Ember Claw
Talking Doll,
Masquerade Tattoo,
Cloak of Protection,
Staff of Birdcalls,
Wrath (Battleaxe +1),
Boots of Striding and Springinge,
Eldritch Claw Tattoo,
Shield +1,
Bracers of Defense,
Moon-touched Rapier of the Dark Tongue,
Wand of Web,
Rope of Mending,
Amulet of Health,
Insignia of Claws,
Quarterstaff +2,
Instrument of Scribing,
Manual of Bodily Health,
Ring Of Animal Influence,
Tome of the Stilled Tongue (T4 Lockt),
Wand of Binding,
Bracers of Defense
Log Entries
| Date Played | Adventure Title | Session | Levels | GP | Downtime ▲ | Magic Items | ||
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| 2025-01-27 13:36 | Reworkt Starting Log and Rest Changes for 2024 Rules | 12.3 | Show | |||||
Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Class: Barbarian Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Class Equipment: verkauft: |
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| 2022-04-13 14:20 | Starting Logg (Akutalisiert: 22.12.2022) | Show | ||||||
Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Race: Tasha´s Custom Lineage (Werwolf/ Elven Desendens) Class: Barbarian Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Perception Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival BiographyEmber Claw She remembered the forest as if it were a fading dream: silver leaves that chimed in the breeze like distant bells, moss that glowed faintly in the moonlight, and wolves whose paws made no sound when they ran across the soft earth. It was a memory coated in warmth and peace, yet whenever she tried to reach for it, it slipped through her fingers like water. Ember—though she had not been Ember then—had grown beneath ancient boughs as part of a small Lythari clan that lived so seamlessly with the forest that outsiders often mistook them for spirits rather than people. She had run with wolves long before she understood language, shifting between her Elven skin and her wolf skin with the kind of instinctive ease that only true shapeshifters possessed. In those days her fur had been pale silver, her eyes frost-blue in wolf form and bright forest-green when she stood on two feet. She recalled laughter, the kind that made her chest ache now because she could not remember who it belonged to. She recalled songs sung softly in a language of rivers and wind. She recalled hands—gentle ones—braiding her hair as she curled half-wolf in someone’s lap. These memories were ghosts, fragile and flickering, but they were hers, and she clung to them as tightly as she clung to breath. The night the Red Wizards came, the forest changed. She often wondered if the trees had tried to warn them. Sometimes she believed she could still hear their whispers, frantic and fearful, echoing across the years. She had been small then, not yet fully grown, and her clan had been preparing for a celebration—a moon-blessing, she thought, though the details were lost. She remembered joy. Lanterns shaped from hollowed crystal fruits hung from branches. Wolves lounged lazily in the clearing. Someone had been singing. Then, as if the world inhaled and held its breath, the song cut off. Light pierced the forest—unnatural light, red and violent, like a wound torn across the sky. The air crackled with magic. Leaves burst into flame without ever touching a spark. Wolves howled in instinctive terror, and the Elders shouted for the young to run. She remembered shifting mid-breath, silver fur exploding across her skin. She remembered the scent of burning bark and scorched moss. And then she remembered chains. It was always the chains she remembered most clearly. They slammed around her limbs with mechanical precision, heavy and cold even as the world burned around her. She fought—Gods, she fought—but her paws slipped on singed leaves, and something struck her from behind. Pain flared. Her legs collapsed. She tried to rise, but hands wrapped around her throat, pinning her to the ground. Faces leaned over her—pale, tattooed, merciless. She heard words spoken in a harsh, rhythmic tongue, felt a net of shimmering red magic fall across her body like a sheet of ice, and then someone muttered, “This one will be useful.” After that came darkness, and in that darkness came years. Time did not exist in the place they kept her. Days and nights bled together into a blur of stone walls and the stink of metal and alchemical smoke. She did not know where the facility was—only that it was far from the forest, far from any sky she recognized, and far from anyone who would save her. At first, she fought. They kept her in wolf form, Elf form, something in between—whatever suited their experiments. They cut into her regenerative abilities with cold fascination, burning her limbs, scalding her skin, injecting her with toxins that made her vision swirl and her heartbeat stagger. They forced her to shift repeatedly, even when her bones felt like glass ready to shatter. She learned quickly that screaming only encouraged them, and so she learned silence. Silence, however, did not mean surrender. Her regeneration held strong in the beginning. The burns healed. The acids scarred then smoothed over. Her body resisted with the stubborn resilience of Lythari blood. But the wizards were patient. They catalogued every change, every twitch, every time she resisted. They escalated their methods with clinical detachment. The flames