Finally Shokoās character sheet is done too! The menace is back! I changed her backstory a bit for the story Iām writing about the Drunken Rose, just to make everything more coherentā¦
Shoko was born in the village of Hellwound, alongside her twin brother. From the beginning, she was different. A malformation in her frontal lobe caused her intense pain as an infant, and as she grew, it became clear she couldnāt feel emotions the way others did. She lived in a constant detached state, unable to bond with anyone, not even her family.
One night, during the Harvest Festival, a strange star appeared in the sky. It pulsed with an ominous green light, and something about it felt deeply wrong. Drawn to it, Shoko looked up. For the first time in her life, she wept, as alien feelings flooded her mind and made her body ache. Her eyes turned pitch black, with irises glowing green like the star above. Then came a whisper in the dark:
āYou are empty. Let me give you purpose.ā
Convinced by that experience that emotions were a disease, Shoko set her village on fire at age twelve, believing she was freeing them. Only one villager survived the massacre by chance, and still seeks the truth of what happened.
After that, Shoko wandered alone until she was attacked by pseudodragons. By chance, two elite agents of the Orion Stars, a guild of spies and assassins, were nearby and saved her. Temone and Mumba took her in as their own daughter and raised her within the guild.
Shoko rose quickly through the ranks, even sacrificing her right arm to prove her loyalty. But she hid a darker purpose: serving Theobog, the ancient demon who had whispered to her beneath the green star. He promised her a new world without emotions. All she had to do was free him.
To fulfill that goal, she sought the Dagger of Kadosh, the artifact used to imprison the demon and the only weapon able to release him. But soon after, the new boss of the Orion Guild began to doubt her loyalty and secretly ordered her death. After fighting the killers and barely escaping alive, Shoko collapsed from her wounds in the Dragongrove forest.