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A blog dedicated to my dungeons and dragons character, Connor. Will mostly contain commission work, inspiration, and artwork. This will be a fairly quiet side blog with just posts, very little communication. Owner's twitter. Owner's Bluesky.

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Connor is an Undying Warlock with a neutral good alignment. Connor’s pronouns are he/they. They are classified as undead, aberration, and humanoid. They are 470 years old. He stands at 7 feet tall, or 2.13 meters. His weight is around 80-110 lbs (this includes the tentacles). Connor is intersex, non-binary, and pansexual with demiromantic tendencies. They are polyamorous and love being loved and loving others.

Connor as a character is unorthodox to the fullest extent, as they are largely homebrew. He is in a level 1-20 campaign ran by @skeletone that has been ongoing since 2019, and is expected to be ongoing for years to come. This character for me has been an ultimate expression as a coping mechanism for my relationship with death, fear of outer space (with Connor practically being an alien), and an expression of queerness that I, as a queer person, enjoy exploring. In a way, this character is a self portrait of major parts of myself.

Connor’s personality snapshot: expressive, open, self revealing, loves/hates large parties, loud, social, outgoing, does not like social isolation, assertive, positive, always busy, likes to fit in but also likes to stand out, enjoys leadership, brutally honest, trusting, optimistic, desires attention, dominant, aggressive, attachment prone, wants to be understood, lonely, melancholic, self loathing

Currently, Connor and their friends have saved the city of Waterdeep. They have struck alliances with many individuals such as Renaer Neverember, Volothamp Geddarm, Jarlaxle Baenre and Laerel Silverhand, while dealing with The Xanathar, mindflayers (most notably Nihiloor), devils, the Cassalanters, and Manshoon. Recently, they have ventured out to the North to successfully kill Auril who relentlessly was wailing on parts of Toril with her unforgiving winter weather. Auril’s demise was accomplished with help of another god’s Chosen, who took Auril’s divine spark and corrupted it with their own god’s essence. With Auril’s inflicted weather now removed, Connor and their friends can travel the oceans she froze to get to a Golden Forge that belongs to a golden dragon underneath Waterdeep. The group promised the golden dragon they would help reclaim it from another dragon who overtook it.

As of late, the golden dragon the Five have struck a pact with, Aurelius, had become infected with a mindflayer tadpole and shed its face and skin to become a brainstealer dragon named Placidjurax, which the Five had to promptly put down. Laerel wants the Xanathar and Nihiloor eradicated, to which Connor and company eagerly agreed to. It is because of them through a long string of events prior that Aurelius got infected.

Overall, the big plot for The Five is that they’re on a mission to collect the idols of Toril’s gods to restore the deteriorating weave. The sky is falling, literally. This need to collect the idols will require them to venture around the planet, including the use of the Golden Forge to travel to multiple dimensions.

Connor’s in-depth information is below, and while I wish I could divulge all of Connor’s secrets, some of my teammates are on this site and are mutuals and in general are aware of the existence of this space, so I can only unveil right now what’s been given in game.

Current revealed facts about Connor in Legends of the Five:

• Connor once lived life as a human before. He was born as a human. Lived and loved as one. Connor’s previous name in life before taking up the name Connor was Alistair Reiter.

• Alistair Reiter had a wife, a child, and ran a church dedicated to Lathander. He was a priest.

• Present day Connor has a phobia of horses. This pertains to the fact that Alistair’s/Connor’s daughter in life was trampled to death by a horse.

• In hopes of trying to resurrect his dead daughter, Alistair dabbled into unknown forces of necromancy and made a pact with a mysterious entity in order to channel said necromancy.

• Learning this necromancy allowed him to attach another pair of limbs to himself amid his experimentation.

• Alistair’s hubris is what led to his death and downfall. Such is what happens when you play with forces of life and death and try to play God.

• For some years after his death and his body long since decayed, Alistair’s dead body was animated by a mysterious force and was sent on a killing spree against any wandering adventurers before the Spellplague deactivated him. His body was then put in a crypt, and wrapped in golden chains.

