Herbie

Information

Player: midtgardsormen

Character Full Name: Herbert Robertson

Character In-Game Name: Herbie

Nickname(s): Herbert, Herb, Robertson

Association(s): None

Race: Human

Class: Warlock (apothecary)

Age: 69

Sex: Male

Hair: Bald, though he got gray beard and mustache

Eyes: Green-blueish

Weight: 83kg

Height: 188cm

Appearance

He usually wears a tuxedo shirt, jacket and pants. He also wears matchable shoes, which fits the tuxedo. On his head, he wears a monocle. Can be seen with a lantern at night. Sometimes, Herbert can be seen with other type of clothes, light weight of course.

Other: Herbert got a fairly long beard.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Herbert is a honest, confident and self-assured man. He lives his life for full and do what he feels like. There's a lot of stuff he haven't done in his youth, which he would gladly get done. He is, just like his father, a very intelligent man. Herbert loves to socialize, and would gladly talk to everyone over a cup of coffee. Herbert is skilled in alchemy and works as an apothecary.

History

Herbert was born in Stormwind City, before the first war. As a child, he used to watch his father at his work. His father worked as a pharmacist in the Trade District, Stormwind. From time to another he was allowed to help his father when he was mixing and making new potions. Herbert was rather lonely as a child, as you know, he was spending most of his time at his father's apothecary.

One day, when nobody expected anything to happen, the church bells suddenly rung. An army of knights, soldiers and bowmen from the forces of Stormwind went to every corner in the city and warned everyone. "Be hold! Listen! We need to evacuate this city! The orcs are getting closer to us! We are heading north, to Lordaeon, for safety!" Everyone reacted and started to pack their stuff and got out of the city by boats.

When the Alliance got back Stormwind, when the first war had ended, the city was nearly in ruins. It got reconstructed, on the exactly same spot and renamed "New Stormwind", but it was common to just say "Stormwind". Herbert moved back to Stormwind and lived his life.

In Herbert's youth, he attended to an academy to become a professional psychiatrist. He got one of his best friends at the academy, a friendship which seemed to last forever. One day, when Herbert was learning about the human brain for himself by reading in a book, a girl in his class approached him. She asked him out on a date, which he accepted without hestitate. They arranged to have their date in Elwynn Forest, a picnic for themselves, at 17:00, one hour after the school ended.

They walked together out of the gates of Stormwind, towards the the spot they had picked out to be their picnic ground, at Crystal Lake. They both sat down, and the girl took out from the basket a few slices of bread and various types of cheese, some meat slices and a bottle of fresh milk. The two of them kept their eyes at the lake, then at each other. Out of all sudden, the girl said "I love you, Herbie." The girl moved her head closer to his and kissed him on his lips. Herbert put his hands around her and kissed her back. When they stopped to kiss and moved their heads away from each other, Herbert said with a strong, but soft voice "I love you too, Grace". Herbert and Grace sat there, on a carpet at the ground and holding hands. This was Herbert's first girlfriend and something he clearly would remember for ever.

It was night. The rain was pouring heavily down from the clouds. His heirloom, which he had on his night table, showed 2:00am. It was at that exact moment the church bells rung. Loud as they were, they woke everyone in Stormwind City up from their sleep. "Oh no, not again!", Herbert said silently to himself while he stood up from his bed and started to pack a few items into his bag. When his bag was filled with the most valuable items he owned, he went down towards the docks to get on board in a boat going to Lordaeon.

Years later he returned to his city, Stormwind, after it had been rebuilt for the second time, mainly by the genius Edwin VanCleef and his supreme skills in engineering.

The time goes past, and Herbert was now an adult and married to Grace. Herbert had been recruited to join the forces of Stormwind, as a scout. The third war broke out and Herbert had to leave with his fellow soldiers, even though he wanted to just stay home in Stormwind with his beautiful wife. Every year, every month, every day and every hour he thought about Grace, his wife, if she would be okay. He couldn't let her go off his mind.

When Herbert got home to Stormwind he had a big grin on his face. He was so happy that he would finally meet his wife again. Seconds changed to minutes, and minutes changed to hours. His wife wasn't here. Where is she? - he asked himself. Herbert spent his adulthood home, being very depressed. Every night he wake up, crying. As he didn't know what had happened to her, or if something had happened to her, it was even worse. At the daytime he was practising alchemy and trying to remember what his father teached him.

At present time, Herbert is an old man. He is trying to do stuff that he did not do, or couldn't just manage to do in the past of his life. He is more than a travelling pharmacist and a psychiatrist, a mix of those two. Herbert has forced himself to forget about the past and is just looking no other way than forward. He thinks about the future and what it could bring to him.