Vala

• Ocean patron Evil lights, take me by the hand,
• Their name and some visuals are borrowed from the beaked sea snake
• Their mirror moves when they cast spells ooh ah
• They have a 40-ish year old teddy bear named Prince Stuffington

Vala is the scion of a line of sorcerers who have recently gained nobility. They've been raised with great expectations but, despite their best efforts, are continuously thwarted by fate (their player's regularly awful dice rolls). They're haughty, cocky, smug, and only consider one person's comfort more important than their own.

They're basically "What If Draco Malfoy Was Actually Evil" and I get teased about it a lot but BOY if it ain't a great summary!

i promise i'll write up something proper Eventually

Vala was raised to be a criminal from a very young age. While other children were starting their basic schooling, Vala was learning how to crack locks and climb onto rooftops. They studied both magic and theft, expecting to inherit their family's magic but keeping them prepared for potential attack in the meantime. Their training was grueling; when they weren't studying to match basic schooling, they were studying political ties, family histories, and the arcane. When they weren't doing that, they were getting blood on their hands -- typically their own, though that started changing around age 12.

By the time Vala had hit their late teens, the whole family had finally accepted that Vala's magic was never going to manifest, and their focus shifted almost entirely to the arts of stealth and deception. A lot of shit happened, they hit a low point and heard from their soon-to-be-patron, made a pact, and BOOM POW they have magic now!

Happenings since they joined the campaign:

• Got robbed by the party.
• Read some god language in a tomb.
• Got sliced by a ghost sword and marked by a god(?).
• Got banished for a hot second.
• Befriended(?) a lich.
• Got in trouble for befriending the lich.
• Got turned into a snake and tossed under a basket.
• Saw unspeakable horrors inflicted upon people and went "oh sick lemme take notes."
• Combined those notes with a peek into the lich's spellbook and learned how to do. Bad Things.
• Rolled very badly and passed out in a lake (which they were called into by their patron, an ocean-themed motherfucker).
• Were carried home by their lich pal while the sun rose! It was romantic! They probably had the worst fucking wedgie.
• Got in trouble Yet Again.
• Got dragged to visit the god king right as he got his power OOFED and was promptly Arrested!
• Went to a party! It went poorly!
• Busted into a library with their lich friend to dig up memories.
• Went back to the party and got to be Not Vala™ for a while!
• Upon returning home, was informed they could either hurry up and kill the lich or get the fuck out.
• They used that Very Bad Magic to kill the dad they actually liked because he said all the wrong things! Haha, oops!
• Their connection with their patron got fucked up because THE MAGIC IS VERY BAD!
• Got peaches with their pal.
• Went to The Big Party (see their sick getup)
• Got poisoned by their remaining dad :))))))
• Fucked the old king, aka the guy who burned the city down centuries ago, aka the guy everyone bullies both ic and ooc.
• As a result, kind of accidentally got everyone to disguise themselves as said king. It was really fucking funny.
• OH HELLO BIG EVIL CRYSTAL! I DON'T THINK YOU WERE INVITED!
• Had to put their friend in the Lich Box™ so they didn't fucking. Obliterate people or smth idk.
• Misty stepped their remaining dad down a fucking pit into the Underdark.
• Went home!
• Got a NEW patron! A COOLER patron! (It's the Extremely Bad Magic)
• The next day, The World Started Ending A Bit
• Went into a volcano to attempt to assist. Ended up needing That Stupid Sword.
• Climbed a skeleton mecha to attempt to get said sword. Was ATTACKED, VERY RUDELY. Nearly died!
• Lich friend opened a gate for them to hop back onto the mecha to get Revenge (with 7 hp out of 149)
• Turns out you shouldn't kill people who are infected with weird god shit.
• Vala Dies: Round 1!
• Woke up on the Other Side. It was sick. Tore their way back through and got their corpse as a fun puppet!
• Got a 2 for 1 kill! Unfortunately that king they slept with was there and they got into A Spat.
• Deaths 2 and 3 happened very rapid-fire tbh.
• 3 was rather permanent.
• Currently stuck in purgatory but at least their lich friend took care of their funeral.