#ceya's thoughts

They're a combination of dozens of dozens of dead people, stitched together by a necromancer who wanted to bring her son back after he'd been torn to pieces by wolves (he's the one with auburn hair). She made a deal with a god of Undeath in order to do so, which didn't turn out as intended - the other souls weren't supposed to remain, but they did, resulting in a lot of people trapped in one body, trying to get along. Over time, more and more people were resurrected and added to the collective they'd named themselves, as parts of their body decayed. Unity learned to collaborate, casting aside the idea of being individuals in favour of being seen as one.

In the centre of all this mess, naturally, was the reason Unity came to be - the necromancer's son, Kaal. Despite being the most in-tune with the body he had to share, he was the quietest and the least active. His mother wanted him to act like nothing had changed - she'd brought him back, after all, but Kaal couldn't face her.

Until a new member arrived and managed to convince him, and the others, to flee the existence they'd endured for decades. An Aasimar girl named Sun that Rises Bright (or just Bright). She never shared her story, just remained focused on helping the people she found herself with.

So Unity ran, fleeing the tundra they'd had to name home and didn't stop moving. (Imma mention here that, in DnD mechanics, Unity was a Reborn in terms of race, and a homebrewed class that revolved around death (naturally) which had a split focus on martial and magical aspects).

After being kidnapped by a cult, escaping with some other companions (outside their body for once) and getting wrapped up in a whole lot of shenanigans (including raising a dragon, the egg of which they rescued from said cult), during which their creator/mother constantly hunted them, Unity was presented with an opportunity by the emissary of the god of death (who'd been watching them from session 1, mind, and this was around the 40 mark): for one of them to be truly resurrected, letting the rest pass on and return to the eternal rest they'd been denied.

They took the offer. (and when I say this was a blast to RP I mean I was shaking in my seat from the excitement).

And who was the one to stay behind? Kaal, of course.

Returned to life as a Cleric of the god who'd granted him this chance, he's now on a mission to get his mum back from the god of undeath who stole her soul when she summoned an aspect of him (yeah it's very complicated but oh I LIVE for this campaign).

I think that's about it tbh and idk if anyone will read this (again tis very self indulgent because they're my characters and this is my blog and i'm going to yap about all this if i want to) but I'm just going to throw some random things at the end here.

Turns out that Baba Yaga (in the campaign she's a very very powerful fey that's lived for thousands of years but looks like the archetype of a hot goth witch) is Kaal's grandma. Still not quite over that.

His adopted dragon daughter's name is Sunfire and she's very sweet.

His mum also resurrected his dad and turned him into a 10ft tall giant monster that was also spliced together from various creatures and people, and monster dad is also currently controlled by the undeath avatar.

Whenever the party has to go a direction we always pick left because one of the prior members always said left and he's become a reoccurring joke both in character and above the table.

Basically all the backstory you read (if you even did, who knows) is stuff I came up with during the campaign, I gave my DM a very loose backstory when we started lol.

Also have this page from my sketchbook I did (rather late at night, hence its scrappy nature) after the session where Kaal met his mum and she proceeded to summon the avatar of the god of undeath which killed one of his friends before stealing her soul and vanishing :D (i'm still traumatised).

The character at the bottom right is Vienna, our resident chaos gremlin (wild magic sorcerer because of course) who's the only reason we were there (in mum's creepy necromancer cave) in the first place to resurrect her father (hence the goblet she poured her blood into for the ritual) after she was possessed by a demon and accidentally killed him. Kaal has problems with Vienna for all of that. In fact, she's been the source of most of the party's problems. Well, at least where we left off I split the party so without Vienna all should be great (im only half joking i think).

Iiiiiiiiiit's probably about time i stopped letting my thoughts run rampant and trap them once more in my brain but WOW has this been a load of fun to ramble about because when I talk about it to people I know they don't get it. I think I should get into the habit of doing this more, if only for myself.