#game: pathfinder crusades

[rarestereocats]

stained glass inspired drawing of my fiance's character, Lucky. that rat skeleton was a pain in the ass to draw, but thankfully, i survived

[six-improbable-things]

Oh god. I played 9.7 hours of P:WotR today... that's fucking wild. I am clearly so very normal about this game.

[smiteworks]

Fantasy Grounds Game Day June 29th

Try out new rulesets and Fantasy Grounds. The games are Castles & Crusades and Pathfinder for Savage Worlds.

This is a Free event! https://warhorn.net/events/fantasy-grounds-game-day

[jean-dieu]

Pathfinder : Wrath of the Righteous, an Ask Game for your Knight-Commander

Hello fellow crusaders! Here's a little ask game that is specifically aimed at your Knight Commander from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Have fun!

Do they think they're going to make it out alive?

How do they feel about Areelu Vorlesh?

Who is/are their best friend(s) among companions and why?

What did they do before they became a crusader? Did they have a job, an occupation?

Do they have a family? If so, what kind? Do they miss them? Do they still have hope to see them again?

Which mythic path did they choose and why? Do they regret it?

Is your KC religious? If yes, which deity do they follow? If not, what is their view on religion?

What do they desire the most?

Do they have hobbies beside the crusade? Any passions or skills they have?

What would be the meal that give them a little ability bonus?

For martial KCs, favorite weapon? For spellcasters, favorite spell?

What is their alignment, and why? How do they feel about it? Do they change alignment at one point?

What is their biggest regret regarding their time as the KC?

Which companion is their closest friend?

Which companion do they hate/really don't like?

If applicable, who did they romance and why? If no one, why?

Which non-companion NPC do they really like?

If they survived, what is their life post crusade?

How did they feel during their time in the Abyss?

Which event of the crusade traumatized them?

Did they actually like something about being the KC?

Who was their favorite advisor during crusade council?

Where did they get their name from? Family, themselves? Does their name have a particular meaning?

Where do they come from in Golarion? Do they miss their homeland? How do they feel about their homeland, its politics and current state?

How did they welcome the physical change that came with their mythic powers? Did they embrace it/reject it?

Did they separate from any companions? Why? (Consider killing a companion too for this question)

Favorite animal companion?

Would they be a companion instead of the KC? What would their storyline and personal quest be?

What would their domains be after a potential ascension?

Did they chose to take the crossbow or the scroll to run away from Deskari right at the begining?

[lexsnotdead]

i bought a pathfinder campaign book just to read 2 pages of info about arueshalae, so here's some stuff i found interesting

* all art and screenshots here are taken from the pathfinder adventure path book "demon's heresy" by jim groves

• not including desna's butterfly on her chest in the game art is a huge L. just look how cute she is

• part of her backstory - i'm not well-versed enough in pathfinder universe lore to analyze the connection sarenrae could have had to desna's decision to spare arueshalae, but it's still quite interesting. also, does that mean that arue dared to dream before being noticed by desna??? the wording here is curious

awwww

• her stats are insane

• she still has an altered version of her profane gift

redeemed arueshalae can quite literally kiss it better. that would have been incredibly op in the game, so i understand the decision not to add it, but how fucking cool is that. healing sex yay

• her redemption is dependent on penance system, and it heavily favors the aid from good-aligned characters and followers of desna

her path is quite fragile, too.

• she struggles with prejudice and distrust from crusaders even after her redemption

• the woman fought her inner demons so hard she became a magnet for will-o'-wisps. lol

[passionesolja]

It’s so crazy to me that Seelah and Sosiel from Pathfinder are given more equal treatment in a cast of 12 optional companions than Wyll is in a smaller cast. Wrath of the Righteous isn’t as companion storyline heavy but I never got the impression that they were forgotten by the game. Seelah’s pretty much with you from the start and Sosiel’s mission is literally the closest to the Act 1 Garrison Hub. The game is doing everything but forcing you to go over there. Seelah’s questline hub is close to Sosiel’s so you can do both effortless, propelling their storyline. Location wise, it isn’t really like that with the other companions. You have to go on a voyage-and-a-half for Daeran’s quest and can miss it if you don’t speak to the right mf. Both of their quests are way more involved.

