Chose your Ancestry

In reply to GM (msg # 1):

Fetching.

Please chose your Free Ability Boost

In reply to GM (msg # 3):

The Clever Shadow chooses.. INT!

Chose your home region

In reply to GM (msg # 5):

Somal's Tears enclaves, Brightsorrow.

Define the following:

Gender
Eyes
Hair
Skin
Height
Weight

In reply to GM (msg # 7):

Male
Amber eyes, with an indistinct / "Mushy edged" look to the pupil.
Wavy, brushed but disobedient hair, coloured as a mix between a natural raven black and brighter dyed blue. The blue shows roots of a very light ash colour.
Skin colour is a mild gray.
Height rolled as 5 foot 11, so with intent as a (Small Wisp) Heritage, .75 as 4'5".
Weight rolled as 111 lb, so 83 after downsizing.

How did you arrive in Golarion and in which Nation?

In reply to GM (msg # 9):

My parents were oil and water, since Momma had a soul for freedom and Daddy was a deadbeat. We- Myself, my mother, and my half sister- got tangled up in with a group of traveling Varisian merchants back during a Lacrimosan transit- Just vanished to Golarion during what would have been an ordinary beach day. We've been here ever since. Must have been when I was around ten, twelve?

As for the where, I don't rightly remember. Most places were a bit too bright for Mom's liking. We just kept traveling with the caravan, with her adding her know-how to that of the group. It was years, and some good miles north, before we found someplace to reference as home. I think Ustalav was where I had my first Golarion bed to call my own.
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Just as an aside, this is what a typical Brightsorrow Fetchling looks like: https://2e.aonprd.com/Images/A...ries/Fetchling02.png

If you and your family came into the Material plane from the Shadow plane by way of a Lacrimosa (a word which has a very neat real word origin BTW), then it is all but inevitable that everyone that was affected by that effect, will be returned to the exact spot they were removed from at a later date, one that is indeterminable.

Do you still want this to be the way you arrived in the Material plane?

Ok, so you, your mother, and your older sister were caught by a Lacrimosa event and arrived on Goalrion as a result, thankfully.

Where did you arrive?

I don't know. Do you have suggestions?

On the abstract, I had imagined it as someplace that there would be Varisian trade merchants traveling to and from. Someplace unpleasantly bright and sunny, where there weren't enough clouds to diminish the uncomfortable glare. Someplace that would serve as a fine hub of trade and travel, if you weren't Kayal of Shadow Golarian.

Pages 32-37 of the Lost Omens Travel Guide covers trade, complete with a map and explanations of the trade routes.

Weather and climate, complete with map, are covered on pages 106-109 of the same book.

In reply to GM (msg # 15):

May I request something along the lines of the Strangers Lattice in white? A caravan of native Varisian Merchants traveling along a route that would lead to, and back from, their Ustalavian cousins. If we had found ourselves dropped off by the Lacrimosa near New Thass and tagged along for a trip thru the arid orc lands of Belkizen, I truly doubt Saidou's family would have been enthusiastic about the idea of traveling back through on a return trip. Lingering morning fog and an unusually short daytime in Ustalav sounds more our liking.

So arriving somewhere near Xin-Shalast or somewhere else? Then travel through NE and E Varisia, through the orc held wastelands of Belkzen to Urgir, the once dwarven Sky Citadel and now capitol of the orc hordes in Belkzen. Then deciding to leave the caravan and Urgir to cross into western Ustalav.

Do I have that correct?

As an aside, Varisians and Ustalavans don't refer to each other as cousins or related in any way, as those groups separated over 2,000 years ago.

In reply to GM (msg # 17):

I would imagine that there are caravan groups that continue a bit further than just dead ending at the end of the white route, and spread out towards various cities and settlements. And I didn't know Varisian and Ustalavans didn't see themselves as related, I thought they used the same common tongue?

Anyways, if that makes sense to you, it does to me. I'm not aware of anything that makes the route appropriate or not, it looks like any other. The few months between getting pulled from Somals Tears until they stopped traveling and started getting situated in Ustalav would have been a blur of unfamiliar tongues, unpleasant environment, and long days of travel, right? He would have been too young to really be appreciative of where one nation ended or began.

The game will start in the year 4722.

What year did you arrive in Golarion?

In reply to GM (msg # 19):

4707.bad at math, 4709.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:23, Sun 18 Sept 2022.

Chose your Heritage

In reply to GM (msg # 21):

Wisp.

Age

In reply to GM (msg # 23):


Based on previous responses, I was going to set at about 24 years old.

