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I forget if I ever posted this on tumblr so sorry if it’s a repeat. Calio and Greta’s wedding outfits (they made their wedding a masquerade)

#Calio Caecos #Greta (Reign of Winter) #pathfinder

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Calio disguised himself as a Winter Wolf and dressed up like a fancy lad to go to the opera with a pretty lady.

#pathfinder #reign of winter #calio caecos #art

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I am very pleased with myself, I actually 100% completed writing one of my in character journals for the last Pathfinder campaign we finished. Years in the future I'll be able to look back at Calio's entire journey.

#pathfinder #Calio Caecos #I've started journals for Draven Morris Roland and Mau #But the first three I stopped writing after the campaign ended #and I'd fallen behind so they're all missing basically their last arc #Mau's is caught up so far but we're only on book 3 of the campaign so we'll see if I manage to keep it up

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The Black Riders, at the beginning and at the end of their journey.

#man you never realize what a difference 1 year makes until you look at two pictures side-by-side #parart #pathfinder #dnd ocs #Calio Caecos #Aenland Xiovu Boughmuse #Nestian #Edeya Karanasi #with special guest appearance from Snezhinka/Illivor Karanasi

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Man when I’m not looking at Astarion’s actions through Calio’s eyes I see much more clearly what a manipulative jerk he is 😂 (Mostly because Calio is *also* a manipulative jerk in very similar ways)

#Calio found the whole bite scene *very* appealing #Draven was horrified by the entire experience and it’s soured her opinion of him even more #Baldur’s Gate 3 #Draven Imani #Calio Caecos #Astarion

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Calio’s most recent look.

#Pathfinder #my ocs #Calio Caecos #parart

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Calio’s looks over the last year and a half.

#Calio Caecos #pathfinder #the first one is before he died and was resurrected partially by Baba Yaga #parart

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I have been given the go ahead to info dump about my OCs by @the-ethereal-god so now it’s story time with Sky, featuring those weirdos who live in my brain.

So since they’re all Pathfinder characters they’re all heroes. Technically. Some more than others. Some a lot more than others.

On a sliding scale of ‘goodness’

At the top is Umbrolus, he is a pure cinnamon roll. Too good for this world. Ignore the fact that he’d beat a man to death with their own severed limbs if they so much as considered hurting his SO or his friends. He has a teeny tiny huge temper. It’s fine we all have flaws. But other than that he’s just a big puppy.

After Umber is probably Kiyo. They have been the local doctor for the poor district of Korvosa for about 50 years, and they’ve lived in the city for over a century. They care about the city and its people and want to protect them and see them become something better than the crime filled hovel it currently is. As such, they’ve recently taken up the mantle of the vigilante Blackjack from the previous wielder, to help protect the people and give them hope. So they use their talents to protect the city they love in two forms: as a doctor caring for the sick and injured who cannot afford care elsewhere, and as a vigilante protecting the powerless and the innocent.

I think next is probably Draven. She has a bit of a hero complex. Just a little. Just ‘throw myself in front of enemy attacks and use my body as a shield to protect the innocents or my friends, with no regard for my own health and safety’ levels of self destructive hero complex. She is basically indestructible though so she can get away with it. Literally. It took a demi-god level powerful Demon Lord and three balors multiple rounds focusing all their attacks on trying to kill her to take her down, and it was her only death the entire campaign (it was the final battle). She did one thing and that was tank and she did it well.

I think next would be Roland. He was not a good person in his past, but he’s long since moved beyond that. He’s generally a good person, the quintessential stressed healer wrangling a chaotic party. He believes strongly in the ideal of redemption and that most people have the ability to become better versions of themselves, they just have to be willing to choose to put in the work to become that better self. If someone is remorseful of their actions and shows the desire to change Roland will fight for them and do everything in his power to help them see their new path through. He feels sympathy especially for those who were turned undead unwillingly and have to fight against an innate evil nature—given that he is himself an undead known as a Graveheart—and he respects those who choose to try to do good. He has helped to set up a place within the Valoria faith for these undead who want to turn towards the light.

