#sabien

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2. What is your OC’s birthsign? Does it affect the way they live their life?

Sabien was born under the ritual. Discovering his aptitude with the undead at a young age might have been what turned him down the path of necromancy. He's rather happy with his birthsign :3c

Samson was born under the ritual as well. He unfortunately has mixed feelings over it due to his status as a former worm cult member and he usually tells everyone he was born under the lover instead.

Rosemary was born under the serpent. He's a liar and loves messing with people so he likes to make up facts about the sign to trick anyone he can. Since its such a slippery(lol) sign, I imagine he can get away with quite a bit.

11. What does your OC's daily/nightly schedule look like? Do they have any routines?

Sabiens schedule tends to be a bit all over the place. He's always been a bit scatterbrained, but it's gotten worse since he's aquired Umbra, so imagine giving a hamster caffeine and letting it loose and you've got Sabiens daily life.

He does have two consistent routines. The first is waking up before his traveling companions and taking a few minutes to crouch beside each of them and stare, just to make sure they're still breathing. He has pages in his journal dedicated to describing what he'll do with their bodies if they do stop breathing, which he did make them read because he's a nice necromancer who cares about their opinions. The second is watching his companions fall asleep. Sabien knows death well but it doesn't stop him from fearing that his friends will be taken from him if he looks away.

Samson schedule when he's traveling is usually a variation of Travel at night -> camp briefly to make potions -> explore town/make a plan for the day in the early morning when most are still asleep -> sell potions/repair gear/shop once things are open -> find odd jobs around town -> complete those -> head to the tavern for dinner then repeat. He's a light sleeper and doesn't sleep all at once, prefering to just nap throughout the day.

Rosemarys daily schedule is forced upon him by his students. They're students from the college of winterhold who found out that the missing alchemy teacher lives in morthal and they camped in front of his door until he agreed to do his job, so most of his day revolves around dragging them on adventures to find alchemy ingredients, teaching them alchemy, and making them sell they make so he doesnt have to do it. He does have a very elaborate bedtime routine that he does late at night that no one is allowed to interrupt and it involves a fancy bath, a million skin care products, wine, and soft pajamas. His self care routine is occasionally ruined by having to turn into a werewolf for a bit 🙄

31. Your OC is packing for a day-long trip on the road. What is in their travel bag?

Sabiens travel bag is bread, a knife, a journal, an extra pair of clothes, sock puppets, writing utensils, and his necromancy stuff(embalming equipment etc) mixed with his alchemy equipment. He tries to pack fairly light so he never has to take it off since he's gotten yelled at quite a few times for returning empty handed because he put his bag down and forgot where he put it.

24. What moral boundaries does your OC have? Have they ever crossed them? What happened?

Samson is meant to be a huge hypocrite and his moral boundaries reflect that. How he feels and reacts to something depends on how he's feeling that day. Murder and thievery is crossing a boundary, unless he doesn't know or like the person or a friend tells him its fine. Necromancy is crossing a boundary, unless the necromancer is himself or a friend of his or even just someone who talks to him before anyone against Necromancy does that day. He's like that with every topic, and its both a blessing and a curse. It makes him an obnoxious person to be around (especially when paired with his refusal to take accountability for his own actions), but, as the vestige, it also makes it easier for him to deal with the daedra and make difficult decisions in the moment and not regret them.

That being said, if he does cross a boundary on a day he considers it bad, his reaction is to refuse to admit to it and blame others for his actions. Its always someone else and not him. But the memory lingers in the back of his mind for weeks after no matter how hard he tries to not think about it.

34. Your OC feels that they are about to die. What are their last words, and to whom do they speak them to?

The last time you saw little Fjord you were throwing a knife into his chest before he could tell on you, then blew up his ship in the middle of a storm.

And then, AND THEN, four months later he shows up on the docks and calls himself “Captain Tusktooth” and you don’t know whether to laugh at the ridiculous name or the fact that Fjord is still after all this time trying so hard to pretend to be someone else. You don’t laugh, though, because his being here could ruin everything. Hes the only witness of your sabotage, a loose end you need to deal with.

Except, you can’t. Because before you can even begin to plan his demise there’s a fire down at the docks and you get pulled into a big audience with the Plank King and, surprise surprise, Fjord is there with the bunch of weirdoes he’s now traveling with?! Not only that, but Avantika is publicly blaming him for your deeds? It all seems too good to be true, too perfect, and then the short angry human punches Avantika and the woman starts pouring out all these truths she had no business in confessing, not now, not yet.

You disappear into the shadows before you end up like her. Later, you hear the king snapped her neck and that Fjord and his friends took off in her ship. You begin to wonder who the hell those people are.

You hide and hide your time for a while, until a Nicodranas Captain comes across you and mentions she met Fjord on the docks a while ago and that he sent a message for you: “He’s looking for you.”

Fuuuuck fuck fuck. So, ok, maybe you NEED to deal with this scrawny fucker before he can fuck everything up for you. Fine.

You try to find him and the first news you get us that apparently someone like him is working for the dynasty? No way. What could he offer to the Kyrnn? Honeyed words? But then your sources also say he’s in Rexxentrum and apparently was involved with some huge mess in a cathedral and then ended up in an audience with the king?! That can’t be right, anxious an insecure Fjordie would never pull something like that. And then there’s talk around Darktow about the big peace submit, everyone discussing whether it’s worth the risk to go after all those fancy ships meeting in the middle of nowhere right now. One of the captain’s, they say, is called Tusktooth. Your blood goes cold.

You decide to wait for him back in Nicodranas to “surprise” him when he returns, but then the peace talks end and the ships return and he doesn’t? Where the fuck is he? Someone mentions seeing a half orc like him in Rexxentrum? Except it really really really can’t be Fjord because why would a member of the Cerberus Assembly even hire him? What does she need a sailor boy for? And they are going to the nordest nord of gods know where?!

You make your way back to Darktow ruminating on his disappearance and wondering whether this is good or bad news for you. And then you get word that “Kotho” as in THE FAMOUS BOUNTY HUNTER THAT HAS BEEN MISSING FOR OVER A DECADE is somewhere in town and asking for you?!

Well shit.