4is111
2013-10-12, 02:10 PM
I'm running an open world game, and I try to be as accommodating as I can. One of my players has asked to play a "pact fiend", essentially an infernal bureaucrat. I've been thinking about it, and I can't come up with a plot hook that would interest such a character to go risk life and limb adventuring. Maybe I'm overlooking something. What do you guys think? Here's the relevant information, as written by the player. The trouble is that he doesn't really have the power to make a typical "deal with the devil", but it feels like that's what the player is going for.
Elizabeth is someone whom views herself as a neutral party, separated from the good and evil and instead weighs them on a scale. To her neither can exist without the other and the goal to obliterate the other is something that could never be achieved.
As such she will admit that she does both evil and good things in her life, that she has both killed and saved during the years she has lived. But one can always be sure that her word is her bond. If she makes a deal with someone than she will stick to it for as long as the other does.
She treats evil both evil and good creatures with a certain level of distrust since for a pact fiend none of them can be trusted. The good could be tempted to smite her just because of the lasting taint of her creation while the evil could devour her or lie and abuse her binding word.
There are some things that creatures are never able to do right, either because of stubbornness, stupidity, racism or their own shortsightedness. No matter how hard they tried the only thing that could come about from negotiations would be even more fighting between the two parties as they dig into their own morals. This is where the life of a Crossroads Broker comes in, although it is not always to settle agreements or petty squabbles. If a creature needs help with a goal they might use one to strike a deal up with a more powerful force to grant them what they desires.
For Elizabeth this line of work suited her perfectly and naturally drew her to it. As a pact fiend her deals were her shackles, shackles that while they restricted her opened up the opportunity for much greater things. When a person’s deals are absolute they not only close the door on breaking them but open up whole new windows of trust that can form lasting alliances or relationships where all of the parties benefit.
Ever since she was birthed it was expected of her to follow this path of life under one deity or another. However the prospect of working solely for evil creatures seemed to be tiresome for her, the constant lies and manipulations they would attempt to pull would be an annoyance to deal with every time. The gods of good on the other hand would most likely smite her on the spot, not wishing to directly employ such a tainted being, thus leaving only one goddess to work under in order to have the most diverse set of customers.
Serving under Traloon, a goddess whom many can trust to stick to her word, opens up the best chances of having variety with her assignments. Her agents are expected to stick to the rules and as a broker it makes perfect sense to serve under the deity representing law when their way of life revolves around contracts and deals.
When she is not currently being employed or have requests made of her Elizabeth tends to try and spend her time in other, more productive ways. Either through making binding deals for herself with others or taking up requests in the material plane to gain more influence and power. By obtaining wealth, contacts, and power she can raise up and be able to obtain more rewarding requests that require a more powerful broker to achieve. While she is content with her situation as it is, to be able to have powerful beings bound to a contract is never a thing to pass up.
Elizabeth is someone whom views herself as a neutral party, separated from the good and evil and instead weighs them on a scale. To her neither can exist without the other and the goal to obliterate the other is something that could never be achieved.
As such she will admit that she does both evil and good things in her life, that she has both killed and saved during the years she has lived. But one can always be sure that her word is her bond. If she makes a deal with someone than she will stick to it for as long as the other does.
She treats evil both evil and good creatures with a certain level of distrust since for a pact fiend none of them can be trusted. The good could be tempted to smite her just because of the lasting taint of her creation while the evil could devour her or lie and abuse her binding word.
There are some things that creatures are never able to do right, either because of stubbornness, stupidity, racism or their own shortsightedness. No matter how hard they tried the only thing that could come about from negotiations would be even more fighting between the two parties as they dig into their own morals. This is where the life of a Crossroads Broker comes in, although it is not always to settle agreements or petty squabbles. If a creature needs help with a goal they might use one to strike a deal up with a more powerful force to grant them what they desires.
For Elizabeth this line of work suited her perfectly and naturally drew her to it. As a pact fiend her deals were her shackles, shackles that while they restricted her opened up the opportunity for much greater things. When a person’s deals are absolute they not only close the door on breaking them but open up whole new windows of trust that can form lasting alliances or relationships where all of the parties benefit.
Ever since she was birthed it was expected of her to follow this path of life under one deity or another. However the prospect of working solely for evil creatures seemed to be tiresome for her, the constant lies and manipulations they would attempt to pull would be an annoyance to deal with every time. The gods of good on the other hand would most likely smite her on the spot, not wishing to directly employ such a tainted being, thus leaving only one goddess to work under in order to have the most diverse set of customers.
Serving under Traloon, a goddess whom many can trust to stick to her word, opens up the best chances of having variety with her assignments. Her agents are expected to stick to the rules and as a broker it makes perfect sense to serve under the deity representing law when their way of life revolves around contracts and deals.
When she is not currently being employed or have requests made of her Elizabeth tends to try and spend her time in other, more productive ways. Either through making binding deals for herself with others or taking up requests in the material plane to gain more influence and power. By obtaining wealth, contacts, and power she can raise up and be able to obtain more rewarding requests that require a more powerful broker to achieve. While she is content with her situation as it is, to be able to have powerful beings bound to a contract is never a thing to pass up.