OC Saloon

[jolly crest]

at least not consciously

there are things she would be upset by if they happened, of course, like abandonment or betrayal or so on, but she’s been so shielded from the realities of life because of her position of privilege that she’s kind of just
oblivious to them

like, she’s been prevented from seeing much of the weight of responsibility to restore her family’s status that rests on her shoulders, or from recognizing that the church where she spent the first part of her childhood kept her around largely because she’s not only a noblewoman but an aasimar (though her own 18 CHA probably helped lol)

oh, yes, right, lemme provide backstory

Helena was the first aasimar born into the family in generations; she only barely understands how much is riding on her. Her family initially tried to keep her close for political purposes, but when she was [7?], they sent her to the local Sarenite church, where she met Iris. 

The church was initially overjoyed, but then saw what a mess she was and started looking for ways to sideline her without Helena catching on, her parents being upset, and/or the church looking bad for sending an aasimar away. 

When a [13?]-year-old Helena defended a fellow acolyte from being physically bullied, the priests recognized what Helena’s actual talents were and sent her to live with the Sarenite paladins of the Order of the Nimbus, where she took very well to physical training and divine magic.

More recently, she’s been assigned to go on what she thinks of as an important and heroic first adventure, alongside Iris, with Helena acting as Iris’ bodyguard and Iris acting as Helena’s healer and de facto handler. (Naturally, Helena was not told about the “handler” bit, but Iris was.)```

^ the exact ages here are super up in the air, and are dependent largely upon what Sophie (Iris’ player) was thinking because I know she had her own thoughts on the PCs’ rough ages when each of these things happened

(the acolyte she defended may well have been Iris—I thiiiiink that’s largely solidified but I’d have to double check w Soph)

[thin osprey]

Can anyone help me find a picrew for a grown ass man

[grim wigeon]

https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/80783

yuh

(i have em on file because they're so rare lol)

(i also had the idea to make a picrew of men but its surprisingly tough)

[thin osprey]

god bless

[grim wigeon]

[high tendon]

made my elf barbarian's "dead" wife

[jolly crest]

pretty!

[high tendon]

yus

she's a arcana domain cleric

Devoted to Corellon

Firion her husband

[topaz narwhal]

i gotta make a name for this hollow knight campaign character

[tribal sandal]

game group has dragged me into consuming warhammer associated media and thus i have doen the obligation of turning Freddie (Lancer character) into a space marine and i think my writing style for it as firmly solidified into like, the most homoerotic writing i can possibly think of

[upbeat copper]

Amazing lmao

[tribal sandal]

they told me he should be a space wolf so he is (we are playing oath of moment)

[upbeat copper]

FUCK YEAH

[tribal sandal]

and after the council has informed us and after reading the document i have decidedt hat this is correct

[upbeat copper]

I'm in a pbp for it

[tribal sandal]

so are we yeah, with our sotw group

i spent all my resources on a dog but it was worth it

[upbeat copper]

doggee

What specialization?

[tribal sandal]

Assault

[upbeat copper]

https://tenor.com/view/bromance-sig-curtis-alex-louis-armstrong-fullmetal-fma-gif-18194534

[tribal sandal]

we made the most Hold w Brickhead we could because the council agreed that's what freddie would be

space wolf assault with fuckin uhhhhh yearning conscious

[upbeat copper]

Funnily enough Maria, if our guys met their respective Bloods would demand they Fight About It

[tribal sandal]

yeah we have a son of the lion in the group yeah

[upbeat copper]

Is anyone in your group playing a Dark Angel or

Amazing lol

[tribal sandal]

yeah a dark angel

[upbeat copper]

I'm technically playing my homebrew chapter who emphasize a part of the DA I see emphasized a lot less than I think it should be

monster-and-headhunting

[tribal sandal]

Freddie talks like the dumbest mother fucker alive unless tis specifically to issue homoerotic snipes, jabs, challenges, or brags to him

[upbeat copper]

type shit

[tribal sandal]

So freddie just talks like a dumb jarhead until he gets to staring at the Dark Angel and then it turns into the most poetic, gay and verbose prose you've ever heard of

issuing his challenge like "sure, your body is so exquisite that i find myself pondering it idly whenever i steal a chance, but i wonder if it's performance in practices matches it's beauty in display, if you think you can prove yourself" type shit

[upbeat copper]

I need to show you a certain joke cover of an early 40k rulebook

er, Space Hulk

[vapid pewter]

foxy grandpa didnt kill one of the fallen because of his conscience and gave up his terminator rights and volunteered for the long vigil to show the inner circle he still means business

[upbeat copper]

wait aspup are you the other half of this yaoi in the making? XD

[vapid pewter]

yes

[tribal sandal]

this is exactly how im writing freddie

freddie is the only female character we have who makes the relationship yaoi anyway and it was already canon in lancer that freddie took testosterone to try and grow a fursuit (moron plan) so it just felt right

[vapid pewter]

lmfao

[tribal sandal]

freddie also caught sight of the vampire in the group and he was so beautiful that freddie saw an idealized version of his childhood home in their features

[upbeat copper]

Our group is a Lion Rampant (myself), a Storm Giant (Salamander successors), a Black Templar (I think you will know those by reputation), and a Blood Raven (see what I said for BT)

[vapid pewter]

using oscar isaac but. yknow. More Fucken Juiced as the face claim for my dark angel.

[tribal sandal]

but its okay the Dog is there to remind friendly to keep his head in the game (thinking about literally anything other than how hot his battlebrothers are)

[vapid pewter]

only firstborn in the squad. he has so much catholic guilt

[tribal sandal]

i like to imagine that freddy and danjal are almost close in height by virtue of Freddie's specific character trait where he has to be the short one

[upbeat copper]

We're all starting as firstborn cuz... insert reason

[upbeat copper]

Also I am trying to fill the Apothecary void via having a Helix Gauntlet but that is not enough

[vapid pewter]

sure aint, fortunately we have an apothecary

and i have a little guy who can cast nullify.

[upbeat copper]

I'm using What If Vercingetorix Was a Woman

aka Link /j

Also as a side-effect of making her Celtic inspos specifically La Tene/Gallic?

She's French

[upbeat copper]

Sgt. Astelan of the Lions Rampant 3rd House, the House of the Smouldering Bramble, Veteran Assault Marine and bearer of the Power Sword Recusant's Bane.

Inspirations
Reinhardt from Overwatch, circa the Honor & Glory animated short
Repanse de Lyonesse of Warhammer Fantasy, Damoiselle de Guerre and Paladin-commander of the Chevaliers de Lyonesse
Gawain as portrayed by Dev Patel in the 2021 A24 adaptation of the Arthurian legend, The Green Knight
A Sardaukar warrior of the Dune universe in full regalia drawn, as imagined by French comics artist Jean Giraud, a.k.a. Moebius, in the early '70s as concept art for the ultimately unsuccessful effort by director Alejandro Jodorowsky to adapt the novel to film
Vercingetorix, Chieftain of the Arverni tribe and ringleader of the failed Gallic war of defense against Caesar and Rome, here portrayed in the 1899 painting Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar by Lionel Royer
Link, protagonist of The Legend of Zelda series, specifically in his incarnation in the 2023 entry into the franchise, Tears of the Kingdom

making an ultimately generic Sardaukar drawn by a Frenchman into one of her inspos is maybe cheating, especially since Space Marines are very inspired by Sardaukar as a whole

But fuck you it's my character

XD

[tribal sandal]

real

Freddy really was just me completely emptying my thoughts to make room for dog noises, the dry, quiet and dusty emptiness of an empty field, and probably a collection of the grunts from Generation Kill

[upbeat copper]

lmao

Also needless to say

And what will be endlessly funny to reveal

She never gets helmet hair

Those shoulder-length locks?

Majestic, every time

Oh Maria

If you wanna know a fun fact about Repanse in specific

She's a satirical take on Joan of Arc, perhaps somewhat obviously

The satire includes the fact she and her inspiration were both peasants

So she fights like a fucking peasant

i.e. beating the shit out of people and jumping them with no remorse

But she has plate armor and a fucking greatsword

[tribal sandal]

Freddy, of course, doesn't get helmet hair either, because, as everyone has informed me, he ain't wearing that shit

[upbeat copper]

wolf senses be like

Oh, Maria, you may like the description of my D&D character's physical body that no one will ever see

[tribal sandal]

oh yeah those too!

[upbeat copper]

'Their corpus was as if someone had taken an old, ratty taxidermy of an unidentifiable animal and made of it a twisted marionette.'

[tribal sandal]

yeah that's how they make em sometimes

[upbeat copper]

They are a Hexblood, and a servant of the Queen of Air and Light of the Unseelie Court of the Feywild

They are attempting to make the Kenku rogue of the party (who is a resident of the Feywild) into their Sith apprentice

[tribal sandal]

😌

[upbeat copper]

Which is going to be fun

Cuz my old character had a boyfriend (a player who we had to part ways with over being an asshole sadly)

And that boyfriend was made part of a catch-22 where both he and another character's gf, a plot important npc to boot were chained up in a demon manacles

Said kenku figured out that to free one would kill the other

And my old character's bf died, and no one told them it was because the rest of the party made the silent decision to save the other npc

[verbal rain]

oop

[upbeat copper]

And that problem has been kicked down the road somewhat by my old character getting separated from them by a magical storm that was tearing apart the sky island we were on

as a byproduct of the appearance of a devil who was summoned via the use of said dead bfs life force

I cannot wait to play out the scene where they find out

They were the monk

generally serene

They will maybe try to kill the kenku

[verbal rain]

OOP

[upbeat copper]

They are a githyanki who left their creche to experience life beyond the myopic endless military drudgery and raiding and contempt for other sapient life, and said boyfriend was their first love, whom they helped come out of his shell and become a better person

And the others sacrificed him

(this is their perspective, not objective but grief be like that)

[verbal rain]

oh my god

[upbeat copper]

Yeah the drama is gonna be real I live

[uncut gale]

hello everyone. making sweet fits for bubblegum continues to go well.

im really going to earn that 5 karma for Distinctive Style (Flaw)

[tribal sandal]

flaw 😭

[uncut gale]

yes, its a flaw that means people get a +2 Die bonus on Memory Checks to Remember Bubblegum

which is a drawback when you're a criminal

[sharp steeple]

My tiefling might end up with a kid. I don't know how to handle that. Not in a pregnancy way, but her partner (an npc), a noblewoman soldier that was sent over to reinforce the party ended up fully swooning her and the two ended up together. Now, that the campaign is pretty much on the finish, she dropped that she might want to adopt a kid after returning home, since my tiefling already promised to follow her.
Now it might not be so simple.
There is still an unresolved love triangle where another elf is trying to compete for Ellia's hand and is currently losing but still not losing hope, trying to win over with love letters that are sealed with her blood(solidified using magic so it can actually be a seal.)
And here I am on one hand, kinda not wanting to give this woman a good ending for all the bad shit she has done to everyone around her and on the other she deserves some softness so maybe she will grow better as a person idk.

