#Fathomless

[iingezo]

Fathomless Pact adopt B to @goingtoastal

[contremineur]

Iris, Fathomless

from here

[d3adseas]

comm for cheddarbreader on vgen

[i-spilled-the-starjuice]

big smile

Playing with animation heehee

[justavulcan]

Backgrounds With Class: Simic Scientist

I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer.  So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with.  Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.

The Simic Scientist Artificer was always a practical sort.  Enamored with the surgeon’s art from his youth and with a fast friend of decades working in the Izzet League, he’s found ways to adopt the other science guild’s technology for medical use on a number of occasions, particularly their chemistry.  The reverse is also true- unbeknownst to those around him, he’s been trading insider secrets for his colleague’s aid.  He doesn’t view this as a betrayal- to his mind, it’s a crime that there isn’t already an exchange of innovation in the regular course of things.  Surely their fields would advance much more quickly with the aid of other points of view.

The Simic Scientist Barbarian is an experimental direction for the Guardian Project, a soldier with adaptive talents flexible enough to change specialization on the fly or between engagements.  Trained with weapons and spliced with at least a little sluiceway scorpion, she believes wholeheartedly in the assurances of her experimental overseer that she will one day no longer need armaments of steel, as her hybrid traits and experimental mutagenic adrenal glands grow into full maturity.

The Simic Scientist Bard has a job as an educator, putting her keen understanding of biology and biomancy to work in the classroom imparting wisdom to her students.  Adept at teaching by multiple avenues to suit different learning styles, she is always conscientious to mix the practical and hands-on with deep concepts, and takes the careers of her students very seriously after graduation.  In her off hours, she works as a consultant for other matters, both in the lab and on the street, and has started to make a name for herself as one of the public faces of the Combine.

The Simic Scientist Cleric kneels at no altar that the people of Ravnica would know, but many of her peers would understand, if not condone.  The Simic Combine is not a religious organization, but surely they can see that knowledge itself is a thing divine no less than the Worldsong of the Conclave or the Orzhov’s Church of Deals.  While her colleagues view this eccentricity with bemusement and even occasional suspicion, she is more than welcome in the lab, as her work has an uncanny prescient feel to it, often making breakthroughs just when it would be useful.

The Simic Scientist Druid is an oddity even among Simic Biomancers.  Originally a Guardian Project volunteer, this druid is technically a krasis rather than a hybrid, as the ratio of hermit crab to vedalken is too high to qualify her as a simic hybrid.  Still loyal to the combine that reforged her into a clumsy new shell-bearing body, the druid serves the Hull Clade, her defensively-oriented mind an asset to guardian squads in the field and biomancers working with shell, carapace, and scale in the lab. 

The Simic Scientist Fighter is a typical product of the Guardian Project: a disciplined, careful, and tactically gifted elf with latent mollusc traits.  Trained for both long-range and short-range combat, he is being groomed for a position as a squadron leader to field both terrestrial and aquatic threats- a true amphibious soldier.  This flexibility is reflected in his mindset- despite his participation in the Guardian Project and aggressive skillset, he is a Holdfast advocate, claiming it’s far more important for the Combine to ground themselves than to expand aggressively; overreach is a mistake.

The Simic Scientist Monk is an experimental departure from tradition.  Raised deep underwater as a potential Deepsage, their tradition of unarmed combat has met with modern biomancy and medical knowledge to produce a warrior with a literal healer’s touch.  Mastering the flow of vital energies and fluids through their own body and those of others, they are as skilled a healer as a bodyguard, equally adept at setting bones and force-healing contusions as bringing death with a touch.

The Simic Scientist Paladin follows an uncommon tradition among elves, a holdover  from his time among the Selesnya growing up.  While he’s firmly an Upwelling adherent, confident that change is the way forward for the Combine, his own magical tradition is among the oldest on Ravnica, as he swore an oath to life itself to be a light in the world.  Many of his colleagues shake their heads at the juxtaposition, but he’s not dissuaded by their confusion- after all, Upwelling is a resurgence of old matters and ways, not an act of genesis.

The Simic Scientist Ranger is a field researcher, a lab assistant who, after his amphibian hybridization, seeks to assess the results of his guild’s work in the field.  From chill ocean below to lofty aeries above, he ranges to see that the Combine’s work finds its niche, and observe how the web of life on Ravnica changes to fit.  He’s also one of the hunters the Combine turns to when they have need of samples from exotic wildlife, or when a krasis proves disastrous for its environment and must be euthanized.

The Simic Scientist Rogue was part of the Combine’s covert troubleshooting force before the inception of the Guardian Project, and remains so to this day.  Usually dispatched as an investigator or recovery specialist, as the guild has ramped up its preparations for wartime she has found herself more and more involved in guerrilla action against threats preemptively.  Always a proponent of striking harder sooner, she is keen to do whatever she can to keep the Simic at its best.

