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[IronyOwl]

Seven months ago, the Royal Council decreed the crown princess, still in regency, the ward of the capital's Mage's Guild. Coincidentally, fifteen weeks later the sky darkened with seething nightmares, living fears and mutated wildlife began stalking the land, and a great column of unreality rose around the former capital, like a beckoning monument heralding the end of sanity and physical reality as you know it.

Anyway, you've made your way to a promising village where you hope to start up a new life in this terror-infested land. Sure, the sky is constantly shrouded by strange purple clouds, the plants and animals are mutated and strange when they resemble natural beings at all, and that pillar of madness keeps dancing faintly on the horizon no matter where you are in the (presumably former) kingdom.

But hey, you gotta start somewhere, right?

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Each turn, every players receives two actions. They cannot use the same skills for more than one action per turn, and the actions are simultaneous.

For each point of skill used, a player may designate an additional effect. In the case of actions with mundane effects, such as gathering food, this tends to simply increase the quantity produced or processed. For more elaborate actions, this tends to apply additional qualities to the effect or product.

Supporting skills may be used where appropriate, adding their magnitude to the action. Note that too many or conflicting supporting skills may produce odd results.

In the example above, our noble wizard is attempting two actions: Raising a moss zombie and performing a flaming seduction dance.

Since he has +3 Necromancy and +1 Herbalism, he uses his Necromancy skill to raise a zombie: One point goes towards the base effect, one towards giving it a tougher hide, and one towards making it sing constantly. The one point in Herbalism is used to grant it a mossy, regenerating hide, which hopefully won't interfere with the tough hide.

He meanwhile uses his +1 Seduction to seduce a (hopefully living) target. His +2 Pyromancy further provides for warming him up, which he has heard is attractive to potential mates, and creating a flaming corona around his head in mimicry of loud birds. Since flame is not inherently seductive, it remains to be seen how directly these effects add to his attempts to seduce a target. Also, he's calling a rotting corpse up from the ground at the same time, so that might impact things.


On rolling a [1], [5], or [6], you gain a point of Passion in the skill being used. Passion may be spent to add special effects to actions, which would not normally be achievable.

Each time Passion is spent this way, you have a chance to level the skill equal to the spent passion divided by the total passion. Spending maximum Passion always levels the skill, spending 1 point has a 1/3 chance of increasing +3 Necromancy to +4 Necromancy, and so on.

Rolling a [1][5][6] on a Passion action additionally grants (and/or inflicts) a special trait on you based on the action and roll. These traits are generally unique and terrible manifestations of your obsessions with unstable arcane power, such as the ability to see emotions or plantlike flesh. Wusses using mundane skills tend to just become charismatic or better warriors or something. Or gain the ability to gain strength from feasting on the hearts of their enemies.

In any case, more Passion produces stronger traits, and existing traits will sometimes be strengthened by a trait-producing action, rather than a new trait being formed.

In our above example, our noble wizard is trying to create a flaming skeleton using +3 Necromancy, +2 Pyromancy, and one of his Passion points in Necromancy. As before, each point produces a new quality: +3 Necromancy gives us a skeleton, increases its strength and increases its speed. +2 Pyromancy makes it flaming, and then lets it belch these flames forth. The Necromancy Passion point lets it feast upon the essence of the living, increasing its own power.

If he rolls a [1], [5], or [6] on this action, he will gain a new trait relevant to his current endeavor; perhaps the ability to feast upon life force himself, or a knack for creating souldrinking horrors, or particularly copious and delicious life essence that the ravening dead find just irresistable. Since he only spent one Passion on this action, it will not be an overly strong trait, but it should be impactful.

Spoiler: Missions and You (click to show/hide)

Characters may assemble to go on missions. Larger numbers of characters require more supplies and attract more attention, but have an obvious advantage in numbers. For performance reasons, only a certain number of characters may be on mission at any one time.

Missions come in many flavors. Harvesting a known resource node or pillaging interesting ruins are popular ones, as is defending the settlement against encroaching tides of nightmare-made-manifest, either in defense of the settlement's walls or by destroying nests of horrors that will otherwise grow too large to withstand.

Spoiler: Proper Care And Feeding Of Your Settlement (click to show/hide)

Caring for a settlement is a big responsibility, which is why renegade mages are usually so bad at it.

