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[cptapathy]

Just realized from your Red Bubble that the characters in your banner and pfp have names. What's their story?

Hello! I have discussed Vanya my DnD character before in this post

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💬 0  🔁 10  ❤️ 6 · As as we get closer to the founding of the coven we get MORE ARTWORK! This time of Vanya and her father As you can see,

long story short, she's a witchy gal in a polyamorous coven, she got her good end and lives happily in my head with too many children

I'm gonna go into a bit more detail about her here

So Vanya was very much me playing with a doomed by the narrative character, specifically a doomed by the narrative character who faces her inevitable end with compassion and acceptance. This does not mean she just gave up about it, she was searching for a way to break her curse and be able to live a normal life, (and eventually found it through a true polymorph spell) but rather she was prepared to fail, over and over again.

I'd like to reference a particular scene in the DnD movie at this point because I think it echos her attitude

We must never stop failing, because the minute we do, we’ve failed. None of us here can say our lives have gone the way we had hoped for. Holga. You left your tribe to be with a man who left you because you were so upset about leaving your tribe. And if you quit now, that’s in stone! Same with you, Simon. You’re a petty thief masquerading as a pettier sorcerer. You gonna go back to your show? And, Doric, you have integrity, and I am sure the last thing you want to do is tell the Emerald Enclave that you had a chance to save them but you walked away. Me? I’m the champion of failures! I lost everything that ever mattered to me and it was all my fault. You want to know who really killed my wife? I did. I decided we deserved a better life than a Harper’s oath would allow us. But I didn’t know that Red Wizards marked their treasure. I led them right to our door. I didn’t even have the good luck to be home when they got there. I failed the Harpers, I failed my family, I failed all of you. Which is exactly why I can’t quit.

some might say martyr complex, and that's kinda true, but much like being paranoid when they actually are out to get you she has a martyr complex but she is actually doomed.

anyway, her motivation is something I hold dear and kinda wanted to stress test, so she is, well, is almost entirely compassionate. Everything she did, she did for the sake of love and compassion. breaking the afterlife? It was broken to begin with. Abandoning the village? She couldn't look away from those they cast aside. Ending the life of an ancient being that kept a civilisation safe? It deserved to have a death that it wanted.

Early on in the game an NPC asked her if she would want to live forever, and she said no. because it was the limits of life that made it beautiful to her, and I'm glad that through everything, all the tests and challenges to that belief she held firm. even to her detriment. even to the detriment of hundreds of people.

There is something important I think about being forced to assess your values and finding which ones break and which ones hold strong. She found that she was more selfish than she thought, but her selfishness wasn't to do with living longer or having more money or power. Rather her selfishness was getting to be with people that she loved, it was the people she loved having the ability to live full lives. And though she took more for herself and allowed herself to be more selfish always that principle of "letting" people die held strong, she was always in favour of freedom to choose for yourself what life you get.

Kinda wish I'd been able to do more with herbalism but the system wasn't built for that (the final straw for me to go DnD is kinda crap I need other systems for other games)

[rebockey]

Silly art full of dnd campaign references that only an audience of 10 will fully understand. If that, tbh. Even I don't fully understand what happened here.

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Please don't make me do an image descriptio-

We're in the mancave of the Creature of the Deep, an Aboleth overlord of the passage of dead, aka Father or Dabby to the cool above-table kids. Reclined on a sofa that probably smells, Dabby plays the playstation with Sigrid, a monster hunter Ranger-turned-Fathomless Warlock who sports facial war paint, tribal tattoos and scars, and a t-shirt that reads Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me. She has lil pink sockies because she deserves pretty things. From Sigrid's outrage and the smug look exuding from the Aboleth's three eyes and huge toothy grin, it looks like Dabby's winning what is probably FIFA considering the green glare from the TV. Which is impressive, considering he's also smoking a joint, waving a cap that reads Kiss My Bass, spilling a bowl of crisps, dropping a Queen coin in Sigrid's drink, generally wiggling gleeful tentacles, and crushing a beer can over newly-employed Reika, a dark elf blood hunter who defends against the beer spillage while playing darts. She's looking great considering she's dead. And a werewolf. Around the room are references to the campaign including a wanted poster of everyone's favourite undead friend Qwyn, a Jaws poster (signed by Jaws of course), and a book written by Asmodeus on 'How to Win Conduits and Influence Mortals' resting on a stone table that's inscribed Property of Bardh Museum. How are you doing, listener? Had enough yet? Sit tight, about 40% more to come. A bonsai tree provides the only semblance of life in this room while a model ship with golden sails brightens up the place under an equally bright neon sign that reads 'My Cave My Rules'. Stalactites drip into buckets and make you realise just how smoky the room is and how dank and damp the walls and floor are - and is that a black humanoid cat creature peeping through a crack in the wall? Why yes it is! That's Moonlight-Through-Rain who explored some faint archway runes the last time she was having a near death experience. And by exploring I absolutely mean chipping through a wall out of curiosity rich on the hubris scale. But it's fine, since Dabby has since installed a bolt on the runic arch so there's no letting that curious kitty into the eclectic scene. There's also a rug here. Ocean colours. It doesn't have a joke, I just wanted to fill a space.

