i don't know enough to know what this means, but i am afraid to ask bc i know it will hurt
this is my current dnd character, Teirsym Stillwater. She was raised in a noble family, and was sent away to be married off because her family caught her sleeping with her childhood best friend (can’t have that, can’t have The Gay either)
She contracted a disease called Dragon’s Blight when she was attacked by an ancient red dragon on her way to where her betrothed lived. Her brother and her both got the disease during this attack.
Dragon’s Blight slowly turns a person more and more draconic, giving them scales, horns, wings, breath abilities, and so on and so forth. it also gives them access to superhuman strength--and in Teirsym’s case, magic.
Teirsym has been adventuring around with her party for the past month or two since contracting this disease. She managed to find her brother, she died for a period of time, there’s been a lot that’s happened.
She also learned that Dragon’s Blight gives the victim a sort of cancer in addition to all this power--since the cells are changing and becoming something new, there’s a sort of metastasis that goes on in her cells that causes...well, a form of cancer.
She learned of this, and has been confronted with the fact that if she doesn’t get rid of this disease, she’ll die. maybe not soon, but eventually. and furthermore, so will her brother, who got infected while protecting her from the dragon.
in the last session, she was talking about her brother and how he needs to be cured of the disease. she even went so far as to say that even if he doesn’t want to be cured, he needs to be, and that she’ll use force to do it if need be.
This obviously comes from a well meaning place, but it leads one to wonder...how many times was her voice ignored in the name of her own good that it became so easy for her to think the same for others and find nothing wrong with it?