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Aurealia Silva's Backstory wrote:

Eugeni Silva's father, Viorec Silva, lost his brother in the initial attack by the Mercantile League on Sandpoint long ago. It left him bitter and full of rage. He led his young wife, Maria, away from Sandpoint and fell in with a clan of Sczarni. They wandered up and down the Lost Cost living the life of rogue Varisians. Eventually Maria became pregnant and in 4692 AR Eugeni was born. When Viorec saw that his son was covered in fur he wanted to abandon the baby. Maria begged him not to kill her son. Unwilling to potentially lose his wife, who he still loved at the time, Viorec consented to keep the baby. But only with the agreement that Eugeni would never leave their wagon.

The first two years of his life were probably the most pleasant of Eugeni's childhood. He spent each day with his mother in their house wagon, enjoying the love of her tender care. Eventually he became a rambunctious toddler, and keeping him pent up became impossible. One day he discovered how to open the door to the wagon, and toddled out into the middle of camp during dinner time. Viorec's family had already become well ostracized from the rest of the caravan since Eugeni was born, and upon sighting the furry beast they called a son, the rest of the group treated them even more like pitiable freaks. Viorec had turned more and more to hard drink as a balm for his pride since Eugeni was born. That night, in a drunken rage, Viorec beat Eugeni savagely for daring to leave the wagon. He threw the young boy in with the troupe's vicious guard dogs, saying that since he looked like a dog, he could live like one too.

When he was still young Maria snuck Eugeni from the camp, and that was the last time the arch-mage to be saw his biological mother. Viorec was enraged when he found out that Maria had given away ‘his son’, even though the only thing that Viorec had ever shown Eugeni was cruelty. He blamed Maria for Eugeni’s existence, and for ruining his life in general by being a ‘beast-blooded whore, when all he wanted was a wife’. As revenge for Maria daring to challenge his control, Viorec hatched a wicked plan.

The next time the sczarni clan made their way up to Riddleport to fence their most recently stolen goods and enjoy the proceeds of their crimes, Viorec made contact with a gang of wererats that his clan had dealt with in the past. The wererats were slavers, who took their prey from the villages up and down the Velashu River, and then sold the unfortunate chattel in Riddleport. Viorec sold Maria to the wererats, telling her she would get what she deserved with the beast men.

As a middle aged woman of above average attractiveness, the River Rats decided to put Maria in one of their Riddleport brothels to earn her keep. Years went by, Maria quietly suffering her fate. Eventually she became the favorite of the pimp, Alexksi. In 4711 AR, they had an intersex child, who Alexksi tried to kill by exposing the infant on the river bank. Unfortunately for Aleksi, Shalelu Andosana saw him leave the babe. Shalelu rescued the infant, and left it with one of her local contacts in the Rangers. After the Heroes of the Sihedron saved Varisia from certain doom more than once, Eugeni Silva took the time to expand the lower powered ranks of the Rangers into a general vigilante force for good in the region. Once the infant was secure with her other children, Shalelu and her group tracked Aleksi back to the brothel. They slaughtered the wererats, freeing the enslaved prostitutes. Maria Silva would never know freedom. Aleksi slit Maria’s throat with his final breath as Shalelu’s arrows pinned him to the wall.

Shalelu never realized that Maria was the forgotten mother of the great Eugeni. She never realized that the strange bloodmarked infant she’d just inadvertently adopted was half-sister to a Hero of the Sihedron. But that didn’t matter, with (Thron) and (Gyr) in her pack, what was another little one? She named the infant Aurealia (au-Rel-ia) and decided to raise it as a girl. Shalelu moved Aurealia back to her home/orphanage in Roderick’s Cove, where she was raised alongside Thron and Gyr. Eventually once her arcane talent became apparent, she would be sent to Sandpoint to apprentice at Argor/William’s academy and to join Jaya and Kallie in trying to learn what she could from her unknown-to-either-of-them big brother Eugeni.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Thoughts?


Kallie Silversun wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, I used this race build minus the large size and the extra strength. That knocked 11 points off, leaving it a much more palatable 18-point race. I think.

Oh, and regarding the accidental clone trait, I was thinking Kallie just grows up not really realizing that her upper half looks exactly like Sorshen, but then someone makes the comparison later.

Though, now that I think about it, the accident/incident could be a pretty interesting twist. That'd be a fun explanation for why she's small, too!

Eh, I could go either way.

She should take it, and have been killed with some group of randoms right after leaving the herd, thus proving Ryli right. But she doesn't tell anyone it happened, and the rest of her backstory stays the same. That way Kallie knows it happened, but no one else does. Ryli would only know if she had seen Kallie again since Kallie left.


Female Elf Cleric (Herald Caller) of Shelyn 10/Holy Vindicator 8 | HP: 173/173 | AC: 43, Touch: 23, FF: 43| CMD 43 | Fort: +20, Reflex: +12, Will: +25 (+2 vs. enchantment; +4 vs. mind-affecting effects) | Init: +5 | Perception: +20 | Buffs: MoP, LB, MV x2, GMW, WW, Eaglesoul, WotS (Summer), Vindicator's Shield
DM Jelani wrote:
As Giant fighters? Hmmm. I was hoping she would join the Rangers or something. Or perhaps the Black Arrows could become a subsidiary of the Rangers?

That's basically what happened in the original Legacies. The Rangers were so thoroughly destroyed the Hook Mountain ogres that Shalelu and Elandra switched the Black Arrows over to general peacekeepers who worked for the Varisian Rangers. I intend to keep that canon.

Kallie Silversun wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, I used this race build minus the large size and the extra strength. That knocked 11 points off, leaving it a much more palatable 18-point race. I think.

