Dnd character questions 1-60, thanks!
Doin this piecemeal babeyyy
For context: answering all of these for my aasimar grave cleric Kiernan, she's a former pirate and sad gorl
1. why did they choose their class(es)? their subclass(es)?
Well I chose cleric because I thought y'all didn't have healing which wasn't true at all but I'm very happy with it :)
2. before they met their party, what was their main goal?
She was out for #1, get as much money as possible with a side of disrupting rich people. As long as she got out okay it was a success in her eyes.
3. what is their goal right now?
Keep the party alive (and if I'm being honest dispatch some high elves).
4. if they could learn one spell that isn’t available to them at present, which spell would it be?
I want polymorph but I think Kiernan would like something like fortune’s favor or tether essence (”suggestion” would be catastrophic for her personal development, she’d like it though). I have ideas for how to use some later cleric spells if we ever get there >:)
5. do they follow a higher power? what are their thoughts on divinity?
She's a cleric to the campaign's god of emotion, and it's messy in such a lovely way. She has the WORST instincts and only slightly better intentions most of the time and he doesn't really give guidance so much as go "you know those terrible feelings you're having? They're trying to tell you something and sometimes what they're telling you is horseshit but you've gotta hear it to figure that out."
I think she has a sort of double vision of the gods because of how out of reach they were for most of her life vs being lifted out of desolation by a kindly old man who plays so many board games and oh yeah is a god. She's very conflicted about how being a follower of a god will look for her long term (I still think about that conversation with Ardentia where he jokingly asked her if she was proselytizing, it was first of all very funny but also showed really starkly how much she's been walking around like "my god is just Some (really nice) Guy") but right now she's somewhere between debt and devotion, where debt is something she understands and is comfortable with and devotion very much isn't, but functionally the way you act in both is pretty similar, right??? But it doesn't feel like debt as in something she's saddled with but that she's been given something that so defies quantification or repayment that there is very little she wouldn't gladly do if asked. And now I'm just thinking about how that is a position that could really be abused but it's 100% making her better because he came in and went "this thing that you've kept down for so long that's now overwhelming you is YOURS and here's what you can do with it.” She actually cares about disappointing someone for once because he invested in her at her lowest and she's not gonna dig herself another pit. But how do you worship an incredibly powerful man you sit down to play cards with? She’s almost waiting for him to ask something of her but he doesn’t and I think it’s going to take some reckoning for her to figure out what her faith looks like after all of this is over and she has to choose what to do next. (Alex if you're reading this Yes I have made up a bunch of Ardentia lore that may or may not fit with canon it's just been in my head, I wrote this part at 1am)
Also yes her god is Some Guy but it REALLY bothers her that Vorno is meh about Ardentia.
6. which party member do they relate to the most?
Penna, probably. She definitely feels safest with her even though they're very different, and looks up to her in terms of how Penna deals with people. She's probably most similar to Ten but that cross-section is friendly antagonism lol.
7. which party member do they understand the least?
It depends what you mean by understand, she doesn't have a clue what's going on with Bram and at this point is too afraid to ask, but they don't really have misunderstandings. Then there's Ten (I still think it's so funny that I blindly made a character that was going to annoy the hell out of yours and vice versa). It's so delightful, it's like they speak two different languages that just happen to have all the same words.
8. what are three songs that suit them?
Ship in a Bottle by fin--this is absolutely the most representative song for her especially right when the rest of the party found her and honestly listening to it inspired a lot of my thoughts on what Ardentia teaches as god of emotion.
I Was an Island by John-Allison Weiss
I’m having trouble nailing a third one down but a pre-game one is I Get By by Distant Cousins, another I’ve been vibing with for her is Blood On My Name by The Brothers Bright
Bonus: my song for the whole campaign is Promiseland by MIKA
9. do they care about their appearance? how much effort do they put into presentation?
She's vain as hell but also goin thru it right now. I'm having so many thoughts about how physical changes from before she died and after fit into this question and I cannot make it coherent...I think beforehand she cared a lot about appearance in how she presented herself and how that affected her work and life, but in a deliberate way not necessarily an effortful way. She still postures the same but is pretty aware that the way she takes up space is different?
10. how often do they lie? what situations cause them to be dishonest?
She doesn't outright lie super often but is very dishonest through omission and half truths. Very much a "the best lies are based on truth" type. She’s sneaky often though.
