#Brigid Korvan

[reubenyeoart]

It time for the inter planer pot luck! What are your ocs bringing!

Well, if there's something I love, it's cooking, and what better way to share that gift with a little potluck? Rowan is a good cook, and Brigid, a good hunter; both know, however, that they work best together. For this potluck, they've decided to make a venison stew; the venison sourced and prepared by Brigid, and the stew seasoned with herbs by Rowan.

Rowan has also helpfully provided a basket of assorted crusty breads to soak up all the gravy that's left over.

[reubenyeoart]

it is getting rather crisp in my part of the hemisphere so I wanted to ask how do your ocs get cozy?

I'm jealous; living in Singapore means all we get is 12 months of the Sun blasting us on repeat.

When the cooler season comes, Rowan and Brigid tend to prepare a pot of tea and some snacks, then sit together on a couch and enjoy a chat and chill.

Tova and Heather prefer locking themselves in their room, and snuggling together in their bed with a book they can read and riff on together.

Annikka, on the other hand, lives for the cold. Cozy? She'd just hop into a sauna with a birch switch, and right after she's done run out into a pile of snow to cool off.

[reubenyeoart]

What was your oc's like as a child? What was their childhood like? Do they think they had a good childhood?

Oh boy, I have a few that I know the top of my head from my OC world Thormundar, so buckle up, this is gonna be a long one.

Born a twin to royalty, Annikka was destined to spend her childhood in the courts of Kaleva, learning of statecraft from jarls and thanes.

Thormundar - King Otso

Her father, King Otso, decided however that his children should be tempered by the ways of the commonfolk so they would make more effective leaders. As a result, Annikka was sent away as a baby to live with one of King Otso's retainers, who never revealed her royal heritage. Annikka had a normal childhood as far as she's concerned, helping on the homestead and eventually learning the ways of a warrior, unaware of her nobility.

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Kurava, like the majority of Plains Goblins, spent his childhood a handservant of a Dokkr family, this particular one an elderly couple. He was dutiful and jovial, and would have spent the rest of his days serving the couple, though the matriarch took notice that he had been secretly observing and practicing the Religion of the Five.

Races of Thormundar - The Dokkr

Sensing the goblin's zeal, the couple freed Kurava from their service and sent him as a ward to the main Temple of the Five in Kosova, where he became a cleric of the Five, in particular Sorun, the God of Honour.

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Brigid Korvan, by contrast, did not have a good childhood. Sveren society is brutal, and for those of the vaunted House Korvan, doubly so. While Brigid's sister was taught the winding politics of high society, Brigid herself was left under the auspices of her father, one of the greatest hunters and warriors of the Sveren.

Races of Thormundar - The Sveren

In a way, her father loved her, but he did not show it openly. Brigid endured days and months of brutal training in combat and survival, in pursuit of her father's ideas of excellence. The scar on her right cheek is perhaps the largest reminder of the lengths her father would go to instill the idea of an unforgiving world into the then-youthful Brigid.

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(And as a bonus, a summary of Rowan's origin story, since his childhood figures into it.)

Rowan, being the scion of a minor House of Kaleva, led a pretty sheltered life. His parents were rarely around, and so he spent much of his time alone. His magical talent for summoning spirits appeared in his childhood days, and so he had, at least, several companions to spend time with while his parents were busy in the meeting rooms of Kormun. It was just as well, as Rowan's habit of talking to the animal spirits he summoned unnerved many people, and ensured that he had few friends during his youth. His skills in summoning spirits only increased as he grew older, where he could now command groups of specters when he previously could summon only one, which became a problem...

Thormundar - Lisandra

... When he was kidnapped by the faerie Lisandra, who sought to use individuals with formidable magical talent to curb the excesses of the secretive yet decadent Fae Empire. Her talent lay in dollmaking and so she turned him into one, augmenting his magical abilities and making him near-indestructible, as her ace in the hole in dealing with her fellow Fae. When the time came for the Fae to showcase their creations to the nobles of the Fae Empire, Lisandra brought him as her showcase, whereupon she made Rowan summon the vengeful spirits of the victims of the Fae to attack those present.

Thormundar - Summoner Rowan

It, however, worked too well. In their blind hatred, the spirits tore apart the Faerie nobles... along with their slaves and captives. The monsters and the mistreated slaughtered by those thrown into the hungering maw of the Fae Empire to feed their desires. The only ones who survived that day were Rowan and the one who held him in her sway, Lisandra. Lisandra, horrified at what she brought about, took Rowan away from the carnage and freed him from her control, leaving him with a friend as she devoted herself to atoning for her mistake in killing the victims of the Fae.

Thormundar - Respite

If you ask Rowan today, he'd smile and say that he doesn't think about it too much, but in his heart he knows he'll never forgive Lisandra, who took away much of his childhood and youth.