#dalca

[wildfangz]

My main family for what will eventually be my new pack playthrough once I do all the setup.... completely vanilla for now! can u guess the sibling order

Caliban Dalca II: Esteemed horror author Caliban Dalca once claimed he was stalked by death itself, which fueled his terror-inducing, stomach-turning, heart-wrenching page-turners. While expecting death at any corner, he's reached an old enough age to go grey, casting doubt on his constant near-death claims. Until death makes itself more formally known, Caliban has said he will continue to write that which haunts his every waking moment and devours his dreams. He also teaches Language and Literature at his alma mater, Britechester, in between his dramatics. Gloomy, Paranoid, Macabre, Chased by Death

Damian Felix Dalca: After the death of his mother, Lydia, Damian's attitude towards the world soured, and he began acting out. He left home as soon as he turned 18, beginning a series of ups and downs in his career and relationships that matched his ever-shifting moods. After a particularly devastating breakup, he's started to put real effort into fixing his life and finally became a lawyer. However, with his track record, will it all last? Mean, Bookworm, Skeptical, Noncommittal

Darius Lucian Dalca: Darius was forever changed by the early death of his mother and the loss of the younger sibling he so looked forward to greeting into the world. He spent much of his adolescence working through this grief, as well as complex thoughts about life and death. Following after his Grandfather in a way, he now works as a funeral director and runs his own coffin shop, albeit with a much more charitable lean. He is soft-spoken and nervous, and longs for a partner to share his life with; but he's not even sure how he manages to keep himself composed around his clients, and turns out being in the funeral business leads to a lot of dead ends romantically. Gloomy, Socially Awkward, Practice Makes Perfect

Bianca Valentina Dalca: Ever since she was young Bianca has been rather sensitive. It wasn't uncommon to catch her conversing with seemingly nothing, and when visiting her grandfather's grave as a child she would always wander off in the cemetery on mysterious adventures, picking flowers for neglected graves and following around people she claimed vanished into thin air. As an adult, she's taken after her father's love of reading and writing, and her mother's love of music, becoming a fairly competent pianist with the help of her maternal grandmother Dumitra. But despite all the conventional options laid out for her, she can't help but to feel she has a higher purpose to serve. Bookworm, Loner, Macabre

[broken-mirrors-binding-magic]

Character Profile: Aurora

Full Name:  Aurora Ruxandra Dalca Kingdom: Remisos Generation: 4

*Art by the awesome @harchibudytgorichi

Aurora is the second child of Darius and Yuli. As the middle child of the Dalca Clan, she is constantly running off to do her own thing regardless of her elder sister’s plans. She is known for having a warm and bubbly personality. She becomes one of the welcomers of the Kingdom, serving as the nighttime face of the kingdom to visitors. She is loud and rambunctious, pranking younger servants to pass the time. She, like her sister, enjoys her new kingdom but misses her parents terribly.

[brainddeadd]

[c0rvidbones]

Calliope • Wit

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Them(tm) but older. She def idolizes her older brother to some extent so he tries not to be a terrible (read: murder-y) influence, but she definitely picked up on his bitchiness.

[hpowellsmith]

A shame I can't smooch Miss Dalca!

Who said that

Game where you are a teacher smooching other teachers when......

(this is actually on my maybe-to-do-one-day list: when I was coming up with Honor Bound I had a game idea about helping run a school in Jezhan that almost but didn't quite make it onto the shortlist)

[dungeonsandblorbos]

WIP Campaign Memes

thanks for the tag, @somethingclevermahogony! in your honor, i will be doing these for one of the campaigns you DM, Curse of Strahd, presented below in roughly chronological order!

tagging @tombstuck-writes, @illarian-rambling, and open tag!

[rollforarcana]

Malice Dalca

This sorcerer, bard, and criminal, over the course of years, slowly became a hero, then lost that status in an instant.

In the midst of an important battle, he sought revenge on a party member that prevented him from saving his mother's life. While he could see and prevent future deaths, most didn't know of his gift. For years, he dealt with further social exile for what—to an outside observer—seemed an irrational act of violence out of nowhere. And after a final attempt to redeem himself by single-handedly defeating a would-be lich failed to sway opinions of him, he finally snapped.