Next would be Ileark. He’s generally a good person and does his best to always act in peoples’ best interests. He is a follower of Desna and is a strong believer in freedom, not feeling comfortable with most governing bodies or other rigid social constructs that restrict peoples’ personal freedoms. He is deeply against slavery, and slavers are one of the few things that make him truly seethingly angry. He is widely travelled and has seen every corner of the continent Avistan, and some parts of the neighboring continents. His breadth of experience makes him very personable with people from all walks of life. Ileark has healer envy for the party’s paladin, who is better at healing than him (he is a cleric with a prestige class who lost a lot of his healing abilities due to the prestige class), and he is self conscious and feels like he is a bad person because he is better at doing harm than that healing. The only character death the party has had was caused by Ileark, as he accidentally killed the party psychic—who is basically Ileark’s surrogate brother—because he’d had an infection that required using negative energy to knock him out to cure, and Ileark’s negative energy spell ended up being too powerful and flat out killed him. So he has a lot of guilt over that. Oh and also his birth mother is the goddess of night hags (and said psychic’s former goddess before he told her to fuck off and threw his unholy symbol into the ocean), and she wants Ileark to give in to her power and come to the dark side to become a night hag like her.

Next up is Lucien. He is also a Desna worshipper, but he’s less concerned with freedom and travel and more concerned with luck. He’s a gambler and an adrenaline junkie and he bases much of his philosophy off the idea that any test of luck is showing faith in Desna. Lucien doesn’t necessarily avoid doing the right thing or actively do harm (usually), but he doesn’t necessarily go out of his way to do good deeds like a lot of the people above either. He mostly just goes with the flow, lets a coin flip determine his fate, helps if there’s someone right in front of him obviously needing help, but can also oblivious to people needing his help if it isn’t directly asked of him. He isn’t always a particularly smart man, he mostly acts on his own whims with very little forethought—in fact he actively avoids thinking as much as possible because self reflection just makes him depressed and he doesn’t want to feel those things, he wants to ignore them and pretend everything is alright.

Sai is…where things start getting morally grey. Sai believes she is doing good. Her goal is to punish bad people and to protect good people. But she is very black and white in her thinking about ‘bad people’ and ‘good people’, and her methods of punishment for ‘bad people’ can range from what you’d expect from a regular adventurer to exceptionally cruel things. For example she turned a gargoyle into an insect permanently with his mind still intact and then released him into the wild to live out what he could of his inevitably short and terrified life after he killed one of the other members of the party—despite the fact that said party member came back to life afterwards.

Kaius will do anything to protect his family. And that’s a sweet nice thing that you’d expect from a hero right? Except no—he will do *anything* to protect his family. If aiding a villain is what it takes to protect his wife and daughter, he’d do it without hesitation and feel no guilt over it or any repercussions from it so long as it didn’t harm said family. He was a hair’s breath away from betraying his party when the group’s cleric turned out to be a cultist and she told him to join her and shoot one of the others. If she hadn’t shown her hand and revealed how her plans were going to affect his daughter, he would have done it, because she was the one member of the party he’d actually opened up to. As it was, he ended up fighting for the heroes side—but only because that’s what benefitted his wife and daughter the most, and because he felt betrayed by Gabby, not because it was the right thing to do, or because he had any moral objections to a cult subjugating everyone in the world and killing every deity but their own. Although he would have some objections to *himself* being subjugated so he’d probably fight against them on that alone.

Calio is my most morally bad character. He is, at his core, selfish. He doesn’t do anything for altruistic reasons, ever. There’s always an angle. However that being said, he is better than he used to be. His selfishness extends to the people close to him now—so if there’s something one of the other party members wants, he’ll want that for them as well. Unless their wants directly contradict one of his wants, in which case his wants still take precedent. Calio has been getting better ever since he met Greta. Before her, he wasn’t close to anyone and he didn’t take anyone’s thoughts or feelings into consideration ever. Since meeting her, he’s mellowed out a little and had began actively considering the people he cares about. However this consideration does not extend past the bubble of people he cares about—everyone else can go die in a hole for all he cares. He talked a man out of committing suicide recently—and if the other members of the party hadn’t been there he wouldn’t have bothered and would have just let the man die. Because he only did it because the others were the ones who would care if the man died. So, to reiterate, Calio might do good things sometimes, but he is not a good person.

#my ocs #Roland Terrasold #Kiyo Alvara #Sai Gwenn #Lucien Anasia #Kaius River #Draven Imani #Umbrolus Arcantix #Ileark Keita #calio caecos

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Calio’s mini has finally been painted~

#it only took me two years 😂 #Calio Caecos #parart #my ocs #pathfinder #pathfinder oc #dnd miniatures #reign of winter

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My PCs who start out the most anti-social become the most ride or die by the end of the campaign.

