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main-bird · 6 years ago

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aLet me just... force you all to look at some of my oc’s. I’m doing some kinda ref sheet stuff and will using some of my older ocs as practice. It’s gonna be a friend groups and we have four more guys to go. Rambling about him under red more

He’s a super old oc of mine that I used in a rp when I was around... 13-ish, I think? Around 2009 I believe. Back then he was around 18 and as I grew older, he kinda grew with me. I tweaked him a bit and would would also age him up from time. At current he’s somewhere in his 20′s.

Anyway, that’s Nefas, a latin word that I just thought sounded cool for name. It doesn’t say much about his character. He’s a fairy and as all of my magical oc’s he can somewhat hide his features (wings, feelers, any extra hands and eyes) to appear more human. And to make it easier for me to draw them. He’s italian, got a patchwork family with five more siblings. (Two of them half siblings, two more are step-siblings). He’s probably closest with his sister Lemon, who is shown in the pic. His italian roots is def where he got his ‘talking with hands’ from. He used to swim which is why I always wanted him to have a bit of a ‘swimmer back’ but once he left school he eventually started taking up boxing instead. He’s not a book smart person and learned a trade after school, I was thinking mechanic or something similar. He’s a very outgoing and friendly person, kind of a flirt, sometimes a bit cocky, definite an extrovert. He likes being around people and generally people like being around him because he’s rather easy going and just generally positive. Back then in the rp he had a demon boyfriend called Severin (not my oc, belongs to Abso Katta) They broke up for a while because both had their problems to deal with (Nef actually had a problem with substance abuse [drinking and also smoking to some degree] ) but eventually got back together. Because we like happy endings.

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anthonyreadsthecards · 7 years ago

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So I got my last commision from @silentcartoon a few days ago (doesn’t he look cool?) and I wanted to gush about him like I did my other two.

So this is Safayr El-Hashem my bisexual Rogue in our current Pathfinder game.

So like with Soren gotta give y’all a bit of backstory about the world. Safayr’s dad, Asad, is from the country south of Olfinn, Ethad, which is lots of sand and desert. Asad was working as a carpenter’s apprentice, was betrothed to a woman who was a friend of his family, and he really didn’t have much want or need to leave his home until he met Alma. Alma was a Katta Bard (Katta people are descended from Drow Elves. They are humanoid but all of them dark skin and red eyes. They don’t get a lot of good press and a lot of people hate them and blame them everything). Alma wandered into town one day and Asad heard her sing, dance, and tell stories about all the places she had seen and he feel head over heels in love. His family wasn’t too happy about this since he broke of a previously planned engagement, he was marrying a strange foreigner that he barely knew, and he wanted to leave and travel to Olfinn. Several years later they would reconcile but Asad’s leaving wasn’t pretty.

He and Alma moved to Morgantown, a port city, and he opened up his own shop as a carpenter and she continued to sing and tell stories at a few inns and taverns. A lot of people were apprehensive of the couple but Asad and Alma made quick friends of the city and it became their home. When Alma was pregnant with Safayr, her first child, Nyssa, was already four, something strange and wonderful happened. Asad had taken Nyssa to the market and Alma went for a walk, as she often did, in the forest to get some fresh air. While on her walk she went into labor and cried out for help. But help arrived in the form of a tiny yellow bird. It chirped soothingly and when Alma prayed out loud for her husband to find her the bird took off. Several minutes later Asad came into view with the yellow bird guiding him to his wife and he was able to carry to healer’s hut so her baby could be delivered. Safayr’s name is derived from the word “tiny yellow bird” in Ethadian. Alma would have another daughter named Tala three years after Safayr.