grew hotter. The restraints tighter. They isolated her for days in darkness so complete she began to forget the shape of her own hands. They starved her until hunger gnawed holes in her sanity. They whispered things through the walls—spells, commands, curses—testing whether fear could trigger transformation. It could. By the end of the second year, her wolf form betrayed her. Shifting into the pure white creature she once had been became agony—searing, bone-deep agony that tore through every nerve. She tried anyway, tried because shifting had once been freedom, but the pain would force her back before the change fully completed. They watched her break apart on the cold floor, half-wolf, half-Elf, neither whole. They took notes. She remembered the exact moment something inside her fractured permanently. The memory returned to her in feverish flashes—too vivid, too sharp, carved into her like a brand. She had been chained on a metal platform, her wrists cuffed above her head, her ankles shackled apart. A ring of wizards watched her with dead eyes. One commanded her to shift. She tried. Her bones twisted violently, her spine arching, her ribs straining. The metal beneath her feet glowed red-hot. Her skin blistered. She screamed. A wizard wrote something down. Another raised a hand and the temperature increased. Flames licked at her feet. Her silver hair caught fire. She smelled herself burning. She felt herself slipping away. And then—quietly, almost gently—something inside her mind snapped. When she woke days later, her hair was no longer silver. Her wolf form, once white as starlight, turned the same color, darkening more each time she tried to shift. The sigils they carved into her skin—twisting, ugly, purple-brown—never faded. Her regeneration slowed. Her body scarred. Her limbs healed wrong. Her arms and legs became maps of old burns and failed experiments, the skin too damaged to ever fully recover. She learned then that pain had limits, but cruelty did not. Eventually, she was no longer considered a subject but a tool. They dragged her on raids and slaving routes, chaining her like a hunting beast and forcing partial transformations to test her capacity for destruction. Her senses blurred between instinct and command. She remembered blood. Bodies. Screams. Fire lighting the edge of her vision like a promise she could never escape. She remembered trying to resist once, striking at a wizard rather than a target, and they punished her for it. They strapped her down, drew new sigils across her skin, and she forgot how long she screamed. What surprised her most, in hindsight, was that she survived. She survived through instinct, through whatever shards of her old self remained buried beneath trauma and transformation. She survived because the forest had once loved her, and something of that love lingered in her bones. She survived because the wolf inside her refused to die, even when everything else did. Her liberation came on a day she was certain she would not survive at all. The Red Wizards were moving through a dense frontier forest, dragging cages of creatures that should never have been caged. She was among them, weakened, half-shifted, chained by the throat. She hardly registered the sudden stillness of the woods, the way the birds stopped singing, the way the wind seemed to coil back as if holding its breath. She barely noticed the first explosion of vines erupting from the ground, flipping a wagon on its side. But she remembered the scent: earth, fresh and alive, bursting through the metallic stench she had lived in for years. The Emerald Enclave fell upon the wizards like a storm made of bark and claw. Arrows whistled. Roots tore through the dirt. Wolves leapt from the shadows—real wolves, not the ghosts she dreamed of. She felt her cage tip, crash, break. She spilled onto the forest floor, trembling, half-blind. Someone shouted in Sylvan—a language she had not heard since childhood. It pierced through her delirium, cutting through fear with the sharpness of memory. Hands reached for her, but gentle ones. Her heart lurched painfully—too many instincts firing at once. She bared her teeth, snarled, clawed at the dirt. She expected pain. Expected chains. Expected fire. Instead, the druid who approached her knelt, palms up, voice soft. “I see you,” he whispered. “Not the monster they tried to make you. The child beneath. You’re safe now.” Safe. She collapsed before she could decide whether she believed him. She did not faint; she folded, slowly, like a creature who had been holding itself rigid for too long and finally cracked open. Moss met her cheek. Cool earth pressed against her burned palms. Something inside her chest—the small, frightened part she had buried—shuddered and gasped as if taking its first breath in years. The days that followed felt unreal. She woke beneath leaves rather than stone, surrounded by the scent of living trees. The druids kept their distance at first, offering food but never approaching too quickly. They spoke to her softly, never forcing her to shift, never touching her without warning. They learned quickly that fire sent her into trembling panic, so they cooked their meals away from her or not at all. She refused to sleep indoors, curling instead beneath the roots of old trees, but they let her. She had earned her oddities. Animals trusted her instantly. Birds