#lord vallamir

[dirk-menace]

what if this freak is real and approaching your location

[aftout]

Håller mina löften nu på avstånd åt två håll … or whatever

[oriiduckko]

Dark lore vallamir…

He orple and eevil,,,,

Bonus , a doodle page I made of him,,,, and his dark lord design from the stream I made few days ago,,,

[sonarsunbeam]

Character headcanon ask u NEED to give me vallamir he’s my googa

YES VALLAMIR I LOVE VALLAMIR.

Sexuality headcanon: aro gay man. not interested really in romance but hes generally fruity

Gender headcanon: cis guy but also he's a cloud of purple smoke so he doesn't exactly care. in his eyes his gender identity is pretty fluid

A ship I have with said character: again, the "irving and vallamir don't have a concrete romantic relationship going on but theres Something happening here" thing appeals to me

A BROTP I have with said character: chandrelle and vallamir have the "girl with gay best friend" dynamic but like. evil. however she had several chances to get rid of him (before the "inserted in her head" thing) and just didn't so

A NOTP I have with said character: N/A

A random headcanon: he has the capacity to be incredibly intimidating, and his "true form" that would've been seen in his bossfight was more akin to the soundtrack art for SoL/the "spawn of vallamir" enemy in walk. however he doesn't bother with keeping it up unless absolutely needed. also has the ability to do the stereotypical booming evil lord voice too however he doesn't because it "kills his throat"

General Opinion over said character: GOD AWFUL VAPE CLOUD /AFF. hes such an asshat and i really like how this was the route daniel mullins chose to go for the evil dark lord character. never getting over the "hey girly"

ask meme

[memento-morri-writes]

Morri!!! first of all, how are you???

I wanted to tell you that I started for the first time playing a solo ttprg with like the whole deal (well this one uses 2 d10 and a d6 but I added a d12 to make a scale yes/no/maybe answers bc sometimes you just gotta ask fate no?) and I look up to you a lot for all your DnD ocs so the moment I started I was like "damn, gotta tell Morri!"

anywayyyy I am playing Iron Valley which is basically a big what if Stardew Valley were a solo (or +2 people! but idk anyone irl to play ttrpgs with so I'm going solo) ttrpg?? Is not DND cause... I need friends for that I think. And it intimidated me. BUT I am having so much fun???? And since is solo there's a lot of writing down and journaling involved so is SUCH an amazing wiring exercise?? (← hasn't written her wip since uhhhh April? yeah more or less)

would you mind if I asked you about your ocs?? I am so curious!

@ink-fireplace-coffee

CARMEN! HI!!!!!!!!

Congrats on your first ttrpg!! I've never actually played a solo one before, but that's mostly because I kind of need other people to keep me focused. (I get distracted way too easily, adkjasd.) But Iron Valley sounds so cool!! I love that you're adding your own mechanics!

And yeah!!! Playing ttrpgs is GREAT for your creativity!! My DnD characters are my current biggest source of inspiration, and they're the focus of most of my creative output right now.

(I also haven't written anything in MONTHS, so don't worry. You're not alone there. <3)

As for asking about my ocs, of COURSE you are welcome to ask!!! I'm obsessed with these ridiculous people in my head!!!!

(putting discussion about OCs under the cut, because I talk too much.)

My two current characters are Rook (half-elf swashbuckler rogue) and Asola (aasimar oath of vengeance paladin). And I adore both of them SO MUCH.

I'm obsessed with Rook to an unhealthy degree, lmao. He's the love of my life, and a complete disaster of a man. (You can find all the stuff I've posted about him on my personal blog here.) Me and my DM are currently plotting on how to absolutely ruin his life.

Our current plans include forcing him to face his intense trauma from Captain Wolf (the woman who held him prisoner for two years and tortured him), and also dealing with cursed nightmares sent by a literal demon lord. My boy is NOT going to be having a good time soon.

Asola is a little less developed, but she's growing with every session!! Just last session I realized that her oath of vengeance isn't against just one person or group, but rather against the unfairness and shittyness of life as a whole. Specifically, she takes anything that hurts the people she cares about personally.

The most recent example of this is our party's 16-year-old bard, who has a very fucked up past. At the end of last session, he was abandoned by his only real friend (who he's known for 11 years). None of the rest of the party even knew this "friend" existed, since he communicated with / lived inside Val's head. But when Sola finds out, she is going to be FURIOUS. (But not at Vallamir.)

