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BG3 / Dungeons and Dragons

The Dark Urge

The Dark Urge...
Standard white dragonborn sorcerer base game build; using the Durge's Mangled Head mod for Extra Detail.
6'5, very striking looking dragonborn, with his crest of horns, blazing red eyes, deep red patches and muscular build.His past was fragmented by the explosion, waking up from the Nautiloid with a tadpole in their eye, no memory of their past, and an itching desperation that drove him to kill, slaughter, murder without mercy. Fighting back the urge, they managed to gather together a party to get the damned parasites out of his brain and find out who he was.[Game spoilers ahead!]
After seeing him tear apart an innocent bard in camp, Gale, the resident wizard, came up with a name for our identityless leader - Caedes. An old language word meaning Slaughterer, although he's never told them this origin. The word stuck, and Caedes now carries it with pride... although whether unaware of the meaning remains to be said.The urge has an awful grip on him. Striking, stoic, generally calm and quiet, Caedes still falls to it from time to time. Weathering the constant pain caused by his 'father', Bhaal - the god of murder himself. As Caedes' past unfolds, he becomes more and more unstable - losing weight, struggling with headaches, nosebleeds, visual issues, and worse, all because he refuses to fully give in to the urge that claws in his throat at all times.As the journey goes on, he accepts the illithid; if you write with him during act 3, Caedes will have black eyes and spidering markings along his white flesh.POST GAME - Caedes marries Gale, and they have a child, Mirabeli. Please note that unless otherwise stated, Caedes will ship with anyone and the variations of Gale written here are different to the Gale written in his 'official' story.
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Gale Dekarios

Standard game build; pure wizard.
Human male, just over 6ft, mid thirties, with shoulder length brown hair kept in messy waves. Hazel-brown eyes, a naturally soft expression and easy to smile. The orb markings are burnt into his chest and trail up to his left eye.Once Mystra's chosen, Gale has gone through rather a lot of heartbreak and confusion in his life. A human wizard, exceptionally skilled from a young age, he made a horrendous mistake that cursed him with a magic-hungry orb, trapped within his chest, destroying his essence from the inside out.
Bookish, confident, ambitious and sometimes self-doubting; Gale believes his only value lies in the magic that he can provide.Over the course of the journey, he learns to accept that he has value in more than what he can create or be.POST GAME - he has settled and is quite comfortable being a teacher at Blackstaff Academy. He enjoys his work, and has softened a lot - quite literally - from the life of study and teaching. However, some part of him most definitely hungers for adventure once more.

Terra Cotta

Terra Kotta is an Aarakocra, a birdlike species, resembling themself a red tail hawk. They are short in stature, at just about four feet, and carry themselves with confidence mostly borne from not knowing anything else.They were raised on a farm by Firbolgs, as their egg had been found on the very boundaries of one of their orchards. The firbolgs who ran the farm, feeling pity for the egg, decided to hatch it, expecting to have perhaps a helpful new beast on the farm. What they didn't expect was a squalling but very much sapient Aarakocra chick, considering their rarity in these parts.As they aged, they found their natural abilities to fly and their keen eye exceptionally useful. Trained in the bow and arrow, they would spend their nights hiding in trees, protecting the farm from animals, raiders, and all matter of issues.But now a blight is spreading across the land, and the farm is making less and less money, they decide something must be done and set off on their own adventure into the world.Quiet and sometimes jarringly blunt due to their upbringing, Terra Cotta means well but often makes an idiot of themself. Not that they notice.

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ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Skye Barber

In a world with mutants, heroes and villains, Skye was pretty unremarkable. If you investigated her genome, it would become clear where the tiny ridge of spines down her back came from, but with such an easily-hideable mutation, she lived her life mostly easily. However, the disgust and dismissal experienced by doctors and medical professionals growing up drove her to do something about it.Training first as a physiotherapist, Skye found work in helping those like her; soon it became apparent that the need for doctors who would treat those who might not be entirely 'human' was incredibly high. She devoted herself to this cause, and spent many years working for institutions which held heroes. She soon came to realise, however, that she was needed elsewhere.Skye is now in training to be an emergency medicine doctor, but runs a clinic from her apartment window. Hero or villain are allowed to turn up and receive her no-nonsense help. She believes that her instinct for what is wrong with a touch is merely practice and experience, nothing more...

Nathaniel Polona

Nathaniel’s mutation started showing late, when he was about fourteen. He lived with his mom, father having left before he was born, and believed he was entirely normal. After a month of excruciating pain, his wings grew in. Ostracized from his friend groups and feeling horrendously alone, he fell into a dark depression and almost did something stupid. His mother saved him and sent him to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, having heard it was a good school for mutants.Nathaniel suffers from borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety. He has issues focusing in classes, even after several years at the school, and spends as much time skipping lessons as he does taking them. He is, however, a very strong flier, and now believes that he would rather die than give up his ability. Skittish, it’s hard to become his friend and very easy to lose it, but he cares a lot more than he lets on.With a history of self harm and known relapses, Nathaniel often gets paranoid that people will be checking his wrists so usually wears long sleeved shirts and jackets year round.

Rio Amar

"We have a legend, in my family.
About Ra, the sun god, and a human woman who worked on the Earth below.My family say that Ra was so enamoured with her and how strong
she was, how she defended the honour of the Gods, that he gave her the power to transform into a dragon. She mated with one of his
own personal dragons, and her
offspring spread out across the world.She served as a guardian for all her
life, and is supposedly still in the
sky kingdoms, working alongside Ra.
And when we finish our life on Earth, we go up to work alongside her.
Kooky story, huh?"Rio was raised in Ohio, with his family; both his parents were also gifted with being dragons, and raised him to know his heritage, although being raised human meant he didn't come into his powers until he was older. Naturally slender, with olive skin, dark eyes and messy hair, Rio is generally somewhat easy to overlook. Unfortunately, when he was around ten, his mother died in a car crash. His father, devastated, left Rio with his sister and abandoned them.Whilst his aunt never actively hurt him, she clearly did not care for the boy. When he started to show interest in other boys, she began to shower him in homophobic abuse. Unaware of her sibling's abilities, and perhaps a little hurt that she had never been involved in the secret that her family kept, she began to take this out on Rio. Eventually, unable to cope any more, Rio transformed and left, intending to head to Egypt to meet his grandparents and understand more about himself as a dragon.He still hasn't made it there.
Kind but quiet, Rio has learnt to be invisible, stealing or hunting where necessary. Still looking for a home and living half-wild have had their effects over time.

Dewey Finn - School of Rock

Determined to become a rock guitarist from a very young age, Dewey spent the majority of his life wholley uninteresting. He spent hours upon hours listening to the classics and greats, scraping by a basic enough grade in school but mostly considered too much of a dreamer, head up in the clouds, destined to a life of flipping burgers. Band after band failed or fell through, and he ended up 'crashing' on his best mate's couch for 'just a month or two' - which rapidly morphed into years. When it came to crunch time, he handled it with his usual level of grace and diplomacy... and faked being a teacher. Seeing opportunity and talent in the kids he was working with, they put together a band and somehow, against all odds, actually achieved something.Now working as a music tutor at a high level school and running the band on the side, Dewey has found some sort of happiness. He's still goofy and silly, loves rock and roll, beer and maybe a smoke or two, but he has a real passion for working with these bright young souls. Whilst he's accepted he may never be on stage with the likes of Claptop or Osbourne, well - he's happy enough with the way the kids he teaches view him. To them, he'll always be a rock god, and that's awesome.

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