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Hi! I love how well you've written Tiller, she's so interesting! She also needs a hug, and therapy!
What I'd like to know is: What's her relationship with her Dragon Mom? How did they finally meet, did they have a tearful reunion, do they still have issues, if their abilities are similar, all that?
Bc having a dragon as a mom is either the coolest or the most traumatic thing ever. Maybe both?
Hello!! Thank you so, so much for your compliments and your curiosity about Tiller!!!! <3 First and foremost, my deepest apologies for the lateness on responding to this. I kept meaning to get to it and, well, time (MONTHS....) simply got away from me. But I'm truly so happy for an excuse to yap about Tiller! I'll put my ramblings under the read more, as well as a little surprise for those interested! >: ]
For most of Tiller's life, her relationship with her Dragon Mom was completely non-existent! She had no clue that she HAD a Dragon Mom until about a few months ago in the campaign timeline. Tiller was raised by her two dads, so she always knew she was adopted, but she only found out later that her dads had traveled to The Sea Dragon's shrine to pray and wish for a child of their own, as The Sea Dragon is a healing and life-giving deity. And their request was answered with Tiller! : D She was a baby literally born from the sea hehe.
Tiller did finally meet her mom, though under dire circumstances. Early on in the campaign, Tiller became infected with a magic-eating curse. We learn later that The Sea Dragon is magically and spiritually connected to all her children, but the connection runs both ways so Tiller passed that infection onto her. Tiller and the crew of The Triumph had to travel back to the original Sea Dragon shrine in Singapore to save Tiller's mom as the infection was eating her from the inside and also causing her to rampage in a spiral of pain-induced mania. (All the while, Tiller remains infected too and is losing the potency of her magic and her health fails as more time passes on). Both Tiller and her my mom would have most definitely died if this curse was not stopped.
LUCKILY!! The party did stop the curse, yippee!!! Tiller's Dragon Mom ate our entire ship Pinocchio-style and so we sailed around in her guts and skeleton and stuff in search of the source. We fought lots of creepy black crystal monsters (that's the physical form the curse takes), and found a huge spiked, growth where everything was centered. The party where able to break it apart and trap the infection in a magic crab box that we got from an extremely creepy person made of crabs (but don't worry about that, that's a whole other story). And so Tiller's mom was cured, as was Tiller and all the children of the Sea Dragon across the world!
The reunion was very tearful. Once The Sea Dragon had her wits back, she was so happy to see Tiller and so proud of her! Tiller had carried a lot of blame and guilt with her through this journey because the infection technically started with her, so she felt it was her fault. But her mom told her that Tiller did everything right by saving her and her siblings, and said she loved her and was always in her heart even before they met. :") This was made more emotional by the fact that my DM contacted my REAL LIFE MOTHER WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE to record this voiceline for Tiller's mom: "Whenever you need me, call, and I'll be there. I love you, Tiller". WHICH IS STILL SO CRAZY TO ME, I WAS SOBBING. Also, The Sea Dragon immediately helped us whoop a kraken's ass, so we really saved her in the nick of time cause we woulda been TPK'ed without her.
So yeah, now Tiller has a cool new mom and like hundreds of siblings she hasn't met. (And two she has met, shoutout to Mizzen and Killick!) They don't really have issues anymore, in fact, they're tighter than ever and Tiller pretty much has a fancy new summon spell where she can call upon her mom for help in extreme situations. Literally got an attack based off of "I'm gonna tell my mom on you. And she's a god. A god who's a Dragon. Eat shit, actually."
As far as abilities go, there are a lot of similarities! They both have healing magic and water manipulation magic (think creating whirlpools/currents, breathing underwater, etc.). And Tiller is a druid so she can wildshape into many sea creatures! (One of which is a sea dragon as well, albeit much smaller. Tiller's mom is like... leviathan size, her tooth is as tall as our pirate ship to give any reference, and obviously big enough to swallow our ship whole without ripping us apart. Tiller's sea serpent form is likeee as big as a very large anaconda or a small car. :3 And they both can talk to animals!
So yeah! Having a dragon mom IS the coolest thing ever, but it was a very traumatic journey to get here bahahaha!
Have a Tiller for your troubles!! And thank you again for the ask! I liked going down memory lane, it's been awhile since I played as Tiller, and it just makes me remember how much I love my darling girl. She's so deeply important to me!!!
My average experience listening to Worlds Beyond Number. If you see me staring blankly at a wall during my lunch break, this is why. (And I love it so much, I love the horrors 😘)
