History Characters / CrafDNDChampionsChallengePassione

* TheBlacksmith: As befitting a Forge Cleric, Osra is big on crafting items for the party, especially since she had become invested in the practice shortly before starting her journey. Her profession is reflected in her combat skills: her WeaponOfChoice is a hammer with a spell focus. It's presumably the same tool that she uses for blacksmithing.

[[folder: Calum]]
!!Calum Fentris Lockheart III
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->'''Voiced & Played by:''' Kayden Monroe
->'''Race:''' Dragonborn (White)
->'''Class:''' Bloodhunter (Mutant)

Calum hails from a noble family in Hemourloch, which holds astonishing influence over not just their hometown, but Grandure as a whole. Despite the opportunities presented to him, wealth and power are the furthest things from Calum's mind. He much prefers life's simple pleasures--friendship, casual parties, and attractive women--over anything deeply extravagant. This mindset unfortunately made him a bit of a slacker during his time at Grandure Academy, and now he wishes to atone for his mistakes by taking on the Champion's Challenge. Only if he succeeds will Calum feel that he's earned the respect and adoration of those from his home.

* CastFromHitPoints: As a bloodhunter, Calum can cast curses fueled by his own blood at the cost of some health. Kayden explained that the hilts of Calum's swords both contain mechanisms that cut his hands open, streamlining the process of obtaining blood.
* DueToTheDead: When the group passes by a row of graves in Forrnest during "The Ranger Challenge PT. 1," Calum doesn't hesitate to respectfully place a coin on each of them. In "Pt. 2," a grieving, angry Qwill calls him out on this, questioning why Calum would extend such a gesture to people that he never knew, to which Calum calmly, but firmly asserts that it is the right thing to do.
* DespairEventHorizon: Calum suffers a string of losses that seem to weigh upon him before "The Red Trophy." The loss that utterly breaks him is when the mysterious slime creatures make off with Atlissa's titular Red Trophy, a mark of her status as a Grand Champion, despite her and Passione's best efforts. In the aftermath, Calum retreats to his room in a Volkhanom inn and takes out his frustrations on anything he can find. When Ash comes into the room and consoles him, he reveals the reason why he took this loss and the others before so hard: he just received word that his father is deeply ill, and he's afraid that his father may die unhappy with him for not living up to his expectations. He calms down after his conversation with Ash, but he's still lost most of his suave merriment--he doesn't even pass a glance at Unda when she happens to be nearby.
* {{Fratbro}}: Back during his earliest years in Grandure Academy, Calum was a huge party animal. His hedonism impeded his education and earned him an earful from his family, which lead to him shifting his priorities by the present. He sets out on the Champion's Challenge to make up for his mistakes and prove his worth to his family.
** Calum's old habits are first mentioned in "The Red Trophy." After suffering through a string of losses, he breaks down in private, concerned that he's made no meaningful progress as a person and is still the careless partier that his family would ultimately look down upon. And his feeling are all the more severe after he received word of his father's deteriorating health. Ash is able to help him change his perspective on his concerns, but they still hang over his head.
** In "Silent Night, Deadly Knife," Bitov is sent to kill Calum on behalf of a mysterious client, who Passione speculates might have been a family member of Calum's. This client used Calum's early years against him by presenting Bitov with a photo of Calum drunk at a party as though he were a monster. It successfully convinces Bitov to go through with the job until he sees Calum in the flesh; he then realizes that his target is a far cry from what his client made him out to be and relents, exchanging details with Calum himself just before departing.
* GenderBender: For his very first unintentional curse at Cera's hands, Calum turns into a woman for most of "The Ranger Challenge Pt. 1." He ends up requiring tips from Osra--a well-endowed woman herself--regarding how to make his armor more comfortable for his sudden breasts. Amusingly, Calum's already effeminate looks and how much his breastplate conceals mean that the changes are relatively slight at first glance. Most of the time, while others can tell that something is up with him, they don't know for certain until Calum outright explains what happened.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: During "The Ranger Challenge PT. 2," Jet acquires a tattoo from a rather shady salesman. The process is so painful that his screaming can be heard all throughout Forrnest, and it immediately reminds Calum of his own childhood. Bizarrely for some of the other players, he seems to find it rather nostalgic.
-->'''Tattoo Artist:''' All right... awright, now you gonna hold still now; this is gonna hurt like a bitch.\\
'''Crafty OOC:''' ''[To Boonslayer]'' And uh, he starts working with the needle on your skin, and yeah, it fuckin' hurts. I need you to make a con save.\\
''[Boonslayer rolls the dice.]''\\
'''Boonslayer OOC:''' Heh, heheh, heheheh, that's an eight!\\
'''Crafty OOC:''' Ohhhhh yeah... Um, the rest of you guys? You don't know where it's coming from, but you just hear a high-pitched yell and birds flapping in the distance.\\
''[Blaze imitates Jet's scream and giggles.]''\\
'''Kayden OOC:''' Calum just hears it; it's like: 'Ahhh yes. Reminds me of childhood.' And just keeps walking!\\
'''Blaze OOC:''' What kind of fucking childhood do you have?!\\
'''Kayden OOC:''' A pretty fucked up one!
* RunningGag: Calum has a bad habit of his snout getting hit whenever he investigates something, even when it seems relatively safe to do so. Crafty comments on the frequency of this gag in "The Ranger Challenge PT. 1," when a Wood Woad clobbers Calum in the face.
-->'''Crafty OOC:''' ''[regarding Calum]'' You never have any luck investigating things because something ''always'' seems to punch you in the face.\\
'''Kayden OOC:''' ''[resignedly]'' Yeah...
* SpoiledSweet: Despite hailing from a wealthy family, Calum doesn't look down on his less-wealthy friends, nor does he treat Ophelia better for hailing from a royal family. His desire to please his family stems from a genuine love for them, rather than a superficial extrinsic benefit that could be expected from a person in his position. It's all part of his guiding philosophy, which he explains to Ash in "Fighting is the Pits" when she's feeling down on herself: thanks to their various skills and backgrounds, he knows that the people around him have value, and he wants to help them succeed just as they have for him.
* UpperClassTwit: Calum is well spoken, well dressed (to the point that it's a point of pride that he washes every day) and comes from a high class family, [[DownplayedTrope but otherwise, he's not terribly concerned about the luxuries that his lot in life affords him]]. Thus, he's comfortable letting his crude side show; not even his own teammates are free from his remarks. He spends some time in "Old Flame, New Blood" commenting on how they don't take care of their appearances compared to him. [[TheGadfly He gladly remarks "Worth it." as they smack him for it.]]