Oh, and regarding the accidental clone trait, I was thinking Kallie just grows up not really realizing that her upper half looks exactly like Sorshen, but then someone makes the comparison later.

Though, now that I think about it, the accident/incident could be a pretty interesting twist. That'd be a fun explanation for why she's small, too!

Eh, I could go either way.

I'm fine with using that build for Kallie. As for why she looks like Sorshen, either way works. That said, I personally like the second one more. It adds another, interesting dynamic to the character; Kallie was once as big and strong as Ryli, and now she isn't...


Reference image Buffs: mage armor, tears2wine HP: 69/69; AC 23, t 13, ff 21; Saves: F +6, R +6, W +11; CMD 19 (23 vs trip); Reservoir 7/15; Perception +17

I don't know. Part of Kallie's personality and drive to leave the herd was *because* she was small. I can still imagine her leaving due to other reasons, but I like it best the way it was before -- pent-up frustration (both culturally and sexually) finally driving the wedge between her and Ryli, eventually culminating in her decision to go off to be a wizard/arcanist.

I can add the mishap easily enough, giving her the upper torso of Sorshen and still not growing to full-size (much to her consternation).

I'll think some more on it.


Female Elf Cleric (Herald Caller) of Shelyn 10/Holy Vindicator 8 | HP: 173/173 | AC: 43, Touch: 23, FF: 43| CMD 43 | Fort: +20, Reflex: +12, Will: +25 (+2 vs. enchantment; +4 vs. mind-affecting effects) | Init: +5 | Perception: +20 | Buffs: MoP, LB, MV x2, GMW, WW, Eaglesoul, WotS (Summer), Vindicator's Shield

That's just my opinion. While I recalled her size being a factor, I also remembered Kallie's ultimate frustrations being the sexism and subsequent double standards she experienced among the Thunderhooves. Again, whatever you choose is fine by me.


Reference image Buffs: mage armor, tears2wine HP: 69/69; AC 23, t 13, ff 21; Saves: F +6, R +6, W +11; CMD 19 (23 vs trip); Reservoir 7/15; Perception +17

No, not so much sexism, but the frustration that she was viewed as being not sexually mature due to her size. If she were human, it would be like she had the body of an 8 to 10 year old. She wasn't allowed to choose a mate since that's terribly inappropriate even if she's chronologically an adult. If she was full-size and could therefore get laid, she might have stuck around and she *certainly* would have picked a mate.

Going another route, such as her being full-sized and having chosen a mate, then dragging him along with some others into some ruins that gets everyone killed, that would fundamentally change her personality to the point where I wouldn't feel like she's the same character.


Female Elf Cleric (Herald Caller) of Shelyn 10/Holy Vindicator 8 | HP: 173/173 | AC: 43, Touch: 23, FF: 43| CMD 43 | Fort: +20, Reflex: +12, Will: +25 (+2 vs. enchantment; +4 vs. mind-affecting effects) | Init: +5 | Perception: +20 | Buffs: MoP, LB, MV x2, GMW, WW, Eaglesoul, WotS (Summer), Vindicator's Shield

It sounds like your first idea would better fit your ultimate vision for the character then.


Could one of the four GMs in this group tell me how to start a new game? How would I make sure that the discussion and game threads get linked together?


Hop on RotR roll20.


Reference image Buffs: mage armor, tears2wine HP: 69/69; AC 23, t 13, ff 21; Saves: F +6, R +6, W +11; CMD 19 (23 vs trip); Reservoir 7/15; Perception +17

If you and Thron agree, he can shut down this game and then you can email the board support to receive GM control of this one. That's one idea. The other is to just start a new thread in the PbP forum.


Regarding “The Trifecta”

So Shalelu takes on an adoptive mother role, eh? At what point does she start this, during her run as building up the Black Arrows?

I’m thinking My Character (MC) was always a bit mischievous, and as he grew up he was always getting into trouble. When he was old enough (in his mind, like 16) he rebelled and ran away, joining an excursion to the Mwangi Expanse. He wasn’t heard from for a long time.

Until you got a letter from Absalom, informing you that he was coming home...


Aurealia could be the oldest, the youngest or the middle. I don't care. She's 25 when the game starts.


I’ll go youngest. I picture you 2 being the closer ones of the trio, my guy’s youthful troublemaking alienating him a bit.


Are you going to be a skinwalker, or human, or what?


Human


Weirdo.


Arcane Reservoir 5/14 | Empower Rod 2/3 | Admixture 10/10 Mostly Human Emberkin Blood Arcanist 12 | HP 45/62 | AC 14(18), T 12 (20), FF 13(21) CMD 16 | Fort +10 Ref +10, Will +13 | Init +4 | Perc +12 | SM +12 | Spells Remaining: level 1 7/11, level 2 5/6, level 3 4/6, Level 4 5/6, Level 5 2/6, Level 6 3/3

Just looked at the Player's Guide. I guess Intrigued by Thassilon is a freebie :-p


Reference image Buffs: mage armor, tears2wine HP: 69/69; AC 23, t 13, ff 21; Saves: F +6, R +6, W +11; CMD 19 (23 vs trip); Reservoir 7/15; Perception +17

We should all get the Scion of Legend trait for free as well.


HP: 115/115 (141/141) | AC 24 (23), t 13 (12), ff 123(22) | F +15 (+18), Ref +8, Will +10 (+16); +1 to save when adjacent to sis | Per +16, Init +7

I like the idea that the youngest of the three is a human who envied his skinswalker "siblings", and is still trying to figure out how to shapeshift. ;-)


And so begins another adventure...

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