The looted magic to become a monster tempted him, and he couldn't think of anything he had left to lose. With a powerful concoction of poisons and venoms, he'd finally become what everyone thought he was. Why not prove them right? Why not embrace the new name Malice? Hell, why not try to become a god?

[wintermahalo]

OC POST!!!

Drawing Anansi again because I've become slightly fixated on him >_<

[theboarsbride]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝.🕯🦇✝️

Following a mysterious string of murdered livestock and a fellow nun in her isolated Romanian abbey, Sister Sorina, a young, faithless nun, is dared to seek the truth behind this perpetrator - only to be confronted by a sinister creature that makes her question the abbey's faith, the local village's pagan beliefs, superstition, and herself.

[drakehood]

Some of Felix’s early concept art

My dapper boi I need to draw you with your mysterious and cool mask more

[pandappuccino]

More stuff from the paper-and-marker-at-work gallery

First one's a random design that popped into my head. Second one is an OC I have had for so many years he's (yes, that is a he) gone through five billion revisions in both design and backstory

[smolandweirdwriter]

ok so I just read Dragonfall by LR Lam and I have FEELINGS so:

It was honestly pretty good! I’d say like a 6/10.

The world building was immaculate (the mc is genderfluid, as are most of the people in the country they live in). I loved loved loved that along with every other bit of worldbuilding. The history with the betrayal of the dragons and how they��re now considered gods felt very real in that sort of “victors tell the story and collective memory erases the parts that don’t fit it” way that we see in real life.

Some bits of the history of the world felt a bit info-dumpy, though, and I found the writing style a bit lacking. The characters were well-written, but I felt like they could have been developed better throughout the book. The romance was really well written and I really liked it, but some parts felt a bit shoe-horned.

Overall, it was pretty good and I can’t wait for the next and someone please please please read it and talk to me!

[broken-mirrors-binding-magic]

Character Profile: Narcissa

Full Name: Narcissa Oana Dalca Kingdom: Remisos Generation: 4

*Art by the awesome @harchibudytgorichi

Narcissa is the youngest of Darius and Yuli's children. As the youngest of her clan, she had the least amount of time with her parents. She appreciates the way the Remisos Kingdom treats her compared to the experimentation her family faced under the Avis Kingdom. Due to that, she grew resentful of humans, especially after learning of the genocides of the great vampyre clans. She is known for being cold and bitter toward humans, but around other vampyres she softens. She serves as a warrior, known for her bloodlust, fierceness and dirty fighting. She prefers to use her hands in battle rather than a weapon.

[c0rvidbones]

another day another very quick wit. i just cant get this boy out of my head

[hpowellsmith]

I posted about the different configurations of the teacher love triangle and how to trigger them in Creme de la Creme over here, for those curious!

[dungeonsandblorbos]

Campaign/Character Intro: Curse of Strahd homebrew, feat. Cerris Dalca

Status: Indefinite hiatus :( System: DnD5e

About: This was my lovely husband @somethingclevermahogony's first go at DMing, so we started with the official 5e Curse of Strahd campaign book . . . and then it turned out that the official content was far too shallow for our worldbuilding-loving crew, so I'm pretty sure a good 80% of this campaign is homebrew by now. We've stuck to the basic plot and history, I think, but added a lot to flesh it all out and really ramped up the gothic horror. Also the body horror. This campaign is also largely the reason that I started getting into whump, so, ya know, . . . make of that what you will. It's currently on indefinite hiatus, as we moved to another country after session 36 and trying to schedule remote games has been rough. But! Hopefully we will be able to resume it soon, and I've also been toying around with writing up a whole narrative of the story so far because I have so much brain rot about it and really want to share the horrors and heartwarming moments with other people, because it's unfair that my party are the only ones so obsessed with this story and these characters.