Draven didn’t want to get close to people because she thought her very presence brought misfortune and death to those around her. She was also emotionally disconnected so she had a difficult time connecting to people anyways. By the end of the campaign she was fiercely loyal to her friends, loved them dearly, and would do whatever it took to protect them. Literally the power of love and the bonds that connect people became the main themes of her character arc.

Calio was a bit of a bastard who just wanted to do whatever he wanted to do, get money and power and beauty, kill anyone who crossed him, and was more than a bit of a lying manipulator. By the end he has grown so much I am so proud of him. He loves his found family dearly and will do anything for them. He’s sincerely considering willing choosing to forego gaining Mythic Power (his goal for about half the campaign at this point) for the chance to wish for a man he saw as a kindred spirit to get a second chance at life under healthier circumstances. He is ride or die for all his friends but especially his girlfriend. The couple that slays together stays together. That’s how it goes right? He’s still a lying manipulator but only when manipulating the bad guys into doing what he wants, he’s quit lying and hiding things from the party after one of his lies got found out and it kind of clicked for him that doing that hurts the people he cares about. He just. Really cares about these stupid assholes. They made him feel things more and now he can’t stop.

#Draven Imani #Calio Caecos #one of the big things for Calio was having his mind linked with Talsune #because *Calio* couldn’t feel empathy for others #or was at least extremely low empathy #Talsune could #so Talsune is like his…feeling empathy dragon as opposed to a seeing eye dog? #basically a certain amount of empathy is filtered through Talsune to Calio #it’s still not exactly the same as Calio himself feeling empathy for people #and when his connection to Talsune is blocked for any reason he is low/no empathy #but yeah Talsune helps him to see better and to feel empathy on some level #Calio should get a vest for him for when he’s working to show he’s his service dragon #but then Talsune draws a sword and Calio’s like ‘I never said what service he does’ #he’s multitalented

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#Calio Caecos #Ileark Keita #my ocs #pathfinder #it hit me while I was writing Calio’s journal that this was a very weirdly similar situation #yet also very not similar at all #one involves a nightmare goddess #the other involves an elf who looks like a sleep paralysis demon #hm so maybe not so different

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Snow Day (Every Day in Irrisen)

#Calio Caecos #Greta (Reign of Winter) #pathfinder #parart

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@imaginarymen He will get his character development, and he will be dragged kicking and screaming and biting the entire way.

#Calio Caecos #‘I love my friends and I hate it’ #‘how dare you make me love you’

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hey! this is chance & here’s the prompt for week 6. what are your oc's bedrooms like? messy? neat? carefully designed? or a collection of their favorite things? you can verbally describe or use photos, whatever you think is best.

Hi Chance! Thanks as always for the fun prompt 😊

I especially like this one because I do think about what a lot of my OCs bedrooms look like but I rarely get to talk about it~

Roland: he created his room personalized when he made his demiplane, the Shining Cathedral, so his room very much reflects his tastes. There’s a large stained glass window of a rising phoenix that opens out to a balcony, a four poster bed with delicate light blue fabric draped from it. The ceiling has a mosaic of another phoenix, set flying against a brilliant sun. He has a desk covered primarily in books and paperwork generally, and a small silver wyvern figurine he picked up in a dragon’s lair during his adventures.

Sai: only recently got a room of her own in Korvosa so she hasn’t had a chance to really personalize it yet. She has a few ragged stuffed animals and dolls she’s picked up during her adventures and patched up, a simple bed, and some animal pelts.

Kiyo: much like Sai their room in the shared home in Korvosa is not very personalized yet. They generally share Lalaith’s room, and keep a few easy to transport alchemical tools there. Their actual home looks a bit like a hoarder’s den due to their century living there and just naturally accumulating things. There’s just a general sense of clutter, at least in the upstairs rooms, they keep the downstairs better maintained as that’s where patients typically are treated. Their bedroom is a bit like Howl’s from Howl’s Moving Castle, just miscellaneous stuff collected from over the years everywhere. Lalaith has determined she is going to help them declutter.

