This will be Ouachitonia's submission. Crunch is updated, but the fluff is still from a Kingmaker game, I'll fix it over the weekend.
Pyros is a third generation crusader on one side of his family, second on the other. He always knew that fighting to hold back the demons was his destiny. As a boy he was amazed and enthralled by the skill of an Aldori swordsman, one who had been sent to Mendev as punishment after a failed rebellion against the Rogarvias. Young Pyros was so impressed that he asked the man to teach him, and eventually decided he would travel to Rostland and learn the ways of the Aldori for himself.
It's his hometown. Now that he's a full member of the Swordpact, he decided to return home and put his skills to use. The Worldwound is full of demons that need killing.
The full crunch is in the alias. But he's a Fighter (Aldori Defender/Steelbound) VMC Magus. His sword will attain sentience at 5th and eventually be able to do some spellcasting, even. VMC Magus gives him additional magical abilities So he's sort of a magical fighter, but only a little. Enough to give him options.
He's aiming for the Aldori Swordlord Prestige class.
Lemming again but I've changed the idea for what I want to play.... (and Selann was my previous attempt to play WotR. But I won't be re-skinning him)
My character will be a vanilla uRogue, ratfolk-tiefling. Not sure on a PrC but I can decide on that fairly soon. He will take the Exposed to Awfulness campaign trait because.... it's a fairly decent reason why the paladins of the area won't want to lock me up on sight, and a great reason why I want to by in Kenabres! If I ever get the chance I want to do something to stop demons from escaping into the world and hurting folks like I was hurt!
However, I am currently away from home and will not have time to complete my submission until shortly after I get home Sunday evening. I hope this doesn't rule me out but will understand if it does.
Gonna push recruitment deadline to the 20th and I'll make a decision on the 21st. I have plenty of great submissions to choose from just got some stuff happening IRL, and I won't be able to dig in until then
For extra dragon goodness without stepping on toes, Apsu-evangelist, sentinel or exalted would work pretty reasonably for Aria.
Lemming again but I've changed the idea for what I want to play.... (and Selann was my previous attempt to play WotR. But I won't be re-skinning him)
My character will be a vanilla uRogue, ratfolk-tiefling. Not sure on a PrC but I can decide on that fairly soon. He will take the Exposed to Awfulness campaign trait because.... it's a fairly decent reason why the paladins of the area won't want to lock me up on sight, and a great reason why I want to by in Kenabres! If I ever get the chance I want to do something to stop demons from escaping into the world and hurting folks like I was hurt!
However, I am currently away from home and will not have time to complete my submission until shortly after I get home Sunday evening. I hope this doesn't rule me out but will understand if it does.
So be it. Deadline Sunday the 21st, decision Monday.
Sunday sounds fine. I had a little time this morning to work on the crunch. Thanks!
Hi everyone!
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Hello! I would like to apply with Meiosa, my transhumanist alchemist. Meiosa experiments on her own body in an endless quest to improve herself and evolve beyond humanity in order to better combat the demon threat. And what better way to do so than to learn from dissecting the remains of her abyssal enemies? And perhaps a few transplants...
She doesn't remember the entirety of what happened, but she does remember the feeling that came after it. A sense of power, a sense of emptiness. A hole to be filled. Thankfully, she was rescued and had a chance to take over for her deceased master. In the following years, her studies became an obsession. Something about what happened to her back then. Now, the good doctor finds herself drawn onto the front lines, feeling a great and powerful need to combat the demonic hoards directly. And an equally powerful urge to pull them apart and see what makes them tick.
After all, how can the crusade hope to defeat their enemy if they know nothing about them? And if she is to push her body to the limits, she will have to find ways to expand upon those limits and move beyond them. And if her experiments are a smashing success? Perhaps her work can benefit the whole of the crusade.
However, I as a player and Meiosa as a character are committed to helping the party and aiding in the crusade. I detest going against the party's wishes with an "it's what my character would do" as a thinly veiled excuse.
While things like violence and body horror may be themes of the character, I am perfectly willing to tone it down if the other players and GM wish it. I like being a little edgy, but at worst it'll delve into doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Her campaign trait Stolen Fury, representing the lingering effects of the ritual that are likely tied to her insatiable desire to change her body.
Her mythic-granted prestige class will be master chymist to represent the lingering effects of her continual and reckless body modifications. The resulting personality will also be loyal to the party and the crusade, but may approach problems in their own unique way.
Oh, and here's some art of her as well.
Ahmose, the Blue Whisper is ready for an excellent day in this safe frontier town of...what was the name... Kenabres!
