tejón wrote:
Jeremiziah wrote:
Picture Robert the Bruce the Elder in Braveheart. Not too charismatic, in my humble opinion.
Really? That's exactly the example I thought of to illustrate a hideous, rotting, high-Charisma character.
King Baldwin (Edward Norton) in Kingdom of Heaven is a good second place.
Remember the big beef about quotes in the early dnd days? some people were complaining that the books mentioned hitler as a charismatic (and in their minds, therefore, admirable) figure. I would agree that Hitler was extremely charismatic, but he was most assuredly not a looker. So, good point.
I picture the oracle the same way. I think the oracle fits the kind of thing like paul muad'dib was. u know? the sort of person with mystic, god-given abilities, but not extremely reverent, yet extremely charismatic. and he was blind by the end of Dune Messiah. hmm? sounds kinda like an oracle to me..... And that does sound like an a-maze-ing character concept anyways: divine, irreverent mystic demagogue....