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Name Ea Lowkey Age 32 Race tiefling Class rogue

Backstory.

Raised in a mining town by two wonderful men - likely a retired fighter working as a miner, and a bard sustaining the family finances by playing in the local tavern - Ea's childhood is marked by your typical rogue backstory tragedy: losing her fathers.

Aged somewhere around six, and left on her own as an orphan (it's incredible how prejudiced against tieflings the people of Faerun are!), she flitted from gang to gang as a street urchin. The Guildmaster of a local thieves' guild, the Blackbirds, picks Ea off the streets when she is about 10 years old. He moulds her into a fine spy, thief, and lockpick. Under his orders (and on threat of punishment or exile), Ea hones her skills to the point of gaining the role of Guildmaster's favourite.

This goes on for ten years or so, when a heist goes wrong and the Guild denies knowing her. She escapes imprisonment, but the veil is pulled off her eyes about the Guild afterwards, leading to her frustration. She leaves the guild, as much as a person can just leave a guild. (Rumour is, she poisons the Guildmaster, sets HQ on fire, and high-tails it out of town.)

Her roads converge on Baldur's Gate, where she leads a solitary existence as a free agent, picking up jobs for crime gangs and down-on-their-luck citizens alike. Ea won't discriminate for coin, a girl's gotta eat - but she does have a pretty stubborn (and reckless) tendency to rob the rich and give to the poor, especially in the big city. She will never take a job from a noble or a wealthy merchant if she can't blatantly extort the hell out of them, or scout their homes to return and rob them in the middle of the night. She will take a job from regular folk, often times for free.

Until she gets scooped up by a Nautiloid and implanted with a squirmy little tadpole, that is.

Personality.

Chaotic neutral. Though it would be easy to assume she's in it for herself, Ea's understanding of laws and rules is more in the lines of 'if it doesn't actually help people, fuck that shit'. She has a strong moral code, honed through years of hunger, petty crime, and witnessing the hunger and the petty crime in others. At her core, she wants to Do Good, so she'll act like a leader even if she'll be protesting that she's not the leader; either way, everyone needs to just learn to deal with the consequences of her choices if you're putting Ea in charge...

Criminal background. She can find a way into the underbelly of any city, has a knack for sniffing out secrets, and is fluent in thieves' cant and infernal. Not that infernal makes her a criminal, just - you know.

Intelligent, but reckless. Also, her rizz is in the negative even if you think she's cute. Mid wisdom because she's impulsive enough to have a low survival instinct, but has expertise in insight so she can read people like an open book. (For real, wait until she gets reliable talent - then hate her.)

Sarcasm as a self-defense mechanism. This is pretty self-explanatory. She'll flirt or be dry, depending on what the situation calls for, but if she's being sarcastic it's safe to assume those are her walls going up.

First impressions.

Visual. Tall and slender (5'9" if you measure to the tip of her horns). A tiefling, she is lavender-so-light-it-looks-pink hued, with matching hair. Her eyes have a black sclera, violet iris with a bright green edge (thanks Larian). She has a tail, which by dint of being a rogue, I choose to believe is as dexterous as Ea is - so she can use it to wrap around things, though usually it ends up coiled around her own leg or waist if she's stealthing.

Fashion. Rogues wear black, thanks. All clothes must have secret pockets and non-secret pockets for daggers.

Aural. Low timbre, fantasy!Slavic accent. Use your imagination.

Stats.

