listen i've been calling my solo d&d campaign "The Voyage of the Shapeshifting WilderNess" as in Wilder (pause) Ness instead of as one word since i started the campaign and rolled the title from a table of random quest name combinations (all rolls above 90??)
but literally just tonight reached a part of my campaign where i got to explore the characterization of a five dimensional imaginary wolf manifestation of the wild part of Nature (the part that bites you if you dont respect it enough) called the Wilder for the first time and found it--
softer than i'd imagined?
like the interaction was between the Wilder and a PC that houses the Wilder within his body (it's Cyrus lol)
and Cyrus had been the Wilderhost since he was nine, so i always figured they had a good working relationship, right? i'd established in the beginning that Cyrus had taken really well to this role, so it just made sense that they were at least- friendly? maybe not friends per se but as amicable as a young adult and a force of Nature could be.
but here's the thing: i had hardly thought about the Wilder beyond that initial pitch idea i gave above for the first four (lengthy!!) sessions until i showed my partner the first interactions i've written with the Wilder (as of mid session five) and he was like. i love how the Wilder is obviously very fond of Cyrus.
and i said oh no worlf father figure alert
which, in this scenario, doesn't mesh well with the biting you aspect of the Wilder
so i thought to myself....well isnt there another side to the forest?? besides wildness and danger and respect, does the forest not also cradle? does it not nurture?
wouldnt there then be another side to the Wilder, which is the literal embodiement of the forest?
and of course there is...! and its name, i found out tonight, is the Ness
the WilderNess!!!!!!!!