Put simply, most villagers require one food per turn to not starve, but also produce resources for the settlement. Different kinds of inhabitants might have different requirements and benefits. In addition, most inhabitants greatly appreciate shelter, clothing, luxury goods, and so on, and some scholars maintain advanced peasant types, such as powerful soldiers and skilled craftsmen, require advanced housing and feed to properly develop.

Construction generally occurs in blocks, each of which is roughly a small room in size. A small peasant hovel would likely consist of a single block, while a moderately sized cottage might consist of several. Each block requires one unit of construction material and one unit of labor to actually construct it.

A particularly vital thing to keep in mind regarding a settlement's needs is the encroaching horror all around. You'd think the purple sky and echoing screams would do that, but mages like to prove otherwise. In any case, both the environment and neighbors tend to be bad for a village's health, and various charms and remedies to counteract this are often required. One of the simplest and most popular is just building underground; for unclear reasons, it seems less tainted by the current madness, and so makes for a convenient place to live if you have access to or can do without light, open space, fresh air, and so on.

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Elemental Magics
Elemental magics are the manipulation of a specific material or energy. They tend to be easy to use, especially in combat, but limited in complexity.

Fire: Manipulation of heat and flame. Can create, hurl, and intensify fires. Usually considered an offensive school for setting everything on fire, with some utility for keeping warm and cooking food.
Earth: Manipulation of soil and stone. Can move, harden, or move through dirt. Can do the same with solid stone, but much less effectively. Usually considered a defensive and utility school for shaping dirt to suit one's purposes or keep safe.
Water: Manipulation of water and moisture. Usually considered a utility school for moving through and controlling water.
Air: Manipulation of air and wind. Can create, deflect, or harness wind to push objects around or levitate them. Usually considered a mobility and utility school for moving things around.
Life: Manipulation of life force and living things. Can regenerate, empower, and enhance living things. Usually considered a support and utility school for maintaining and enhancing allies, livestock, and crops.
Death: Manipulation of death energies and formerly living things. Can degenerate, weaken, and corrode living things. Usually considered an offensive school for rotting and enfeebling the living.
Ice: Manipulation of ice and cold. Can freeze, shape, or hurl ice. Usually considered an offensive and utility school for freezing and impaling enemies and shaping ice to suit one's needs.
Lightning: Manipulation of lightning and electricity. Can hurl lightning bolts and electrocute enemies. Usually considered an offensive school for shocking and stunning enemies.
Plant: Manipulation of plants and vegetation. Can shape and grow plants. Usually considered a utility school for shaping plant life to suit one's needs.
Fungus: Manipulation of mushrooms and fungus. Can spawn, grow, and shape fungi. Usually considered a utility school for growing and shaping oversized mushrooms to suit one's needs.
Flesh: Manipulation of animal tissues. Can mend, mutate, and strengthen animal flesh. Usually considered a utility and support school for healing or mutating the flesh of servants or oneself.
Bone: Manipulation of bone and horn. Can shape and harden bones or similar structures, though generally less efficiently. Usually considered a support school for strengthening and warping the bones of servants or oneself.
Blood: Manipulation of blood and similar ichors. Can shape, extract, harden, and intensify blood or similar substances, though generally less efficiently. Usually considered a utility and support school for extracting ritual components and creating blood weapons.
Stone: Manipulation of solid rock. Can control and move through solid stone much better than earth magic, but cannot manipulate loose soil. Usually considered a utility school for working with stone.
Metal: Manipulation of refined metals. Can shape, mend, and alter metals. Usually considered a utility school for crafting and maintaining metal arms and armor.

Ritual Magics
Ritual magics are the manipulation of a specific process or concept. They tend to handle complex tasks well, especially out of combat, but are sometimes difficult to use in a specific situation.

Necromancy: Harming and subverting life forces and processes. Can weaken or damage the properties of living things and reanimate the dead. Usually considered an offensive and utility school for crippling living foes and raising undead servants.
Vitamancy: Reinforcing and restoring life forces and processes. Can heal or enhance the properties of living things and disrupt the undead. Usually considered a support school for healing and empowering allies.
Destruction: Destruction and violent movement. Can hurl projectiles and break down the structure of things. Usually considered an offensive school for raining destructive force on and disintegrating obstacles or foes.
Protection: Preservation and stasis. Can create protective shields and fortify materials against change. Usually considered a defensive school for keeping things protected from harm.
Transmutation: Alteration of substance. Can replace or change the substance of things. Usually considered a utility school for weakening or strengthening materials.
Transmogrification: Alteration of form. Can change the shape of things. Usually considered a utility school for changing oneself into a giant snake.
Summoning: Bringing forth complex things from other worlds. Can mantle otherworldly beings or tools onto materials, objects, or creatures in this world. Usually considered a utility school for summoning monsters or conjuring yourself frilly dresses.
Conjuration: Bringing forth simple things from other worlds. Can mantle otherworldly materials or forces onto materials or forces from this world. Usually considered a defensive and utility school for turning the ground into obnoxious substances.
Alchemy: Refinement and expression of qualities. Can break down or condense forces and materials into purer or more concentrated forms. Usually considered a utility school for creating bizarre substances.
Enchantment: Infusing new or enhanced qualities. Can apply magical effects to objects or creatures on a long scale. Usually considered a utility and support school for creating magical weapons and enhanced allies.

