also whos rowerna's patron? whats her warlock pact about?
Oc Info:
Roweena (18, She/Her) is a Gravity Genasi, College of Contracts Bard/Pact of the Fiend Warlock
The kitty hand puppet IS Roweena's patron! She calls them Sprinkle, but they have an actual fiendish name too (I just never picked one and I think they kinda like going by Sprinkle lol). tl;dr is that Sprinkle is actually a Balor that's power is heavily weakened right now and Roweena is helping them while they slowly recover. In exchange for the protection, Roweena gets pact magic! (And because of the bard subclass she has, they have a role in that too. College of Contracts is like the Warlock of Bards, but its homebrew.)
I'll put more intricate details under a readmore, but trigger warnings abound because its not a fun backstory! All of the following will be mentioned, but I won't be doing any intense detail so
tw: human trafficking, torture, kidnapping, non-consensual body modification, body horror (what I would consider, but I'm kinda squeamish about it), more accurately I guess just removal of a body part, death (of a friend, but nobody named).
bonus of Sprinkle's actual form:
I leave a lot of stuff ubder here vague because I flesh out my characters' backstories while I play them in game and we haven't played this campaign yet! Plus I like to leave holes for whoever ends up dm-ing the campaign if they need to weave it into the plot!
So! Roweena was the equivalent of a kpop idol and had freshly joined a group. She was young and very aspirational, so she was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed about everything. (And a good number of girls were in the group. Like the size of Twice, I'd say?)
Anyway, a lot of the girls were decently famous (NOT as famous as Twice lol) and some of the girls in the group (Roweena included) were considered "exotic races" so fucked up freaks with a lot of money were interested in "collecting" them. Thus, the group was kidnapped and set to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Roweena was the mouthiest of the group, since she was too young and spunky to realize the real danger of everything, and she felt very protective of the girls she idolized and had just joined. Because of this, Roweena was tortured as an example. Ultimately, she got so annoying to her captors that they decided losing some of her value would be worth it to shut her up, and they cut out her tongue. It made her unable to sing for anyone that would buy her, but they figured it'd be fine since she wasn't even that well known.
The captors also dealt in other rare creatures that could be sold off, one including a VERY weakened Balor that was chained up in the facility. (The captors had most likely bought them off of a group of very powerful adventurers, not actually felled them themselves.) Roweena showed compassion to all of the creatures that were captured, but the Balor took a specific liking to her because of her blind kindness and talked Roweena into helping them out if they helped her and her group escape.
The Balor was true to their word, being a crazy strong ally even in their weakened state, but there was at least one death in the group because of the escape attempt and multiple casualties. Even girls who weren't injured were heavily traumatized by the event and all but Roweena decided it would be better to completely give up being idols and go into hiding/low profile lives.
Roweena was still dedicated to being an idol and wanted to spread joy and positivity with her music, so she wanted to continue pursuing her dreams solo. The Balor was in no state to travel anywhere on their own and Roweena was at a huge risk for being caught by the same group again (plus at a major disadvantage with no tongue). So the two struck up a pact. Roweena would keep the Balor safe and help them recover their powers. In exchange, the Balor granted Roweena magic she could use to protect herself, and they gave her the tongue of a demon she could use to sing and talk again (hence why her tongue is purple and stiched up). The Balor uses the hand puppet as a "body" to conserve energy and fly under the radar, and can't really conjure up their demon form freely because it takes a LOT of energy. And Roweena gave them the name Sprinkle because she thought it was cute :3
*nods* i see, i see........ is there someone animarina would like more? lahla looks fishy too! maybe them?
Lahla is abrasive to just about everyone (and also acts like she's royalty which she isn't ((yet))). BUT! Animarina would like hanging out with River and Seraphina! They're both sweeties and Seraphina lives on her family's farm, so they get to talk about critters together!! Plus River can bake and both these girls would SCARF DOWN a pastry hahaha
OC info:
Animarina (19, She/Her) is a Half-Triton, Circle of the Shepherd Druid/Feywanderer Ranger
River (15, He/Him) is a Beasthide Shifter, College of Eloquence Bard
Seraphina (16, She/Her) is a Greater Hellhound/Aasimar, Domain of Order Cleric
Lahla (86 - equivalent of like 30-ish in terms of triton lifespan, She/Her) is a Triton, Path of Nature's Wrath Barbarian
anamrina, roweena and sylrel look like a friend group, do they actually get along? :o
they're all pretty close in age, so you'd think! (18, 19, and 15 left to right) but Animarina is a HARD pacifist and the other two are way too cool with death and necromancy for her taste. Animarina gets along with Sylrel well enough when she can keep the topic non-necromancy related. But Roweena is way too chill with murder, it makes Animarina nervous lol.
Also these two city girls don't appreciate a nice, quiet fishing trip. Their yapping would definitely scare all the fish lol.
OC info:
Roweena (18, She/Her) is a Gravity Genasi, College of Contracts Bard/Pact of the Fiend Warlock
Animarina (19, She/Her) is a Half-Triton, Circle of the Shepherd Druid/Feywanderer Ranger
Sylrel (15, She/Her) is a Fey'ri Tiefling, Journey of Harmony Shaman
