Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Punting and Iconics 3: Kazar and Faye

Some alternative iconics, just as spares or if I want a larger group for some reason. These are actually players from my game, but my game has been very slow moving and my relocation might well be its death knell.

Kazar: Kazar is basically a criminal. His dad was an important figure in the diaspora orcling population in Barrowmere but Kazar wanted more and fell in with a bad crowd. Whether he can overcome this poor judgement and end up a hero or not is TBD.

If Kimnor is not in the game, then Kazar's contact is Shule. If he is, however, then his contact is Oisin... Who might be just the influence Kazar needs to leave his life of crime behind.

Kazar had an old rivalry with Namzo, an orcling thug of thoroughly disreputable character and a member of the anti-PCs crowd. Namzo fled Barrowmere long ago, but he's been running around providing muscle for the anti-PCs. If these spare characters are used, they'll come more to the forefront. I should probably finish generating images of them... 

Faye Findayne: Faye comes to me as a bit of a cipher... or maybe a fairly blank slate. Pretty, young, orphaned, studious and a little shy, exposed on the streets to some darkness and probably willing to do things that you or I would be squeamish about in real life, but ultimately, she's a good, likeable and pleasant person in spite of the hard times she's already had to endure. Other than vaguely thinking about some secret about her parentage... without being Star Wars level dumb, of course, and some strange abilities and features that gradually manifest (sort of like a dragonmark, actually, but in a world that doesn't have them) and mysterious people (or things) showing up and wanting to take advantage of her. Not that way, though.

If she's replacing Cailin as an iconic, Brythe is her contact. If replacing Kimnor, then Shule can be her contact, and if replacing Ragnar, then Alpon von Lechfeld can be her contact. Or, in any situation, Dean Bannermane could be her contact because their backgrounds are at least somewhat similar and I can see him as a surrogate older brother figure in her life. 

She's also familiar with Bahram and Javaira Khanwar, surtur brother and sister team who are part of the anti-PCs and about as nasty a group of psychopaths as you'll likely ever see. Although not full blown enemies now, they will be.


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