[worthy siren]

yay!!!! bubblegum!!!!!

[fallen fulcrum]

"Love letters sealed with her blood" feels very yandere-adjacent to me

I don't know what kind of person that would win over, but it doesn't seem like the foundation for a healthy relationship

On the other hand, sometimes you don't feel like giving your blorbo a happy ending, and that can be a lot of fun too

[uncut gale]

yay!!! bubblegum!!!

[vapid pewter]

I'd fold

[uncut gale]

yah i mean. i have signed things with blood and its done great. don't worry about it.

[vapid pewter]

im a dog and cant see red so. eternally devoted, jealous and controlling are all green flags to me

[worthy siren]

literally. fr.

[worthy siren]

also actually? (curious)

[uncut gale]

a lady doesn't kiss and tell, nor speak of where she's drunk, neh~?

[sharp steeple]

The basis for relationship is "this woman is very hot and really tough and I admire how she keeps going even though life tries to stop her and that means I really want her to stick her sword inside me."

Now and here comes the fact that Ellia is an awful fucking person that generally enjoys killing, maining, and hurting people

[uncut gale]

i love bubblegums flaws, marias

• Loves Drugs
• Insults People When She Fucks Up Social Interactions
• Is Fucking Magenta
• Lies like crazy because she's a chuuni
• Is On Sight With the Future KKK

[tribal sandal]

mild jazz addiction...........

[uncut gale]

jazz is a wonderful drug, it makes you Really Fast

winners do drugs in the dark future

[tribal sandal]

true

[worthy siren]

nods.... (still curious but will not press)

[sharp steeple]

Noticing a pattern among my OCs that I didn't quite noticed before. Every single one of them somehow lands somewhere around the lines of being protective devoted mess that just wants to find a person to throw their life behind.

[fallen sorrel]

Need to think of a good secondary color for this character's design

Black is the primary color obviously

But I'm trying not to evoke like a Razr mouse or gaming pc while still choosing a bold highlight color

Red is the obvious choice but a bit too Shadow the Hedgehog

[grim wigeon]

pink

it's exactly what i'm doing lol

[fallen sorrel]

i considered it

im kind of leaning toward yellow rn it's underused

[sharp steeple]

Gold

black and gold is a timeless classic

I guess gold is just metallic yellow

[uncut gale]

hi! i've been doing fun outfits, may i suggest something like this? bright red, deep blacks, ashen grays?

[wide skiff]

Huh just realized Kyberis was also inspired by Faye Valentine.

[sharp steeple]

Elp girlkisser swashbuckler got a new outfit

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/12444153 artist

[high tendon]

yoooo that looks sick

[sharp steeple]

Kinda funny how the artist gave the lesbian swashbuckler the scissor blades

[fervent tendon]

Excelent swash style. I need to work on mine.

[uncut gale]

hi i got bubblegum a better set of swords for her Up-Armored Fit

im having fun with the fact this is her anti-taser armor that doses her with combat drugs. future fashion does so much

she's safe(r) from cops and gonna go real fast

[tribal sandal]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[uncut gale]

Bubblegum digs for the last case of Rainer in a three-block area. Amira makes her tea. Astrid steals a soda. The clerk steadfastly refuses to give a shit. This is the harmony of the modern metropolis. introducing shadowrunners is funnny

[upbeat copper]

I have made my first Exalted character; a Full-Moon Caste Lunar who lives to fight, hunt, goad people into duels and fuck their girlfriends after she wins

She has ambitions to gain more Power but it's mostly so she can do what she already does More And Better

[modest lantern]

SHE NEEDS. MORE. POWER.

[upbeat copper]

lmao

[modest lantern]

But fr I like this concept. I bet she aura farms like crazyyy

[sharp steeple]

Amazing.

What if she fought a woman

[modest lantern]

Hmm... yuri...

[upbeat copper]

Half her conquests in that sense are warriors

She is an adherent of the Spike Spiegel School of Attraction

[upbeat copper]

Half her social skills are literally basically horny aura farming

[sharp steeple]

amazing

Round 2 Duel

Stage: Bed

[compact quartz]

probably has "tilting someone's chin up with the flat of her sword to gaze into their eyes" down to an art

[upbeat copper]

Not her favorite, she prefers holding them by the neck against a wall but if her partner so prefers (she somehow knows, idk) she will do that instead

XD

[upbeat copper]

You joke but she has fully internalized and practices the idea of intimacy being a skill xD

[sharp steeple]

Hell yeah honestly

Valentines day must be a mess

[high tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/cowboy-bebop-anime-kickass-i-love-women-who-kick-ass-gif-14964738

[upbeat copper]

Oh no she's an open book

She makes it very clear that she has many paramours

It wouldn't do to hide from potential partners the extent of her prowess, after all

xD

[uncut gale]

let’s make our girls have a dramatic duel okay

[upbeat copper]

Sure lol

[vapid pewter]

i love my lunar she's such a depressed yearner...

[high tendon]

YOOOOO Blaidd

lunars are the shapeshifters connected to Solars right?

[vapid pewter]

yea

[vapid pewter]

her solar mate is a fucking chump loser

girlypop been looking for this idiot for hundreds of years and then she shows back up like This and. well. needless to say she's fucking disappointed by how much of a loser xii is.

[high tendon]

lmao

[upbeat copper]

Are they fighting over a woman? XD

[uncut gale]

i mean there's plenty of reasons for a Lunar and Abyssal to fight

[upbeat copper]

Tru

There is the staple excuse for my character; 'Why not'

[uncut gale]

blaidd is there as a voiceclaim, kinda, in that i think about blaidd doing voice traning and get dizzy.

[upbeat copper]

PFFFFFFFF

[high tendon]

heheh

good voice

[uncut gale]

plus if i remember righ rhi you were talkin about taking the 5-dot daiklaive

and making big stupid artifact fights is fun

bloody hand's Black Blade of Sorrows is very trustworthy see its asleep you can feed it blood. feed it blood. feed it blood.

[upbeat copper]

Nah, normal three dot moonsilver daiklave now

Sadly

I needed the points for Influence, Cult, and Martial Artist

The klave does still have a name tho

[uncut gale]

sounds fake just sell your soul to a deathlord for more merit dots

[upbeat copper]

Howling Slayer

[uncut gale]

yes i took Ally 5/Artifact 5

yes i am stupid.

[upbeat copper]

Jesus Christ

[uncut gale]

no i will not change it.

[upbeat copper]

Also wait you can do that?

[uncut gale]

i mean abyssals can

[upbeat copper]

Ye, I meant Abyssals

[uncut gale]

Yeah, if you pick a loyalist abyssal you get a free Mentor 3 (Deathlord) and then 5 dots to spend on Backing/Cult/Followers representing what resources the deathlord has given you.

Since Bloody Hand is suppose to be a princely young merc, she gets 4 dots of Backing (Works for Someone Important) and 1 dot of Cult (borrowing her shifu's shine)

[thin osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/cbcb-gif-21793370

Drifts in Gossamer at all this abyssal nonsense

[uncut gale]

Drifts can try bloody hand's getting cute dresses and armies of the undead

[sharp steeple]

Bwuh

Didn't even start writing proper backstory for my oni gal and cyberpunk au is already going around my head

[lavish dome]

Ahaha, yeaaaah.

[uncut gale]

hi solea ive been drinking from the shadowrun puddle

can only recommend this puddle of sludge its one of my faves

[upbeat copper]

This is maybe more appropriately an Exalted chat question, but did you homebrew your artifact's evocations or is it in the Abyssal book

Cuz the Lunar splatbook does not have a normal daiklave as an artifact xD

It's either a pair of short ones or go fuck yourself

[sharp steeple]

Yeah it's very similar puddle of sludge in my head to a point I might hit the shadowrun books

because I have an idea for a cyber samurai who does what is essentially knight wrestling but in the dystopian future

[upbeat copper]

One of the ways to justify them fighting is possibly Sire-Queen talking shit about Bloody Hand relying on a super-special magic weapon while she relies on her innate gifts and learned martial style (regardless of the truth of such a statement)

xD

[upbeat copper]

Can't believe I forgot about perhaps one of the greatest inspirations for 'bestial god-warrior king' in recent media

https://tenor.com/view/gofrey-godfrey-gif-2404197796214837873

Changed inspos accordingly

[clever salmon]

anyone got that template btw

the character inspiration one

[fervent tendon]

I should do some of that. Ophelia would be a fun one. Starts with Nathan Ford, Debbie Ocean, and maybe a bit of Watson (she's not enough of an asshole or medical enough to be House, and he's a good combo of "sherlock holmes lite" and "has a knee injury").

[uncut gale]

its pinned in #oc-cantina :3

[clever salmon]

danke

[upbeat copper]

Currently figuring out how to integrate Sire-Queen into the game I'm cookin'

[vapid pewter]

increase her essence and make her a regional warlord 🗣️

[upbeat copper]

I mean yeah but idk how to make her into an npc statblock unless the rules for NPC Exalted are 'fuckit, PC Exalted'

[vapid pewter]

I think there may be a little more to it than that but if you have the lunars book you could look at some of the examples listed there? I'm pretty sure there's at least one combat-oriented lunar notable personage you could peek at the stat block for

<- it has never run exalted

[uncut gale]

yeah you make WoD style npcs, either they're quick-n-dirty groups of dicepools

or they're full characters

[thin osprey]

They started giving Exalt npcs like

Combo Charms

[upbeat copper]

So you're saying as the GM I have an excuse to make her a full Essence 3 character...

Also I should have shifted this to Exalted chat whoops

ooooo I just came up with some good sauce, but it's still oc related so I'll put it here

Her Solar mate turns out to be her mentor and the one who instructed her in her fighting style, and the circumstances of her Exaltation was her challenging her former master (in a noble-serf paradigm), a Lunar

And only after her Exaltation did she learn, from the new memories she gained through Exalting, that her mentor, the Solar, was the one she just killed's mate

[modest lantern]

here we go

for anyone who cares

[upbeat copper]

lol nice

Who's this character for?