Chose your background

In reply to GM (msg # 25):

I think Saidou was influenced the most by his merchant mother and his insatiable curiosity to learn everything. I was very tempted by the Ustalav Academic background, but I found the skill training to be under needed for the build - I already look like I'm going to be trained in almost everything, without it... Barkeep was another strong one for me, but because I'm not focusing on Charisma and Face abilities, it's more of a "Flavor presence" for me than the defining factor.

A close mirror to Ustalav Academic but with the most minor of changes, my background choice will be Scholar, from core rulebok Pg.63-64. Assurance was just more useful than Skill training. I'll still be gaining Crafting later as a class trained skill instead of as a background one, and either one give Academia Lore.

Choose your 2 Ability Boosts. One must be from INT or WIS.

Choose One of the following skills to be trained in:

• Arcana
• Nature
• Occultism
• Religion

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In reply to GM (msg # 27):

Focused ability boost into Intelligence. Free ability boost into Dexterity.

Training and Assurance into Occultism, one of my best classes at the academy. Between first hand knowledge from my childhood to bootstrap my studies, to the genuine interest in learning about my shadowy homeland to secure the knowledge later.

Pick a 1st level Ancestry Feat

In reply to GM (msg # 29):

Shrouded Magic, picking up the Occult cantrips Telekinetic Projectile.

I made the changes in your Background redo.

You currently know Shadowtongue and Taldane. Your current INT allows you to have 2 additional languages.

The most common languages in Ustalav are Taldane, Varisian, and Skald, but you can choose whatever languages you wish.

Here you can find an exhaustive list of languages: https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Languages_of_Golarion

In reply to GM (msg # 31):

I would have learned Varisian, from my interactions with locals.

Can you give me more information on what the skald language is used for? I am familiar with skald as a type of bard.

In reply to Saidou (msg # 32):

Okay, Varisian from local interactions, and Dwarven for reading the sacred brewers scrolls and texts.

Choose your class

In reply to GM (msg # 34):

I'll take Rogue, final answer. I plan to regret this later :-)

Choose your Racket

In reply to GM (msg # 36):

Eldritch Trickster, to learn the Witch Archetype Dedication. I am not replacing my Rogue stat increase (dex) with my witch spellcasting ability (int)

Choose your Patron

In reply to GM (msg # 38):

Fervor.

Pick 2 common Divine Cantrips

In reply to GM (msg # 40):

Shield, Guidance.

Pick a tiny animal for your Familiar and give it a name.

In reply to GM (msg # 42)

I am thinking of an energetic ferret that Saidou refers to as Spirit.

Choose 9 skills to be Trained in

In reply to GM (msg # 44):

It looks like I am currently trained in Acrobatics, Crafting, Lore: Soral's Tears, Lore: Academia, Occultism, Religion, and Stealth.

thank you, by the way, for giving me so many Lore slots on my sheet; I will endeavor to fill them.

From top down, I would like to add

Arcana
Athletics
Deception
Two lore's from pg.248
Lore: Cayden Cailaen, under lore as 'Lore about a specific deity (Abadar Lore, Iomedae
      Lore, etc.)'
Lore: Alcohol, under lore as 'of a type of food or drink (Alcohol Lore, Baking
      Lore, Butchering Lore, Cooking Lore, Tea Lore, etc.)'
Medicine
Nature
Society
Thievery

This leaves me untrained in the remaining skills below. I'll see how many I can knock off as I level :-)

Diplomacy
Intimidation
46+ Addtn'l listed 'Lore'
Performance
Survival

Choose 1 1st level Rogue Feat

Choose 1 1st level Skill Feat

In reply to GM (msg # 46):

Rogue Feat - Tumble Behind, APG 134

Skill Feat - Alchemical Crafting, Core 258

Choose your 4 Free Ability Boosts

In reply to GM (msg # 48):

Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Wisdom.

Choose 1 skill to be trained in.

Choose 1 additional language.

Here you can find an exhaustive list of languages: https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Languages_of_Golarion

In reply to GM (msg # 50):

Intimidation, and Goblin togue.

Buy your equipment

In reply to GM (msg # 52):

Total Below: 97 silver, 8 Copper spent. Total bulk is either 5 or 4.1, because inventory bulk is 4, and then 1 for armor or L for clothing (Whichever one isn't being worn at the time.)