[[folder: Cera]]
!!Cerastes
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->'''Voiced & Played by:''' [=7PurpleKirbies=]
->'''Race:''' Yuan-Ti
->'''Class:''' Sorcerer (Divine Soul)/Warlock (Hexblade)

Thanks to the practices of a Yuan-Ti cult, the cruel fallen god Merrshaulk was able to father a daughter, Cera. Before she could be raised for malevolent purposes, the cult was raided by a now-disbanded Champion's Challenge team, who placed her in the custody of Karloff Hes. Growing up, Hes informed Cera about the circumstances of her birth and the threat of Merrshaulk's influence taking hold of her later in life. While Hes wanted Cera to hone her powers within the solitude of Fraygle Coast, Cera wanted explore her true potential without such a restriction. She thus takes on the Champion's Challenge in hopes that she will become strong enough to avoid her intended fate.

* [[AntiAntiChrist Anti-Antichrist]]: Cera is all too aware of Merrshaulk's dangerous intentions with her, but she refuses to fulfill her part in his plans. She continuously hones her control over her powers to ensure that they don't consume her, and she's also rather conscientious about certain creatures and objects that she interacts with. [=7PurpleKirbies=] reveals as much in "Old Flame, New Blood," when the party travels to Hunter's Dream and encounters the many spirits therein. Cera becomes rather apprehensive about them; she's not necessarily scared of them, but she's worried that they'll detect Merrshaulk's blood in her veins and react hostilely. Thankfully, none of the spirits seem aware of the party's presence.
* HappilyAdopted: Cera knows that she was adopted, but she loves her surrogate family dearly--even Karloff with his strange magical practices. She has an opportunity to discuss them--quite fondly, at that--in "The Dark Magician of Fraygle Coast," in which she and Osra find a family photo while Cera shows her around her home. It turns out that, aside from Karloff, her family consists of the very same Champion's Challenge team that rescued her from the cult. They had parted ways since that photo was taken, mainly because, as Cera vaguely recalls, something about Cera's upbringing demanded it. But that doesn't stop them from reciprocating her appreciation.
* MeaningfulName: Befitting of a Yuan-Ti, Cera's full name, "Cerastes," is a direct reference to the name shared by both a serpentine creature of Greek mythology and a genus of venomous snakes.
* PlayingWithFire: While nowhere close to the degree Jet does, Cera has a good number of spells that deal fire damage, and as a Sorcerer she's able to dish them out with alarming speed in a single turn.
* RandomEffectSpell: Owing to her becoming a Warlock of Mistrief, the Goddess of Chaos, Cera's magic has a tendency to afflict random, temporary, next-day curses on whoever she casts her spells on. Her teammates are not excepted from the potential hijinks. As a RunningGag, Crafty may spontaneously announce a random assortment of such curses for Passione's members to deal with for a day. Fortunately, the effects of these curses are merely annoying at worst rather than debilitating enough to require a spell to remove them.
* WeightWoe: Cera is quite heavy; she's not fat, but as a Yuan-Ti, her lengthy body means that she has more weight to lug around, something that she's deeply insecure about. This becomes a plot point in "The Ranger Challenge PT. 1," where the party encounters a cliff that they most surmount, and Cera's weight and body shape make it awkward and difficult for her to do so. Even with a rope that can support her, she quickly starts lagging behind her teammates, who graciously speed up her ascent once they reach the top themselves. They also give Cera a GroupHug to ease her embarrassment over the situation.
-->'''Cera:''' I'm not ''fat!'' I'm just ''long!''