I hate to drag BG3, but Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous didn’t snub it’s PoC cast. Paladins and Clerics are heavy hitters in Pathfinder, like Seelah as a Paladin and Sosiel as a cleric are both way more useful than Daeran’s low HP, no customizable spellslots having ass. I love him but he’s useless once I get Sosiel in the party. Hell, Seelah gets her unique questline sword within the first hour or so of the game. Seelah be carrying the party in the beginning because she has a cold iron sword so if you want those Dretches gone, she’s the best way to go.

I don’t think that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is the most perfect game ever (granted it’s more varied cast wise), but I think that WOTR passively and actively encourages you to have Seelah and Sosiel in your party and involves them in the story wayyy more than Wyll is in BG3. Hell, Seelah is your first companion. Even as far as settings go, Sosiel and Seelah’s stories are more intertwined with the main quest. They’re both in the Crusade for various reasons. WOTR wouldn’t be the same without Seelah and Sosiel. Meanwhile, BG3 is virtually the same without Wyll when he should be the most focused on companion. Dawg, his daddy is Duke of Baldur’s Gate, he should be Jehaira and Khalid BG1 levels of important to the game. If any companion should be the most vocal and active, it’s Wyll. Estranged or not, he has the highest stakes because his city is under threat.

The only excuse for the severe underuse of a character like Wyll Ravengard is racism. His father is the Duke of Baldur’s Gate, he should have the most dialogue, most content, and most screentime of any character. Wyll as a character is incredibly interesting and has a lot of potential, but they’d rather give a mf like Halsin more attention.

[fenharel]

I've noticed you like games that are awesome and COOL!!! (Dragon age, Bg3, Skyrim, etc). Could I request a list of other games you think are cool? I'd love some recs :D

of course!! i will give you all the cool games i know! 😋

RPGs

Pathfinder: Kingmaker

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (these first 3 are all Owlcat games, but this one will be easier to get into than the Pathfinder games if you've never played classic real time with pause before)

Pillars of Eternity 1+2

Tyranny

The Outer Worlds

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Fallout 4

Mass Effect

Cyberpunk 2077

The Witcher series (especially 3)

Deus Ex (especially Human Revolution & Mankind Divided)

Greedfall

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

(Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon)

(Disco Elysium)

(Kingdom Come Deliverance)

(Wasteland 3)

Story Heavy games

Bioshock series

Prey

Red Dead Redemption 2

God of War

Far Cry 5

Atomic Heart

Control

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice

Dishonored

Assassin's Creed 1-3

Dead Space

Wild Card: Games I like but don't fit in either of those categories

Doom (2016)

Crysis series

Crusader Kings 3

Planet Zoo

Age of Empires 2

Age of Mythology

Frostpunk

Dune Spice Wars

Jurassic World Evolution 2

Need for Speed Underground 2 & Most Wanted (2005)

Gwent

[justarandomnobody]

So, I'm playing in a game of Wrath of the Righteous for 1e Pathfinder. My character is a witch with a martyr complex who always jumps in front of the danger in order to protect whoever she thinks needs protection, but not in a suicidal way. Her class was originally a homebrew we found, a Paladin/witch hybrid class, pretty fun to play, and she was a follower of the Cardinal Martyr, Vildeis, so she had a personal crusade against evil. But she's a witch, so she can't land a hit to save the life of her, nor can handle too much damage.

Anyway, fast forward to the end of book 2, our cleric snapped because reasons (problems with players IRL), and a rather simple fight against a vampire turned into a boss fight and we were on the losing end. The game was halted by around six to eight months because of said player and another one's behaviors, but got back and now it's all going well.

Despite everything, in that fight, my witch, Abigail, was the only casualty. She died trying to restore the strength of her half orc bloodrager friend, who was the main damage deliverer in the party. She got slammed by the vampire, and though she still had hit points left, she got 10 negative levels at level 9, so there wasn't anything anyone could do. Mechanically, she died because of slams, but narratively, she died because the vampire avoid all the party just to grab her and quickly suck her dry (and restore himself a little by that).

It was a tragedy because of several points:

The reason the cleric player snapped is because they were trying to live their impossible romance with the half orc player, and they were more involved in their story than everything else.

That said, he half orc was Abigail's best friend, and he ignored her death just to focus on his romance and their tragedy (he was going to leave the crusade with her after that). So it was left to the monk and paladin to retrieve her body and get back to the camp with it.

