Heyleth Dawnwalker is my Neverwinter MMO main, who I headcanon as a secret Halsin spawn (he isn't aware of). She is also currently an NPC in my group's campaign. We'll see if she actually makes it out alive under the party's supervision.
Then we come to... Calista, her mother.
One of the main villains of the current arc in our campaign.
Lots under here about the campaign, if interested.
Think Mother Gothel. but add on the fact she's a black dragon that successfully tortured lycanthropes until she obtained their cursed (or blessed) magic that allows them to shapeshift, bent said magic in horrible ways, made herself a "were-elf". and bagged the young druid who's face she wanted to "preserve".
Yeah, Halsin went out of his way to defend a bog once from dragon hunters, knowing there was a black dragon lair there. He didn't care, but insisted he wasn't going to let them defile the bog. The ecosystem there was thriving. A full on battle with a seemingly "quiet" black dragon could end up shaking that.
To be fair, Calista purposefully kept the bog innocent in appearance. Keeping up appearances was important to her. Kept the rabble out.
The fact that what Halsin did actually worked amused Calista to no end, and so she decided to test out her new found abilities by wooing a young Halsin and making sure she concieved a child with him.
To her delight, she got Heyleth- who wasn't born a half dragon. Oh, there was definately a dragon within her, but thanks to the perverse magic Calista used for her unqiue lycanthropy, Heyleth was born more elf than anything.
Heyleth was always meant to stay a trophy- the daughter of the idiot druid that allowed Calista to escape a well deserved end. As you can see, she inherited Halsin's looks to a degree. Calista always adored that fact. It made raising her to become her mother's servant all the more special.
The end goal of all this was Calista whole heartedly planned to have more offspring with men she considered "worthy". She'd then attatch her soul onto generation after generation, making her mortal lineage her unconventional phylactery. Each generation would provide strong descendants Calista could asorb power from upon their deaths, thus making her more and more unstoppable.
As of right now in the campaign, she's still choosing her suitors. She sits as a Queen in a city she stole herself, having enslaved the populance with her magic to make them forget their lives before she siezed power. The party currently is aware she is a necromancer, and that she is clearly evil. They attempted to kidnap Heyleth, as they recieved info from another NPC that Heyleth was the key to Calista's plans. Calista found out and stopped them, and banished them from her city. So now they're looking for allies in the nearby towns and settlements for those who would go up against her.
They have no idea she is a black dragon lich.
Luckily, no one from group is on here, so I can write about this.
Dunmeshi request, Chilchuck and Marcille interacting? 🥺 Or standing next to each other that works too. Could be hugging, or sharing a meal/food, or…
Got a bit out of hand with the prompt XD I ended up doing a scene inspired by this fic! Based on that time Marcille Izutsumi and Chilchuck were sharing a bed in chapter 47. It felt very memorable so I tried to recreate it but I kind of went offscript because I was basing it on my recollection of the fic lmao
^Obsessed with this guy and how he lets Izutsumi use him like a hot water bottle bc it's comfier.
I think he'd hardly ever act this soft + tolerant of physical affection unless it's situations like this: When the others are too sleepy to remember it LOL
i present to you my shrek au that isn't really a shrek au
the origin is this tweet basically:
but the lore goes so much deeper than that as you may already guess from the first 3 pictures HDJSKSNDJ ive been considering making an ask blog for this specific au but im not sure if ask blogs are still a thing u.u