Meet my new DnD character, Oliana Ashcroft (last name stolen from Resident Evil)!
9 Strength, 20 Dexterity, 16 Constitution, 15 Intelligence, 13 Wisdom, 11 Charisma (I am aware these rolls are godlike, I thank RNGesus every day)
She's a tiefling swordfighter who excels at using two weapons at once, namely her two tried and true scimitars! Her skin is purple, and she has silver eyes (with the tiefling black eye stuff)
One day she awoke in the Underdark, with no memory of her prior life or how she'd gotten there. Through looking in a puddle, she was made aware of strange runes carved into her horns in an unknown language. With a lot of effort, she eventually made her way out of the Underdark and made a living as a mercenary on the Sword Coast. One day, she decided to take a ship in Baldur's Gate to another land for a job with a considerably hefty reward. However, the boat got caught in a storm, and she was marooned on an island with 3 others: a cleric, a wizard, and a rogue. Together, they made their way to a village nearby and gathered that upon the island had been set a curse, that none shall enter and none shall leave, thus making their presence supposedly impossible. They also learned of dreaded frost elves who ruled the island and regularly pillaged the towns within. After a small incursion within the tavern, the group decided to spend the night there and head out to another nearby village the next day to gather more information. (End of First Session, more will be added next week)
Also I might eventually make a picrew of her at one point
Meet Polast! They are a frost elf, that uses any pronouns, who seems to be quite cold, but in reality is one of the nicest little cinnamon rolls you could meet. They have no apparent connection to frost magic, so they rely on their adept engineering skills to compensate.
So everyone give Polast a warm welcome!
So about the time I finished my Desert Elf designs, I started working on a series of Frost Elf designs as a counterpoint. Little did I know (but should have expected) that it would be the start of another epic fantasy setting. I now have all these ideas for the story of a Frost Elf queen uniting the fragmented northern tribes against an encroaching commonwealth superpower. I started by designing the Frost Queen and her twelve wives (1 for each D&D class), and in the next post I want to include the Commonwealth general and her twelve officers. @weareadventurers, @fuckyeahheroforgecreations
Part 1: Brides of the Frost Queen
For centuries, the Frost Elf tribes and the Commonwealth have maintained... icy but tolerant trade agreements, with occasional border skirmishes caused by territory disputes or some mouthy, xenophobic merchant. Recently, however, greedy mercantile families in the Commonwealth convinced the council to further open up Frost Elf territory, in hopes of better access to goods like amber, furs, mammoth- and walrus ivory, dyes, and even slaves. Four Commonwealth legions marched north with orders to open up northern trade--forcefully, if necessary.
Despite their guerilla tactics and home-turf advantage, the Frost Elves met numerous defeats and only minor victories, having never before faced the full might of the Commonwealth’s well-trained infantry, multi-role cavalry, advanced magic, and top-notch muskets and cannons. Coupled with lack of unity and coordination between tribes, much of their southern territory was lost within the first campaign season.
During the winter after the Commonwealth legions withdrew south, Chieftain Lialee of the Immianthe tribe arranged a series of marriage alliances between herself and twelve other powerful tribes. Lia loves and dotes on all twelve of her wives, but also expects them to cooperate with each other, rule their tribes wisely, and lead their warriors well. The unity created by these marriages has lead to excellent coordination between tribes, hopefully reversing their fortunes against the invaders come spring thaw.
A skilled sorceress and druid, Lialee became a princess and a powerful mystic theurge at a young age, and by the time she became queen, she was both a political powerhouse and a spell-casting powerhouse.
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Queen Tanila is Lialee’s third wife and is the youngest daughter of the chief of the Heilee tribe. A skilled axe- and spear-warrior, Tani and her tribe are frequently on the front line against the legions. Though she dislikes muskets and cannons, she understands their usefulness and is currently working with her mahouts to mount mortars and falconets on their mammoths’ backs. So far, the animals have been... resistant to this idea.
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Queen Dessielle of the Ravagella tribe tries out this strange new instrument that her warriors captured from a Commonwealth officer. Prior to marrying Queen Lialee, Des used seduction and negotiation to unite under her banner six badly fragmented tribes who were nearly wiped out by Legion VIII. Cornered and suffering heavy losses, her people used a timely blizzard to escape and seek refuge with the Keahice tribe. Now part of Lialee’s court, fellow chieftains and emissaries frequently call on Des to sing, dance, make love, or tell stories. She’s very good at all four.
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Queen Alea was originally a priestess who united the remnants of the coastal Gillen tribe after their chief and his family were wiped out in a series of battles with Legion XII and the Commonwealth navy. She’s frequently led defenses against enemy beach-storming, keeping them from breaking inland but never completely driving them back. Alea’s guerillas scored a major victory a week before the winter storms set in, using explosive-filled rafts to damage and sink a dozen men-of-war moored in a secluded fjord. Impressed with her tactics, Queen Lialee seduced Alea and made her her first wife.
