Okay, let's do this:

I'm going to set up a list of what we have currently.

Once I have done that. If anyone wants to switch, it's ok. But after that, I'm going to set up a new list that should be final.

Is that alright?

Works for me. Have you decided yet, if we are going to be using sub-factions?
This message was last edited by the player at 08:32, Thu 07 Apr 2022.

Some have already picked their sub faction. So go ahead ;)

Okay, I would like to switch my character. I will play a Spite-Revenant of Ironbark Glade. Can GM change my character's name to Durcaeth Grimvine?

With Eris shifting to team creepy awesome, that seems to leave me on healing... or am I missing someone?

I'll definitely take a healing spell and Medic if it wouldn't step on anyone else's toes.

Kaltos has a healing spell that affects a zone, and the Medicine skill.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:03, Thu 07 Apr 2022.

Okay, I think I'm finally all caught up.

Probably not such a bad thing I've gone for someone a little more expressive seeing as our party's ended up a bit grim/detached/talk to me at your own risk on the whole.

You are probably right =D. Eris would have been a great face, but Grimvine.... Probably not ;D. Hopefully the GM changes the name soon. Was it that you are a witch aelf? If so, I can imagine so great scenes with a Grimwrath Berserker, a Spite-Revenant and a Witch Aelf, with the others trying to contain, or at least guide the shitload of aggression. That said, I will not play the Grimvine as a murder hobo, but try yo play am arc where he tries to see the worth pf life... Slowly.

Wow, didn't know they had Champions of Destruction now!  Can I play a Troggoth!?


Kidding.

I bought it instantly. There are a lot cool things in there, even for me who has never particularly liked the idea of playing then.

There's champions of death, and destruction. While I will be getting them "eventually", I can't right now.

:)

I have... Perhaps everything published for Soulbound and I have to say, everything has been good quality, adding something useful to the game and fun. Even the adventures often have either an archetype put in there or some kind of mechanics, like expedition mechanics, sailing etc.

Btw GM can you open a character sheet for me?

So is the game taking place in Aqshy?

I'd assumed it was Hysh based on the A1 Aether Corps thread.

A1 is based in Hysh. I was going to say the first part, but I don't know if there will be more parts yet.

OK cool.

Was wondering if we want to piece together how we know each other.  Kaltos as a Stormcast won't be bound, but he could have met some of you through various means and past lives of his.  That could be an interesting way that might know someone in the group, in a previous reforging perhaps?

I’m not going to push for any particularly specific ideas at this point as I don’t know where everyone else hails from, but here’s some thoughts so you guys can see whether any of my vague ramblings feel workable.

• Sebhata is 107 years old, so she’s been around for fair amount of time. Plenty of real estate to spend in the company of others.
• While a native of Aqshy, she’s certainly been to Ulgu and could plausibly have travelled to travelled to another realm during her lifetime. The Khailebron are nomadic and follow the will of Morathi, essentially acting as her messengers and inquisitors, so she might well have gone somewhere far afield on business for an indeterminate period.
• She’ll certainly have spent time in and around some of the more notable settlements in whichever realms she’s been to. Even putting aside official business or subterfuge, it’s possible others might have come across her in a more civilian capacity as a travelling performer or pit fighter with her sect.
• The Khailebron are known for being the most outward-facing of the major sects and making efforts to ingratiate themselves with other Order cultures and societies. Sebhata could just be someone another PC knew in a general sense for a number of years without any major incident, or perhaps they were friends-of-friends or had contacts in common.
• Sebhata was her superior’s right hand (and go-to infiltrator and assassin) for some time, so anyone who had reason to deal with the Daughters of Khaine could have encountered her in that role.

And a couple of potentially redundant things depending on where people are from:

• The Fyreslayers control a number of realmgates in Aqshy. It's possible the circumstances necessary to earn passage are the basis of a connection between Sebhata and Jorik.
• Dealing with the Kharadrons can be necessary to bypass long journeys across Aqshy, so again that could be something for Sebhata and Zakarr.
• There are strong trade ties between Aqshy and Ghyran. I could certainly see Sebhata as having travelled there at some point in her life, and that could be ground for meeting our Sylvaneth (?)
• News of the whole Anvilgard Har Kuron business could have caused tensions which led to an incident in one of the Free Cities where both Sebhata and Kaltos were present. Maybe they think ill of each other as a result, or perhaps one unexpectedly played peacemaker and left an impression that way instead.

This message was last edited by the player at 01:48, Tue 12 Apr 2022.

I like the idea of Kaltos having met the older members of the group in one of his previous forgings (he's had 5 reforgings).  From there he could have strange or incomplete memories of people in the group.



This could be a great way for some history.  I could see Kaltos being both a peacekeeper, but also having an ill impression.  Duty could over-ride any outrage he might feel, or (as he's got the Celestial Lore) he could have rather cryptically overlooked something, with promises of "This will be sorted out in the future..." and then in the present, when this is mentioned he claims to have no memory of the incident or prediction.

Grimvine is about a hundred years old and has spent his whole existence in Chamon, as he is a part of the Ironbark Glade. One/Some of you might have met him either before he became an outcast, with the name Durcaeth. This would be most likely related to Duardin encounters the Glade being in good terms with them. Alternatively some might have met him in the last 30 years, during his Outcast years, after his clan was wiped out. During that period he has been known mostly as Grimvine, especially by the members of other species. Those encounters might have been about fighting together against followers of Nurgle (though not as allies per se, but perhaps saved by him). The encounters might as well have been hostile, Outcasts do seem yo hate everyone.

The third, most recent option is that they can have encountered him during his vision quest to become Soulbound, by the request/hommand of Alarielle herself.

Something more complicated can be built, if someone has met him multiple times, for example during his earlier days and then again during the Outcast years.

That all said, I would like to have Grimvine met Arthenadon during the travelling to Azyr, having then provided him some kind of anchor to start building his sanity again. Perhaps his Spirit Song was the first Durcaeth could hear after being able to hear it again.

I've been trying to work more on Zakarr's background, and by his past as a merchant he's definitely had reasons to work with the various members of the group, whether or not he remembers meeting them.

-Kaltos might have saved Zakarr when he and his crew had fallen under attack. I'd say it'd be a debt that Zakarr is very keen on repaying, even if it's pretty hard to find something commensurate to offer a towering nigh-immortal superman.
-Zakarr would have been more familiar with Ducareth in some capacity, likely during Zakarr's more formative years before joining the corps. His father would certainly recognize Ducareth, having had been part of delegations with the Ironbark Glade.
-Zakarr might have hired out Jorik's services as a bodyguard in the past, probably seeing them face to face with some mean beasts that just so happened to be in the way of some valuable goods. Then Jorik might have hired out Zakarr's industrious services in return for some smithing supplies. And so on and so forth until their relationship became a series of business transactions shared over ales.
-Sebhata might have hitched a ride on Zakarr's ship, keeping an eye on him for...something. The something he has no idea what it could be, but it's apparently enough that she's been willing to help him out with a bit of intel here and there and occasionally cowing a surly client out of doing something stupid. Any attempts to repay the favor have been met with replies that probably sound more like veiled threats, to his frustration.

So I think I’m probably going to go with two connections, maybe three if something really compelling shows up.

Once again: Not looking to dictate how your characters might act/think so please step in with any suggestions/changes/vetoes if things aren’t to your liking.

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Kaltos:

So what comes to mind as an expansion on what we’ve put forward before is the idea that Kaltos was stationed in [City|Realm] at a time when Sebhata’s sect passed through on business with the local Khainite temple. This new arrival, easily perceived as a precursor to some kind of aggression, inflamed already simmering tensions in the wake of the betrayal at Anvilgard. The DoK faced persecution, violence and calls to be cast out of the city, and being a cult of stabby religious fanatics obligated to back Morathi weren’t exactly big on placating gestures.

I’d frame Kaltos as someone who stepped in and dragged a situation back from boiling point. Maybe there was a stand-off between a small party of DoK (inc. Sebhata) and a mob in the streets over some slight – imagined or otherwise – and Kaltos happened to be in the right place at the right time to stop it ending in bloodshed. Even if he had no real sympathy for the Khainites, and perhaps very much agreed they deserved suspicion and distrust, he put all that aside to play peacekeeper. It likely made him some enemies even if it was the right thing to do.

On the other end of things Sebhata has a bit of a mixed picture of Kaltos. While she might acknowledge that he provided an out from a bad situation, he couldn’t help but come across as more than a little patronising in her eyes. Her sisters didn’t need an escort or a saviour, and though comfortable with violence she has tact and control enough not to be the aggressor here. His involvement feels predicated on the idea that they needed saving or disarming, and her pride would dictate that both of those readings carry their own offence. It doesn't exactly help that, as an Aqshyan herself who's certainly visited Anvilgard, there's a sense of being doubly judged for the actions of her own people even though she might have conflicted feelings over the conquest and have lost non-aelven friends to it.

Perhaps the two directly liaised on occasions after that (possibly with it being something of a deferral of responsibility from their superiors in both cases) or they stick in each others’ minds because there were subsequent hearings to resolve the incident which they both spoke at. Either way I wouldn’t imagine they have anything more than a begrudging respect for one-another at best.

If you want to bring in the reforging thing then that could definitely muddy the waters if Sebhata’s got all this intense apprehensive/negative energy towards Kaltos but he’s just ??? about why.

Zakarr:

The preliminary idea I’ve got in mind here has Sebhata being put in a position where she or her sect negotiated passage for her (alone) with Zakarr as an absolute last minute thing, OR where she had to stowaway on his craft because there was no alternative and an agreement couldn’t be reached, be that for time or differences. They’re two very different people, with no great reason to get along, who were stuck in a confined space for a prolonged period of time … and maybe they came out of that with more of an understanding of each other, or perhaps they emerged feeling all the more justified in their distrust and biases.

Alternatively she could’ve been something of an (unwanted) insurance policy for something he was transporting and only allowed to travel under sufferance ... or without his knowledge.

I do like your idea about the state of their relationship coming out of this. There’s something very funny about Sebhata occasionally doing Zakarr favours (whether desired or otherwise, and whether for friendship or to repay a perceived debt) and leaving him frustrated as she wants/accepts nothing in return. That’s definitely something I’d like to take forward.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:44, Wed 13 Apr 2022.

I like that idea Sebhata, it makes for a great dynamic I think.  I think his adherence to order in general would be the most likely motive for why he'd step in for issues like that; trying to prevent a riot.  When the two spoke he would perhaps be a bit cryptic and condescending, but his real motives might have not been anything like she and her sisters needed protection (though it could certainly be perceived as that).  And perhaps a grudging 'thank you' was offered to him (more to go through the motions), to which he said "Don't thank me yet.".  Perhaps indicating some kind of future.  Maybe as the years and decades went by she dwelled on that action and what he said, and now that they've met, he either can't or won't answer what he meant by that.

Hi all

Still here just been a bit hectic at work this week. Got 4 days off over Easter so will put a background together for Jorik as soon as I can

Damn, I have a hard time choosing skills and talents. Too many cool things I want.

GM do you have an idea when the game starts?