[CHAR] Slay the Spire

[Lucky]

The Controller

Joan, The Controller

Joan

The Controller

Character Archetype
Battlefield Control

Personality
Bubbly, Curious, Empathetic
Naive, Lovesick, Daydreamer

Blessings
Preternatural Handler: Some great, yet seemingly lost, divine has granted the handler with a superior sense of bestial empathy. With thorough attention, care, and a touch of eldritch enchantments, the handler can forcefully raise up her selected creature beyond their normal capabilities. Limit one “Alpha” creature OR two “Pack” creatures OR four “Swarm” creatures. Creatures tamed yet not empowered this way can remain under control indefinitely.
”A heart beats and ignites with companionship, revels in camaraderie. While bonds strengthen through adversity, be careful of your own vulnerabilities.”
See: Curse Unstable Evolution.

Curses
Unstable Evolution: Whoever, or whatever, granted her preternatural taming capabilities must also have a twisted sense of humor. Tamed creatures will continue to evolve in aggression beyond their handler’s capacity. Upon reaching their peak performance and/or defeating a powerful creature, the battle will continue with the previously tamed creature now acting as an enemy. It cannot be re-tamed.
”At some point, every handler must part with their companion. In this handler’s case, however, it will ultimately always end in bloodshed.”

Relics
Whistle of the Deep: When activated, will set a status effect based on the creatures within range. Alpha: Enrage. Pack: (If Aggro) Loss in aggro. (If No Aggro) Gain aggro. Swarm: Fear. No effect on non-beasts.
”Much like the outside world’s dog whistle, this midnight blue artifact is only audibly perceptible by beasts. Nonetheless, a reverb will resonate and seems to cause the very walls to tremble as if calling out to something far, far away.”

Gold
50

[LSJ Rose]

The Cardinal Forged of Fire

-Sarina, Cardinal Forged Of Fire--

--Sarina--

--Cardinal Forged Of Fire--

Character Archetype
Rogue

Personality
Observant, Courageous, Charming
Impatient, Sarcastic, Quarrelsome

Blessings
Courage Of The Fire Phoenix: This blessing gives a temporary boost of courage to anyone who touches the cardinal without fear or hesitation and shows all allies where enemies are, highlighted in maroon. Every time the effect's range is different.

Curses
Cardinal: A bird follows her around, typically found on her shoulder. Not any kind of bird, but a cardinal. Attempting to swat it away or take it off her shoulder only results in it striking back at the attacker. Whenever the bird senses Sarina is trying to sneak it will chirp nonstop high enough for a human to hear and higher for beasts, effectively warning enemies of their presence. It will only stop if Sarina stops. A source for the Courage Of The Fire Phoenix Blessing.

Relics
She has none, as of now

Gold
--90--

[Dog]

Magharmaw, The Great Devourer

Magharmaw

Great Devourer

Tank

Personality
Despite his looks, Magharmaw is quite a calm and nice person. Outside of combat, he speaks in a soft voice and likes to talk about food and dogs (mainly dogs). Not only that, Magharmaw is highly supportive of others and their goals, whatever that may be. He enjoys the company of others and hopefully, they enjoy him. When it comes to combat, Magharmaw is a wholly different beast entirely. The title of Great Devourer is not just a fancy title given to him out of nowhere, friend. He is highly violent in combat, brutally butchering anyone in his path.

Blessings
Devourer - Magharmaw has been noticed and blessed by the Lord of Hunger for his past feats of great feasting, a result of Magharmaw ‘s never-ending need for food and drink. The ogre now has the ability to cook very wonderful food, but most importantly Magharmaw can eat any fallen (or not so fallen) enemy (meat, metal, etc) and restore portions of his strength and health in the process.

Curses
N/A

Relics
N/A

Gold
150

[Whoami]

--Removed--

[Dark Cloud]

--PERCIVAL, THE DUNGEONEER--

Character Archetype
Rogue

Personality
Percival has an unquenchable thirst for adventure that can only be sated by wandering the labyrinthian network of winding halls and often random layout of the Spire. After many failed attempts to ascend the spire alone he began to fancy himself an expert when it came to exploring the lowest reaches of the Spire and so he proclaimed himself the Dungeoneer.

Percival hopes to one day explore the furthest reach of the Spire in order to someday map out its layout to help others in their endeavor to escape the Spire although he is doomed to fail.
Blessings
Percival isn't blessed by mystical or magical means, but he is quite the charmer.
Curses
Dangerous Dalliance: The Dungeoneer often finds himself getting the short end of the stick when it comes to chance, as fate usually chooses him to bear the worst of things like spells, traps or angry packs of gremlins.