landed near her as if greeting an old friend. A wolf pack approached her one dawn, sniffed her hands, and lay down beside her without fear. The druids exchanged looks—half wonder, half sorrow. They could see the Lythari spirit flickering inside her, buried beneath scars and survival, but still alive. They named her Ember, for the burns that marked her body like fading coals. She added Claw herself, carving the word into a strip of leather she wore around her wrist as if reminding herself she still possessed teeth, strength, identity. Recovery was not linear. She spoke haltingly, her voice unused to words after years of snarls and screams. She flinched when branches cracked. She startled at sudden movement. She lashed out when cornered. And when memories overwhelmed her—when a spell sparked too close or someone raised a torch—her body reacted before her mind could intervene. Rage overtook her like a storm loosed from its cage. Her skin tightened. Her tattoos pulsed. Her claws extended almost against her will, her teeth lengthened, her bones shifted into a shape that remembered the pain of Thayan experiments. Her hair bristled. Her breath came in sharp, animalistic pants. Her eyes glowed a furious emerald, brighter than they ever had before. It was not a transformation she chose—never that—but a reflex carved into her by survival and torture. The druids learned to soothe her with low voices, calm tones, grounding scents like pine and lavender. Over time, she learned to anchor herself, drawing the storm back into her bones before it consumed her entirely. Eventually, she began to travel with them. Small tasks at first—scouting paths, delivering messages, guiding them through the deeper woods where their magic waned. She learned how to navigate the world again, step by uneasy step. She learned trust—not easily, but honestly. She learned a few smiles, small and hesitant, but real. And though she could not remember her birth name or the faces of her parents, she began to carve a future out of the shards of her past. Now, she walks the world with axes at her hips, wolf ears twitching at every strange sound, tail flicking with restless instinct. Her arms and legs remain scarred, covered by stone-textured gloves and boots embedded with amber stones that soothe the damaged skin beneath. Her hair remains red-brown, with only faint hints of silver left at the tips of her ears and tail—a whisper of the girl she once was. Her eyes, however, remain unchanged: green and bright, the last untouched piece of her original self. She does not know whether she will ever find another of her kind or reclaim the full truth of who she was. She does not know if the forest she grew up in still stands or if the fire consumed everything. But she knows this: She survived what should have killed her. And maybe—just maybe—she will learn to live. |
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| 2023-12-14 18:02 | Assignment 1. Season 12 c | Insignia of Claws | Show DM Log | |||||
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Insignia of Claws The jewels in the insignia of the Cult of the Dragon flare with purple light when you enter combat, empowering your natural fists or natural weapons. While wearing the insignia you gain a +1 bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls you make with unarmed strikes and natural weapons. Such attacks are considered to be magical. |
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| 2024-08-18 11:06 | Purchase Log | -2500 | Show Purchase | |||||
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| 2024-02-06 18:53 | Assignment 5. Season 12 c | 0 | 1600 | Manual of Bodily Health | Show DM Log | |||
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Ember Claw gets a Tier 3 reward (Manual of bodily health) + 30 downtime days Manual of Bodily Health This book contains health and diet tips, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Constitution score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century. |
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| 2022-04-19 23:19 | Trade Log | 3 | Show Trade Log | |||||
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| Date Played | Adventure Title | Tier | Session | ACP | TCP | Downtime ▲ | Renown | |
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| 2025-01-27 13:36 | Reworkt Starting Log and Rest Changes for 2024 Rules | Show | ||||||
Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Class: Barbarian Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Class Equipment: verkauft: |
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| 2022-04-13 14:20 | Starting Logg (Akutalisiert: 22.12.2022) | Show | ||||||
Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Race: Tasha´s Custom Lineage (Werwolf/ Elven Desendens) Class: Barbarian Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Perception Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival BiographyEmber Claw She remembered the forest as if it were a fading dream: silver leaves that chimed in the breeze like distant bells, moss that glowed faintly in the moonlight, and wolves whose paws made no sound when they ran across the soft earth. It was a memory coated in warmth and peace, yet whenever she tried to reach for it, it slipped through her fingers like water. Ember—though she had not been Ember then—had grown beneath ancient boughs as part of a small Lythari clan that lived so seamlessly with the forest that outsiders often mistook them for spirits rather than people. She had run with wolves long before she understood language, shifting between her Elven skin and her wolf skin with the kind of instinctive ease that only true shapeshifters possessed. In those days her fur had been pale silver, her eyes frost-blue in wolf form and bright forest-green when she stood on two feet. She recalled laughter, the kind that made her chest ache now because she could not remember who it belonged to. She recalled songs sung softly in a language of rivers and wind. She recalled hands—gentle ones—braiding her hair as she curled half-wolf in someone’s lap. These memories were ghosts, fragile and flickering, but they were hers, and she clung to them as tightly as she clung to breath. The night the Red Wizards came, the forest changed. She often wondered if the trees had tried to warn them. Sometimes she believed she could still hear their whispers, frantic and fearful, echoing across the years. She had been small then, not yet fully grown, and her clan had been preparing for a celebration—a moon-blessing, she thought, though the details were lost. She remembered joy. Lanterns shaped from hollowed crystal fruits hung from branches. Wolves lounged lazily in the clearing. Someone had been singing. Then, as if the world inhaled and held its breath, the song cut off. Light pierced the forest—unnatural light, red and violent, like a wound torn across the sky. The air crackled with magic. Leaves burst into flame without ever touching a spark. Wolves howled in instinctive terror, and the Elders shouted for the young to run. She remembered shifting mid-breath, silver fur exploding across her skin. She remembered the scent of burning bark and scorched moss. And then she remembered chains. It was always the chains she remembered most clearly. They slammed around her limbs with mechanical precision, heavy and cold even as the world burned around her. She fought—Gods, she fought—but her paws slipped on singed leaves, and something struck her from behind. Pain flared. Her legs collapsed. She tried to rise, but hands wrapped around her throat, pinning her to the ground. Faces leaned over her—pale, tattooed, merciless. She heard words spoken in a harsh, rhythmic tongue, felt a net of shimmering red magic fall across her body like a sheet of ice, and then someone muttered, “This one will be useful.” After that came darkness, and in that darkness came years. Time did not exist in the place they kept her. Days and nights bled together into a blur of stone walls and the stink of metal and alchemical smoke. She did not know where the facility was—only that it was far from the forest, far from any sky she recognized, and far from anyone who would save her. At first, she fought. They kept her in wolf form, Elf form, something in between—whatever suited their experiments. They cut into her regenerative abilities with cold fascination, burning her limbs, scalding her skin, injecting her with toxins that made her vision swirl and her heartbeat stagger. They forced her to shift repeatedly, even when her bones felt like glass ready to shatter. She learned quickly that screaming only encouraged them, and so she learned silence. Silence, however, did not mean surrender. Her regeneration held strong in the beginning. The burns healed. The acids scarred then smoothed over. Her body resisted with the stubborn resilience of Lythari blood. But the wizards were patient. They catalogued every change, every twitch, every time she resisted. They escalated their methods with clinical detachment. The flames grew hotter. The restraints tighter. They isolated her for days in darkness so complete she began to forget the shape of her own hands. They starved her until hunger gnawed holes in her sanity. They whispered things through the walls—spells, commands, curses—testing whether fear could trigger transformation. It could. By the end of the second year, her wolf form betrayed her. Shifting into the pure white creature she once had been became agony—searing, bone-deep agony that tore through every nerve. She tried anyway, tried because shifting had once been freedom, but the pain would force her back before the change fully completed. They watched her break apart on the cold floor, half-wolf, half-Elf, neither whole. They took notes. She remembered the exact moment something inside her fractured permanently. The memory returned to her in feverish flashes—too vivid, too sharp, carved into her like a brand. She had been chained on a metal platform, her wrists cuffed above her head, her ankles shackled apart. A ring of wizards watched her with dead eyes. One commanded her to shift. She tried. Her bones twisted violently, her spine arching, her ribs straining. The metal beneath her feet glowed red-hot. Her skin blistered. She screamed. A wizard wrote something down. Another raised a hand and the temperature increased. Flames licked at her feet. Her silver hair caught fire. She smelled herself burning. She felt herself slipping away. And then—quietly, almost gently—something inside her mind snapped. When she woke days later, her hair was no longer silver. Her wolf form, once white as starlight, turned the same color, darkening more each time she tried to