Languages: Common, Draconic, Goblin
Items: Studded leather, Backpack, Bedroll, Belt Pouch (2), Chalk (10), Flint and Steel, Rations (2), Religious symbol, wooden, Religious text (THe Eight Scrolls), Rope, Soap, Torch (5), Waterskin, Writing set, Healer's Kit, Musical Instrument (Handheld)
Feats and Special Abilities:
Assurance (religion)
Component Substitution (Material > Somatic)
Curse of Outpouring Life
Goblin Song (1 foe, 30 feet)
Student of the Canon
Spells:
Cantrips:
Daze (DC 18), Disrupt Undead (DC 18), Forbidding Ward, Guidance, Shield, Stabilize
1st level spells:
Bless, Heal, Spirit link
Focus spells (3 focus points):
Death's Call, Healer's Blessing, Life Link
Background:
The gods have cursed Des. Perhaps Lamashtu was jealous that Des worshipped another goddess, or perhaps Asmodeus was angry that the Bumblebrashers had moved into a place that used to be his. Whatever the reason, it felt like Des's body was betraying them - plagued by dull aches and pains, feebleness, their vitality draining away and mysteriously retuning the next day. Although still a young goblin, barely out of their teenage years, Des felt very, very old, a wasting husk. They must have done something terrible to be so afflicted, and the guilt and fear gnaws at them.
Still, Des tries to live the best life they can, helping the other Bumblebrashers when they get sick or hurt. Somehow Des manages to find the most potent healing plants, for their patients always recover miraculously fast, sometimes bouncing back from the brink of death in scant days. Des is happy to help, even though caring for patients feels always very draining.
It doesn't help that for the past week or two terrible nightmares have been plaguing Des's sleep. In these dreams, everything is burning - the Bumblebrasher's home going up in flames, the walls of the citadel cracking and melting in the incredible heat, smoke choking the sky. More worryingly, Des clearly sees the nearby town consumed by an inferno. How can this be, when Des has never visited Breachill, yet can name every building that collapses in a shower of cinders and sparks? And what is that presence they sense in the dream, that immense, terrifying, malevolent presence? Its breath is a hurricane, a firestorm, a torrent of molten rock that covers everything in sight and leaves behind only desolation and death. There is something... draconic about it, but nobody in the tribe knows anything about dragons, beyond the two small ones that live next door, but surely they could not cause such destruction! Des has spoken to them, and they eagerly informed Des that dragons are very mighty and very fierce. Perhaps Pib and Zarf are very small dragons and they have yet to grow to their full size?
In any case, these concerns are soon forgotten as their home is invaded by strange creatures coming from below, and the tribe is forced to flee. Two dragons chase them up on the tall walls outside, but these also don't feel like the one in Des's dream. Fortunately, one of them is crushed by stone, and the other slain by heroes from the town, brought by Des's friend and mentor Warbal. Now the heroes have gone beneath to help the Bumblebrashers get their home back, but they ran into trouble with walking bones and need help themselves.
Personality:
Des is quick to blame themselves for faults real or imagined, and has a tendency towards self-sacrifice. Unusual for a goblin, Des likes reading, and scribbling notes and drawings on any flat surface they can find. Des's friend Strox carved an ocarina for them, and Des has been practicing playing it, sometimes for hours at a time - sessions that devolve in half the tribe singing loudly and banging on pots while Des blows into the instrument until they turn purple. Des is fastidious about cleanliness, both of their own person and of their environment.
Description:
Des's skin has a slight coppery tint and ruby red eyes. They have a small, button nose and their mouth is somewhat smaller than that of an average goblin. Usually they wear comfortable, practical clothing, with numerous feathers, wooden charms and pretty stones strung on leather tongs to form a multi-layered necklace. Their build is on the thin and wiry side, with prominent joints and somewhat loose skin. Their hands are very long-fingered and graceful, with carefully trimmed nails.
Character goals:
Des would like to figure out the origin of their curse and the meaning of their recurrent nightmares.
