Technosoldier

He was built in a cave.

I’ve been getting asked this question a lot lately, and I thought it was something that never needed to be said: No, Tiforis Sevita is not Tony Stark.

I can understand why one would assume that, what with the obvious physical resemblance and the weapons building, but these are just entirely coincidence. Now sit back and let me blow your mind. The steampunk aspect of Azeroth is one that very few people take seriously in a character, sure, you have tinkers and gnomes. But how often do you see someone who firmly believes that Technology is the future for the world, even one so entrenched in religion and magic? Tif himself was never designed in the capacity most know him as. I was leveling the little warrior, and I wanted a hook to make him a bit more interesting that your average sword-for-hire. That and the fact that he had mining, and I didn’t want to be a blacksmith? He became an engineer.

Tiforis is a soldier, and as such, he is rather keen on building things that can give him in edge in battle. Using guns, bombs, cloaking, mass accelerators, rocket boots and the like to compliment his brawn on the battlefield. I imagine most of these being build right into his armour, which in turn requires a power source of some sort. This is where most of the trouble comes from. Yes, Tif does have a bit of an electrical charge in his armour, no, it doesn’t let him fly, or shield him from every blow. And yes, his armour will crackle with electricity, because it can. It can be silly, but it’s the thing that defines and endears the character to me. He’s the Technosoldier, not Iron Man.

It wasn’t until the recent love triangle storyline that he became involved in that that comparison to Tony Stark become apparent to me. Anything that goes into his RSP from this point out is merely tongue in cheek, even if some people can’t seem to realize that. If you take someone else’s character so seriously, without having much IC interaction with him, or truly getting to know the character? You are doing something very wrong.