Armor: 20sp. Leather Armor.
Clothing: 1sp. Explorer's Clothing.
Weapons: 26sp, 2 c. Bulk 1, 4L
Rapier 1d6 Piercing (Deadly d8, Disarm, Finesse),
1 Dagger 1d4 Piercing (Agile, Finesse, Thrown 10 ft, Versatile Slashing)
1 Light Mace 1d4 Bludgeoning (Agile, Finesse, Shove)
2 Darts 1d4 Piercing (Agile, Thrown, range 20)

Adventuring Gear: 50sp, 6cp, 2b 6L
Backpack 1sp, (4 bulk of space, 2b 4L Used)
1sp Basic Crafter's Book, L
1cp Bedroll, L
1sp Bottle of Wine, L
10sp Formula Book, 1
1cp Mug
4sp Rations (1 week), L
2cp Soap
5cp Waterskin, 1
2 Belt Pouches 8cp, (8 L of space, 2L used)
1cp Chalk (10)
3sp Caltrops L
1cp Candle (10)
5cp Flint & Steel
2cp for 2 Sheath (Worn on Belt)
30sp Thieves' Tools, L



Wishlist:
50sp Alchemy Tools kit, 2
30sp Minor Elixir of Life, L
30sp Bottled Lightning, L
10sp Mirror
5sp Crowbar, L

Choose 4 common 1st-level alchemical item formulas

In reply to GM (msg # 54):

Minor Elixir of Life https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=91
Bottled Lightning https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=76
Quicksilver Mutagen https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=97
Dwarven Daisy https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=594

Edit - My bad, did not realize Dwarven Daisy is Uncommon. May I spend one of my two remaining Uncommon slots to learn it anyway?

If not, Lesser Antidote https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=80
This message was last edited by the player at 19:20, Sun 25 Sept 2022.

So, in writing;

Occult inate spell swaps from Telekinetic Projectile to Detect Magic.

Patron swaps to Rune, so I can get Telekinetic Projectile as a witch int spell.

Witch cantrips will be Shield and telekinetic projectile instead of Shield and Guidance.

Changes made. Will do Equipment next

What is your birth date?

In reply to GM (msg # 58):

Does Shadow Golarian have the same marks to the passing of time? i.e. Harvest, longest day, longest night, first planting etc?

In reply to Saidou (msg # 59):

If there's no difference, then I think I'll go with Lamashan 31.

I do not know of a published Shadow Realm calendar, but since there isn't really a night day cycle, it wouldn't resemble Golarion's at all.

Also, since we're playing on Golaruon, it wouldn't matter.

I need the following information for any living family members that you have:

Name:
Relationship: e.g. Mother, Father, Cousin, etc.
Notes: Brief synopsis of what they do for a living, where they live, and status of your relationship with them (e.g. Have dinner at their place every night, I wronged them and they want revenge, I know they exist but never met them, etc.)

In reply to GM (msg # 62):

???
Father (Estlari, ???)
Native of Beacon. Was not a part of Saidou's life; Left the household somehow when Saidou and Espir were 3/5. Neither of us have strong memories of him, and Nashena always refused to tell us about him; "It hurts too much, another time, I promise," but the promise always pushes a bit further away...

Nashena Weaver
Mother (Brightsorrow, Resolute Fetchling)
Native of Soral's Tears. Strongest distinguishing personality traits, from Saidou's perspective, are "Stubborn", "Faithful". Adopted the surname Weaver for herself when settling down in Ustalav, to follow local practices as a head of household. Third of four children.

Espir
Sister (Estlari, Bright Fetchling)
Native of Soral's tears, but identifies as Ustalavian. Strongest distinguishing personality traits, from Saidou's perspective, are "Nurturing" and "Joyful". Saidou spent excessive amounts of effort trying to grow out of his older sibling's gregarious, personable and friend-collecting shadow. Elder of the two siblings.

Kiyor Key
Uncle, Nashena's Brother (Brightsorrow, Bright Fetchling)
Native of Soral's Tears, but makes his home in Beacon as a trade broker for a merchant house between Absalom and Beacon. Saidou and Espir's favorite uncle! Strongest distinguishing traits from Saidou's perspective, are "Poet", "Mysterious". He always had exciting stories of the people he met, the cultures he traded with, and small trinkets, snacks, or souvineers that were shipped in packages along with a letter. The first package received in Ustalav from Kiyor after their months of traveling Avistan, was Saidou's first glimmer of things being 'Normal' again.

Kelid Kiyorsson
First cousin, Nashena's nephew. (Brightsorrow, Bright fetchling)
Born and raised of Beacon, but bears the more ashen skin and curly hair of his father. Strongest distinguishing raits from Saidou's perspective, are "Leader" and "Adventurous". Saidou, Espir and Kelid share a strong 'Pen Pal Letters' habit that mirrors the tradition Nashena and Kiyor had the generation before. A little younger than Saidou, Kelid squires for a monastic order near Absalom, not yet a full fledged knight.

In reply to Saidou (msg # 63):

Saidou enjoys a comfortable lifestyle tier when he can afford it. (1gp/week).