Oh my lord he's here
Keeping his design simple cuz he was initially an npc. also hummingboar is friends. (Yap under cut)
So we were having a side quest yesterday. A musical village. It was a fairly easy quest, altho we didn't catch a few hints from the DM lol
Our party were given a musical instrument (in this case, a flute), our task was to bring that flute to a village called Smurfland. On our way, we met The Guide (aka Hermes) deep within the forest and we asked him about Smurfland. He revealed that he knew of the village, he used to live there, yet he refused to elaborate further, saying it's best to not know. Tho he agreed to accompany our travel to the village
Long story short, turns out the village was terrorized by a griffin that HATES, and I mean, DESPISES music of all kinds (hence why the said musical village is devoid of any music or even sound when we arrive. Even the villagers refuse to talk). The bard in our party played the flute which made the villagers horrified, and the sound called upon the griffin.
Yada yada we got attacked, and my character (who's a barbarian) hid behind The Guide like half the playtime because she played the flute so horribly that she pissed off the griffin lol. The Guide helped by playing the flute and successfully charmed the griffin long enough to let the druid in our party talk to it. Something was on its neck and when the druid tried to reach it, the griffin snapped out of its trance
We made very little progress after that due to our bad rolls and The Guide ended up helping us by striking the griffin down, giving him the stunned(? effect. Enough for my character to find a bottle with a note chained on its neck. It was a musical sheet, upon taking it out. And in the end, the bard in our party and The Guide did a duet, playing the song from that sheet and saved the day yayyyyy
Oh and the griffin is our party's pet now, because the druid talked with it some more. We named it Vasaf. And my character successfully persuaded The Guide to join our adventure
The DM revealed later that he's an aasimar bard which.... makes sense. Aasimar is a "heavenly" race, basically. And him being a bard explains his ability to charm easily. I gave him a Laurel wreath as his "halo" and charcoal freckles because those are aasimar's trait iirc