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An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

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An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

Doop doop (Just makin sure we're all still alive)

An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

I tend to stay away from magic because it feels too easy...it's like being in an rp with a gun, point, click, boom. Hell if anything I actually make it impossible for my characters to even USE magic >.>

An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

I'm kinda curious why a plains elf is so short...wouldn't they be taller? -is just a curious butt-

An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

Kharne

Name: Kharne Blackwater

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Race: Half-Dragon/Half-Goliath

Appearance
Kharne takes after both of his parents very heavily. His mothers size and strength, his fathers natural defenses and coloration. He stands at an intimidating eight feet and six inches. Fairly above average even among other Goliaths. He's built much like a barbarian or a fighter, thick muscles ripple beneath his scales even at a near idle. Speaking of his scales, most of his body is black with a blue sheen in the right light while the plating along his chest and underside of his tail are a dark royal purple. His massive wingspan and strength doesn't make up for the half-formed membrane that decorate it, only allowing him to glide or gain a boost to jumping distance.

Strangely his horns are as white as freshly fallen snow, each one is about a foot long and curve back slightly. Three spikes line the back of his jaw, the longest of which is four inches, the middle being three, and the bottom a mere two inches long. The spikes seem to protect his ears which can swivel to catch sounds and are pointed. Much likes his horns and spikes his claws, both hands and feet, are just as white. But the claws on his feet are clearly larger and designed to tear. Lastly his eyes, which are red with a reptilian pupil, sometimes glow depending on his mood. The more agitated and angry the brighter the glow.

Personality
Kharne can best be described as a blunt individual. He despises most races flowery language that beats around the bush and instead goes right to the point. Despite his bluntness he has the patience of a mountain, only the truly stupid things in the world getting him to actually get snappy. Given his bestial nature though he's a natural empath. Able to sense true emotions to a limited degree, his humanoid nature sort of getting in the way with more reason and logic. Like almost any race if he's treated correctly he's a good ally. Treat him wrong and you'll find no friendship, no aid, and potentially a pissed off stream of acid.

History
Kharne rarely gets into his history unless a superior has asked about it. He was a part of a Goliath tribe up in the mountains, his father unknown but clearly draconic, his mother a pure-blood Goliath. Once he was mature enough physically he left the tribe behind to survive in the mountains on his own. His draconic nature driving him to hunt and solitude while his Goliath side felt he was a drain on his single parent.

Very few things could contend with him in the mountains that he wandered. Getting that nice Goliath size before finally leaving into the warmer climes beneath the mountains. Down below there was far less solitude than he thought there would be. There were these soft bipedal beings in houses. Dozens of them that ran and screamed merely at the sight of him. He didn't understand their gibberish, only the Giantish and Draconic from his people and own instinct.

During the brief time he had been in the "valley" he encountered an old Inquisitor. Such an odd being, this old man. Extremely few Goliath's lived to old age and even they went out to one-up their previous exploits. But the other odd thing was this old man could speak Draconic. So instead of yelling and screaming as he fled he held a conversation with the huge draconic man. Asking where he came from, what he planned on doing, typical stuff people wanted to know when they encountered a new and rare being.

Kharne found himself without answers to some of these questions. He had been following his instincts so much that he never really thought about his own future aside from his next meal. Finding no answer he was given a choice to follow the elderly man and learn from him or continue on with his instinctual life. It's obvious what Kharne picked, he followed the man and learned things about the world that even his ancestors and tribe didn't know. He didn't know it but his mere presence helped the old man, who'd try to rob a guy with a nearly nine foot behemoth nearby during their travels?

Cut forward a few years and here we have a Kharne that had gained a good amount of knowledge, learned to suppress his instinctual dragon nature, and even push aside, most, of his Goliath competitiveness. He wasn't the scholarly sort but he wanted to learn things that could help him in the long run. Like potentially locating his dragon father if he ever felt like going that far. In his 'off time', meaning when he didn't have his face in a book, he learned the humanoid ways of fighting. With weapons, armor, and shields instead of tooth and claw.

Kharne was a natural warrior, like all Goliaths, and had a ferocity in battle that only half-orcs and dwarves could really match. The whispers of a new Blight possibly cropping up got him curious while he was sparring. So he hit the history books! It was one of the more recent crisis that had occurred. A mere two hundred or so years ago. There seemed to be a continuous threat since the Inquisition was always called out somewhere. Or so he heard, he never personally witnessed it.

Shortly after his perusing of the history the entire Inquisition was called. The City of Ash had been...burned? Sacked? The details were sketchy on what happened. Getting what little gear he needed he set off with the rest. People talked of the blight potentially returning but this didn't sound like the blight at all. But they'd certainly find out eventually.

