#the lindwyrms chosen

[owlcatchyoul8r]

Lily Glass, rogue, warlock and host to the Lindwyrms.

And general MENACE

[silentmagiamoved]

An extended lore timeline of Vincent’s bloodline

13?? BCE – Sheska the Shapeshifter (?) is born

134? BCE - The Sorceress is born

134? BCE – Qaqu is born in Akkad

1309 BCE – An assassination is attempted on Q mortally wounding them. Q promptly leaves Akkad for Babylon.

1290 BCE – Seth is born to Sheska

1308 BCE – Q falls restless over their own mortality and begins searching for ways to prolong their life.

1306 BCE – Q leave Babylon and travels south to search for immortality

1292 BCE – Q returns to Babylon.

1291 BCE – Q acquire pseudo-immortality.

1290 BCE – Several children are born to Q. Five are sacrificed.

1250 BCE – Q’s first children rebel and flee after they are forced to participate and sacrifice their sibling.

1245 BCE - Q sacrifices their powers to create the Mirror of Kur as a tool to watch and punish their rebel children.

1220 BCE – Q choses an heir.

9?? BCE – The Mirror of Kur is shattered by Seth. A shard of the mirror is taken by Q. Q flees to Europe.

500 BCE – Q meets The Sorceress. They retain tolerance with some disagreement.

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10?? CE – Q settles permanently in Metz.

11?? CE – Q acquires the nickname of The Lindwyrm

11?? CE – Q orders a recovery of the pieces of The Mirror of Kur. A new mirror is created and hidden.

13?? CE – Q feuds with Seth after their apprentice Zedd joins Q. Seth leaves for Asia Minor. Zedd pens the black tomes. Zedd tries to leave after refusing to marry one of Q’s granddaughters. Q executes and binds Zedd’s soul to a Zibellino.

14?? CE – Q marries Amelie. Malik is born. Angelique is born.

1500 CE – Completion of the first Chateau Solaris.

1565 CE – Angelique is sacrificed to create The Doppelganger. Q sacrifices their right arm to bind them. Malik is devoured to give The Doppelganger their first human visage.

1595 CE – Chateau Solaris burns. Q fakes death. The Doppelganger is instructed watch their children.

16?? CE – The Doppelganger takes the form of a woman and gives birth to Maria and Samantha.

167? CE – Jacques and Gunther are born as identical twins. Q makes a bet of faith with The Sorceress, to see if faith or magic makes a man stronger. Under Q’s influence the twins are to be separated. Jacques is raised and silently puppeteer to a life in the Christian faith, whereas Gunther is raised to the servitude of his magically inclined bloodline.

1700 CE – Jacques pursues the life of a Witchhunter.

170? CE – The second Chateau Solaris is built. Corbett is born.

1725 CE – Under the manipulation of the Doppelganger Jacques is set in pursuit of his twin. Both meet in the presence of Q with others of their bloodline and each unable to comprehend their similarity, claim each is a trick. Gunther hesitates and Jacques is able to stab Gunther, killing him. Displeased that they lost the bet, Q reveals their game to Jacques. The Doppelganger overwhelms Jacques and is ordered to crucify and burn the Witchhunter as he had done to others. Jacques vows that he would not rest until he sees Q’s family destroyed. Q binds Jacques soul to a pocket watch and gives it to Corbett.

1765 – Corbett is driven insane by the voice of The Witchhunter and sets fire to Chateau Solaris, partially destroying the structure. Q disappears. Many others become haunted and due to Q’s complacency scatter. The cursed pocket watch disappears.

1790 - 1794 – The few remaining loyal in France are executed.

1820 - 1835 – An attempt is made to buy and rebuild the second Chateau. The purchaser and several builders are found disembowelled half way through restoration prompting and investigation although the case is never solved.

186? – Arthur Beaumont is born.

187? – Eva is born.

1895 – Eva marries Arthur.

1897 – Arthur buys back Eva’s ancestral land and both ruined Chateau’s. Both move to oversee the restoration. Dense forests cleared to make way for wheat.

1901 – Sophie and Dean are born.

1905 – Eva commits suicide. Chateau’s restoration at 90% completion.

1909 – Arthur’s family is bankrupted. An anonymous buyer purchases all their properties. Arthur finds the Black Tomes and shattered fragment Mirror of Kur.

1912 – Mordecai is born.

1914 – Dean and Sophie are killed in an explosion.

1923 – Q returns and seeks an audience with Seth and the Sorceress in New York. Mordecai is chosen to be Q’s heir

1928 – Arthur pursues with the aid of the tomes Q and stabs them with a knife fashioned from the mirror fragment they found. Q is fatally wounded and dies. The Doppelganger devours Arthur and takes the tomes from him.

