#eldritch lovelace

[amazingmsme]

Who wants to hear some tickly plot points in my future dnd campaign?

I’m in the VERY early stages of setting up my home brew but I have certain enounters, scenes & plot lines figured out. & of course I had to include our favorite thing from ‘round these parts!

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OC Q&A

I’m bored & hyperfixating on all of my children, so I’m opening a q&a for all of my oc’s. Feel free to pop in & ask them anything you’d like! Here’s a basic rundown so you can get acquainted with them

Yernad Delmirev

(Commissioned from @xgeborgenheitx ) Yernad is the crown prince of the island country Zenodrale. He used to be a war general & prevented his country from being invaded, & later moved to travel the world & clear his conscience. He met Naomi and became like her brother & raised her. During a fight, he was killed by death slaads and was later resurrected. He made a deal with the dragon god Bahamut to be his champion & prevent Tiamat from waging war on the living

Naomi Wilts

Naomi is an orphaned satyr who was raised on her own in the woods. Her parents were killed by direwolves, but they managed to tuck her away safely. She became good friends with Yernad while he was passing through, and she convinced him to stay. She saw him die in her arms & she never really got over it. She only recently set out on her own, leaving the woods for the first time

Maria Saldago

Maria Saldago is an aisimar paladin that was raised on a pirate ship. She fell from the heavens as a baby, intended to serve as a knight in a seaside town. The village was pillaged by a band of pirates, and the captain kidnapped her because he thought having an aisimar would be useful. He raised her as his daughter and she is now the proud captain of his ship

Eldritch Lovelace

Who’s my favorite little war criminal? Eldritch Lovelace that’s who! His mom worked at a brothel until the king added him to his harem. Seeing the magical potential he had the higher ups in the castle kept them separated and trained him rigorously. Eventually, the soon to be king got his mother pregnant & executed her for “treason.” He let vengeance consume him, even after he got his revenge by killing the entire royal family & getting away with it by framing the new king. He’s also the leader and founder of a secret cult, The Divine Order. He’s in the middle of waging a fake war with a fake country the cult made up so they can make a mass empire through alliances. He’s winning bestie. He’s on top of the world & nothing can bring him down❤️

Jackson Ward

Jackson is a teifling who was raised in an orphanage and aged out of the system. Despite this, he’s very successful and graduated high school at 15 and finished college before he turned 20. He’s a forensic specialist at a police station performing autopsies. He’s helped solve a good handful of cases since he started working there. He doesn’t really have many friends & is shunned at work for being the “weird guy who works with dead bodies.” He’s definitely had experiences with ghosts while working, & he had to testify on behalf of what the ghost of the victim told him. That was a real rough day in court. Anyway, he’s crushing hard on one of the victim’s sister. He feels guilty about it tho because of how they met.

P.S. Jackson really hates Christmas. At the orphanage they all had to share the toys & nothing was really yours. He doesn’t have a family to be with on the holiday & just works instead. So he’s a grumpy grinch ☹️

MIRS

Mirs stands for Marine Intelligence Response System, as she was originally an AI aboard a submarine. Unknown to her, she was made as a placebo effect & couldn’t actually protect the team of scientists on their expedition. As you can imagine, the mission went awry & there ended up being a traitor who sabotaged the whole thing, killing the entirety of the human crew. Mirs was left betrayed & heartbroken because she failed her only purpose & after a few years, pieces of the original submarine was recovered & her tech was recovered to give her a new body. She has a lot of trauma revolving around the failed mission but she’s living her own life now & is fairly happy

Magnolia of the Water Ashari

Magnolia is a cleric from a temple in a small village that was ransacked a few months prior. Her brother is said to be involved in the attack but she refused to believe it and set out on her own in search of the truth. She joined a small group & managed to save Shroomsville from a corrupt circle of politicians that had the town under a mind spell & had kidnapped all of their children. Since freeing the town, Magnolia set out with her newly proclaimed best friend in search of new adventures

Gregor Schieffer

Gregor used to be a human, but when he discovered the local priest had raped & impregnated his younger sister, he spoke out against the church & their town, only to be cursed for daring to go against their authority. He grew resentful of humanity & the town he once called home, doomed to watch over the very church that caused his family so much grief. Coated in dust and forgotten over time, he awaits the day where he will once be free. (Yeah I just wanted a gargoyle oc because of an episode of Face Off, what of it?)