Labor Skills
Labor skills are talents related to honest but simple work, usually harvesting or refining raw resources. For some reason mages prefer to get minions to do this for them.

Mining: Digging up earth and stone. Handy for harvesting gems and digging out cellars.
Woodcutting: Chopping down large plants. Handy for harvesting lumber and clearing out forests.
Herbalism: Picking small plants. Handy for foraging for food and finding alchemical reagents.
Trapping: Ensnaring small woodland creatures. Handy for capturing small game.
Hunting: Hunting down medium woodland creatures. Handy for bagging medium game.
Butchering: Breaking down corpses into useful components. Handy for harvesting the dead.
Farming: Growing crops. Handy for producing reliable food.

Crafting Skills
Crafting skills are talents related to honest but skilled work, usually converting raw materials into finished products. For some reason mages really only like these to support their magical shenanigans.

Masonry: Producing large stone objects. Handy for building stone structures and furniture.
Carpentry: Producing large wooden objects. Handy for building wood structures and furniture.
Cooking: Producing tasty food. Handy for making food tastier and more varied.
Brewing: Producing tasty drink. Handy for turning food into booze.
Stonecrafting: Producing small stone objects. Handy for crafting stone jewelry and utensils.
Woodcrafting: Producing small wooden objects. Handy for crafting wooden jewelry and utensils.
Bonecrafting: Producing small bone objects. Handy for crafting bone jewelry and utensils.
Glasscrafting: Producing small glass objects. Handy for crafting glass jewelry and utensils.
Gemcrafting: Cutting and placing gemstones. Handy for producing cut gems and inlays.

Combat Skills
Combat skills are techniques for fighting with weapons. Most mages prefer to use magic when they can, but a handful swear by reliable steel.

Swords: Long-bladed slashing weapons. Swords tend to be versatile and heroic.
Axes: Short-bladed hacking weapons. Axes tend to be brutal and savage.
Spears: Long-hafted stabbing weapons. Spears tend to be tactical and wide-reaching.
Maces: Blunt or ridged weapons. Maces tend to be heavy and staggering.
Daggers: Short-bladed stabbing weapons. Daggers tend to be quick and sneaky.
Whips: Long, flexible weapons. Whips tend to be tricky and debilitating.
Bows: Fancy ranged weapons. Bows tend to be long-distance weapons.

Custom
The above is a list of some of the most common skills and professions, but it is by no means an exhaustive catalog. If you want a skill not listed above, create one or ask about it.

Code: (Character Sheet) [Select]

[b]Name:[/b] What do they call you?
[b]Description:[/b] What do you look like, physically?
[b]Primary Skill:[/b] Select or invent one skill to start at +5
[b]Secondary Skills:[/b] Select or invent two skills to start at +3
[b]Precious Item:[/b] In addition to clothing, tools, and other such necessities, you start with a particularly useful and fancy item.
[b]Backstory:[/b] How you came to this particular village and what you intend to do now.


Code: (Village Sheet) [Select]