[modest lantern]

Uhhh not DND, tho I do have a dnd version of them

They're normal* sized here
*(5'3" as opposed to 8")

they're my guy and I care about them SO much

[spiral granite]

DnD designers also keep being cowards about letting PCs be larger than "medium" size

[modest lantern]

YEAH

I should mention that they ARE a path of the giant barbarian

So they do get to be a size larger when they rage. As a treat

[upbeat copper]

The unobscured glow of the full moon on a cloudless night both bathes Sire-Queen's form and shines from her eyes and metallic weapons, near-blinding to mortals. A spectral manifestation of her Spirit Shape the Great Tiger-Dog clings to her shoulders, perched to witness the glories of her unleashed violence.The girly's signature Anima

[upbeat copper]

I am making Sire-Queen's rival

These two are his primary inspos, cuz it's fucking funny

[jolly crest]

...I should do a drawing of Helena based on the thumbnail for the Netherworld Series arc of Thrilling Intent (which I have yet to get to because TI is 80 billion episodes long and my hyperfixations on it simply do not last long enough to get caught up ever)

(also, art by Jackson Turner, of the Third Wheel)

helena deserves to inexplicably get to wear a modern baseball outfit

[visual storm]

Hm, would oc prompts be good here?

[upbeat copper]

I would guess so

[uncut gale]

yah?

[zenith glacier]

It is a very casual channel

[rich summit]

I have some old OC art I might share, gimme a sec.

[fallen sorrel]

I always want to make one of those templates for character inspirations

but I never have any actual character art so I'd have nothing for the main part of it

weh

[zenith glacier]

I’ve done it without character art before

[vapid pewter]

u can just find a face claim or forego it

[rich summit]

Only pictures I have of my Fursona on this PC.
Believe I named 'em Lio Tropicano or something?

[fallen sorrel]

i would but certain combinations of characters would either be misleadingly obvious or completely opaque

[rich summit]

Commissioned artists should be in the file names.

[uncut gale]

honestly i just write text half the time

[zenith glacier]

My answer

[rich summit]

Fair!

Saw this while scrolling down, love that look!

[upbeat copper]

I can't send this while on my phone cuz it makes me download Google Drawings as pdfs; my newest Exalted blorbo's inspos are Cassian Andor, Arya Stark, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, Ekko, and Aleksandar of Hohenberg

The latter two might not fit as much tbh

Cuz they've been gone from the revolutionary fight a long time unlike Ekko, and unlike Alex they're a smooth political operative not a massive nerd

[limpid flume]

It's even worse when the face claim is also apart of the inspiration

[fallen sorrel]

yeah I feel you there

[zenith glacier]

My thing is I mostly use art I find online for my TTRPG tokens

But I don’t wanna just like

Repost someone’s art here and claim it’s my own character

So when I present my OCs here I don’t use the art I normally would use for a token or something

[uncut gale]

hiiii yes my dear 「A Bloody Hand Holds Aloft A Black Blade Of Sorrows」 was made using a dollmaker

[limpid flume]

I usually have no issue and credit the artist but I am using a fairly well known character as a ref and I feel a bit of a stigma about it

[fallen sorrel]

Alright I made one

Are you all ready

[limpid flume]

Yes

[zenith glacier]

[rich summit]

I would love to hear about them and know which dollmaker was used! Aesthetically they are adorable and I love them, especially since I am 100% sure they would stab me.

[zenith glacier]

Who’s the wolf on the left?

[fallen sorrel]

that's the dog from The Thing 1982

[upbeat copper]

The Thing

[limpid flume]

IS THAT THE DOG FROM

Zthe thing

Holy shit

[fallen sorrel]

so

[zenith glacier]

Ohhhh

[limpid flume]

I saw that and did a double take

[fallen sorrel]

take what guesses you can about Ole Dandelion

[zenith glacier]

Are they a shapeshifter then?

[fallen sorrel]

you can call them Dandy for short

yes

[zenith glacier]

Cool

[limpid flume]

Eldritch horror shapeshifter

[fallen sorrel]

bingo

[rich summit]

Oh, I thought it was Balto

[fallen sorrel]

no such luck

[limpid flume]

Based on gman

[fallen sorrel]

iirc the actual name of that dog (the character not the actor) is Charnauk

[uncut gale]

here is her 6 inspo which hopefully helps

[fallen sorrel]

i copied their speech patterns from Gman

[uncut gale]

(blaidd is on there for voiceclaim purposes)

[fallen sorrel]

They are not very good at speaking

[zenith glacier]

Also I do wanna use dollmakers ideally for my characters but I’ve never found one I can fully be happy with

It’s mostly a me thing though

[rich summit]

Nice!

[upbeat copper]

But could he also be there for having a Ranni to do toxic yuri with?

[zenith glacier]

I know what these characters look like in my head so if the doll maker can’t recreate that I don’t like it

[uncut gale]

Exalted is a hell of a game and i do adore it for its myriad flaws

[limpid flume]

Oh it's an exalted character?

[rich summit]

She seems cool, delilah, would love to hear about her sometime.

[uncut gale]

bh's current ship is being coerced into a relationship with one of her elder disciples/fellow abyssals 🫶

[upbeat copper]

lmao

[uncut gale]

i love toxic yuri i love The Scarlet Bride Resplendent In Bloody Threads she is obviously safe red is my favorite color

[limpid flume]

Oh man I miss my old dragon blooded 3e exalted he was oops all resources oops all army

[upbeat copper]

I need to make my Lunar's solar mate

[zenith glacier]

I should make more inspiration sheets

[upbeat copper]

She made her beloved a dress how could she not be wholesome xD

[zenith glacier]

I only have one for Richard

[fallen sorrel]

Yeah my Exalted character never made it far enough to get built up for the game they were meant to be in

[uncut gale]

I can yammer~! Bloody Hand's been dead sixth months and on ghost estrogen for three, she has a sword that is a sharpened bone from the dead creators of the universe. she thinks that all life should end mostly so she never has to risk feeling bad ever ever ever again.

[fallen sorrel]

but they were a Dusk Caste that I entitled Its Ultimate Practitioner

[uncut gale]

BH's a dusk as well~!

[upbeat copper]

Oh hey look its Crona

[limpid flume]

He was made for a pbp that never got off the ground and all the other PCs were lunars

[rich summit]

That's about the most toxic yuri sentence I have ever read.

I dig it.

[zenith glacier]

When she wants all life to end is it like, oblivion end or afterlife end?

[upbeat copper]

Was he Outcaste or a Dynast having The Worst Time

[uncut gale]

the oaths sworn to the neverborn are (not) very clear.
Death must triumph over the abberration of life.

[zenith glacier]

Ah, so it’s kinda her choice then?

[limpid flume]

He was a dynast who basically said "work with me or you will have a very bad no good day" and gestured to his extremely well trained personal army of a thousand men

[upbeat copper]

Ah the third option

[limpid flume]

"And if you manage to defeat them then everyone will know of your existence and you will have a very bad no good rest of your life"

[upbeat copper]

My main Lunar has a cult she inherited from her previous incarnation

[uncut gale]

hand waggle

she is a contrary shithead with a bad grasp on its own emotions

[upbeat copper]

Who she killed, at the instruction of and with training from their Solar mate

[uncut gale]

oh my messages got eaten eaten

[upbeat copper]

Oh damn

[limpid flume]

damn

[limpid flume]

he was pretty fucking ruthless and almost all his uhhhh I forgot what they're called the superpowers were in command

it's been years since I touched exalted 3e

[uncut gale]

@zenith glacier i hope looking at the Major Thoughts in Bloody Hand's Cabinent (red for negative, blue for positive) helps illustrate What's Wrong With Her

a couple of these! might really conflict!

[upbeat copper]

He was dick, their love life is much healthier now

[uncut gale]

have you considered rhi- an abyssal or infernal mate

[limpid flume]

I had max dots in Resources, Retinue(??? Forget the name) and the other thing that gives you a domain/castle/land

[upbeat copper]

An Excellency in Command?

[uncut gale]

Resources, Followers/Soldiers, Backing, Manse?

[upbeat copper]

The Solar mate exists already sadly

[uncut gale]

aw

[zenith glacier]

Oh she’s a fucking mess

[upbeat copper]

She's the one I talked about yesterday who took refuge in the Wyld

[limpid flume]

at the very least resources, soldiers and manse yeah

[vapid pewter]

ok i scrabbled together my alchemical's inspiration sheet

[uncut gale]

BeaMu!!!

BeaMu!!!!!!!!

[vapid pewter]

beamu!!!!!!!!

yes that is the colossus of rhodes because she's fucking 13ft tall

[upbeat copper]

https://tenor.com/view/wamuu-jojo-jjba-jojos-bizarre-adventure-anime-gif-17398498

[zenith glacier]

Goldshi!

[vapid pewter]

yes beamu is fucking dumb as rocks

lemme fetch her stat line

[uncut gale]

i need to settle on a six but this is the current dolly im using for The Layabout Prince of the Lotus Feasting Hall

[rich summit]

Design looks sick

[uncut gale]

what if someone never made the right choice in his entire life and she still got an Exaltation because its suffering was so sweet it was sympathetic to the Demon-Gods locked away in hell

[limpid flume]

fuck this makes me wanna read exalted again

and play it but

[vapid pewter]

giant bimbo gladiatrix/estasian pop idol/unwitting institution of state propaganda that you could convince of literally anything if you tried hard enough

[limpid flume]

like that's ever gonna happen

[uncut gale]

the puddle we're drinking from is very tasty

[vapid pewter]

she's turning revolutionary populats into red smears and laughing while she does crowd work at the same time

[spark mist]

this reminds me that my most lunar-esque lunar is in fact a dragonblood. a very, very angry draginblood

[vapid pewter]

(someone please convince her to stop it isn't hard)

[rich summit]

What is exalted?

[uncut gale]

Its this tabletop game~!

Kind of like Conan Wuxia

[vapid pewter]

a tabletop roleplaying game that's crunchy as fuck and has a lot of really good juice

[fallen sorrel]

the inspo board for my Dusk would just be this image 7 times

[uncut gale]

Or Xianxia....

[upbeat copper]

Hey Atw, while I can't promise a spot I am running a game for my current group and intend to grab at least one more person once I'm familiar with the system.

XD

[limpid flume]

ohhhh

depends heavily on time

my ass is GMT

[upbeat copper]

Fairs

[limpid flume]

buuut I would be really interested

friend really wants to run a v20 game so I have been slogging through that

this book straight ass

villainous layout

[rich summit]

Ealted seems pretty hardcore

[uncut gale]

anyway the important part is what aspen said here @rich summit its very mechanically dense and part of the fun of it is that the friction you get from working with its ruleset lets you do a lot of fun emergent things with your character

[limpid flume]

I might be cooking though OC Saloon might get a taste of my new tremere gnostic soon

[fallen sorrel]

who wants to play ExWoD

[rich summit]

Huh, thanks for letting me know!

[vapid pewter]

the buy in is reading books with horrible layouts and constantly reading and rereading rules until you finally get it and then the reward is one of the most fucking crazy ttrpg systems (that i have touched)

like yes i think i will craft a wife

[rich summit]

I'm mostly intrigued because it looks kind of dark and edgy.

