Intro post for my newest D&D character because I'm about to draw them a lot and I need people to know what's happening this is Sage! my guy! my dude! they're so cute! (they're the yellow elf, the green & pink tiefling is Aliyan, their ✨important backstory NPC✨ whom I also love very much) drew them in the crk art style that was fun :) they'd be called lemon sage cookie and they'd be support I think. actually, their personality is loosely based off pure vanilla! (my favorite old man frfr) very "we can solve this conflict with conversation" and "I'm a peaceful person, but..." duality of nonbinary lemon elf haha. earning their trust and affection is fairly difficult but once you have it oh boy it's unconditional love that will forgive you literally no matter what you do. organizations and people in positions of power are very different though they will never ever be closer than at arm's length class-wise, they're a monk with a level in cleric for ✨backstory reasons✨ which should be fun (I still need to roll stats for them but it's fine I have time) ...lore dump time if you're in my party and you're NOT the DM get off my lawn ❤ first things first, Sage is not their real name. this is Hesper, they're a high elf who was raised in the evil empire :) they lived pretty comfortably as a member of a noble family, but the rebellion burnt their freaking house down when they were about(the human equivalent of) twelve, causing their family to flee and join a holy order that seemed very peace, love, and plants the order serves the purple bat demigod, and members of the order are gifted wings, which can differ based on the person. Hesper got bird wings because I LIKE them and also has feathers on their arms, shoulders, and back. They decide to start learning healing magic, which is how they meet Aliyan(the pink and green tiefling in the drawing. Aliyan is genderfluid and uses any pronouns, but prefers feminine descriptors and honorifics :) I'll be sticking mostly with she/her during the yap sesh to avoid confusion). Aliyan was raised in the holy order, so she's very well versed in the kind of healing magic they specialize in. they hit it off immediately :) and wow Ali is such a good friend and she's so cool and interesting and strong and wow and man she's such a good teacher and her smile is like sunshine and she's like really pretty and oh boy Hesper is freaking smitten but it takes them SO LONG to figure it out because they're STUPID. they asked Ali out the first time BY ACCIDENT because they didn't realize that's how asking her and just her to go to a festival or something with them would be construed lol (my oblivious monarch <333) anyways it goes well they date for a while and they date for a while and they date for a while and then they get MARRIED :D and it's really cute(that's what the leaf laurel things are from btw they wore flowers the day of and the leaves are kind of like a wedding ring) and they're so happy and they become healers together and oh boy the holy order just went to war. dude what? I thought you were all about peace love and plants??? well the holy order is in fact a cult and it believes that the purple bat will one day awake and destroy the world but they'll be able to fly up to the stars to hang out with him forever because of their ✨wings✨ and they went to war with a rival group(The Creator's Blessed Children) because they were doing the same thing but not in a culty way and they were stealing membership anyways Hesper and Aliyan don't fight but they do wind up becoming medics for the war effort and Hesper is thrust into conflict yet again and oh boy maybe this holy order isn't all it's cracked up to be. hey Al forgive me but I'm starting to get real disillusioned with this order ...I think we should leave. I've been through this before, and it only gets worse from here. I can't do it again. Please. Al says she needs some time to think, Hesper leaves her too it, and man she's shook like she was raised here! surely there has to be a good reason for what they're doing? right? so she heads to a leader or a higher up to ask the burning question of hey why are we at war? and the leader is like "those guys over there disrespected our guy okay we're allowed to fight them even though we literally want the same thing" and she's like really? and that's when the guy goes hold on you're normally a lot more accepting of the things I tell you... "hey who have you been talking to lately?" and my poor sweet summer child is like "oh just my spouse they're not super stoked about us going to war since their entire life got uprooted last time they were involved in a conflict like this but I'm gonna go pray to the bat that they regain their faith" and the guy is like "yeah you go do that..." cont. below
there's lore under here, if you're in my party and you're NOT the DM get off my lawn ✨✨ anyways it's like midnight Hesper and Aliyan are y'know sleeping at their house like normal people when bam bam bam down the door it's the cult officials and they're like "yo your spouse is spreading lies and falsehoods about our god they're definitely a spy or something anyways they're going in the dungeon" and Aliyan's like "no wait that's not what I meant when I said that" and Hesper's like "you said what?" and Aliyan panics like "I maybe implied you might be losing your faith? but I didn't think this would happen guys I swear they're not a spy we've literally been married for years" and the cult officials are like "yeah right, the bat is gonna judge them" spoiler alert the bat doesn't do nuthin and the officials know it so uh that's it buddy you're going in the dungeon and they're like "yeah you're not coming to the stars with us when the world ends sucks to suck loser" so let's just say rip wings (read that however you want, it works with or without the acronym haha) Hesper casts cure wounds on themselves so they don't like bleed out on the dungeon floor but they're still really not doing well and uh chat they might be cooked is what I would say if their wife didn't help them PRISON BREAK :D Aliyan finds them on the ground but Hesper's alive and they're like "aw you came for me" and Aliyan's like "yeah of course I did this is my fault and I love you and I want to help you" and Hesper's like "it's okay you couldn't have known and you wouldn't have believed it even if you did this is your whole life you're going to want to think the best of it" and Aliyan's like "no you can't do this you can't just keep smiling at me like I haven't just almost gotten you killed you can't still like me" and yes they can because that's just how they are. once you're in their heart you're there forever and that's just how it goes. they decided to be together and they're gonna stay together till the end ❤ except they don't. they get caught while escaping. there's no way to talk their way out of it so Aliyan grabs Hesper and just. flies away with them? and that works! until they get hit by like a magic missile or something and they wind up separated. :( but they're gonna make their way back to each other! Aliyan should be fine since she's very charismatic and word's not quite out about her having left yet and she can travel really easily, but Hesper's in a bit of a predicament. They're alone and they don't know where they are, and they don't where the cult was, nor where they might current;y be relative to it. (lowkey I'm pretty sure they couldn't even read a map if you asked them to) They can't let anyone currently in the cult figure out they're a former member or they're gonna get jumped. They also can't let any members of the order the cult is at war with figure out they were in the cult or they're gonna get jumped. So they have to go a little undercover and gather information about their surroundings, where they are, where Aliyan is, and how to get there to her. oof. they lay low for a bit, gather gear and supplies, hide any physical traces of the cult's magic under a new outfit, hide their identity as best as possible, the works. but they still have to make their way back to their beloved. good thing they've just found some group of weirdos who can fight pretty well to travel with! Edit - their introduction involved getting transported to the nightmare realm with the rest of the party out of kind of nowhere so they spent most of their first session very frazzled and confused lol. very excited to play around more with their actual personality once we make our way out of an evil demigod's mansion
