is believed that the thief who took the Order cannot refuse it and run away, because then his patron will turn away and successful thefts will no longer be seen. To your surprise, there may be many more coincidences than I could reveal in this text, but in order not to bore the reader with unnecessary facts, I can suggest you look for them yourself.

The content of this section and the second, about the atmosphere of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s in the book The Book Thief, will overlap every now and then, since the story of the Book Thief Markus Zusak in many ways fascinates precisely because of its deep immersion. Main events books book thief take place in the fictional German town of Melning, near Munich. The main characters are ordinary people, a family, and their adopted daughter. Elderly Hans Huberman, his wife and little Liesel Meminger live a modest life in their unremarkable house. It’s interesting that if we move from the metaphorical and philosophical content of Mark Zusak’s book Book Thief More specifically, the story of The book thief can be called everyday. Most of the events concern the daily life of a German family before and during the Second World War. Problems of stolen apples, mother's tasteless stew, playing the accordion, laundry hanging on the street, icy water in the river in winter, an unexpected stranger knocking on the door. Thus, one should not expect events of a European or national German scale. The Book Thief plays on familiar themes in an interesting manner that quickly captivates the reader.

Liesel Meminger. The main character of the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The first acquaintance with the girl occurs when she is only nine. Already at this age, through her image a semblance of a critical look at the events of that time in Germany is conveyed. Far from being an example of angelic behavior, Liesel Meminger simultaneously evaluates the adult life that surrounds her and more global events of a political and social scale. It turns out this is a simplified version of Jean Louise from. Liesel- a blonde with dark brown eyes, however, her behavior contrasts with the image of an Aryan teenage girl. The very title of the novel The Book Thief or Book thief. Liesel Meminger has an irresistible craving for reading, for written words - she rescues books from the ashes of literature burning events, steals publications from her personal library.

Hans Huberman And Rosa Huberman. Although throughout almost the entire book The Book Thief, one gets the impression that the rough-built Rose only scolds her husband and adopted daughter, calling her Pig, the image has a second bottom, which will be interesting to piece together during re-reading. As for Hans Hubermann, he is one of the most endearing male characters in modern popular literature and the highlight of the film The Book Thief (played by Geoffrey Rush). A veteran of the First World War sets off events that occur on the home and military fronts of the now Second World War. Hans Hubermann immediately takes care of his young adopted daughter Liesel Meminger. They read together, share secrets, dream, and withstand the attacks of the mother of the family with a smile. Hans Huberman in Makurs Zusak's The Book Thief is an anti-war image of an accordion-playing artist.

Rudy Steiner . Through this peer of Liesel Meminger, a boy from the same Himmel-Strasse street, the author Markus Zusak continues to build a line of youth in his text of the book The Book Thief. The Book Thief draws a painful line between childhood, as most would like it to be, and the one that the Third Reich prepared for its younger generation. Rudy Steiner, like all the guys, joins the Hitler Youth and his adventures there are an important part of the narrative, a contrasting immersion in history. The boy Rudy Steiner is fascinated by the image of the American black champion runner Jesse Owens, which creates a lot of problems for him among German teenagers.

Max Vandenburg. Another quite striking character in places, without whom, after reading, it is difficult to imagine the completeness of the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Max Vandenburg is a young man of Jewish roots who is forced to hide in his native country for years, living in the Hubermans' basement and afraid of a knock on the door upstairs. He draws caricatures and writes stories that evaluate Nazi Germany, its leaders, and the war in which all of Europe is drawn into in a comical tone. He develops a sincere friendship with his youngest, Liesel Meminger, who becomes his best friend Max Vandenburg during those long months in the basement and overshadowing the themes of racism in The Book Thief. In the end, at the end of the story, Liesel and Max got married.

Death is the image of the narrator in The Book Thief

In this case, the old aphorism that it is better to try it yourself than to hear it repeatedly seems relevant. When you already turn to the text of the book The Book Thief ( The Book Thief), you skip through several dozen pages, the idea of ​​the author Markus Zusak seems definitely worthy of attention and in many ways original, at least in terms of presentation. The main characters whose lives are discussed are Liesel Meminger, Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann, the Jew Max Vandenburg, Rudi Steiner. However, another truly important protagonist of the book The Book Thief, and perhaps the main one, is the narrator himself. Death or Angel of Death. The narrator of the story of The book thief is indeed the, for many, ominous image of Death. Much of the text in Markus Zusak's novel is focused on the personal thoughts and past experiences of the narrator.

