u/new_lance

Let’s assume there are humans who remember a world before magic. There were stories, sure: holy men able to cure illness with water from a sacred pond; wizened recluses who could walk among the brush and beasts without issue; minstrels who could soothe not only a soldier’s night terrors, but their physical pains as well; and so on and so forth. They were only stories, tales told to children to lull them to sleep. When people went searching for those places, they found… nothing, and no one could recall or produce any record of such things ever truly existing.

Then, all at once, at the height of some emotional outburst, a child calls forth a bolt of fire from a bloodline long suppressed; a fervent prayer is answered; a lutenist’s “Thy Mother” joke causes actual pain.

I’m trying to wrap my head around if I do this, what needs to be taken into consideration?

Let’s assume there are humans who remember a world before magic. There were stories, sure: holy men able to cure illness with water from a sacred pond; wizened recluses who could walk among the brush and beasts without issue; minstrels who could soothe not only a soldier’s night terrors, but their physical pains as well; and so on and so forth. They were only stories, tales told to children to lull them to sleep. When people went searching for those places, they found… nothing, and no one could recall or produce any record of such things ever truly existing.

Then, all at once, at the height of some emotional outburst, a child calls forth a bolt of fire from a bloodline long suppressed; a fervent prayer is answered; a lutenist’s “Thy Mother” joke causes actual pain.

I’m trying to wrap my head around if I do this, what needs to be taken into consideration?

I’ll start: I saw the Temple of Sacred Ashes go up and I immediately yelled, “Damn it, Anders!”

They’re the guys worshipping a High Dragon because they think Andraste is in it. Is that even remotely possible? I understand the Jaws of Hakon had a spirit possessing a dragon but have we ever seen the “spirit” of a former living person possess something?

The basic idea is that the character is something akin to a Spirit-Human(oid) hybrid. At level 2, I’m making preparations for my character to undergo a ritual that causes her to experience ego death. In short, she’ll undergo an emotional lobotomy. All that will remain is raw intellect, with none of the personality behind it. This state will be undone by entering into a union with a spirit, and my character will be granted a subclass (of my choosing) based on the nature and personality of that spirit.

The Oaths are precautions meant to tend to the spiritual well-being of the spirit, lest it become corrupted and cause us to become an Oathbreaker (and get NPC’d). We’re running a “Forgotten Realms with the serial numbers filed off” setting: the cosmology is the same, but names are replaced, and some homebrew elements, such as reskinning are encouraged. My question is: What manner of spirit might be associated with each subclass?

For Dragon Age fans, this character is essentially a Seeker of Truth, where the end goal is to create an Anders-like character, just less volatile.

The basic gist of what happed in a Star Trek game my character killed a Changeling. Then she “blamed” it on a Petty Officer who is touted as a celebrity. Awards, accolades, even promises of a field commission. Officer was liquored up for the vast majority of the event and was given a direct order by the captain to “Never speak of it.” Even suggested my character went to the holodeck to create a “forensic reconstruction” of the event to even try to explain what happened. Which then my character suggested would be phenomenal for recruitment.

My character is effectively a prisoner on work release, in a very sketchy side of Starfleet. Less of an officer, more of an asset with a paper thin paper trail and disguise. Figured this Officer could handle the scrutiny better.

I effectively killed this character didn’t I?

Let’s assume species isn’t the issue, just the story. How would you stat this character out?

Barring extraplannar incursions from the Hells, Limbo, or the Astral Sea, what two other languages are very prevalent?

My goal is to make this character understood in at least one language pretty much anywhere in the Sword Coast.

This will serve no other purpose than to speak to NPCs. No Command, Suggestion, or Dominate shenanigans.