shift. The sigils they carved into her skin—twisting, ugly, purple-brown—never faded. Her regeneration slowed. Her body scarred. Her limbs healed wrong. Her arms and legs became maps of old burns and failed experiments, the skin too damaged to ever fully recover. She learned then that pain had limits, but cruelty did not. Eventually, she was no longer considered a subject but a tool. They dragged her on raids and slaving routes, chaining her like a hunting beast and forcing partial transformations to test her capacity for destruction. Her senses blurred between instinct and command. She remembered blood. Bodies. Screams. Fire lighting the edge of her vision like a promise she could never escape. She remembered trying to resist once, striking at a wizard rather than a target, and they punished her for it. They strapped her down, drew new sigils across her skin, and she forgot how long she screamed. What surprised her most, in hindsight, was that she survived. She survived through instinct, through whatever shards of her old self remained buried beneath trauma and transformation. She survived because the forest had once loved her, and something of that love lingered in her bones. She survived because the wolf inside her refused to die, even when everything else did. Her liberation came on a day she was certain she would not survive at all. The Red Wizards were moving through a dense frontier forest, dragging cages of creatures that should never have been caged. She was among them, weakened, half-shifted, chained by the throat. She hardly registered the sudden stillness of the woods, the way the birds stopped singing, the way the wind seemed to coil back as if holding its breath. She barely noticed the first explosion of vines erupting from the ground, flipping a wagon on its side. But she remembered the scent: earth, fresh and alive, bursting through the metallic stench she had lived in for years. The Emerald Enclave fell upon the wizards like a storm made of bark and claw. Arrows whistled. Roots tore through the dirt. Wolves leapt from the shadows—real wolves, not the ghosts she dreamed of. She felt her cage tip, crash, break. She spilled onto the forest floor, trembling, half-blind. Someone shouted in Sylvan—a language she had not heard since childhood. It pierced through her delirium, cutting through fear with the sharpness of memory. Hands reached for her, but gentle ones. Her heart lurched painfully—too many instincts firing at once. She bared her teeth, snarled, clawed at the dirt. She expected pain. Expected chains. Expected fire. Instead, the druid who approached her knelt, palms up, voice soft. “I see you,” he whispered. “Not the monster they tried to make you. The child beneath. You’re safe now.” Safe. She collapsed before she could decide whether she believed him. She did not faint; she folded, slowly, like a creature who had been holding itself rigid for too long and finally cracked open. Moss met her cheek. Cool earth pressed against her burned palms. Something inside her chest—the small, frightened part she had buried—shuddered and gasped as if taking its first breath in years. The days that followed felt unreal. She woke beneath leaves rather than stone, surrounded by the scent of living trees. The druids kept their distance at first, offering food but never approaching too quickly. They spoke to her softly, never forcing her to shift, never touching her without warning. They learned quickly that fire sent her into trembling panic, so they cooked their meals away from her or not at all. She refused to sleep indoors, curling instead beneath the roots of old trees, but they let her. She had earned her oddities. Animals trusted her instantly. Birds landed near her as if greeting an old friend. A wolf pack approached her one dawn, sniffed her hands, and lay down beside her without fear. The druids exchanged looks—half wonder, half sorrow. They could see the Lythari spirit flickering inside her, buried beneath scars and survival, but still alive. They named her Ember, for the burns that marked her body like fading coals. She added Claw herself, carving the word into a strip of leather she wore around her wrist as if reminding herself she still possessed teeth, strength, identity. Recovery was not linear. She spoke haltingly, her voice unused to words after years of snarls and screams. She flinched when branches cracked. She startled at sudden movement. She lashed out when cornered. And when memories overwhelmed her—when a spell sparked too close or someone raised a torch—her body reacted before her mind could intervene. Rage overtook her like a storm loosed from its cage. Her skin tightened. Her tattoos pulsed. Her claws extended almost against her will, her teeth lengthened, her bones shifted into a shape that remembered the pain of Thayan experiments. Her hair bristled. Her breath came in sharp, animalistic pants. Her eyes glowed a furious emerald, brighter than they ever had before. It was not a transformation she chose—never that—but a reflex carved into her by survival and torture. The druids learned to soothe her with low voices, calm tones, grounding scents like pine and lavender. Over time, she learned to anchor herself, drawing the storm back into her bones before it consumed her entirely. Eventually, she began to travel with them. Small tasks at first—scouting paths, delivering