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On Kori

This one was one of the wild cards. This is the first one where the character design was done by someone else, as I was trying to find a character to fill a “mostly dragon, size large” role in the party.

Kori is another one who is not based on a previous RPG character of mine directly, but is very related to one. My sorcerer-turned-dragon (it’s a long story) from a previous D&D Campaign is her patron and also probably her dad. Neither of these is public knowledge in-setting.

The third member of the Order of the Silver Scale, Kori is the largest and most-imposing of the party members. She’s posing as a Dragonborn (she’s a dragon) and a Sorcerer (she’s a warlock, mostly). An extremely gifted ice mage, she mostly fights with things made from her own breath (daggers, etc) and a sword that seems to be made from non-melting ice. She’s also handy with improvised tools.

As for her personality, she has a good sense of humor; her dragon-like nature means that Tizak treats her with great respect. She is fond of straight-forward solutions to problems, and believes that dragons are better than everyone else.

It’s probably this belief that explains why she’s stuck walking around with an adventuring party. Her patron has sealed away her true form, and encouraged her to “learn more about the world”. Perhaps if she figures out that the “lesser races” aren’t, then she’ll be able to take to the sky with her real wings.

Character Bios

On Tariel

This is why you shouldn’t tell me that a character I’m asking you to draw is “too boring” or tempt me to explore the capabilities of Heroforge.

Tariel is not based on any existing character I have or have plans to play, and more grew out of the need to have something resembling a physical character in an otherwise all-caster party. He competed for this role with a kobold barbarian that may or may not exist in the future.

He is another member of the Order of the Silver Scale, and he’s a “Kitsune” according to his own words. Just because no other known kitsune have scales, four arms, spine ridges, or a dragon tail have not gotten in the way of this claim. I’m pretty sure he’s an Eastern-style dragon, but it’s a little unclear how he ended up in a setting where no one else has even heard of those.

Maybe it’s this.

Tariel is the Serious member of the party, which makes him a frequent target for practical jokes from Tizak. He fights using his staff (which can shrink/expand) and martial arts; it certainly adds a bit to hand-to-hand combat when you have more hands. He does prefer to avoid fights, and frequently ends up paired with Tizak for any situations needing a moderately delicate touch.

Tariel is with the group primarily to find out more about himself, and to do whatever good he can along the way. This also works for Tizak, who always wants to know why this particular individual seems very dragon-like and yet not at all like most dragons. This is in contrast to one of the other party members…

Character Bios

On Tizak

While it might have made sense to start with Ashgar, it turns out that’s basically describing an idealized version of myself and that’s hard. So here, have a Kobold.

Tizak is a Dragonscaled Kobold, servant/envoy of the blue dragon Zydroxa, although that’s not exactly a well-known piece of information. As he’s my character in a currently-running Pathfinder game, what he gets up to in his original setting is yet to be fully determined. Deeds so far include helping to found a settlement and working very hard to improve the opinion of kobolds and dragonkin among the other races.

In my setting, he’s the leader of an adventuring party called the Order of the Silver Scale. It is in this capacity that he’s gathered up a few other potentially notable individuals (one of whom might be a bear) and really, is still working on that whole “opinion of kobolds” thing. It’s a little pretentious that his party is named indirectly after a well-known dragon, but when the kobold is the one with the third-strongest claim to dragonkind, it fits pretty well. The “summoner” part of his abilities is also de-emphasized a bit here.

Images courtesy of Ammo

Ultimately Tizak is the go-getter of the group, the first to jump into danger. He’s not averse to making plans, but does not always wait to consider consequences before starting on a course of action. He’s also an actor and a musician, and enjoys exercising these skills to make money and also demonstrate that kobolds are good for more than just making traps.