okay so following up on this idea liza @actionsurges kindly concocted a funky little multiclass and we both designed some kids. I would like to present: the Roguadin (rough draft)
vibes (the most important part, obviously): magpie ghost-in-the-machine kid, sad
11 Phantom Rogue/9 Oath of Vengeance Paladin (but maybe not quite that level breakdown idk I didn’t build out a full character sheet)
variant human just cause that’s what liza went with and feats are sexy (would probably start off with Resilient cause I rolled bad stats lol)
this kid grew up in a penal colony/slum with his mom
urchin background, 3 levels of rogue to get the phantom subclass — lots of death, lots of keeping company with the lonely ghosts, etc
there’s a childhood friend in here who’s a big deal in the criminal underworld that desperate living brings and Rogueadin was sort of on track to being their right hand/the ghost in the shadows
they were rescued (or “rescued” probably; I’m not totally sure how consensual it was) out of a life of crime and squalor by a passing person of some religious order and got some Legitimate Schooling (2 levels of paladin)
there was an upheaval! of some kind!! idk it gets fuzzy in here the point is something happened that led them back to doing ghostly deathly rogue things (illegal) and put them back in touch with their childhood friend, now confirmed Criminal Underworld Guy
New Information Comes To Light that drives them to taking the oath of vengeance
criminal underworld childhood bestie??
Congrats you have a vengeance-driven ghost rogue with sneak attack AND smite going around stealing bits of power from dead people on a one-man revenge quest
there is sOME kind of childhood friends to (almost?) lovers to enemies to?? yeah
“revenge is a form of desire”
“oh bitter bitter / to make the pilgrimage and reach the place / and find oneself a stranger”