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Well,-- I was gonna keep championing 'Ray' (not everyone has spells named after him), but I gotta acknowledge, you have chosen beautiful names. Charming and elegant.
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Hey, congrats! FYI, "Ray" is a great name ;) -W E Ray
Allies:
: An Imp in the Clerks' Ward who specializes in selling real estate deeds throughout various Primes that are, of course, too good to be true. : Of House Darmen but secretly plotting for Medegian independence, with the help of some Hellish allies. : Gnome proprietor of The Parted Veil bookshop. After first arriving in Sigil, this knowledge repository quickly became his favored haunt. Contacts:
: Who first sold Archidaemus some information upon his arrival to Sigil from Medegia -- in exchange for killing three Demons. It was in fact at The Ubiquitous Wayfarer where Archidaemus first arrived in Sigil, and stayed his first few nights. : The infamous lorekeeper of The Abyss, based out of the Abyssal city of Broken Reach. A Paeliryon Devil Sensate at The Civic Festhall, the Society of Sensation's sanctum in Sigil and a lively concert hall, museum, opera house, tavern, brothel and carnival. Carnivean is a performer, director, intelligence operative, playboy, and right-hand of the Sensate leader, Fall-From-Grace. Archidaemus does not trust Carnivean's smile and cheer, but the Paeliryon introduced him to the Society of Sensation and they seem to get along just fine. Still, there's more fear than anything else. Rivals:
: A truly Chaotic-Stupid Hezrou who I insulted by calling him dumber than the average Nupperibo -- and then ran like hell away from. The Toad often hangs out at The Ubiquitous Wayfarer looking for dumb-muscle work. At least if he looked like a Slaad he could pretend, but he's a stupid Demon through and through. : A Glabrezu in the service of Abraxas who travels regularly from Sigil to Plague Mort to Broken Reach. On my quest to find Gresil for information, I bluffed Garnet Grease that I also served Abraxas, in order to get some information about a Key to Broken Reach. By now the Glabrezu will have discovered my ruse and will not be happy. : A devout follower of the Xaositects Faction, Malvolio and Archidaemus were on the verge of attacking one another over philosophical differences and would have fought to the death among the razorvine choked alley near The Ubiquitous Wayfarer had not a few Dabus, at that moment and in that spot, attracted a cadre of Githyanki and their Yugoloth leader in some puzzle message -- and Archidaemus and Malvolio hurriedly found opposite directions in which to flee. Probably worships Doresain or Orcus or somesuch idiot Undead Demon. Secrets:
Archidaemus does not readily tell people about his discovery of Ravenloft -- that his birth was the vehicle through which Vecna escaped The Demi-Plane of Dread. He will admit to being raised in a forlorn village in an Ethereal realm of dread and sadness, but not go into specifics.
Archidaemus does not know anything of his Imp father, other than that Warduke chased the Imp across Greyhawk and into the Mists of Ravenloft. Archidaemus does know, however, that whatever Archdevil sent Warduke after his Imp father, it must have been serious and, more to the point, that same Archdevil may not want Archidaemus to exist. It is his fear that an Archdevil or Duke of Hell will learn of his existence and hunt him down. Crux: Having spent the past year in Sigil, barring a quest to Broken Reach to trade information with Gresil, Archidaemus took advantage of happenstance when he discovered a Key to Yggdrasil. So, in an attempt to gain more Knowledge of the Planes, and experience a Plane unlike any he's visited, Archidaemus took the leap through the Portal, and has found himself in Crux.