Equipment

• Kriegmesser: A single edged sword with a, roughly, four foot blade. It's capable of being wielded two handed but it isn't necessary.
• Steel Arm: Steel plates cover his right arm, his first knuckles to his shoulder. This is in place of a shield, allowing more maneuverability to parry melee attacks.
• "Champions" Belt: A particularly large steel clasp that goes around the waist. It's an inch thick and about five inches wide. Attached to the belt is a "skirt" of red fabric with a gold border that reaches his ankles. Offers minor protection and public decency.
• Dragon Tooth Bangle: A leather bangle on his bicep that has a ring of dragon teeth. A keepsake from his tribe up in the mountains and offers nothing but memories.
• Inquisition Tabard: Cloaks didn't exactly work due to the massive wings and discomfort of having the cloth wedged between the limbs. So he has a custom tabard that is tied behind his neck and tucked into the front of his belt with the Inquisition emblem emblazoned proudly on the broad front.

Magic

• Dragon Breath(Acid): Due to his draconic heritage he can fire a spray of acid in a 60ft line from his mouth. This can only be used twice daily
• Dragon Resistance(Acid): His dragon heritage gives him resistance to his own breath weapon damage type.
  
  Extra
  If you're wondering what Kharne sounds like, here ya go. youtube.com/watch?v=-dOXkdxP1ig

An Inquisitors Story: The City of Ash and Decay (A High-Casual journey)

Hider

Name: Kharne Blackwater

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Race: Half-Dragon/Half-Goliath

Appearance
Kharne takes after both of his parents very heavily. His mothers size and strength, his fathers natural defenses and coloration. He stands at an intimidating eight feet and six inches. Fairly above average even among other Goliaths. He's built much like a barbarian or a fighter, thick muscles ripple beneath his scales even at a near idle. Speaking of his scales, most of his body is black with a blue sheen in the right light while the plating along his chest and underside of his tail are a dark royal purple. His massive wingspan and strength doesn't make up for the half-formed membrane that decorate it, only allowing him to glide or gain a boost to jumping distance.

Strangely his horns are as white as freshly fallen snow, each one is about a foot long and curve back slightly. Three spikes line the back of his jaw, the longest of which is four inches, the middle being three, and the bottom a mere two inches long. The spikes seem to protect his ears which can swivel to catch sounds and are pointed. Much likes his horns and spikes his claws, both hands and feet, are just as white. But the claws on his feet are clearly larger and designed to tear. Lastly his eyes, which are red with a reptilian pupil, sometimes glow depending on his mood. The more agitated and angry the brighter the glow.

Personality
Kharne can best be described as a blunt individual. He despises most races flowery language that beats around the bush and instead goes right to the point. Despite his bluntness he has the patience of a mountain, only the truly stupid things in the world getting him to actually get snappy. Given his bestial nature though he's a natural empath. Able to sense true emotions to a limited degree, his humanoid nature sort of getting in the way with more reason and logic. Like almost any race if he's treated correctly he's a good ally. Treat him wrong and you'll find no friendship, no aid, and potentially a pissed off stream of acid.

History
Kharne rarely gets into his history unless a superior has asked about it. He was a part of a Goliath tribe up in the mountains, his father unknown but clearly draconic, his mother a pure-blood Goliath. Once he was mature enough physically he left the tribe behind to survive in the mountains on his own. His draconic nature driving him to hunt and solitude while his Goliath side felt he was a drain on his single parent.

Very few things could contend with him in the mountains that he wandered. Getting that nice Goliath size before finally leaving into the warmer climes beneath the mountains. Down below there was far less solitude than he thought there would be. There were these soft bipedal beings in houses. Dozens of them that ran and screamed merely at the sight of him. He didn't understand their gibberish, only the Giantish and Draconic from his people and own instinct.

During the brief time he had been in the "valley" he encountered an old Inquisitor. Such an odd being, this old man. Extremely few Goliath's lived to old age and even they went out to one-up their previous exploits. But the other odd thing was this old man could speak Draconic. So instead of yelling and screaming as he fled he held a conversation with the huge draconic man. Asking where he came from, what he planned on doing, typical stuff people wanted to know when they encountered a new and rare being.

Kharne found himself without answers to some of these questions. He had been following his instincts so much that he never really thought about his own future aside from his next meal. Finding no answer he was given a choice to follow the elderly man and learn from him or continue on with his instinctual life. It's obvious what Kharne picked, he followed the man and learned things about the world that even his ancestors and tribe didn't know. He didn't know it but his mere presence helped the old man, who'd try to rob a guy with a nearly nine foot behemoth nearby during their travels?

Cut forward a few years and here we have a Kharne that had gained a good amount of knowledge, learned to suppress his instinctual dragon nature, and even push aside, most, of his Goliath competitiveness. He wasn't the scholarly sort but he wanted to learn things that could help him in the long run. Like potentially locating his dragon father if he ever felt like going that far. In his 'off time', meaning when he didn't have his face in a book, he learned the humanoid ways of fighting. With weapons, armor, and shields instead of tooth and claw.

