mr-mercer
2017-01-29, 05:53 PM
I've been thinking about motifs lately: little things that you associate with particular characters or events. It could be anything: certain colours, a theme song, an associated animal, basically anything that makes you think of the thing in question. I would rather like to hear about the motifs you've used that you want to talk about.
For instance, the current character I'm using is Silas Redthorn, a neutral half-orc fighter with an emphasis on heavy armour and weapons. All of his equipment, forged by his now deceased uncle, has a white and red colour scheme (intended to be reminiscent of ash and cinders, as at one point I wanted to multiclass him as a brass dragon sorcerer). I also have Naill Ferrum, a chaotic good wood elf warlock who I tend to associate with birds of various kinds, as his pact master is a great old one referred to as Aunt Nightingale, though the spells she grants tend to have more in common with corvids than anything else (e.g. leaving a trail of black feathers, causing the shadows of wings to appear on the ground as a cawing echoes throughout the room, etc). I'm thinking of eventually turning an iteration of him into a bladelock with an emphasis on spears, as his more cinematic uses of eldritch blast tend to take the form of spears already.
Do you guys do anything like that, or am I just weird?
For instance, the current character I'm using is Silas Redthorn, a neutral half-orc fighter with an emphasis on heavy armour and weapons. All of his equipment, forged by his now deceased uncle, has a white and red colour scheme (intended to be reminiscent of ash and cinders, as at one point I wanted to multiclass him as a brass dragon sorcerer). I also have Naill Ferrum, a chaotic good wood elf warlock who I tend to associate with birds of various kinds, as his pact master is a great old one referred to as Aunt Nightingale, though the spells she grants tend to have more in common with corvids than anything else (e.g. leaving a trail of black feathers, causing the shadows of wings to appear on the ground as a cawing echoes throughout the room, etc). I'm thinking of eventually turning an iteration of him into a bladelock with an emphasis on spears, as his more cinematic uses of eldritch blast tend to take the form of spears already.
Do you guys do anything like that, or am I just weird?