#krai

Heh

Bubbles!! He is a sort of familiar of one mage NPC from the campaign I DM.

Many years have passed since I played my first ever character, and these years were spent mostly DMing for my friends. But now, when a luxurious opportunity to play again appeared before me, there was nothing that could stop me to be in the player seat once more.

The campaign, DMed by my precious partner, is set on the cold northern island and is somewhat inspired by the Golden Kamuy manga. (Its really good and you should read it btw) So I couldn't help myself, but attempted to make a PC, inspired by MC of said manga, Asirpa. His name is Terso, he is a sweet teenage half-orc boy with a tiefling mother, native to the cold inhospitable island Krai. Terso's mother is of a lineage of powerful dragonblooded sorcerers, and he also inherited this gift. Boy's childhood among the orcs was rough as he was smaller and weaker than other kids, but he never felt out of place there. For reasons unknow to him, around seventh birthday mother took both Terso and his sister and stormed into the blizzard, leaving orc tribe for good and returning to her old tiefling village. Since then, Terso had to learn everything anew, and now was never sure whether he is where he should be or not. To escape this feeling of uneasiness he gladly started working at a young age, using his abilities to earn some coin as far from his family as he will be allowed. Soon he started apprenticeship at his uncle in the only big city on the island. And so his story began, as he was hiking back to his village after a successful working season, meeting a rag-tag team of strangers in the tavern, diving in some dangerous conspiracy.

But one thing in my initial design of this character was flawed. You see, I intended him to be a sweet baby boy not completely naïve but innocent enough to feel aversion to killing sapient creatures. But this is D&D, and spells can't be non-lethal. And also I reeeeally love combat and finding tricky uses of my spells. So naturally the first time we encountered creepy cultists my sweet Terso murdered not only the goons, but stopped their leader from escaping and finished him off too. As it turned out, this boss was supposed to give us headache for a full upcoming ark. Well... I still plan to play him as a good kid, but right now I'm just thinking how to work with what I have.

Here's couple of Terso arts by my gifted DM and partner @fj0rge (and meme I made after the brutal combat)

Flag of Kamchatka Krai, a federal subject of Russia in the Far East

Pros:

spontaneous as heck

will use all the little cute obnoxious names (but you never know if it’s because he likes calling you “baby love” and “sugar plum” and “honeycakes” for real or if he’s trying to be annoying. probably both)

will PARTY ALL NIGHT

loves to celebrate anything you do

physically cannot keep his mouth shut; will talk you up all the time

will take you out with his bros

actually rather protective??

like he won’t be ridiculous but he’ll make sure you’re okay

big fan of PDA

takes really good couples selfies

shares his clothes: good. expects to share your clothes back: bad.

physically affectionate to the MAX

appreciative of the little things you do

wickedly smart

Cons:

not exactly the most truthful

will go out and party without you

.......not exactly.....loyal

he’s a slut

will date multiple people and never have the conversation of “what are we”

cheats at games

cheats in general

cannot physically keep his mouth shut; gets into trouble all the time

people like to punch him

alcoholic

messy

morally gray. like dark gray.

only ever wears black

DRAMATIC AS HECK

makes everything about him

steals your food

steals in general

handsy

has no respect for your things

smart but uses his brain for all the wrong reasons

doesn’t actually know what a healthy relationship looks like