Birch 🌿

Going through a nightmare loop in Castle Ravenloft, ran away from a dragon, Rae had to drag our ranger to safety away from it, keep running into worse things, ended on a huge combat cliffhanger hhgggg

IRL DND today!! Our Strahd group has been playing for just over a year and a half but this is only our second time playing in person, so much happened and we had so much fun adghsh what a good day

Yeah! She just has to turn either hybrid or full on the new moon. She has a v fraught relationship with her curse bc of its implications (reliance on blood, she looks like a damn monster) but it means she has an incredibly close bond with her family since they're the only ones that truly know her

All I've done today is play Hades 2 ahfjdsk (okay with a pole class break for lunch). I can't get Heracles or Icarus' relationship events to proc,,, please I need to romance my sweet wet boy

He is SO pretty, and you really nailed the Ghibli inspo! Those ears are so cute 😭 College of Spirits seems like a lot of fun!

That's so fun omggg, I love his pale colour scheme!

A tarot card of The Beast featuring El’raena looking directly forward brandishing her sword as a giant bat looms menacingly behind her.

El’raena leaning over and snarling with her fangs on show and blood dripping from her mouth

El’raena and Ireena from the Curse of Strahd DND module smiling and holding hands

El’raena holding a glowing amber necklace around her neck as gazing distantly into it

I’M LATE but I always love to yap about my girl. This is El’raena, my half-drow werebat rogue from my Curse of Strahd campaign. Her original inspo was Varys from GoT, I knew I wanted an informant archetype rogue but she’s slipped into a bit more of a Vi/Catra type personality. I love her a lot 🥺

Such a nice setup!! Hope it goes well ☺️

29. I think she's absolutely a cat person. Something that can keep her company/show affection but that she doesn't have to baby and won't rely on her 100%.

52. HONESTLY I'm not sure?? I was just messing around on the BG3 creator and landed on her design, I can't really place anything specific.

Least favourite? Any guard or noble she ever comes across?? She's suspicious of ANYONE with the power or influence to out her and would be very quick to judge and/or assume malice behind anyone's actions. Currently/in campaign, least favourite is the Abbot, favourite is Ireena or maybe Muriel???

- maybe would've gone travelling once Vel was through the worst of his teenage years with dealing with their curse.

27. Favourite back home is her dad, she's a daddy's girl lmao. Probably has a few favourite drinking buddies/working girls too but she generally keeps almost everyone at arm's length.

8. BUGS. All bugs but especially spiders, will screech if a butterfly comes near her.

13. If her brother was still alive she'd definitely be less paranoid and cynical. Still very guarded but not as completely closed off, might have been drawn back to her family religion at some point, -

38. I think it would be the Han Solo 'I know' but with a completely red face that would give away how much it actually meant to her.

60. Ahaha, getting there! She's trying her best in dire circumstances and slowly learning not to be so closed off, but it's been (and still is) a bumpy road.

7. I'm TERRIBLE with things like this but I think 'no good deed goes unpunished' sums up her attitude pretty well.

11. Lycanthropic girl blames herself for her brother's death and makes it everyone else's problem, trusts no one.

Our ranger understood why she hid it, the other 2 are annoyed/think she should have told them sooner, and she + Ireena havent spoken since it came out but safe to say she feels p betrayed bc they were very close. I'm rly excited to see how this will further her relationships with everyone tho!

She's close to Ireena and our ranger Tolipher and has opened up to them both and feels a responsibility towards the group as a whole to make sure they all make it out alive, but things have just gotten complicated since her curse has finally been outed haha SOOOOO we'll see where things go!!

- church through the Underdark to facilitate that or to find/help more people like her which would be dangerous in itself and she would probably get unlucky sooner or later. But god if she makes it out of Barovia she's taking a few years off lmao

HAHA, natural causes at old age, surrounded by her friends and loved ones :)

Or more likely trying to be a hero in Barovia, obviously. If she makes it back home she might actually go travelling and try to find more breadcrumbs about her ancestors, maybe get more involved with the Eilistraeean -

-taken it as her sole responsibility to protect him, and bears an incredible amount of guilt for failing to do so.This is why she keeps everyone at arms length, swearing to never let someone she cares about meet the same fate, solving this by not forming close relationships with anyone until Barovia

When she was 20, after hustling a group of guards for one night too long, getting rumbled and beaten half to death, her younger brother transformed in the middle of the city in a state of rage after seeing her and was killed as a result. Their curse affects the men of their family worse and she had-

Thank you sm for all the nice comments on this, it's been a REALLY long running project and I'm so pleased with how it turned out 🥺

31 and 47!

I gotta go to bed but I'm gonna stew on the rest of the answers overnight ehehe, keep em coming

I do try and play her differently but there's inevitably a lot of me in there! I love rogue-archetypes and she was very self indulgent when I made her for sure.

59. More than I'll admit or was intentional OTL, but I do try to separate her. I pulled some bonds/flaws at 'random' from our primer that I think I was subconsciously drawn to (a lot about family), and her avoidance issues were unintentional but very me-10-years-ago coded.

53. HAHA the original spelling of her name, Elrena, is a deep cut Kingdom Hearts reference because I panicked during session 0 and pulled that out of my ass.

58. YES but she would intimidate the hell out of me. Tall woman,,,,,

(I KNOW I was so lucky to win it in a raffle, I love it sm)

Oh goddd, adult her would get emotional seeing such a bright-eyed kid and it would make her reflect on how she used to take on different identities for fun instead of safety. Kid her would think she was boring as hell honestly LOL and probably wonder how she ended up with such a serious job

TINY SWEET BABY BOY I'm crying 😭

A portrait of El'raena looking back over her shoulder, framed by crystal lilies

2 lists of OC questions

2 lists of OC questions

2 lists of OC questions

ALRIGHT gimme things for my stupid girl, comment with a number and I'll answer!

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Thank you sm for all the nice comments on this, it's been a REALLY long running project and I'm so pleased with how it turned out 🥺