Okay, here's the (re-)beginnings of my super Knowledge Skills & Bluff Wizard: Race: Forlorn Hellbred:
15 Points: Forlorn Hellbred is slightly adjusted from before: I couldn’t find any really ‘Ravenloft’ Traits – well, other than ones that required me to be at least half-Undead. But still, Imp father, conceived and born to a peasant girl in Ravenloft – and for a moment hosting Vecna’s Soul instead of one of my own. Type: Outsider Native
Background, emphasis on lineage because new Race: Mother was a woman insane from grief after her husband died in war, a war of far more desperate misery, one in Ravenloft between two imprisoned Domain Lords: Vecna and Kas. (from Vecna Reborn by Monte Cook) Outcast into the village asylum for two months, the pregnant woman was taken by agents of Vecna to be the crux of a deep ritual, intended to free their God of Secrets from Ravenloft. Unknown to her, the father of the unborn child was actually an Imp in disguise. (The Imp had fled from Lilith in The Nine Hells to The Free City of Greyhawk, but with Greyhawk’s Infernal champion, Warduke, hot on the Imp’s tail, the little devil fled into a deep Mist that whisked it to The Demi-Plane of Dread.) Mother, a common girl now pregnant with an impish spawn of Hell in Ravenloft, gave birth to baby Archidaemus during the Ritual. But through the vile rites, the babe possessed the Soul of Vecna himself, allowing the God of Secrets to escape Ravenloft. Moments later the infant boy, who for the first moment of birth had only the Vecna’s soul, gasped for his first breath. Mother had died during the ritual; Vecna, with his new birth, escaped Ravenloft, and the infant boy, half-Imp, was quickly discarded as another useless peasant. Archidaemus grew up an orphan in Ravenloft. What was unknown to Vecna’s cultists during the ritual of his birth, was that the child too, was no longer bound to The Mists. And later in his early teens, as all young boys do, the youth went on a dare into The Mists. But not trapped in Ravenloft, he exited The Mists in Greyhawk, in Old Medegia where his mother’s ancestors had lived before The Mists of Ravenloft took them. Archidaemus lived the rest of his teen years in Medegia, Rel Astra and the devilish Kingdom of Ahlissa, a prodigy of wizardly talent.
That's no problem at all; I just started with Golarion cuz, you know, it's Pathfinder. I'll think through some old Greyhawk stuff, maybe with Warduke -- and I dunno, all the sudden I'm trying to figure out if I could have somehow escaped Ravenloft (Vecna did, afterall.). Anyway, back to the drawing board. I'm less concerned about the background than I am with making sure my roleplaying style will fit with the current group. I can come up with 101 good backgrounds, relying on all these decades of gaming. I just wanna make sure a heavy Knowledge Skills PC will get to shine and that I'll get the occasional opportunity to Bluff NPCs into some gambit or other where we PCs can get some good information. But yeah, Greyhawk: Warduke; Rel Astra & Old Medegia; swallowed up by Ravenloft's Mists; somehow escape when Vecna does -- and end up at The Ubiquitous Wayfarer in Sigil. Where close by are The Civic Hall (Sensates) and The Parted Veil bookshop. I'll try to get some time today before the Super Bowl "party" (if 6 friends qualify as a party during coronavirus restrictions) and get back here. There's a good chance that, considering the backstory is changing, that I'd have to go back and tinker something on the Race. Likely I'll just have too little time today, and thus make the new backstory appropriate to the Race I already designed. And I'm looking forward to this build and making a proposal I can be proud of!
LE Hellbred Wizard / Society of Sensation:
Obviously, this is just the start... 3 Allies:
Mr. Eex: An Imp in the service of Lilith who specializes in tempting mortals in too-good-to-be-true real estate opportunities, based out of The Clerk's Ward. Mr. Eex supposedly knows of a great many Keys and has contracts on quite a few Material Planes. 3 Contacts:
Rule of Three: Who first sold Archidamus Lynx some information upon his arrival to Sigil from Galisemni -- in exchange for killing three Demons. Gresil, The Custodian of Records: The infamous lorekeeper of The Abyss, based out of the Abyssal city of Broken Reach. Carnivean: A Paeliryon Devil sadomasochist who has appeared at random points during my life. I do not know if he is friend or foe or just a spy. I assume he is an attendant of Lilith's but have no evidence one way or other. I suspect Carnivean put me on the path from Absalom to Galisemni, and from Galisemni to Sigil. I do not know if he has further purpose for me or if he is finished. 3 Enemies:
The Toad: A truly Chaotic-Stupid Hezrou who I insulted by calling him dumber than a Nupperibo -- and then like hell away from. Garnet Grease: A Glabrezu in the service of Abraxas who I bluffed that I also served, in order to get some information about a Key to Broken Reach. By now Garnet Grease will have discovered my ruse and will not be happy. More is coming for my super-Knowledges/ super-Bluff PC -- including how he has left Sigil for Crux. I'm still developing....
Okay, here's the very beginning of my uber- Bluff and Knowledge Skill Wizard, using the ARG Race Builder. It's grossly incomplete, just the start: Race: Hellbred (15) Type: Outsider Native
Archidamus Lynx is the issue of a farsighted plan of Lilith's, deep in The Nine Hells .
Archidamus Lynx is a LE Wizard born in The Linnorm Kings' Lands whose parents fled south to Varisia. He was raised in the prestigious arcane Academae of Korvosa, and spent most of his life throughout Varisia. After briefly traveling to Cheliax and Absalom, Archidamus found himself Plane-Shifted to Galisemni in the Maelstrom -- and from there to Sigil, where he is practically a Clueless Prime. |