I have a character idea in mind that I could go for, if you're still looking for people. Name: Darr-rol 'The darkness bringer' Actual Name: Darol Hillswin Race: Vanilla Human (Boring, I know) Class: Warlock Backstory summary: The way most infernal cults work is this; You have a group, they make sacrifices and devotions praising a particular devil or fiend and, through contract, said planar creature(s) grants boons and powers to its followers. The larger the cult, the safer and more secure this arrangement is. You have people who can provide alibis. You have people on the inside, keeping the law off of you and the like. Shadowy liaisons between different members can be held at a different person's house each week. You get the cool cloaks and hoods. You can keep it going, perhaps even as a generational thing and, of course, if someone does gets caught, the rest of the group can, usually, easily, slip quietly into the shadow of the night. So naturally there are upsides to it... ignoring the damnation of one's eternal soul, forfeit of all redemption for the pre-determined period of eternity, etc... But, that said, such a thing is, strangely enough, the safer option and, as a downside, when such an endevour is taken by a group, it is to all the members of that group that the power, the otherworldly knowledge, and prestige, has to be divided. It's a slower ascension to power then what one would experience as a lone worshiper and warlock, but you're also less likely to be cut down by the local templars one day as you walk down the street. That said, not everything is without its risks and so, one of the twists that can come with all this is, when eventually said paladins of the holy orders do finally track you and your order down, you run the risk of the last man standing, the last possible reciprocal to this boons and gift, being someone like Darol. And what could be said of Darol? Well, Darol unfortunately is the new guy and the only reason he wasn't there when the rest of the order was wiped out, was because the ritual that night was running late, and Darol had to run home to check on his Grandma. Darol is not a dark, brooding, sophisticated murderer as the patron of this order might have otherwise wished for. Instead, Darol is the "Dark" and "Brooding" teen/young adult, who rather than finding himself steeped in shadows and blood, was instead the guy who turned up for the meetings (at the insistence of his gran-gran who looked after and raised him) with cookies and the fantasy equivalent of tupperware. Which is not to say that Darol doesn't have a heart for the dark and the twisted. Oh no, not at all. Darol is very much the guy who shuns colourful tea cosies and the knitted scarves his grandma makes for him. He prefers skulls and the macabre, even has a cool dagger and everything. He dyes his hair black, lets it grow long over one eye, and likes the sound of being called 'the destroyer' or 'the dark knight of the twisted prince'... *You can imagine a long, deep, tired, and frustrated sigh of an Archfiend here.* And so, with payment already having been made on the mortal end of this, and contract locked in, a tired Archfiend has to put up with the fact that the only remaining follower, the single focus into which he has to pour his gifts and boons, is in fact, this guy. A young man, who'd only joined the cult as a misguided youth, a guy with no friends looking for a group to guide him and take him in. A young man who, despite everything else, nonetheless, still just barely qualifies as a 'member of the cult of ... to whom all gifts and boons are hereby relinquished and bequeathed in exchange for...' And, as for the future... Well, one can only hope this little twerp will get himself into some stupid trouble one day, dies, and by the grace of Asmodeus, finally releases those boons in exchange for the freedom of his soul. Source books : Going to go with basic PHB on this, maybe cross-class to a level of wild magic sorcerer as the 'dark magics of the unspeakable one warp and transform the body to a perfect form.' Question: Also UK here, so I don't know how the time zones would work. Going to be going physically back to work soon, so I could probably only do the evenings (every day except Thursday and Friday, because stuff.) Hope that'd still work for people.