[fallen sorrel]

it can be

it's a white wolf game

with all that entails

[vapid pewter]

that's mostly the abyssals and infernals

[fallen sorrel]

Anyway

if you ever cant choose between Exalted and World of Darkness

Exalted vs World of Darkness is right there

[uncut gale]

it can be! Its very heroic in tone, and takes a lot from Sword-and-Sorcery pulps, its melodramatic and big, but one is expected to fight against people like Bloody Hand or Layabout Prince

they are shitty shonen villians and rivals for someone to have fights with, bc that's the kind of character exalted asks me to build when i play with it

[rich summit]

Are all names like that? Or is it more of a stylistic title?

[uncut gale]

That's mostly me

[rich summit]

Well, I like it!

[uncut gale]

Abyssals all have Sobrequiets because they cast their name into the Void as part of becoming an Abyssal

[fallen sorrel]

ditto their dommy mommies, the Deathlords

[uncut gale]

And Layabout is just vain enough to give itself a title-name

[rich summit]

https://tenor.com/view/anya-forger-taking-notes-oomfie-spy-x-family-memo-gif-8287618218761733944

[vapid pewter]

sobriquets are half the fun of coming up with exalted characters

how do u distill the character's vibe into a title

it's fun

[rich summit]

Might have to just make an OC to roleplay as because I want to make an Abyssal now with a name like...
Silent Laughter in an Empty Audience

[uncut gale]

Another Exalted example would be my dear Team Clear-Eyes, who is just kind of a girl (young nomadic mystery-solver) [Chosen By The Sun To Bring His Justice]

[fallen sorrel]

Moonshadow 🫵

[vapid pewter]

we love tema

[rich summit]

Moonshadow?

[vapid pewter]

all the exalts are broken up into castes of like

gameplay archetypes

[fallen sorrel]

"classes" if you want to be reductive

[vapid pewter]

dusks, like bloody hand, are combat monsters while a moonshadow is a manipulative and sneaky bastard

[rich summit]

Oooh, yes!
I would wanna be that.

[fallen sorrel]

they're "death's emissaries"

[rich summit]

I imagine, like, Alastor (HH) mixed with Bedman (Guilty Gear) and Thanatos (Hades).

Sort of a verbose, smug fuckboi

[vapid pewter]

yeah sounds like a apocalyptic socialize moonshadow

[uncut gale]

absolutely

The basic setup on Exalted would be the Solars whose castes are Dawn, Zenith, Twilight, Night, Eclipse

Fightmans, Talkmans, Wizardmans, Sneakmans, Travelmans

[vapid pewter]

and the abyssals are an inversion of them thematically rather than literally

champions of the sun vs champions of death

[uncut gale]

Everyone kinda falls into those basic roles with their caste, but much more customized as you pick your caste skills (five from a list of 7) and favored (any five not already chosen)

[fallen sorrel]

Yeah you can basically do anything with any caste

[uncut gale]

(the Abyssal Invert are Dusk, Midnight, Daybreak, Day, Moonshadow)

[fallen sorrel]

But a lot of them have built-in advantages to certain specific playstyles

[rich summit]

thinks

[fallen sorrel]

But this basic format doesn't extend much past Solaroids

[rich summit]

I kind of would want them to be a porcelain doll in a black suit

[fallen sorrel]

Lunars, Dragonbloods, Alchemicals, Getimians, Sidereals, all do other shit

[zenith glacier]

made another one for my OC Dorothea

[fallen sorrel]

...Adamantine caste?

[rich summit]

Oh, is that a thing?

Sorry, I'm just spitting thoughts into the void

[zenith glacier]

A member of the 2nd Choices, a hunter group along with Richard

[fallen sorrel]

so there's a whole type of Exalted that are artificial beings

called the Alchemical Exalted

Adamantine Alchemicals are "muses" iirc

[uncut gale]

Its just they're a bit. Difficult to play

[fallen sorrel]

Only a bit

[spark mist]

Adamant, not adamantine

[uncut gale]

Being from a completely different side-setting that doesn't really touch the core setting

[fallen sorrel]

ah

[spark mist]

they glow big

[fallen sorrel]

Well theyve added some caveats to allow you to play Alchemicals in Creation

[uncut gale]

well yes

but that doesn't change that most of their stuff is about describing Autochthon and then you don't really get to use that, so it can be a bit frustrating to work through

[spark mist]

there are ways for alchs to be in creation, most of which involve waking up in a cave with no connections to greater alchemical society

[uncut gale]

anyway

[fallen sorrel]

yeah

Ive been wanting to play ExWoD for

[uncut gale]

ocs are fun

make more ocs

[fallen sorrel]

Probably the better part of a decade

[rich summit]

nodsnods

[fallen sorrel]

In Melbourne, the Camarilla community "embraced" an Abyssal Exalted

[uncut gale]

ExWoD is a very very silly game as my memory serves

[fallen sorrel]

The Prince of Melbourne isn't worried yet.... He will be

It is but I love it

It's like driving a monster truck over a million million nineties edgelord OCs

the world of darkness is a place where everything is fucked and everybody sucks

but Exalted show up and go "fuck that we're cancelling the apocalypse"

[zenith glacier]

It’s a good feeling to just put characters in the situation

[rich summit]

I'll read up some stuff about Exalted and make a character sheet for Silent Laughter in an Empty Audience and share it! Maybe get to RP as them and have a hoot.

[vapid pewter]

yes it's been fun working on my alchemical because I've figured out that she's placid like a fucking golden retriever and she was created without the capability to lie. beautiful dumbass

her mind is like a sieve

[rich summit]

I imagine this moonshadow as being very... like, they don't prompt conversation but when prompted to speak they ramble at length?

[uncut gale]

Socialize and Presence and Perform will be the Abilities/Skills to look at

and i recommend picking up Exalted: Essence!

It's the most playable version of exalted yet known to mankind

Closer to the mediumweight of a World of Darkness/Storypath system than the Full Crunch of Storyteller (Exalted)

[vapid pewter]

it'll give you an idea of what exalted with training wheels feels like so you don't look at the character generation in ex3 and implode

[rich summit]

nods

Got to get to a few chores, thanks for the lovely chat and advice. ❤️

[uncut gale]

im so glad i got ya'll on to ex3 bc if i showed you 2 i think you would kill me with hammers

this to say, ex3 is a little like swimming in the deep end, but at least it doesn't tie rocks to your legs anymore

[vapid pewter]

LMAO

[fallen sorrel]

I wouldn't send anyone here to start

For no reason other than that it can't be played without the Ex3 book

So you might as well just go straight there to start

[spark mist]

You don't need 3e to play Essence, it stands on its own iirc?

Got all the mechanics in there from what I remember

[uncut gale]

yeah? essence is a standalone game??

like.

i have a phsyical copy of essence, that is the same as the pdf they sell, and its a full ruleset and All The Exalts You Could Need

[fallen sorrel]

I would have to look at the book when I get home

But I am pretty sure there are parts of essence that are like "To learn how combat works, read Exalted Core Rules!"

It's something about Essence I distinctly remember pissing me off lol

[zenith glacier]

Honestly, Rodion from Limbus company probably fits better then Roland from Library of Ruina

Significantly so

revised

No more Loland

[zenith glacier]

I think Dorothea’s main trait is her irreverence for everything at this point

She sees no point in most everything so nothing has weight to her anymore

She’s drifting through life, gambling everything because if she loses it it doesn’t matter anyway

[zenith glacier]

Also anyone also have OCs who use cleavers as weapons?

Viral is mostly there because her main weapon is one and I really like characters who use them

[rich summit]

Do you know Helen from Look Outside?

[zenith glacier]

No

[rich summit]

TW: Body Horror

[fallen sorrel]

Maneater Mildred

[zenith glacier]

Ohhh

Admittedly I kinda prefer in like, a non slasher setting

[rich summit]

She's from an RPG but she is essentially a slasher parody, so that's fair.

[zenith glacier]

Cleavers are fine for slashers but I kinda prefer when non slasher characters use them

[zenith glacier]

Yah, the mask is a big tell

[worthy siren]

she's actually a ||potential party member, not an antagonist||

but yeah point stands

[zenith glacier]

Oh that’s cool

[vapid pewter]

hello galius would u like to see the inspiration sheet for the giant bimbo robot master I've been cooking for fun in exalted. no game planned for her she's just occupying my brainmeat

[worthy siren]

sitting there in the corner taking up space

shore shore

[vapid pewter]

she's so fucking stupid

[worthy siren]

no face claim pensive

[vapid pewter]

I've decided she just looks like that 1977 photo of Dolly Parton but. like. made out of diamonds.

[worthy siren]

that's a good inspiration board

quality board

you don't see them built like that very much

[vapid pewter]

thank u thank u she's the dumbest creature alive and she's 13ft tall

[worthy siren]

eek

[rich summit]

You familiar with Look Outside?

[worthy siren]

voracious appetite for look outside videos we know it all

[rich summit]

I'm going to bed soon but damn, you're kind of based.

[worthy siren]

we do make an effort to have flawless taste and opinions

[rich summit]

You succeed!

[worthy siren]

hmmmmmmm

do we have characters

not really characters in other game systems hmm

oh actually

we do have Ami Seasu

armour astir character, catgirl with big enchanted roller skates that she kicks people's faces in with

[vapid pewter]

hell yes

[worthy siren]

Scout: Mundane - Skating on air as if ice utilizing a pair of enchanted boots, crashing through defenses, delivering a solid axe kick to anything that dares stand up.
Hooks:
Self-reflection is a mistake. The mirror holds only grief.
I'd rather die than let someone die in front of me.
I'll never die.

DEFY: +2
SENSE: 0
CLASH: +2
TALK: -2
KNOW: +1

Gear:
Air Skates (Custom Scout Weapon: melee / enduring, bane)
Blades & Bracers
Maps & Tools
Dagger I (x3)

Moves:
Giant Slayer
Mobility
Haste```
here's the state of her sheet last we saw our intrepid hero
she's not very good at the scouting part of scouting, we'd probably make some build changes given she's uhhh

oh my this build's a little over 2 years old

but having abysmal talking skills is vital to the char so

absolutely rizzless uncharismatic unpleasant cat

[vapid pewter]

fuck yes

[vapid pewter]

yeah this idiot is a state propaganda idol and gladiatrix and doesn't know that she's being exploited for how pretty and strong she is because she's so stupid. mechanically speaking you can basically convince her of just about anything if you try hard enough

we love BeaMu

[worthy siren]

oh yes secondary note, last we saw our intrepid hero she was assisting in a false flag attack during fantasy world war i

[vapid pewter]

incredible

[worthy siren]

she's also homophobic (internalized)
she's a very silly character we do revel in it

oh yeah and second armour astir character we have one of those

Arcanist: Arcane - His magic is not formulaic. It is formula itself. A tapestry of calculations laid bare for all to see, its form coalescing with terrible effect.
"Come, Mindaugas! Let us disprove reality together!"

