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outeremissary · 10 months ago

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Although she was only played in one campaign (a 5e Greyhawk game), Carmen was originally put together for a 3.5 homebrew two years earlier. She had two radically different backstories between the iteration that only shared the concept of a knight errant with a horse named June. Depending on the iteration June's name had a few different origins:

June was a horse named after a dead girl

June was a girl polymorphed into a horse

Carmen believed June was a girl polymorphed into a horse; the real June had died

Although it never came up directly with the party either time, it was always a key point of her character that Carmen was devoted to this dead-or-alive June she had failed and had no hope of atoning to.

#carmen was loosely based on two different older OCs whose stories I had decided not to continue working on #her 3.5 concept as a mounted archer was much closer to the original character named carmen and carried over some supporting characters #in that one she was bound to the service of a veiled fey lady- the one who had (or maybe hadn't) cursed June #and she killed magic users at this lady's command (which at some point she had internalized as a personal dogma)#lot of key points actually did carry over to the gh backstory but wound up taking very different forms- often more distant #I wanted gh carmen to be less overtly fantastical. I really do enjoy both concepts but ultimately they're very different characters lol #and I really enjoyed gh carmen having this low-key delusion that no one ever caught onto that her horse might be possessed by a dead girl #she never saw the girl's execution herself. she never did find closure for the guilt of having been the one to condemn her.#that poor kid.#carmen regis #rambling

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