My gm included several characters from the Owlcat's CRPG, including Daeran, and he was courting Abigail, while denying it, and she was denying that she really like him back, because that's the kind of tsundere they are. Well, Daeran was waiting for us to come back with some other characters,, and before they went down in the dungeons, Abigail promised him she would be back (this was a death flag I put there myself, we were kidding a lot with them before, to the point we did a scene just to raise death flags for every character, but this last one was unprompted, just me being in tsundere character).

So Daeran received Abigail's body, and he broke down and took her back to camp to wake her personally, because he was really in love, despite being a degenerate with no affective responsibility. The rest of the party was also sad, but it took a couple of months to the half orc player to realize his character should be devastated.

Anyway, when we got back, my gm and I talked about how could she, and we found a common ground: a character killed by a vampire would rise as a vampire spawn, but it would be freed and a fully fledged vampire if their master was destroyed before that. So Abigail raised from the death. She almost drained dry Daeran in the process, but could control herself. Now she was rejected by her goddess, but she's willing to take this responsibility, the ultimate sacrifice, to keep fighting for the people in the Fifth Crusade.

At first, we tried to build her as a lower level character with a vampire template, but that made her underpowered for almost everything, but overpowered for surviving against weird stuff, so we decided that the best path to take would be to give her a dhampir build and the vampiric aspect, just as a narrative issue, lest the party would end up unbalanced and underprepared for encounters.

Now she has to face the rest, and must come to terms with her need for blood of the living, living in the darkness, to fight for the light... And desire for blood, because despite herself, she likes the blood. Is it instinct or is it that that's who she really is (she was a changeling before her death, avoiding the call)? It's her job to find out. And to come out to Daeran, and stop pretending she doesn't like him (and that he doesn't like her).

[drizzerey]

Need help with pathfinder wotr

(some spoilers regarding Act 3)

So, I'm scared that my game is still borked from before. I have done all the things for Lann's quest and I have seen that 20 in game days after you finish 'Back to Roots' that his mom is supposed to show up in Drezen.

Well it's almost been 2 in game MONTHS. I've almost ran out of demon armies and stuff to do on the map, I have captured every outpost (I mentioned this because my hubby said you need to do crusader mode in order to proc her event) and Ria Neath still hasn't shown up in Drezen.

What am I supposed to do when I'm completely out of things to do in Act 3? I just want to continue my romance with Lann, why is the game doing this to me!??! My husband suggested that maybe it's random and can proc at any time after 20 days, but like I can't find ANY sources explaining why it's been well over 20 day and she still isn't here. T.T

I really don't want to have to uninstall, reinstall and start a whole new game again, but if I want to romance my mongrel I feel like I have no choice.

Can anyone tell me that Ria Neath can show up sometime after 20 days and if it's random or something? I need Lann's mom to continue his romance yes? I am going to be so upset having to redo everything, especially with how much I've done and recorded. But I don't know what else to do at this point, I've gotten no answers from anyone regarding this.

[rarestereocats]

i've been wanting to draw a family portrait for kina for ages, but i wasn't confident enough to do it. anyways, this portrait would've been during the decade long time jump. after a bunch of crazy adventures, kina and rikius got to enjoy some much-needed normalcy. from left to right; rikius, maple, zakina, and lilac.

[jormofyore]

Codes of Honour and How They Are BS

Screw it, I’m going to talk about codes of honour in Pathfinder and D&D, and the intrinsic problem with them all.

            For those who are curious as my background, I’m an English major who has taken some medieval studies classes, and I loved them all. I often get into arguments with a “certain friend” who is often, what feels like, frequently up in arms about alignment and codes of honour. He’s particularly against how Paizo got rid of alignment. This time I’ll be talking about how we look at codes of honour in some of our favourite TTRPG’s and how they are all bullshit.

            See, the initial problem with Paladin’s and other classes with codes, is that we have this idea of what chivalry constitutes. But people are mostly wrong about the when of them. The code of chivalry, as it’s often applied in classic Western TTRPGs, goes back to around the 12th and 13th centuries Europe. That part isn’t controversial. The problem is that the only real written code we properly know of dates to 1884 from a French historian named Leon Gautier who read too many medieval romance novels and epics. This is kind of like how the code of Bushido is sort of 11th century, but also 19th century kind of recent. Point being, these codes we have are far, far more romanticized than what they originally were, and what we see them as now is likely not what they were when originally formulated. It’s not just a case of history being written by the victors in the case of Central and South American histories (I can’t/won’t speak of African codes of honour because that’s a huge weakness in my education.) In fact, we have no written records of the actual Code’s of Chivalry and its predecessors, we only have Gautier’s fanfiction. Arguably, these codes date somewhere into Ancient Rome, but that’s a little fuzzier and based on Roman storytelling as opposed to non-romanticized record keeping.

