Crgaston
2020-04-02, 11:25 AM
So, one of my groups is running ToA on Roll20 since we can't meet in person. I've never played a Yuan-Ti before and am wondering if this seems like a plausible backstory?
Mostly I'm bored lol.
Nadim Shandar is a Yuan-Ti Glamour Bard with the Entertainer background. He appears as a deeply sun-browned, slender man in his mid-50’s wearing shabby but serviceable clothes, and carrying various pouches and sacks along with his walking stick and his pungi, or reed flute. Although somewhat frail-looking, he is hale and spry, toughened by decades of walking and living in the jungle.
Nadim travels between the villages and outposts of Chult, making his living by performing, selling antivenin, and carrying messages or small parcels from place to place. He is known and loved by children, who gather to hear his stories and watch him perform. He is most famous, however, for his snake charming acts. The things he can get his snakes to do while telling a tale and playing his pungi must be seen to be believed. They often bring their pets to him because they believe Nadim can talk to their animals for them. (While he actually can do this, he passes it off as a harmless act if questioned about it by those in authority. There are some adults who believe that despite his denials, there must be some truth behind the act because they remember particularly compelling revelations from their own childhood, but mostly this is dismissed as childhood delusion.)
Despite being a Yuan-Ti, there are precious few physical characteristics which reveal this. Nadim’s skin is surprisingly tough, smooth and cool to the touch, and twice a year he avoids other people for a couple of weeks while he sheds his skin. Other than that, he passes as human to all but the most insightful investigation.
Nadim is able to successfully navigate and live alone in the jungle primarily through his relationship with snakes and other animals. His go-to trick is exchanging knowledge of a hard-to-reach food source (that he can plunder with Mage Hand) for a share of the spoils.
Although Nadim is technically an agent-in-place for the Yuan-Ti hierarchy, it has been many years since he has been contacted by his overseer. He suspects (rightly) that his handler has died without passing on instructions to contact Nadim. Although he probably should reestablish a connection, his independent nature means that he is content to be left alone for the time being.
Nadim is willing to join an adventuring party primarily because it is a diversion from his routine. He will also be interested in finding new and rare types of snake to make antivenom.
Here's a Hero Forge mini mock-up:
https://i.imgur.com/8Uzg29U.png
https://i.imgur.com/scgyfcY.png
Mostly I'm bored lol.
Nadim Shandar is a Yuan-Ti Glamour Bard with the Entertainer background. He appears as a deeply sun-browned, slender man in his mid-50’s wearing shabby but serviceable clothes, and carrying various pouches and sacks along with his walking stick and his pungi, or reed flute. Although somewhat frail-looking, he is hale and spry, toughened by decades of walking and living in the jungle.
Nadim travels between the villages and outposts of Chult, making his living by performing, selling antivenin, and carrying messages or small parcels from place to place. He is known and loved by children, who gather to hear his stories and watch him perform. He is most famous, however, for his snake charming acts. The things he can get his snakes to do while telling a tale and playing his pungi must be seen to be believed. They often bring their pets to him because they believe Nadim can talk to their animals for them. (While he actually can do this, he passes it off as a harmless act if questioned about it by those in authority. There are some adults who believe that despite his denials, there must be some truth behind the act because they remember particularly compelling revelations from their own childhood, but mostly this is dismissed as childhood delusion.)
Despite being a Yuan-Ti, there are precious few physical characteristics which reveal this. Nadim’s skin is surprisingly tough, smooth and cool to the touch, and twice a year he avoids other people for a couple of weeks while he sheds his skin. Other than that, he passes as human to all but the most insightful investigation.
Nadim is able to successfully navigate and live alone in the jungle primarily through his relationship with snakes and other animals. His go-to trick is exchanging knowledge of a hard-to-reach food source (that he can plunder with Mage Hand) for a share of the spoils.
Although Nadim is technically an agent-in-place for the Yuan-Ti hierarchy, it has been many years since he has been contacted by his overseer. He suspects (rightly) that his handler has died without passing on instructions to contact Nadim. Although he probably should reestablish a connection, his independent nature means that he is content to be left alone for the time being.
Nadim is willing to join an adventuring party primarily because it is a diversion from his routine. He will also be interested in finding new and rare types of snake to make antivenom.
Here's a Hero Forge mini mock-up:
https://i.imgur.com/8Uzg29U.png
https://i.imgur.com/scgyfcY.png