Tales From the Void

This is part of an AU that's lived in my head for a very long time. It's essentially an Evil!Rook AU, and the short version is that Rook never meets the party and ends up becoming the political pawn and right-hand man of Dr. Purity.

(If you're curious, the reason is that he ends up in the Black Desert Kingdom instead of the Feywild and meets Sigmar before the party is even formed, then is eventually told his true identity and recruited into Dr. Purity's cult, the Children of the Enlightened.) He takes on a much more social/political role, taking his father's seat on the council of Arborcea and meeting with other leaders of the Leyland Confederation in order to make sure that the Children of the Enlightened's goals are being met. (He mostly hates it, but he'll do whatever Purity asks of him.) In this set of images, he's participating in a series of meetings hosted in Svarga, home to Minister Consin White, who is all to happy to help hide the real Dr. Purity. Since the Sigmar corpse-puppet never joins the party in this AU, he is never destroyed, and is able to be used as Rook's advisor and bodyguard (not that he needs the latter). At the end of it all, Rook ends up as the penultimate boss of the campaign, commanding a crew of nightwalkers instead of his canonical pirate crew. The party kills him. (But since they've never met him, they have no emotional attachment to him, and thus no qualms about in the slightest about killing him.)

Purity is very proud of his favorite pawn Rook.

A (late) lil' edit for May the 4th! Shout out to star wars man. Truly one of the franchises of all time.