            This leads into the second problem. Whose code of honour are we using in TTRPG-land? These European codes of honour are abstract and what we know of are only from, again, poems and epics and modern revisionisms. Cultures from all over the world had codes of honour, and I guess, sure, you can default to European codes of honour for your western-themed game, but that means you’ve fallen into the idea of thinking Europe had one code of honour. Guess you fell for my trap card. Here’s the thing, there are, at the very least in Europe, 5 main codes of chivalry in Europe. I stress “at least.” Loosely, there are the ones from what we know now as the Germanic Tribes, the Frankish Tribes, the British and Welsh, the Italians, and the Saracens. We know of 3 official ones in some random dude’s poem Ordene de chevalerie, and even then, it’s mostly romanticized ideals from the crusades, which, last I checked, wasn’t where a lot of honour was happening. “So Jorm,” you argue, “Then we’ll use the British one because we all speak English in America, right?” Oh yeah, did you know the British one, from what we can gather, either condoned or endorsed slavery, whereas the other European codes explicitly did not? Doesn’t sound much like what a Paladin does, does it? Last I checked everything we come across in TTRPG’s is that Paladins hate tyrants and slavery, so have fun with this argument in the future.

            So, this is where I like Paizo’s approach with trying to distance themselves from Christianity and it’s influences in our game worlds. They simply got rid of alignment and the silly line “Act with honour” by instead detailing what rules every deity has (Edicts and Anathema, if you’re curious), and a list for what each kind of Champion stands for. Bang. Done. It’s quite a simple and elegant solution to get past these arguments while also getting rid of that abstract code of honour BS. Sure it’s “More rules”, but honestly, it reduces the number of arguments and lets you get into the meat of gaming.

            Anywho, while I would like to continue my rant on this topic, it’s after 3AM and I’ve got a game of Civilization 6 to finish before I sleep.

Jorm of Yore out

[six-improbable-things]

P:WotR Playthrough Update:

Meatloaf got bigger, and I gave him some clothes. (His AC is 32 now, and I'm level 7...) I keep finding severed heads in my stuff. (Well, I was finding a lot of them. I haven't found any recently.) And P:WotR continues to have some of the funniest achievements known to man.

[sadruru]

Well... As promised. Just some adorable babies from Mendev ❤

Keep scrolling and just look at the pictures, no more 🌚🌝 Otherwise you'll go crazy with my idea.

💖I warned you 💖

Actually, my friend convinced me to draw this and I got carried away.

A bit of a story from the future:

"The two amusing kids could sometimes be found on the streets of Kenabres, but especially in Nerosyan and Drezen. Judging by the way they were dressed, they came from well-to-do families, which was not reflected in their restless nature. The red-haired girl was running around town, laughing, crashing everything in her path and getting into all sorts of trouble. She was very emotional, strong and tough, had an incredible talent as a potential swordsman, though she denied it, and was eager to do creative things like painting, dancing and singing. However, all attempts turned out rather... “peculiar”." (Oh Shelyn save our eyes and ears PLEASE).

The tiefling boy with the mysterious look and golden eyes usually preferred to stay in the shadows, not attracting much attention, and from time to time practiced his skills and spells on random passersby. The boy had a talent for magic, but he was somewhat lazy and free-spirited to learn. But if he set himself a goal or task, he was sure to find a way to achieve it. Sometimes he vaguely reminded some of the inhabitants of Kenabres of someone just as cunning and tailed...

At first glance, the children seemed completely different and unlike each other. But it was not so, for the older sister and the younger brother were closely related not only to each other, but also to the two famous heroes of Mendev and the Fifth Crusade.

Surprising, huh?

It was difficult. They were supposed to have one child, the ideas kept bugging me. So... I took the easy way out and chose both! 🤣

The children will have a normal relationship with each other, they can quarrel, fight, then make up and play. Although the younger brother will always look out for his negligent older sister. I joked a long time ago that the purple and red pairing was missing the blue color. That's why the son turned out a little different. Well, I asked those familiar with the Pathfinder Rule book, and they told me that children from the same tiefling-parents can turn out completely different.