Calio: his room in the Dancing Hut was created to his preferences, so it’s gothic styled with high vaulted ceilings and lit by sconces along the walls that are stylized coming out of skulls. There are large windows covered by thick black drapes which overlook a snowy landscape outside (all illusory since they’re in the Dancing Hut). His bed is extremely large (*specifically* large enough for a winter wolf in their wolf form to fit comfortably with a human also on the bed), it’s a four poster with silky black sheets and an excessive number of black and red pillows. On the wall behind the bed is a large painting of an icy landscape with a full moon and an aurora across the sky. He has a book shelf with reading material and a few trinkets. Most importantly, in the mouth of a skull on one of the shelves is a button that makes the bookshelf open, revealing his hidden alters to Norgorber and Urgathoa.

In Grimm Labyrinthus Calio’s room is nearly identical to his room in the Dancing Hut, except the windows all reveal a landscape from different places Calio has been on his journeys: overlooking Rasputin’s prison camp in Russia with the spectral cathedral finally bound to the material plane, a dark icy landscape with a fortress in the distance that Dragonkin swoop in and out of on Triaxus, the bone covered gateway to Whitethrone where he first met Greta, a clearing in Taldor with a portal looming ahead spewing Irriseni winter cold all around.

Draven: she lived in barracks for the last year so she didn’t have the luxury of decorating, and she had to keep her quarters up to a certain standard. Since retiring with Leto and building their own home together, she’s had to figure out what she likes after years of just focusing on being Iomedae’s sword and shield and little else. She keeps some house plants in their room to brighten things up, although she is not very good at keeping them alive. She and Leto both keep their personal weapons and armor stored close at hand—just incase. Their bed is simple, just a regular bed large enough for both of them, nothing fancy, not a four poster or anything like that. Not that they didn’t at least consider a four poster bed, but Draven might have pointed out she’d probably break the posts during *certain* activities given her let’s say above average strength. Leto has a number of figurines on display—Draven thinks they’re cute (and that Leto’s cute when he gets all info dumpy about them). They also have at least one cat, and have little ledges/shelves built for the cat to jump up onto at various points around the walls.

#my ocs #Roland Terrasold #Sai Gwenn #Kiyo Alvara #Calio Caecos #Draven Imani

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After watching Hadestown my friends and I were talking about our Pathfinder characters and whether or not they’d manage to not look behind if in Orpheus’ position.

Roland: he would not look behind, he is a person of faith and a very calm rational person, he would trust that his loved one is behind him.

Kiyo: There is some debate on this, but I think Kiyo would not turn around, purely because Kiyo is too stubborn to let a god win.

Kaius: Would not have made a deal with Hades, would have attempted to shoot him in the head. But in the universe where that’s impossible and he has to, he would turn around. He wouldn’t be able to stand the uncertainty and the quiet, not knowing if Esmalda was actually with him and okay.

Umbrolus: Is too protective of Kleio, would turn around almost immediately. Assuming he doesn’t turn to violence immediately to save Kleio a-la Kaius above.

Draven: It would be difficult, but she would not turn around. She is too stubborn to fail at a trial set before her, especially one involving Leto.

Calio: He is determined and intelligent, but he doesn’t trust like that. He would make it almost to the end, but would turn around if he didn’t have some way of being certain that Hades had been telling the truth that he was letting Greta go free with him.

#Hadestown #pathfinder #Roland Terrasold #Kiyo Alvara #Kaius River #Umbrolus Arcantix #Draven Imani #Calio Caecos #my ocs

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hey! this is chance & here’s week 3’s prompt. share an excerpt that you’re very proud of from any of your wips.

Thanks for the new prompt Chance ☺️ Here’s an excerpt from Calio’s journal—which I swear I’ll finish one of these days even tho I fell behind on it due to life =_=

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We’d gotten about halfway there when I no longer felt Talsune’s saddle under me.

Instead I felt a pain I can’t begin to describe. It was sharp, and it was everywhere. It was the feeling of something meant to be 3 dimensional being forced to exist in a 2D space. Everything hurt—moving, thinking, blinking. I was standing somewhere looking at a forest, and I stayed frozen in place because what else could I do as my mind was overwhelmed by being forced into a place it very much didn’t belong.

A moment later there was the sound of breaking glass, and thinking no longer hurt, breathing no longer hurt, my skin no longer felt like it was stretched thin and pressed forcefully into a shape it didn’t belong in. The moment my brain began processing things again was the moment the Derghodaemon’s claws raked across my chest, returning me fully to reality.

#Calio Caecos #wip #if you are curious his full journal so far is on my side blog dashing-irriseni-necromancer