Any questions are welcomed....
Town? Isn’t it a city?
He doesn't have those particular Knowledge skills....
CS for Lemming's rogue. Still need equipment and a good scan for mistakes. He may not be, but I'm human and do make them....
Back story and such is in the history at the bottom of the CS.
Fully updated and ready.
Well, the time is almost up and the results are coming tomorrow. So, good luck everyone!
I got hit by some inspiration:
Aria is a Kellid more inline with the fey then with Iomedae, and is a lawfull good worshipper of Magd, as well Fated Champion Skald Archetype.
Between Auguries (which the archetype improves), fey boons, and pretty good knowledge checks, she is a bit of fairly intelligent skill monkey who can hold her own in a fight.
Magds obedience is both pretty good mechanically (+4 to intelligence based skillchecks) and a unproblematic roleplay wise (even some good deities have well... cringey or awkard obediences).
The rage powers she picks up will be celestial blood, and then the world serpent line (insight to AC vs outsiders is pretty good in this campaign).
It also turns her into a great "plot dump" device for the GM.
She is much less of a beatstick then her initial iteration, and still likes terendelev and trashtalking demons.
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Recruitment is now closed. I'll have a decision soonish
Interesting, would anyone have an idea of how a Paladin code for Magdh would look like? I could probably fit in 2 Paladin levels somewhere, and regain the spellcasting from the prestige class.
Anathema I can find in existing Paizo material are:
Lie, share your divinations without payment
Edict are
use divination.
My words are truth, for those who listen wisely.
A Paladin of Magdh cannot directly lie, but ommissions, creative metaphors and hypotheticals are totally valid
My service requires payment, lest it is disparaged
A Paladin of Magdh must request a degree of payment of gifts in response for his aid, but the gifts can be metaphorical or future favors owned
I am bound to any terms I offer
If a Paladin of Magdh offers terms, he is bound to obey them by letter and spirit
I shall seek to preserve knowledge, so that the path of fate can be known. Only truely dangerous knowledge may be destroyed.
A Paladin of Magdh needs very strong justification to destroy or damage repositories of knowledge.
I shall cut no thread of fate without due cause
Paladins of Magdh may and frequently do kill, but never without cause.
I shall honor a fair offer of parley
Magdh is not a warlike deity, she and hers talks before fighting.
Interesting, would anyone have an idea of how a Paladin code for Magdh would look like?
Find all the thousands of Fey Foundling paladins and convert them to a proper Fey deity? Accepting that some of them will go Imbrex, of course.
Having a caveat of being able to destroy “truly dangerous” knowledge undermines the whole “preserve knowledge” thing, as it doesn’t take much to argue that any knowledge is dangerous. One of the lawyers from the founding of the US noted that he could take a single sentence from the most righteous of men and turn it into no less than seven different reasons to execute him. It is one of the reason last the bill of rights has so many protections against persecution. Same applies here and to anything that you want to preserve. There needs to be a blanket statement or a very undeniable line, otherwise it can be perverted into a tool to destroy what it was intended to protect.
...Strangely enough, some guidelines for this might be found with the infamous Order of the Rack. In Liane Mercel's book Hellknight, a minor plot point is that the Order of the Rack does not in fact destroy knowledge, and that at least one copy of everything it comes across is stored in Citadel Rivad's extensive archives - they're more "aggressive Warehouse 13 agents" than "book burners." Genuinely dangerous knowledge is locked away rather than destroyed, both as a safeguard against the possibility of misclassification and as a way to ensure that the truth endures in some form.
Additionally, with a world as heavily inspired by cosmic horror as Golarion is, there may legitimately be truly dangerous knowledge (books that tell you how to do blood sacrifice rituals to tear the fabric of reality, etc) that should probably be buried in a steel box several miles underground - a first printing of the Necronomicon comes to mind, or stage directions for The King in Yellow.
Additionally, with a world as heavily inspired by cosmic horror as Golarion is, there may legitimately be truly dangerous knowledge (books that tell you how to do blood sacrifice rituals to tear the fabric of reality, etc) that should probably be buried in a steel box several miles underground - a first printing of the Necronomicon comes to mind, or stage directions for The King in Yellow.
Have you been peeking at Ahmose's personal Diary....lol.
Alright can the following characters dot into Gameplay and report into Discussion?
Dorek
Thawm Uhturj
Sir Tandyn
Aroden the Returned
Cecily Levain
Ahmose
Appreciate all the work everyone put into their submissions.
Congratulations to those chosen.
Congrats all.
Congrats to the new party!