Hey everyone, brand new to DnD and made my first character today. He's going to be a Coastal Circle of the Land Druid. I chose the Background 'Folk Hero' and chose that the event that kickstarted his journey was that he received a blessing from a Fey.
His druidic focus is a piece of driftwood that he found on a beach, and I wanted his finding of that to be related to the appearance of the Fey - and for the blessing to start him down the path of a Coastal Druid - but I can't think of a good way to do it. Are there coastal Fey?
If anyone can think of a cool way / story to relate being an eventual Coastal Druid that was blessed by a Fey and has a driftwood focus, I'd be extremely grateful.
That's more a question to take up with your DM, since it depends on what kind of world they're running for the campaign. The Theros book does include stats for naiads, one of the classic iterations of fey that would dwell along a coast, but it's up to your DM if that fits the setting.
I think you want something you invent yourself. Driftwood isn't particularly ... fancy. It's the remains of a sunken ship, or lost cargo - or some other piece of wood that wound up in the ocean, but personally I'd go with sunken ship.
For the fey, I'd cook up some sort of crab or lobster man. Or a ... kelp creature. Actually, for a druid, I think I prefer the Kelp Ent.
Let's say the piece of driftwood has the name of the ship on it too, just for fun. Could make for a story later on.
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You could just create "The Prince of Tides" and have them as a somewhat beneficial Archfey, tie in a bit of lore about old wives tales and old folklore along the coast where sailors and fishermen make small offering and hold a harvest festival style celebration once per year to celebrate the successful journeys out to sea the bounties the sea and coastal areas provide. Maybe the Prince of Tides tutors/blesses people in Druidic knowledge to counter the the machiantions of the Marid Genies and their warlocks.
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The Coastal Fey could be the spirit of a shipwreck. All the lost souls melded together to form a fey spirit of the coast that takes the form of the figurehead of the sunken ship. The piece of driftwood is one of their "bones".
Naiads, marids, sea hags also work well if you need a statblock.
In folklore, spirits and stuff can be seen in magical inbetween places, like the coast. If you stand with one foot in the water and one foot on dry sand, you are connected to both earth and water, you are in two places at once. This magical limbo could have been what caused you to meet your Coastal Spirit, and maybe whenever you try to contact the spirit you must be in a similar situation.
Hey everyone, brand new to DnD and made my first character today. He's going to be a Coastal Circle of the Land Druid. I chose the Background 'Folk Hero' and chose that the event that kickstarted his journey was that he received a blessing from a Fey.
His druidic focus is a piece of driftwood that he found on a beach, and I wanted his finding of that to be related to the appearance of the Fey - and for the blessing to start him down the path of a Coastal Druid - but I can't think of a good way to do it. Are there coastal Fey?
If anyone can think of a cool way / story to relate being an eventual Coastal Druid that was blessed by a Fey and has a driftwood focus, I'd be extremely grateful.
That's more a question to take up with your DM, since it depends on what kind of world they're running for the campaign. The Theros book does include stats for naiads, one of the classic iterations of fey that would dwell along a coast, but it's up to your DM if that fits the setting.
Look up the Selkie and the Siren. Also the Sea Hag, but that doesn't exactly fit your bill...
I think you want something you invent yourself. Driftwood isn't particularly ... fancy. It's the remains of a sunken ship, or lost cargo - or some other piece of wood that wound up in the ocean, but personally I'd go with sunken ship.
For the fey, I'd cook up some sort of crab or lobster man. Or a ... kelp creature. Actually, for a druid, I think I prefer the Kelp Ent.
Let's say the piece of driftwood has the name of the ship on it too, just for fun. Could make for a story later on.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
You could just create "The Prince of Tides" and have them as a somewhat beneficial Archfey, tie in a bit of lore about old wives tales and old folklore along the coast where sailors and fishermen make small offering and hold a harvest festival style celebration once per year to celebrate the successful journeys out to sea the bounties the sea and coastal areas provide. Maybe the Prince of Tides tutors/blesses people in Druidic knowledge to counter the the machiantions of the Marid Genies and their warlocks.
The Coastal Fey could be the spirit of a shipwreck. All the lost souls melded together to form a fey spirit of the coast that takes the form of the figurehead of the sunken ship. The piece of driftwood is one of their "bones".
Naiads, marids, sea hags also work well if you need a statblock.
In folklore, spirits and stuff can be seen in magical inbetween places, like the coast. If you stand with one foot in the water and one foot on dry sand, you are connected to both earth and water, you are in two places at once. This magical limbo could have been what caused you to meet your Coastal Spirit, and maybe whenever you try to contact the spirit you must be in a similar situation.