1930 – Ebony is born. Mordecai becomes Seth’s apprentice. Mordecai falls in love with a ballerina Iva nearing the end of her career, impressing her with butterflies and automated animals he fashions out of clock and watch parts. He finds her murdered later that year. Devastated he steals he hides her corpse and embalms it fashioning a clockwork husk around the mummified body. Mordecai seals her soul to the automation. Iva becomes unstable prompting Mordecai to break Iva’s legs. Seth leaves.

1931 – Mortimer is born.

1950 – Mortimer and Ebony meet.

1952 – Ebony inherits the abandoned Chateau Solaris. Ebony discovers the Mirror of Kur. The power of the mirror possesses Ebony and fragments of Q are able to be reborn through Ebony.

1953 – Ebony pursues Mortimer back to England

1954 – Ebony gives birth to Nathan. Both personalities of Q and Ebony become apparent and battle for dominance. Mortimer leaves Ebony. Samuel is born.

1959 – Ebony is admitted to a mental institute.

1965 – The Doppelganger located and releases Q. Q pursues Mortimer and Nathan.

1968 – The Doppelganger takes the visage of Nathan to seduce Q and start a cult. Q gives birth to Vincent and Lou. Mortimer leaves everyone.

1971 – Nathan is framed for murder and starting a cult. Samuel accidently steals the pocket watch that contains Jacques’ soul and awakens the Witchhunter whom promptly goes on a killing spree.

1974 – The Doppelganger seduces Samuel as Nathan to use as bait for the Witchhunter. The malevolent spirit possesses Samuel and forces him to murder the cult. Mortimer is instructed to investigate the crime. Samuel charged for the murder, but retains his innocence. The Witchhunter now linked indefinitely to Samuel possesses him again and breaks him out of his cell. Iva repairs her legs and kills Mordecai. Seth returns to London and destroys Iva. Mortimer pairs up with the Sorceress in pursuit of Q.

1978 – Vincent drop out of school.

1979 – Lou is struck and killed while riding his bike by a possessed Samuel. Jacques intention was to have Samuel kill both brothers, but Samuel’s body suffers a seizure and Jacques loses control. Vincent falls into depression over the loss of his brother and becomes excessively violent and suicidal, leading to his eventual restraint. The Doppelganger is instructed by Q to save their last heir. The Doppelganger murders Vincent’s caregiver and becomes his legal guardian. Zedd is unearthed to assist.

1980 – Mortimer and the sorceress leave London for the US in pursuit of Q.

1981 – Vincent attempts to resurrect Lou but fails, becoming disheartened and depressed. Jacques becomes aware of Vincent. A possessed driver hits Vincent, fatally injuring him. Zedd is destroyed. The Doppelganger rescues Vincent and sacrifices himself to give Vincent immortality.

1982 – Samuel attempt to reconcile with Vincent.

1985 – Maria and Samantha are ordered to kill Mortimer. Seth wounds the twins and they flee. Samuel is beaten and critically injured in a fight. Vincent kills the victors by forcing them to kill each other. Samuel becomes addicted to morphine. Vincent joins him.

1987 – Samuel’s sanity and health diminish. Mortimer returns to London

1990 – Mortimer passes away due to lung cancer.

1992 – Samuel passes away.

199? – Q is presumed dead

2000 – The Doppelganger regenerates.

[owlcatchyoul8r]

Battle Armor for three multiclassed warlock

[silentmagiamoved]

What if Lou never died?

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There are multiple routes Vincent’s life could have taken if Lou never died, but given all the events that were taking place at the time it is a complicated matter.

Vincent and Lou at the time were the last heirs of the Lindwyrm that stood in the way of Jacques/The Witchhunter achieving his eternal peace after he unintentionally bound himself after death to destroy all of his bloodline so to stop his Grandfather’s regeneration. If Jacques had not taken the opportunity then to possess Samuel at that moment to pursue the boys he would have done so at another point.

However taking out Jacques, it’s very unlikely The Doppelgänger would have had anything to do with either of the boys, and both would have grown up normal with no influence of magic. In that scenario though it is unlikely Vincent would have returned to to pursue an education, so at best he might have grown up to do something to do with a horticultural industry. Lou on the other hand would have made his way into a technology based industry.

In saying that on the off chance Q. had commanded The Doppelganger to oversee the boys, Lou would have been chosen over Vincent to continue on the bloodline, whereas Vincent would have become the next sacrifice for Q.