Thread:Eras of Arda Team/@comment-27961454-20170721145039

This is WholockianDalek's application for Ungoliant, the great spider.

Who Ungoliant is in FA 400

After participating in the consumption of the trees of Valinor, Ungoliant swells and becomes an enourmous being. After consuming more light from gems, she swells even more. By this point, Morgoth has grown somewhat fearfull of Ungoliant and this and his greed mean he refuses to hand over the Silmarils, gems that captured the light of the trees of Valinor. Morgoth had said Ungoliant could have whatever she wanted if she helped Morgoth destroy the trees and felt understandably cheated. She attacked Morgoth, but his balrogs heard and chased her away. She hid in a valley and breeds hundreds of spiders, hiden away so as not to get hurt, and ever hungry for more light. This is where we join her.

Why I want to play this character

The main reason why I want this character, is that I love spiders, especially mordor spiders. They're fascinating and adorable and generally wonderful. My feelings for mordor spiders suit Ungoliant's, given that they are her children. I also love the region of Nan Ungol, which is what Ungoliant's valley becomes. I think it is like a good balance between Nurn and Mordor. Nurn is too grassy and alive but Mordor is too dead. Nan Ungol has plenty of life and also has the water pools and caves which gives it some scenery, without loosing the dark scary atmosphere. I want to live there and I want to be with the spiders, and I love Ungoliant.



How will I act as Ungoliant

Personally, I think Ungoliant made a huge mistake by hiding from Morgoth all that time, they could have benefitted from each other. I hope to play a slightly friendlier more social version of the character, especially as this is more appropriate for a server. However, similarly to Ungoliant, I will evaluate the other players and decide if it is a better stratergy to stay hidden or to make alliances, all to maximise the chances of keeping myself and my spiders alive while also being able to take new land to suck the light from.

What can I bring to the server?

I am an extremely friendly, reasonable person and I think I can give a lot to role play and social activities and definitely won't be the kind of person to cause trouble: I never do, I haven't on other servers. I, as I have said before, really love the character of Ungoliant and think I will put far more love into her than any other would. Many people take a character for the sake of having a character and would really be cool with any character. I will be dedicated to the server and to this particular character, as I cannot play her in any other age. I can also build pixel art, statues and things like that, if you give me time. I hope to make large numbers of spider statues to decorate Nan Ungol and I have had people scream swears out of fear from one of my statues. I think it would add to the ambiance.

My experience with LOTR servers

I have played on a large number of servers, at the beginning of my time with the mod on TOS and DOTR, then on a large number of servers like awakening, second age, BFME... I'm quite sad that my old servers all seem to be dying and I need to find a new and lively server.

I have plenty of experience with the mod, but very little experience with things like leading factions. I have lead factions, but they had no one in them. I don't think my lack of leadership skills will be a problem because Ungoliant doesn't really have faction members, but you could say she rules the valley of spiders. If I get the role, I am willing to take it either as a random character or as ruler of Nan Ungol, anything works. I'm pretty flexible.



Thank you very much for giving me your time and hopefully considering me for this role, I really want it and would play it with all my heart.  </ac_metadata>