#saedra

Saedra, tiefling feylock scholar/barmaid

Tagged to make my Tav in this picrew by @likeyua Thank you!! ❤️

tagging @spyridonya, @tenmillionbees, @thesolemnhour, @undyingembers

You spy a tiefling woman rising to her feet among the wreckage. She’s attractive, with dusky blue skin, and black hair in an elaborate coiffure, long braids thrown over her shoulders and graceful horns spiraling out of the buns on either side of her head. She dabs the corners of her dark eyes to fix her makeup.

As you approach she straightens her overflowing bodice and dusts off the trousers hugging her hips, glances over with a languid smile and gives you a long, thirsty once over.

“Well, hello there.”

Her smile broadens. “Another survivor? You can call me Saedra. Anytime honey.”

As she winks your tadpole gives a sudden shudder, and frantic images flash one after another of a dark, candlelit library, arcane manuscript swimming in your sleepy vision, a blast of light, noise and leering faces in a bustling tavern, and flesh, sweat-soaked and writhing in pleasure. The one constant is the sense of a curious, inscrutable presence—you are not the only one watching.

Saedra: tiefling – scholar - warlock

Thanks for the ask Alyona! 💕

From this oc ask game

Siavash

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

Music will come as no surprise. When he has a free moment Siavash will always pick up his guitar. Sometimes he’ll just play through an old fave, but sometimes something new he’s working on – either an original composition or a challenging piece he hasn’t mastered (still trying to impress his dad).

Swimming! Usually only when it’s warm enough and with any luck skinny dipping.

Travel - part of the reason became a diplomat was to see the world. He’d been around Avistan as far north as Varisia and as far south as Osirion before the fateful mission to Mendev. He loves discovering the sights and smells of new places and especially meeting new people.

💯 HUNDRED POINTS SYMBOL — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

Wow three things about Siavash I haven’t already shared… tough one!

He’s a kindred-raised half-elf and has never suffered from a feeling of not fitting in, but he does have a certain unusual anxiety around elves, whose air of insular mystery he’s never been able to penetrate despite a sense of kinship. Of course there are individual elves he gets along with fine, but he’s secretly intimidated.

When he was a student at Almas U he and some friends were arrested for drunkenly climbing the golden statue of Talmandor. He talked his way out of spending a night in jail and is still friends with the arresting officer.

I’ve shared this with few: his nose has a slight crook in the bridge in profile. Adds character.

Saedra

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

Sex. Saedra will take someone home at closing time two to three times a week, and she’s a fixture at local soirées. Being pan and active doesn’t mean she’s not picky, but her tastes run a wide range and are not at all restricted to the classically attractive. You have to be original and interesting enough to catch her attention somehow. She likes to say she’ll try anything once.

She doesn’t have time for much beyond studying magic, working at the bar and indulging her other hobby, but she’s pretty good at bar games like darts and trivia. She loves games but at the same time isn’t very competitive. As long as everyone has fun she doesn’t need to win.

When she was a kid she and the other orphans used to sneak out and walk along the harbor quay at night. There’s a spot where they could climb down and make sand sculptures. She would still do it if she had time. She likes the feel of soft sand taking shape in her hands.

🐷 PIG FACE — what is your oc's favorite animal?

What is this?

Ugh, his breath.

Can’t seem to drag my eyes away from the pasty unshaven plunging neckline. Why on the day of your coronation do you dress up in ostentatious finery and not even brush your teeth?

But he’s too clever for it not to be a message of some kind. A slap in the patriars’ faces as a filthy commoner dons the mantle of Archduke?

No—nothing so petty.

For a man who smells like that to fix me with an arrogant glare, and offer me a “brittle alliance” in that smooth tone after admitting to having been betrayed, when I killed his associate and hold not only the prism but one of his precious gems—it’s not an oversight, nor a petty message to the aristocracy. It’s a threat.

He is far too confident for someone who seems in such a fragile position. No need for pretense. No need to even bloody comb his hair.

He frightens me. More than Raphael, more than the Emperor, more even than my patron. I get the feeling that if I take it, this is one deal I’ll never slip free of.

Well, I’m with Karlach. I’ve cleaned up a lot of literal shit in my day, but he makes me want to burn him like a plague bed.

Not here and now. We need to be ready for whatever he’s got up his sweat-stained sleeve.