messages, guiding them through the deeper woods where their magic waned. She learned how to navigate the world again, step by uneasy step. She learned trust—not easily, but honestly. She learned a few smiles, small and hesitant, but real. And though she could not remember her birth name or the faces of her parents, she began to carve a future out of the shards of her past. Now, she walks the world with axes at her hips, wolf ears twitching at every strange sound, tail flicking with restless instinct. Her arms and legs remain scarred, covered by stone-textured gloves and boots embedded with amber stones that soothe the damaged skin beneath. Her hair remains red-brown, with only faint hints of silver left at the tips of her ears and tail—a whisper of the girl she once was. Her eyes, however, remain unchanged: green and bright, the last untouched piece of her original self. She does not know whether she will ever find another of her kind or reclaim the full truth of who she was. She does not know if the forest she grew up in still stands or if the fire consumed everything. But she knows this: She survived what should have killed her. And maybe—just maybe—she will learn to live. |
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| 2023-12-14 18:02 | Assignment 1. Season 12 c | Show DM Log | ||||||
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Insignia of Claws The jewels in the insignia of the Cult of the Dragon flare with purple light when you enter combat, empowering your natural fists or natural weapons. While wearing the insignia you gain a +1 bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls you make with unarmed strikes and natural weapons. Such attacks are considered to be magical. |
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| 2024-02-06 18:53 | Assignment 5. Season 12 c | 3 | Show DM Log | |||||
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Ember Claw gets a Tier 3 reward (Manual of bodily health) + 30 downtime days Manual of Bodily Health This book contains health and diet tips, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Constitution score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century. |
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| Date Played | Adventure Title | Session | XP | GP | Downtime ▲ | Renown | Magic Items | |
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Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Class: Barbarian Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Class Equipment: verkauft: |
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| 2022-04-13 14:20 | Starting Logg (Akutalisiert: 22.12.2022) | Show | ||||||
Ember ClawSize: 175 (medium) Costomizing your Origin: Race: Tasha´s Custom Lineage (Werwolf/ Elven Desendens) Class: Barbarian Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Perception Background: Child of the Wild (Outlander) Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival BiographyEmber Claw She remembered the forest as if it were a fading dream: silver leaves that chimed in the breeze like distant bells, moss that glowed faintly in the moonlight, and wolves whose paws made no sound when they ran across the soft earth. It was a memory coated in warmth and peace, yet whenever she tried to reach for it, it slipped through her fingers like water. Ember—though she had not been Ember then—had grown beneath ancient boughs as part of a small Lythari clan that lived so seamlessly with the forest that outsiders often mistook them for spirits rather than people. She had run with wolves long before she understood language, shifting between her Elven skin and her wolf skin with the kind of instinctive ease that only true shapeshifters possessed. In those days her fur had been pale silver, her eyes frost-blue in wolf form and bright forest-green when she stood on two feet. She recalled laughter, the kind that made her chest ache now because she could not remember who it belonged to. She recalled songs sung softly in a language of rivers and wind. She recalled hands—gentle ones—braiding her hair as she curled half-wolf in someone’s lap. These memories were ghosts, fragile and flickering, but they were hers, and she clung to them as tightly as she clung to breath. The night the Red Wizards came, the forest changed. She often wondered if the trees had tried to warn them. Sometimes she believed she could still hear their whispers, frantic and fearful, echoing across the years. She had been small then, not yet fully grown, and her clan had been preparing for a celebration—a moon-blessing, she thought, though the details were lost. She remembered joy. Lanterns shaped from hollowed crystal fruits hung from branches. Wolves lounged lazily in the clearing. Someone had been singing. Then, as if the world inhaled and held its breath, the song cut off. Light pierced the forest—unnatural light, red and violent, like a wound torn across the sky. The air crackled with magic. Leaves burst into flame without ever touching a spark. Wolves howled in instinctive terror, and the Elders shouted for the young to run. She remembered shifting mid-breath, silver fur exploding across her skin. She remembered the scent of burning bark and scorched moss. And then she remembered chains. It was always the chains she remembered most clearly. They slammed around her limbs with mechanical