[b]Location:[/b]
-Central Duchies. Alarmingly close to the maelstrom, the central duchies were known as river-laden and slightly hilly before the, uh, incident. Now they're home to some of the more alarming sightings of... things.
-Northern Duchies. Heavily forested, they were once a good frontier for industry and wild game. They are now infested with mobile plant life none too fond of the meatlings' current shenanigans.
-Eastern Duchies. Largely coastal, they were once a hotbed of intrigue and pointless backstabbing. They are now overrun by various benthic horrors.
-Southern Duchies. Soggy and fertile, they were once a combination of noxious swamp and fertile farmland. They are now stalked by magical beasts and renegade constructs.
-Western Duchies. Arid and desolate, they were once considered the second best source of magecraft in the kingdom. They are now divided between bickering factions of undead and living.
[b]Size:[/b]
-Small. The village was never much to look at, and now it needs your help.
-Medium. The village has a good base to work with, and at least one special resource available. It's also a tempting target.
-Large. The village has an impressive population and developed infrastructure, plus one special resource and two plentiful basic resources. It's also besieged by at least one powerful foe.
[b]Situation:[/b]
-Isolated. The village is wedged atop a mountain, behind a thick forest, or otherwise placed in a defensible but cramped spot.
-Connected: The village is located atop a hill, in a forest, or otherwise placed in a somewhat defensible, somewhat accessible location.
-Open: The village is located in the middle of a field, right in front of a forest, or otherwise in a wide open, utterly indefensible place.
[b]Terrible Secret:[/b] The village probably has something special about it. What is that thing?
I'll take as many players as I can hold, but I'll probably only be able to run 6-8 at a time; the rest will have to idle away in the village, harvesting grain or making cups.

[IronyOwl]

Player List
-Not empty! In fact quite populated! More details to come! Eventually!



Waitlisted:
Xiaoli Wind-Foot (Sir Elventide)

[IronyOwl]

Background Information
-Also empty!

[Caellath]

Yay. Sheets edited in.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Devorae the Devoted
Description: Devorae cuts a tall, personable and noble figure. He's black-skinned with quite light brown eyes and a way with words and body language. He's usually dressed in noble military dress, which means his uniform is made with fashion over practicality in mind. His cloak, coat, trousers and shirt are red cloth, with golden decoration and black trim, black leather boots and a fancy hat. He wields a scepter, a badge of office rather than a proper weapon.
Primary Skill: Necromancy
Secondary Skills:
-Leadership
-Enchantment
Precious Item: Wealth.
Backstory: Devorae the Devoted is a foreigner, draw to the kingdom due to the clear state of duress it finds itself in. Having been a guest to these lands before, he decided to establish a base in a village he considered suitable, so as to better organize a system to recover the area's agriculture and industry and to bring about overall more pleasant living conditions by developing and creating a small empire through usage of magic and the available resources. His title comes from his quite obvious and altruistic dedication to the well-being and happiness of the precious peasantry subordinate to him.

Spoiler: Village Sheet, Peaceful Hills (click to show/hide)

Location:
-Southern Duchies
Size:
-Medium. Special resource: a deposit of crystals and stones with varying levels of stored magic.
Situation:
-Connected: The village is located atop a hill, defensible but not cut off from civilization.
Terrible Secret: Catacombs where the corpses, their tortured souls and their loot lie are located on a different hill not too far from the village. The local beasts and wandering constructs occasionally get into turf wars with what comes out of the catacombs.

[Dermonster]

Irony you cad.
One moment.
Shit I hit new post.

[Dermonster]

Name: Mordre Deepstone
Description: "Listen you little shit, back in MY day..."
Primary Skill: Stone
Secondary Skills: Masonry, Necromancy
Precious Item: "This chisel has been passed down through COUNTLESS GENERATIONS of my family, IT'S HISTORY began in the LONG MISTS OF AGES PAST-"
Backstory: "I got kicked out cause people got fuckin' scared of my projects! Scared! I can assure you it was all under control. My control, specifically. What, no listen making AN ARMY OF GOLEMS by STUFFING THE SOULS OF THE DEAD INTO STATUES isn't ANYTHING to be KICKING A GUY OUT OF THE KINGDOM FOR, they are PERFECTLY SAFE, and those rants about MAKING THEM PAY were purely OUT OF CONTEXT and HYPERBOLE."

[Glass]

Haha, this is a sequel to that game, isn't it? Erin Quill will be on his way once I get back to my computer!

EDIT: Also, village suggestion. Medium, connected, and a special resource of floatstone - a material that, in defiance of physics, floats in mid-air, and can hold up fairly massive objects. The result: wherever we end up putting the village, much of it will be suspended in the sky.