• Alistair was resurrected by a necromancer who found him in the crypts years later. Alistair then takes the name Connor out of a desire to not affiliate with his wretched past. Symbolism of a clean slate and starting over. The necromancer that resurrected him ended up being a short lived lover and partner until they both split amid an argument. Only recently has Connor been able to get over their ex. His ex is Innis Pyrescribe, who belongs to my DM skeletone.

• Connor finds out that he cannot die, and any time he is destroyed, he often reforms hours later. Whatever force keeps him animated, is clearly by a higher power—likely his warlock patron. Using dispel magic on him also temporarily deactivates him.

• Connor is part of a hivemind that has origins from the Far Realm.

• Connor has a sibling (or technically another him, if they’re a hivemind) named Exodus, who breached the material plane during a summoning ritual for a Far Realm entity named Auc’thil’une—with Exodus as the emissary of Auc’thil’une. He changed from an incomprehensible entity into a human with tentacles in his eye sockets that he hides behind shades.

• Similarly, Connor is actually the mass of tentacles inside of the skeleton that was once his when he had flesh.

•Connor was born in the body of a human and lived as one—Exodus did not. Exodus finds himself disgruntled and disgusted at Connor’s empathy and love for this world, and at Connor’s developed humanity. Connor is an anomaly among aberrations for this reason. In no way should an aberration have humanity. • Connor’s golden chains apparently keep him sentient, and when they are removed, Connor loses all sense of self and begins to indiscriminately attack anything living, plagued by a feeling of hunger. These chains seem to belong a small organization of necromancers called The Order of the Golden Chain. They were often used by necromancers on their undead. Connor is considered a rogue undead with no master/necromancer controlling him. • Connor finds out that they have a suppressed appetite—and it’s a desire for living flesh. Dead flesh does not satisfy whatever dark primal hunger sits inside Connor. This rightfully horrifies Connor.

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Punchout by Saren Stone. (bsky)

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Forsaken, by Toivarg (twitter/bsky)

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Connor sketch page by Beidak. (vgen/tumblr)

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Forsaken, by Toivarg (twitter/bsky)

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Connor: Undying Warlock. Neutral good. Undead aberration. A yearner & desperate for friends and love. Featuring his pup familiar, Charly! Because what better way to tell people you mean no harm with a puppy?

Art by Eepystew (bsky/insta/carrd)

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illuminated illustration for @/calamarti (vgen/bsky) 🖤

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By escalusia (bsky/twitter/tumblr).

Lottie belongs to @skeletone.

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From human Lathanderite Priest (pre-campaign), to undead aberration and undying Warlock (campaign), to Death deity in the pantheon known as the Gentle Death (post-campaign).

Thought it important to commemorate my character Connor's journey, and Maeters (bsky/twitter) always delivers with the most stunning art.

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Connor, neutral good undying warlock of Vecna by Polluxery. (twitter/bsky)

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Art by Spicynoony (view on bksy / twitter)

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La conversation, Paul Delvaux, 1944

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Connor, undying warlock. Undead aberration. Neutral good.

By Cachet, Twit/Bsky/Tumblr.

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Likable monsters are very appealing in a fictional setting for many reasons. Sometimes it’s the inversion of reality of it all. The way the monster shows you its ugliness first and then you get to discover its good traits. It’s kindness, it’s gentleness. Its humanity. It’s the fantasy that the thing that seems terrifying is not so terrifying after all. That beneath the ugliness it is simply…human. In pain. And so often, reality is the opposite. The real monsters show you the seemingly beautiful things first. They present themselves as pure and human. They draw you in and ensnare you only to eventually rip off the mask and reveal all the ugliness and horrors that lurk beneath. By then it’s too late.

And that’s the other reason the “loving monster” is appealing. Because if you live your whole life dealing with monsters that wear human’s faces…it’s nice to imagine that there is a bigger, scarier monster out there that would or could protect you. That could scare the real monsters away.

And finally, it is that we ourselves sometimes feel monstrous. Like ugliness and dirt and blood and horror. Like darkness and unworth. And it’s nice to imagine that if this monster can find compassion, can find redemption, peace, acceptance…love. Then maybe we can too.

So don’t judge people for liking the monsters. The ugly ones. The villains. It’s not always so black and white.

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Love and Death Embrace, by Erika-Xero.