User:Alexm

About Me
My name is Alex, I'm a college kid with an overactive imagination and waaaaaay too much free time. I've been in love with the idea of dragons since I first saw them depicted on a roller coaster ride while I was visiting my uncle in Florida. Don't ask me the name of the ride, I can't recall it, but I do have a souvenir from the aforementioned ride, which is, as you might have guessed, a red dragon. A few years later, I discovered the oh-so-addictive World of Warcraft, and by the time the second expansion came out (WotLK) I knew everything about every dragon in that universe. Once I grew tired of paying for the game, I discovered the wonderful world of Private WoW Servers. It was on one of these that I finally got the chance to live my dream: To play as a dragon in the Warcraft universe. As if that wasn't enough, I started a whole guild based around my new character. Now, as anyone who knows of Warcraft dragons knows, red ones have very defined names. This fact, combined with the knowledge of the word 'namesake' gave birth to Alaron's first incarnation: Alexstrasz. I spent years creating a story that explained why my character was named what he was, and why he was 'special'. Now the community on this particular private server is...unique to say the least. The admins love enforcing rules, and the players love breaking them. As you can imagine, the community isn't the most friendly group of people you'll ever meet. It was in this community that my guild, Dragon Lords, existed in for over a year before school and lack of free time caused me to close it. I'll be the first to admit it was not the best RPing guild ever made, but we had fun while it lasted. Sadly, our lack of expertise (and rule enforcement) gave rise to the idea that anyone who Roleplayed as a dragon was a horrible Roleplayer. Once I had the time, I ressurected my old guild to set out to change this stereotype, but I failed, despite the fact that many of the previous problems with the guild had been fixed. That was when I closed the guild permanently, and gave up on dragons altogether. As I approached my Sophomore year as a college student, I began to think about the big questions, like what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. I see writing as a hobby, and I doubt I'll ever be good enough to be on par with Tolkein, Rowling, and other great fiction writers, but I enjoy it all the same. It was with this mindset and more free time that led to the creation of this Arconia Wiki. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about this world I thought-up in a single afternoon. Enjoy.