Among the many artistic framing options Markus Zusak chose humanity, so to speak. In his interpretation, Death is not the impersonal, emotionless observer that, from a logical point of view, it should be. In the book, The Book Thief is a male character who has a set of all our basic emotions, memory, critical and biased, depending on the topic, attitudes. Such a character is closer to the reader, no matter how strange it may seem, and therefore you quickly become interested in his thoughts and even have a certain amount of empathy. Death talks about his place in this world, about world wars, about the tyrants he unwittingly serves. She recalls various cases and circumstances of how she took people to the next world. Shares his extraordinary abilities to observe, remember, know. He even chuckles at the image of a ghost with a skull and sickle attributed to him. Someone will get goosebumps at the thought that he is reading the thoughts of the Angel of Death throughout more than 500 pages of text in the book The Book Thief.

Historical background of Nazi Germany in the book The Book Thief

The image of the narrator of death, the heroes themselves books book thief could, if desired, be included in a variety of historical eras. Yet the author of the novel The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, took on the still extremely popular theme of the Second World War. It was as if he set himself the goal of revealingly digging deeper than the vast majority of people go in their superficial ideas about this conflict, about Germany in the 1930s-1940s. This is a purely artistic work, which is also seasoned with a good portion of mysticism and fantasy with Death in the narrators. Together with that, book thief book(The Book Thief) is quite accurate in recreating the historical era and geographical setting - just enough to give you an incentive to further elective education within the subject.

Each of the main characters in Markus Zusak's book The Book Thief and the film The Book Thief conveys the era and setting in their own way. All the characters live in the fictional town of Melning near Munich, which, however, has absorbed the features of an entire nation. Liesel Meminger and Rudi Steiner are German youth with an Aryan appearance, who do not find themselves in the ideas of National Socialism, do not approve of the inner workings of youth organizations, with a smile and at times, not childishly caustic, assess the political, economic and social situation in Germany. The spouses Hans Hubermann and Rosa, people in their sixties, were also not imbued with the new ideology - just look at the long process of Hans’s far-fetched entry into the party. Max Vandenburg- This is a collective image of oppressed citizens. He is a Jew who is forced to endure humiliation and hide in the basement. Even the narrator of The Book Thief, Death, shows his attitude towards Adolf Hitler, taking place in Germany and war-torn Europe.

If we talk more specifically about the plot of The book Thief, the history of the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (The Book Thief) is full of little things and large-scale allusions to the then situation in the country. Protests of book burning on the streets of the town in a fit of general ecstasy. The difficult everyday life of ordinary citizens, on the home front, in conditions of limited supplies and fear of constant bombing. Internal features of training young people in youth organizations. Social segregation, racial intolerance, which can be seen even in teenage associations in the local courtyard. Mobilization of the older generation for the needs of the people's militia towards the end of the war.

Movie The Book Thief

The Book Thief, The Book Thief, The Book Thief - these are the adapted translations of the original title The Book Thief - an adaptation of the book by Mark Zusak. The film, a joint American and German production, was released in 2013, seven years after the release of the original book The Book Thief. In the film adaptation of The Book Thief, it was decided to retain the main narrator, namely the Angel of Death or simply Death, as one of the elements of the story of the Book Thief Markus Zusak. The author himself wrote about this during production on his personal blog, and co-authored the adapted script. movie The Book Thief.

For five main roles movie The Book Thief cast a multinational cast of actors, all five of different backgrounds. They were supposed to portray five Germans. The young thirteen-year-old Canadian actress Sophie Nelisse was chosen for the main role of Liesel Meminger, after a casting from 1000 applicants. The images of her adoptive parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, were portrayed on screen by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush and British actress Emily Watson. The role of Liesel Meminger's best friend, the young boy Rudi Steiner, went to the German actor Nico Liersch, and the German Jew Max Vandenburg was played by the American Ben Schnetzer.

After the cast of the film The Book Thief was determined, several funny incidents took place. The leading actress Sophie Nelisse, when she heard that she would play with actress Emily Watson, confused her with Emma Watson. The girl began to tell her friends that she was going to star with Hermione from Harry Potter. The mother of the young performer pointed out the mistake. As for Watson herself, she decided to stick to her grumpy Rosa Huberman persona off the court. Once at the airport she scolded an employee in this tone, after which a small conflict arose. Geoffrey Rush considered playing with a child a challenge, which is why he almost turned down the role of Hans Hubermann at first.

For obvious reasons, the length of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief was not fit into the two-hour film The Book Thief, despite its fairly accurate rendering. The most significant component that went under the knife was obviously the narrator's monologues. In the movie The Book Thief ( Book Thief) there are some of them, for example, about serving the tyrants of history or about the quiet death of German citizens from night bombings. Yet in Markus Zusak’s book there are entire sections where Death discusses the Second World War in his own understanding, and talks about visiting large German cities, like Hamburg, that were burning with fire.