About Marcellus MagraviMarcellus Magravi's Starbuilder character sheet Marcellus Magravi's Hero Forge mini (Desna's) Edicts aid fellow travelers, explore new places, express yourself through art and song, find what life has to offer (Desna's) Anathema foster despair or terror in the innocent, cast nightmare or use similar magic to corrupt dreams, engage in bigoted behavior rough draft of Marcellus Magravi's Character Backstory, Part 1:
Date: Rova 21, 4707 AR Morning Marcellus woke up, ecstatic for the day. Not only was Sandpoint having the Swallowtail Festival today, he was going to surprise Heather with the ring he had been making lay-away payments for at Rings and Things. Marcellus decided to walk into Sandpoint from the farm instead of taking a horse. When he got to Sandpoint he headed to Rings and Things before going to meet Heather for their planned picnic lunch on the west bluff of town. Marcellus and Maver's conversation is spoken in Taldane. "Hi, Maver. I have the rest I owe you for the ring." as he put the remaining 5 gold he owed onto the countertop. "I'm sorry, Marcellus. Pennae says you still have 5 silver left of interest to make up for us holding onto the ring for you instead of selling it to the traveler from Magnimar last month." Saddened that he was not going to be able to propose to Heather while they had lunch on the west bluff of town, "Would you mind opening up after the banquet tonight so I can give you the remaining coins. I really want to be able to surprise her today." "Tell you what, Marcellus. Don't tell my wife. I will give you the ring now and you can stop by my table at the banquet tonight and pass me the five silver under the table, so Pennae does not know you did not pay the rest of the coin when I gave you the ring." "Thanks, Maver. You're the best. But I don't want to risk getting you in hot water with your wife. Could you have the ring on you at the banquet?" "I sure can. Good luck, lad." Evening As the sun was setting, Father Zantus started walking towards the central podium. Marcellus told Heather he would be right back, and started heading over to Maver and Pennae Kesk's table to get the ring. As Marcellus and Maver completed their transaction, Marcellus looked up and saw the starlit sky. Why did he not think of proposing under the starlight in the first place? He concealed the ring in his hand and started making his way back to Heather. The following is spoken in Varisian. Marcellus got down on one knee, held out the ring for Heather to see, "Heather Vishki, will you give me the honour of becoming your husband? Heather answers, "I will.", just before Father Zantus strikes the thunderstone. Marcellus stands back up and the two of them start to kiss, as a goblin suddenly appears from behind Heather and runs her through with its dogslicer. Heather's blood quickly falls to the ground from the mortal wound as the goblin sings gleefully. Marcellus catches her as she slumps forward, "No!" He looks around and sees the doors to the new cathedral are open, picks Heather up into his arms and sprints towards the cathedral. Although he managed to get within the relative safety of the cathedral without the goblins attacking him, the chaos of the surprise mass goblin attack kept all the priests busy outside too long, that by the time they made their way inside the cathedral, Heather's heart had stopped beating. * 4712 AR The loss of his love sent Marcellus into a deep depression that never seemed to be coming to an end. Five years after Heather was killed, his great-aunt, Risa Magravi, started doing special dreaming sessions with him. In the dreaming sessions, she used a crystal ball to show him an alternate timeline in which Heather was not killed. Seeing not just Heather and him were happily married in the alternate timeline, but were also parents to twins: a boy and a girl. Knowing there was a version of himself that was getting to spend his life with Heather and raising children together started to heal his depression. 4712 to 4718 AR For the next 6 years, Risa Magravi had weekly sessions with her great-nephew Marcellus so he could continue to view the alternate timeline in which he and Heather and their children were living a happy life. 4718 AR The following is spoken in Varisian. One session Risa was unable to pierce the veil for the weekly session with Marcellus (which was before the first night that she lost the ability to dream). Marcellus asked his great aunt if he could try to use the crystal ball to show him the alternate timeline. She granted her blessing. He gripped his starknife in his left hand and held it in place it on the table beside the crystal ball and placed his right hand onto the crystal ball. Risa instructed him, "Visualize what you saw them doing the last week." Much to his delight, he was able to pierce the veil like his great aunt had been doing for him the past several years. The image of him, Heather and their 10-year old twins having a meal appeared within the glass orb. He was watching the alternate timeline version of himself and his family for a minute, when suddenly the image skipped, the twins were slightly larger than they were a moment before, then the image skipped again, and the twins were now teenagers. "Why are they aging so fast?!?", Marcellus' voice a mixture of fear and bewilderment. Risa, sensing something was starting to go terribly wrong, called out, "Marcellus, let go of the glass!" Marcellus took his right hand off the glass and stood up quickly, but somehow his starknife was stuck to the table, and as he stood up, the table came up off the floor, the crystal ball rolled off the table and smashed into shards as it struck the floor. And as the crystal ball hit the floor, Marcellus and his starknife disappeared. The mystery of where Marcellus went was never solved.... rough draft of Marcellus Magravi's Character Backstory, Part 2:
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As Tarika is the NPC connection for both New Hire and Old Hire, I will include Tarika in Part 2 of Marcellus Magravi's background story, with it being a combination of New Hire (Tarika is the one that got the out-of-his-own-time Varisian a job at EJ Corp) and Old Hire (Tarika was one of the first people he met when he first appeared in Absalom Station from the distant past and he would sometimes offer to cover her shifts so she can spend more time with her daughter) * * @GM: which year is the campaign starting in? using the Starfinder equivalent of our current year (2026) or the year the Fly Free or Die AP was published (late 2020)? I ask as I am working with Marcellus arrived in the future during the launch year of Starfinder 1E (2017)...so want to know if Marcellus has been in the future for 3 years or 9 years so far...as it will impact Part 2 of his character backstory (which starts with him 'popping' into 'existence' in Jatembe Park in Absalom Station and the first being he encoutered was the linked NPC to his AP background, the brenneri Tarika (and her daughter). As he will not share a language with her yet, going to work in her daughter was climbing a tree and fell, and Marcellus saved her before she hit the ground. Grateful to the stranger, who is speaking a language she does not understand, she helped Marcellus out, including finding someone who could comprehend what he was saying....and from there will expand Part 2 of his character background story, after if Marcellus has been in the 'future' for 3 years (making him, biologically speaking, 32 years old) or nine years (making him biologically 38 years old). He was 18 when Heather was killed in his reality, and in the alternate reality they were married when he was 18 and Heather gave birth to the twins when Marcellus was 19. * * One of the languages he will have for his bonus languages will be the brenneri native tongue (so he can communicate with the first two beings he met and befriended upon first arriving in the future: Tarika and her daughter. If it is okay, I would like to tweak the specifics of the New Hire PG background to better work in his connection to when Tarika got him a job with 'the company'. He reveres Desna and being a 'traveller from a different time' the church of Desna took him in and provided him room and board as they taught him some of the languages of the future. He kept in touch with Tarika during this time (will have more specific details when I type up Part 2 of his character background), and when the priests fell confident that Marcellus was fully capable and knowledgeable about the new time he has found himself in, he chose to stay on as a hired hand at the church, and a few years later when a sense of wanderlust was starting to get stronger and he mentioned it to Tarika, she offered to get him a job at the company so he could start 'exploring the stars'. * * I am customizing the campaign background to incorporate the unusual way he got to 'the future' and met Tarika (Part 2 of his character background will involve Tarika (and her daughter) a fair bit (as Marcellus has lost the ability to watch his alternate universe's twins grow up, he gains some comfort in imagining how the twins and Tarika's daughter might be friends in another alternate universe, which causes him to use his Warp Reality class feature to discover that: They are in another alternate timeline of in which a version of him (who's Heather had perished during the goblin raid on Sandpoint during the Swallowtail Festival) and had managed to swap places with an alternate version who married Heather and had the twins - and when he tried to make it so the twins real father and him swapped positions in th time/space/dimension, things went awry and that version of the Marcellus (with twins fathered by a different alternate Marcellus) also got sent to 'the future'. Some of the alternate realities there is only a daughter that was brought to the future, and some that only the son was brought to the future. So far, none of them have had an alternate version of his lost love, Heather, in the future. The memories of his Heather are the bulk of his Core Memories class feature. Whereas that alternate version of him remains in Absalom Station to raise his twins (that were fathered by another variant of himself), his Core Memories include the memories of watching the twins of one (or more than one?) alternate versions of him growing up, he chose to remain on as a worker at the Desna temple, so he could continue to watch the twins grow up. As it will be 9 years since Marcellus arrived in the future (and the alternate versions of him and the, at the time of arriving in the future, were 10 year old twins, are now 19 years old and have left the nest, Marcellus took Tarika up on her offer to get him a job at the Company. * * Spell Repertoire:
Cantrips: Daze, Detect Magic, Light, Shield, Telekinetic Hand 1st-level spells: Delete, Mysic Armor, Soothe Trained Skills:
Acrobatics +5
Feats:
Background Skill Feat: Dubious Knowledge
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