Relics
Enchanted Map: The Dungeoneer own's an old scroll of blank parchment that fills it's blank space with the locations that he has visited as he traverses the Spire as well as hidden areas that would not normally be known by other climbers, but it becomes blank upon resurrection in the inevitable event that it's owner perishs.
Gold
--50--

[DracoLunaris]

--Luna, The Heretic--

Luna

The Heretic

Character Archetype
Spellcaster (warlock)

Personality
The heretic is haunted by their lost faith, and seek to reclaim it, whatever it might be. A higher power calls them, and the Heretic is bound to it despite not knowing its name. They are as a result spiritual and superstitious but also not very pushy about the faith of others. A person who does not know their own faith should not question that of others after all. She has a great deal of curiosity and is more than willing to meddle with things she doesn't understand. When presented with mysteries or new information she will attempt to learn just about anything on the odd chance it comes in useful or give some insight into her faith.

Luna is also inquisitive/nosy when it comes to others, easily distracted, and has a tendency to mutter to herself without realizing she is speaking her thoughts out loud. She has a scholarly disposition, and will try to record new information physically if she can, partly for re-use higher up the spire, partly in a fruitless attempt to leave herself documentation for future runs.

She tries to keep others at arm's length, though she is unlikely to succeed.

Along with the summit, she also seeks the god of the cult, wishing to discern if it is her master that is simply testing her, or if it is a false idol.

Blessings

The Stars will aid in her escape: A higher power has blessed the Heritic with arcane abilities. She has, of course, forgotten how to use most of them, but yet more are either locked away or are yet to be granted by her nameless benefactors, who may give new knowledge or power should the be pleased in some manner.

Eldritch Electricity: The heretic has the power to produce electricity from her talon like gauntlets. At the moment she can only use this ability to electrify her punches and scratches.

Curses
Foe of the Cult: “This one has been branded a heretic by the cult of the awakened one, who will stop at nothing to bring their end.”

Did she make a minor slip up in doctrine? Did she balk when the time came to sacrifice someone she cared about? Did she become disillusioned with the cult and abandon it willingly? Was she never part of the cult and simply wore the wrong clothes the day she entered the spire? Did she see a truer, higher calling than the cult, and proclaim the awakened one a false idol? Did she have personal enemies who had her branded for selfish reasons?

Luna doesn't know why she was branded a heretic, and the cultists aren't interested in explaining why they despise her as they are too busy trying to kill her for her heresy. Indeed the cultists will stop at nothing to end her life, being driven to higher fervor when fighting her and ignoring other targets in favor of attempting to gain the honor of personally slaying the heretic or, better yet, capturing her so she can be offered up as a sacrifice.

Forgotten Pact: All the Heretics supernatural power is drawn from a source that is not their own, and that source can be fickle in strange and inhuman ways, granting or withholding power based on criteria the Heretic has long since forgotten.

Relics
Lunar Pendant: A crescent moon of silver surrounding a sapphire hanging from a chain around the Heretic's neck. On the reverse side are words in an unknown tongue, with the only one recognisable/pronounceable one being the word Luna, from which the Heretic has taken her name. It longs to bathe in the light of its true self high above at the top of the spire. To do so it draws the Heretic ever higher, guiding them ever upwards, allowing Luna to divine a way she should take to reach the top. Unfortunately the pendant’s method of discerning which route is the best seems like it is running on moon logic, rarely giving the fastest, safest or most profitable route to the summit, at least in the eyes of mortals. Still, a route it gives nonetheless and the Heritic has often followed it without question in her past runs.

The way it works is when confronted with the choice of what way to go to try and reach the top of the spire the Luna may be shown a vision of her own future down that road, one which includes on top of sight all the physical sensations of what she would feel, hear, smell, and taste, down that path. This is a sensory bombardment done in rapid fire which leaves much of the specifics unclear, though certain key actions or events that lead to the best outcome, at least in the pendant’s multitude of eyes, will be highlighted or simply stick in the Heretic's mind after the vision subsides. The pendant also only guarantees Luna’s own safety, and seems blind too (or more likely disinterested in) the fate of her traveling companions. It is the best path for Luna. Whether anyone else makes it seems to be considered irrelevant.

Gold
--50--

[Tellukka]

VITTORE, THE DESERTER

VITTORE

THE DESERTER

Character Archetype
Fighter

Personality
Vittore is generally attentive and perceptive, though that has a lot to do with how twitchy they are. They’re the soul of discretion and good at keeping secrets. They have a bone-deep existential horror that they can’t quite put a name to. They would much rather be home, drinking tea and tending a vegetable patch, but here they are.
Vittore's pronouns are they/he, both can be used for them.

Blessings
They’ve got no blessings to speak of.

Curses
He’s got a mark on their left shoulder that intermittently becomes agonizingly painful, as if trying to remind him that it’s there. It tends to flare up at inconvenient times. It seems to be growing in size over time...

Relics
He doesn’t have any relics.

Gold
50