Hi folks
My current campaign has wound down but so has my enthusiasm for this campaign. I'm going back to review my possibilities:
1. Reflavor the 3rd book of Curse of the Crimson Throne, which would be the easiest for me.
2. Write an adventure based on the PCs background. This will be the hardest for me and depend hugely on the contribution of the players. I was hoping my background contest would generate good ideas but instead it tamped my enthusiasm.
There are also some great campaigns recruiting at the moment, so it's also not great timing to compete for players.
If you are super interested, we can continue this thread. Maybe my interest will rekindle.
cheers
For some strange reason I thought it was this Saturday for the contest. xP
Anyways while I am still struggling with my background generation. I made my nemesis story. So I have not been utterly without inspiration this whole time. ;)
Yarcil Feyheart was born to a powerful elven sorcerer with strong ties to the first world. Ever lustful and roaming, his partners were many and often short lived affairs. One such lover was a succubus that oddly enough was with child after their encounter. While the succubus was interested only in spawning a pawn and tool, the sorcerer despite his nature and short lived interest had a surprisingly strong fatherly side to him. He quickly found out about his would be child and guessed the fate in store for them. Finding the succubus and demanding his child be turn over to him upon birth he claimed her. The succubus after giving birth attempted to take back the child only to find the sorcerer was not as weak as he appeared. Viciously defeating the demoness he warned her never to interfere with his daughter on pain of death, for he had only spared her to avoid becoming the murderer of his child's mother. Banishing the succubus he proceeded to raise his child.
Choosing the River Kingdoms to temporarily settle down, or remain with in it's borders at least. He went about raising his daughter Yarcil as best he could. With no small amount of help from the fey of those lands as well as those that came from the first world she grew up well if not normally for a tiefling. Discovering a talent for witchcraft she then learned from the fickle fey witches of the forest, favored by their own patron in trickery. Yarcil's father took less of an active role as she grew older and more of a independent woman. Finally she chose to travel the river kingdoms on her own, that was when she met Slarus Leroung on his own travels. The two quickly got along and formed a romantic relationship. While it was not the first affair of ether and both were used to moving on in time, Yarcil felt more strongly for Slarus then any before, not long after following him more then sharing the same roads. Yet Yarcil knew nothing of romantic love or such relationships, having the mentality of a fey more then anything else. Her possessive nature grated on Slarus to the point that they had a rather unpleasant falling out. Left by the one she loved and unable to cope she lashed out by attempting to harm him. While Slarus had enough feeling for her to restrain her rather then attempt to bring great harm to her, Yarcil cared not at all for collateral damage. Causing destruction and death with in difference in her actions against Slarus. Forcing the wizard to use lethal means to stop her which resulted in her death.
Still Yarcil's father would not let that be the end of his beloved daughter. Regardless of how she had died he would not allow her to remain so. Yet despite his sorcerous strength, bring back the dead was often the realm of the divine. Ever cunning with secrets of the first world granted by it's masters he would use it to return Yarcil to the mortal world. Using a ritual of magic he summoned Yarcil's mother to a crossing of the mortal world and the first world. The succubus delighted in her wayward daughters fate quickly found herself bound. For the sorcerer would not return his daughter as she was, he would have her reborn as more then what she was. Using magic of the first world along with the soul of Yarcil and the body of the succubus she was reborn as her mother was destroyed.
Yarcil Feyheart returned to a body greater then her own, one made of fiendish flesh and first world magic. Yet her father warned her that her soul was now part of that body and tied to the first world. This was the price of her death and rebirth, their would be no third chances and he would serve in the first world for the favor he had been granted. Promising to return one day and wishing her a better second life he left to the first world.
While Yarcil took her fathers words to heart she could not forget Slarus and her feelings for him had not diminished. She would not be reckless again, she would plan and shape events. She would have Slarus and everything she desired in time and by any means.
P.S. If I built Yarcil Feyheart as I envision her in my head, she would be a rather powerful and annoying enemy. Geez why do I make such beastly baddies. xD