(Sola's tag is here.)

I'm also eagerly awaiting the moment I get to use my Grand Fuck You. (Screenshots to follow.) The way I have it flavored is that Sola doesn't know she's an aasimar, and she has no control over her Radiant Consumption. Instead, it activates in times of extreme emotion, usually anger or grief. The only time it's happened in her life to date was when she found out her family had been killed. So I'm just waiting for the day that the DM does something that will break her enough for me to use this. (Also, as a fun bonus, none of the other characters know she's an aasimar either, since even she doesn't know. So it will be fun for them to find out. Especially since they might be trying to help her, but she will be burning them if they get close.)

(if you do the math, and assume I was level 20, and only rolled exactly half on the dice, that one hit would do 70 points of damage, not accounting for any weapon bonuses.)

I have another character, who I'm going to use after Rook's campaign is done. We're going to be playing Pathfinder (which I don't like, but I will survive), and my character is a fetchling witch named Morana Novak. (Her tag on my personal blog is here.)

As for other DnD ocs, I have about 20 more that are in varying stages of development, but talking about them all would require me to write a novel, lmao.

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

I wish more people played The Hex honestly.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER.

I was watching a streamer playing Inscryption and he was browsing the video files and Luke Carder went "Today we're opening Secrets of Legendaria Packs! Let's hope for a foil Vallamir" And every time I look back at that Easter egg I scream because DAMN GameFuna really managed to somehow commercialise what was arguably Lionel Snill's greatest failure, and no one yet picked up on that.

Secrets of Legendaria is a level in the Hex where you play as Chandrelle, a elven mage that was literally created by Lionel as the ONE female character in his overwhelmingly male fighting game, and was designed as a eye candy for the player to ogle at.

She hated her existence for this, so she tried to get herself erased by the fighting game, only for her to become the protagonist of a Zelda like RPG, Secrets of Legendaria.

Secrets of Legendaria, however, is a massive flop. She sabotages the game, and during the debut twitch stream (with twitch chat at the side as an actual game mechanic to help you with puzzles) she lets Vallamir, the dark lord, win, ultimately ruining the game and its creator.

Secrets of Legendaria should have ended there. Both Chandrelle and Vallamir are banished, with the dark lord now stuck in her head, and Lazarus, her paladin companion, is repurposed as a Space Marine in a top down shooting game.

The game was tainted beyond repair by its debut day. So, the fact GameFuna, to whom Lionel sold his intellectual property ages ago, managed to not only reverse all that, but also to commercialise it as a Card Game, with DARK LORD VALLAMIR in it, arguably THE worst part of the original videogame, is something Incredible.

[scover-va]

In case anyone wants to see the roleswap list

Azazel + Beelzebub

Asmodeus + Buer

Baphomet + Vallamir

Theodore -> Lucifer

Lucifer -> Hopeless Soul

Hopeless Soul -> Louey

Louey -> Theodore

Carla + Lionel

Weasel Kid + Junior

Mr. Shrewd + Moji

Mr. Squarrel + Gene

Bryce + Fisher (Beneath The Surface Protag that I named myself for convenience purposes)

Chandrelle + Lazarus

Rust + Rocky

FPP becomes Carla’s self insert

Sado + Irving

Reggie + Jeremiah

Bhakto + Jay

Wizarro + Rebecha

Po3 + Grimora

Magnificus + Leshy

Subordinates swap accordingly (Ghouls + Bots, Pupils + Woodlings)

Trader + Trapper (Trader becomes subordinate, Trapper becomes extra)

Woodcarver -> Mycologists

Mycologists -> Bone Lord

Bone Lord -> Woodcarver

Luke + Kaycee

[aftout]

[wearing a t-shirt that says ‘I want the Dark Lord Vallamir in ways that are concerning to feminism’] Hey guys why’s everyone looking at me weird

[irvingtwo]

I genuinely have no idea where Vallamir is right now, but they INSIST he’s not their lord. Just some copy or whatever. I’m sure if he told them to stop they’d just call him a heretic…

once the cult is gone you’re going to get therapy right. you need it probably :/

-ivor

If I can find a therapist in the void, maybe!

[aftout]

(In a haze, my eyes glazed over) i gotta dye my hair purple …. For the Dark Lord Vallamir ….

[aftout]

Idk, I just feel like everyone manages to give him much more credit than he deserves while simultaneously not giving him his flowers whatsoever.

People talk about him like he abides by this strictly malicious morale, his lack of enthusiasm and general nonchalance seems to get (mis)interpreted as enjoyment for all the cruel things that happen to him and those that surround him. If he’s not being written off as a half-assed misogynistic punching bag, he’s portrayed to be far more cruel than he’s ever displayed as within the context of canon. If he’s NEITHER of those things, he’s just thrown in there for bare-bone m/m content (because people HAVE to ship Irving with SOMEONE and the guy’s too outwardly abusive towards everyone else on the roster). I just feel like there are so many more interesting routes you could take with his character? There are enough implications thrown in there to encourage this.

He seems to be outwardly written by Lionel to be disliked, which can lead to so much more nuance when you take into consideration the fact that he too is sentient and has a sense of free will that he wishes to express— that he was more than willing to help Chandrelle and Lazarus destroy SOL despite the fact that he’d arguably gain nothing good from it. If anything, he seemed relatively generous, providing them with weaponry and spells that they could use freely. I think about his character motifs and start doubting myself, but then I look back on footage and the worst he does is be a bit annoying at times. People within SOL’s script talk about him as this horrific, all-powerful lord of chaos, but once he’s thrown out of his source he seems to lack close to any power whatsoever.

The entire thing with the possession also makes me feel ill, quite frankly. I’m not saying that it wasn’t awful for Chandrelle, he definitely broke her. However, it’s not like that was his idea. I think it’s safe to say that a part of him broke in there as well. Irving says it himself: Vallamir is too niche to be repurposed. Surely he was aware of that from the start, the guy isn’t an idiot. I think his attachment to Chandrelle runs much deeper than people want to acknowledge— it’s almost coded into him. The exact details in a dynamic between a protagonist and an antagonist fluctuate, but the one thing that’s stagnant (storytelling-wise) is that you cannot have one without the other. Chandrelle and Vallamir being joint at the hip makes sense because they were explicitly crafted to oppose one another. This becomes even more interesting when you take into account that Chandrelle was, at least at the start, trusting in Vallamir enough to have him be a part of the plan at all; which would directly oppose the Good VS Bad thing that they’re supposed to abide by. There could be a chance that he was afraid of losing that sense of purpose, hence why he put up little to no fight when the possession was ultimately set in motion.

On the topic of the possession, his themes of losing control over his identity are just as prevalent as Chandrelle’s and Lazarus’— it’s just executed a bit differently. He’s not the main focus of The Hex, just a small portion of a B-plot, so of course there’s not going to be too much depth thrown into it. That doesn’t mean that nothing’s there. He’s trapped in his role, trapped in SOL, trapped in Chandrelle’s head, and then ultimately trapped in the tube down in The Six Pint Inn’s basement. Every time he breaks free from one prison, he’s thrown into another. He’s never really been his own person, ever.

SOL’s writing and business plan made it seem as if he wasn’t even a well-rounded character to begin with. He was only supposed to show up at the very end as a boss battle, and SOL was crafted to run sequel after sequel. Who’s to say that his battle would’ve even been that climactic? There’s a chance that he’d receive more depth and develop in later releases, but that never ended up happening— hell, he was a part of the cause; so clearly there was something that he was up for sacrificing if it meant that he’d get himself out of the risk of constant production.

I dunno. I think he’s just as desperate as the rest of them, just as helpless. He’s just never truly given a space to express it. While none of this really matters at the end of the day, and I’m ultimately making a mountain out of a mole-hill, I just wish people were more… serious about him, I suppose? There’s so much opportunity for him to have a commentary that’s equally as meta as everyone else’s. It would be nice to see him given that time of day.

(Girl who is very normal about Vallamir’s character and definitely doesn’t hold strong opinions over how the fandom decided to characterize him) hey girl

[irvingtwo]

Oh, yeah, they worship Vallamir. A false version of him in their head, anyways.

They must be hard coded to hell and back cause they still believe in their Dark Lord, no matter what. Won’t believe anyone that he’s just a guy like them who I put in Chandrelle’s brain and who is in a tube now? Greattttt times.

once the cult is gone you’re going to get therapy right. you need it probably :/

-ivor

If I can find a therapist in the void, maybe!