Line #82 Characters/ElfslayerChronicles


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4	!!OP
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6	The anonymous poster of the Elfslayer Chronicles. A human illusionist wizard who kicked off the plot (and [[OffTheRails derailed the intended plot]]) by killing his kingdom's prince and blaming said prince's elf lover for the crime. He then spent the rest of the chronicles executing an XanatosGambit to make sure that the blame could not be laid on him.
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8	* TheAlcoholic: Several of his plans rely on getting (or pretending to get) stinking drunk.
9	* BigBad: Comments that he appears to be becoming this.
10	* BuryYourGays: He's the cause of said burying. Although their homosexuality wasn't the primary reason he killed them, the human kingdom (which OP is from) is rather homophobic, and OP notes that part of his motivation would be to hide the prince bringing shame to the Royal Family by engaging in homosexual relations.
11	* TheChessmaster: He can play with the best of them.
12	* ExactWords: A master of using these to get around the ''Discern lies'' spell.
13	* EqualOpportunityEvil: He doesn't really have anything against other races, and his Dragon is half-orc.
14	* {{Familiar}}: A book imp, which served as a body double in several of his plots.
15	* GoneHorriblyRight: After being told over and over again that the humans in this setting were hidebound homophobic warmongers, he decided that meant that he, as a human, would have no reason to want to play along with the DM's plan to stop the war.
16	* GuileHero: Oh, so much. He's been called a wizard version of [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]].
17	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: He's an illusionist, which would be suboptimal for a hack-and-slash campaign, but is absolutely ''invaluable'' for being the killer in a murder mystery.
18	* HoldingTheFloor: Makes use of this in the later stages of the campaign, subtly dicking around and wasting time in order to run out the clock on spells like Speak With Dead and Raise Dead without anyone realizing it.
19	* HumansAreBastards: Ruined the DM's game by ''not'' being an exception to the rule.
20	* MasterOfIllusion: Illusionist Wizard, which serves him well when he needs alibis or to plant evidence. He hides it, though, so that suspicion won't fall on him.
21	* NoNameGiven: Is known only as OP.
22	* PatrioticFervor: He's very patriotic, which is part of his motive for murdering the prince.
23	* SympatheticMurderer: Downplayed, but he does have decent in-character reasons for killing the prince, and out of character he's sympathetic because he's rebelling against an extreme case of CantArgueWithElves.
24	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Pretty much textbook example. After being repeatedly told that the humans in this setting were hidebound homophobic warmongers, he basically said, "Fine, then I'll be the best MagnificentBastard of a hidebound homophobic warmonger this world has ever seen."
25	* WellIntentionedExtremist: His in-character motive for murdering the prince and keeping the war against the elves going was because the war was good for his kingdom.
26	* XanatosGambit: Turned the whole campaign into one.
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28	!!The Half-Orc
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30	A fairly mercenary female half-orc ranger who was complicit in OP's schemes. Went [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale above and beyond]] to give herself an alibi for the night of the murder.
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32	* ActionGirl: A high-level ranger.
33	* TheBabyTrap: Made some noises about this after sleeping with the OP.
34	* TheDragon: She's the party member who directly helps OP carry out his schemes.
35	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Slept with the drunk OP to give herself an alibi. OP didn't quite know what to think about it, but was creeped out by the DM's acceptance of it.
36	* HalfHumanHybrid: is a half-orc.
37	* {{Greed}}: Described as "fairly gold-obsessed".
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39	!!Bali and Baldin, the Rumbling Brothers
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41	Dwarven identical twin brothers who brofisted all the time and had a theme song. Bali was a bard, and Baldin was a fighter. Their backstory was that Bali had a childhood illness that left him physically frail, while Baldin's active military lifestyle has left him with little time to develop his brother's social graces.
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43	* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Went out of their way to mess with the elves trying to investigate the prince's death, including using their contrasting Charisma scores to confuse the elves' LieDetector spells as detailed below.
44	* ElvesVsDwarves: They would constantly make up outrageous lies during the investigation just to mess with the elf casting ''[[LieDetector Discern Lies]]''. One brother (presumably Bali) had insanely high charisma and could fool the spell, and one had insanely low charisma and could not. One would make up an outrageous story, and the other would confirm it, which would give a positive and then a negative on their truthfulness.
45	-->'''OP''': Dwarves just love to make elves suffer.
46	* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They would constantly make up bits of dwarven culture.
47	* NoNameGiven: Inverted. They are the only characters in the Elfslayer Chronicles' NamelessNarrative who ''do'' have their names given.
48	* SpoonyBard: Bali.
49	* SquishyWizard: Bali, although he's a bard, not a wizard. He's rather weak as the result of a childhood illness.
50	* ThoseTwoGuys: They don't directly help OP in his plots, but they're on his side and they spend most of the investigation messing with the investigators, although that has more to do with ElvesVsDwarves.