STR. 11 ; DEX. 20 ; CON. 14 INT. 17 ; WIS. 12 ; CHA. 8

PROFICIENCIES. Athletics, Deception, History, Insight, Religion, Sleight of Hand

EXPERTISES Acrobatics, Investigation, Perception, Stealth

CODE BY MARWOOD

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world choices

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act 1

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➤ kills Us
➤ recruits all companions in Act 1
➤ punches Aradin
➤ saves Arabella
➤ convinces Rolan to stay in the Grove
➤ catches the little tiefling criminals in the act of trying to pickpocket her, tells them to work on that technique
➤ rescues the tiefling child on the beach
➤ has a soft spot for Mol (stares into the camera like she's in The Office)
➤ investigates Kagha
➤ kills Kagha
➤ sides with the tieflings
➤ rescues Halsin
➤ finds the Necromancy of Thay (gives it to Astarion)
➤ rescues Meyrina
➤ gets Ethel's hair (dex)
➤ lets Lae'Zel get in the zaithisk (fails every saving throw sorry Lae'Zel)
➤ has not consumed any tadpoles (no-one has)
➤ does Not Trust her dream guardian (someone that hot is sus)
➤ does Not kill her dream guardian when Vlaakith orders it
➤ explores the Underdark
➤ reaches the Shadow-Cursed lands via the Grymforge

act 2

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➤ defends last light inn
➤ protects isobel
➤ ambushes karniss
➤ frees the pixie for a favour (protection is the favour)
➤ finds thaniel
➤ reunited thaniel with nega!thaniel
➤ halsin turned companion
➤ doesn't let araj talk about astarion as if he's property
➤ astarion doesn't bite araj oblodra
➤ astarion makes deal with raphael (sigh, astarion...)
➤ infiltrates moonrise towers, convinces z'rell we're all true souls, gets an 'assignement' to find balthazar
➤ immediately busts the tieflings and gnomes out of jail instead
➤ exits moonrise towers stage left, pursued by no-body because leave no survivors in that prison
➤ finds shar's temple (shadowheart, please calm down)
➤ defeats balthazar + minions
➤ persuades yurgir to kill his mergons, his kitty (sads) and himself :)
➤ spares the nightsong
➤ it's murder on the dance floor, if the dance floor is a disgusting little fleshy tunnel (i stg if i ever read 'open sphinchter' one more time...)
➤ where was i - oh yes, kethric is dead (the villain is deaaaad /aylin roar)
➤ ends the curse over the shadow-cursed lands! yay, trees :)
➤ last time anyone was happy for a while tbh

act 3

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➤ cannot believe the hot lady from my dreams is nothing but a manipulative condescending squid
➤ will never trust hot dream ladies again
➤ investigates the fireworks shady business in rivington
➤ solves the priest's murder (valeria, i swear... shut upppp)
➤ the gang has adopted (??) a soup making child
➤ sneak sneak sneak into the big city
➤ oh no! the shapeshifter has taken our adopted soup child!!
➤ refuses gortash's stupid deal
➤ rescues the gondians, omeluum, and wyll's dad (tbh i regret, he's not winning awards for good dad)
➤ steals the oprphic hammer (convinces yurgir to join her in the fight vs raphael)
➤ slays gortash first, then orin
➤ confronts the netherbrain
➤ frees orpheus, defeats netherbrain, saves the world... you're welcome

➤ every companion quest finished (and then some)
➤ shadowheart frees her parents' souls
➤ astarion does not ascend to true vampire-ness
➤ gale becomes professor dekarios, not that glowy wanker
➤ lae'zel goes after vlaakith in orpheus' name (rip, squid orpheus - i wanna say you were a real one but idek you)
➤ wyll breaks his contract, is the blade of avernus
➤ karlach cliffgate you beautiful fucker you better stay alive (i mean, karlach and wyll go to avernus to be hot together)
➤ minsc, jaheira and halsin are all off doing their thing
➤ scratch is the bestest boy
➤ always

so about that DND campaign

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I originally played a version of Ea at the table, for a campaign that spanned lvl2 to lvl14. Though set in the same world, I'm not going to use the character developments from that campaign (because that's 3 years' worth of growth and I'm not crazy). The info is here for the curious.

permissions

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One day I will make this comment pretty, but not today.

kinks: there will be a prettier and coded kink list here one day (maybe) but meanwhile: kinks and preferences
, PM away if you have Thoughts. Non-con is off limits.

shipping: LET'S GO! I will sprinkle some assumed CR if needed, but I love a chance to write it out through meme threads.

Assume other Tavs and Dark Urges are welcomed (I love them all, even if Ea might be a little shit). Companions and other NPCs also very welcomed. Look, everyone is welcomed - she's a ho*.

* low charisma ho, but proud