And my personal headcanon and why the girl is a redhead... I think if Woljif wasn't a tiefling, he'd be a freckled redhead too ;D The game doesn't tell you about the appearance of Woljif's parents, and his grandma was already gray-haired.

Maybe Woljif and Melissa won't be perfect parents, but at least they try and know what not to do 🗿

That's it.

[dragonologist-writings]

Title: Burn It Down Fandom: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Rating: G Status: One-Shot Main Characters: Knight-Commander Lilith de Marc Additional Notes: Character Study, Aeon to Devil Mythic Path Word Count: 1.2k Summary: Hell hath no fury quite like Knight-Commander Lilith.

read below or here on ao3

The natural order of the world has been corrupted. Someone must put it right.

When Lilith first grasps the spirit of the Aeon, the power flows through her with ease and strength. With a glance, she can read a person’s soul. With a word, she can decide their fate. It is a natural extension of her role as an inquisitor, and she readily accepts both the honor and the burden.

Liar. Thief. Killer. Traitor. Criminal.

The accusations come to her easily, the bright indications of wrongdoing dancing behind her eyelids whenever she comes near a soul who has sinned against the balance of the universe. The ability to peer into a person in such a way is intoxicating, and it is as if Lilith has finally discovered her true purpose. Her destiny.

After all her years of training and lessons and sharpening herself into a weapon of Asmodeus…surely, such power was always meant to be placed in her hands.

And yet, with each decision Lilith makes, the shards of the Aeon’s judgement only dig deeper into her mind, carving into every evidence of imperfection. She stands by the sentences she hands out; for what is the use of justice, if not to serve for the betterment of their cause? Banishments and executions are rough, brutal solutions; suitable in some instances, certainly, but for most cases, true justice requires a bit more…finesse. It requires cunning.

But the Aeon do not see the flaws in their unmovable ways.

Rage. Pride. Arrogance. Greed.

Lilith grits her teeth through the rebukes from the Aeon in her mind, but she returns faithfully to the meditation at her mirror every day. This is her power; she will learn to wield and to control it. If she must curb her emotions and her desires even further, then so be it.

But she has never been able to curb her ambition; not for the sake of her mentors and masters, and not for the sake of the Aeon. Not even as the judgements of her very soul are burnt into her thoughts.

YouAreNotAnAeonYouAreASlaveToYourImpulsesYouMustBeColderYouMustBeStrongerYouMustBeBetterYouMustBeMoreYouMustBeLess.

The Abyss is even worse. Lilith’s power has been growing, yes, but the utter chaos of the plane is like a constant smother to her senses. She has never felt further from Asmodeus, has never felt her connection to his gifts weakened in such a way.

Once, she might have been intrigued by such a prospect, but the struggle to sort through her changing visions and the need to bring order to the chaos around her leaves her with little time to consider such things. Still, she somehow claws her way through the city of demons and emerges stronger than ever, even as her own mind screams at her that she is doing this wrong.

youshouldhavehelpedhimyoushouldhavekilledhimyoushouldhavebanishedthemalltheyrewrongyourewrongyoumustbefixedwoulditbebetterifyouneverexisted?

And yet, through all of this, Lilith emerges victorious. She returns to Drezen, burning triumphantly as she leads the charge to drive the demons from her city. She knows she is doing what is right; this is her Crusade, these are her people, and the demons who have invaded their lands do not belong here.

Once, that would have been enough. But now, when she reaches for the power of the Aeon inside of her, she is left only with an empty, helpless void and a condemnation.

You Are No True Aeon.

Lilith barely listens to Nocticula and Iomadae argue. For all their disagreements and bluster, there are hardly any differences between them; just two powerful people looking to make Lilith a pawn in their games. It is nothing Lilith has not encountered before.

What is new, however, is the doubt. What use is this power to her, if she has lost all ability to wield it? If the power threatens to overwhelm her rather than serve her purpose?

But when the time comes, and Iomadae descends in all her self-righteousness to demand she relinquish her abilities, Lilith can only grip them tighter than ever.

Let the gods judge her. Let the Aeon continue to whisper treachery into her mind. Lilith does not surrender so easily.