EDIT2:
Name: Erin Quill
Description: Relatively skinny, with skin that points to ancestors from the desert regions. At some point, he replaced his eyes with a pair of black, rune-engraved pebbles, and his left arm with an enchanted prosthetic made of metal wood (don't ask, about either). He wears a lab coat white robe that's open at the front at almost all times. Looks to be in his early 20s.
Primary Skill: Artifice, involving the imbuement of magical properties into mundane items, ranging from the relatively normal (such as burning swords) to the complex and mind-bending (such as a Turing-complete magical processor on par with or surpassing modern computers, ala Discworld's Hex).
Secondary Skills: Metal and Air
Precious Item: Ironclad clipper of the clouds! Yep, Erin has a flying boat, powered by floatstone, plated with metal, propelled with air magic, and including copious amounts of artifice-powered subsystems, including illusion-based maps (work like sci-to holograms), a variety of sensors to help determine where the ship actually is as at any given moment (and how fast it's going), and even a rudimentary autopilot. It does not, however, have much space, and the few rooms it has for crew are rather cramped; only in the cargo area is there much room, and that's only true when he vessel is running light. It's meant as an expeditionary vessel, not for comfort. That thing got shipwrecked a bit before we got to the village. But Erin does have a magitech gun that shoots raw, crystallized magic at stuff.
Backstory: "Alright, so I'd been out on an expedition hunting for artifacts - unsuccessfully, unfortunately - and was on my way back home and to the Guild when I noticed all this stuff" gestures at the maelstrom centered on the capital "and then I saw you guys trekking along and hey, no good reason not to pick you up to help you get to your destination faster!" And then the ship crashes into a giant stone pillar that showed up out of nowhere.

EDIT3: I notice that nobody has put forward any village ideas. I'll set up a sheet for it myself.
Location: Western Duchies
Size: Medium, with floatstone.
Situation: Connected
"Terrible Secret": hahahaha fuck that shit they don't have any place that you can get a good drink at nobody there actually gives a shit about the apocalypse, they mostly think "good riddance" about the folks in the capital like, almost everyone is a were-beast of some kind, and about half of the werebeasts are were-birds of some variety.

[The Lupanian]

Name: Evelyn Adams, or “Auntie Adams”
Description: A short and full-figured middle-aged woman. She is pale with black hair and expressive green eyes.
Primary Skill: +5 Life
Secondary Skills: +3 Flesh, +3 Bone
Precious Item: A large flagon of powerful anisthetic/sedative.
Backstory: She was home-trained in a small country town as a midwife and healer. She eventually ended up focusing on birth and maternal health, which lead her to have a bit of an obsession with the forces of life. She tells everyone she’s going to “build her own babies”, but few take her seriously. She has spent some time now shut-in while she studies.

[Yottawhat]

Name: Smith
Description: A tall lanky figure, eternally clad in metal armor. What may have once been a beautiful, engraved piece of art, the ravage of time have remedied that. Rust coats most of the armor and the engravings and inlays have been erased or damage beyond the point of legibility. Green eyes peer through the visor slot.
Primary Skill+5:
Metal: Manipulation of refined metals. Can shape, mend, and alter metals. Usually considered a utility school for crafting and maintaining metal arms and armor.
Secondary Skills+3:
Animation: Ritual magic focused on imbuing inanimate objects with motion and purpose. Has little to no effect on living things.
Blacksmithing: Working with metal to create tools, weapons, and armor.
Precious Item: Formallic Hammer- An enchanted blacksmith hammer. Can pound raw ore into refined metal in just a few swings.
Backstory: Smith came from a family of metalworkers, blacksmiths, and jewelers. Having secluding himself away from civilization, Smith spent his life toiling at the anvil, but when the cataclysm came and his working has been destroyed, Smith turned up here. Now Smith works to rebuild his work, one smack of the anvil at a time.

Village:
Location: Western Duchies
Size: Medium, with floatstone.
Situation: Isolated
"Terrible Secret": There's a plague going around. But it doesn't affect the mind or the body. No, it affects the soul itself. Those who catch it are brought low with fever and sickness, and those who pass with it find themselves unable to pass on. Their spirit twisted with pain and agony, lashing at out with spectral claws and vile curses at all who come near it.

[Egan_BW]

boop

Name: Erntrinsticia Frombollywhotsit, Lady-witch of magnificence! Or From, for short.
Description: A tiny little girl. She claims that she's totally like, an elf or gnome or something, and actually super old. She has very long dark hair, and frankly quite ominous flashy purple eyes, which burn with an uncomfortably Magical glow. She wears all black robes and an exceptionally wide-brimmed witch hat.
Primary Skill: Corvid Magics (Magics relating to manipulating corvids in various ways. From asking them where the good restaurants are around here, to telling them to shit on an annoying person, to telling them that they're so pretty and smart, to asking them for fashion advice!)
Secondary Skills: DEATH, Fashion
Precious Item: My good friend, Lady Irstivfell the Raven! She knows everything!
Backstory: Birds are great. I like birds. Was totally gonna go do an apprenticeship at that mage's guild place up in the capital, once I got the whole "magic" thing down. But then the capital exploded, and otherworldly horrors started crawling out of the boundaries of reality. So I decided to walk the other way for a little bit. And who knew, I ended up in this dead-end dump! Better than nothing, I guess.

