A character sometimes starts with a single thought. In this case, the thought was... "what if Barbarian, but old lady". Not an original thought, I grant you. But I wanted to make more of an unexpected Barbarian after a lot of... let's be frank, very obvious ones.
So, for the last DnD Character Colouring Book Barbarian March we have Kordela "Dela" Buttons. Pronounced "day-la". An aasimar, a travelling merchant who sells ribbons and buttons and threads and... things. Notions, basically. Or the equivalent of a haberdasher in other places. Which is also why I added in the backpack, which I wouldn't normally do, but I figure that's mostly her wares.
I also revisited Granny Thornback for the general idea around the costume. But then Hero Forge dropped some cute straw hats and that kind of cemented the character a little more.
Dela is married to a tiefling, Mr Buttons (I'm still workshopping the full name), and the idea that if they had any children, those children were just 100% human, having either inherited none of their parent's unique heritage, or just having the aasimar and tiefling genes cancel each other out.
I'm playing around with the idea of her encountering either the actual Norns or just three creatures standing in for Norns. Worshippers of the Norns maybe? And they tell her fortune or otherwise provide her with information about needing to be at a certain place at a certain time. And they give her the axe in return for her sharing her fire and food and campsite.
Am I also cribbing minor ideas from The Wicked + The Divine and American Gods? Absolutely.
She's also very much the frontrunner right now. Tied with the tiefling from a couple of weeks ago.
Anyway.
This week's Mini Media Review is basically American Gods Season 3. And it's a huge shame that they're not going to be doing a final season. That's happened twice now. Westworld and this both missed out on a final season that would have tied all the threads together.
But I liked the third season. Favourite character definitely Technical Boy. But I like what they were doing with Bilquis this season. Honestly, the least interesting bits are actually the main Mr Wednesday plotline.
I managed to stumble my way through a matching hat to go with the scarf I made for Fluffy last week. I'm... less good at hats. It's fine. It's definitely a beanie.
And he has them both now, and was very happy, so that's the main thing.
Friday Night DnD happened. It won't be happening for the next two weeks, and then the next week will be Good Friday, so who knows.
It was very much a tale of two halves. My boy was going perfect normal things in a perfectly normal village talking to perfectly normal people...
And the other two were absolutely falling into weird holes and talking to gods and being big, big weirdos.
On the plus side, I stopped half the town burning down. And am not currently having emotional PTSD. So there's that. Plus I'm absolutely claiming the abandoned building that I prevented from burning down as a headquarters.
Anyway...
Today wasn't hugely exciting. The usual supermarketry. Although, after having searched literally anywhere for the older style of Sodastream bottles, suddenly they were back on the shelf. And for some reason they didn't have a price in their system, so they gave them to us for WAY cheaper than they should have been. Woo.
But because the Universe must balance, nobody had the pizza bases I like.
After that, while we didn't really want anything, I just wanted to get out the house and do a good solid Looking At Things. So we did the Big W/Kmart loop. And that was it really.
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