unosarta
2011-01-15, 06:50 PM
OK, so here is the basic rundown;
In the current RL campaign I am playing in, the setting is basically medieval Europe, but with magic and such. The campaign itself is set in the northern part of Italy, and the players are essentially mercenaries for the duke of that area. My character is a surprisingly muscular and manly elf. He defies most convention, and is routinely mistreated by elves and others. His backstory is quite a bit more complicated.
When he was young, he lived like many other elves, with his parents on their farms in southern France. He was different from other elves. He was stupid, and never knew how to speak gracefully. He was abnormally large, and strong, and often didn't know the limits of his strength. He was also bullied and picked on by his class mates all of his life for being "un-elvish". When he was 43, he asked the daughter of the local mayor to a festival dance. She turned him down, and laughed at him, calling him a stupid pig. He broke down, and beat her, as well as half of the class that attempted to stop him, into a bloody pulp. He was exiled from his family, his home, and his culture forever.
Now, he is an elf who defies all that it is to be an elf. He cannot fit in with elves, and others judge him by his elven looks. He wants to escape his body, and find one that fits who he "really is". To this end, he has contacted the duke (who happens to specialize in magical items and artifacts) in order to find some way to become an Orc, a people much more accustomed to his personality and character. The duke can't give him any permanent solutions, but he can give him a potion he must drink every week in order to change his shape into that of an orc.
Of course, me and my DM only came up with this idea today, so my character definitely won't be changing forms all willy-nilly, and my DM still is trying to figure out the gold cost of making said potion, but this will have major implications for my character and the setting.
As of yet, orcs are pretty much not mentioned at all. They live in the mountains, away from most civilization and rarely, if ever, come into contact with elves. My character barely knows of them, and is going into this slowly, so as of yet, he still isn't looking for any way to become an orc, but he will. My DM was kind of stumped, since she hasn't even written up any culture for the orcs, and she is letting me do it.
So, my question being, how do you think this would affect the character? What are some good orcish cultures in other settings that seem like they would fit? Any feedback at all about the situation would be awesome. :smallbiggrin:
In the current RL campaign I am playing in, the setting is basically medieval Europe, but with magic and such. The campaign itself is set in the northern part of Italy, and the players are essentially mercenaries for the duke of that area. My character is a surprisingly muscular and manly elf. He defies most convention, and is routinely mistreated by elves and others. His backstory is quite a bit more complicated.
When he was young, he lived like many other elves, with his parents on their farms in southern France. He was different from other elves. He was stupid, and never knew how to speak gracefully. He was abnormally large, and strong, and often didn't know the limits of his strength. He was also bullied and picked on by his class mates all of his life for being "un-elvish". When he was 43, he asked the daughter of the local mayor to a festival dance. She turned him down, and laughed at him, calling him a stupid pig. He broke down, and beat her, as well as half of the class that attempted to stop him, into a bloody pulp. He was exiled from his family, his home, and his culture forever.
Now, he is an elf who defies all that it is to be an elf. He cannot fit in with elves, and others judge him by his elven looks. He wants to escape his body, and find one that fits who he "really is". To this end, he has contacted the duke (who happens to specialize in magical items and artifacts) in order to find some way to become an Orc, a people much more accustomed to his personality and character. The duke can't give him any permanent solutions, but he can give him a potion he must drink every week in order to change his shape into that of an orc.
Of course, me and my DM only came up with this idea today, so my character definitely won't be changing forms all willy-nilly, and my DM still is trying to figure out the gold cost of making said potion, but this will have major implications for my character and the setting.
As of yet, orcs are pretty much not mentioned at all. They live in the mountains, away from most civilization and rarely, if ever, come into contact with elves. My character barely knows of them, and is going into this slowly, so as of yet, he still isn't looking for any way to become an orc, but he will. My DM was kind of stumped, since she hasn't even written up any culture for the orcs, and she is letting me do it.
So, my question being, how do you think this would affect the character? What are some good orcish cultures in other settings that seem like they would fit? Any feedback at all about the situation would be awesome. :smallbiggrin: