Amargaard

Adam Nikolaj Margaard, better known by his internet-alias Amargaard, often called "Amar" or simply "Am", is a 20-year-old guy living in Helsingør, Denmark, born the 10th of January 1995, and is the former maintaining member in the Kaelicious social group, and the Team Leader of the Hollideus Project. Additionally, he is also working as a writer and artist of the project.

Amargaard joined the Kaelicious roleplay in December 2012 with an unnamed post, using Am'ar Kardos as his Main Character. Extra Characters created by Amargaard in the roleplay includes Gyro, the McPatrickus Brothers, Dai Quong, Thylleon and the God of Fire.

Relation to the Hollideus Project
Adam Nikolaj Margaard has long been a prominent member of Kaelicious, and dedicated roleplayer of its unique universe. However during a period spanning from summer to winter in 2013, the new maintainer of Kaelicious, Bernkastel, was trying out new universes, which at the end made Amargaard leave the group in protest. While having little to do, he instead focused on a new roleplaying project of his - a huge one, that would be based on the stories which his typical main character Am'ar Kardos had been part of, which included stories from several different roleplays, which would have to be completely rebooted and combined into a huge mix-up. Unlike his previous roleplays, Adam based this one on a wikia site. However, before long, Kaelicious was back in its old glory and Amargaard had rejoined, and thus had little time for his wikia roleplaying project, but at least it had inspired him.

Inspired him to re-think the lore of the original Kaelicious universe, making it better than its current state. However, at this point these were only thoughts, but once Bernkastel passed on the role as maintainer over Kaelicious to Amargaard in January 2014, and the following months were filled with relatively epic roleplaying plots, Amargaard finally decided to do something about it. Knowing he could and should not change the old lore of Kaelicious, he instead decided to create an entirely new universe, based on Kaelicious, called the Hollideus universe. Amargaard created the Hollideus Project wiki in the beginning of Summer 2014, and have worked secretly on it ever since, hoping that he will be able to make it large enough to work out both as a complete wiki for the Kaelicious universe, and a platform for successfully developing the new Hollideus universe and its related projects.

Secretly, he worked for months on adding new pages on the wiki, and constantly updating already existing ones. At first he focused on the basic pages, and pages about Hivers who were prominent members of the Kaelicious social group, not wanting to start the actual projects before he deemed the wiki entirely presentable to the others. However, his ideas for the expanded universe finally evolved so much that he couldn't refrain from writing an entire summary for the first in the novel series, Hollideus I: The Horrors of Halloween. He is still planning to reveal the Hollideus Project wiki to the members of Kaelicious on the social group's approaching 2 year anniversary, November of 2014, hoping they will support and help developing the wiki...

Joining the Hive
Adam Nikolaj Margaard signed up as a member on www.hiveworkshop.com in 2009, because he spent a lot of time on personal Warcraft III map projects at the time, and realized that the Hive Workshop had a vast section with all kinds of resources to be used in Warcraft III maps. Like on other sites on the internet, Adam used Amargaard as his username.

His maps were all based on outdoor-roleplays he and his friends have had in the school yard, but around this time, they were all starting to grow too old to play around just like that. Amargaard, however, did not lose his interest in roleplaying and had to find an alternative. Luckily the Hive Workshop had an entire forum for roleplaying - and Amargaard entered several of the active roleplays, and after a short while he realized which one was his personal favorite kind of roleplaying - he liked Freeform Storytelling Roleplays the most, simply due to the fact that he mostly enjoyed roleplaying because of the story that the players made up in a shared effort, compared to the actual playing. Seeing few active Freeform Storytelling Roleplays in the forum, Amargaard finally decided to make his own roleplaying thread, calling it "Avataria", it soon turned into a long, interesting story, but eventually it died out when facing a long period of low activity.

The Daily Peon
He didn't feel like hosting another roleplay that would suffer the same fate at that time, so he searched the site for another Freeform Storytelling Roleplay, even outside of the Roleplaying forum. And there, in the corner of the broad Hive community, he finally found The Daily Peon social group. The roleplay in the group had already been active for years, and the story was long and detailed. Yet Amargaard decided to read through the whole thing, and after months of daily reading, he finally felt ready to join the actual roleplay. Inspired by the silly nature of the group's early history, Amargaard created a character called "Peon Amargaard".