The Simic Scientist Sorcerer, as a prospective member of Gyre Clade, often finds herself involved in the less physical of the guild’s pursuits.  Be it assessing the mana currents of the hidden oceans or seeking strange weather phenomena to observe the dispersal of energy, her apprenticeship has been anything but dull.  It’s helped to give focus to her talents, though, which run toward the stormy, and often leave her struggling to pay attention to things if she’s not confronted with novelty now and again.

The Simic Scientist Warlock came up from the zonots with the second generation of merfolk to grace the surface.  Having long ago made peace and pact with a great beast of the deep, she quickly found her talents for team support in high demand among Guardian Project strike teams and Crypsis Clade scouting missions.  She’s very protective of the fine abalone necklace she wears loose around her neck; it’s both a mark of her pact and the only thing she brought with her to remember her parents by.

The Simic Scientist Wizard is, by all accounts, brilliant- surgeon extraordinaire and transmuter-scientist of the Fin clade, it seems there is little he cannot do if he sets his mind and hands to it.  Of the two, the surgeon’s path is far more important to him, as he would rather save lives with tools and expertise than work at biomancy- so much so that he’s rejected or missed opportunities for more profitable apprenticeships in favor of earning his surgical license and trying for a private practice.  Unfortunately, the money’s run out, and he’s recently had to turn his mind from clean, sterile lab work to the rough conditions and uncertain developments of field work.

[leilanart]

A character I designed for a oneshot with friends. Fathomless warlock. On the left is his disguise and on the right is his own cursed self.

He's a little gremlin.

[astarions-chosen]

Narrator: "You know no creature like this." Yes Nova does, she adventured with an intellect devourer in the Radiant Citadel!😂

(Yes, I'm still making D&D characters, ahaha.) In D&D she's a College of Swords Bard and Oath of the Open Sea Paladin with the Pirate background.

In BG3, she's gonna be a Fathomless Warlock + Swashbuckler Rogue (so, modded, obv) + College of Swords Bard. :3

[midnightwind]

Rowan Espool and Miri at your service, deep diving and looting are the game!

I add another tiefling to my collection because I got to play a fathomless warlock on a boat and I couldn’t not make an ocean themed tiefle, I’m love them

[reliving-elegy]

Fathomless

Repetition.

What a splendid word.

Once. Then again.

Over and over, ending-unending.

As sense comes to mind, words take place of reason.

At first, a single pattern seen.

Then a month.

A season.

I am as the song is, yet cold and bitter-still.

Where she would be the dancing warmth;

I would be rigid-chill.

Heart-upon-Heart, we lay beside-

Through good and glory and woe betide.

She would burn, and I would stay-

To watch her dance and sing and play.

But sight was not needed nor wanted, you see.

Just the fleeting promise made by me-

That I would see her burning bright,

To shroud the world in day and night.

Not one-with-each-other-

But one to be, and one another.

Fury and Fury, then Decisive and Rage.

The Winter Son takes center stage.

What am I? Who are you? Whatever will you be?

Are mine the eyes you want to see?

Screaming and Writhing and Calling for Rain.

I am the starlit, star-crossed stain.

The taste of blood and sting of pain.

The speaking, breathing, smoking husk-

The one between the dawn and dusk.

Always the subject, but never the Hero.

I am the one-but-less named Zero.

[rakruined]

Help me build a D&D PC!

We had another tie, so now we need another tiebreaker. Remember, we're a Kobold Warlock.

[frogoboggins]

Tissania Dominkova

[iingezo]

Fathomless Pact adopt A (alt) to @blazinfox555 !

[npclibrary]

Race: Monster/homebrew (A little but of dumbo octopus, a little bit of squid)

Size: Can change between the Large-Gargantuan range, can get bigger. (Think cthulhu)

Names: Tykaratyr, The Fathomless, Usai

Example lore/personality: A patron to a selective number of warlocks, she oft watches over her few chosen warlocks with great interest. She is more likely to step in and come to their aid than many other patrons, and is fiercely independent from the others of her society. When grown into her truest form, abyssal water pours from her gills and fins, tainted with ink and blood. -When used as a patron can be either fathomless or great old one. She is cthulhu esque. She often choses aquatic races to be her warlocks (Triton, siren, merfolk, the occasional sea elf. She picks exclusively natural water breathers with very few exceptions. aside from that her standards are unclear, with a seemingly wide spread of personalities, backstories, and skills, the only common denominator being that they have met face-to-face prior to the pact.)

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘Leviathan’ (#3 Cate Granger) by Greig Beck

Get the eff out of the water dumbass!! Genre: Horror, Thriller, Adventure No. of pages: 358 Monsters are real. Cate Granger and Jack Monroe are enjoying life far away from the deep-sea horrors of their past. But the ghosts still haunt them.Russian billionaire and former friend, Sonya Borashev, tells them of a newly discovered cave in Antarctica that leads deep beneath the frozen continent.…

[i-spilled-the-starjuice]

little mermaid au for my boyes

Look, Bermuthos being a normal size???

[leatherpearlslace]

Listen/purchase: THE FATHOMS "Fathomless" by MISTY LANE MUSIC