Prime numbers for the ask game!
THANK you ryn and yes i did have to look up a list of prime numbers to do this. funny story, 1 is not prime! and there’s lots of them so under the cut:
2. Who in the party would your character trust the most with their life?
Bird trusts Faeln, our cleric. Pretty sure every single person in the party would give the same answer.
3. What are your character’s core moral beliefs?
Elodie believes first that people should help each other, and second that all tyrants should be dead.
5. Does your character have any biases for or against certain races?
Bird really does not! She was raised in the very diverse Many Hosts of Igrathad in southern Xhorhas. She does have a particular fondness for orcs because the woman who (mostly) raised her is an orc.
7. Describe your character’s current appearance: clothes, armor, scars they’ve picked up along the journey, etc.
Elodie’s got a cute yellow and brown dress that has her mithril armor under it, Frodo Baggins style. She’s wearing boots, leggings, her lute slung across her back and her holy symbol on a bracelet around her wrist.
11. Describe your character’s current relationship with the player character sitting to your right.
We’ve been playing over zoom so I don’t have a “to the right” so I rolled a d4 to pick. Bird has a deep respect for our paladin, Tanvir--she felt a kinship with him ever since they both got knocked out right next to each other in the very first battle. He’s a little standoffish and clearly dealing with some shit, but when Bird lost control of her werewolf form, it was Tanvir who was holding her and making sure she was okay when she woke up, so at this point she’d pretty much die for him. (And Bird doesn’t know this yet, but I, Hannah, know that Tanvir is the only other person in the party who has been carefully tracking moon cycles.....the full moon is in two days and i am SO excited to see what Happens Next)
13. Does your character ever want to “settle down” with a spouse, children, house, etc.?
Sure, Elodie will gladly settle down! Once King Bertrand Dwendal is dead and Wildemount is free!
17. What is your character’s favorite season?
Bird likes spring. The whole world waking up again :) Plus there’s big thunderstorms, which she loves.
19. Where in the world does your character most want to visit?
Elodie would love to go to Tal’Dorei, she knows the Golden Grin is more connected and respected there and she would love to be in that environment.
23. If your character could go back in time and change one thing about their life, what would it be?
Bird would not get bit by the werewolf. But she’d still run in to try to help the man they were attacking, she’d just be...more careful about it.
29. What are your character’s hobbies and interests outside of their class?
Elodie genuinely loves music, even beyond being a way to contact her secret society. She also is a very good cook and loves to make food for people.
31. what stereotypical group role does your character play in the party? (The Mom, the Mess, the Comic Relief, etc. Optionally: What role would your character play in the “Five Man Band” structure?)
Lately Bird has really been the Mess of the group because we’re dealing with her backstory shit first, apparently. In the five man band she’d probably be the Smart Guy, although it’s wisdom rather than intelligence. no high-int characters here!!
37. What stereotypical role would your character play in a high school AU/if they attended a normal high school? (Nerd, jock, bully, goth, etc.)
Elodie would be the sweet but innocent religious girl with the secret wild side. (is that a common trope? or did I just know a whole bunch of them in real life?)
41. Does your character care about how they’re perceived by others? How do they change themselves to fit in with other people?
Bird really needs people to percieve her as “useful,” as pulling her own weight. And she needs to feel like she actually is doing that, as well. But she doesn’t really care if they like her--9 charisma at work, baby.
43. What is your character’s scent? (Bonus points for a description that sounds like it could be from a bad [or awesome] fanfic.)
Elodie smells like vanilla and wide open spaces on warm summer days. :)
47. How did your character spend their childhood? Where did they grow up/who were their childhood friends?
Bird was a foundling, and raised communally, so she had many people protecting and caring for her, but she also always felt slightly on the outside, as the culture of her village isn’t big on overt expressions of love. But she has many good memories of running through forests and fields with the other kids around her age.
53. What is your character’s favorite spell? If they don’t use spells: what is their favorite personal weapon/combat maneuver/skill/etc.?
Elodie’s been prepping Calm Emotions pretty much every day. She tries not to use it on people without their consent, but she loves being able to make people (herself included) feel better when they’re panicking or upset, and she likes the idea of being able to diffuse situations before they ever turn into combat, although that situation hasn’t arisen yet.
59. Does your character value their own best interest more than the party’s?
For Bird, before the werewolf incident, yes. Now, she values her party members, although she doesn’t value their purpose of “elite Xhorhasian mission squad” like, at all. She doesn’t give a shit about the Dynasty, but she does give a shit about these people.
61. How does your character imagine the way they will die?
Oh, boy. Elodie imagines it too often. Some sort of self-sacrifice--casting Warding Bond or using her Unity Domain Channel Divinity to take way too much damage. Alternatively, facing down a group of Righteous Brand in a hopeless situation and shouting “death to tyrants” in their faces. (god. i love this character.)
67. What is your character the most envious about, regarding anyone in the party?
if my as-a-player theory that Tanvir is also a lycanthrope but has WAY more control over his condition than Bird does, that will immediately shoot to the top, but right now, she just envies Tatyan’s sense of direction and purpose.
71. Describe how your character feels about the party’s current situation/objective/etc.
I’m not even going to TOUCH Everything That Happened Last Session because we still have no clue where we are, but before that, Elodie feels very good about reuniting Skala with their brother because she can see how important it is to Skala and she thinks Skala deserves a win, and she feels SO good about getting to Port Damali and connecting with the other Grinners to take down the Myriad.
73. If your character knew that they were going to die in a month, how would they spend the rest of their life?
Bird would like....climb a mountain. Like, she would ditch everyone in her life and just go be in nature. It’s lonely and a little sad, but she’d be at peace.
79. What unusual talents does your character possess?
Elodie can play a handful of songs VERY well, and she can lie a lot better than people expect of her.
83. How far is your character willing to go to pursue the “greater good”? Do they believe in a greater good at all?
Bird is much more neutral and less driven by goodness than most of my characters, but she does believe protecting and helping people is very important, and she’d go very far for that, even for strangers. Not big on Big Ideals, though.
89. What is your character’s relationship with magic? Are they scared of it, wish to know more about it, indifferent to it?
Elodie loves magic, but believes if you have access to power, you have a responsibility to be using it to help people rather than to suit your own gains or consolidate power.
97. What is most important to your character: health, wealth, or happiness?
For Bird, it’s health, which she connects with being powerful, being capable, being in-control.