Ambrosius Johnson

Ambrosius was born in Victorian England and when old enough, opened his own bookshop where he met his sweetheart Angelic. One night, he was mugged in an alleyway & beaten within an inch of his life, during which he was turned into a vampire. Confessing to his fiancé, she broke off the engagement in terror, leaving him heartbroken. After meeting 2 older vampires and turning his sister after she convinced him to do so, they formed a band that would return every few decades after they’ve faked their death. Now they’re a very popular rock band called Mother Suckers & include lots of classical elements in their music. Ambrosius is still torn up over his lost love and many of their songs are about her.

Lilith Shelly

Lilith is a tiefling whose bad luck lead her to where she is now. Her family has always lived in poverty, so Lilith took to deceit & thievery to provide for her family and became a hit man for a crime syndicate. As a blood hunter, she was able to do her job swiftly & easily, until she was framed for betrayal & now there’s a bounty on her head. Living on the run, she had to leave her family behind. She uses a fake accent & innocent persona to hide her true identity, searching for a way to clear her name

[amazingmsme]

Time to talk about my cult leader war criminal baby boy🥺

So this is Eldritch Lovelace

He looks like shit because he’s been through the fucking WRINGER let me tell you!

He’s my newest dnd character & is a high elf wizard, is 120 years old & weighs about 120lbs soaking wet. Dude’s got a strength score of 8 & his arms are limp noodles. But he makes up for it with his smarts & dexterity. A tall man with a short patience

His mom worked at a brothel when he was a child, and the king at the time took a strong liking to her & moved her & Eldritch to the castle so she could be his concubine. They quickly noticed his affinity for the arcane & he fell under the tutilidge of the castle’s most esteemed wizard William Ravensworth. His studies were oftentimes harsh & grueling, especially for a child. But even at a young age (for an elf) he had a hunger for power that drove him to do whatever his teacher said.

They trained him to dish out low level punishments of staff members who disobeyed or were accused of treasonous acts. As such he grew a deep contempt & mistrust for others & knew he could only ever trust himself & his mother.

As punishment or just to make him practice holding spell concentration, they’d make him stand & walk on jagged pieces of shattered glass which resulted in deep, thin scars all over his feet. They would also shoot him with spell after spell, causing a lot of damage until he could dispel their magic.

When he was 80 years old (around 18 for him) the crown prince got his mom pregnant. She tried to keep it a secret from the royal family, but she could only hid it for so long before it was found out. The prince was furious, & fearing what people would say about their soon to be king having an illegitimate child, tried her for treason & publicly executed her.

Eldritch was completely broken after that. He became a husk of who he was, carrying out whatever task they gave him all while plotting his revenge. He was inducted into the Royal Advisory Council and is held in high regards. On his 100th birthday he carried out his plan. He stole the prince turned king’s dagger & slaughtered the rest of the family- save for the king & the youngest princess who was 14 at the time. He charmed the king & forced him to kill his favorite sister while under his control, just for Eldritch to walk in with another council member as a witness.

Eldritch managed to maintain the charm he had on him & forced him to admit to killing the rest of the family in front of the entire council & they scheduled his execution.

With his exceptional skill set, they asked Eldritch if he would carry out the deed, to which he happily agreed to. It wasn’t until the day of his execution when he finally dropped the charm spell & let the fear & regret flood the mind of the man who wrongfully killed his mother.

He’s kind of a jack of all trades when it comes to magic. He knows typical transmutation, fire spells, basic wizard spells. In fact, when he casts fire spells like Wall of Fire & Fireball, his flames burn a white blue. This is because he’s such a perfectionist & lived in fear of retribution for bad spell casting from his teachers. This meant he practiced so much until he had completely perfected this specific craft to produce the purest flame possible. But his real talents lie in the dark arts. He’s very good with dunamancy, blood magic, & necromancy. He’s even made a few spells, which I will dive into later. He started secretly practicing the dark arts with William when he was still young & build a strong respect for this kind of magic. After his mother’s death, he poured himself into this part of his work, reaching out to others within the kingdom & surrounding countries that share his love for darker magic.

Through these relationships, he began to grow a following. His entire life he’s been paranoid that there is a great evil that will come & wipe out the land, and he shared these fears with these allies. He believes that their best chance against this foe is to combine the e forces of their respective countries. He starts a cult called The Order of the Divine Right, whose goal is to force the various countries on the continent to become one, cohesive empire. They have put together many arranged marriages, most of them successfully. Eldritch acts as no one of their match makers and is a beloved friend to many newly wed royals. The couples that don’t really get along bond over their contempt & mistrust of him.

Another way they force kingdoms & empires together is by staging a whole war. They created a fake country from across the sea called Heliskien that is waging war on any territory from the continent, using a mass memory alteration spell throughout the lands to implant knowledge about the country & memories of learning about this place & the threat they pose. However, there is no written record of Heliskien and people from more remote areas have no recollection of this place.

