Just silly things here

And there's Kar'niss, somehow waking up from being knocked out (even though that's supposed to be impossible when that status isn't listed as temporary), went back to Moonrise, and... apparently led a bunch of people to abandon Ketheric?

This time a bunch of the corpses that would usually have hostile auras are staying entirely neutral. Or even friendly, somehow.

Full name: Prescott Shepard

Physical appearance: Mostly human, still. Sometimes the insides of his eyes appear to be on fire [or lit from inside by tiny bioluminescent creatures?], and there aren’t always two of them. The six gradually-sprouting wings are getting more and more difficult to hide, and he fears their eyes will open soon. When he smiles, his teeth are too numerous and too sharp.

Age: Looks to be around 45-50 years old (is likely significantly older)

Height: 6’5”. Another alteration for a man who never quite reached 6’.

Body build: Lithe

Shape of face: Everything once angular about it has softened. Is it just a sign of age?

Eye color: Red Brown…?

Glasses or contacts: Not anymore

Hair color: Greying, but still mostly a soft brown.

Type of hair: Straight, once. Increasingly looks and acts like a living rope.

Hairstyle: Kept back in a single braid, now that a short conservative style is no longer an option.

Usual fashion of dress: Formal; stylish

Personality: Ambitious and power-hungry. Loyal enough to the one he serves to be grudgingly genuine in his offers of help. Cruel enough to want those he’s forced to help to suffer every step of the way if they’ve proven themselves meddlesome in the past.

Family: Parents no longer living; two older siblings. Divorced, with two children; they have not been a major feature in his life for over a decade now, though he does care for them, and they visit and talk occasionally. Attends annual Shepard family reunion some years.

Religion: Worships region-eating entity with something akin to a kind soul. He wants to usher in a new age of darkness; it just wants him to open up a soup kitchen or hold a canned goods drive for a local food bank. (Not that it’s ever that specific. It just notes that people are hungry, and there’s a distressed low hum till Prescott does something about that.)

-for now, a guest muse available by request-

Currently living as Jennifer Shepard Anderson – only daughter of a pair of wealthy eccentrics – Rose is, in reality, the incorporeal being who reanimated and possessed the dead girl’s body over thirty years ago, in a terrible promise to a dear friend, born of a lie that was meant to be kind: the claim that there was nothing she could do. And of course she lied; Jen’s spirit had already moved on. She knew the risks in ignoring that. Her friend did not.

And so Rose never once brought up the fact that in a strange way, her friend was asking her to disappear – to cease to exist as herself in order to become something that was almost Jenny. 

The being with centuries’ worth of lived experience threw herself wholly into the role of a rich 20-something, gradually allowing herself to reclaim little bits of her identity over the decades. Less than she might have, of course, had her old friend not reacted so negatively to any sign of Rose. 

“Jen” had to break up with Todd, of course, but she’d imitated the true Jennifer Shepard a little too well. Todd never suspected this wasn’t really his girlfriend, but he immediately knew something was very wrong, and he just wouldn’t let it go. 

So, eventually, when he confronted her – Rose told him everything. Showed him the truth. Explained that Jenny had accidentally gone over the cliff that night in a blind terror, though her memories did not hold the cause. Todd still couldn’t let it go, and, in truth, it had been troubling Rose, too. They decided to work together to learn more, and were soon joined in this endeavor by Rose’s partner William.

To everyone else, their complicated dynamic just looked like the classic love triangle. To Rose, these were the two people preventing her from losing herself entirely. 

Then Todd was murdered, and while Rose and William waited for him to return as a ghost, he never did. So William left his current host body and possessed Todd’s corpse, luring his murderer into the open and avenging Todd Anderson. 

All the world knows is that Todd and Jenny got back together. Todd finally won over her once-disapproving parents, and the couple eventually married. 

When Rose’s own child was born, the little family moved to a farm about half an hour away: something the world was no longer certain that Jennifer Shepard would never have done. If you’re looking for work, especially if there’s a touch of the supernatural about you that makes it difficult to keep most jobs, she and her husband are known to be good employers who offer decent pay.

How would someone know if they qualified? Well, for a start, it will have approached them first, rather than the other way around.

*Party kept finding dead alternate version of Mischief in camp; apparently Mischief killed them? Patrick said he wasn't sure he could trust Mischief, and was found 'dead' the next day. Was overjoyed when revived. By attacking Patrick rather than any of the mortals with them, Mischief, in this oddity's mind, proved he knew where the line was.

*Mischief Killed 50 of the same enemy over the course of two playthroughs, after which he would proceed to massacre the rest of the goblins in the village. In the latest playthrough, the much-killed goblin joined the initial fight on the party's side, saving that group of goblins.

*Kept getting bored and evidently going off to kill the enemies while everyone else slept.

*We discovered a significant hidden reason as to why he'd want to protect the world he's in.

*Mischief's distraction is the reason Patrick got an eye gouged out some of these times.

*If Mischief's watching, disappointing Patrick too much or rejecting attempts to offer a path to redemption is a great way to get yourself killed.

*Intentionally made it harder for Patrick to stay under the radar half the time. Potentially the type to kill people just before Patrick shows up with friends he has convinced he's an ordinary human, and ensure resurrecting victims could not be done with any subtlety. "Your secrets or their lives" type of thing.

1. They consider themselves, in some sense, the same entity. Under a different name, perhaps a different aspect, true, but still the same in some fundamental way. [And that complicates the nature of awareness for them. Even with the aid of one of their death gods, the band of conspirators could only trap these entities as those cultures knew them.]

Tell Patrick about any sufficiently ancient god that shares domains and/or characteristics with him, and he likely won't be certain this isn't the case. It's unclear enough, at least, that if a follower of such an entity calls out for aid from their god? Patrick may step in to protect them immediately, even in a situation where he'd normally be reluctant to get involved.

2. They consider the other god's goals especially compatible with theirs and vice-versa. This may not always look to be the case if seen from a mortal point of view.