Thornrambles about D&D
Played Sivuro for the last time today. I’m really excited for next week (when we resume the campaign I normally DM for that group!), but in a short adventure you get so many ideas about a character that you don’t get a chance to share. So I’m gonna do a ‘ten facts’ post for Sivuro, on this day of the Last Time Playing Him! So that I can get some ideas out of my head and into written form for Posterity.
1. His parents are called ‘Frostenglim’ (’dad’, he/him) and ‘Resonotes’ (’pa’, they/them or sometimes he/him.) The former taught him to manipulate ice and snow, the latter taught him to play the pan flute.
2. His listed flaw was ‘I am never satisfied with what I have, I always want more’- while his bond was ‘I want some sense of home and stability more than anything.’ It was a fun mental conflict, I like traits that almost seem to contradict each other (in this case, resulting in a character who would probably never be truly Content even if he got The Thing he felt he wanted more than anything), so I should absolutely do this more often.
3. His parents were a little disappointed he didn’t favour winter like they did. Sivuro actively despises the winter state, as it doesn’t feel like ‘him’ at all- a feeling which reinforces the sorrow typically associated with winter and ultimately means he gets stuck in that state for longer when it happens. He is spring-dominant and under ordinary circumstances only shifts between this and autumn.
4. He has a pin-up tattoo of a djinn he had a Thing for on one bicep, and also (hi party, I almost told you this for the HAHA factor but then never got around to it) found the party’s barbarian Ford pretty attractive. Sivuro thought Ford was the epitome of what he imagined a Good Person on the material plane to be, doing things selflessly for those he loved!
5. The majority of his class-abilities are due to him learning to hold his own against fey as a youngin, i.e. by moving fast to avoid being hit, and being able to fight back physically when needed. The elemental stuff he deliberately sought out and learned himself, hence me flavoring him ic as more of an elemental mage than actual monk.
6. The archfey he served is called Mountain’s Shadow. Summer’s Delight used to serve the same archfey...no idea if they sponsored her attempt to Ascend and become an archfey in her own right, or if she undertook this of her own accord, but I doubt Sivuro knows either and it’s a fun thing to keep ambiguous. Fey are weird and mysterious and all that.
7. His general reaction to being talked down to came from the idea that he was used to being treated like he or his opinions didn’t matter (at least, in comparison to ‘real’ fey- he was something akin to a courtier, sure, but as mortals I doubt he or his family could ever hold as much sway as the actual fey.)
8. ’Lhee’ isn’t really a surname, it denotes an elementalist. ic anyway- ooc it was a holdover from an older, similar character concept I never used, who was humorously called ‘Sivuro Gwacamo Lhee.’
9. A section of the character sheet was dedicated to general Thoughts on the other members of the party. Olga confuses him, as some aspects of her seem friendly and others frightening (even if she makes the BEST FOOD EVER!!!) Requina is very straightforward- he likes her because she said he was pretty and gave him a nice makeover (and later let him stay at her house for a time, Olga offered too but he was defs gonna go for Requina.) Richard seemed like a fun guy, and Sivuro wanted to ask him about trying the booze he kept peddling some time after the adventure was through. He was afraid of Ford as he knew how easily the man could kill him if he found out what he did (but was less afraid after Ford simply asked him to see the quest to un-donkey-fy his sibling through), and had a lot of conflict and confusion about Rosslyn. xD Which again, was easier once they resolved some stuff and Rosslyn was un-donkey-fied.
10. Sivuro is an extrovert, he really loves people and would love to have a big bunch of friends! Unfortunately for him (and everyone else), he is also kind of a jerk, and subject to the strong emotions characteristic of eladrin (particularly those with little to no exposure to worlds beyond the feywilds.)
Sivuro spent a lot of the game either crying, being too distressed to even talk, or on the other end of the spectrum being far too overjoyed at a party member giving him a simple makeover (which was VERY SWEET btw and I will treasure that moment in my heart forever. </3)