Genres: Medieval fantasy, Gothic horror Rating: Explicit General content warnings: strong language, mature humor, drug and alcohol consumption, some sexual themes, some religious themes, fantasy violence, blood and gore, body horror, child endangerment, unintentional cannibalism, and oh my god so much more. Posts will be individually tagged with any relevant warnings, and I will hide particularly bad details under cuts. Tags: #curse of strahd homebrew, #cerris dalca, #meow meow milo, #dos holy boys, #cerris and milo, #cerris and ireena, #cos memes, narrative tag TK

story and character details under the cut

The Story

The once-prosperous valley nation of Barovia has been isolated in some forgotten pocket dimension for the past 400 years, its people so irrevocably trapped within its misty borders that not even death can provide an escape. The sun does not shine here. There are no songbirds, only crows and ravens and owls. And the dead do not like to stay dead. Even its ruler, Strahd von Zarovich, is unhappy with the state of things—and, well, who can blame him for being so restless? Little has changed over the course of his centuries-long reign. And he's as stuck there as his subjects . . . for now, anyway.

Lucky for him, the new band of adventurers he's lured to his country were naive enough that he easily manipulated them into helping his escape plans. The necessary rituals have been completed; all he has to do is wait.

Unlucky for him, those adventurers are a lot warier now that they've been tricked once, and a lot more motivated to actually make a stand against him. Even worse, they've already begun acting on that prophecy they got from his wretched half-sister, collecting all these random things that will supposedly enable them to permanently kill him. But they've lost a lot along the way, including 2/3s of their party, and they've made more enemies than allies. It will be an uphill battle, but righteous vengeance is a powerful motivator.

The Blorbos

I play Cerris Dalca (depicted above), a 23-year-old human tempest cleric, who is the primary reason I started this sideblog, actually. I just couldn't stop thinking about him and it was driving me mad. He's my comfort character. He's my bisexual disaster babygirl. He's my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good bad time boy. He's the favored plaything of multiple god-tier beings and also me, so he's had a very rough time since arriving in the Shadowfell. He still has a lot to learn before he's ready to face Strahd, but I believe that one day, Cerris can save Barovia. Once upon a time, Cerris was a sheltered farmboy (and technically minor nobility) with great power thrust upon him without his consent, who was deeply disturbed by how much damage he could do in a fight. Nowadays, he's a hardened adventurer with severe depression and a nasty guilt complex that he copes with by turning it into righteous anger and constantly throwing himself in harm's way. He's compassionate, self-sacrificial, brutally determined, and a tactless, passive aggressive little brat. He's also a dad now. Yeah, he killed a monster and then it turned out the monster was a halfling child so he brought him back to life and adopted him. He's so very tired because his child is a kleptomaniacal menace but he loves him dearly and would do anything for him, including fight a whole family of Eldritch gods.

Our original party consisted of him; Valessha, an androgynous moon elf knowledge cleric and the smartest of the bunch (an unfortunately low bar); and Shalden Broadfist, a purple half-orc paladin with a bad case of worm brain. And then Valessha got kidnapped by the Bagman. And Shalden's worm brain turned out to be literal, as in, there was literally a modified mind flayer tadpole in his brain that's now been activated by [SPOILER] to turn him into a loyal puppet. There might be a way to save him, and Shalden's old mentor, Shüval Grindurst, a deep gnome barbarian, is determined to find it.

We also have all of your favorite standard Curse of Strahd NPCs, including the dread king Strahd von Zarovich, Mr. Tall Suave and Evil himself, and Ireena Kolyana, the fiery but sheltered young noblewoman he's obsessed with, not really in a romantic way but definitely in a creepy way. She and Cerris had a really cute little mutual crush thing going on until, uh, that ritual Strahd tricked the party into helping him complete that . . . well, it's a bit too complicated to say concisely but the point is that Ireena is now Strahd's prisoner and it's partially Cerris's fault. But Strahd does really enjoy taunting Cerris about her, and it seems that she's not only safe but also still likes him. So that's a plus, at least.

And of course we have a full roster of original NPCs as well! Including Cerris's monster child, Milo, the Bagman; beardless dwarf detective and retired adventurer, Achille Paydirt, who talks like Hercule Poirot; the capitalist hag Mother, who is easily one of the most hateable villains to ever exist; and Daddy Eldritch, a horrible eldritch monstrosity who masquerades as a charming southern gentleman without a face and lives on a farm that exclusively grows miles and miles of very cursed corn. And so much more! If I tried to list all the delightful friends and awful enemies we've made along the way, we'd be here all day. But you'll get to meet them all eventually, I'm sure.