precision, heavy and cold even as the world burned around her. She fought—Gods, she fought—but her paws slipped on singed leaves, and something struck her from behind. Pain flared. Her legs collapsed. She tried to rise, but hands wrapped around her throat, pinning her to the ground. Faces leaned over her—pale, tattooed, merciless. She heard words spoken in a harsh, rhythmic tongue, felt a net of shimmering red magic fall across her body like a sheet of ice, and then someone muttered, “This one will be useful.” After that came darkness, and in that darkness came years. Time did not exist in the place they kept her. Days and nights bled together into a blur of stone walls and the stink of metal and alchemical smoke. She did not know where the facility was—only that it was far from the forest, far from any sky she recognized, and far from anyone who would save her. At first, she fought. They kept her in wolf form, Elf form, something in between—whatever suited their experiments. They cut into her regenerative abilities with cold fascination, burning her limbs, scalding her skin, injecting her with toxins that made her vision swirl and her heartbeat stagger. They forced her to shift repeatedly, even when her bones felt like glass ready to shatter. She learned quickly that screaming only encouraged them, and so she learned silence. Silence, however, did not mean surrender. Her regeneration held strong in the beginning. The burns healed. The acids scarred then smoothed over. Her body resisted with the stubborn resilience of Lythari blood. But the wizards were patient. They catalogued every change, every twitch, every time she resisted. They escalated their methods with clinical detachment. The flames grew hotter. The restraints tighter. They isolated her for days in darkness so complete she began to forget the shape of her own hands. They starved her until hunger gnawed holes in her sanity. They whispered things through the walls—spells, commands, curses—testing whether fear could trigger transformation. It could. By the end of the second year, her wolf form betrayed her. Shifting into the pure white creature she once had been became agony—searing, bone-deep agony that tore through every nerve. She tried anyway, tried because shifting had once been freedom, but the pain would force her back before the change fully completed. They watched her break apart on the cold floor, half-wolf, half-Elf, neither whole. They took notes. She remembered the exact moment something inside her fractured permanently. The memory returned to her in feverish flashes—too vivid, too sharp, carved into her like a brand. She had been chained on a metal platform, her wrists cuffed above her head, her ankles shackled apart. A ring of wizards watched her with dead eyes. One commanded her to shift. She tried. Her bones twisted violently, her spine arching, her ribs straining. The metal beneath her feet glowed red-hot. Her skin blistered. She screamed. A wizard wrote something down. Another raised a hand and the temperature increased. Flames licked at her feet. Her silver hair caught fire. She smelled herself burning. She felt herself slipping away. And then—quietly, almost gently—something inside her mind snapped. When she woke days later, her hair was no longer silver. Her wolf form, once white as starlight, turned the same color, darkening more each time she tried to shift. The sigils they carved into her skin—twisting, ugly, purple-brown—never faded. Her regeneration slowed. Her body scarred. Her limbs healed wrong. Her arms and legs became maps of old burns and failed experiments, the skin too damaged to ever fully recover. She learned then that pain had limits, but cruelty did not. Eventually, she was no longer considered a subject but a tool. They dragged her on raids and slaving routes, chaining her like a hunting beast and forcing partial transformations to test her capacity for destruction. Her senses blurred between instinct and command. She remembered blood. Bodies. Screams. Fire lighting the edge of her vision like a promise she could never escape. She remembered trying to resist once, striking at a wizard rather than a target, and they punished her for it. They strapped her down, drew new sigils across her skin, and she forgot how long she screamed. What surprised her most, in hindsight, was that she survived. She survived through instinct, through whatever shards of her old self remained buried beneath trauma and transformation. She survived because the forest had once loved her, and something of that love lingered in her bones. She survived because the wolf inside her refused to die, even when everything else did. Her liberation came on a day she was certain she would not survive at all. The Red Wizards were moving through a dense frontier forest, dragging cages of creatures that should never have been caged. She was among them, weakened, half-shifted, chained by the throat. She hardly registered the sudden stillness of the woods, the way the birds stopped singing, the way the wind seemed to coil back as if holding its breath. She barely noticed the first explosion of vines erupting from the ground, flipping a wagon on its side. But she remembered the scent: earth, fresh and alive, bursting through the metallic stench she had lived in for years. The Emerald Enclave fell upon the wizards like a storm made of bark and