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Disinclined to lead, Queen Chandrelle found herself forced to step up as chief of the Torlee tribe when her brother fell against Legion XIV. Though not great at inflicting enemy casualties, Chan proved adept at preserving the lives of her tribes-people, using deception and knowledge of terrain to get them out of harm’s way. Her greatest victory came after liberating a POW camp, just as the Commonwealth began their march back south and weren’t in position to retaliate. Freeing hundreds of Frost Elf captives was an impressive feat that immediately got Queen Lialee’s attention.
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Heiress to the best dire-wolf breeders in the north, Queen Elisen of the Keahice tribe was lover to Queen Lialee years before the Commonwealth’s invasion. Though her tribe has been relatively unaffected by the invasion so far, Elisen has spent a huge amount of time studying Commonwealth cavalry tactics, combining them with wolf-pack tactics in hopes of offsetting or even neutralizing that particular advantage.
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The Naevys tribe has always excelled at alpine guerilla tactics. Granddaughter of the chieftain, Queen Adrel and her warriors strike swiftly and skillfully from the trees, fog, snow, or even blizzard before disappearing without a trace. But of late those skills have been employed more at evasion than attack--small-scale ambushes proving a mere annoyance to the number of cannons, horses, soldiers, and mages brought by the Commonwealth. By marrying the Queen of the Immianthe, Adrel hopes that improved coordination between tribes can drive these invaders back south for good.
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Greatest snow-flier of the north, Queen Qamara rules the Wyndan tribe. Descended from a clan of winged-elves who interbred with the Frost Elves, one in three children of the Wyndan are born with the power of flight. Unfortunately, this made them a target by Legion VIII, who killed over a hundred of their snow-fliers and took dozens of their people captive. Qamara feels indebted to her sister-queen Chandelle for freeing many of her tribes-mates from captivity. Qam hopes that her marriage to Queen Lialee will help her drive back the attackers and keep safe the rest of her surviving people.
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An alpine ranger since childhood, Queen Shalaevar and the Reyvyre tribe have led some of the more successful ambushes against Commonwealth Legion III. Instead of attacking the main army, the Reyvyre have been hitting the enemy supply trains and reinforcement columns. The fast-response time of the legion cavalry has severely limited their successes, unfortunately, driving off Shala’s guerillas before they could inflict heavy casualties. In the upcoming campaign season, Shala hopes to coordinate her guerillas with Elisen’s wolf-raiders to neutralize any cavalry reinforcements.
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Part of a hostage exchange for a trade-agreement decades ago, Queen Riniya of the Faepetor tribe might possess the best understanding of Commonwealth tactics and mindset of all of Lialee’s wives. Having studied multiple languages during her captivity, Rini has proven a first-rate infiltrator, able to listen in on conversations in common, high elf, orcish, drow, or even infernal. Several times her espionage skills have kept her tribe and others’ out of harms way.
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Despite being one of the most powerful cryomancers in the north, Queen Myantha of the Qingwyn only barely survived an encounter with a well-armed band of dragoons led by a centaur warlock. Buying time for their escaping clan-mates, Qing and several of her guards held a narrow pass for two exhausting hours. Severely wounded and having lost all of her guards, she managed to inflict heavy casualties and was saved by Lialee and Alea. Owing them her life, Qing has rallied her remaining tribes-people under their banner.
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Embracing the Elabalar tribe’s warlock heritage, Queen Amedee rose through the ranks to become adopted heiress to the chieftain. A tribe of mammoth and woolly-rhino riders, the Elabalar were masters at riding their beasts into battle while throwing hex-bolts and magic-missiles at their foes. Unfortunately, this didn’t gain them shit in the face of the XXVII Commonwealth Cuirassiers and VI Commonwealth Field Artillery. Most of her tribe cut to pieces around her by superior gunnery and horsemanship, Amedee only survived by ending up half-buried by her own fallen rhino. Though not pleased at marrying her former rival Lialee, Ame realizes that this is the best hope of being able to drive the attackers from Frost Elf lands.
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Queen Siraye of the Ilipeiros tribe has always been a devotee of arcane experimentation. In the same way that arcane-archers once made up the backbone of high elf armies, Sira has recently started experimenting with using the same strategy to imbue bullets with magical energy. Results have been good so far, but she’s a long way form making it accessible to all of her tribe’s musketeers. Regardless, Sira and Lialee hope these new magics will give the beleaguered Frost Elves new advantages with the onset of a new campaign season.
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Thanks so much for reading, folks! As we speak, I’m also working on minis and discussion for a general and officers in Commonwealth Legion XIV.
My new rogue for a dnd campaign one shot by @gelatoku His name is Jacque Acar (Literally a play on words because it’s like Jack Frost) He is a rich boy in a mafia who is half frost elf and half dark elf. This elf rogue was originally supposed to be Frey but Frey ended up being a bard. Honestly none of my OCs from other campaigns would like him because its like Frey and Fletcher combined but with a trashy attitude. Acadia would just hate him because he is a rogue and she suffers the rogue curse of being stabbed by one. He’s a cutie with a pony tail. I loved my trash son.
Be sure to pay tithe to your local Frost Elf King this Yuletide Season.
Thank you bae for sharin the goods 👌
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