[[folder: Ash]]
!!Ash Clemm
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->'''Voiced & Played by:''' Blazetheweirdo
->'''Race:''' Aarakocra
->'''Class:''' Rogue (Assassin) (From E1-E3), Phantom Rogue/Grave Cleric (E4 onwards)

Ash used to live in a fallen village in Forrnest called Hunter's Dream, whose people formed their culture around appreciating death and forming connections with the afterlife. The caveat of these practices was the community's deep susceptibility to mental attacks. It was thus inevitable that they would attract a horde of Mindflayers, who slowly killed off almost every single member of the community--including Ash's mother, who Ash watched slowly die throughout most of her childhood. A now parentless Ash was forced to grow up extremely quickly, eventually attending Grandure Academy. From there, she would eventually join Passione to take on the Champion's Challenge, hoping to hone her skills as an assassin to better protect her loved ones.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ash's history isn't a pleasant one, as she grew up in the now-deserted Hunter's Dream. Because of the spiritual connections that her people had, they became extremely susceptible to Mindflayer attacks, and Ash was forced to watch her mother succumb to the effects of one such incident. She and the party revisit Hunter's Dream in "Old Flame, New Blood," during which she recounts what had happened to them and explores what remains of her home.
* TheEmpath: Ash is quite observant of other's emotions, especially when they're trying to hide them. This quality is highlighted throughout "The Ranger Challenge PT. 1." Whereas her teammates are more focused on proving their worth to Qwill and protesting against his smugness, Ash is the only one of them to question Qwill about his odd behavior throughout his challenge with them. She can tell right away that he's dealing with some kind of loss, and her suspicions are proven correct in "PT. 2." Her efforts are what prompt Qwill to gift his bow to her at the end of "Disarmed and a Leg" as thanks.
* ISeeDeadPeople: With some guidance from Mori, and being tasked with a quest by the deity [[NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast the Iron Judge]], Ash gains this ability as a Grave Cleric during "Old Flame, New Blood."
* LightningBruiser: Ash has all the speed and offensive benefits of her rogue class in addition to being absurdly sturdy. This trait is first commented on in "The Red Trophy," when Blaze assures Scarlet that Ash's high defense renders her poisoning rather negligible.
* ReluctantWarrior: Ash came from the peaceful Hunter's Dream, but when the people within found themselves unable to defend themselves from (or even identify) a psychic assault that drove members of the community slowly mad, she took it upon herself to protect them as an assassin.
* ScarsAreForever: The process of becoming a Grave Cleric in "Old Flame, New Blood" leaves Ash with several puncture wounds across her entire body. [[SubvertedTrope However, they heal rather quickly, to the point where they're almost imperceptible]], with many renders of Ash after the event omitting the wounds entirely.
* TraumaButton: Because of her history with them back in her village, Hunter's Dream, Ash's first instinct around Mindflayers is to kill them on-sight. She has to be actively restrained from doing so to one that seems troubled and harmless in "The Ranger Challenge PT. 1.'s" recap segment.
* TheStraightMan: While she still indulges in Passione's typical banter, Ash is far more mild-mannered than her partymates, being more apt to comment on their zaniness than to actively contribute to it. Whenever Qwill expresses his befuddlement with the party throughout both parts of "The Ranger Challenge," Ash likes to remind him that she's very familiar with how weird her friends are. Nevertheless, the same episodes and those to follow prove that she wouldn't have it any other way, as her exploits throughout Qwill's challenge highlight her place as a loyal scout for the team.
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[[folder: Ophelia]]
!!Ophelia Rheinhessen
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->'''Voiced & Played by:''' Scarlet Otaku
->'''Race:''' Dhampir
->'''Class:''' Paladin (Oath of Redemption)/Bloodhunter (Profane Soul)

