I'm a regular lurker and avid player of FfH2 and prior FfH. I made one post back in FfH forum that Kael agreed on and i felt special. I absolutely love the mod. FfH was great, but FfH2 is shaping up more like FfH squared.
If the offer is still open i would love a chance to have a character immortalized in FfH2. Here is a someone from my RPG that might fit...
Rook is a warlock from my current GURPS dark fantasy game. He is wary and shrewd and deals amongst the poor, crooked, and forgotten. He moves between cities selling minor spells, secrets, and when desperate taking mercenary work. He has been tapped by the crowns agents on occasion to do jobs as he is deniable and expendable.
Rook makes use of spirit-focused necromantic magic but refers to himself as a spiritualist as it sounds more innocent than necromancer. For a few coins he will summon up the shade of an old friend, curse a rival, or ferret out a secret. He prefers to be well informed and seeks information both to sell and to use as leverage in his deals. To assist in this Rook has a well kept secret of his own, the bound ghost of a young girl named Medaas. She is skittish, and her childlike comprehension make her sometimes unreliable, but she is invaluable nonetheless.
Rook was born in cruel hard lands on the fringes of a growing empire (Illians, Calabim, or Balseraphs would fit best I think). At a young age it was discovered he was mageborn and he was taken away to the Citadel of Screams where he received training as an adept. Never a particularly gifted student, his cunning kept him alive and progressing while many of his more talented peers were destroyed. On his first ranging his band was ambushed and Rook embraced the opportunity to escape. Since that day he has fled his birth nation and wandered far. His business often makes him enemies and so keeps him on the move.
Rook is a scrawny one-eyed human with the obvious taint of goblin blood. His business requires that he advertise his presence while at the same time remain in shadow. He is not a major power but finds it convenient for others to overestimate his power and underestimate his worth. The horrors of his youth and his nights at the Citadel have soured him to true evil but also desensitized him to more mundane wickedness. Although he would scoff if labeled good he finds himself drawn to oppose cruelty. He has seen what life is like under an evil empire and doesnt wish that nightmare to spread. However, he is primarily self serving and holds no love for dogmatic righteousness either.
Note: Rook did not kill the girl Medaas. He found her already a ghost haunting an orphanage. She hated that others always ran from her. By the time Rook discovered her, some sixty years after her death, she had forgotten her name and living history. She had taken to luring children to their deaths in an effort to find a playmate. She could not understand where these children went when their bodies broke and why she could not follow. As he wasnt able to free her spirit, Rook enslaved her instead. He named her Medaas, meaning my eyes in his native tongue. Over the years ghost and warlock have become friends, and Medaas is the only being Rook fully trusts.
Disclaimer: I know this is pretty dark stuff. I promise i am not a pedophile or anything. This character started as a PC and i only had enough points in magic to enslave a very weak ghost so i got the idea of making the ghost a child so it wouldn't cost as much to point out (GURPS system). The GM liked the story and approved it. Currently Rook serves as a minor NPC in the game i am running with different players. The group has grown fond of him but have no idea about Medaas.
FfH2 notes:
Rook could be a hero adept/mage with the spy ability (i know someone just suggested giving that to Loki). He should probably start with Sorcery but not Summoning. Spirit 1 would fit very nicely but not the other Spirit levels. Of course he should start with Death I and maybe Entropy I.
I think he would best fit the Grigori, but Kuriotates, Hippus, or Lanun would work. He would be drawn to the Sidar to capture their secrets but his death magic wouldn't please them.
If you made it all the way through this long post tell me what you think...
- feydras
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