Loads of hearts! Thank you Ash! ❤️❤️❤️ Excited to talk about Saedra some more. She’s still in early Act III so she hasn’t been put through all the horrors yet. We’ll see how she holds up.

from this oc ask game

❤️ RED HEART — what are three of your oc's positive traits?

Loyal – When Saedra decides you’re in, you’re in for life. You’re one of Her People, and she’ll defend your most indefensible actions with cold ferocity. This is multiplied by a thousand with her tadpole buddies.

Non-judgmental – Her sex positivity extends beyond the mere sexual. We all have our kinks and quirks, we all have our struggles. Saedra’s a big city girl and the last person to judge someone on appearance, race, religion or even their acts. Very much “you do you.” Unless that goes against point 1 loyalty.

Affectionate – Saedra’s sex drive is really just an extension of this. People (of all kinds) are beautiful and feel good. Even after she has to friendzone a couple of the tadpole buddies she’s always up to give someone shoulder rubs.

🤍 WHITE HEART — what are three of your oc's neutral/questionable traits?

Drive – Saedra has always longed to stake out her place in the world, to become powerful enough to live safely, comfortably and most of all, on her own terms. She hoped that would happen through diligent study of wizardry, but she never did manage to make ends meet with her bartending job, which drove her to a pact with a satyr.

Independence – The irony being that all she really wants is freedom. She’s using the satyr as a steppingstone because she was beginning to despair of succeeding in her wizardry studies, but ultimately she hopes to be able to discard him. Many of her decisions stem from suspicion that someone in power is trying to use her.

Curiosity – She will poke monsters with a stick. She will drink potions. She will spin the wheel.

💔 BROKEN HEART — what are three of your oc's negative traits?

Loyal (again) – She doesn’t care how nice a person you seem. If you threaten her vampire spawn / hopeless wizard / wonderfully blunt githyanki bff / etc. you will have to be neutralized and it’s your problem, not hers.

Averse to commitment– The last thing Saedra is looking for is love. The ball and chain. She just wants everyone to get along and feel good and take a little roll in the sheets.

Grudges – As her story progresses I can see Saedra becoming bitter towards those who have wronged her and Her People, especially those in positions of power. She could be capable of a lot of gratuitous violence to scratch that itch I’m afraid, especially if encouraged by certain companions.

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

Herself first and foremost. This is not evil selfishness (at least at this stage) but a drive to take hold of her own destiny.

Her tadpole buddies have become more than just family, closer even than the group of orphans she grew up with. They’re like extensions of her own body at this point. But the complicated feelings she’s experiencing for Astarion are becoming hard to ignore.

💯 HUNDRED POINTS SYMBOL — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

Saedra has no idea what her satyr patron really wants from her but he once mentioned “three spinsters” whose threads guided him to her. This makes her deeply uneasy.

She became extremely flustered by fantasies of cuddling (and only cuddling) with Astarion and she even blushed when she finally worked up the courage to suggest the idea. This woman never blushes at anything. Of course he was terrible about it. “I can smell the blood rushing to your cheeks darling, don’t try to hide it.”

She’s an expert bartender whose talents went unappreciated in a poor quarter of Baldur’s Gate. To make ends meet while she studied magic she worked in a little bar in Eastway, barely subsisting on measly tips and very little sleep, but she did apply herself to the job and knows how to make 106 different cocktails with the most attractive garnish.

Here she is enjoying a clown performance at the circus

Thanks Chimera! ❤️ I do have one for Saedra:

Thank you Chimera, I love these questions for her!

from this oc ask game

🤔 THINKING FACE — what are some of your oc's quirks/mannerisms?

Her voice! She has a feminine but deep voice and a throaty, suggestive laugh that certain people find not only contagious but irresistible.

Saedra’s also fussy about her appearance in a comedic way. After a fight she’ll make an exaggerated show of checking her nails and fixing her lipstick as if it were all no more than a minor inconvenience.

😥 SAD BUT RELIEVED FACE — is your oc prone to getting stressed out, or is it easy for them to keep their cool?

Saedra is NOT taking the tadpole in stride. This is a violation of her autonomy that gives her the absolute horrors. I imagine she’s keeping it together for the others’ sakes at camp but going down to the river to scream into her fist a lot. The others know because they can sense each other getting the tadpole willies. They sympathize.

This also explains why she leans on Lae’zel so much. That woman has her head on her shoulders and is single-mindedly determined to get the tadpole OUT.