__Hooks__
None escape my scornful gaze. Not even me.
I'm dissatisfied with my existence. I seek a solution, and surely my next idea will be The One.
People are pawns, and I'm closing in on the end of the board.

__Traits__
DEFY: -1
SENSE: +1
TALK: +2
CLASH: -1
KNOW: +1
CHANNEL: +2

__Gear__
MINDAUGAS III
Spell: Slate I (melee / bane)
Reagent Knife I (melee / mundane)
Shield Broach I (ward)
Fancy Coats

__Moves__
Prepare Rituals
Subsystems
Fire-Eater

__Astir__
MINDAUGAS : Power 1
OCCULT (Profane)
MV: Terrible Vision (When you untick 'Overheating' you may make your next Weave Magic roll with Advantage.)
__Parts__
Obscure Formulae (Heat Condensors)
Apostate's Broach (Flourish Component)
__Weapons__
Yrian Cants III (ranged / defensive, weak)
Erasure Of Reality III (ranged / ruin, drain 2, messy, profane)```

this one's actually a mech pilot

"People are pawns, and I'm closing in on the end of the board." yes he will promote to a queen yes she is transgender and unaware next questions

character inspired by the final boss of Darkest Dungeon 2

[vapid pewter]

hellll yeah

[worthy siren]

thank you thank you...

[vapid pewter]

ofc 🫡

[sharp steeple]

Do I make my hungerseed girl really fucking tall like 8 feet tall or like, normal human sized, like, 5 something. On one hand a cliche, on the other it's gonna look really fucking funnt when this armored fridge is kneeling and being all pathetic over a woman half her size

[modest lantern]

PROMPT TIME

What's your OC's favorite food or drink?

[modest lantern]

GO GO GO GO GO GO
women who are 8ft tall or taller getting romantic over someone far shorter than them is a very good trope

[fallen sorrel]

chees burger

[modest lantern]

nice

My guy Prick's favorite drink is straight Vodka, though they do like it mixed with some synthetic lemon and mint

as for their favorite food... given how small they are compared to humans, they don't really get access to a lot of 'normal' foods

🤔

[vapid pewter]

BeaMu's favorite food is hard candy (ie. rock candy and lollipops)
her favorite drink is milk tea drowned in sugar. she has a very big sweet tooth

[grim wigeon]

are we allowed to make lists of our ocs.....

[grim wigeon]

tall always

[vapid pewter]

cops can't stop u

[modest lantern]

gopher it!

(that is to say, go for it)

[grim wigeon]

(art from my 2025 artfight, left->right: vraltar, jyurah, aguro, seithe, caligo)
(original question i had was favorite food+drink)
Seithe: soup, lightly flavored grey or green tea; is pescatarian
Caligo: can't taste anything but "likes" sweets
Jyurah: food, water (aka not picky)
Vraltar: gazpacho, herbal teas
Ran: seaweed crisps and fish soup; monster
Acantha: pastries; monster, the drink.
Kerguelen: what's that smeeeell blood, blood
Dyrenelle: chowder, cold brew coffee
Mataala: charred beef, boiling gatorade water
Murchadh: dried fish, milk teas
Cynnel: lemon-herb chicken, plain water; allergic to roots (including carrots)
Aguro: pomegranates, terrible tea blends

too many creachurs in my head

[jolly crest]

the Leviathan Aleksander?

[upbeat copper]

dingdingding!

[jolly crest]

I have no idea how I got that one

it’s been so long since I read that series

[upbeat copper]

l m a o

[fervent tendon]

I have realized I have painted myself into a corner. One of my older OCs was a… little overspecialized in not dying, and ensuring everyone else around her also can’t die.

(And she’s overspecialized to a degree of basically effortlessly keeping everyone she chooses healthy. Also, she has a lengthy ability to heal remotely, so even splitting her up is difficult.)

[fallen sorrel]

reposting Dandelion

they demand your love and attention

and maybe also a cheeseburger

[eternal prism]

cheeseburger sent

[zenith glacier]

I want a cheeseburger…

[upbeat copper]

borger

[upbeat copper]

beezechurger

[zenith glacier]

I might get a burger

I’ve got time before class

And all the restaurants are closed on campus

But there’s a burger place between my apartment and campus

[upbeat copper]

I wish you luck in your effort to burget

[zenith glacier]

[upbeat copper]

Inspo sheet for The Final Envoy Heralds All Dressed in Dread Ink

An Abyssal Exalted of the Moonshadow caste

[uncut gale]

the name is a bit clunky when i read it out alas

is that La Maupin at the bottom??

[upbeat copper]

That is indeed!

The inspirations are the Herald of the Change from Dune, the actress Cynthia Erivo, Charles V Duke of Lorraine, Mizu from Blue Eye Samurai, Vivienne from Dragon Age Inquisition, and Julie d'Aubigny a.k.a. La Maupin

She is The Final Envoy of the Black Heron

The one whose arrival signals 'Look, last chance before this gets ugly.' because she is the Heron's most honest enjoy and diplomat

[uncut gale]

Aaah okay~!

I think The Final Envoy part is definitely good but Heralds All Dressed In Dread Ink hits my ear as kind of... mash of words

a bit hard to pull a thematic out of

The Final Envoy of Magnificent Black Feathers might tie you back into Princess Magnificent/Black Heron

[upbeat copper]

I will take that under advisement

Hmm

[uncut gale]

bc remember the Black Heron has a cover

[upbeat copper]

It could be Magnificent Black Quills

Cuz she writes a lot

Linguistics 3 moment

[uncut gale]

The Princess Magnificent with Lips of Coral and Robes of Black Feathers is your boss

[upbeat copper]

And also her daiklave is a pun on the Chinese goose-quill saber for the same reason

Ye

Oh, she is also of course Apoc Socialize

[uncut gale]

The Final Envoy of Extinction's Warrant?

[upbeat copper]

Maybe? I will be honest I can't change it right at this moment because the GM is wanting to work with us to make our sobriquets

[uncut gale]

idk the abyssal names i've all come up with are A Bloody Hand Holds Aloft A Black Blade of Sorrows and The Broken-Hearted Lord of Obelisk Manor

[upbeat copper]

And the current version is where we left it and I think they're asleep lmao

Don't you also have Layabout Prince?

Or are they someone else's?

[vapid pewter]

layabout's an infernal

[upbeat copper]

Ahhhhhhhhhh

[vapid pewter]

brokenhearted lord mentioned let me retrieve her inspiration sheet

[upbeat copper]

lol

[vapid pewter]

so dreamy

[upbeat copper]

Hmmm I wonder what their deal is

xD

[uncut gale]

The Layabout Prince of the Lotus Feasting Hall is just a very very vain infernal who thinks he should be worshipped

[vapid pewter]

broken-hearted lord has effectively 8 appearance when she's sitting after preening herself for an hour 👍

hottest fucking butch in the underworld

[zenith glacier]

Burger gotten

[upbeat copper]

Burgotten!!!!

[uncut gale]

oh wait there's also the BHL's wife/sword/corpse-in-a-box The Beloved Maker of Ghosts

[vapid pewter]

yes yes yes

[upbeat copper]

The Final Envoy also has a Manse, the Chateau d'Iferno

[vapid pewter]

who up feeding their corpse-wife-in-a-box-who-is-also-your-sword the blood of virgins so that you can spend one (1) minute together

[zenith glacier]

Burger eaten

[zenith glacier]

I’ve had the idea for a while but I really wanna make it so Dorothea just has like 5 different weapons on her at all times

None of which she’s ever bought

She just steals them from people she beats in a fight if they catch her eye

[lavish dome]

Swirling clouds assailed the mind, a darkening tempest of foul thought that clouded thought and stirred the body from cold and restless sleep. It began as nothing more than whispers, visions caught in half glimpses between the hours of sleep and wakefulness. 

What ageless vistas of steel and machines in dark union? The sun vanished beneath clouds and horizons eternally dark. No god existed there, for if they did, they would surely have wept, for he knew their presence simply did not exist there. These visions twisted and impossibly vivid caught the mind and trapped it, walking as if half-awake through another man’s life. Holding instruments of impossible shape and make, speaking in an impossible language in a city composed of strange, leering buildings. Towers taller than Babylon, a sky carved in twain by artificial stars, beasts that roared across and over and through, animals scattering in fear at his very presence, he spoke his name but it twisted and shifted away, his voice drowning in another’s tongue. He fought the urge to smile, to walk as the body demanded him to, to exert freedom in what was surely his dream but it was impossible, and he watched with abject horror as a passenger in his own skin, screaming without a voice until at last, he found himself able to shut his eyes again, to slowly drift into an oblivion he could taste under his tongue, a profound confirmation, an understanding that nothing would surely embrace himself again. ```

Then, softly, he heard a voice. Quiet at first, it grew in insistence and frustration as he turned and resisted its call. 
“Wake, damn you!” Came the call, and the rough hand on his shoulder shrived him of his doubt. 
Thank all the gods he could count, thank the word of whichever blessed deity gave reprieve and restfulness to their servants, for he was surely now in a soul-deep debt. He was awake, the monstrous existence as an occupant in that foreign and awesome city a soon to be forgotten dream. His eyes flickered in and out of the light of shrouded torches and he found himself staggering to his feet. 

Around him, dark crimson cloaks lingered on the edge of his peripheral, seven golden notches on each drew a sacred symbol, the prosperous sickle. He was-
He was himself, again. 
“And to think, you said you would not be capable of getting sleep on the outskirts.” 
The grin emerged the moment the hand departed him, a rough but nonetheless amicable thing only made imperfect by its place on such a scarred face, one made ugly by decades of warring. 
“Fris. Remind my mind, before it is addled by the presence of your face. The year?”
Fris’s grin only widened. 
“Have you gone senile before your time? Truly the sleep must’ve addled you beyond what you assumed. 1527. Come Glatio , before the rest of your body collapses under you. The Order has pierced the walls of Aurelian.”```

Glatio (thank the almighty, he could remember his own name.) rose to his full height, finally shaking off the bitter weight of his troubled sleep.
“We presumed them to be further off.” Glatio  said, quietly running a hand over his own cloak to ensure the hauberk underneath had not been damaged in what he assumed was a fitful sleep. The red in his eyes barely caught the firelight from Rome’s burning halls, and though he could not see it, the gold of the shattering crosses. 
“We presumed wrong. Your comrades are not idle men.” Fris added, but his smile soon ceased when he realised his error, rapidly shifting from amused to pitying, a curve in his frown added a second layer of internal turmoil to his own flagellation as he spoke.
“Former comrades, forgive-”
Glatio  watched the horizon.
“Hmm? I did not catch your reply. The fire caught my eye.” Glatio replied. 
A plain out lie and an awful one at that, but one Fris took in grateful stride.
“Right, yes.”

Both men took the silence as proof of conviction, instead of mutual mistrust. Both were lying, of course. No one could ever trust a traitor, no matter how much he might insist on his change in morals and by proxy no traitor, then, could ever trust his newfound comrades no matter how much they insisted they valued him more than his information. 
The fire was catching, though, it danced across rooftops in pillars of coruscating beauty, melting gold under its imperious touch. Barely visible figures walked through the darkening smoke with halberds and pikes to sweep the remains as casually as one might harvest grain at harvest. ```

“What about the guards?” Glatio  asked while the crimson cloaks swirled. Men and women alike drew their blades and held close their instruments of focus. Their golden scythes marked them as part of the hidden arm of resistance, the furthest reaching band of their number, to be sure. They were the Midian Harvest, and though they fought against that trembling hand called empire, they were losing as surely as the inferno claimed those that still lingered within the walls. 

“The Swiss? They perished. Most, I believe, have managed to escort his holiness to the Mausoleum of Hadrian.” Fris responded, kneeling next to Glatio. His subdued chanting echoed out a litany to some forgotten body of worship or another in a language similar to Latin but not quite its cousin, an ancestor, perhaps? It still seemed strange to consider it, but Fris was a scholar of such things. As he did so, the wind surged around them, then lessened, slacking against the flames as rain began to fall. First in drops, then a deluge, silencing some of the fire, leaving only a warping ring of glittering steel beneath. 
A monster born of reason.
The Order was here, this was confirmation enough. One of their mages stalked the streets, destroying the books The Traditions had worked so hard to preserve. One of his comrades, a name and a face he would know. 
Glatio cursed. 
“Damn them. The library, does it stand?”
Fris nodded. 
“Then cease your prayer, brother. We march now.”
Though the rain dampened their presence, it did not conceal it fully. In the shadow of Rome’s fall, sixteen ghosts walked through the Tiber, silence sealed their lips. The dream vanished, all that remained was dawn, slowly pressing on the horizon. ```

Working on a Mage 20th anniversary character, he's got Past Lives 4, so!

Well I suppose technically speaking the past life just got a glimpse of the future one, but

hey I make the rules

[fallen sorrel]

late but dandelion thanks you for cheeseburgers

currently in our masks campaign they've been through a lot

currently split in 3. most of them is on ice in a supervillain lab. some of them is hanging out eating burgers in the secret base of The Midnight Underground. A little bit of them is hiding in the team's leader.

[lavish dome]

Ahead, the woman stood, silent. The flames roared around her and the great beast, even in the monsoon that swirled across Rome, she did not falter. The inferno could not consume her, it could not even touch her. Her boots crossed the courtyard pavement, awash in a dark crimson. Though her hands were clean, though her mind remained pure, the beast was her instrument and it had worked destruction all its own. It loped across the corpses, a flower floating across a field of reeds, maw of churning combustion, eyes of artificial hate, a soul borne of lightning. Her chained monster, her necessary evil. 
It is said that reason breeds unspeakable villany so as to give itself definition. It is said of the Order of Reason, then, much the same. 
But this conflagration was necessary. These deaths, this cruelty, not hers, she did not own it. Her hands were on the priests, the scribes and acolytes, because they belonged to a distinct and separate entity. Though their hands clasped rosaries and sacred chants filled their panicked lips, their tongues conjured uncontrolled evil, a superstition above and over the great ideas of enlightenment. 

The Traditions lurked here. Practitioners of uncontrolled arts. Mad sorcerer-kings, biding their time in these places. Clement did not know who he protected, only that they offered his coffers many ducats. 
That gold, now cinders under her touch. That history, now erased. It was the only way to prevent their machinations from spreading. The libraries had been tainted, the scripture profaned. The Order knew this well. That is why they had dispatched her. 
Irena Ul. The first, the primus. Honoured agent of the just. Now a murderer. 
But it was righteous work. She knew that, affirmed it under her breath even as she walked the now burning library, searching for the book. It was the last copy that remained, one lingering piece of intelligence those damned fools had managed to secret away. 
Sol Liber. ```

Damn them for that Icarian arrogance. Damn them for proceeding, damn them all. Was Catalonia not enough? Did they have to destroy all the Order had built to make peace a reality? Of course it was so. This tome had done it. 
The Free Sun. 
Awakened literature. The last and only. The Daedalians would record it, transcribe its heresy into the ancient languages, then purge this base copy. 
Only the Order could handle it. 
But they were not the only ones pursuing such treasures, far from it. 

Irena knew his presence by the crimson that bedecked his shoulders, an inscribed golden scythe fluttering in the breeze, though hidden by the night rain, the everburning fire of her beast saw all. So she turned to watch him, to observe a savage in all his furious, backwards glory. ```

His ivory hair now curled with flame, as the red of his cloak linked itself with his hair and the churning passion of his latin chants, the rain pushed aside the coruscating inferno that swirled around him, leaving only his eyes visible in that surging tide. Islands of cold frost in a raging sea. He carried no weapon, drew no blade. Even as her beast interdicted him with its tremendous bulk, he simply raised an inverted left palm and left her monster sundered, pacified with invisible force. His familiar voice spoke in a tone she had never heard before. 
“Monster!”
Hate, pain. Grief? Sympathy. All mixed and discarded in an instant as her own animal instincts surged forward in response. 
“Traitor!” She responded. 
The mask she wore buckled, its steel felt tense, too pressured, too heavy. Its fine steel could not be party to this. She ripped it off, revealing the ruins underneath. 
Flame to flame. Passion ruins reason, and reason makes mockery of half hearted feelings. 
They would have been siblings, once. 
A monster of reason and the apostate who fled. 
He stood to full height and gestured to the sky, parting the darkening heavens with the peeling keen of thunder. 
The beast roared, Irena gestured it forward. 
Viktor Glaito must die, for the good of humanity. ```

Little sequel! From the opposing point of view

[fervent tendon]

Thinking of Maynard Dwyer, inquisitor of J.P. Morgan again. Combo of a religious fanatic whose religion primarily rules on obscure accounting practices, a noir detective, and Jim Sterling from Leverage.

[fervent tendon]

(And yes, this was Guilded Age Chicago but with magic. The rest of the party would have likely included multiple anarchists, as great counterplay to my mostly strait laced company man.)

[zenith glacier]

HUNT design bug has reminded me

I wanna do something for HUNT where each piece of art representing a fixation is a specific character

Who will be reused in the art for the hunters in general

So I wanna start doing stuff with them

[lavish dome]

I was born in Leicester, sometime after all that business with Thatcher. 1998, a couple of years before the big wars, a couple of years before the towers. I still remember getting my first phone, and you know what? I fucking loved Pentium, still have some of my old beenz cards too, y’know. I guess what I’m trying to say is, I was part of that delightful generation of washouts that moved to London trying to make it in a world they didn’t know. My sister, she went all intellectual on me, she teaches now, and I became the younger brother, the one who was racing to catch up. 
Which I guess had an effect on me, because for some fucking delusional second I convinced myself I was a musician. I practiced with bass, tried to go independent and hey, I made some money. Enough to keep my apartment stocked and my haze damn near permanent. 
To be clear, I don’t use now, I can’t go back to it. It makes me vomit something fierce, and the trips end up just awful vistas of the past. Hardly the hallucinatory Hendrix experience, is it? I thought, you know, that was it. I’d keep on keeping on, go out for lunch with my friends, drown myself in inanity. I guess that would’ve been nice, even if-
Even if it wouldn’t ever last. 

That’s the funny thing. Because I partook of a lot, I couldn’t tell when the things I experienced became more than just whispers and vague spiritualistic bullshit, I do know I started seeing things in the summer, because I remember my tune being harsher then than it had been prior. The yellows and reds were harsher, the pick dug into my skin and bled on my fingers, I broke against my instrument, the world broke with me, felt like. 

It was a Wednesday, I think. I was stumbling past this Italian place, instrument already in my room. I’d been out drinking, dunno for how long, but I figured long enough to realise that the police on the corner weren’t there to hassle me for my clothes, but for the poor bastard trying to sleep next to Hyde Park’s gates. ```

My eyeline caught the row upon row of Princess Di posters they lined up outside the wall, then it was the light of the hotel district. Car after car after car, in and out and in. Rolls and Bentleys and Jaguars and Mercedes and one bloody great Maybach. 
And there I was, forcing my way past the doors and into my room to collapse, a great blob of whirling hate. 

I don’t remember my dreams that night. They weren’t very powerful, they must’ve slipped from me. 
But then again, I only remember waking up to the smell of fire. 
I was a walking inferno. A burning man in the literal sense. My skin crumbled away revealing the distinctly wounded pink layers underneath. Bone and tendon wrapped around sinewy fingers as quickly as they vanished under a disquieting feeling of knowing-in a truly intimate sense- that you were on fire. My house was crumbling in on me, and renting it was my one saviour, because I didn’t have any roommates to harm. Not that they would’ve listened to the great flaming bellend anyway. ```

You know, I remember thinking. ‘Well Joseph, you prick, this is clearly a dream. Just walk out the front door.’ 
Which was a good thing to think, all things considered, because I would’ve forgotten I needed not to breathe in the smoke given my situation. After all, you think lucid dreaming, you think you don’t need to do much else. 
That’s when I felt the pain, right about the time I found an alley where I wouldn’t be a burning man any more, just some homeless fella sure to have moved on by morning.
And it was good I did, really. Because I guarantee the black suited fucks who came looking for me were looking for the man who blew up his house, not some idiot with a trenchcoat he bought for a prom he’d never attended. 

The bass survived too. Funniest thing I’d ever seen, that blue thing glinting in the ash. Slipping past the cops wasn’t hard, but the black suits were hot on my trail, at least until I found my bolthole. 
And sure, it’s not pleasant. Living in the back of a live house wouldn’t suit most people. It suits me just fine, though. I earn my stripes as a bass player, speak with the ones I know, secretly call the ones I don’t idiots behind their backs and try and work out what I am. 

Because there’s something funny, something I haven’t told you yet. 
Those black suits?
They called me Viktor. 
And I knew that wasn’t my name.
At least, I thought it wasn’t. 
But those dreams were real. There were a bloody lot of people, very very prominent people in very strange circles who I knew, who I-
Look, this is gonna sound odd but.
I’m pretty sure I was.
And that means, according to what I know, well. 
It means I’m one of the greatest Technocratic traitors to ever exist. ```

And now, finally, I get to the present!

[lavish dome]

@uncut gale this is why when you get past lives you ought to check to make sure you’re not some idiot in London before you get one. I hear not being that helps

[zenith glacier]

Made a sheet for Dorothea's older sister, Matilda Arnault

Im realizing now I was on a big grappler kick when I made her

[zenith glacier]

I wanna make the primary merchant my OC groups by from an extremely creepy dude who’s nevertheless utterly loyal to them as his best customers

[zenith glacier]

I should make it so my OC Richard is a huge fucking chuni

He’s constantly thinking what would be the coolest thing he could do in any given situation

[clever salmon]

Just got the first WIPs for my PF2e character 👀

[zenith glacier]

Oooooo

Can you post em?

