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Player Name: Indy/Rowan (either is fine) E-mail: dizzydances@gmail.com Preferred Contact:swirlix Timezone: US Central Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character Name: Concordia (usually just nicknamed as "Cordy") Series: Original Timeline: During the campaign's intermission, shortly after her abdication and the formation of the Vanthian republic
Original Character Background:The Beginning
Nerthus was a planet brimming with magic and populated by a variety of different fantasy races, like elves and dwarves, etc. In its distant past, advanced magitech inventions were commonplace, and the technology level was actually somewhat futuristic (albeit with magic instead of hard sci-fi bullshit.)
Then an event known as the Unchained Revelry occurred, which is basically just my way of saying that an evil god tried to destroy the world because of his existential crisis. He failed due to every other god in existence uniting against him, but in the process he kind of caused the apocalypse.
This left almost everyone on Nerthus who was left alive scrambling to rebuild. In practice, out-of-character, it was a way for me to build a TTRPG world that seemed medieval in its aesthetics 90% of the time, but had a convenient explanation for why I could throw shit like assault rifles, robots, lightsabers, Mad Max style vehicles, spaceships, otamatones, and modern slang in whenever I wanted.
The Kingdom of Vanth
In the years following the Revelry, a few ragtag tribes of humans got hit with some particularly shitty luck, ranging from natural disasters, to a plague, to famine, etc., all kinda back to back shit. Things got so bad, and the corpses started piling up, to such a degree that the survivors turned to necromancy to help rebuild themselves. Weirdly, it worked, and those survivors ended up forming the kingdom of Vanth.
Vanth is a kingdom where necromancy is not only legal, but socially accepted and culturally normalized. Most of the populace lacks the fear of undead that folks in other parts of this world have, so stuff like a dhampir princess would be considered kind of weird but not really a cause for alarm.
Unfortunately, no kingdom is immune to corruption and asshole rich people, and over time, several of the kingdom's noble families became involved in the cult of Graz'zt, a demon prince known for his hedonism and general evil-ness. Graz'zt had been eyeing various worlds and wanted to subsume one onto his layer of the Abyss in order to amass enough power to defeat his demon rivals, and become King Shit of Demon Mountain.
A few hundred years before Cordy was born, the Vanthian crown princess at the time had an affair with Graz'zt, conceiving a daughter with him. When her family found out, they ordered their daughter and the half-demon baby to be killed in secret, and then picked out a random peasant baby to pass off as royalty while forming a cover-up story that the crown princess died in childbirth.
Cordy and her immediate ancestors are all descended from that random peasant baby. Remember that, this will be important later.
Princess Concordia: The Formative Years Cordy was the first born of a set of twins, with her sister being the princess Astra. Her parents were the Vanthian crown princess (later queen) Ambrosine IV and a vampire who was said princess' ex-lover. The details surrounding Cordy's father are incredibly complicated and emotionally messy, but the only parts relevant to Cordy are 1) her nature as a dhampir and 2) the fact that her biological father is in no way a part of her life.
Being a dhampir is kind of a wash, really. Cordy lacks most of the weaknesses vampires have, but also lacks most of the powers, save for not needing to breathe, night vision, slower aging upon reaching maturity, and basically being clinically dead. I know this is mostly going to be irrelevant when she gets humanized, but this does influence a lot of her personality.
Shortly before Cordy's birth, her mother and maternal uncle teamed up to murder the hell out of her grandfather, thereby causing Cordy's mom to ascend to the throne and making Cordy herself the heir apparent to the throne.
But anyway.
Cordy grew up in the lap of luxury, never really having to deal with any sort of material insecurity. This does not, however, mean that her life was easy by any means, since from the time she was a small child, she was set with a very strict curriculum for her education, as well as merciless social "training" in the ways of court etiquette and politics. She eventually grew to resent her obligations, even as she was granted a small amount of freedom in her late teens.
When Cordy was a teenager, she started studying in a prestigious boarding school on the other side of the kingdom. She and a classmate she was casually dating attended a party held by another noble. Things were alright until the party turned out to be an initiation rite for members of the Graz'zt cult, who sacrificed Cordy's sorta-girlfriend to Graz'zt by having her eaten by demons. Cordy was paralyzed by fear for a while before booking it the hell out of there.
Cordy didn't tell her family what had happened for months, but after her mother found out that she basically had to watch her girlfriend get murdered, Cordy and her sister Astra were transferred to a prestigious school abroad in the goblin kingdom of Jarek, which was allied with Vanth. However, the resultant depression and survivor's guilt caused Cordy to drop out of school several months later.
