Been workshopping this idea I’m not really sure would fly. Unsure. Not super educated on the lore and I’m not a writer. I’ll probably still reuse it for personal projects, but I’m also wondering if it’d be at all allowed to play someone with this sort of story and have them not lose their grassy privilege. I’ll keep it brief. Maybe not, idk how long posts on here usually are. Essentially, this Druid has gone mad through a series of unfortunate events happening in their life, mainly related to horrible things happening to their loved ones, yadda yadda not the important part. In a particularly nasty episode they ended up believing a strange ray of light was the call of a (fake) god, Tüsha, to begin a religion which it’s rules are then hacked together through ridiculous “miracle readings” of signs that aren’t really there. The gist of it is: this Druid is the chosen vessel, and in a way, somewhat of an investment. Their duty is to convince the forest and its weaker creatures to sacrifice their flesh to be consumed by the chosen vessel, therefore becoming part of a god’s body and helping the vessel grow stronger, and in turn more capable of defending the forest against greater threats. The vessel would then convince the creatures protection wouldn’t be doable by a bunch of useless little squirrels and rabbits, and that the more powerful creatures are usually those that’d eat them anyways. At least this seems to be more of a choice and towards someone who could likely explain to low intelligence creatures as: “you let me eat you, I’ll protect your kids from predators, let ‘em grow up, maybe only eat one, and so on”.
While the Druid does believe Trüsha, (AKA their own delusions since Trüsha isn’t real) they’re also a bit greedy and tend to have more meat on hand than is really necessary. In slight guilt, they begin to replace some of this meat with that of those they end up killing to protect the forest and themselves. And eating people probably only furthers your insanity. To which you might get stronger delusions that could convince you to go on an adventure and seek out more exotic meats. Or simply spreading your weird religion. And of course, with that, I imagine, comes being ridiculously susceptible to a shorter life and conniving devils. Maybe even lower intelligence. But perhaps a higher level of strength? I dunno. The cannibalism angle (if a tiefling eating halflings and orcs is cannibalism) is susceptible to getting cut to only leave the whole meat religion part. Flesharianism or whatever. This post has gotten too long. More knowledgeable people, tell me what ya think about this stupid idea and if it’s remotely possible to play a Druid like this. Again, likely not, but I’ll probably use it for non DnD story project purposes with less defined meanings to being a druid anyways. It’ll just be easier to play someone with a story already at hand if possible.
Cannibalism is viewed as Humans eating Humans irl, but in a D&D/fantasy setting, I'd probably say that any Sentient Creature eating another Sentient Creature (i.e. a Dwarf eating a Halfling, Tieflings eating orcs, etc.) would also be considered Cannibalism. So your druid is most likely evil if he partakes in this, or even if he knows about others doing it and does nothing to stop it.
I would talk to your DM before investing too much time in a character like this, most DM's don't allow PC's to be this level of evil in their campaigns.
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Been workshopping this idea I’m not really sure would fly. Unsure. Not super educated on the lore and I’m not a writer. I’ll probably still reuse it for personal projects, but I’m also wondering if it’d be at all allowed to play someone with this sort of story and have them not lose their grassy privilege. I’ll keep it brief. Maybe not, idk how long posts on here usually are. Essentially, this Druid has gone mad through a series of unfortunate events happening in their life, mainly related to horrible things happening to their loved ones, yadda yadda not the important part. In a particularly nasty episode they ended up believing a strange ray of light was the call of a (fake) god, Tüsha, to begin a religion which it’s rules are then hacked together through ridiculous “miracle readings” of signs that aren’t really there. The gist of it is: this Druid is the chosen vessel, and in a way, somewhat of an investment. Their duty is to convince the forest and its weaker creatures to sacrifice their flesh to be consumed by the chosen vessel, therefore becoming part of a god’s body and helping the vessel grow stronger, and in turn more capable of defending the forest against greater threats. The vessel would then convince the creatures protection wouldn’t be doable by a bunch of useless little squirrels and rabbits, and that the more powerful creatures are usually those that’d eat them anyways. At least this seems to be more of a choice and towards someone who could likely explain to low intelligence creatures as: “you let me eat you, I’ll protect your kids from predators, let ‘em grow up, maybe only eat one, and so on”.
While the Druid does believe Trüsha, (AKA their own delusions since Trüsha isn’t real) they’re also a bit greedy and tend to have more meat on hand than is really necessary. In slight guilt, they begin to replace some of this meat with that of those they end up killing to protect the forest and themselves. And eating people probably only furthers your insanity. To which you might get stronger delusions that could convince you to go on an adventure and seek out more exotic meats. Or simply spreading your weird religion. And of course, with that, I imagine, comes being ridiculously susceptible to a shorter life and conniving devils. Maybe even lower intelligence. But perhaps a higher level of strength? I dunno. The cannibalism angle (if a tiefling eating halflings and orcs is cannibalism) is susceptible to getting cut to only leave the whole meat religion part. Flesharianism or whatever. This post has gotten too long. More knowledgeable people, tell me what ya think about this stupid idea and if it’s remotely possible to play a Druid like this. Again, likely not, but I’ll probably use it for non DnD story project purposes with less defined meanings to being a druid anyways. It’ll just be easier to play someone with a story already at hand if possible.
Cannibalism is viewed as Humans eating Humans irl, but in a D&D/fantasy setting, I'd probably say that any Sentient Creature eating another Sentient Creature (i.e. a Dwarf eating a Halfling, Tieflings eating orcs, etc.) would also be considered Cannibalism. So your druid is most likely evil if he partakes in this, or even if he knows about others doing it and does nothing to stop it.
I would talk to your DM before investing too much time in a character like this, most DM's don't allow PC's to be this level of evil in their campaigns.