Tonight we bring the Players of the Game, the Wolf and the Doe for this NPC Tuesday for us to meet. I have chosen two very soft, inviting NPC portraits this week to help with the task at hand. What ever needs doing to drive an exciting story. Sometimes a face is all you need and these two have that quality in the bag. So let’s meet this so called Wolf and Doe and roll into the adventure!
Players of the Game
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Imran Colderbek
No stranger to people, Imran is about as calculating as they come. Despite getting by with her looks and appearance she houses an intelligence, an animalistic cunning that gives her the nickname “the Wolf”. Despite being beautiful by most races’ standards, Imran is also a skilled combatant and has rarely, if ever, found herself an opponent that can measure up to her skill.
When she isn’t on a job and focusing on the next big win, a rare occurrence, she takes time away from it all. Prone to letting herself into abandoned manors, or using her charm and manipulative nature to make a manor abandoned she can make a home just about anywhere. As long as it’s up to her high standards and has at least four bedrooms to choose from.
But her background is anything but the fabulous life she lives now. Born as the lovechild to a maid in a nobleman’s household, she was kept a secret for many years. However due to a hereditary birthmark that was revealed when she was playing with her unknown sisters and brothers the infidelity was revealed. Instead of taking ownership of the situation the nobleman had her mother fired and murdered. Imran managed to escape through her grit and determination to survive but the invisible wounds of her fathers betrayal never left her.
Revenge
He was the first one she would target with her wrath. However it wasn’t until she met Anton that she had a convincing way to pull off her plan. Together they managed to convince her father to entrust Anton with their fortune before disappearing with it. Imran watched with glee as her father had everything he prided himself on ripped away like he did to her. The loss of a mother was replaced with the loss of an empire.
Anton Purlsun
Now not to be confused with his business partner, The Wolf, Anton is the Doe to the deadly Duo. Soft spoken, eloquent and gentle to a fault he will talk his way out of any situation before resulting to violence. Fond of bribery, only to steal it back later, he has one of those faces, voices and personalities that can see him get just about anywhere, anytime and get away with whatever he wants.
His story is a cliché one. Grew up with a loving family in a manor as heir to a large fortune his life was perfect. Well almost perfect. In fact his inquisitive nature and ability to persuade people to trust and believe him led him to discover something. The discovery that his parents weren’t his real parents. They were con-artists who were after his fortune and that he wasn’t the real heir after all.
Now a teenager when he found out this he made the bold choice to follow on with the ruse, pretending he knew nothing. But slowly he drove his fake parents apart, got them doubting each other’s intentions until the fateful day that they murdered each other. Now left an orphan, an incredibly rich orphan, he would inherit the wealth of his false heritage. Except the real heir showed up with undeniable proof that Anton was a fake. Now penniless and worth nothing he struck out by himself only to meet someone else scorned by the higher classes. A Wolf in a Doe’s clothing.
Combatants, Contestants and Contenders
Various NPC Portraits – All created in Artbreeder.
Thoughts
Now I have a great idea for this weeks NPCs. As you can expect the festival would have tournaments that the party would be encouraged to attend. This would see a wide variety of NPCs come to visit the town and with these NPCs brings new faces. However we are not using new faces tonight. We have Nine NPCs from my previous adventures that can all be re-used for adventures such as tonight. The great thing about having hundreds of NPC portraits that you have created before is that you never really run out of a face to put a name to when your Party asks “what do they look like..”
Thanks for joining me tonight for another NPC Tuesday. Each night this week, like all weeks, we will continue to expand this adventure with more content so keep coming back daily. For more tabletop updates and for further additions to this weeks adventure I will see you each night. But as the days get colder, well in my part of the world, try not to forget to set aside time for your tabletop someplace warm. And, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
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