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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3519013" data-attributes="member: 7280">To be honest, I just don't like them for Janis much - except for the "Go To Ground" thing which might have been nice except the fact that she did in fact leave an urban setting to venture into the deep wilds of Karn/Mror Holds. While Janis is very much (at least in her own mind) a "cultured figure of the aristocracy", she's almost country gentry really. It explains why she's so annoyingly snooty about her education in the "finest Cyran schools of exotic wizardry", and probably explains the reason she hasn't mentioned her little "most-of-my-career" dalliance with druidic teachings as anything other than an even more exotic Cyran magic. She's a bit ashamed that she's a Druid, and despite her sour disposition she probably didn't care for her likely Child of Winter mentors either. But she really hasn't been lurking in any slums much, anymore than she might have done before her retcon, and all the normal abilities of a Druid seem to still be perfectly applicable to what I imagine her lifestyle is too. Besides, while having a brightly colored, cheerful coral snake as a familiar seems like something she might do simply to remind herself of better days, shapechanging into giant cockroaches just doesn't seem like something Janis would really do to me. She's not into horror and gloom for its own sake, and she's really not so practical that if she's given a choice between "chittery and frightening" and "fuzzy, with reasonably large fangs and claws" she's not going to sleep better with the Rugs. I imagine that when and if she starts summoning vermin they'll be varieties that I can coax an admirable, exotically beautiful color scheme from or something. I hope. Her wildshape forms might even be kind of idealized - I've been considering things like snow white owls and white harts and bunnies, "I'm a pretty princess" stuff.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Remember: Janis is dark and mysterious by nature, but she doesn't really want to be. It's why she's so rude with the priests, because they're fairly black and white about things. Janis doesn't want things to be black and white, because then she'd be afraid that she'd be dark indeed....It's really kind of weird that I can always pull my characters to the couch like this I think....Is there some other reason that Janis might want any of those substitution levels/abilities? Despite everything I just said, I suppose I could work something out in my head if you've got something specific in mind for Janis or something.</blockquote>

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