#soolahk

[earmo-imni]

My two newest TTRPG character concepts are like. Diametrically opposed in theme.

On the one hand we’ve got Soolahk, the big fluffy Owl Mama TM, who used to be a typical outlander but discovered the wonders of scholarship via a trading relationship and is now living her best life adventuring into the cities and learning the secrets of alchemy. She’s got a former “best friend” (aka ex, but we’re not saying it so I don’t have to rp romance) turned rival who’s pissed she left the tribe (aka left HER, the rival (yes, they’re queer)) and ideally will show up to harass* her to get her come back (yes, it’s toxic, no, it’s not abusive). Everyone else she knows is fine with her travels and she sends letters back regularly to her parents, siblings, and adopted kids. Her typical attacks involve her flying overhead and dropping alchemical “bombs.”

*I’m using this lightheartedly, not seriously

On the other hand we’ve got Jomo, the tiny sadboi mouse-person from a forsaken land broken in an ancient disaster, who came across a cursed necklace as a child and ended up permanently bonded to it and is therefore very cursed. He’s still a teenager and not even an adult. He wants to go home but his parents had to give him up to a traveling adventurer who brought him to a temple in a more peaceful country in order to save his life and now he doesn’t remember how to get home. He wields magic by wrangling the damn curse into his control, all his most effective attacks require him to hurt himself, and he’s constantly psychically tortured by his fucking necklace.

Giant wholesome Owl-lady inventing new alchemical bombs to drop on her enemies like a WW2 pilot vs tiny traumatized rat-child who throws spells at his enemies while bleeding from the eyes and sobbing from exhaustion. The vibes are fascinating.