Fibbonaci numbers for Erwyn?
Answered 1 (and I suppose, answered 1 again)
2 - Who in the party would your character trust the most with their life?
Ooh hm. Different people for different reasons, and really all of the party in different ways. Kriv and Voski are the two with healing abilities though, which have been pretty critical in saving his life, and Voski of course was the one who cast the resurrection spell to bring him back to life. They might be the biggest two just for those practical reasons.
3 - What are your character’s core moral beliefs?
Much of his life philosophy centers around kindness. He wants to help individuals and figure out broader ways to help the world – though one of his firm beliefs is that small actions and helping even one person are important and have a massive impact.
While he wants to get to the root of the planar problem that’s plaguing Ashona, he’s very much a “sparks of hope in the face of the darkness” kind of guy. Maybe because so much of his own life has fallen down around his twitchy ears, but even in the middle of what we’re learning may be an apocalyptic event, he’s still largely focused on the stories and needs of individuals, and were he faced with watching the world end, he’d be dedicated to fighting and helping the people around him to the bitter end, even if it became clear the situation as a whole wasn’t something that could be fixed.
5 - Does your character have any biases for or against certain races?
Not really. As a high elf from a more isolated community he definitely grew up with some messages of semi-superiority, but more in a “we have powerful gifts” way than one that was all that disparaging of other fantasy races. And he’s lived outside of those influences and among really diverse communities for so long now that any of that has faded away entirely (though really, I don’t think Erwyn is someone that viewpoint ever really resonated much with anyway)
8 - What location encountered in the campaign has your character felt the most “at home” in, or just generally liked the most?
Funnily enough despite our circumstances, he’s pretty intrigued by the Faewilds. He basically grew up hearing fairytales mixed with real history about the place as a kid, because it’s such a critical location in elven history – it’s where the elves lived after the Seldarín realized they couldn’t remain in Arborea, with its overwhelming divine presence and environment, as mortals, all the way until they migrated to the Material Plane and experienced the high/wood/drow schism due to disagreements about how to survive in the new environment.
Seeing the Faewilds, for him, is both a piece of history and I think a moving experience in a lot of ways – I imagine since the elves still have some fae ancestry in them that reflects significantly in both their biology and their language, there’s something about the magic of the environment and the resonance of the plane (a concept that our DM and I have talked about as a significant part of Erwyn’s horizon walker abilities and thus something he’s even more in tune with than the average elf) that feels inviting and nostalgic, even for the elves of the Fifth Age, like Erwyn.
13 - Does your character ever want to “settle down” with a spouse, children, house, etc.?
Not really. He’s not exactly the marrying type and I think would struggle with the responsibility of raising kids for a number of reasons. He certainly might eventually become a little more sedentary than he’s been for the last few decades, particularly as he ages seeing as he still has potentially 600 years of life ahead of him, but that still probably wouldn’t be for hundreds of years unless a very particular opportunity presented itself.
21 - Does your character have any noticeable scars? If so, what are their stories?
I mentioned a number of his scars in the appearance question earlier, but to specifically focus on them and give a little more detail. These are also just the prominent ones – he’s reasonably scarred up in smaller ways all over, just from living a dangerous and outdoor lifestyle for so long
His most significant scarring is a huge, knotted mess of heavily scarred skin that stretches from his right shoulder all the way down to about his shins on the same side. They stretch a good way across his torso and upper legs as well. The party has caught glimpses of them on occasion, mostly when Erwyn has been seriously injured and they’ve ended up exposed, but he hasn’t been willing to talk about their story
He has another scar that I’m not sure the party has seen, but it’s a strange little spot on his stomach area that looks almost as if it was corroded and weirdly healed. That one also has an undisclosed origin
There’s also, of course, the scar from when he died. Since he didn’t actually get directly hit by Rose’s dragon’s breath and it was instead channeled into him by fae magic, it doesn’t appear as ice damage across his skin – instead, it’s a spot over his heart that grew there as it stopped, that has the sheen of ice and appears as a sort of ragged snowflake pattern that branches out in cobwebbed lines that almost look like Lichtenberg figures across much of his torso
34 - What does your character admire and dislike the most about the player character sitting to your left?
Oh BOY, well given the logic I used for these more physical space-oriented questions, that would be Voski which is a really complicated one to answer.
He thinks that she’s an incredibly powerful magic user for sure, almost definitely overestimating her abilities but certain in the assertion. He also admires her practicality and has told her on multiple occasions that he really values her opinion in group discussion and decisions because he thinks they need someone with her opinions and ideas to be successful. Her ways with people absolutely dazzle him because he’s not the best at that sort of thing himself.
However. She baffles him. He looks at her and sees someone who, at great risk to herself, performed the ritual to bring him back to life, and who he is positive is a better person than she presents herself as, and yet sometimes she makes decisions that, at the very least, he just can’t understand. Erwyn has a very black-and-white vie of morality wherein he tends to assume someone who he knows is a Good Person must think similarly to him in that they would make as many kind and generous decisions as possible. So being in a group where – and Voski isn’t the only one who confuses him this way – there are people he’s seen be the epitome of his definition of Good but who are affiliated with crime, or make seemingly selfish decisions, or other things he wouldn’t expect a Good Person to do, is really challenging some of his views on morality.
That said, on the whole the positives really do outweigh the “negatives” in his mind. Erwyn’s opinion of Voski is not only positive but genuinely admiring, and he’s frequently a little awed by her and her abilities. Which is interesting, given their wildly differing personalities, but do I have some suspicions that the two of them have a little more in common than appears on the surface.