The cult worships the revenge god Hoar and seek an eye for an eye with their actions. Eldritch has caused a lot of blood shed & misery & thinks that the damage he causes is greater than the retribution he gets in return & makes blood sacrifices to his god. What with some of the unhappy couples, the royal family he killed, and the lives lost in his fake war that he brings back to life sometimes against their will, he feels there’s no other way to even the scales.

However, he really does believe in his cause & thinks the ends justify the means. So he & his cult buddies have staged battles for the war, using reanimated corpses as soldiers of Heliskien. Then after the fight, they go through and use necromancy to save the people who fought & let them go back to whatever life they choose.

Now about the spells he created…

Eldritch is particularly gifted in necromancy as well as time manipulation magic, so he used his skills to craft Lovelace’s Reverse Necromancy, which is a necromantic spell in which you reverse time on the victim’s body to a point in time in which they were alive & well. The wounds seal themselves shut as if they never happened and the soul travels back to the body.

Then there’s Eldritch Blood Pool, an excruciatingly painful spell used for interrogation & sometimes executions. When cast, the magic user is able to draw a person’s blood from their body by pulling it out from their eyes, nose, ears & mouth. If the spellcaster is feeling particularly ruthless, they can even pull blood out from a person’s bellybutton. They can bring the victim to the brink of death, and then flood the blood back into the body the way it came out. This spell can also work with inflicted wounds and draw the blood out that way and is less painful. This offers practical use for medicine and healing when used in the right hands. When I ever get to join a campaign with him, I’m planning on someone from the party walking in while he’s using this spell on himself for one of his blood sacrifices to Hoar.

Lovelace’s Self Necromancy is exactly what it sounds like: a process to be able to raise yourself from the dead. The spellcaster must first astral project themselves out of their body before they die and complete the necromantic process of their choosing on themself. Risky to practice but well worth the reward when it pays off. I’m also hoping that when I ever get to play this fucking game that someone else walks in on him in the middle of this ritualistic spell.

This last spell is thankfully more lighthearted than the other ones. It’s kinda like monsters inc. when they use laugh energy instead of screams. Eldritch has always heard the phrase “laughter in the best medicine” & took it to heart. People are full of potent life energy & it makes sense that they generate that energy when they express such levels of joy. Which is why he created Lovelace’s Energy Extraction. When cast it turns laughter into a tangible glowing energy that can be stored in bottles and used to strengthen spells & potions. It can also he used to heal the body: if you’re sick you can add a spoon or two to a drink or on food & it will cure you, or you can rub it into the skin like a lotion for deep cuts & bruises. You gotta be careful not to use too much tho, it can really dumb you down & make you super giggly for a while if you drink too much of it. & if you use too much on your skin it will make it softer & more sensitive. Eldritch likes to pair this spell with Tasha’s Hideous Laughter, making his opponents prone to attack while also restocking his supply. The energy glows warm colors like yellows, oranges, reds, & pinks rather than cool colors like blue, green & purple.

He & the other cult leaders wear ceremonial masks when they all meet up to conceal their identities. The masks are golden animal skulls that are intricately carved & they wear black robes. Regular cult members wear their robes with a featureless gold mask with eyes & a mouth cut out. Eldritch’s mask is a golden ram’s skull with delicate carvings.

He is hopelessly in love with one of the other leaders who he first started the cult with. Her name is Zisabel & she always denies him the luxury of putting a label on what they have. She claims their work is far too important to let their feelings get in the way but they can indulge in their needs. She toys with his emotions & dangles her love in front of his face, so close but always out of reach. He’d do anything she asks for the chance of becoming something more. He knows the relationship is toxic, but he can’t help himself & believes this is what he deserves.

Ok now that I have your attention it’s time for the fun light hearted stuff (if you know, you know what I mean ;) )

You’re crazy if you think this man isn’t hilariously ticklish, don’t you know me by now? Fools.

I have a chart filled out with his spots but I think I want to change a few places but he’s ticklish practically everywhere. His worst spots are his ears/neck, hips, knees, hands & armpits.

His tummy is also a really bad spot, especially on his waistline.

His hands are unbearably sensitive because of how often he handles laughter energy for spells.

His own laughter is a bright & vibrant pink & if added to a drink gives off a subtle strawberry taste. His laugh is very loud and high pitched & seems out of place for such a stoic man. It can border on shrill hysterics if you really get him going. But this is not the laugh you hear if you tell a funny joke. Pretty much any time he laughs it’s fake. From a young age he was taught to control his emotions & reactions & was told multiple times that his laugh was “unbecoming” for a respected wizard. So he found a smooth & charming laugh to use when attending court or was invited to a ball. But after his mother’s death, he hasn’t been able to genuinely laugh or cry and any time he does, it’s forced so he can keep up appearances. He’s keenly aware of when people around him are laughing or crying so that he can match their emotions.

