#carthach

[throwusaboner]

Mulling over the addition of a New Guy to the dragonborns au (which honestly might just be the main universe by now)- a Warrior to balance out Fasti's Thief and Ahma's Mage.

So here's Carthach! He was born in the Dushnikh Yal stronghold but abandoned at birth because he's not the chiefs son- he was found as a baby out in the Reach by a Reachfolk couple who were struggling to conceive and raised as their son. So culturally he's much more Reachman than orc. A warrior, werewolf, devotee of Hircine (and possibly Namira? Still ruminating on this), fairly proficient in alchemy/healing/woodmagic despite his focus on combat. Just a happy-go-lucky golden retriever of a wolf man looking for a big pack to call his own. So far he's found a socially awkward little brother and an outright asocial older sister, but! A pack's a pack!

And sure, sometimes he mauls some folks but like. Nobody's perfect!

Bonus bc I'm in some tes discords and was basically stream-of-consciousness messaging them while coming up with this guy:

[the-wright-errant]

The Saga of Hungry the Tyrannosaurus, who showed up at my house one morning.

Carth isn’t good with names.

[ral-across-the-universe]

“So, @ral-across-the-universe, what did you do with the rest of your evening?”

“NUGGET CRIMES.”

[star-across-the-universe]

Say hello to the potato, folks! This is Carth. He's a carpenter and travelling repairman. He's kind of huge, and a pretty cheerful guy. Very polite. He's about 30, give or take a few centuries where he got lost in the woods. 

He lugs around a broken greatsword that he found, which he calls a Pretty-Good Sword, since it's, you know... only most of a greatsword. Its name is Epoch.

Also, he's madly in love with the Goddess of Destruction, much to her continued annoyance. He likes to sing! 8D

[throwusaboner]

another thing of the dragonborns visiting ahma's sister and her kids back in elsweyr. but this time the focus is on the niblings :3

[the-wright-errant]

You lost, Potato?

[the-wright-errant]

"CÁRTHACH, genitive, Old Irish; (Cartagh - from Celtic "karatako-s"; Latin - Carthachus, Carthagus) Loving; one who loves."

Why yes thank you professor I was very productive this weekend, i did... *checks back of hand* ... sssstuff. Stuff which was... definitely NOT drawing my accidental paladin.

[the-wright-errant]

Down and out, but I won’t stay down

Doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down, as long as you keep getting back up. You don’t have to get things right on the first try - or the second. Reach out, ask for help, break the silence, try again. Failing is part of the process, and you’re the only one who can stop you.

Sometimes things just need to burn down and break before they can get built back up better than they were before.