Hi, The picture of you at Empire on Instagram looked absolutely awesome!

Could you tell us about:

1: Your character, how you made him and ect...

2: How you managed to get such a cool costume!

And 3: How the event was?

I've been looking into possibly going but I'm fining the costuming and character creation (mainly backstory) difficult, and I'm a bit nervous about what it'll be like when/ if I go there.

1: Character was kept low-key since I needed to get lay of the land at first event. I just researched the nation our group voted to join and then reverse engineered from there.

2: Costume = is mostly Etsy with some Amazon thrown in for stuff I couldn’t find elsewhere. I don’t have the time to make stuff from scratch but I am pretty crafty so can customise/ resize etc. So the armour was ordered then i did some leatherwork to fix it up and reshaped it.

3: It was like when I first played Dnd. Brilliant but I regretted not trying it 20 years ago!

I am NOT a veteran and there are many more knowledgeable people than me on this site but from my humble perspective I would suggest don’t worry too much about backstory and focus on just getting a few bits together first. I went ridiculously overboard for my first event because that’s just how I role on special interests.