[cryptbabe]

“And Symbaroum fell into dreams, asleep.”

[olovs]

A Dungeon Master in the forest of Davokar. #Symbaroum

[cptapathy]

In the tags of a recent reblog you started to go into the lore of your icon, you had me at "Demon who's in a polyamorous relationship with a viking and a witch". So who is your icon? And would you do me the honor of telling me more about their lore?

Child of corruption,

destined to fall

The alchemists daughter

Abandoned and small

Past claimed by flames

And death and destruction

A future of danger

yet heart open and welcome

With lives on the line

Her mind held her tongue

Her lover was lost

When her feelings were young

Doomed to end

Yet others died first

She blackened her soul

To break their curse

Her family reforged

Her love kindled new

Her future in sight

Her drive renewed

I'm gonna edit this post on my PC when I get home from work for like layout and more art

Alarë Awarthiel meaning she-who-grows daughter-of-abandon

Later Vanya meaning fair or beautiful which was a name suggested by her witch girlfriend

She is a traditionally beautiful woman, with dark purple skin, long flowing brown hair, leathery wings, cloven hooves and a dump truck of a rack and arse. She underwent a bit of a corrupted transformation and her hands are now distinctly more claw like with glowing infernal tattoos up her arms, she has glowing magenta eyes and a dark scar across her face.

Are you ready for a (heavily condensed) lore drop, because this is a big ol lore drop below the cut.

First a bit of background, in this setting use of magic or "sins" corrupts a soul, functionally this means if you cast too many or too powerful a spell you risk becoming corrupted, or if you go about killing people. Get too corrupted, and you turn into a monster.

No One really knew how tieflings came about but, the were always more vulnerable to corruption and would almost always become monsters when they were in their mid 40s or younger. Usually the transformation would occur due to strong negative emotions. (Alarë was not aware of this curse)

Alarë is a tiefling, on her fathers side, she grew up in a small village where her father was the village alchemist and she took to botany and alchemy readily.

When she was 15, her mum died of a disease and her dad, broken hearted, became a monster. Alarë killed the monster that was her father to protect herself. She then ran away and for 6 years was a travelling alchemist, before heading north to find the origin of her curse and to maybe stop it.

On her journey, she met her two girlfriends

Sigrid arnaulf, city guard, turned eldritch ranger. OC of @rebockey

Sigrid is a muscly boat building warrior who is trying to figure out who/what to listen to and how to find her own voice. (Has very recently, it seems, come into her own)

Sigrid has bright red hair which has been shorn so short on the sides, although she used to have long braided hair and wode markings in various places across her body

The other girlfriend, Oksana Bosko, OC of @primalsavagery

Oksana is the weird, little, witch boy who hangs around and is also a midwife. She is blunt, argumentative and "off-putting" but an excellent medic.

Oksana has shock blond hair which has also be cut away at the sides and has tattoos of the phases of the three moons all across her body. She is also dog.

Together the three of them are founding a witch coven very soon to become the "Sisters of The Shifting Seasons"

So that's the light lore and descriptions now for the story

Alarë came to the forest with this group, she was head over heels for Sigrid pretty instantly, she was strong, kind hearted and friendly. Honestly kryptonit to gaining Alarë's affection,

Oksana was a bit different at first Alarë was afraid of Oksana, she was blunt and unsociable which had been a red flag in the past but eventually she began to see how much Oksana cared about everything and that melted Alarë heart

Oksana was murdered by another member of the party (after Oksana went werewolf and almost killed and definitely infected said party member) and Alarë became so enraged that she struck down the other party member and partially transformed into a monster her hands growing into claws, the markings on her arms in a demonic language appeared and her eyes began to glow.

For several weeks (IRL months) they did the oblivious lesbians thing, and were just pining at one another with moments like "you can share my tent if you aren't comfortable sleeping alone"

Together with the group she went to the home of some necromantic hags hoping to bring oksana back to life, the hags were unable to aid but in the end the barrier between the living world and the dead was broken and be returned Oksana's soul to her body

After her transformation Alarë started calling herself Uvanima, meaning monster, Oksana wasn't particularly happy about that and suggested Vanya instead.

When they reunited with Sigrid, she had been cursed with an uncontrollable desire to drink blood, so the other two stepped up to help her deal with the impulse

"We can let you feed on our blood,

we have a blood letting kit,

it's hot,

I mean,

not a problem"

Shortly after that the three began fucking on Sigrid’s birthday!

Since then they have formed their proto coven (this Wednesday is when it might be official) with Oksana being the medicine witch, Sigrid being the handywitch and Vanya being the homeywitch? (Cooking and keeping the Inn and making potions and stuff)

It's a big ol' chunk of text but I have been the soul of brevity in this description there's so much more to everything.

Thank you for asking and giving me the opportunity to splurge about my blorbo

[cptapathy]

I was the change I wanted to see. Here's some art of a butch in a suit (minus the blazer)

The butch in question is Sigrid, the DnD character of @rebockey

[cptapathy]

New stuff for my DND character

[cptapathy]

My OC Vanya in the woods being all natural like