#kallinos

[crabkick]

First set of characters from an Ancient Greece-inspired Daggerheart game I'm running (shocker!) Prince Kallinos of Nilassa and his royal tactician Magnus, both smiling like they're not about to get reamed out by the queen for some dipshittery or other :)

[eumenicles]

...ἐν εἰρήνηι δὲ δοκεῖτε ἧσθαι, ἀτὰρ πόλεμος γαῖαν ἅπασαν ἔχει

Kallinos, fr. 1

...and you seem as though in peace to lie idle, but, really, war holds the entire land.

[crabkick]

What are Kalinos and Magnus like?

Like what's their personalities and how do you plan for them to interact with eachother and the players?

Kallinos is a very bright little dude, very passionate and clever, and he cares very much for his people and goes above and beyond to provide for them after the death of his king father and the disappearance of his older brother. He can be a bit of a brat at times, a little too hotheaded and sometimes insecure or a troublemaker, but he absolutely means well 9/10 times.

Magnus, meanwhile, is a bit of a shithead. He’s as cunning as a fox and a brilliant warrior besides–but some people say he’s less wily and more duplicitous, that everything he has was achieved through trickery. And we all know that war heroes never become war heroes through anything other than carnage. On the whole though, he’s a pretty good guy, he’s just not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Together they have a pretty good rapport: Kallinos is very impressed by Magnus and thinks the sun shines out of his ass, while Magnus is like "haha yeah you go little dude" and views Kallinos as a protégé of sorts.

As for how they interact with the players, I typically leave that up to improv as my games are very roleplay-heavy and I like to give my players a lot of freedom in regards to how they build relationships with NPCs! At the moment they're going to be servants to the royal house of Nilassa, but like I said, improv is king, so who knows where they'll end up!