Days later, Lilith’s fingernails grind against the stone railing of her balcony, her knuckles bone-white as she examines her city. Even from up here, she can feel the wrongdoings of her citizens, trickling through the streets like poison. These days, constellations and arrows burn constantly at the edge of her vision, drawing her gaze to all the many, many things that must be fixed.

She will wrestle back her control of this power. She must. Whatever it takes.

Correct the distortions. Everything has been, and everything will be. But a true Aeon is forever.

Whatever it takes. Lilith’s insides twist at the memory of the words whispered into her mind. She doesn’t know what it means, and she hates that the mystery of it frightens her. Still, she will not let these beings scare her away from the powers that are rightfully hers.

Lilith knows she must do something, and soon; she just does not know what.

Not until Melies walks into the citadel with a smirk and a contract.

And Lilith almost laughs, because suddenly she is seventeen again, and the promise of power is at her fingertips, and all that is required in exchange is a promise of herself. It is both her own choice to make and no choice at all, just as it was then; this is how deals with the devil work.

Lilith is smarter now than she was at seventeen. She knows Melies would not make this offer without his own ulterior motives. And she is fine with that, because she knows how to play his games, and she would rather let her soul blaze in the fires of Hell than be ground away into nothing under the cold, hard stare of the Aeon.

Order must be restored.

Hang the Aeon’s order. Lilith has her own.

Better the devil you know, and all that.

We are Hell!

Lilith stands before the people of Drezen once more, now with clear eyes and a voice that is only her own.

They fear her now, with her dark curved horns and deep red skin, evidence of the deal she has made. This is perfectly acceptable. They feared her before, too, with her cold Aeon gaze that could pinpoint their every sin. But now, without the iron fetters on her mind, Lilith can sharpen that fear into a weapon to make the Abyss tremble before them.

We are Hell!

She speaks to her people about righteousness, about vengeance, about fury. These things are hers now, and with their power she will destroy every enemy that stands in her way.

We are Hell!

Her people cheer for her, and for themselves, and for the wrath they will unleash upon the Worldwound and all who would see it remain.

The Aeon claimed the sword of her mind was dull. But Lilith is no sword, certainly not one for the Aeon to yield.

Lilith is a storm. She is the fire and fury of Hell.

And the world will remember her name.

[jean-dieu]

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous : Companion AU for my OCs!

Being the main character is neat, but what if my bois were companion? I've written an in-game introduction for them all, and I'll try to develop their potential quests a little. Keep in mind that only Raphaël and Zarathustra have/could have taken part in the crusade. Raphaël is my Knight Commander, and Zarathustra was born at the time. Lazare and Ziel are both born after the worldwound was sealed. It's just for fun teehee.

Raphaël : "Despite being a tiefling, Raphaël rose above his birth's circumstances and joined the rank of the Inquisition after a failed attempt at priesthood. A devoted Sarenite, he is a valuable asset to the crusade but his fiendish heritage as well as his authoritative and distant behaviour don't make him a popular soldier among others. But surely, there's something more behind this intimidating, cold facade?"

Ziel : "As if being a tiefling in Kenabres wasn't hard enough, Ziel also happens to be the son of an Abadarite Priest who was disgraced and cast aside after being found guilty of corruption. A thiefling and a calistrian, the young bard is actively seeking revenge in his father's name, the poor man drowning his sorrows with alcohol since he lost everything. Sarcastic and cynical, he doesn't hide his hatred for most Gods and religion… But he seems more eager to help the crusade than he lets out. He has apprentely helped Irabeth many times in the past, and she seems to trust him despite his dubious reputation and volatile behaviour."

Zarathustra: "Why would an acclaimed chelish alchemist risk his life in a far-away crusade? Especially since Zarathustra doesn't strike anyone as a benevolent man. The winged tiefling showed up one day, shroudded in smoke and mystery and most people don't seem to know anything about him, except for a few local mendevian, peasants and nobles alike, who seems to have a few things to say about his past…"

Lazare: "Lazare's smile and cheerful behaviour as well a his talent in singing and violin were sure to make the young tiefling popular among his peers regardless of his heritage. Despite his obvious naivety, he doesn't seem to back up when things get gruesome in battles, and he's ready to help anyone in need. But is his jolly, kind and exuberant behaviour only an act? He has been spotted by a fellow crusader talking in infernal to his instrument, a black violin he claims he inherited from his mother. While the object his obviously magical, its nature isn't exactly known at the moment, and Lazare doesn't seem to want to tell us more…"