Hello all,
I'll be joining a level 1 campaign shortly and I'm having some difficulty figuring out my character's backstory (and potentially their long-term goals). The campaign is a homebrew set on Golarion, so standard Pathfinder lore is applicable. The campaign will start with us taking on work at a town in Isger to clear out a monster nest, but other than that we don't really know what the campaign will be about. The GM wants to run a largely free-form campaign that's designed to be reactive to our decisions while having an overarching goal for us to achieve (but we don't know what that goal is yet). After speaking with the other members (and the GM, of course), we decided we wanted to run an evil or, at the very least, morally ambiguous party.
After quite a bit of indecisiveness, I finally decided to make a Soulbound Summoner with a demon eidolon. The eidolon is flavored as a Shadow Demon and will be built accordingly, and the oracle curse I decided to take was "Possessed" as it seemed like a natural fit. Furthermore, I'm taking the Umbral Unmasking drawback where my PC will have a monstrous shadow when the eidolon is not summoned, and will have no shadow when it is summoned. As for race, I haven't settled on anything as of yet. Nearly every race is on the table, including drow; nothing overpowered or particularly outlandish though. Half-elf is the current front-runner if for no other reason than the favored class bonus, but it's certainly not locked in.
And now I seem to have hit a creative wall. Normally I'd design my character around the campaign (I usually play APs) and would have their backstories and long-term goals based on the that, but the free-form nature of this campaign is throwing me off my game. So now I look to the esteemed members of this community to help me get some inspiration.
The background I vaguely have in mind is that my PC's soul and the Shadow Demon's soul have become irrevocably bound in some way. As to how and why...that's the part I'm hung up on. Perhaps the Shadow Demon possessed my PC and something happened during the possession? Or some sort of deal was struck between the two? Or some sort of curse caused the two souls to be bound? Basically it's "What happened that caused them to be bound?". I'm hoping that if I can get a satisfying background that'll help me determine what the character's personal goal/s will be.
If anyone has any cool ideas I'd love to steal them gain inspiration from them.
This chracter was made for a 3rd party class (puppeteer) that was then adapted to a soulbound summoner (and currently a spiritualst for a one shot).
albiet when he was a soulbound it was going to be a echo ofhimself and not a deamon. but for some ideas feel free to peek.