- Randomized / Character Generation. Jessica Marcrum rolled physical dice on air.
- What is this character’s name? - Corazon (A heroic, wizardly alias he uses to sound like a legitimate, distinguished professor).
- What is their ancestry? - Meazel (A scrawny, shadow-teleporting subterranean/swamp humanoid).
- What is your job or role? - Freelance Cantrip Teacher. Corazon is a rebellious, self-taught Meazel who operates behind the local village schoolhouse in a Shadowfell-adjacent bayou, teaching basic utility cantrips to local children and townspeople.
- How old are you? - Teenager (A rebellious, opinionated Meazel teen making his own way in the world).
- Describe your physical appearance. - Corazon is a short, four-foot-tall Meazel with stone-gray skin, large furry ears, and a wild, three-pointed hair crest. He wears a scraggly, oversized t-shirt, worn boots, and carries a single stolen, low-level spellbook that he consults obsessively.
- Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Rebellious, Inspiring, and Persnickety.
- What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept? - Ideal—Always Having the Last Word: Corazon is fiercely opinionated, stubborn, and persnickety. He insists on following the exact, rigid somatic gestures written in his single stolen spellbook, never backing down from an argument with students or local adults.
- What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - Retrieving the Hag's Spellbook & Sourdough Starter. Corazon hires passing adventurers to infiltrate the swamp hut of a nearby Green Hag (the "Auntie Fistknuckle"), steal her advanced spellbooks so he can expand his curriculum, and swipe her prized 100-year-old sourdough starter out of spite.
- What would be their reward for succeeding? - Free Cantrip Training. Upon receiving the hag's spellbook and sourdough starter, Corazon bakes fresh bread for the party and offers free, crash-course magic lessons, teaching any party member a wizard cantrip of their choice in just one hour.
- What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - Guilt-Trip & Hag's Frog Curse. If the party refuses, Corazon gives them a guilt-trip about neglecting the community's children. If the party fails or leaves the hag undisturbed, the hag uses her sourdough starter to bake cursed bread that turns the town's nobility into frogs.
Optional Questions - not required
- What are the goals and motivations of your character? - Corazon wants to prove that a Meazel can be a brilliant, self-made archmage while empowering local children to defend themselves and master useful everyday magic.
- How do these affect your general personality? - He is dramatically posture-driven, opinionated, and fiercely protective of his students, acting like a street-smart, fast-talking bayou tutor.
- 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 treats young students with patient, encouraging warmth, but acts defensive and snarky toward adult authority figures who look down on swamp folk.
- Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - He speaks in a rapid, twangy bayou cadence. He delights in being called "Professor" or "Mr. Corazon," giving extra credit to any student who uses the title.
- What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - He has secretly turned the local village youth into a surprisingly capable coven of cantrip-casting children who use Prestidigation for chores and Create Bonfire for campouts.
- Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - He is limited by his reliance on a single stolen spellbook and his total lack of formal academy training.