Sorry, I will edit the character post and repost my draft here.
Given Name: Candace Saint Arnaud
Role: Customer Service Rep for Department Store
Class: Elf Necromancer
Appearance: Candace now has long pointy ears, lengthy white hair, and shimmering green eyes on fairly tall and slender build.
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Height: Just under 6 feet
Weight: About 120 pounds
Distinguishing Features: Candace has no tattoos, scars, nor piercings yet.
Starting Attire: Candace is wearing rather ornate black robes that don’t really have any special enchantments but do offer minor protection, especially at the shoulders. She also has a fancy staff that does help her channel her necromancy magic.
Personality traits: Candace is generally introverted and reticent, but loyal to a fault to certain people she has come to respect, often overlooking their faults and minimizing their mistakes almost to the point of hero worship. On the other hand, she tends to be dismissive and judgemental of people who make a bad impression on her. Candace is afraid of herself, her feelings, and her pain, and she doesn’t want her friends to know of her struggles.
Ideals: Candace’s work in customer service to spoiled people has left her jaded to the human condition. Rather than having any intentions to bettering humanity as a whole, her priorities have shifted to preserving herself, her loved ones, and her friends at any reasonable cost, and she desires to explore her necromantic abilities to potentially bring back the loved ones she has lost.
Motivations: Disease and death haunted Candace, claiming her parents, her grandfather, her twin sister, and sense of taste in smell, as well as her overall physical and mental health. Her transformation has restored her senses and amplified all of them, however her family is still gone, and her sanity has likely only slipped further. Candace thinks she has seen her sister and believes that her sister is leading her toward the knowledge she will need to bring her, her grandfather, and maybe even her parents back. Until that time, she knows she will need to rely on others to cover for her weaknesses, and perhaps she can even keep the helpful companions around once she has mastered her abilities and achieved immortality.
Flaws: Candace is still rather fragile and lacking in self esteem, despite her cool new looks and abilities. With access to souls and corpses, she can create servants and employ spells to keep her enemies off of her, but without the proper raw materials, she is rather helpless if her enemies get to her.
Weaknesses: Candace has become an elf, blessed with a longer life, grace, superior senses, and enhanced magical abilities. However, those abilities come at the cost of being extra vulnerable to magical counterattacks, and the enhanced senses also enhance the pain felt when getting hurt.
Background: Candace and her twin sister were orphaned when they were six years old when their parents perished in a car accident (Candace and her sister Melanie were not in the car at the time). Their grandparents on their mother’s side took them in and raised them in a small apartment in Jacksonville Florida. The sisters were inseparable, and both went to a community college in Jacksonville and had nearly graduated when 2020 happened. Covid ended up being incredibly devastating to the Saint Arnaud family, claiming the lives of Melanie and their grandfather, Jean, while leaving Candace and her grandmother, Marie, with long Covid symptoms including a loss of senses of taste and smell. Candace graduated college and got a job at a department store and was eventually promoted to be a customer service representative, where she got good at pretending to care about the company’s spoiled customers while she suppressed her grief. While she put up a strong face, inside, Candace was an absolute wreck as she struggled to mourn her losses and take care of her ailing Grandmother, and she constantly found herself praying to whatever higher power existed that her circumstances could change. Much to her surprise, they did…
When in school, Candace and her sister took dance lessons and participated in some school sports like softball and soccer, but Candace was never particularly amazing at any of these activities. The twin sisters still participated in some club activities during their college years, but after Melanie died and Candace began her career, she stopped taking lessons and participating in any athletics. The two girls did enjoy reading fiction, fantasy, and romance stories, and were quite well read.
Abilities: Candace can use her Necromancy spells to bring back creatures to fight for her. This is an advanced spell that takes at least ten minutes to do, although as she gets more proficient, she can probably get this time down for weaker intact bodies. Given multiple bodies, tools, and souls, she can also combine bodies to create more powerful minions.
Candace can also launch the souls of the dead at the souls of the living to try to dislodge the souls of the living. Given more souls and more experience, Candace will likely be able to cause more powerful Soul Blasts. She can pry the souls from her servants to use as ammunition for this spell at the cost of the continued animation of the servant.
When in dire straits, Candace can project her emotional and physical pain onto a nearby foe, potentially staggering them if they weren’t expecting it, potentially giving her friends and servants time to bail her out. Candace is loath to use this ability due to her fear of being emotionally vulnerable.
Thank you, thank you. I would recommend these changes or discussing them with me (clarify them if you will):
Realistic Face Claim add a realistic face claim. That is a requirement to emphasize your character going from the earth/real world to whatever this dungeon crawler world is. Your character becoming elf-life is probably blended into the wish of change. Keep the artisty face claim for the reference of change (the same thing I did for Archer).
Appearance and weapons your character is freshly entering the dungeon, meaning, she does not have any clothing or weapons that are tied into this fantasy world. She has what she was wearing in the real world and she has what is on her. She could have been phased in during her lunch break at work or her day off as she walked down the street. She would have modern clothing.
Racial and weaknesses your character is still human in a sense though they have the addition of these racial traits. She would not acquire longer life but her appearance could totally change into looking 100% elf type of deal along with magic enhancement. I would encourage you to describe what superior senses are (this is vague and it could be the seven senses or more). I would encourage possibly adding more racial weaknesses such as her not being able to wear or deal with iron or heavy metal materials (getting rashes/cannot use it) and the like since your character's only weaknesses are when she is being attacked/hurt.
AbilitiesRemember, our characters are starting out so they have no idea of how to use these powers yet so they will be clumsy and make a lot of mistakes, possibly, at first with them. I would recommend adding a d4 roll onto the necromancy/reanimating ability so she can only raise up to 4 skeletons/dead at a time and she will have to be around a graveyard, piles of bones, or a body for this to work. You can do the 10 minute focus, if you want to, but I would recommend for the advanced ability for it to just have a success/failure difference form the normal like 1-14 = failure and 15-20 = success.
For soul blasts, I would have it be required that she needs access to freshly dead souls (a freshly dead body) or souls that are trapped in a bottle that she can use. Currently, she would not have a bottle but you never know, she will be able to obtain one, one day! I feel like this is a disorientation spell/stun spell, so I would suggest writing that when she does this (forcing a soul into someone) that they are stunned for 3 character posts.
For people with living souls, that is very advanced, and that would cause the individual to become "dead" in a sort so I would like to stay away from that for the moment because that would be extremely overpowered and make it so she could tank everything herself. I would recommend that she can only do this to one person at a time and once she uses a soul, she cannot reuse it. Souls being an energy material.
With the physical and emotional ability, I would recommend that she can only use this on a singular target as well. I would encourage a d4 to be rolled to determine the number of posts that the character stunned/phased for. This does not have a cool down. She can do this every single post, if she wants too, but she can only do it to one enemy per post.
An addition to the physical and emotional ability is if she is touching the enemies. I think it is fair, if she is physically grabbing onto two individuals, and she does this ability successfully. That two people can be stunned and it would allow her to get away as well.
I hope my paragraph is not overwhelming for you and if it is! We can speak in DMs or discuss this to get on a leveled ground of what you want and what I will allow. Everything else looks wonderful from what I can tell and if she still has the motivation to get immortality, that can definitely be done through character progress, experience, and combat to get more coin, rare items, and so on!
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