When he gets too sad he casts hideous laughter on himself so he can get some serotonin & release all the bad thoughts clouding his mind. He’s embarrassed by his real laugh tho so he only does this when he’s alone. & he thinks that it’s pathetic that he has to resort to such great lengths. He does have an arsenal of shitty puns & jokes for this spell & he acts like he’s the funniest person ever & that only he can make himself laugh cause he’s just that funny. & since he’s so skinny & weak if he gets himself in trouble he’s like “you wouldn’t beat me up, I’m just a funny little guy! You wouldn’t punch a funny little guy!” Do not trust that, he is a bastard man & deserves that punch (& if he’s being completely honest with himself he wants you to punch him)

He’s definitely used his laughter energy spell & tickle torture against people who’ve committed minor offenses. He loves when he gets to do this & is a downright devious ler. He loves to tease about what color his victim’s laugh turns out to be & teases them about their reactions. His fingers are so dexterous & quick so he can switch from place to place without any chance for the lee to stop him or escape.

While he doesn’t bother hiding how much he enjoys dishing it out, he’s much more shy about how much he likes being on the receiving end. He acts like it’s childish & beneath him but he’s so starved for affection he really can’t complain that much. But he’s rather die than ever admit to liking it & pretends he’s too evil to ever enjoy something so innocent.He may be a ler leaning switch but he’s a switch nonetheless. My guy is just very sad and needs a good laugh. I hope y’all enjoy reading about him as much as I loved info dumping about my newest oc. 

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If anyone wanted to talk about my dnd ocs… it would make me very happy

I just have so much lore & no one to share it with. The cult subplot of my campaign is gonna go hard & Yernad’s whole overarching storyline is just immaculate

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Lovelace’s Self Necromancy

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Wxudt lussid lisduas kx, piy Xy ztuqq ryxue pyxx.

Wxudt lussid lisduas kx, piy Xy ztuqq ryxue pyxx.

Wxudt lussid lisduas kx, piy Xy ztuqq ryxue pyxx.

Wxudt lussid lisduas kx, piy Xy ztuqq ryxue pyxx.

Common translation for abyssal chant:

Sweet god of balance and retribution, guide my blade straight and true. May my hands not quiver nor falter. Tether my soul in the astral sea so that I may resurrect myself from death’s vice. Blood of mine and ash of Phoenix, I shall rise from thee. Death cannot contain me, for I shall break free.

Death cannot contain me, for I shall break free.

Death cannot contain me, for I shall break free.

Death cannot contain me, for I shall break free.

Death cannot contain me, for I shall break free.

Most of the sigils scribed on his body are necromantic but not precise or detailed. Others I just made up. They are painted on his skin with a thick mixture of Eldritch’s own blood and the ashes of a dead phoenix.

You must use verbal, somatic, and material components. Material components consist of 6 candles, a raven feather, 3 pounds of phoenix ash, 1.5 gallons of the spellcaster’s blood, and an unused dagger.

Using the ash and blood mixture, paint 6 diamond shapes clustered together to form a 6 pointed star on the ground. Draw a circle around it to connect all the points. The circle must be large enough to fit the caster if they lay down and spread out a bit. From there, draw circles decreasing in size until it reaches the center. Each ring should be a foot apart. Set a candle at each star point and light them.

Place yourself in the star’s center and pull out the raven feather. Bite off a piece and swallow it. Dip the underside of the feather in the mixture and reach behind to stick it against your back vertically along your spine. Paint the runes and sigils on your body in the designated spot. Once complete, grab the dagger and draw the blade along your jawline from ear to ear as you begin chanting in abyssal. Slice just underneath your ribs on both sides as you continue the chant. Each cut must be methodical and exact. As you reach the end of the chant, place the dagger on your chest in the center of the eye painted on your chest. As you push the blade through, astral project out of your body while still driving the knife through your chest. Your spirit must then resurrect its own body from the spirit plane. You may use any necromantic spell to raise the dead, though it is strongly advised you use the method you’re most comfortable with.

Once the initial ritual is complete, you can astral project out of your body when you reach 5 hit points or below and once the final blow is dealt, you can resurrect yourself. If you’re really low and don’t want to chance it, astral project and finish yourself off so that you may come back at half health.

[amazingmsme]

If I made a post info dumping about my evil dnd oc that I’ll probably never get to play at this rate would anyone care? Would anyone read it?