#and her wrestling outfit ended up being a mishmash of palette swapped actual wrestling outfits

[xellandria]

I’ve got another couple D&D one-shots coming up this month, which means more characters!  I’d thought about completing the Belomantia trifecta but ultimately decided against it, and ended up coming up with a whole new character instead!  And by that I mean, not just another OC given a D&D AU version, lol.

But then naturally I went overboard—because that’s what I do when it comes to rolling characters for one-shots—and came up with a backstory and exactly what I wanted her to be... but couldn’t quite slot her perfectly into a D&D class.  More accurately, multiple classes seemed like they’d work and I couldn’t choose between them… so I rolled multiples.  Then instead of having one character, I sort of expanded on the backstory to end up with two.  Three, almost, but I forced myself to calm down a little bit there, lmao :P

Dorma Hearthsinger - level 5 Dwarf Monk (Open Hand) Str: 10 (0) Dex: 14 (+2) Con: 14 (+2) Int: 8 (-1) Wis: 16 (+3) Cha: 14 (+2)

Drifa Hearthsinger - level 5 Dwarf Fighter (Battlemaster) Str: 18 (+4) Dex: 13 (+1) Con: 14 (+2) Int: 10 (+0) Wis: 8 (-1) Cha: 14 (+2)

Drifa and Dorma Hearthsinger (last name subject to change, I wanted to do something with “Kiln” but couldn’t come up with a word mash I liked) are a pair of sisters born to a clan of weavers and tailors in some sort of medium to large D&D dwarven city, and grew up both watching and helping their family create costumes for the local(?) fighting ring/fantasy wrestling league.  Both sisters talked about participating when they got old enough; Drifa actually followed through, and (after a few false starts as a face) became relatively successful as Aedorn, a gold/money-themed heel character.  Dorma was mostly content to stay out of the spotlight and help her sister’s career from the sidelines, but when Drifa came up with a “special move” where Aedorn could duplicate herself, she roped her sister into the ring.  Dorma was willing and enjoyed it, though she wasn’t passionate enough about it to give up her place in the family business.  As Aedorn became more popular, Drifa called on Dorma’s help more and more often—asking her to fill in when she fell ill before an important match, or helping when Drifa had gotten double booked for publicity stunts.

At some point Drifa probably started taking Dorma’s time and help for granted, and Dorma was like “okay listen I want to do my own thing for a bit” and Drifa was like “pffft yeah ok but also we’ve got a match on Tuesday” and Dorma was like “k I’m gonna go for a walk cos you’re being a jerk” and decided to go on her own sort of wrestling-free walkabout vacation.

Both sisters are relatively similar personality-wise (by virtue of having actually been the same character up ‘til like four days ago lmao); they’re both loud drunks when they go over their limits and they both do partake in that particular dwarven stereotype (unlike most of my characters, lol).  Drifa’s eyebrow scar came about in a drinking accident, actually, and Dorna had to start plucking part of hers and then draw it on to match once it got added to Aedorn’s look.  Drifa’s the elder sister, though I don’t know either how old they are (probably somewhere between 40-75ish I’d guess, Dwarves are “young” til 50 iirc?) or what the age gap is between them.  I’d assume it’s not that much, since they’re supposed to look very similar.

I’m not sure how successful I was in drawing them—I was very tempted to use the same base drawing for both of them and then make the minor changes, but that also felt like cheating.  Maybe it’s okay if they’re not as close as I originally pictured in my head—it’s not like fantasy wrestling fans have cameras to take photos that they can then analyze to notice that on rare occasions, Aedorn’s earlobes are detached or her eyes are hazel instead of green or her eyebrows are a little lighter or whatever.  But hey, maybe there is one of those crazed fans out there and that’s part of why Dorma left, cos they were getting weird about it and she didn’t necessarily want to be dealing with the fame of being Aedorn all the time? I dunno!

Speaking of Aedorn, she was Aethorn at one point.  According to this random-ass D&D Dwarven dictionary I found on the Forgotten Realms wiki, “ae” is “gold” (checks out), “aetharn” is “gold lust” (yeah okay) and “bedorn” is “disbelief, lies, mistakes, exaggeration, distortion;” I originally was going to try to make a dwarven wrestling name that was equivalent to “Blood Money” but there was no blood on the list; “warped greed” is more or less as close as I could get.  I swapped it from Aethorn to Aedorn just because the dwarven runes (from the same wiki) looked better.  Then I realized that Dorma was “Dorna” at that point and that was awkward, so I swapped her N to an M (which I’d been mistyping constantly earlier anyway) and figure she probably got made fun of when she was a wee lass or something, “yer mother didn’t want ye, that’s why they named ye mistake!” lol).  I wanted to come up with an English/Common version of the name but I’m not super great at coming up with the right kind of words; “Miss Appropriation” is about as close as I’ve gotten and that’s... really not right, lol.  “The Counterfeiter” maybe?  I dunno.  Chances are high none of this will come up in the course of the three hours I’ll be playing this character, so I suppose it doesn’t matter that much, haha.