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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7227504" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[MENTION=6883571]Firathor[/MENTION] Sorry if my last post as a bit edgy; was having a stressful week. </p><p></p><p>Finally had time to sit down and work on the role-plays – it feels like pure bliss. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And I brainstormed further ideas for Ferdinand. Take what you like, cut what you don't, and adapt as you see fit...</p><p></p><p>Being born under the Black Sun (a prophesied eclipse) is a big deal. Actually, Kynee (the retired PC turned NPC) was born under the Black Sun. And obviously so was the NPC Odvara. Pretty much everyone in the stories/video games who was born under the Black Sun was touched by magic/mutation and had a dual-nature. Many of them were captured by sorcerers and experimented on; the sorcerers were fearful the children (and specifically the <em>girls</em>) of the Black Sun would herald some kind of apocalypse. Par for the course in the Witcher setting, the mistreatment of these girls led to a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby many of them grew up with their hearts hardened and became destructive...some were/are Sources, others stranger things. </p><p></p><p>So Ferdinand being a <em>boy</em> born under the Black Sun...his gender doesn't qualify him for Eltibald's prophecy...so he could have escaped the worst of the treatment...</p><p></p><p>[SECTION]<em>Eltibald wasn't mad at all. He deciphered the writing on Dauk menhirs, on tombstones in the Wozgor necropolises, and examined the legends and traditions of weretots. All of them spoke of the eclipse in no uncertain terms. The Black Sun was to announce the imminent return of Lilit, still honoured in the east under the name of Niya, and the extermination of the human race. Lilit's path was to be prepared by "sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood"."</em></p><p>- pg.83, The Last Wish (UK edition)[/SECTION]</p><p></p><p>Now, this isn't "common knowledge" in the setting. Maybe a long-lived witcher or sorceress trained in Arcana would know about it.</p><p></p><p>One idea – given Ferdinand's Charisma, Intimidation skill, and Axii – is that he has a bit of an unnaturally intense presence that some *could* see as influence of the Black Sun. Maybe his knowledge of Axii comes from a more intuitive place, and is not 100% under his control? So he has to be careful what he says lest he accidentally influence someone? This could give him a reason to seek out the elves, and/or others like him (e.g. Odvara & Kynee), for guidance.</p><p></p><p>Another idea – in a fairytale vein, Ferdinand and Odvara dreamed of one another, some kind of preternatural connection due to the Black Sun. The nature of this vision might even make Odvara out to be a potential threat (e.g. due to a destructive wild surge, her being a Source). If you liked this approach, you'd need to flesh it out more...WHY travel so far for this vision? Was Nilfgaard or Temeria involved somehow?</p><p></p><p>Another idea – a bit more complex, but having fought in the Third Northern War alongside the Blue Stripes, it's possible Ferdinand was directed to Dol Blathanna (which is sort of a protectorate established with Nilfgaard's blessing, since the elves fought for Nilfgaard in the Second Northern War in exchange for their own land) to convince the elves to separate from Nilfgaard. Now, that's the sort of task you'd imagine a character like Vernon Roche or an ambassador or a retired general undertaking, not a witcher...so if you liked this approach, you'd need to flesh it out with some monster-hunting stuff suiting the School of the Wolf...tracking a powerful monster that hunts a wide range and holds several villages in its thrall...perhaps a monster like Old Nan (if she is indeed a monster)?</p><p></p><p>Just a few thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7227504, member: 20323"] [MENTION=6883571]Firathor[/MENTION] Sorry if my last post as a bit edgy; was having a stressful week. Finally had time to sit down and work on the role-plays – it feels like pure bliss. :) And I brainstormed further ideas for Ferdinand. Take what you like, cut what you don't, and adapt as you see fit... Being born under the Black Sun (a prophesied eclipse) is a big deal. Actually, Kynee (the retired PC turned NPC) was born under the Black Sun. And obviously so was the NPC Odvara. Pretty much everyone in the stories/video games who was born under the Black Sun was touched by magic/mutation and had a dual-nature. Many of them were captured by sorcerers and experimented on; the sorcerers were fearful the children (and specifically the [I]girls[/I]) of the Black Sun would herald some kind of apocalypse. Par for the course in the Witcher setting, the mistreatment of these girls led to a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby many of them grew up with their hearts hardened and became destructive...some were/are Sources, others stranger things. So Ferdinand being a [I]boy[/I] born under the Black Sun...his gender doesn't qualify him for Eltibald's prophecy...so he could have escaped the worst of the treatment... [SECTION][I]Eltibald wasn't mad at all. He deciphered the writing on Dauk menhirs, on tombstones in the Wozgor necropolises, and examined the legends and traditions of weretots. All of them spoke of the eclipse in no uncertain terms. The Black Sun was to announce the imminent return of Lilit, still honoured in the east under the name of Niya, and the extermination of the human race. Lilit's path was to be prepared by "sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood"."[/I] - pg.83, The Last Wish (UK edition)[/SECTION] Now, this isn't "common knowledge" in the setting. Maybe a long-lived witcher or sorceress trained in Arcana would know about it. One idea – given Ferdinand's Charisma, Intimidation skill, and Axii – is that he has a bit of an unnaturally intense presence that some *could* see as influence of the Black Sun. Maybe his knowledge of Axii comes from a more intuitive place, and is not 100% under his control? So he has to be careful what he says lest he accidentally influence someone? This could give him a reason to seek out the elves, and/or others like him (e.g. Odvara & Kynee), for guidance. Another idea – in a fairytale vein, Ferdinand and Odvara dreamed of one another, some kind of preternatural connection due to the Black Sun. The nature of this vision might even make Odvara out to be a potential threat (e.g. due to a destructive wild surge, her being a Source). If you liked this approach, you'd need to flesh it out more...WHY travel so far for this vision? Was Nilfgaard or Temeria involved somehow? Another idea – a bit more complex, but having fought in the Third Northern War alongside the Blue Stripes, it's possible Ferdinand was directed to Dol Blathanna (which is sort of a protectorate established with Nilfgaard's blessing, since the elves fought for Nilfgaard in the Second Northern War in exchange for their own land) to convince the elves to separate from Nilfgaard. Now, that's the sort of task you'd imagine a character like Vernon Roche or an ambassador or a retired general undertaking, not a witcher...so if you liked this approach, you'd need to flesh it out with some monster-hunting stuff suiting the School of the Wolf...tracking a powerful monster that hunts a wide range and holds several villages in its thrall...perhaps a monster like Old Nan (if she is indeed a monster)? Just a few thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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