51	* {{Troll}}: As detailed in ElvesVsDwarves, they spent most of the investigation telling lies to mess with the LivingLieDetector clerics who were investigating.
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53	!!The Tiefling/Weeaboo
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55	A tiefling swordmage who was the only player on the DM's side. Hated OP for ruining the campaign and had problems keeping OOC knowledge out of the game.
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57	* CallingYourAttacks: Shouts his attack names out loud as part of his animesque shtick.
58	* TheDragon: If you consider OP the hero and the DM the villain, then he is this, as the only player against OP.
59	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His IrrationalHatred for OP and sympathy for the murder suspect (the Royal Guard) means that it's rather easy for OP to pin blame on him.
60	* IrrationalHatred: In-character, he hates OP and tries to get him killed, despite having no good reason too.
61	* MetaGuy: Suspects OP of the murder and dislikes him, despite having no in-character reason to think so.
62	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: OP calls him "weeaboo", which is an insulting name for a Japan fangirl/boy.
63	* ShoutOut: Is described as having ripped off several anime characters.
64	* SpannerInTheWorks: He tries to be the spanner to OP's plans, but so far he's only really succeeded in drawing suspicion to himself.
65	* TokenGoodTeammate / TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only player to side with the DM, which could be good or bad depending on which side you're on.
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67	!!The Artificer
68	A human artificer who didn't really have much to do with the story. She apparently had a habit of going contrary to the party's plans, but given that she plays such a small role, we really don't get to see much of it.
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70	* ActionGirl: A high level PC.
71	* DemotedToExtra: She's a player character, so she must have had a big role in the campaign earlier, but she just doesn't do much during the story.
72	* GadgeteerGenius: Part of being an Artificer.
73	* TheGenericGuy: As a result of not having much of a role. The only thing we have on her personality is what OP tells us, as all we actually know about her is that she had an alibi for the night of the crime and didn't witness anything.
74	* InformedAttribute: OP says that she's a contrary sort, but since she doesn't really do anything, we don't get to see it.
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76	!! OP's Familiar
77	OP's book imp familiar. While not really a party member, she is connected to OP and is an integral part of his plots, usually as a body double.
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79	* BodyDouble: OP uses his illusions to disguise her as whoever is needed. She has stood in for both him and the royal guard at different times.
80	* DeathIsCheap: She's a familiar, so she can be easily brought back. This is one reason that OP didn't hesitate to kill her as part of his plot.
81	* {{Familiar}}: No duh.
82	* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: As a familiar, whenever she gets too far away from OP, she teleports back. OP uses this in his scheme to kill the Royal Guard.
83	* {{Telepathy}}: OP has a feat that allows him to speak with her telepathically.
84	* UndyingLoyalty: She's perfectly loyal to OP.
85	* TheVoiceless: Isn't known to have spoken.
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88	[[folder:Elven Kingdom/NPCS]]
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90	!!The Prince
91	Prince of the human kingdom and the person the [=PCs=] were supposed to be rescuing. The human king had declared war on the elves when they supposedly killed him, but really the elves had taken him in after he had a hunting accident and healed him. He was in a gay relationship with the captain of the guard.
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93	* AuthorAppeal: His homosexuality.
94	* DamselInDistress: His role, pretty much. The DM made him very low-level so the party and his Elvish lover could get to save him. This backfired, as it made it ''very'' easy for OP to kill him.
95	* HomophobicHateCrime: Part of the reason that OP killed him was so that his homosexuality wouldn't shame the royal family, as the human kingdom was homophobic. The other reason is the GM kept trying to strongarm the OP into a threesome with the Prince and Captain.
96	* PlotTriggeringDeath: More like [[OffTheRails Plot Derailing Death]], as his murder by OP is what turned the plot from 'bring the prince home to stop the war' to a murder mystery.
97	* {{Uke}}: his role in his and the Guard Captain's relationship.
98	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Doesn't get any real characterization before he's killed.
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100	!!The Guard Captain
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102	An Eladrin swordmage who was the captain of the elvish guard and the Prince's lover. OP framed him for the prince's murder and killed him to prevent him testifying.
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104	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Referred to as 'the Guard Captain' and 'the Royal Guard'.
105	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Killed by OP to prevent him from giving testimony that might interfere with OP's plan.
106	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Seems to be a decent sort who really loved the prince, but due to OP's machinations, the Elven Kingdom ended up thinking that he killed the Prince after a quarrel and then tried to kill OP.
107	* MagicKnight: A swordmage.
108	* ManlyTears: Cries when he discovers that the Prince is dead.
109	* OurElvesAreDifferent: Is one of the Eladrin, fey ancestors to the elves (the elves are the ones who ran to the material world after a civil war, losing much of their fey powers, while the Eladrin stayed and are now a VestigialEmpire).
110	* {{Seme}}: His role in his and the Prince's relationship.
