#oc:andvir

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With every "!!" I get, I'll introduce you to an OC!

Today's blorbo thoughts are all about Andvir, my first and only firbolg (for now)!

(portrait for his initial campaign - "The Sunless Citadel")

nyx (@eldritch-goth) and I were given free reign to create a community and a pair of twins, so we made Andvir (he/they) and Sindri (any/all), our first firbolg OCs/PCs!

Below the cut, I have the entire backstory I wrote for him based upon a D&D 5e background (Haunted One) and a rolled Harrowing Event.

(t/w; c/w: parental death, blood, major emotional trauma, possession, extreme violence)

Andvir (Andi) and Sindri (Sin) grew up together in a firbolg-only community a few days travel from an average city. The community was very insulated and didn’t often interact with outsiders, but would accept traders and adventurers (with coin or goods) of all varieties.

Andi and Sin were very close, only separating on occasion when Andi would help with the manual labor of the farms and Sin would spend time with her ‘imaginary’ friends. • One day, an adventurer with a strange eyepatch appeared. There appeared to be some sort of sigil on the eyepatch, but no one in the community recognized it. He had goods to sell though, meats and rare potion ingredients galore, so he was welcomed.

Andi and Sin were entranced by the strange man, following him around town for two days while he visited with locals and traded his wares. The two thought they heard whispers following the man, but any mention of this to an adult was quickly written off as another of Sindri’s games.

On the third day, Andvir grew bolder. He tried to steal a small statue from the adventurer’s belt, but this was his biggest mistake. As soon as he touched the little idol, strange voices filled his head, speaking in terrifying, otherworldly sounds. He fell to the ground screaming and was soon taken home to rest by some of the other community members.

The adventurer planned to leave the following morning. He never got the chance.

Andi snuck out of his house that night, a fire in his eyes. He’d taken his father’s greatclub with him. Then only twelve, the firbolg snuck into the hut housing the odd adventurer and beat his head in with the club.

Sindri awoke to screaming, but not screaming that they could hear with their ears. No, she heard her brother as if he was standing beside her, but the sound seemed to be only in her head. She ran out of her family’s home, screaming for her brother, and awakening not only her parents but the rest of the community.

Sin was the first to find the bloody scene in the guest’s hut. Andvir was playing in the blood, speaking to himself in Infernal, his greatclub abandoned. Before the others arrived, Sin managed to gain Andi’s attention by speaking only in his head, and soon the twins were crying together. Andi had been returned to himself, if only for the moment.

Andi told Sin about the eyepatch, the dreaded thing that the fiend now possessing him hated most. Naturally, Sin grabbed for it amidst the gore, fitting the nasty thing onto their brother’s head. • Soon after, the rest of the community arrived. Both the twins were now covered in blood, and both volunteered as the murderer. Both, and their parents, were chased out of town.

The four were on the run for years. Unfortunately, when Andi got very worked up, the fiend inside him would temporarily break loose, attacking whatever was closest to him. The group ran from each town they’d hide out in when this would happen, but the third time this occurred, Andi and Sin’s parents were the victims.

The twins were seventeen by this point, more than old enough to handle themselves in the eyes of humans – though they were still young by firbolg standards. Still, they managed to make it through a few more years on their own. Andi was now bulky enough to wield his father’s greatclub and chain shirt, while Sin had developed new and strange magics. They worked together as common adventurers from then on.

The two live to heckle each other, even on sensitive topics, but no one else is allowed to speak ill of the other’s sibling. They will always have each other’s backs.

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Long story short, he's a very tragic boy. XD During the course of The Sunless Citadel, his secret was discovered by his impromptu party and later, his possession was resolved.

nyx and I still write a bunch with him and Sindri, including pairing Andi with a captured guardsman found in the dungeon they explored during The Sunless Citadel (named Caleb) and the tortured elf Ekko (who is after the demon that inhabits Andi). Ekko has promised to kill him if the demon should ever take full control/hurt innocents, but both Ekko and Caleb fell for the soft and sweet Andi, who really just wants to help everyone he meets and protect his twin.

we like to make jokes that the demon bangs pots and pans when it angy c:

(unfinished full reference sketch)

I headcanon that he carries a domesticated mimic chest (it's not on his sheet tho lmao; it's just a chest technically) as well as his father's greatclub (though he chooses to use the halberd). the symbol on his eye patch is the symbol of Pelor, who he does not follow, but does respect for the power provided to hold back the demon rattling around in his brainpan.

ty for the ask, daisy!!!