Hailing from the Armorium Citadel from a distant time, Ophelia was born into a noble family. Her memory beyond broad details of her past are hazy at best; all she knows for certain is that her loved ones met a brutal end before her very eyes. To her alarm, it was in that moment where she discovered her intense thirst for blood, and she joins the party in "Old Flame, New Blood" in hopes of finding a cure for her vampiric urges.
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!Former Passione Members

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* SimpleStaff: Jet has one from his Druid class, and even uses it as a means to express his Thornwhip spell.

Ash used to live in a fallen village in Forrnest called Hunter's Dream, whose people formed their culture around appreciating death and forming connections with the afterlife. The caveat of these practices was the community's deep susceptibility to mental attacks. It was thus inevitable that they would attract a horde of Mindflayers, who slowly killed off almost every single member of the community--including Ash's mother, who Ash watched slowly die throughout most of her childhood. A now parentless Ash was forced to grow up extremely quickly, eventually attending Grandure Academy and taking on the Champion's Challenge with Passione to hone her skills as an assassin and protect her loved ones.

Ash used to live in a fallen village in Forrnest called Hunter's Dream, whose people formed their culture around appreciating death and forming connections with the afterlife. The caveat of these practices was the community's deep susceptibility to mental attacks. It was thus inevitable that they would attract a horde of Mindflayers, who slowly killed off almost every single member of the community--including Ash's mother, who Ash watched slowly die throughout most of her childhood. A now parentless Ash was forced to grow up extremely quickly, eventually attending Grandure Academy and taking on the Champion's Challenge with Passione to learn how to protect her loved ones.

Ash used to live in a fallen village in Forrnest called Hunter's Dream, whose people formed their culture around appreciating death and forming connections with the afterlife. The caveat of these practices was the community's deep susceptibility to mental attacks. It was thus inevitable that a horde of Mindflayers would attack, and they slowly killed off almost every single member of the community--including Ash's mother, who Ash watched slowly die throughout most of her childhood. A now parentless Ash was forced to grow up extremely quickly, eventually attending Grandure Academy and taking on the Champion's Challenge with Passione to learn how to protect her loved ones.

!!Passione

!!Former Passione Members

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Ash used to live in a fallen village in Forrnest called Hunter's Dream, whose people formed their culture around appreciating death and forming connections with the afterlife. The caveat of these practices was the community's deep susceptibility to mental attacks. It was thus inevitable that a horde of Mindflayers would attack, and they slowly killed off almost every single member of the community--including Ash's mother, who Ash watched slowly die throughout most of her childhood. A now parentless Ash was forced to grow up extremely quickly, eventually attending Grandure Academy and taking on the Champion's Challenge with passione to learn how to protect her loved ones.

Hailing from a village in Forrnest, Ash became an assassin for her home's sake. Her people are intimately familiar with all things undead, which consequentially leaves them susceptible to attacks from certain predators, the memories of which haunt her greatly. Ash thus takes on the Champion's challenge in hopes of honing her skills and becoming more capable of protecting her loved ones.

* {{Fratbro}}: Back during his earliest years in Grandure Academy, Calum was a huge party animal. He doesn't look back on that time fondly as it impeded his education and earned him an earful from his family, leading to him setting out on the Champion's Challenge to make his family proud and apply what he's learned.

** In "Silent Night, Deadly Knife," Bitov is sent to kill Calum on behalf of a mysterious client, who Passione speculates might have been a family member of Calum's. This client used Calum's early years against him by presenting Bitov with a photo of Calum drunk at a party as though he were a monster. It successfully convinces Bitov to go through with the job until he sees Calum in the flesh; he then realizes that his target is a far cry from what his client made him out to be and relents, but not before exchanging details with Calum himself about what happened.

** In "Silent Night, Deadly Knife," Bitov is sent to kill Calum on behalf of a mysterious client, who Passione speculates might have been a family member of Calum's. This client used Calum's early years against him by presenting Bitov with a photo of Calum drunk at a party as though he were a monster. It successfully convinces Bitov to go through with the job until he sees Calum in the flesh; he then realizes that his target is a far cry from what his client made him out to be and calls off the assassination.

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[- '''Passione'''\\
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* WithCatlikeTread: Osra is not gifted in stealth, being dressed in a suit of armor more often than not. Hiten tends to describe Osra's movements after a poor stealth roll as them sounding like clashing pots and pans, as she does in "Old Flame, New Blood."

