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Honestly? These look a lot closer to my traditional doodles! I found a really nice grey color that helps imitate my traditional pencil doodles. Also, I’ve recently modified my tablet pen’s settings since I’m usually very light with my pen and don’t like pressing hard on the tablet uwu

Anyway, I know I’ve discussed these two a bit, especially when talking Cynthia lore, but there’s a summary of both of them under the cut.

Jinri Riverseeker

Hill Dwarf Level 4 Sorcerer [Divine Soul? If not then Wind Sorcerer] / Level 2 Paladin [very recently changed from Cleric, no Oath]

> HP: 44 > STR 14 | DEX 10 | CON 12 | WIS 12 | INT 10 | CHA 16

Jinri Riverseeker is the owner of a well-kept temple of Sune. Her brother, Daergron, funded the temple by participating in illegal arena fights and time spent in the civil war. However, she realized that she had a strange amount of raw, arcane magic for someone who was a paladin. While Daergron was gone during the worse parts of the civil war, she spent her time learning from a close friend how to use her arcane magic.

She met Mordecai at the same time Daergron did, as Mordecai had visited their humble temple of Sune to pray. The Riverseekers would eventually become close friends of Mordecai. Daergron would even sometimes join Mordecai on his time off from the civil war, leaving Jinri alone yet again. It gave her time to become close to Sune, and as someone who wasn’t interested in romance, discover and come to peace with the other forms of love.

Cynthia slowly became a part of Jinri’s life when Mordecai would ask her to watch over her for weeks at a time. She appreciated the company, and Cynthia would even help Jinri with things around the castle. As Cynthia grew taller than Jinri, this is incredibly amazing for her. While Jinri herself was remarkably tall for a dwarf, she was still small compared to humans and Aasimar.

After the Fall of Kelemvor’s Snout, she was left to comfort Cynthia, and she ended up becoming a therapist for Cynthia. She couldn’t trust anyone with Cynthia outside of the Riverseekers, so Jinri informally adopted Cynthia and gave her a home as well. She was happy when Cynthia spoke of leaving to return to adventuring, but she also missed having an extra, taller hand.

Trivia: - Jinri was created after Daergron, who was a PC for an arena-based campaign. Daergron was eventually transferred as an NPC to Iotath’s Unrest. Jinri wouldn’t be created until the AAF AU began to form, as she became a crucial “NPC” for “An Angel’s Fall”. The two eventually snuck their way into Iotath’s Unrest canon. - Jinri is the one responsible for Cynthia’s habit of saying “darling”. Jinri has a heavy habit of addressing everyone close to her as darling, and especially to Cynthia. - Her main inspiration is the older version of Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle, a movie I very much enjoy. I actually imagine Jinri’s voice to be close to the English voice for the older version of Sophie in the movie.

Mordecai Featherstone

Aasimar [Protector] Level 20 Paladin [Oath of Vengeance]

> HP: 224 > STR 16 | DEX 8 | CON 16 | WIS 10 | INT 8 | CHA 20 (outside of magic items) > Bonus Feats: Tough, Savage Attacker

Mordecai Featherstone comes from a long legacy of adventurers, and he proudly follows his ancestors’ footsteps. While he has the prideful nature of a typical adventurer, he can also be humble, but this is relatively rare. After years of adventuring and being quite the hero, he set up a mansion base in Kelemvor’s Snout, which is heavily guarded by the swamp beasts that roam the area. Mordecai never let anyone bring himself down, but it also made him stubborn and often blind to his own flaws. Allegedly, Mordecai also fought against a dragon with his adventuring party and won, and as the party’s leader, he received most of the glory.

He never stopped adventuring, but he ended up slowing things down when he began to raise Cynthia after finding her abandoned in the swamp. He took her on as her squire, letting her join in on some tasks if he absolutely knew Cynthia wouldn’t be in any danger. Most of the time, he would have to bring Cynthia to Jinri so that she could keep an eye on the young Aasimar.

However, he eventually met his unknown fate during the initial outbreak of the Living Plague, sacrificing himself by allowing Cynthia to escape. While his status is unknown, it is assumed that Mordecai has been dead. He also may be wandering in the swamp, though having died and brought back as a powerful Plague abomination. Mordecai’s “death” would shape a lot of Cynthia’s actions, and she even fell into a long period of grief for him.

Trivia: - Mordecai was incredibly influenced by Mordecai from the Borderlands series. - There was a small moment in time where Mordecai was going to be changed to a human, but we decided to keep the idea of him being of celestial origin. - We eventually kept on the trend of naming NPCs based on characters from Borderlands with some of the other NPCs related to Cynthia’s backstory: Roland and Lilith are two more names we used, with Roland being a prominent antagonist in the current campaign. - I am biased and really love the Savage Attacker and Tough feats for my characters. This is also because I play mainly clerics and paladins.

#jinri riverseeker #mordecai featherstone #gala's art

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