Hey everyone! I made a post about this character a while back, and I got amazing feedback that really made me rethink her concept. After reviewing everything, I decided to refine her story, and now she’s a warlock of the Raven Queen, existing as a balance between life and death—an anomaly that shouldn’t be, yet still walks the world.
Short Backstory:
There was a legend, whispered through generations of witches and sorceresses, passed from mother to daughter like a sacred rite. A curse, or perhaps a divine decree—no daughter of their blood could bear a child of her own. It had been so for as long as their lineage could remember. No magic, no prayer, no desperate bargain with gods or spirits could break the cycle.
But witches do not accept fate so easily.
Long ago, the women of the lineage gathered beneath a sky burning with celestial fire, the air thick with power and silent defiance. They reached beyond the mortal coil, beyond the veil of the heavens, and cast their plea into the abyss. And something answered.
The Raven Queen, goddess of death, fate, and memory, heard their call. She gazed upon them, upon their longing, their desperation, and she named their sorrow a debt that could not be repaid in mortal years. Yet, she was willing to grant them what the world had denied.
A daughter.
Not of flesh, not of blood, but of starlight. A child plucked from the heavens, woven from the fabric of the cosmos itself. But all magic has a cost. The women accepted the unspoken price, the tether that would forever bind their fate to the goddess of death. And so, their lineage continued, not through birth, but through stars falling from the sky, shaped by will, given life by longing, but as life is made, life is taken, an exchange.
And in time, another star fell.
She was born not to the warmth of a mother’s arms, but to the whisper of the wind and the shimmer of distant constellations. Her mother, a sorceress of great power, loved her more fiercely than life itself. She called her the brightest of all lights, her miracle, her heart. And for years, they were happy.
But magic, as it always does, carries a price.
One thing leads to another; she makes a pact with the raven queen, so I’m just wondering if that works now!
My first impression is this reads a bit like Star Wars: Acolyte and like a Aasimar or Shadar Kai Circle of the Stars Druid but would work as a warlock depending ont eh type of warlock you plan on being. I'm looking at it through 2014 rules though not 20224.
I might tweak the story a tad and have the "daughter" be an amlagamation of the memories of the associated coven of witches/sorceresses rather than star light as the Raven Queen is said to be obssessed with collecting memories and essences and it might be a bit more poetic to have each member of the coven give up a day of memories from their childhood to create the desired child. This would then bring about their fierce love of the child but not be enough that the coven members actually forgot anything important about themselves.
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I do have a question because that an amazing idea thank you. And my dm want us to explore multi-classing and I was going to do a rogue but would an aberrant mind sorcerer work ?
I couldn't see any reason why a aberrant mind would not work, whether you go for the Raven Queen collecting star light to create a child or using siphoned memroies for the creation both could draw on the Astral Sea to give the child the origin of their psionic powers. You could also apply that to a something like a Rogue Soulknife as well where the psychic blades are actually manifestations of particularly painful memories but I think it might also make an interesting Rogue Phantom as well, you travel acting as a collector of memories which are passed onto the Raven Queen and go around "harvesting" memories from creatures that die near you. Untilmately though the question is: What would you enjoy playing the most?
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* Need a character idea? Search for "Rob76's Unused" in the Story and Lore section.
Hey everyone! I made a post about this character a while back, and I got amazing feedback that really made me rethink her concept. After reviewing everything, I decided to refine her story, and now she’s a warlock of the Raven Queen, existing as a balance between life and death—an anomaly that shouldn’t be, yet still walks the world.
Short Backstory:
There was a legend, whispered through generations of witches and sorceresses, passed from mother to daughter like a sacred rite. A curse, or perhaps a divine decree—no daughter of their blood could bear a child of her own. It had been so for as long as their lineage could remember. No magic, no prayer, no desperate bargain with gods or spirits could break the cycle.
But witches do not accept fate so easily.
Long ago, the women of the lineage gathered beneath a sky burning with celestial fire, the air thick with power and silent defiance. They reached beyond the mortal coil, beyond the veil of the heavens, and cast their plea into the abyss. And something answered.
The Raven Queen, goddess of death, fate, and memory, heard their call. She gazed upon them, upon their longing, their desperation, and she named their sorrow a debt that could not be repaid in mortal years. Yet, she was willing to grant them what the world had denied.
A daughter.
Not of flesh, not of blood, but of starlight. A child plucked from the heavens, woven from the fabric of the cosmos itself. But all magic has a cost. The women accepted the unspoken price, the tether that would forever bind their fate to the goddess of death. And so, their lineage continued, not through birth, but through stars falling from the sky, shaped by will, given life by longing, but as life is made, life is taken, an exchange.
And in time, another star fell.
She was born not to the warmth of a mother’s arms, but to the whisper of the wind and the shimmer of distant constellations. Her mother, a sorceress of great power, loved her more fiercely than life itself. She called her the brightest of all lights, her miracle, her heart. And for years, they were happy.
But magic, as it always does, carries a price.
One thing leads to another; she makes a pact with the raven queen, so I’m just wondering if that works now!
My first impression is this reads a bit like Star Wars: Acolyte and like a Aasimar or Shadar Kai Circle of the Stars Druid but would work as a warlock depending ont eh type of warlock you plan on being. I'm looking at it through 2014 rules though not 20224.
I might tweak the story a tad and have the "daughter" be an amlagamation of the memories of the associated coven of witches/sorceresses rather than star light as the Raven Queen is said to be obssessed with collecting memories and essences and it might be a bit more poetic to have each member of the coven give up a day of memories from their childhood to create the desired child. This would then bring about their fierce love of the child but not be enough that the coven members actually forgot anything important about themselves.
I do have a question because that an amazing idea thank you. And my dm want us to explore multi-classing and I was going to do a rogue but would an aberrant mind sorcerer work ?
I couldn't see any reason why a aberrant mind would not work, whether you go for the Raven Queen collecting star light to create a child or using siphoned memroies for the creation both could draw on the Astral Sea to give the child the origin of their psionic powers. You could also apply that to a something like a Rogue Soulknife as well where the psychic blades are actually manifestations of particularly painful memories but I think it might also make an interesting Rogue Phantom as well, you travel acting as a collector of memories which are passed onto the Raven Queen and go around "harvesting" memories from creatures that die near you. Untilmately though the question is: What would you enjoy playing the most?