2, 4, and 20 for Ebon :> (i'msuperinterestedinyourd&dgrouptbhhaaaa--/watchesfromafar)
Ahhh thank you, that’s so flattering to hear. o|-< I don’t post as much as I should, but I PLAN TO START.
I hope you’re ready for some Elf Angst™, because you managed to pick the questions that hit all of this guy’s Big Sad buttons. So sorry these are a bit lengthy LOL.
2) What hobby would they like to be good at?
Creating things with his hands, I think. I could get really meta here about how he feels like everything that comes from his hands is destructive or deadly – and it’s true, one of his main downtime activities is crafting poisons. But he also follows a goddess who values making beautiful things, and he’s starting to embrace her teachings more wholly lately. His ability to create art somewhat diminished when he lost his eyes, but I think he’d love to pick up something like whittling wood or carving bone. End-game I could see him eventually taking up sculpting, but for the moment the guy is too practical to entertain hobbies that can’t be taken on the road.Â
(Why sculpting? Because, even though he can technically “see”, it’s not the same thing as literal sight and he’s afraid his memory will eventually fail him and he won’t remember what things – or people – looked like. Whoops.)
[11:12 PM] Chief: take some fantasy playdo on the road
He’d also like to train birds, like he’s started doing with his pet raven. He’d claim it’s for their stronghold’s aviary, but in reality, it would be like those people who breed puppies only to become too attached and keep them all. Just surrounded by dozens of fat spoiled birds that barely listen to him, and don’t obey anyone else at all. The Dream.
4) If they could go back in time and change one thing, what would they change?
I’m choosing to believe this means events in their life, not just… any time in history LOL. But: Ebon is a Man Of Regrets, and probably has a list a mile long of moments he would like to change. The biggest (non-spoiler) ones are:
A) Leave the Underdark sooner. He spent literal decades down there conflicted about morality, but didn’t think escape was an option for a lot of complicated reasons. (Mainly brainwashing.) Hindsight being 20/20, obviously now he realizes he could have left at any time, and he’d change it so that he bailed muuuuuch earlier.Â
B) Decline the job offer to go into Barovia. He values the people he met via the job, IE his current party, and it would hurt him a great deal to alter something that would mean he wouldn’t have known them. Still, he would find it a worthy sacrifice because he feels his presence in Barovia did more harm than good. (This isn’t actually true, of course.)
C) Fucking (try to) stop that big idiot Kasimir (an NPC in our campaign) from going off to Castle Ravenloft by himself (where a bunch of mysterious shit happened and he was murdered, and the party wasn’t there to witness it or help). Talk him out of it, handcuff their wrists together, tie him to a tree, maybe all of the above. Kasimir sarcastically went “Okay, dad.” at Ebon once, but dude, you haven’t seen Dad Mode yet. Fuck you, you’re grounded.
20) What would be the worst thing someone could say to them?Â
“House Rilynar survived.” or “You haven’t changed.” or that any of the party has died.