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Tortle War Wizard.

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more buttons akin to "like" "laugh" "thank" were discussed but decided against.

here's a quick bit about Lauk's background. (the last few years are still blank. it is intentional, to have space to build a party in.)

Lauk, Tortle War Wizard

Lauk is a curious fellow, both for being a tortle in a place where tortles are uncommon, and for being curious. He likes knowing, likes learning new things. And he likes bringing raining fire down upon his enemies. A simple guy, really.

As for his origins? Well… he was born as part of a small clutch of tortles, not on the Snout of Omgar as most might think, but on the astral plane. How that came to pass is a tale onto itself. Suffice to say, he did not have what any could call a “normal” childhood. He had a few siblings, but not all that many for tortles, with him and his siblings only numbering a dozen.

He knew his parents, but while they were around occasionally, they died when he was no more than six and a half year old, leaving the job of raising him and his siblings to his father’s brother. He doesn’t speak much about this time in his life, but what little he has said indicates that it wasn’t a bad time.

It is known that his inquisitive nature made him explore the field of magic fairly early on, though it only picked up speed a couple of years after he reached adulthood when one of the resident mages there took him under his wing as an apprentice, having been selected from a fairly small group of candidates.

Eventually, as is normal for tortles, the wanderlust set in and his master sent him out into the material plane to learn more on his own. Unfortunately, passing the barrier astral was not something he had ever trained for and he was quite lost upon arriving upon the material plane. After stumbling from one bad situation to the next for a couple of years, he eventually caught the eye of a devil that had—for reasons unknown to him—left the nine hells.

That encounter did not go all that well, resulting in him spending the next four years thinking that a continent-spanning conspiracy existed between cheesemakers and fishmongers to take over the world. In these years he sought to wipe all fishmongers and dealers in cheeses soft and hard from the world, as well as obliterating the products.

It goes without saying that this did not go all that well for Lauk, but it is to this day unknown what the devil got out of what must have been some sort of deal that led to this insanity. Eventually though, a wandering cleric of Torm managed to end his nonsensical rampage, restoring his mind and ending the dementation. He is still discomforted by soft cheeses and can’t stand the smell of fish, but at least it doesn’t trigger violence in him anymore.

The cleric took him in, taught him a bit about right and wrong and how the world of Faerûn works, but while their relationship was cordial, it was never truly warm. Lauk just couldn’t fully get in line with the cleric’s fanatic view of good and evil. That the guy actually liked cheese was probably the final nail in the coffin that led to him wandering off, though the insidious influence of a certain devil may also have been of significant influence, even if Lauk himself was unaware of it.

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They only get sexual drive towards the end of their lives, yes.

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we've gotten some stuff down for the character bio, but not done yet. Considering some of the results from our Xanathar rolls, we had to get a bit creative.

One of those rolls did give a friendship with an adventurer, so that could perhaps be built upon as a tie to one other?

Lauk is male and about ten years or more away from having any sexual drive.

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aye, it is from UA. we'd just missed it on your list as we mostly looked at the books. Some of the UA in the past has been a tad unbalanced.

Neutral evil works pretty well if of the right type.

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true. CE however, that would cause way more problems. "get them imprisoned if legal execution isn't an option" is the essence of it.

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if people are considering CG then LN is probably a bad idea... They are incredibly frustrated by CGs...

Chaotic Good: Possibly one of the most frustrating alignments to get along with of the lot. They just don't think. Or even contemplate that maybe that sign that says "You can't park there" was there for a reason other than bloodyminded bureaucratic fiat. While there's just a hint of perhaps some sort of habit-ish behaviour in their obsession with unlocking birdcages and grabbing purses off fat men in expensive clothes, they just don't have any regard for the downstream consequences or the sodding inefficiency caused when you unleash thousands of slaves on an unprepared economy. These guys have probably been responsible for more deaths in our alignment pool than any other, save Chaotic Evil.

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CN on the other hand? that can be worked more easily with.

Chaotic Neutral: The lawful and chaotic sides of the neutral coin have more in common than might initially be thought. Lawful Neutral can at least respect the Chaotic Neutral's courage of their convictions; adherence to a code is a fundamental part of a Lawful Neutral's life, and while it's a made-up, internal code that just throws away all the good work and thinking that went into the law and traditions they rebel against, at least the Chaotic Neutral believes in something. It is also encouraging, to say the least, that their convictions are not anchored to tired old memes of good and evil. Chaotic Neutral thinks for itself, which is laudable; all we have to do now is demonstrate that somebody already thought of what they did and figured out how to do it in a more orderly fashion.

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Changeling? What source is that from, @DTHar?

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What sort of alignments types of persons are your characters?
Our tortle is currently sitting at Lawful Neutral, but that isn't set in stone yet.

The lawful good paladin and the chaotic evil rogue probably won't mesh well, for example.

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lets just say that Lauk will be somewhat... harmful.

War Wizards get access to all sorts of damage spells.

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ah yes. if "greatest" = "founded on genocide".

your timezone is 1 hour behind ours, but as we get up early, it is not far from equivalent. Certainly close enough to be convenient.