So my DM is allowing me to do a little home brewing for our next campaign. I plan on playing a half demon hexblade warlock. I decided to half human and half demon. I am really struggling to come up with a back story for this character. I am trying to make this character really different and not fall into normal tropes or have him be an edge lord type character. I want to really surprise my party with this character. my thought personality wise I would have him more or less be kinda of a starlord/ Peter quill type. I more or less having writers block and just can't seem to come up with anything. I would love to get some ideas from the community any advice is much appreciated!
Maybe he was the result of a pact his mother made with his demon father. She was to carry his child in exchange for some boon. His father could maybe be his patron. He was never raised by his mother(she wouldn’t have wanted him anyway; he was just the price of getting what she wanted) and he was raised by a community of tieflings or something until his father could claim him and make his own pact with him. Maybe all he intitally is promised for manifesting this demon’s power is to find out who his birth parents are.(“*I* am your father.” “No, that’s not true! That’s impossible!” “Search your feelings! You know it to be true!”)
I just want to clarify, is your character half demon as opposed to half devil?
Because demons are spawned from the abyss and want only to destroy other planes and sink them into elemental chaos.
Devils on the other hand originate as corrupted celestials and need to recruit souls, usually via pacts, deals, and contracts, in order to create new devils, and their lawful evil nature makes them want to rule over other planes rather than destroy them.
Of course it could be different in a homebrewed world, but we would need to know how it is different.
Since you are asking for backstory advice, I wanted to know more about the character's nature first.
So he is considered half demon, I found it on DMs guild. The race of demons the originate from is Youkai which are considered the original demons at least by this home brew. They have three levels of how much demon is in them. So there's mortal blood, half blood, and demon blood. So I am going with half blood so half human and have demon obviously. In the race definition that they can choose to be good or evil just like humans. Normally they live a life of crime just because no one really cares what you look like or what you are. They only thing that matters is if they can get the job done. I imagine playing him has true neutral.
That would be very interesting. I haven't thought about going in that direction with it. I like the idea of him getting raised by tieflings. I would imagine that he would try to pass himself off as a tiefling cause I think that would be the closes race he would look like so that certainly could work.
i wanna be a half demon for afew up coming campaigns but it doesn`t have that race on the character builder and ima kinda new to d&d this is only my like 3 &4 campaign so yeah
You can abstract out from my Eladrin pact of the Fey Warlock. Who has his powers as like a Trust Fund while he goes gallivanting out in the mortal realms. Playing him like a rich collage kid.
Now Son, I know you want to go out and see the mortal realms, but i insist you take some magic powers with you.
You could do something similar with a half demon pact of the fiend.
So my DM is allowing me to do a little home brewing for our next campaign. I plan on playing a half demon hexblade warlock. I decided to half human and half demon. I am really struggling to come up with a back story for this character. I am trying to make this character really different and not fall into normal tropes or have him be an edge lord type character. I want to really surprise my party with this character. my thought personality wise I would have him more or less be kinda of a starlord/ Peter quill type. I more or less having writers block and just can't seem to come up with anything. I would love to get some ideas from the community any advice is much appreciated!
Maybe he was the result of a pact his mother made with his demon father. She was to carry his child in exchange for some boon. His father could maybe be his patron. He was never raised by his mother(she wouldn’t have wanted him anyway; he was just the price of getting what she wanted) and he was raised by a community of tieflings or something until his father could claim him and make his own pact with him. Maybe all he intitally is promised for manifesting this demon’s power is to find out who his birth parents are.(“*I* am your father.” “No, that’s not true! That’s impossible!” “Search your feelings! You know it to be true!”)
I just want to clarify, is your character half demon as opposed to half devil?
Because demons are spawned from the abyss and want only to destroy other planes and sink them into elemental chaos.
Devils on the other hand originate as corrupted celestials and need to recruit souls, usually via pacts, deals, and contracts, in order to create new devils, and their lawful evil nature makes them want to rule over other planes rather than destroy them.
Of course it could be different in a homebrewed world, but we would need to know how it is different.
Since you are asking for backstory advice, I wanted to know more about the character's nature first.
So he is considered half demon, I found it on DMs guild. The race of demons the originate from is Youkai which are considered the original demons at least by this home brew. They have three levels of how much demon is in them. So there's mortal blood, half blood, and demon blood. So I am going with half blood so half human and have demon obviously. In the race definition that they can choose to be good or evil just like humans. Normally they live a life of crime just because no one really cares what you look like or what you are. They only thing that matters is if they can get the job done. I imagine playing him has true neutral.
That would be very interesting. I haven't thought about going in that direction with it. I like the idea of him getting raised by tieflings. I would imagine that he would try to pass himself off as a tiefling cause I think that would be the closes race he would look like so that certainly could work.
i wanna be a half demon for afew up coming campaigns but it doesn`t have that race on the character builder and ima kinda new to d&d this is only my like 3 &4 campaign so yeah
i kinda wanted my half demon to be like the demon from good omens
As a point of clarification, Crowley from Good Omens, in D&D terms, would be considered more of a devil.
Descendant of Dagon He has Mortal descendans
You can abstract out from my Eladrin pact of the Fey Warlock. Who has his powers as like a Trust Fund while he goes gallivanting out in the mortal realms. Playing him like a rich collage kid.
Now Son, I know you want to go out and see the mortal realms, but i insist you take some magic powers with you.
You could do something similar with a half demon pact of the fiend.
Legit your all off topic he asked for backstory not detailed info