When I started to run D&D games many years ago, I would do very small things with my friends. Some simple campaign ideas here and there with mixed success. But sometimes some people couldn't make it because of unforeseen circumstances, and I'd have to come up with a small one shot just to have fun for that night. I stumbled upon the One-Page Dungeon project and chose one of those to run. The one I went with was Tower of the Time Wizard, by Andrew Harshman (@dndeed here on Tumblr, but it seems like he's been inactive for over a year).
In that adventure, the titular time wizard is Naven Mag. She was a successful mage in her own right and made some prominent advances in the arcane fields, but her last big experiment with time magic left her and her tower lost in a temporal catastrophe. The adventure has the tower reappear as it does on occasion, but only for a small while. The party navigates floors of the tower, each one with its own time-focused gimmick, before finding Naven at the top of the tower right before she performs her fatal experiment. Regardless if the party talks her down from it or not, an evil future Naven appears, back to stop her past self from causing some massive time-travel calamity. Battle ensues, but it sadly doesn't matter. Regardless if the future Naven is successful or not, the conclusion of the adventure is that the party reappears outside the tower, treasures kept in hand, with the tower vanished in the timestream once more.
Obviously as a DM, you could do whatever you want with whatever ideas you have before you, but I felt a little puzzled by Naven's fate. There wasn't anything the party could do to change the outcome of what happens. The way the adventure is written, Naven is just gone again.
So I wondered: what happened to her?
Art by @the-dice-nest
Call me a sap, but I didn't feel right about this helpful and successful, if a little quirky lady being doomed to nonexistence because of her study. So I chose to take on the idea that Naven's experiment scattered her across the multiverse. There is now a Naven in every world, and always has been, and she's a happy-go-lucky student of arcane arts. She'll be super excited to make new friends and still try some weird experiment for some other new breakthrough in arcana.
Here she is on high alert exploring a dungeon. Classic adventuring stuff. Art by @carouselunique:
I also tried her as an artificer for one campaign, in the world of Ravnica. She was part of the Izzet League and fought with a giant wrench and her faithful robotic dog friend, Dyne. Art by @the-dice-nest:
She became a prominent Izzet NPC in a future game that I ran, still doing the good happy work. Art by @mikaila-orchard:
I try to make her show up in some form in every game that I run, to keep up the multiverse idea. On the place of Arcavios, Naven is a professor of history and chronomancy in Strixhaven. Art by @zerozeroren:
I did also have an idea of a "good ending" version of her, where her experiment went off without a hitch and she became a proper and prominent archmage in the land. Art by @honeyhauntart:
But also, there is the lingering danger of that darker reflection. The version who will go as far to end herself in the past to prevent a terrible calamity in the future. Art by @lumidotexe:
Overall, if you hear "Hi, friend!" and see a pair of goggles on a wide-eyed and excitable redhead, you're in for a wacky time.
I can't say Naven is MY character, but I like to think I've given her a new lease on life. Lives? Whichever.
Who's the wolf girl in one of your previous art commissions post? Asking for a friend
you might be talking about my oc diana! she was a werewolf ballerina once, now she's a jellyfish, it's funky having a ton of ocs you don't actually write stories with
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