For years, Amargaard participated in the story with his new, silly character, who actually slowly evolved into a way more serious character. Both in terms of looks, personality and abilities. Amargaard grew quite attached to his own character, because peon Amargaard had become his very image on the Hive Workshop and even a figure of his entire internet identity, which he wore with pride. However, the Daily Peon story ended the same way the "Avataria"-roleplay had ended long before that, with a long period of no activity. At first Amargaard was interested in this change, but soon he realized that the new roleplay lacked one thing that the previous roleplay had. Peon Amargaard. Depressed that his beloved character would never be able to return in the new universe, Amargaard decided to leave the social group, and return to his roots in the Roleplaying forum.

Avataria #2
Here, he made another attempt at hosting a Freeform Storytelling Roleplay, naming this thread "Avataria #2", in honor of his first roleplay. Furthermore, he decided to re-use peon Amargaard as his Main Character in this roleplay, but changed the character a lot to better match the new universe (I.E, renaming him "Amar Gaardos"). Fortunately, Avataria #2 became a huge success, soon taking over the place as the forum's biggest and most active roleplay at the time. Amargaard received a lot of experience in hosting roleplays, and his character witnessed a drastic evolution as well. However, just like all of the other roleplays, Avataria #2 also entered a period of low activity, and eventually died out.

Kaelicious
And Amargaard ended up doing just like he had done when his first roleplaying thread died out - searching the borders of the Hive Workshop for a new roleplay to enter. He found a new social group, that would later be known as Kaelicious, less than a month after it had been created by the Hive Workshop member Vengeancekael. At this time the roleplaying was not the dominating part of the group, which instead was focused on contests and competitions. However, Amargaard, along with other new, active members like Bernkastel, kari0003 and David, ended up changing the group to focus more on roleplaying and the contests only being a small bonus. Once again, Amargaard re-used the same old character in this roleplay, this time changing his name to "Am'ar Kardos".

The roleplay seemed solid, so Amargaard sticked around, and witnessed Vengeancekael passing on maintainership to Bernkastel. Amargaard was heavily against Bernkastel's idea of changing the group's roleplay to a new post-apocalyptic one, partly because he had already had to let go of so many fictional universes that were dear to him, and left the social group in protest. Coincidentally, the new roleplaying universe had to be trashed after a while due to low interest from majority of the group's members. Although Amargaard had left the group, he had never stopped observing it, and shortly after realizing this, he wrote a visitor message on Bernkastel's profile, suggesting making up an entirely new roleplaying universe, with just as few limits as the original one had. Bernkastel eventually agreed, and the preparations for the new roleplay was started. However, this suffered the same fate as its predecessor with low interest after a short while, but despite its failure, Amargaard stayed in the group and his relationship with Bernkastel had been repaired, after almost half a year.

Together, the two decided to return the social group to its original universe, starting at December 2013. Fortunately, the Christmas event turned out quite successful with lots of activity the whole month. After it was over, Bernkastel passed on her role as maintainer over the group to Amargaard, who gladly received it in January 2014. He have kept it ever since, and have made sure to stick to the old traditions of the group, while also make room for new ones...

deviantART History
Adam had long known about the existence of deviantART, but had never bothered sign up, until during summer/Fall 2013, which was also a time where he was bored because of having quit Kaelicious, and not knowing how to spend his spare-time creatively.

He made an account, and as usual, he named it Amargaard. He searched the site for contests, and found a group hosting contests. With nothing else to do, he decided to join a random one. He didn't notice that it was already in progress, closing in on its end. Only a week remained, but Adam had little other to do anyway, so he actually managed to finish an entire piece on the time, and ended up with the first place.

After only a week on the site he could call himself a winner. That pushed him into being more active, speaking to more people and drawing more. For a time he worked on art for a new secret roleplaying project of his, and uploaded it to deviantART. However, about that time Kaelicious started running again, and slowly Amargaard lost both his motivation for working on the new roleplay, and also his inspiration for drawing artwork related to it.

His deviantART account is still there, but he rarely uses it, despite knowing that he have several unfinished pieces waiting to be finished, and messages waiting to get replies...