Despite the queen being a somewhat strict parent, she wasn't entirely ignorant of her daughter's mental health issues, despite being kind of complicit in worsening them with all the pressure she was applying. Cordy was given a magical amulet to disguise herself and was sent to be the apprentice of one of her mother's secret contacts, a drow wizard named Nal'intra Kilani who had escaped to the surface about 25 years prior. There, she adopted the identity of a somewhat normal girl named "Calla", and slowly learned to be more independent. Her sister joined her after finishing school, adopting a similar disguise and the name "Amaris".
The official story was that the two princesses were traveling for some time, but very few people actually knew where they went.
Death's Buffet
Cordy met a group of adventurers after they found evidence that the Graz'zt cult had made their way to the town she had fled to with her sister and Kilani. Realizing it wasn't safe for her to stay in her new home anymore, she and her sister tagged along, where their main duties were to help manage the adventurers' equipment and help them with social contacts.
Throughout their adventures, the actual protagonists found out about Graz'zt's plan, and relayed this information to Cordy. She eventually came clean about her identity after the PCs earned her trust, which was shortly after they killed a bunch of nobles who were Graz'zt cultists. She still, however, kept up a fake identity to the rest of the world.
At this time, Cordy was growing increasingly disillusioned with the world, and the PCs convinced her to help them abolish the monarchy.
As part of their plot, they faked a kidnapping by bringing her and her sister to the kingdom of Neksdur, which was on less than friendly terms with Vanth. It was here that Cordy was accepted into the home of Lady Talaitha Cronut (yes, that is actually her name), a young, perpetually bored-sounding duchess who Cordy also found herself attracted to, but probably can't publicly date due to political reasons.
They managed to draw out Cordy's mother and negotiate with her, causing the queen to abdicate. This isn't the result Cordy wanted, but she resolved to abdicate herself as soon as possible.
During her coronation, Cordy narrowly survived an assassination attempt brought about by a demon girl named Cirona, who had lived for years as a socialite popular with the Vanthian nobility. Turns out Cirona was Graz'zt's daughter, the same demon baby borne of a now forgotten princess, who the royal family tried to kill hundreds of years ago.
I told you that demon/peasant baby switcheroo would be important later.
Her and her demon cronies imprisoned Cordy's mother in a magical crystal, yeeted Cordy into a glass wall, and tried to kill her. They were thwarted by the combined efforts of Cordy's stepmother and the PCs, who fought off all the demons.
Shortly after this traumatizing ordeal, Cordy remained queen for only a few more months, keeping away from the public eye while her stepmother acted as regent. Her final acts as queen were to establish something of a social safety net for her people and help the PCs draft a constitution, before quietly abdicating and forming the Vanthian Republic.
The Vanthian Republic
One of the PCs, a former street urchin and spirit medium turned revolutionary named Rune, became the first Speaker of the Vanthian Republic. Because most Vanthians are comfortable with the idea of communing with the dead, it was decided that their elected heads of state would be known as Speakers; people who ruled not only alongside their advisors and parliament, but also consulted with the spirits of Vanthians past to assist them in political matters. It would be like if the current POTUS had spirit medium powers and could consult with George Washington et al for insight on political issues. I'm not sure how useful that actually would be because I imagine Wash would mostly just be like "why is everyone talking so strangely and wearing funny clothes", but it seems to be working for now?
Cordy stayed with the PCs for a few months to help with the transition, but afterwards, left to go back to Kilani's wizard tower. At the point where she's being taken, she probably would have begun adventuring anyway, now that she's effectively a normal girl.
Personality: Throughout most of her life, Cordy has been educated in the ways of how to be a proper lady, in etiquette and the like, and let me tell you, she fucking hates it. She will absolutely utilize the skills she was taught if she feels it might benefit her, but in more day-to-day conversations, when she knows high society isn't scrutinizing her actions, she's pretty casual and can be crass as all hell. She wasn't allowed this freedom in the public eye and she revels in it now that she has the space.
Having to lay low for a while has made her aware of the privilege she had as literal royalty, As such, she's a generally well-intentioned person, even if she's not above acting petty when it comes to the small stuff. She was able to realize that the current situation with her people was untenable, although she lacked the initiative (or courage, or whatever you wanna call it) to help form a new way forward until the PCs helped convince her that no, actually abolishing the monarchy is a great idea.
She also tends to keep people at arm's length until she can properly gauge just what they want, if anything, from her. This is mostly a holdover from growing up in the court of Vanthian royalty, where literally everyone had some sort of ulterior motive. Even the PCs, who she trusts with some degree of confidence, had a fairly transactional relationship with her, and she knows this and doesn't resent it.
I'm mostly looking forward to her slowly learning to let down these guards, since, for the first time ever, she gets to be a normal person (well, a normal adventurer.)
