Post by Rigil Kent on Nov 11, 2017 19:31:36 GMT -6
Full stats forthcoming. I am currently leaning toward a Half-Elf Magus (which is basically a fighter-mage) and, since Frito has indicated he is unlikely to continue the 5E game, I'm thinking of ripping off my old character concept there (the "time-displaced Traitor-Knight" who has discovered the "chaos" left behind in his wake) albeit leaving it completely open to the GM as to whether he is the Traitor-Knight from the past or if instead, he's merely a scion of that man or even just some poor scrub who somehow obtained some of the dead (?) man's memories. If Pathfinder allowed you to do non-LG paladins like 5E does, I would probably do that but from what I've seen, I kind of like the Magus.
I don't think we have a face-man as of yet, so I may build him along that line.
Current history thinking; let me know if this doesn't work:
I don't think we have a face-man as of yet, so I may build him along that line.
Current history thinking; let me know if this doesn't work:
A long time ago, as the story goes, there was an eldritch knight who rode to the hills of chaos at the head of a grand army. He waged war against the creatures of Chaos, intent on bringing Order to the region. But as all great tragedies go, this knight had a terrible flaw for he was too proud by half and his hubris would have long-lasting effects.
In time, his war brought him to the domain of a powerful witch-queen. They warred for many years, with the knight's forces eventually taking her capital and putting to the sword most of her forces. Rather than slay the witch-queen as his advisors urged, the knight cast her into captivity and then spent many months seeking to "reform" her.
Here the story grows dire for those months changed the knight. It is unclear as to whether the witch-queen corrupted him personally or his many years waging war against Chaos has contaminated him, but the end result was the same: he became that which he had fought against.
Taking the witch-queen as his willing concubine, he rallied her few surviving forces and marched against those that he had once called allies. Seemingly overnight, the order he had labored long and hard to win was shattered, leaving the hopes and dreams of the land in ruins.
Many of his war-leaders broke from him and fought long against him. Many were the stories of the final battles with Traitor-Knight, but no one truly knows what happened to him. Some say he fell, betrayed by his consort, who was said to have been as beautiful as she was evil. Others claim that he was felled by a man he once considered his closest comrade, but was saved at the last moment by his concubine who both hated and loved the man who had broken her. He slumbered silently in the caves of chaos, yet others murmured, sustained by his witch-queen until the stars aligned and he could return one day to resume his conquest.
And how does Dínendal fit into this? Even he is not sure. He woke up, naked and scarred in the hills, surrounded by charred remnants of bodies but with no real memory of how he got there. His long-term memories are broken and scattered but are too often of the time when the traitor-knight waged his terrible war which he fears might lean toward him BEING that traitor-knight, now loosed once more upon the world. Even if that is not the case, his strange memories makes him fear that he is the scion of the traitor and his witch-queen, perhaps borne to serve as a vessel for his reborn father. Or perhaps he is simply an unlucky fool to whom magic warped his mind, making him think these things. Only the GM knows exactly...
In time, his war brought him to the domain of a powerful witch-queen. They warred for many years, with the knight's forces eventually taking her capital and putting to the sword most of her forces. Rather than slay the witch-queen as his advisors urged, the knight cast her into captivity and then spent many months seeking to "reform" her.
Here the story grows dire for those months changed the knight. It is unclear as to whether the witch-queen corrupted him personally or his many years waging war against Chaos has contaminated him, but the end result was the same: he became that which he had fought against.
Taking the witch-queen as his willing concubine, he rallied her few surviving forces and marched against those that he had once called allies. Seemingly overnight, the order he had labored long and hard to win was shattered, leaving the hopes and dreams of the land in ruins.
Many of his war-leaders broke from him and fought long against him. Many were the stories of the final battles with Traitor-Knight, but no one truly knows what happened to him. Some say he fell, betrayed by his consort, who was said to have been as beautiful as she was evil. Others claim that he was felled by a man he once considered his closest comrade, but was saved at the last moment by his concubine who both hated and loved the man who had broken her. He slumbered silently in the caves of chaos, yet others murmured, sustained by his witch-queen until the stars aligned and he could return one day to resume his conquest.
And how does Dínendal fit into this? Even he is not sure. He woke up, naked and scarred in the hills, surrounded by charred remnants of bodies but with no real memory of how he got there. His long-term memories are broken and scattered but are too often of the time when the traitor-knight waged his terrible war which he fears might lean toward him BEING that traitor-knight, now loosed once more upon the world. Even if that is not the case, his strange memories makes him fear that he is the scion of the traitor and his witch-queen, perhaps borne to serve as a vessel for his reborn father. Or perhaps he is simply an unlucky fool to whom magic warped his mind, making him think these things. Only the GM knows exactly...