Mad_Jack
Legend
My warlock ATE his patron... 
Harrow was a 4E eladrin raised among humans, and probably would have ended up as a garden-variety serial killer if he hadn't been driven completely psychotic by somehow getting lost and stranded in the FeyDark for two months in a teleporting mishap when he was thirteen.
Eventually chased out of his home village, he became a wandering madman drifting from town to town one step ahead of the consequences of the last time he lost his temper or his mind. Traveling through a forest one day in a blind rage, mumbling to himself, he was suddenly accosted by a buzzing green ball of light that resolved itself into a tiny Tinkerbelle-style fairy. She introduced herself as Alma-something-about-thirty-names-long-but-all-one-word, and began talking at him in a high-speed babble in a very high-pitched voice. Ten minutes later, just as Harrow was seriously considering slitting his own throat, she finally stopped and cheerfully asked him why-he-wasn't-smiling-because-smiling-makes-everything-better...
Driven into such a murderous frenzy that he was just about to begin bleeding from the eyeballs, he snatched the "damned talking mosquito" out of the air...
And stuffed her in his mouth.
Unfortunately, "Alma" was an immortal Fey, and didn't die even after being eaten and digested. Her magical essence spread throughout Harrow's body and she reformed eventually as a sort of second central nervous system inside of him. The two now exist in a symbiotic relationship - she's now a permanent part of his physical form and her magic gives him his warlock powers. Although driven mind-rippingly insane by the whole ordeal, Alma's consciousness now survives as a voice inside Harrow's head.
Harrow was already psychotic, and having a bat-**** crazy fairy inside his head certainly hasn't improved his sanity or his mood any, lol. It's quite disturbing to hear him arguing with himself in two different voices at the same time, and to see him fall to the ground flailing and foaming at the mouth as he and Alma fight over who's going to control his body at that particular moment.
Harrow's eyes are blue, but they become green when Alma is in control or he uses his powers.
I like to change up the descriptions of his powers - each one might look different each time he uses it, depending on what's more interesting in the current situation. Many of them involve a glowing green energy (sometimes Eldritch Blast is Harrow screaming wildly at an opponent, and a ghostly glowing green fairy flies screaming out of his mouth to punch them in the head like Superman crashing into a villain)... The rest of the time the visual aspects of his powers are drawn from various creepy/disturbing horror movie special effects.
He's such a fun character to play, cuz he looks a bit like David Bowie as the Goblin King from Labyrinth and can go from funny to frightening, charming to chilling at the drop of a hat...
Harrow was a 4E eladrin raised among humans, and probably would have ended up as a garden-variety serial killer if he hadn't been driven completely psychotic by somehow getting lost and stranded in the FeyDark for two months in a teleporting mishap when he was thirteen.
Eventually chased out of his home village, he became a wandering madman drifting from town to town one step ahead of the consequences of the last time he lost his temper or his mind. Traveling through a forest one day in a blind rage, mumbling to himself, he was suddenly accosted by a buzzing green ball of light that resolved itself into a tiny Tinkerbelle-style fairy. She introduced herself as Alma-something-about-thirty-names-long-but-all-one-word, and began talking at him in a high-speed babble in a very high-pitched voice. Ten minutes later, just as Harrow was seriously considering slitting his own throat, she finally stopped and cheerfully asked him why-he-wasn't-smiling-because-smiling-makes-everything-better...
Driven into such a murderous frenzy that he was just about to begin bleeding from the eyeballs, he snatched the "damned talking mosquito" out of the air...
And stuffed her in his mouth.
Unfortunately, "Alma" was an immortal Fey, and didn't die even after being eaten and digested. Her magical essence spread throughout Harrow's body and she reformed eventually as a sort of second central nervous system inside of him. The two now exist in a symbiotic relationship - she's now a permanent part of his physical form and her magic gives him his warlock powers. Although driven mind-rippingly insane by the whole ordeal, Alma's consciousness now survives as a voice inside Harrow's head.
Harrow was already psychotic, and having a bat-**** crazy fairy inside his head certainly hasn't improved his sanity or his mood any, lol. It's quite disturbing to hear him arguing with himself in two different voices at the same time, and to see him fall to the ground flailing and foaming at the mouth as he and Alma fight over who's going to control his body at that particular moment.
Harrow's eyes are blue, but they become green when Alma is in control or he uses his powers.
I like to change up the descriptions of his powers - each one might look different each time he uses it, depending on what's more interesting in the current situation. Many of them involve a glowing green energy (sometimes Eldritch Blast is Harrow screaming wildly at an opponent, and a ghostly glowing green fairy flies screaming out of his mouth to punch them in the head like Superman crashing into a villain)... The rest of the time the visual aspects of his powers are drawn from various creepy/disturbing horror movie special effects.
He's such a fun character to play, cuz he looks a bit like David Bowie as the Goblin King from Labyrinth and can go from funny to frightening, charming to chilling at the drop of a hat...