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Name: Concordia (usually just nicknamed as "Cordy")
Series: Original
Timeline: During the campaign's intermission, shortly after her abdication and the formation of the Vanthian republic
Original Character Background:The Beginning
Nerthus was a planet brimming with magic and populated by a variety of different fantasy races, like elves and dwarves, etc. In its distant past, advanced magitech inventions were commonplace, and the technology level was actually somewhat futuristic (albeit with magic instead of hard sci-fi bullshit.)
Then an event known as the Unchained Revelry occurred, which is basically just my way of saying that an evil god tried to destroy the world because of his existential crisis. He failed due to every other god in existence uniting against him, but in the process he kind of caused the apocalypse.
This left almost everyone on Nerthus who was left alive scrambling to rebuild. In practice, out-of-character, it was a way for me to build a TTRPG world that seemed medieval in its aesthetics 90% of the time, but had a convenient explanation for why I could throw shit like assault rifles, robots, lightsabers, Mad Max style vehicles, spaceships, otamatones, and modern slang in whenever I wanted.
The Kingdom of Vanth
In the years following the Revelry, a few ragtag tribes of humans got hit with some particularly shitty luck, ranging from natural disasters, to a plague, to famine, etc., all kinda back to back shit. Things got so bad, and the corpses started piling up, to such a degree that the survivors turned to necromancy to help rebuild themselves. Weirdly, it worked, and those survivors ended up forming the kingdom of Vanth.
Vanth is a kingdom where necromancy is not only legal, but socially accepted and culturally normalized. Most of the populace lacks the fear of undead that folks in other parts of this world have, so stuff like a dhampir princess would be considered kind of weird but not really a cause for alarm.
Unfortunately, no kingdom is immune to corruption and asshole rich people, and over time, several of the kingdom's noble families became involved in the cult of Graz'zt, a demon prince known for his hedonism and general evil-ness. Graz'zt had been eyeing various worlds and wanted to subsume one onto his layer of the Abyss in order to amass enough power to defeat his demon rivals, and become King Shit of Demon Mountain.
A few hundred years before Cordy was born, the Vanthian crown princess at the time had an affair with Graz'zt, conceiving a daughter with him. When her family found out, they ordered their daughter and the half-demon baby to be killed in secret, and then picked out a random peasant baby to pass off as royalty while forming a cover-up story that the crown princess died in childbirth.
Cordy and her immediate ancestors are all descended from that random peasant baby. Remember that, this will be important later.
Princess Concordia: The Formative Years
Cordy was the first born of a set of twins, with her sister being the princess Astra. Her parents were the Vanthian crown princess (later queen) Ambrosine IV and a vampire who was said princess' ex-lover. The details surrounding Cordy's father are incredibly complicated and emotionally messy, but the only parts relevant to Cordy are 1) her nature as a dhampir and 2) the fact that her biological father is in no way a part of her life.
Being a dhampir is kind of a wash, really. Cordy lacks most of the weaknesses vampires have, but also lacks most of the powers, save for not needing to breathe, night vision, slower aging upon reaching maturity, and basically being clinically dead. I know this is mostly going to be irrelevant when she gets humanized, but this does influence a lot of her personality.
Shortly before Cordy's birth, her mother and maternal uncle teamed up to murder the hell out of her grandfather, thereby causing Cordy's mom to ascend to the throne and making Cordy herself the heir apparent to the throne.
But anyway.
Cordy grew up in the lap of luxury, never really having to deal with any sort of material insecurity. This does not, however, mean that her life was easy by any means, since from the time she was a small child, she was set with a very strict curriculum for her education, as well as merciless social "training" in the ways of court etiquette and politics. She eventually grew to resent her obligations, even as she was granted a small amount of freedom in her late teens.
When Cordy was a teenager, she started studying in a prestigious boarding school on the other side of the kingdom. She and a classmate she was casually dating attended a party held by another noble. Things were alright until the party turned out to be an initiation rite for members of the Graz'zt cult, who sacrificed Cordy's sorta-girlfriend to Graz'zt by having her eaten by demons. Cordy was paralyzed by fear for a while before booking it the hell out of there.
Cordy didn't tell her family what had happened for months, but after her mother found out that she basically had to watch her girlfriend get murdered, Cordy and her sister Astra were transferred to a prestigious school abroad in the goblin kingdom of Jarek, which was allied with Vanth. However, the resultant depression and survivor's guilt caused Cordy to drop out of school several months later.
