#karnath

Florien and Kutkha discover a changeling

Florin gave the fledgling raven a gentle pat cautiously holding her close as let a singular drop of his own blood drip down into the brass brazier resting in front of him. Fuzzy threads of magic formed in his mind. Focusing he followed them as they twisted in the air in front of him.

The magical connection between them deepened and he felt a momentary detachment from all his own senses. He found himself staring up at himself, but nothing was quite right. brilliant glints of silver roots came from his scalp. He squinted looking closer at the dimly lit visage. parts of it were familiar but a creeping realization took hold of him his face was subtly shifting its shape, like the nose hadn't fully decided on its form.

He came rushing back to his own mind, stumbling backward tripping over his own feet. His breathing hitched. The realization was closing in on him. It was too much to fathom. A monster... all this time he had been a monster. A facsimile of the real Florien ir'Litvin. A being of deceit and spycraft.

His hands shook, holding the bird away from himself trying to banish the truth. A choking sob was interrupted by a soothing voice speaking to him through that tenuous connection of magic he had just forged.

There’s a bunch of mithril and adamantine in the Mournland cause of all the dead warforged and other constructs. Cannith South is working with Breland to claim it while Cannith East is aligned with Karnath.

New Cyre would also benefit from the profits and has a strong claim as it’s on their former land.

Meanwhile the Lord of Blades sees everything in the Mournland as belonging to the warforged and is opposed to all other factions.

I painted an NPC from @iamnotanotter 's DnD world Karnath. His name is Eoin of Shallow.

💣 for a stress headcanon

Fionnghuala doesn't know how to not be stressed. Not really. She feels the weight of responsibility on her shoulders at almost every turn. She was training to be keeper of clan Lavellan so she trusts herself to make decisions; she never second guesses herself. There's just SO MANY decisions to be made and boy would she just like to go on that walk with Solas instead of trying to decide which Orlesian noble is less likely to stab them in the back or make other nobles withdraw their support. She just keeps going and going and going though because she has to, and maybe when it's all over they can take that walk.

Aderyn is mainly stressed out by people. The non-feathered folk are confusing to talk to, they're loud all the time, no one ever puts their books on the cart when they're done so even though she's a research librarian she gets roped into helping find and reshelve everything from books to periodicals... Sorry she went on a bit of a tangent there 😅 what were you saying?

🤲 for a religious headcanon

Fionnghuala is having a hard time with this subject right now. Being the Herald for a religion who has led multiple crusades against your people while at the same time having met one of your own gods in the flesh tends to do that to a person. There's just so much she doesn't know.

Niamh has kind of lost her religion. Everything she held dear is gone. Her family, her clothes, the lyre her mother taught her to play on, her money, her ability to sleep indoors without having the windows open. She hasn't got much left. She keeps going through the motions of worship and devotion, wondering if she should just give it up. She always goes back and follows through again though. She laughs at herself for doing it sometimes, but she hasn't stopped yet.

😡 for an anger headcanon

Niamh was carefully schooled to hide her anger. Her parents were diplomats. If your opponent sees he's making you angry, you could lose your bargaining position. She still gets fantastically angry, and sometimes her temper gets the best of her, but normally she's able to stay collected until she has a private moment.

If you make Aderyn angry she's liable to try and peck you if don't just make her jeer loudly at you until you get out of the way. After a colleague at the Druid Circle of the Forest suggested she wasn't as dedicated as she ought to be, she jeered and yelled even after he was gone. Everyone in the place heard her squawking and cursing that time. If that's what he came in to say and interrupt her work with he could find several colorful things to do with his Druidic staff.

💩 for a ridiculous headcanon

I'll answer these for Aderyn since we're playing that campaign tomorrow

Cleric: What does your character place their faith in - a deity, universal energy, themselves, the government, etc.?

Aderyn worships Eldione like most people in Karnath, but she sees the goddess a little bit more abstractly than most do. She still leaves offerings and actively worships Eldione, but maybe Eldione is also the sky that Aderyn soars through freely and not just a person.

Rogue: What does your character hide from - the law enforcement, their friends, their family, themselves, their secrets, etc.?