It’s been only three and a half months with my most recent D&D character, but I’m gonna be so sad to put her aside. Thank you to @aang-the-last-motherfucker for DMing another wonderful campaign, and for keeping me from choosing a Charisma-based class this time around! ;) (Also to my fellow players - you know who you are <3)
Character details and a brief overview of the story/epilogue under the cut
Natki/Ashes (goes by “Ash), sixteen year old tiefling, Arcane Trickster Rogue, self-proclaimed professional burglar. She ran away from home after her sister left on a journey of the world, frustrated and upset at her lack of autonomy and the lack of attention from her parents.
She adopted a northern accent, followed her sister for three months until her sister ended up on a pirating vessel, at which point Ash trekked her own path, breaking into wherever she could - for money if she needed it, or just for fun if she didn’t.
Her most ambitious endeavor - sneaking into the house of a Deva, one of the leaders of the main capitol city - didn’t go so well, and though she tried to flee she didn’t have the skills or experience to escape the security, resulting in her being sent to the most secure prison available in the land of Dolma, along with a few other unfortunate souls (who, guess what, ended up being her new friends/party members!)
After having their souls tied to a dark ritual to restore a fallen deity, travelling across the country along with a band of pirates and Arafira, Ash’s sister (yes, she joined the pirates - it’s a long story) for three months, and defeating several dungeons, they found the cult trying to restore him to life and sought them out, destroying the altar that had held the ties to their souls and fleeing before they could be confronted by the remaining cultists.
(if that sounds hurried it’s because it’s 3.5 months of sessions crammed into one paragraph xD)
Soul newly freed, Ash travelled with the pirates for a while, dropping off her other friends (Marie, a tabaxi barbarian, and Rory, a half-orc cleric, to Marie’s family and Sixpence, a swashbuckler rogue, and Cici (really long name omitted), a gnome druid/cleric, to Sixpence’s old ship) as they went along. But Ash, feeling rather useless as a pirate (she really doesn’t consider herself intimidating in the slightest) and like she’s third-wheeling her sister’s relationship with the pirate captain (they’re adorable lesbians), made her way back home, despite her misgivings.
Arriving in her hometown, she didn’t find things very different, but having spent several months on her own she learned to see beyond just herself, saw a lot more in the kingdom than she had before. Nearly seventeen after all the “sight-seeing” she’d done, Ash snuck into the servants’ quarters and disguised herself as one of them, trying to find out what the staff thought of her prolonged disappearance, only to find that they’d been told by the king and queen, after a couple months of frantic searching and questioning of the staff, to not worry about it, assuming correctly that she would be back in her own time.
Ash hung around home, secretly sneaking into the kitchens as one member of the kitchen staff or another, hiding out in the library or one of the many secret passageways she’d discovered in her youth. Eventually she showed herself to her parents (a story for another time) and went back to being a princess, though never not a rebel. Grounded for a couple months, she still was able to attend her sister’s homecoming party and sneak out (despite increased security) with the help of Sixpence and Cici, who had stopped by for a couple nights.
Ash never really not in the hang of being a princess, but she did find ways to not be so much of a shit to everyone, as she had been before. She definitely found it in herself to grow up a bit.
Ultimately, my favorite parts of playing Ash were:
1) Sneak attack
and
2) Bantering with my sister, Arafira (the DM PC) during almost every session.
Ash is going to hold a special place in my heart, and I’m so glad I had the chance to explore her character and grow her as a character over this semester.