Location:
-Northern Duchies
Size:
-Small
Situation:
-Isolated
Terrible Secret:
-Apparently the trees around here leak some strange substance called "maple syrup". Surely a potent alchemical reagent of some sort!

[Maximum Spin]

Name: Erik the Ninja
Description: Hard to tell under that ninja outfit! Sounds like a young male human, though.
Primary Skill: Ninjaturgy, the ancient art of ninja magicks. The ancient magic of ninja artks. Very useful for turning invisible and stabbing and poisoning things.
Secondary Skills:
-Elemental: Lightning
-Combat: Shurikens "it's totally a practical weapon, I swear"
Precious Item: The sword of my ninja master, who recently died in a human-sacrifice-related incident. Unfortunately it has become welded to the scabbard, but it's still a great spell focus!
Backstory: I overslept and came into work late and found out the rest of my ninja clan had all sacrificed themselves to empower a world-ending fire goddess. It's like the office christmas party all over again, I swear. Now I'm trying to figure out who I can arbitrarily blame so that I can avenge them.

Village: Southern duchies, large, isolated. Permanent -1 to anything called "floatstone", unless it's pumice. Even then, really. Terrible secret: Everyone in this village has a second face underneath their face, and that face is always staring at you no matter where you go. Also, demons keep coming out of the well.

[FallacyofUrist]

Name: Archimedes
Description: Old bearded guy? Sure. Though his beard is filled with knots and bits of wood. Robes? Sure. Covered in green paint. A terrifying grin? Well, more like a frown.
Primary Skill: Returnamancy. What goes around comes around when you're dealing with a Returnamancer. Returnamancy is a sort of fate manipulation that's used to bend chance in order to retaliate against something done to the user. Burn the user? A returnamancy spell can ensure you fall in a fire. Steal their money? There goes yours!
Secondary Skills: Alchemy and Medicine(for those times when magic isn't the best healing option).
Precious Item: Archimedes' mourning ring, carved of some black stone and set with a purple gem. Interestingly his wife is nowhere around.
Backstory: Archimedes was 84 when his wife died in spite of his best efforts. His vaunted Returnamancy was of no help against a disease made by no man. This has made him bitter and driven at the same time. Hopefully he'll be able to find or brew the Panacea, the cure-all that he believes he owes to his dead wife. Here he might find ingredients unavailable anywhere else for his alchemy.

[Glass]

Erin and a village are in my post.

[Pancaek]

sheet in progress

Name: Li Kao
Description: A small Asian man. Looks fairly old, sports a bald head and rocks a fu Manchu beard and mustache. Walks with a slight hunch, wears grey martial arts clothes and slippers.
Primary Skill: Chi magic
Secondary Skills: Wuxia fighting, Elemental:life
Precious Item: A matching tea set of a pot and two cups. The pot is somehow always filled with hot, tasty tea whenever you want it to be.
Backstory: After losing an entire dojo worth of students in a freak chi explosion incident, Like Kao has been wandering the world, seeking out opportunities to better his craft. And so, he ended up here. Good thing the journey is more important than the destination.

[randomgenericusername]

Name: Hrodpreht
Description: Looks almost like a normal human being, with pale hair and dressed in white robes. His face has completely melted into an unrecognizable mess, but he's still somehow able to see and talk.
Primary Skill: Dagon Magic
Secondary Skills: Teaching, Summoning
Precious Item: An idol of Father Dagon, found in the basement of the chapel he was sealed in.
Backstory: Hrodpreht used to be a minor and incorporeal otherworldly entity that was accidentaly summoned by the prayers of a young priest, by which he was sealed inside of the basement of a chapel. In return, Hrodpreht focused all of his energy into slowly corrupting the priest, which left him weakened and no stronger than a normal human being. After his corruption caused said priest's death, the seal broke, which allowed him to possess one of the nearby clerics and escape the basement. Now that he's trapped inside of the body of a cleric, he's unable to use his old powers and return to the nightmare dimension he came from. Because of this, he's been forced to stay here and regain his strenght the old way: manipulation of mortals.