Kharne was a natural warrior, like all Goliaths, and had a ferocity in battle that only half-orcs and dwarves could really match. The whispers of a new Blight possibly cropping up got him curious while he was sparring. So he hit the history books! It was one of the more recent crisis that had occurred. A mere two hundred or so years ago. There seemed to be a continuous threat since the Inquisition was always called out somewhere. Or so he heard, he never personally witnessed it.

Shortly after his perusing of the history the entire Inquisition was called. The City of Ash had been...burned? Sacked? The details were sketchy on what happened. Getting what little gear he needed he set off with the rest. People talked of the blight potentially returning but this didn't sound like the blight at all. But they'd certainly find out eventually.

Equipment

• Kriegmesser: A single edged sword with a, roughly, four foot blade. It's capable of being wielded two handed but it isn't necessary.
• Steel Arm: Steel plates cover his right arm, his first knuckles to his shoulder. This is in place of a shield, allowing more maneuverability to parry melee attacks.
• "Champions" Belt: A particularly large steel clasp that goes around the waist. It's an inch thick and about five inches wide. Attached to the belt is a "skirt" of red fabric with a gold border that reaches his ankles. Offers minor protection and public decency.
• Dragon Tooth Bangle: A leather bangle on his bicep that has a ring of dragon teeth. A keepsake from his tribe up in the mountains and offers nothing but memories.
• Inquisition Tabard: Cloaks didn't exactly work due to the massive wings and discomfort of having the cloth wedged between the limbs. So he has a custom tabard that is tied behind his neck and tucked into the front of his belt with the Inquisition emblem emblazoned proudly on the broad front.

Magic

• Dragon Breath(Acid): Due to his draconic heritage he can fire a spray of acid in a 60ft line from his mouth. This can only be used twice daily
• Dragon Resistance(Acid): His dragon heritage gives him resistance to his own breath weapon damage type.

A City of Ash and decay: An Inquisitors Story

Hider

Name: Kharne Blackwater

Gender: Male

Age: 26

Race: Half-Dragon/Half-Goliath

Appearance


Kharne takes after both of his parents very heavily. His mothers size and strength, his fathers natural defenses and coloration. He stands at an intimidating eight feet and six inches. Fairly above average even among other Goliaths. He's built much like a barbarian or a fighter, thick muscles ripple beneath his scales even at a near idle. His eyes, which are red, sometimes glow depending on his mood. His massive wingspan and strength doesn't make up for the half-formed membrane that decorate it, only allowing him to glide or gain a boost to jumping distance.
(That is my personal art that I paid for)

Personality
Kharne can best be described as a blunt individual. He despises most races flowery language that beats around the bush and instead goes right to the point. Despite his bluntness he has the patience of a mountain, only the truly stupid things in the world getting him to actually get snappy. Given his bestial nature though he's a natural empath. Able to sense true emotions to a limited degree, his humanoid nature sort of getting in the way with more reason and logic. Like almost any race if he's treated correctly he's a good ally. Treat him wrong and you'll find no friendship, no aid, and potentially a pissed off stream of acid.

History
With more world History I'll fill this out? Don't have much to work with except that there was a fire in a city of ash and that he's a part of the inquisition o.o

A paragraph or two will suffice

Equipment

• Kriegmesser: A single edged sword with a, roughly, four foot blade. It's capable of being wielded two handed but it isn't necessary.
• Steel Arm: Steel plates cover his right arm, his first knuckles to his shoulder. This is in place of a shield, allowing more maneuverability to parry melee attacks.
• "Champions" Belt: A particularly large steel clasp that goes around the waist. It's an inch thick and about five inches wide. Attached to the belt is a "skirt" of red fabric with a gold border that reaches his ankles. Offers minor protection and public decency.
• Dragon Tooth Bangle: A leather bangle on his bicep that has a ring of dragon teeth. A keepsake from his tribe up in the mountains and offers nothing but memories.

Magic

• Dragon Breath(Acid): Due to his draconic heritage he can fire a spray of acid in a 60ft line from his mouth. This can only be used twice daily
• Dragon Resistance(Acid): His dragon heritage gives him resistance to his own breath weapon damage type.

A City of Ash and decay: An Inquisitors Story

@MagratheanWhale I rarely do flight even with flight capable characters. More into power jumps and gliding really since I tend to have rather heavy characters

A City of Ash and decay: An Inquisitors Story

@MagratheanWhale Was mostly thinking of a half-dragon/half-race. 3E and 3.5E they're a monster race, 4th allowed pretty much every race to be a player character, and 5E they're homebrew x.x (I just really like dragons lol)

A City of Ash and decay: An Inquisitors Story

@MagratheanWhale
You say any dnd race. Does that include some of the monster races as well? (Like kobolds, gnolls, the more bestial types?)