[clever salmon]

Ye, here

Going with Design 2 bjt they're both great

[zenith glacier]

Oh sick

[clever salmon]

Nephilim Kholo Exemplar

[zenith glacier]

She looks great

[clever salmon]

Ye, artist is doing a great job

[sharp steeple]

Any specific lineage?

Also love the helmet

who is the artist btw?

[clever salmon]

Pitborn

[clever salmon]

https://bsky.app/profile/sporkarena.bsky.social

Graey Erb (@sporkarena.bsky.social)

He/him. Freelance Illustrator/Concept Artist, rpg enthusiast, giant mech pilot. Currently looking for work!
No AI/NFT
Contact: [email protected]
Some of My work: https://www.artstation.com/graeyerb

Bluesky

[sharp steeple]

Oooh, demon yeen

very cool

Longsword/greatsword fighter or something like a champion?

[clever salmon]

Exemplar

[sharp steeple]

Oh I'm blind

sorry]

[clever salmon]

No worries lol

[high tendon]

siiiick

[sharp steeple]

In preparation of Ellia getting a sheet I made a little scar sheet and wondering if I should add more

[jolly rose]

nasty spot in which to be stabbed

[sharp steeple]

Stabbed from behind in a betrayal plot, and if she wasn't a grimspawn she probably would die

[sharp steeple]

(Artist is voidh4ze on twt)

[clever salmon]

Got the colored sketch

[zenith glacier]

She looks great

[clever salmon]

The color scheme works pretty well

The yellow on the more neutral colors

[jolly crest]

grimspawn? what’s da system/setting? :o

[sharp steeple]

Pathfinder

In 2e grimspawn lineage gets diehard, flavored that they inherit part of the strong will of daemons to keep on living.

[jolly crest]

ahhh gorch

I’m only sort of familiar with PF compared to D&D, so that explains it

I am now remembering my vague idea for a PF1e samsaran ancestors oracle

where the idea is like
the ancestors in questions are her past incarnations, this lineage/soul’s oracle curse causing them to integrate less thoroughly into the current host than they’re supposed to (mechanically treated as the Haunted curse)

come to think of it I could pretty easily see this char’s adventuring motive essentially being “break the oracle curse so my soul doesn’t fragment even further”

her inspirations include Dax from DS9 and Aesling/Ashe from Thrilling Intent

^w^

[fallen sorrel]

Made heroforges for all of the members of my Masks Character's Legacy

[jolly crest]

Masks is a system right?

(I always feel slightly out of my depth in this channel when it comes to setting specific stuff cos I’ve only ever gotten the chance to play 5e and a tiny bit of PF1e and Lancer lol)

but ya what’s Red Queen’s deal? :o
(I assume Red Queen is the name, goin by the file name)

[jolly crest]

POG

[jolly crest]

oh yeah, daemons r the neutral evil fiends right? or is that a dnd thing specifically

[sharp steeple]

They used to be that, now pathfinder doesn't really have dnd alignment

They Fucking Kill People and Cause Suffering and Trade Souls

[clever salmon]

Unrelated but I've been thinking of making a Pulp OC (think Indiana Jones or the Society of Explorers and Adventures), but I'm wondering what specific Pulp aesthetic may work best. So far I'm thinking either an Adventurer/Explorer or a Fem Fatale, but I'm trying to think of alternative ideas that would also work well

Anyone have any ideas, if you dont mind me asking?

[fallen sorrel]

yeah its superhero comics themed

[jolly crest]

ahhhh rightright

[jolly crest]

I love femme fatales so I was biased as soon as you raised the possibility
that said: noir detective perhaps?

[clever salmon]

Noir Detective could potentially work

If it matters they're also a furry; thinking Hyena or Wolf

[jolly crest]

hmmm
for furry noir detective (assuming u did wanna go that route) my brain goes to fox for some reason? but either of those could work very well too

[upbeat copper]

me when 100% parental issues and gifted-kid-burnout by volume

[jolly crest]

is bottom right the one dark souls character with the gender fuckery and the tentacles

[thin osprey]

Gwyndolin yes

[limpid flume]

is that whats his face from tw3

[upbeat copper]

That is indeed Caranthir

[upbeat copper]

ice mage created as the result of an obsession with breeding for purpose whose abilities are prodigious at the cost of

Being Fucking Crazy

And Extremely Maladjusted

[limpid flume]

yep

I forgor his name

[upbeat copper]

He is my favorite TW3 character

I'm normal

[limpid flume]

bitched his ass in the geralt boss fight

[upbeat copper]

I like his backstory and think he's cool

I'm a sucker for Strange Wizards

[limpid flume]

actually no nvm I forgot what boss fight he is

he does fuck I love strange wizards

I also love that he's a wizard who's fucking huge too

[upbeat copper]

He did also beat the fuck out of Eskel tbf

Oh yeah that's also the thing that's getting incorporated

My character is heavily incorporating 'magic' if not outright sorcery in Exalted terms

into their fighting

I mean, everyone does that

But it's very aesthetically magical if that makes sense

ice blasts, supernaturally fast movement

etc

[upbeat copper]

Huh...

I accidentally made juxtaposed pairs

top left bottom right, both characters grapple with the expectations of their fathers; Louis snaps and asserts himself in chaotic ways, while Gwyndolin kind of just bears the burden. Both are also the future heads of crumbling empires, though of different kinds.

middle: Jen Yu and Mizu both learned their skill with a sword through surreptitious means, theft of a manual with the ability to read and observation of their master's clients as a low-class blacksmith's apprentice. Jen practices a single school while Mizu's style is a hodgepodge of multiple with no allegiance.

bottom left to top right: Caranthir and Todoroki are both ice users who are the result of, to be blunt, eugenic breeding. Caranthir embraces this and becomes an eager sorcerous apprentice to his creator, while Todoroki has to work hard to not reject the half of himself that comes from his father.

[clever salmon]

Final version(s)

[upbeat copper]

waow

[grim wigeon]

ridiculously good!!

[peak mulch]

Kbitty

also le token im using for him

[upbeat copper]

Is he using that one fuckin weapon that's in literally one MonHun game?

[upbeat copper]

A Magnet Spike?

[peak mulch]

Close!

he's using a Wyvern Boomerang

[upbeat copper]

Huh

vas ist los?

[peak mulch]

the Wyvern Boomerang is a Monster Hunter weapon that never came into existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uomhSpdlA

[peak mulch]

Im playing in a dnd server and one of the weapon choices is the Wyvern Boomerang which, and I quote: "It's a giant fucking boomerang you need power gauntlets to wield"

hence the gauntlet :>

[upbeat copper]

lol

[peak mulch]

i was TEMPTED to give him a Magnet Spike

but yea, i chose the boomerang

[uncut gale]

Hi saloon check out my awful creature

[vapid pewter]

we love herrr

[zenith glacier]

“Laziness is the height of luxury” she just like me fr

[upbeat copper]

Junji Ito moment

[uncut gale]

I spent merit points on a demon gorilla to carry him around princess style 🫶

[thin osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qyZfKWlak

[zenith glacier]

Perfect

[thin osprey]

Layabout after the Solar Circle crashes the party

https://tenor.com/view/shinji-apes-nft-nft-monkey-shinji-crying-gif-24373195

[sharp steeple]

The forever dilemma of "Historically, male clothing inspired by this specific region should have solid colors" and "Gotta make em fabolous"

[upbeat copper]

updated inspo sheet, complete with Picrew

[peak mulch]

LOUIS SPOTTED

BASED

[upbeat copper]

snrk

lmao

[upbeat copper]

would you like to hear more about them lol

[jolly crest]

my brain
my fucking brain
immediately went to the fact that I created an NPC for a campaign I played in once who was partly inspired by King Louis VII of France

[upbeat copper]

It does not help his name is pronounced the French way lmao

[jolly crest]

<- does not know which of these guys is Louis

I always get so fuckin lost when I see an inspo chart that doesn’t label characters and their sources cos like

I don’t consume media (this is a joke but it’s really mostly that there’s a relatively small number of media things that I get very very into)

the partly Louis VII inspired character is Baron Loth de Medraut, father of Mordred de Medraut (yes his name is essentially Mordred Mordred), boyfriend of ya girl Marian von Favidromos

[upbeat copper]

Deer fuckboi top left

He is from Beastars, and is the requisite Extreme High Achiever And Victim of Emotional... okay I hesitate to fully say abuse but very high pressure

[upbeat copper]

This motivated me to add the names and sources with the updated inspo sheet xD

[jolly crest]

yayyyy

[jolly crest]

also “deer fuckboi” is making my brain go to my wretched deer twink who is
not a tabletop character so I guess just search “sachie” in #1368330579124420628 and you’ll get the picture lmao

[upbeat copper]

XD

[upbeat copper]

would you like a summary of what each character brings to the table? XD

[jolly crest]

ya sure

I have a thing like
right about now
but ping me and I will get back 2 it when available

[upbeat copper]

lolol

have fun!

[upbeat copper]

Basically all these characters are the result of the impact controlling and emotionally absent parenting and cultural customs had on them
Louis is the adopted son of a CEO, perfectly molded to be his father's successor, something he initially embraces but begins to buck against as he gets older. (My character, while not an adoptee, has certainly had their fair share of attempts at molding thrown their way, and while they believe in the ends of that molding, their expanding worldview is starting to undermine it in ways they are finding discomforting.)
Todoroki is the result of an arranged marriage for the purpose of inheriting both parents' powers over ice and fire respectively. (My character is in a social caste where the most valued members of the family are those that inherit the family's Dragonblooded lineage, signified by control over one of the five elements, and marriage and procreation is a carefully managed affair to ensure the highest chance of this 'Exalting' [this character is my pc for a campaign of the Exalted ttrpg])
Yù Jiāolóng is a nobleman's daughter who seeks freedom from the lot in life that gives her in Qing-Dynasty China through martial talent and training from a stolen manual (My character learned martial arts as a sort of 'controlled' rebellion. It is something that is lauded for their social caste, so their mother couldn't openly oppose them pursuing the martial arts, but it was not her preferred direction for them.)
Zuko... fuck how long can I write about Zuko. My choice of a screenshot showing him after a display of his skill with swords during Zuko Alone is very much on purpose. He is on his own, displaying the prodigious skills his family takes for granted because they are not the skills his family values. (See above about Jiāolóng and add teen angst.)

