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[Arcalian]

Hey Dorotea. Your "without a name-sake" is currently still in BG1, currently outside the Iron Throne building in fact. Shes's a fighter/cleric. Am I correct I thinking that in LR=TOB she could be level 40 in both classes, if I were willing to play that long?

BTW: I bought a classical music CD with "March to the Scaffold" on it.

[dorotea]

I feel seriously touched and honored that Irenicus's theme in LR made such an impression on you -- I love it myself. The piece is rather dark and tragic, as it should be -- by the way it has a rather tragic background story -- a man is led to his execution after killing his beloved.

"His autobiographical Symphonie Fantastique represents a very personal nightmare, exemplified in the two movements included in the Naxos collection, A Ball and March to the Scaffold. In the first the artist catches sight of his unknown beloved, while in the nightmare of the second he is put to death for her murder." quoting the art library . Very fitting I think...


As to the question of level 40 for the cleric-fighter -- yes, I believe you can reach 40/40 with her. Have fun!

[BallOfFire]

Ah man! If that is true you should put that in the readme too =P. I asked around all over the place about what you meant by level 40 experience cap before I knew about this forum. I like the classical music, as surprised as I was to hear it for Irenicus =).

[dorotea]

About xp cap at level 40? I think it is in the Readme. Well, if I will do another update to the mod I will add more info.

Btw -- I forgot to mention the composer -- once again. (Beats her head over the wall. )

Hector Berlioz
Born: La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, December 11, 1803
Died: Paris, March 8, 1869

Sent to Paris by his father to study medicine, Berlioz instead studied music, supporting himself by writing about music and giving lessons. Berlioz may well have been the first great composer to not be able to play a musical instrument, nor to have shown any musical talent at an early age. But he perservered, and became interested in the vast possibilities of orchestration and the different combinations of instrumental sounds. In 1844, he wrote a book on orchestration (Traite de l'Instrumentation - Treatise on Orchestration), which is still widely regarded as one of the best in the field. Berlioz' advances in this area contributed greatly to the growth and development of the modern symphony orchestra.

In 1830, only three years after the death of Beethoven, Berlioz composed his most famous work, the programmatic Symphonie fantastique. Having an autobiographical basis, the piece is a highly romantic program symphony in five movements, the story of which tells of an artist who, unhappy in love, takes an overdose of opium and dreams of his own passions and desires, his beloved, her murder, and his own death. Berlioz had seen the Irish actress Harriet Smithson perform in Shakespeare's Hamlet and had fallen passionately, even hysterically in love with her. He intended to immortalize his love in music with his symphonie. The artist's beloved is represented throughout the work by a melodic motif known as the idée fixe, a device which serves to unify the disparate elements of the symphony. The fourth movement is entitled "March to the Scaffold," and depicts the protagonist's dream of his own execution for having killed his faithless beloved. The symphony was wildly successful at its premiere, and made a name for its young composer, if not a fortune.

Edited by dorotea, 17 February 2005 - 07:44 PM.