This is a rather interesting concept to me and I think I'll enjoy it very much.

I have an idea for a eccentric magic user with an affinity for the undead. If I can have an undead pet cat that'd be beautiful but I can understand if not.

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'Undead' in the context of Invernier is applied pretty elusively to sentient humanoid-ish mummy-ish beings with a really loaded history, so I'm not sure a zombified cat would work, but since there's a magical style that revolves around wild animals, if you want a heavily enchanted cat familiar under your control, that'd be cool, sure thing.

What sort of eccentric were you going for? It can end up meaning a few different things for different kinds of characters, and some of those may not fit well with the tone or setting for End + Sleep.

These are certainly ideas.

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Imagine the old lady that nobody really likes but they keep her around because she saved your grandmother from the pox with some weird potion that made her turn a shade of blue for two days. She sorta rambles on about little things like how mushy her tomatoes were or how dreadfully loud the ghost-voices were last night when there was a murder in town. Unnerving, but charming and useful in a fashion that leaves them safe as long as they help out in a small community. Basically a hedgewitch, common for villages in the rough time period this roleplay is based off.

However, she'd be a rather effeminate young man instead, and ramble on more about how his cat Snuffles had the sneezes the night before last because he got sick defending the village from a strange plague-like monster. (As I am writing this our cat just sneezed and fell off the chair he was sitting on I am crying.)

Also, I'm basing this concept loosely on the insanity and ghostiness from Hamlet, my favorite Shakespearean play.

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*ahem* Also in reference to the cat I'll just make him a sort of combat familiar. Have a spell to make him grow a few sizes, couple it with a healing spell for the character himself to use, and a spell to temporarily animate anything without a lifeforce. Top it off at like three spells, maybe a fourth depending on the power level you'd ascribe.

If you're still accepting characters, I'd like to express interest.

I have sort of a weird character concept. An ancient hunter, made ageless by long-lost science and sorcery. Most of his memories are lost to the ages, but he still carries out his singular purpose, to protect humankind by exterminating monsters and the undead. Carries a hand-cannon, a relic lantern than works as a sort of mobile Bonfire, and strange little candies that can heal and purify the body.

What do you think?

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Whoops, sorry, I missed this. I like the idea of an immortal soldier who's singlemindedly fallen into a 'kill monsters, protect the survivors, that's all I am and all I ever will be' sort of mindset, should be fun to force a knight templar-ish person like that right next to characters like magicians or eventual Undead NPCs. The Tempesta is right next door to the islands of the Vanities, which'd been a fucking ginormous and crazy powerful empire a few hundred years previous, so I could see that kind of character fitting in.

That said, being ageless via ancient magic and technology is a very Big Thing, and having a lantern to work as a mobile Bonfire is another Very Very Big Thing. Both of these make sense with the character, but I'd rather you cut the candies and the hand cannon to limit the amount of strange-and-special aspects to the character. Or, alternatively, cut the lantern, let him keep the cannon.

Also, that said, for everyone else, don't think your characters need to be soldiers, or fighters, or great and powerful champions. My character is literally just an archaeologist, for example. Having someone more low-key fits perfectly fine for the RPG, and frankly will be treated with significantly less scrutiny than the more powerful characters.

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I'd prefer generally to cut the candies in favor of the lantern and the cannon. I was planning for the lantern to have some considerable drawbacks, if that's relevant. Namely that it works by emitting a certain resonance that, while it succeeds at repelling the efertide, it's also incredibly disorienting and slowly drives normal people insane.

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lantern's effect. It's purely a drawback, meant to keep anyone that seeks its shelter from actually getting any rest. The average person will have a "Wow this sucks," reaction to it, and it takes a considerable amount of continuous exposure to have a profound effect.

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I'm just going to point out that no one in this setting will EVER think an item like that 'sux', it's like finding the fucking Holy Grail and being upset with it because it's elixir tastes yucky.

I mean, my character might actually kill to get such an item even if he's a moral guy - because it's pretty much a "fuck you efertide" I-win card if you know how to use it. @Dead Cruiser