Screen Name: Dvalin<br/><br/>Real Name: Takayama Masamune<br/><br/>Age: 21<br/><br/>Gender: Male<br/><br/>In-Game Race: Leprechaun<br/><br/>In-Game Appearance: Dvalin is not a very stereotypical Leprechaun, he is quite high for his race, standing 5’8 tall with big a long lean body, not very broad shoulders but big powerful arms. His hair is light blue and arranged in a spiky backwards moving pattern to keep hair from his face. Most of the time he wears a pair of goggles, to protect his eyes from the intense light flashes that, occurs when he forges high grade magical items. The goggles make it almost impossible for him to see indoors except in his forge where the smelting oven and the materials lights through the heavily tinted glass. When he is not wearing goggles his icy blue eyes tend to make people think he’s always glaring when he looks at someone. He usually wears a dragon skin blacksmiths apron he made for himself from the skin of his first slain dragon. In battle he wears a black plate armor though without a helmet.<br/><br/>Real World Appearance: In real life Masamune is a frail looking young man, he was in a car accident when he was little that left him paralyzed from the waist down. His legs, what he calls meat sticks, are thin and haven’t been used for years. He rolls around in a super light weight wheelchair, pushing himself around in this thing has given Masamune unusual muscles growth in his arms, resulting in, like in his character, an unusual upper body strength. During the evens of SAO when all other people was reverted to their real world appearance, the program bugged, letting Masamune keep the legs of his character, while the rest was changed.<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/087/2/4/breakblade_girge_by_v_sil-d3co77y.jpg)</div></div><br/>In-Game Personality: In game Dvalin is known as one of the two greatest blacksmiths in all of Alfheim, sharing this honor with SAO survivor Lisbeth, his great rival. Dvalin is intensely loyal to his regular customers, often going out of his way to acquire special materials and equipment to make better and better gear for his friends and allies. He is always the last to give up at a given task, and always the first to rise and work in the mornings. He is quite a workaholic, his disability giving him insane amounts of time in ALO, his shops motto is “Order today, pick-up tomorrow” on large orders.<br/><br/>In-Game Position: Dvalin has two shops, one in the Leprechaun capital that is now solely used as the sales house, as no new wares are Forged there with the exception of items during the Festical of the Forge. His other shop is located in quite a big building on the 4th floor of Aincrad and this is also where he entertains his friends<br/><br/>Real World Personality: Masamune always seem happy and eager to be with others. He is well loved by his friends and those around him. He is altruistic by nature and loves to share what he has with his friends. His family is wealthy which gives Masa money to spend with his friends. He is known to host parties that always ends up as the highlights of the month<br/><br/>Skills:<br/><br/>General and Passive skills<br/>•Slash Weapon Forging<br/>•Thrust Weapon Forging<br/>•Blunt Weapon Forging<br/>•Light Metal Armor Forging<br/>•Heavy Metal Armor Forging<br/>•Metal Equipment Repairing<br/>•Metal Refining<br/>•Acrobatics<br/>•Extended Weight Limit<br/>•Heavy Metal Equipment<br/>•Equipment Appraisal<br/>•Tool Appraisal<br/>Combat Skills<br/>•One-handed War Hammer<br/>•One-handed Dagger<br/>•Darkness Magic<br/>Racial<br/>•Blacksmith<br/>•Flight<br/><br/>Equipment:<br/><< Dvalin’s Maul >> A huge one handed maul made by Dvalin himself during the Leprechaun festival of the Forge were every item gets a chance to get a huge buff to stats or class. One of only two weapons of the mysterious Ancestral item level, the other being a weapon forged by Lisbeth during the same festival. At first glance there is little special about the stats of this weapon from a warrior’s perspective, but to Blacksmiths such as Dvalin it’s unique item ability <Blessing of the Forge> is highly useful, as it decreases the amount of materials needed to make unenchanted weapons, armor and tools by quite a bit by limiting the amount of resources wasted under forging. Other than this it carries a medium fire enchantment. It is also distinguished by from creation to have been restricted to Dvalin.<br/><br/><< Stygian plate armor >> a gift from fellow Blacksmith and rival Lisbeth after Dvalin agreed to share resources with her when they were both involved with the Leprechaun guard.<br/><br/><< All-biter >> a little curved dagger he got as a loot drop from << Primordial Lion >> it is made of the creature's bone and fang, and it is unique in that it cannot be repaired by currently known means. Dvalin carries it around, hoping to find the way to repair it in the future.<br/><br/>History:<br/>Masamune had since his accident been attracted to computers and gaming in general, he quickly became an ace in strategy games but quickly found them boring as the interaction with other players was limited. He soon turned to MMO’s as a way to get more in contact with people. He quickly found that he had little patience for the constant questing around and battling random monsters to get loot. He took up blacksmithing and started making better and better gear for himself. Now he could compete with the others against bosses, but didn’t have to do all the tiring grinding that annoyed him so much<br/><br/>When the beta for SAO started Masamune was quick to join, he again started his own blacksmiths shop, and during the beta he was one of the richest players as he seemed to be able to find even the most insane materials to produces wares from. This also helped him secure at good reputation, as most players liked him as he could afford to push down prices on his wares.<br/><br/>When SAO launched for real and Kayaba revealed his plan he instantly knew that this was for real. Instead of risking his life on the front against normal mobs Masamune founded the guild <Forge World> A guild of high level Blacksmiths who pledged to help the frontliners, in exchange for positions in their raids against the bosses. It was here that Masamune met Katsuo who would grow to become one of his closest friends<br/><br/>As it became evident that it was going to take time to get out of this place, he vowed to help Katsuo and his dojo, going as far as to supply Katsuo with a stack of Mithril weapons every two weeks to give to his students when they were done with their training.<br/><br/>Eventually SAO ended, and before getting locked out, he exchanged contact information with Katsuo and they met up repeatedly after the end of “The Death Game” as the media had dubbed SAO. Masamune, unlike most of his fellow <Clearers> felt an emptiness now that SAO was over, besides Katsuo and a few others, Masamune didn’t really have any friends.<br/><br/>When Alfheim Online came out Masamune was one of the first to join, making the Leprechaun character Dvalin, named after the Dwarven Master Blacksmith from ancient norse mythology. After about a week in Alfheim Online, Masamune sent out a mass email telling all he knew about the new game, and where to find him within<br/><br/>Let the shenanigans commence!