#haddal

Maybe something I don't know yet??

Haddal is around 300 years old when he joins the Apocalypse as its Navigator and Quartermaster, plenty of time to have mastered and gotten bored of several professions. Through this you may be surprised that Haddal is both a brilliant cartographer and also a fully trained priest of Lolth, the Spider Queen. (Underseas society is more progressive than canon and it’s socially acceptable for any gender to serve as priest for Lolth). Lolth is generally considered an evil goddess to follow and if you ask Haddal about his convictions, he’ll probably absolutely terrify you with whatever answer he gives.

He has three sisters and his family is old fashioned enough that they call Haddal their Firstboy, his parents (mother and three fathers, a very traditional family unit for drow) are all politicians and lawmakers and his two eldest sisters followed in those footsteps, while the youngest sister and Haddal pursued religion, much to their parents delight. Their whole family are stout Lolth worshippers so there came no higher honor than having two loyal servants of Lolth in their family. Haddal has yet to tell he’s left his congregation to pursue cartography and then become a pirate. Surprisingly, they probably wouldn’t mind all the killing too much, but they would hate to hear Haddal no longer gives sermons. Haddal believes there are many ways to worship.

Haddal has a form of psioriasis arthritis from a fault in their mushroom infection (same reason they only have one horn and eye), causing joint pain and fatigue but also a hilariously strong natural resistance to poison which their mycelium filters out for them. They often do a lot of drugs to induce trances to communicate with their god so this is needed.

Haddal will give you the impression that he’s the most normal person on board; he’s calm, he’s eloquent and he’s refined. Little does anyone expect that Haddal is the most unhinged person on board. He’ll sound so reasonable until he starts reciting his scriptures and you realize this guy would kill you and think nothing of it.

DnD Ed’s favorite food would be a simple venison or mutton stew. Hearty, filling and warming with a dash of tasting like home. Serve with a mug of ale and freshly baked bread and he’s as content as he can be.

Fallout Ed’s (post war) favorite food would be the times he can get vegetables fresh from a garden. It reminds him the world is still here and thriving and it makes him hope.

Zombie Ed can’t actually eat or taste, but he loves the smell of fresh coffee and the warmth of it in his hands. He’ll get cups to just hold and smell.

Reithe will claim his favorite place in the world is this hot spring place where the crew stops on occasion to drink and relax. They have fun, shoot the shit and laugh as friends. It’s his favorite place to visit because it always reminds him why he loves his friends. In his heart his favorite spot in the world was the roof of the house he grew up in, where he would often sit up late at night and watch the ocean with his dingy telescope, thinking of all the potential there was in the world, this is a memory he often revisits as he grips the steering wheel of the Apocalypse and he can only dream of the adventures ahead.

Abbie’s favorite color is red. But only as an accent color.

The best memory they ever consumed was from a drow whose ship they boarded. An older fellow who’d had everything but thrown it all away when she fell in love with an Illithid, and she left her family to be with them. Their affair was one of intense feelings and passion and liberation. Those feelings lingered for a long time in Abbie and they often think about them fondly.

and now for a PSA from the resident cartographer and navigator