vulcan_idic
Explorer
Ever since getting the fiendish codex and finding a lot of coolness in the Abyssal Heritor feats I've been trying to find a character concept to use them. Tonight I was thumbing through my Tome of Magic and I started having an interesting incling of an idea growing in the back of my mind.
The idea is influenced somewhat by the very few Teen Titan comics I've read at the library (mostly I read Marvel at home) and this page on her at Wikipedia.
The character is descended from a famous ancestor from millenia ago who was a key figure in helping fend off a demonic invasion force. The repulsion of the invasion was successful, but in the process of fending off this invasion the mighty ancestor was captured, tortured, raped, and cursed with the taint of evil. Even millennia later this mark remains on the family. The family recieves mixed reactions from everyone as what happened to the ancestor is common knowledge. People she's never met take one look at her, see her birthmark, and know almost everything about her family history - even intimate and embarrassing details. People are grateful for the lines help in repulsing the invasion and on this side are inclined to be pleasantly disposed towards the family. On the other hand the family line has demonic blood in its veins and is cursed with the taint of evil to such a degree that it is certain to be difficult to resist and not all members of the family through history have been able to resist it, so any individual member of the family is distrusted/shunned and generally makes people nervous, making the sign against evil behind their backs. It is painful for the character to see the powerful blend of awe, gratitude, fear, and mistrust in the eyes of everyone they meet. Good powers want them on their side or to destroy them to prevent them helping evil powers, and evil powers are the same, neither trusts them completely, but neither can afford to ignore the part of their birthright which plays to their side of the eternal conflict. The character is deeply ashamed of the distrust they engender in others, but cannot blame them for it, indeed they knows only too well how often their mistrust has almost been justified. She, and I am thinking of her as a she, already, she strikes me as such, though this may merely be Raven's influence on my imagination, I see as a Neutral Good Human, with the Ordered Chaos feat as her Human Bonus Feat, but she is constantly tortured with great temtations to be cruel and evil. This is why she gives little thought in general to Law or Chaos, she has no attention left for them after having to spend so much time and energy resisting the powerful evil within her and trying to stay true to the good. As with Raven this constant internal battle against evil means she must totally control her emotions or risk evil using them to manipulate her into forgetting herself and doing something unforgiveable, which is her greatest fear.
Classwise I see her as a Shadowcaster with Abyssal Heritor Feats in general, but I'm still trying to nail down the specifics of the idea.
This is mostly where I'd like to see what suggestions you have to offer. First off do you like the backstory OK? Second any ideas or advice on creating or advancing a character that fits this backstory well? Which mystery paths do you think would fit best? Abyssal Heritor Feats? Other random feats or character things which you think, sooner or later, might really go well flavor-wise with this character?
Thanks for all your help!!
The idea is influenced somewhat by the very few Teen Titan comics I've read at the library (mostly I read Marvel at home) and this page on her at Wikipedia.
The character is descended from a famous ancestor from millenia ago who was a key figure in helping fend off a demonic invasion force. The repulsion of the invasion was successful, but in the process of fending off this invasion the mighty ancestor was captured, tortured, raped, and cursed with the taint of evil. Even millennia later this mark remains on the family. The family recieves mixed reactions from everyone as what happened to the ancestor is common knowledge. People she's never met take one look at her, see her birthmark, and know almost everything about her family history - even intimate and embarrassing details. People are grateful for the lines help in repulsing the invasion and on this side are inclined to be pleasantly disposed towards the family. On the other hand the family line has demonic blood in its veins and is cursed with the taint of evil to such a degree that it is certain to be difficult to resist and not all members of the family through history have been able to resist it, so any individual member of the family is distrusted/shunned and generally makes people nervous, making the sign against evil behind their backs. It is painful for the character to see the powerful blend of awe, gratitude, fear, and mistrust in the eyes of everyone they meet. Good powers want them on their side or to destroy them to prevent them helping evil powers, and evil powers are the same, neither trusts them completely, but neither can afford to ignore the part of their birthright which plays to their side of the eternal conflict. The character is deeply ashamed of the distrust they engender in others, but cannot blame them for it, indeed they knows only too well how often their mistrust has almost been justified. She, and I am thinking of her as a she, already, she strikes me as such, though this may merely be Raven's influence on my imagination, I see as a Neutral Good Human, with the Ordered Chaos feat as her Human Bonus Feat, but she is constantly tortured with great temtations to be cruel and evil. This is why she gives little thought in general to Law or Chaos, she has no attention left for them after having to spend so much time and energy resisting the powerful evil within her and trying to stay true to the good. As with Raven this constant internal battle against evil means she must totally control her emotions or risk evil using them to manipulate her into forgetting herself and doing something unforgiveable, which is her greatest fear.
Classwise I see her as a Shadowcaster with Abyssal Heritor Feats in general, but I'm still trying to nail down the specifics of the idea.
This is mostly where I'd like to see what suggestions you have to offer. First off do you like the backstory OK? Second any ideas or advice on creating or advancing a character that fits this backstory well? Which mystery paths do you think would fit best? Abyssal Heritor Feats? Other random feats or character things which you think, sooner or later, might really go well flavor-wise with this character?
Thanks for all your help!!
