So for my new campaign, I’m playing a Dhampir sorcerer/warlock with the subclass shadow magic/undead. I was having trouble trying to come up with an idea for my character patron until I found out about the story of Jacqueline Hyde. So for context, my character lived in a small town full of religious people, and she shared their views until she met a man in the woods who was injured. She later found out that the man was a vampire, and over the course of time they fell deeply in love, and my character's vampire love turned her into a Dhampir. Her father found out and tried to kill my character and her love, so in an act of desperation, they ran into the woods, but doing so, they got lost and separated, so in a fit of anger and sadness, her dark sorcerer powers emerged, and in doing so, she created this dark persona of a force made up of anger and sadness.
What does your DM think? Does this fit the setting they are sharing with you? In some settings, this would be fantastic! In other settings, it'd be out of place. The DM/setting context are the source of the fit.
From a storytelling perspective the absolute biggest issue here is that I don’t see how the Undead patron comes into the picture; your typical vampire isn’t really a Warlock patron tier entity. I also wonder what level you’re starting at, especially if you’re looking to multiclass between two casters; this honestly is a little on the bare bones side for in-world experience even for level 1; such characters are more journeymen with a solid grounding in their class features beginning to apply them to the larger world rather than novices who are still learning the basics. As has been said, the “friendly/romantic vampire” bit is definitely something you need to check with your DM on, as the baseline 5e info on them puts them more in the classic Dracula “inhuman monsters hiding behind a masquerade of humanity” area. Would also be good to expand on what this “dark persona” is and how you want it to relate to your character.
As a more personal note, this is a bit of a cookie cutter “tragic antihero” backstory, and there’s a few points that don’t entirely hold up (a vampire has pretty much nothing to fear from a basic mob of peasants, for one). Not bad, precisely, but feels a bit like you ran down a checklist of story beats. This isn’t necessarily a problem, especially if your group is doing a more casual/simple campaign, just my 2cp.
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So for my new campaign, I’m playing a Dhampir sorcerer/warlock with the subclass shadow magic/undead. I was having trouble trying to come up with an idea for my character patron until I found out about the story of Jacqueline Hyde. So for context, my character lived in a small town full of religious people, and she shared their views until she met a man in the woods who was injured. She later found out that the man was a vampire, and over the course of time they fell deeply in love, and my character's vampire love turned her into a Dhampir. Her father found out and tried to kill my character and her love, so in an act of desperation, they ran into the woods, but doing so, they got lost and separated, so in a fit of anger and sadness, her dark sorcerer powers emerged, and in doing so, she created this dark persona of a force made up of anger and sadness.
So, is this a good idea?
What does your DM think? Does this fit the setting they are sharing with you? In some settings, this would be fantastic! In other settings, it'd be out of place. The DM/setting context are the source of the fit.
From a storytelling perspective the absolute biggest issue here is that I don’t see how the Undead patron comes into the picture; your typical vampire isn’t really a Warlock patron tier entity. I also wonder what level you’re starting at, especially if you’re looking to multiclass between two casters; this honestly is a little on the bare bones side for in-world experience even for level 1; such characters are more journeymen with a solid grounding in their class features beginning to apply them to the larger world rather than novices who are still learning the basics. As has been said, the “friendly/romantic vampire” bit is definitely something you need to check with your DM on, as the baseline 5e info on them puts them more in the classic Dracula “inhuman monsters hiding behind a masquerade of humanity” area. Would also be good to expand on what this “dark persona” is and how you want it to relate to your character.
As a more personal note, this is a bit of a cookie cutter “tragic antihero” backstory, and there’s a few points that don’t entirely hold up (a vampire has pretty much nothing to fear from a basic mob of peasants, for one). Not bad, precisely, but feels a bit like you ran down a checklist of story beats. This isn’t necessarily a problem, especially if your group is doing a more casual/simple campaign, just my 2cp.