Safayr and his mother got along famously. She would tell him stories of childhood in Kattamor and her travels as a Bard. Originally this is what Safayr wanted to be do with his life. He practiced singing and dancing and things were great. However, shortly after he had turned ten years old, Alma disappeared. The three children woke up to a rainy morning to find their father sitting at the table, a drink in hand, and the front door wide open. No matter how much they pleaded and begged him, Asad wouldn’t say what had happened. All that he ever mentioned was that she had left them and nothing more. Safayr and his father began to fight more and more after this. He became a bit of a wild child after his mother’s disappearance and would get into all sorts of trouble. Until one day when he was about nineteen he decided to join the city guard. Asad had forbidden Safayr from becoming a Bard so Safayr decided to that if he couldn’t see the world he should probably help make it a safer place. The city guard had a corrupt captain who would extort the citizens of Morgantown and this led to Safayr leaving the guard. Now, depending on who’s telling the story, one of two things happened. Safayr got into a heated argument with the captain and punched him right in the face before walking out of the barracks, like a badass. Or Safayr tried to punch the captain and instead got beat up and thrown from the barracks, falling face first in the mud. No one knows which story is true (not even me).

So Safayr decided he’d help in another way by becoming a vigilante. He would patrol the city and try to help those in need…problem was he wasn’t very good. Most times he would get his ass kicked but over the course of two and half years he became a pretty capable fighter. One night Safayr tried to save a young man from being mugged but the stranger quickly dealt with them before Safayr knocked out one guy. His name was Drake and Safayr would run into him a few more times before the two would start their whirlwind romance. Safayr would later find out Drake was an assassin from the legendary league, The Silver Scorpion and that Drake had come to set up a branch of the league in Morgantown. Safayr felt conflicted to say the least and things only got more complicated when Drake’s father, the head of the Silver Scorpion, tried to recruit Safayr into the league. Wern, Drake’s father, told Safayr how the league would only kill people who abused their power and took advantage of innocent people and that their main mission was to create a world where everyone was equal. Drake was against Safayr joining but he did anyway. To join the league you have to kill someone from their list and on the list was the corrupt captain of the city guard. Safayr had no qualms in ending this man’s life but what he didn’t know was that the captain was guarding an important noble who was trying to establish a new trade route through Morgantown. The noble was murdered the next morning by another assassin and a new representative took their place. Safayr confronted Wern about the senseless murder of nobleman to which Wern replied it was just business. Someone had wanted the noble dead because the new trade route would have wasted his family’s fortune so the league was contracted to take him out. Safayr realized that the league wasn’t all that they said they were (no, duh, right?) and wanted out. However the only ways out are being pardoned by the guildmaster or death and Wern wasn’t about to pardon anyone with Safayr’s potential.

This led our hero to book it out of town and join a school for adventurers. He hoped to learn some better ways at fighting, evading, and detecting danger but also hoped that the school would help him find distance far away from the league.

Some cool stuff about Safayr is that he has a pretty cool mace called Bloodthief which has the ability to siphon life energy from every creature he kills with it and store that energy up. If Safayr’s HP ever hits zero Bloodthief will give him that energy back and restore some of his health. He recently found out the mace belonged to Drow royalty and not everyone is able to wield the mace but for some reason he can. In an upcoming adventure we might find out why. He is partnered with Anya who is a forest/mountain Ranger. The two get along…mostly but they’re becoming better friends. He also has a tattoo on his left shoulder of The Wiggler (it’s a nearly uncatchable fish that he was able to grab during a fishing contest) that is partially enchanted. It gives a bit of Animal Handling. This is because Anya didn’t use her Wild Empathy to calm down a wolf and it proceeded to bite Safayr on the butt and the wound got infected. Thankfully they were able to find a healer to help out but now he doesn’t trust her when it comes to animals. He does however love her adopted dog, Bjarf, (named after a bandit they killed. Anya said the name was better suited for a dog).

And that’s all I can think off at the moment for Safayr. If you ever get curious and want to know more about him, my other characters, or the game just send an ask my way. I love talking about this kind of stuff so please give me an excuse!

#safayr el-hashem #pathfinder #long post #my characters #he has a very convoluted story i know #but he's a bit more adventurous than my other characters #so that makes sense #jay writes

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