Sidekicks & Sidequests

Building a world, one character at a time.

Aurelia

  1. This is a character that Mike Bradford is rolling for randomly.
  2. What is this character’s name? - Aurelia.
  3. What is their ancestry (i.e. human, elf, dwarf, halfling, etc)? - God. Aurelia was an average, 5'5" human teenager with brown hair who accidentally became a deity after killing a bandit who turned out to be the previous God of Assassins looking for a way out of the job.
  4. What is your job or role (i.e. farmer, hierling/mercenary, shopowner, bandit, etc)? - Assassin. Aurelia is the newly minted God of Assassins. Unlike his predecessor, he is the antithesis of a cold-blooded killer, preferring humor, openness, and the preservation of life.
  5. How old are you? - Child. By divine standards, Aurelia is a brand-new "infant" god, though he retains the appearance and personality of the teenager he was before his ascension.
  6. Describe your physical appearance. - Aurelia appears as an average teenage boy with brown hair and a humorous, unassuming demeanor. As a god, he can be found sprawling across altars in awkward, "uncomfortably comfortable" positions, as teenagers often do.
  7. Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Truthful, Open, and Humorous.
  8. What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept or particular person (i.e. family member, guild member, honor, justice, love etc.) - Ideal—"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Aurelia carries his mortal respect for livelihood into his godhood. He is actively trying to transition his followers from lethal assassination to non-lethal subdual, miraculously blessing non-lethal attempts while comedic misfortunes foil actual killings.
  9. What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - Find the missing pet chinchilla. When Aurelia ascended, his pet chinchilla, Jables, jumped out of his pocket and began roaming the land. Jables has been imbued with semi-divine power and has unfortunately taken on all the dark, murderous traits of the previous God of Assassins. Aurelia needs the party to find and safely retrieve this maniacal, "killer bunny" style rodent.
  10. What would be their reward for succeeding? - Aurelia bestows a divine blessing in the form of a magical, non-lethal weapon, such as an enchanted sap or a magical blackjack, intended to help the party subdue enemies without ending their lives.
  11. What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - If the players refuse the call, Jables the Chinchilla continues a violent rampage across the land, committing high-profile, shadow-stealth assassinations that are too bizarre to be believed. If the players attempt the quest but accidentally kill Jables, the emotional loss pushes Aurelia into a vengeful, dark God of Assassins, causing him to unleash extra-planar servitors to relentlessly hunt the party down.

Optional Questions - not required

  • What are the goals and motivations of your character? - Aurelia wants to redefine the domain of assassination. He believes that one can "kill" hopes, dreams, or political ambitions without taking a physical life. He is motivated by a desire to preserve life and is currently navigating the "crisis of faith" his new management has caused among his clerics and paladins.
  • How do these affect your general personality? - He is remarkably casual for a deity, often replying to prayers as if he were sending a confused text message. He is truthful to a fault and lacks the mysterious, dark aura typically associated with death-dealing gods.
  • How do you normally interact with your family/friends/peers? With your enemies/rivals? With people who work for you/report to you? With player characters? - He is approachable and honest. He views adventurers as potential allies in his quest to change the world's "death rate." He treats high-ranking clerics with a mix of pity and awkwardness, trying to talk them out of "horrendously murdering" people in his name.
  • Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - He retains the completely flat, unbothered, and highly casual dialect of a modern mortal teenager, using slang and colloquialisms that sound hilariously out of place for an immortal entity. He possesses an absolute lack of regal posture, famously preferring to deliver divine mandates while completely draped over cold stone altars in slouching, uncomfortably comfortable angles. Whenever he directly answers a mortal prayer, he performs a rapid, nervous habit of patting his tunic pockets to check for his missing chinchilla, Jables.
  • What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - Aurelia's sudden ascension has triggered a massive, systemic 'crisis of faith' throughout the international underworld. By introducing his non-lethal, subdual-focused 'apple a day' ideal, his divine aura actively alters reality—miraculously blessing bloodless takedowns while causing highly comedic, catastrophic mishaps to ruin any assassin's attempt to execute a lethal contract in his territory.
  • Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - He is facing a massive theological mutiny within his own church. His high-ranking cult leaders, dark clerics, and unholy paladins are actively pushing back against his bloodless mandates, threatening to depose him or ignore his guidance entirely if he doesn't stop answering their solemn blood-sacrifices like confused, accidental text messages.