111	* TeleportersAndTransporters: Could teleport.
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113	!!The Eye of Blight
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115	A sentient, evil artifact that was once a magical weapon of execution. Tossed in OP's way by the DM. OP promptly buried it and has been ignoring its temptations ever since.
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117	* ArtifactDomination: Defied. OP makes sure to only handle it with a shovel in case it can do this.
118	* ArtifactOfDoom: The area around it when it was first found was blackened and withered, and it used to be a magical execution weapon.
119	* ArtifactOfAttraction: In a way. It's able to pull OP to the garden where it's at, and later sends him dreams promising him everything the DM thinks he wanted.
120	* TheCorruption: Represents the forces of decay in the natural cycle, and can rot anyone who holds it away, which is how it was used to execute people.
121	* DealWithTheDevil: It's promised OP power, wealth, and a host of other things in exchange for wielding it. Of course, OP hasn't taken it up on the offer.
122	* DreamWeaver: Sends OP dreams in which it promises everything that the DM thinks OP wants.
123	* EvilIsNotAToy: {{Defied}} by OP. One of the reasons he won't have anything to do with it is that he fears (not without reason) that a sentient magical artifact called the Eye of Blight is the sort of thing that will screw its wielder over.
124	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Eye of Blight.
125	* ObviouslyEvil: Gets a LampshadeHanging by OP.
126	* SealedEvilInACan: Of a sort. It doesn't seem to be able to do much without a wielder, and OP buried it almost as soon as he found it.
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128	!!Others
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130	Residents of the Elven Kingdom, which includes both elves and eladrin. They are currently under attack by the Human Kingdoms after a misunderstanding involving the Prince.
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132	* AuthorAppeal: Their whole society and belief systems reflect the DM's beliefs.
133	* AuthorFilibuster: The DM apparently "harped on endlessly" about how much better their beliefs were than those of humans.
134	* CantArgueWithElves: They're pretty much better than the humans in every way but military power. They're peaceful, crime is rare, they don't have a death penalty, they're not materialistic, they're tolerant of homosexuality, and they're egalitarian enough to let their princess play with peasant children.
135	* CulturalPosturing: All the time.
136	* DamselInDistress: The elven kingdom has very little military power, as they were supposed to be the innocent victims of the evil humans.
137	* DueToTheDead: They don't resurrect their dead, preferring to "let their heroes rest in peace".
138	* FantasticRacism: Interestingly enough, they seem to suffer from this. While the humans are EqualOpportunityEvil (because the party was from the Human Kingdom, and didn't want to all play humans), there are only elf variants in their kingdom. OP also says that they have a superiority complex and notes, as part of his reason for not attempting to save the elves, that trading with them wouldn't be profitable, as they would "only condescend to give us artisan-goods that we don't really need".
139	* OurElvesAreDifferent: The D&D variant of elves, with some eladrin thrown in for good measure.
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142	[[folder:The DM]]
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144	!!The DM
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146	Dungeon Master of the Elfslayer Chronicles, described as a "yaoi fangirl with an elf fetish". OP ruined her planned campaign with his murder of the Prince, and to her credit, she decided to roll with it instead of going RocksFallEveryoneDies.
147	* AuthorAppeal: Much of the campaign, but OP ruined it when he killed the Prince.
148	* AntiVillain: The only real crime she's guilty of is making the campaign into her own personal fantasy, and she is mature enough to not use [[RocksFallEveryoneDies DM Fiat]] against OP.
149	* BigBad: If you consider OP to be the hero, than the DM is this, as she controls all the forces set against OP, except the Tiefling.
150	* CantArgueWithElves: A firm believer in this. Her elves are pretty much better than everyone else in the setting. They are peaceful, in tune with nature, accepting of homosexuality, and crime is very rare among them.
151	** FantasticRacism: Oddly enough, her elves suffer from this, while the human empire doesn't.
152	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Her acceptance of the Half-Orc's rape of OP really creeps OP out.
153	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Only ever called the DM.
154	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She's not really ''evil'', but she definitely has a hard time understanding that OP is motivated by [[PatrioticFervor patriotism]] instead of selfishness.
155	** Could easily be considered a case of GoodCannotComprehendEvil
156	* [[FetishFuelFuture Fetish Fuel Fantasy]]: Lures the party into her magical realm of perfect, handsome, arrogant gay male elves.
157	* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: Multiple things she introduces into the game, like [[HumansAreBastards humans being bastards]], the war being good for the human kingdom, and the elves not having holding cells, are used against her by OP.
158	* NobleDemon: Despite disliking OP for ruining her campaign, refuses to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies squish him with rocks from the sky.]]
159	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Reasonable enough not to throw a snit fit at OP's derailing of her campaign, although she does make it clear that she really disliked what he did.
160	* YaoiFangirl: So much so that she based her entire campaign on it.

Context Characters / ElfslayerChronicles