Thanks to the practices of a Yuan-Ti cult, the cruel fallen god Merrshaulk was able to father a daughter, Cera. Before she could be raised for malevolent purposes, the cult was raided by a now-disbanded Champion's Challenge team, who placed her in the custody of Karloff Hes. Growing up, Hes informed Cera about the circumstances of her birth and the threat of Merrshaulk's influence taking hold of her later in life. While Hes wanted Cera to hone her powers within the solitude of Fragle Coast, Cera wanted explore her true potential without such a restriction. She thus takes on the Champion's Challenge in hopes that she will become strong enough to avoid her intended fate.

* HappilyAdopted: Cera knows that she was adopted, but she loves her surrogate family dearly--even Karloff with his strange magical practices. She has an opportunity to discuss them--quite fondly, at that--in "The Dark Magician of Fragle Coast," in which she and Osra find a family photo while Cera shows her around her home. It turns out that, aside from Karloff, her family consists of the very same Champion's Challenge team that rescued her from the cult. They had parted ways since that photo was taken, mainly because, as Cera vaguely recalls, something about Cera's upbringing demanded it. But that doesn't stop them from reciprocating her appreciation.

** Fergus gets to interact with Ophelia twice in Lordpact, with each moment taking place in "Precarious Politics" and "The Dark Magician of Fragle Coast," respectively. By this point, Ophelia has bore witness to Fergus' toxic behavior to everyone--even his own teammates. Thus, both times, her verbal retorts for his snide comments are ''vicious,'' leaving Fergus struggling to respond in kind.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: This journey is actually Ophelia's ''second'' attempt at taking on the Champion's Challenge. Her memories of her first attempt are hazy; all that she remembers is that she once traveled with another party, but they ended up abandoning the Challenge and going their separate ways. Ophelia first reveals this information in "Old Flame, New Blood," and it piques Osra's interest in having her in the party much further; that way, she and her friends can help Ophelia discover the fates of her original party and regain more of her memory from there. She later learns in "The Dark Magician of Fragle Coast" that one of her old teammates, Congiorno, is still alive, and she's both eager and apprehensive about reuniting with him.

** When the party settles at Lordpact's Fiend Might Weep tavern in "Precarious Politics," Ophelia consults the Dawn Queen about Lord Damniel. The Queen confirms that he ''was'' being honest about what he's told Ophelia so far, especially his status as a former patron of hers. But even she doesn't view him as entirely trustworthy, urging Ophelia to be careful whenever she deals with him.

-->'''Ophelia:''' *Sigh* ... Forgive me if I do not believe you?\\

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Ophelia hesitantly indulge's Lord Damniel's plea to help him take down the Black Fang, simply due to the possibility of her vampirism being cured as a reward. But due to his secretive behavior around her, Ophelia doesn't fully trust Damniel at all; consequentially, she's not entirely invested in how he'll benefit from their deal. Ophelia thus spends much of her research time early in the campaign trying to determine Damniel's credibility. Going off of Damniel's claim of associating with the Black Fang in the past, her first stop is a book of myths covering the latter, which she begins studying in "Pact or No Pact." When Damniel appears and speaks cryptically to her once more, Ophelia lays out her feelings for him quite plainly.

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Ophelia hesitantly indulge's Lord Damniel's plea to help him take down the Black Fang, simply due to the possibility of her vampirism being cured as a reward. But due to his secretive behavior around her, Ophelia doesn't fully trust Damniel at all; consequentially, she's not entirely invested in how he'll benefit from their deal. Ophelia thus spends much of her research time early in the campaign trying to determine Damniel's credibility. Going off of Damniel's claim of associating with the Black Fang in the past, her first stop is a book of myths covering the latter, which she begins studying in "Pact or No Pact." When Damniel appears to her to speak cryptically once more, Ophelia lays out her feelings for him quite plainly.

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Ophelia hesitantly indulge's Lord Damniel's plea to help him take down the Black Fang, simply due to the possibility of her vampirism being cured as a reward. But due to his secretive behavior around her, Ophelia doesn't fully trust Damniel at all; consequentially, she's not entirely invested in how he'll benefit from their deal. Ophelia thus spends much of her research time early in the campaign trying to determine Damniel's credibility. Going off of Damniel's claim of associating with the Black Fang in the past, her first stop is a book of fables covering the latter, which she begins studying in "Pact or No Pact." When Damniel appears to her to speak cryptically once more, Ophelia lays out her feelings for him quite plainly.