claw. Arrows whistled. Roots tore through the dirt. Wolves leapt from the shadows—real wolves, not the ghosts she dreamed of. She felt her cage tip, crash, break. She spilled onto the forest floor, trembling, half-blind. Someone shouted in Sylvan—a language she had not heard since childhood. It pierced through her delirium, cutting through fear with the sharpness of memory. Hands reached for her, but gentle ones. Her heart lurched painfully—too many instincts firing at once. She bared her teeth, snarled, clawed at the dirt. She expected pain. Expected chains. Expected fire. Instead, the druid who approached her knelt, palms up, voice soft. “I see you,” he whispered. “Not the monster they tried to make you. The child beneath. You’re safe now.” Safe. She collapsed before she could decide whether she believed him. She did not faint; she folded, slowly, like a creature who had been holding itself rigid for too long and finally cracked open. Moss met her cheek. Cool earth pressed against her burned palms. Something inside her chest—the small, frightened part she had buried—shuddered and gasped as if taking its first breath in years. The days that followed felt unreal. She woke beneath leaves rather than stone, surrounded by the scent of living trees. The druids kept their distance at first, offering food but never approaching too quickly. They spoke to her softly, never forcing her to shift, never touching her without warning. They learned quickly that fire sent her into trembling panic, so they cooked their meals away from her or not at all. She refused to sleep indoors, curling instead beneath the roots of old trees, but they let her. She had earned her oddities. Animals trusted her instantly. Birds landed near her as if greeting an old friend. A wolf pack approached her one dawn, sniffed her hands, and lay down beside her without fear. The druids exchanged looks—half wonder, half sorrow. They could see the Lythari spirit flickering inside her, buried beneath scars and survival, but still alive. They named her Ember, for the burns that marked her body like fading coals. She added Claw herself, carving the word into a strip of leather she wore around her wrist as if reminding herself she still possessed teeth, strength, identity. Recovery was not linear. She spoke haltingly, her voice unused to words after years of snarls and screams. She flinched when branches cracked. She startled at sudden movement. She lashed out when cornered. And when memories overwhelmed her—when a spell sparked too close or someone raised a torch—her body reacted before her mind could intervene. Rage overtook her like a storm loosed from its cage. Her skin tightened. Her tattoos pulsed. Her claws extended almost against her will, her teeth lengthened, her bones shifted into a shape that remembered the pain of Thayan experiments. Her hair bristled. Her breath came in sharp, animalistic pants. Her eyes glowed a furious emerald, brighter than they ever had before. It was not a transformation she chose—never that—but a reflex carved into her by survival and torture. The druids learned to soothe her with low voices, calm tones, grounding scents like pine and lavender. Over time, she learned to anchor herself, drawing the storm back into her bones before it consumed her entirely. Eventually, she began to travel with them. Small tasks at first—scouting paths, delivering messages, guiding them through the deeper woods where their magic waned. She learned how to navigate the world again, step by uneasy step. She learned trust—not easily, but honestly. She learned a few smiles, small and hesitant, but real. And though she could not remember her birth name or the faces of her parents, she began to carve a future out of the shards of her past. Now, she walks the world with axes at her hips, wolf ears twitching at every strange sound, tail flicking with restless instinct. Her arms and legs remain scarred, covered by stone-textured gloves and boots embedded with amber stones that soothe the damaged skin beneath. Her hair remains red-brown, with only faint hints of silver left at the tips of her ears and tail—a whisper of the girl she once was. Her eyes, however, remain unchanged: green and bright, the last untouched piece of her original self. She does not know whether she will ever find another of her kind or reclaim the full truth of who she was. She does not know if the forest she grew up in still stands or if the fire consumed everything. But she knows this: She survived what should have killed her. And maybe—just maybe—she will learn to live. |
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Insignia of Claws The jewels in the insignia of the Cult of the Dragon flare with purple light when you enter combat, empowering your natural fists or natural weapons. While wearing the insignia you gain a +1 bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls you make with unarmed strikes and natural weapons. Such attacks are considered to be magical. |
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Ember Claw gets a Tier 3 reward (Manual of bodily health) + 30 downtime days Manual of Bodily Health This book contains health and diet tips, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Constitution score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century. |
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