Caranthir is the result of a eugenic breeding program directed by Elves from an alternate dimension to create mages capable of creating rifts between worlds. (My character does not have this powerset, but again their entire social caste is focused on creating more of their kind through prestigious marriages.)
And finally Mizu, who is an abandoned orphan who seeks revenge on the four white men in Japan who might have fathered her, forcing her into a life of racial discrimination and who hides her gender to carry out martial work. She learned the sword as a method of this revenge. (My character is not the result of sexual assault, but it is an open secret they are the result of an extramarital affair, and part of them deep down wants to take their blade to their other parent who they perceive as having abandoned them. There is also no proscription against women participating in combat or other affairs in the world of Exalted, in fact Dragonblooded families are usually headed by matriarchs, but their unwillingness to express their gender is because they believe it an avenue for social interaction on the fronts of marriage and sex, things they are entirely uninterested in.)

[jolly crest]

oh I see! interesting

I find that last tidbit especially intriguing because

<- weird gender stuff

[upbeat copper]

lolol

[jolly crest]

I am now remembering that Marian has a slight bit of weirdness around marriage herself due to being noble but like
it’s much more contextual for her

[upbeat copper]

I am also making both their mentor character and the mentor character for my Sidereal (those Exalted by fate) xD

It is the same person, and is thus receiving the one inspo sheet

[jolly crest]

Mordred’s mom, Morgause, really really wants him to get married to Marian because Marian’s dad is a count in another country (read: expy of various different versions of Dracula) whose county is rich in silver
and Morgause is basically looking at the potential economic and political gains to be made from this and going “okay yes I know you started dating yesterday but Get Married Now Please it would be extremely politically convenient for me”

meanwhile Mordred’s dad, the aforementioned Loth, is a cleric of the local sun god; his Louis VII of France inspiration comes from him having been a noble who got placed in the care of a monastery, then got unexpectedly yoinked out of it, and stayed very… monk/priest brained
so his reaction to this relationship is “what the fuck do you mean you’re courting a dhampir”

Marian’s relationship with her boyfriend’s parents is very weird to say the least

[upbeat copper]

Very, very funny

[jolly crest]

I can’t remember exactly but I think she explicitly told Morgause that she feels like Morgause looks at her like a prime cut of meat

she sees Loth as extremely frustrating but at least more honest which is something she respects; she’s never really been one for scheming and didn’t learn much political stuff by the time she left home
(she’s remarkably young for an elf and comes from a culture where nobles tend to be taught military stuff first and then more detailed politicking)

[upbeat copper]

lol

[jolly crest]

I will not lie

King Harold from Shrek 2 is the only other entry on Loth’s inspo list thus far

[jolly crest]

interesting!
I don’t know much abt Exalted tbh, but is the idea here that you’re like
using a single mentor NPC for chars in two different campaign? or do you run multiple PCs in one campaign in Exalted?
or am I completely misunderstanding here

[upbeat copper]

I am giving two pcs in different campaigns the same mentor

These mentor-mentee relationships are occurring at different times so as to not necessitate gms coordinating cuz that is just

a mess they didn't ask for lmao

[jolly crest]

gotcha, gotcha

makes sense!

[upbeat copper]

Their mentor is Dancing Wildflower Meadow, a Sidereal martial artist and minorly talented sorcerer, and she is mentoring both Ledaal Midura, the Dragonblooded I was talking about earlier, and Sachilin of Celestial Revolutions, a fellow Sidereal, though much 'younger' than her

They do not know of one another, and likely never shall

[jolly crest]

is Exalted the one where all the characters in this thread with phrases for names r from

[upbeat copper]

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Mostly, yes

Are you talking like

Lilah's A Bloody Hand Holds Aloft A Black Blade of Sorrow?

[jolly crest]

Bloody Hand Holds Aloft a Black Sword, I think it was

yeah

[upbeat copper]

Cuz yes, she is an Exalted character

She is an Abyssal, an Exalted in service of death

[jolly crest]

ohhh right I remember this vaguely

I think

my memory is rly good prommy

[upbeat copper]

Her Layabout Prince is also an Exalted

lolol

[jolly crest]

ya

makes sense

I thought it was just a thing for that character to be extra dramatic and then I very vaguely went “…hey wait this is a recurring thing. wonder what that’s about”

[upbeat copper]

l m a o

Yes, Exalted either have normal(?) names or titles

[jolly crest]

hmmm

I am now remembering Sharps the kobold

[upbeat copper]

With Abyssals they explicitly all have titles, they forfeit their names in the bargain to Exalt

[jolly crest]

she’s a PF1e character concept who uh

well

[upbeat copper]

lol

[jolly crest]

she’s Fred from Scooby Doo but also a Scooby Doo villain but also Nobby from Discworld

[upbeat copper]

xD

[jolly crest]

she’s a weird little freak who’s obsessed with the idea of building a lair full of traps and treasure
the traps are for protecting the treasure. and the treasure is for baiting the traps so she gets data from adventurers. yes this is circular she just really likes both making traps and having treasure and thinks the two work together really well

[upbeat copper]

Amazing

Wonderful

Headpats for creacher

[upbeat copper]

lmao

amazing

[jolly crest]

some kobolds want to actually become dragons, or have working wings, or whatever
not Sharps
no, the area in which Sharps wants to outdo the dragon she used to work for is the draconic profession
that is to say: having an unreasonably elaborate and extensive lair that’s full of shiny stuff and traps, and ideally also people she can order around

[upbeat copper]

I love her

[jolly crest]

thank u :3

also she’s an investigator which is PF1e’s alchemist/rogue hybrid class (couldn’t decide between the two for her and then remembered I didn’t have to)

were I to make her in 5e she’d probably be an artificer, maybe with some rogue levels

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I forgot to mention that I was also vaguely inspired by Tucker’s Kobolds

[sharp steeple]

getting a new creature

[grim wigeon]

good creature..

[sharp steeple]

Hiromu Oniyama (大武 鬼山)

A child of an Oni father and a hobgoblin woman he took on as a sacrifice so he will leave this one mountainside mining village alone. Raised by her father, who had a desire to raise a "Heir to his martial arts and a lasting trail of his achievement" so she was raised mostly around the same values as he was; that strength was on top, that one has to constantly improve, and some other, more unsavory parts of his character. Cruel in a bully way sometimes.

After years of physical training, often forced fasting for the sake of forging steel will, and other martial art stuff she was kicked off the mountain because he was bored. Quickly made her way into Hobgoblin kingdom, but she didn't quite was fitting into highly disciplined society and not looking like a hobgoblin even if she was partially one

Then she made her way into Oni kingdoms going through spirit forest and for now I dropped her there, trying to become a warlord, failing, and making a promise that she will return with an army as an invincible conqueror

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Inspo Sheet for the Monday Game Sid I am hoping to play

In order, the Nerevarine from Morrowind, Allison from early KSBD, Eido from Destiny 2 post finding out her dad used to be a sadistic pirate, Arya Stark from GoT after realizing she cannot be a Faceless Man, Ciri as seen in the Witcher 4, and Luke Skywalker in Episode V getting his hand cut off

[peak mulch]

chat gunpowder's fucking dead

[upbeat copper]

Aaauuuurrr Naaaauuuurrrr

[visual storm]

Oc prompt: The villain is trying to trap everyone in a static paradise, powered at the expense of the villain's own mental wellbeing
How does your oc respond and feel?

[zenith glacier]

Richard has a simple motto, one that’s his only real moral belief besides what his friends are able to convince him of

He can’t stand when someone starts going on about the greater good

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Me when I'm Normal about my family being deposed by a tyrant, so I start plotting to use the new magic powers I gained along with my training as a courtier to dismantle his powerbase from the inside before I take his head and dramatically reveal it was me all along

[limpid flume]

my cyberpunk RED character, Tsang Chun-Pak

had the energy and desire to share em

he was an absolute unit of a guy, 6'fuck and a metric fuckload of ex PLA muscle. Was dragged back into the corpo life by his crazy ex girlfriend who just so happened to be the woman in charge of security for chinese operations in NC

other players and my backup were trying to get him out of it when the campaign died

[limpid flume]

we had a "hottest characters" vote and he came like 3rd

[upbeat copper]

who the fuck got 1st

[limpid flume]

OH

OH YOU

1 sec

[upbeat copper]

?

Oh me?

[limpid flume]

no that's not what I mean 1 sec

DMPC, called Fender, she was our glorified chauffer who worked for the exec

like it's a landslide

[upbeat copper]

Man I'm weird

My first thought was 'honestly the car is sexier than she is' <XDDDDDDDD

That is like my favorite car in 2077 tho, at least I think that's the spy version of the car

[limpid flume]

very valid

[upbeat copper]

Like I'll say I get why

She got 1st

I just don't agree lol

[limpid flume]

GM note: they corrected me on their pronouns it's they/them 😭

my backup character got 2nd

[zenith glacier]

Personally I’d vote for him

[upbeat copper]

They/them

[zenith glacier]

The hair really does it for me

[limpid flume]

the beauty of making a party, or maybe the issue, in CP2077 is that you can make thirst traps in it

[upbeat copper]

What's your backup like?

[limpid flume]

ASHLEIGH!!!!!! she was a goated media

[upbeat copper]

She's the best of the top 3 wtf

[limpid flume]

this was the exec's other mook, Hadrian

he was the goat

just loved his wife

This was the full party when I played ashleigh

[limpid flume]

cyberpunk RED is the best ttrpg because it has a $70 character creator

another character I never played, Monica, who I wanted to play in another campaign that fell through because our playgroup collapsed

[upbeat copper]

Hm I wonder what the fuck her job is

xD

[limpid flume]

she's a tech actually!

She was just fucking built too

[upbeat copper]

lmao

combat tech?

[limpid flume]

yeah

[upbeat copper]

Based

[limpid flume]

she was gonna rock flak and the ROF2 shotgun

[upbeat copper]

My techie is a combat engineer tech

kind of a geardo

but who actually knows how to use all their shit

[limpid flume]

yeah her backstory was that she was EU Space Agency security/spec ops

and retired when she got married and had a kid

[limpid flume]

my favourite kind of tech

[upbeat copper]

Mine stole from Kang Tao after their parents, who worked for them, got iced

[limpid flume]

Geralt and Joel are both because of their adoptive father relationship and also being absolute killers who are softened by said relationship

[zenith glacier]

Compressed Wick and Geralt

[limpid flume]

ITS

REALLY FUNNY

[zenith glacier]

It’s so funny

Geralt hitting the “Do you have games on your phone?”

[limpid flume]

Tsang at the campaign start was basically alone and looked at the 16 year old netrunner orphan and the rest of the group and was like "we should not be taking her with us." and no one else cared

and they ended up becoming very close friends

He was also an absolute bastard

the first mission we ran he went to choke someone out and ended up killing them by accident and went "oh ok. I'll dump the body."

I started him at I think 12 humanity despite having no cyberware

by my own choice

he might be the best character I've played in a ttrpg