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First off, this is an evolution of a previous idea I posted on the forums but got no responses for. I know it's a bit dark, but I kinda wanted to go dark with this character.
So I'm working on a character backstory for PFS, and I want to make sure it works for the campaign setting in general.
Now before you say anything, yes I know I could say my character is from the isle of sentient fluffy bunnies, and it would probably be allowable in PFS. However, I try to put a little something extra in my characters, and I would LIKE this to fit in the PFS world.
So the idea is that the character is a tiefling, born to two human parents who both had some tiefling ancestry. When they had their child they were shocked, but loved her anyway. They knew she would be treated poorly in Chelliax, but had too many business ties to up and leave. And so they hid her away, and only let her play with the children of trusted family friends.
As she grew up, one of those childhood friends became more and more indoctrinated into the racial supremacy/hatred of all tieflings things of Cheliax, and eventually traded the secret of her existance for some political favors.
A group of people (some secret society or possibly the mercenary group made up of failed hellknights, can't remember their name) came to the house, ransacked it, killed her elderly parents, and captured her.
She spent the next several years basically as a test subject for the mercenaries. A living training dummy that people could use to test their abilities of hurting outsiders and bending them to their will. Eventually, the large amount of poking and prodding done to her mind allowed her to tap into her own psychic abilities, and she began to fight back. Eventually she gained enough influence to break out of the compound, vowing that no one should have to go through what she did ever again.
First off, this is an evolution of a previous idea I posted on the forums but got no responses for. I know it's a bit dark, but I kinda wanted to go dark with this character.
So I'm working on a character backstory for PFS, and I want to make sure it works for the campaign setting in general.
Now before you say anything, yes I know I could say my character is from the isle of sentient fluffy bunnies, and it would probably be allowable in PFS. However, I try to put a little something extra in my characters, and I would LIKE this to fit in the PFS world.
So the idea is that the character is a tiefling, born to two human parents who both had some tiefling ancestry. When they had their child they were shocked, but loved her anyway. They knew she would be treated poorly in Chelliax, but had too many business ties to up and leave. And so they hid her away, and only let her play with the children of trusted family friends.
As she grew up, one of those childhood friends became more and more indoctrinated into the racial supremacy/hatred of all tieflings things of Cheliax, and eventually traded the secret of her existance for some political favors.
A group of people (some secret society or possibly the mercenary group made up of failed hellknights, can't remember their name) came to the house, ransacked it, killed her elderly parents, and captured her.
She spent the next several years basically as a test subject for the mercenaries. A living training dummy that people could use to test their abilities of hurting outsiders and bending them to their will. Eventually, the large amount of poking and prodding done to her mind allowed her to tap into her own psychic abilities, and she began to fight back. Eventually she gained enough influence to break out of the compound, vowing that no one should have to go through what she did ever again.
Dark, cruel, and probable given Cheliax's affiliations with Hell and general culture. Morality can go out the window in the face of necessity or expediency, and when you didn't have much morality to begin with, well, that just means the black-ops have less red tape to deal with. And given the rules of the game, it might be possible for a test subject to develop a defense. Would your character have broken everyone out of the lab along with herself? That might create allies to go along with the enemies that are likely chasing her as an "unexpected success".
Seconded. This fits in well with what I have read about Cheliax on www.pathfinderwiki.com (while not necessarily everyone in Cheliax is a Devil at heart, an awful lot of people are, and those who aren't that way (at least in very passionate lip service) tend not to survive very well, or to survive mainly as slaves).
Yep...also fits in with some long term plans that House Thrune is currently enacting, according to the new CS book for Cheliax.
Would fit, probably be deemed as normal honestly. Truth be told, I was expecting something waaay grimdark and edgier lol