Oof friend zone hahaha
Awwww rogarou scared of the sea and bashkar here to comfort him bruh i freaking ship these two

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Oof friend zone hahaha
Awwww rogarou scared of the sea and bashkar here to comfort him bruh i freaking ship these two
Cherie Dimaline on writing a novel steeped in folklore and the struggle for Indigenous representation
Avery the Immortal: Part Six
Mama continues to take care of Avery, and while it sometimes seems like a strange and impossible feat, she starts to see a glimmer of hope in him. Meanwhile, Avery starts to understand grief.
Trans Woman Reader x Male Deity(also reader in second half)
Taking care of Avery is like taking care of the weirdest cat at the shelter. He’s quiet and intense, yet he knows absolutely nothing about his surroundings. He’s an odd one. I’m not sure he’s as old as he claims to be. I’ve met quite a few young mages who claimed to be a centuries-old dragon or whatever, that’s nothing new. But Avery is different, and right now giving him a roof over his head is the best I can do to try and get him to open up.
I have noticed sweets going missing in the house. I usually keep a stash of my favorite snack cakes and popsicles handy, because I never know when the mood will strike, but I find empty boxes in the cabinets. Then I’ll find the bathroom trash can overflowing with the plastic wrappers. Does he think he’s being slick? Is he eating the sweets in the bathroom to hide? Or is he just that odd of a person?
In any case, I enjoy having Avery around, even if he is a weird cat. I’ve been training him to do future readings to bring in money to my own little business. I’ve been doing tarot readings, palm readings, and all sorts of fortune-teller shit since I was in high school to save up money for my transition. Going into the military was another scheme to save money towards it. I can admit now that wasn’t the best idea. Then again, who thinks well as a teenager?
Kidnapper (Rogue Archetype)
The bane of those that value their freedom and that of their loved ones, kidnappers specialize in the capture of others. Whether this be taking prisoners in wartime, kidnapping for ransom or to deliver them to their masters, or even the malodorous act of human (or in the case of games like this, sapient races and creatures in general) trafficking.
The exact purpose these specialists put their skills towards affects their alignment, the only consistency being that they are good at it, using poison, precise blows, or grappling and rope, to subdue their target.
Masters of binding and grappling, these rogues know all the holds to best reduce the struggling of their victim while they bind them, and can quickly and easily learn more.
This archetype also favors talents that focus on ambushing, hiding, using rope, fighting and subduing foes, and of course, connections to the black market.
If you’re interested at all in taking foes alive, the kidnapper is useful in that regard, and it leaves the class features mostly untouched for a wide variety of builds. However, I feel that this archetype also works great for antagonists for many games, given kidnappings role as a tool of villainy.
Kidnapping is a major fear for some people, so I would treat it like one would a lot of other darker subjects, making sure everyone was clear with it before running it in the campaign. Of course, unlike most real-world scenarios, the player characters should be much better equipped to do something about it, whether they are rescuing someone, or captured themselves.
In certain parts of the world, elves are seen as rare and mythical as unicorns, and there are those that take advantage of it, kidnapping visiting elves to be farmed for blood, and in some cases, flesh, for the decadent nobility to use both in mundane or magical rituals, seeking to elevate themselves above the common folk.
A party member ends up knocked out and in the basement of beast traffickers who want to sell them back to the party for ransom. Trying to escape may be possible, but that will mean facing down the kidnappers and certain parts of their menagerie, including a starved owlbear.
Serving a mythic nascent oni lord, Baruffez has spent his career rounding up the various mortal offspring of his master for years. However, when the rogarou discovers what he is doing with them, he flees. Assaulting the fortress of the Oni will require someone with inside knowledge, which Baruffez could provide.
Karmic Monk (Monk Archetype)
It’s well know that the ascetic lifestyle and philosophy of self-perfection is what allows monks to go beyond the capabilities of their race, but while personal harmony is something they all strive for, some monks go further, tapping into esoteric secrets to not only achieve, but manipulate the harmony in themselves, and even exploit the disharmony in their foes.
These karmic monks can subtly manipulate karma itself that is rarely seen out of the fate-manipulating aspect of divination, not only defensively, but also offensively.
While lawful monks can still learn these secrets, it is worth noting that monks of a more neutral philosophy can make use of such abilities, seeking self-perfection through true harmony.
The most basic ability of these monks allows them to respond in kind to the trespasses others level at them. In other words, those that have harmed them with spell or strike are easy targets for the monk’s strikes, and take more damage.
Both spells with moral alignment, as well as the abilities of creatures with a moral essense, have trouble affecting these monks, their harmony resisting such crass effects.
That harmony does, however, allow them to subtly alter how their ki affects their strikes, piercing the resilience of creatures whose defenses are pierced by morally aligned strikes.
In reaction to effects that have different effects depending on the moral compass of the target, these monks can subtly shift how they register, reducing or possibly negating such effects.
They can also empower their strikes with karmic ki, dealing additional harm to foes of various alignments and suppressing the supernatural resilience of such foes if they possess it.
The most powerful among them become nigh-perfect beings, similar to other monks of such exceptional caliber, however, the supernatural resilience that they possess is bypassed not by chaotic or any other such alignment, but rather, but a lack of alignment, making them very resilient to the attacks of outsiders and those who draw upon divine or profane power.
The end result is a monk that is geared specifically to fight against divine magic and outsiders of all alignments. If that appeals to you, you have plenty of potential to work with here. However, their focus on alignments can leave them somewhat underwhelming against more mundane foes. I recommend a modification of the classic approach and tie down build, focusing on divine casters and outsiders, not just powerful foes in general.
One might argue that the karmic monks that retain a lawful alignment might have started out on a different monastic path, discovering the secrets of karma through their monastary’s library and other repository of information. Those that are neutral, however, may have come from a school of thought that specifically teaches the mysteries of this archetype, or else having cast aside lawfulness in favor of neutrality as they gained greater understanding.
Bearing the black and white visage of a serene moonlight stag as their image, the Order of Karmic Truths studies the mysteries of morality and harmony in the land of the Twilight Coast, a land of perpetual night where the living and undead live in an uneasy peace. This strange balance intrigues the order, and they wish to study it closely.
The rogarou mystics of Varun-Da learned long ago that death can come from even goodly sources, so the wolf-folk make sure to trust no outsiders, and some of their number learn to repay violence against them with karma itself, regardless of their motives. Some are born with magical power associated with this, while others train to become masters of the harmony outsiders would disrupt.
While most karmic monks seek to balance themselves, only fighting to correct imbalances in others, others, like Jull Ironpaw, seek only balance through reprisal, and several other students have been sent to the infirmary after he lashed out at them. The grand master is very close to expelling him, but doing so would potentially invite the wrath of Jull’s warlike family.
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline . A middling story, that has so much potential but delivers so little. The central concept is intriguing, a missing man reappears as a travelling preacher somehow connected with a Canadian First Nations creature known as a Rogarou, but the execution is lacking. The characters jump to conclusions and act on nothing at such speed that I felt like I was reading in fast forward, yet so little happened at the same time. It presented itself as myth inspired horror and read like YA yet the scattered sex scenes suggested otherwise. . #empireofwild #cheriedimaline #rogarou #minimonotonebookclub #booksivereadin2021 #booksivedrawnin2021 #booksreillustrated #bookstagram #houlart #houl https://www.instagram.com/p/CPMJMGzhUM2/?utm_medium=tumblr