Despite the queen being a somewhat strict parent, she wasn't entirely ignorant of her daughter's mental health issues, despite being kind of complicit in worsening them with all the pressure she was applying. Cordy was given a magical amulet to disguise herself and was sent to be the apprentice of one of her mother's secret contacts, a drow wizard named Nal'intra Kilani who had escaped to the surface about 25 years prior. There, she adopted the identity of a somewhat normal girl named "Calla", and slowly learned to be more independent. Her sister joined her after finishing school, adopting a similar disguise and the name "Amaris".
The official story was that the two princesses were traveling for some time, but very few people actually knew where they went.
Death's Buffet
Cordy met a group of adventurers after they found evidence that the Graz'zt cult had made their way to the town she had fled to with her sister and Kilani. Realizing it wasn't safe for her to stay in her new home anymore, she and her sister tagged along, where their main duties were to help manage the adventurers' equipment and help them with social contacts.
Throughout their adventures, the actual protagonists found out about Graz'zt's plan, and relayed this information to Cordy. She eventually came clean about her identity after the PCs earned her trust, which was shortly after they killed a bunch of nobles who were Graz'zt cultists. She still, however, kept up a fake identity to the rest of the world.
At this time, Cordy was growing increasingly disillusioned with the world, and the PCs convinced her to help them abolish the monarchy.
As part of their plot, they faked a kidnapping by bringing her and her sister to the kingdom of Neksdur, which was on less than friendly terms with Vanth. It was here that Cordy was accepted into the home of Lady Talaitha Cronut (yes, that is actually her name), a young, perpetually bored-sounding duchess who Cordy also found herself attracted to, but probably can't publicly date due to political reasons.
They managed to draw out Cordy's mother and negotiate with her, causing the queen to abdicate. This isn't the result Cordy wanted, but she resolved to abdicate herself as soon as possible.
During her coronation, Cordy narrowly survived an assassination attempt brought about by a demon girl named Cirona, who had lived for years as a socialite popular with the Vanthian nobility. Turns out Cirona was Graz'zt's daughter, the same demon baby borne of a now forgotten princess, who the royal family tried to kill hundreds of years ago.
I told you that demon/peasant baby switcheroo would be important later.
Her and her demon cronies imprisoned Cordy's mother in a magical crystal, yeeted Cordy into a glass wall, and tried to kill her. They were thwarted by the combined efforts of Cordy's stepmother and the PCs, who fought off all the demons.
Shortly after this traumatizing ordeal, Cordy remained queen for only a few more months, keeping away from the public eye while her stepmother acted as regent. Her final acts as queen were to establish something of a social safety net for her people and help the PCs draft a constitution, before quietly abdicating and forming the Vanthian Republic.
The Vanthian Republic
One of the PCs, a former street urchin and spirit medium turned revolutionary named Rune, became the first Speaker of the Vanthian Republic. Because most Vanthians are comfortable with the idea of communing with the dead, it was decided that their elected heads of state would be known as Speakers; people who ruled not only alongside their advisors and parliament, but also consulted with the spirits of Vanthians past to assist them in political matters. It would be like if the current POTUS had spirit medium powers and could consult with George Washington et al for insight on political issues. I'm not sure how useful that actually would be because I imagine Wash would mostly just be like "why is everyone talking so strangely and wearing funny clothes", but it seems to be working for now?
Cordy stayed with the PCs for a few months to help with the transition, but afterwards, left to go back to Kilani's wizard tower. At the point where she's being taken, she probably would have begun adventuring anyway, now that she's effectively a normal girl.
Personality: Throughout most of her life, Cordy has been educated in the ways of how to be a proper lady, in etiquette and the like, and let me tell you, she fucking hates it. She will absolutely utilize the skills she was taught if she feels it might benefit her, but in more day-to-day conversations, when she knows high society isn't scrutinizing her actions, she's pretty casual and can be crass as all hell. She wasn't allowed this freedom in the public eye and she revels in it now that she has the space.
Having to lay low for a while has made her aware of the privilege she had as literal royalty, As such, she's a generally well-intentioned person, even if she's not above acting petty when it comes to the small stuff. She was able to realize that the current situation with her people was untenable, although she lacked the initiative (or courage, or whatever you wanna call it) to help form a new way forward until the PCs helped convince her that no, actually abolishing the monarchy is a great idea.
She also tends to keep people at arm's length until she can properly gauge just what they want, if anything, from her. This is mostly a holdover from growing up in the court of Vanthian royalty, where literally everyone had some sort of ulterior motive. Even the PCs, who she trusts with some degree of confidence, had a fairly transactional relationship with her, and she knows this and doesn't resent it.
I'm mostly looking forward to her slowly learning to let down these guards, since, for the first time ever, she gets to be a normal person (well, a normal adventurer.)
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