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Chrisvirgo
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 Posted - 08 Feb 2018 : 23:08:23
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Hello.
I'm hoping i am posting this is the correct spot. We are starting an out of the abyss campaign on Saturday and I'm stuck a little with my backstory. I'm playing a young drow ranger. I don't want to dig into the lore too much as i want the story to be a surprise as we go along so I'm having a hard time nailing down a couple things. So far I have myself as a child being shunned by jarlaxle and tossed from the city of menzoburran. From there i maybe get taken in by a rival house where I work on plotting my revenge. I get caught on purpose and go undercover to try and infiltrate the bregan d'Arthe and maybe kill jarlaxle. Or something.
I've already read more than I think I want to. So help me decide if I'm on the right track and where do i go to when in get thrown out of the city. Can I just live on my own until I'm ready for revenge? Is there a good rival that would take me in? Are there houses in other cities?
My DM likes everything I've come up with to this point. I just need the last details.
Thanks in advance.
Chris.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 08 Feb 2018 : 23:25:50
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Kill Jarlaxle? 
You do know he's taken down entire kingdoms right? That his OWN HOUSE hates him, and yet can't do a thing to touch him... despite being the most powerful house in what is arguably the most powerful drow city.
How do you know about Jarlaxle? He's normally not in any one location long enough to be found, and certainly not in Menzoberranzan. He travels all over Faerūn... and under it. He is the most OP character written by the most OP author in FR (except for maybe the Sojournor, but we love you anyway Paul). To a group of FR grognards like we have around here, that's like asking, "how do I stop the grass from being green?"
Oh, and Drow aren't big on taking in orphans. They EAT babies. Seriously, they do. You'd be lunch, and I don't even mean figuratively.
Since your DM is allowing all of this, I would assume its up to him to make it all up, because canon can't really help you with this one. Even at level 30, it would be insanely hard (his right-hand man can easily take-out Drizzt, and READS MINDS).
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Chrisvirgo
Acolyte
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Posted - 08 Feb 2018 : 23:42:34
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And this is why I ask. So definitely not killing him. What could I be trying to inlfiltrate then? And could I have just survived on my own after getting thrown out of the city? I could also just be born into another house and be a spy for them.
I'm not looking to be 100% accurate. But I don't want to have any huge holes either. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Chrisvirgo
Acolyte
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Posted - 09 Feb 2018 : 00:18:12
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| Ok I think that might work well. So Bregan D'Arthe aren't necessarily against Lolith? Even though they are don't want the matriarchal society? |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
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Posted - 09 Feb 2018 : 00:32:10
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There are probably THOUSANDS of Drow that dream of being the one to knock off Jarlaxle.
I'd play it that you are a bastard son of his put on a woman he charmed from whatever house you prefer. You want to kill him maybe because he abandoned your mother to her horrible fate without even trying to help her.
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Storyteller Hero
Learned Scribe
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Storyteller Hero
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Storyteller Hero
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2018 : 00:53:10
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Originally posted by Chrisvirgo
And this is why I ask. So definitely not killing him. What could I be trying to inlfiltrate then? And could I have just survived on my own after getting thrown out of the city? I could also just be born into another house and be a spy for them.
I'm not looking to be 100% accurate. But I don't want to have any huge holes either.
Well, Drizzt did. I believe so did Jarlaxle himself (both were 'cast=offs' from their families... well, actually Jarlaxle's family extinguished Drizzt's family, but you get the idea).
There are quite a few who 'ran away' because they didn't want what being the typical drow meant for them - all of the followers of Eilistraee, and also another Baenré - Liriel (funny how her and Jarlaxle never met or teamed-up; I think he would be her uncle). However, all of those were older, except for the original followers of Eilistraee who created the Promenade; they were children, but they had help from the goddess herself (because children don't fare so well in the Underdark... neither do adults, for that matter).
The followers of Vhaeraun (Lolth's son) may be just what you are looking for - they would take in orphans, I suppose, if they showed promise, and they work covertly against Lolth 'from within' (unlike Eilistraee, who is all about running far away). Jarlaxle is not a Vhaeraunite, as far as I know, but he has quite a few in his group. That might be your 'back door' in. |
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Chrisvirgo
Acolyte
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Posted - 09 Feb 2018 : 01:01:11
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Well that's pretty insane. I'll take just one of those please.
I'll leave it to the DM with how he wants to handle it. But I think that's a somewhat decent direction. Maybe, if I can even find him, he might tell me a different story about my past. I do like the idea of going undercover as a spy as I'll have to RP keeping it from my party until I think I can trust them. |
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Fineva
Seeker
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Posted - 10 Feb 2018 : 00:43:43
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quote:
Originally posted by Chrisvirgo
Well that's pretty insane. I'll take just one of those please.
I'll leave it to the DM with how he wants to handle it. But I think that's a somewhat decent direction. Maybe, if I can even find him, he might tell me a different story about my past. I do like the idea of going undercover as a spy as I'll have to RP keeping it from my party until I think I can trust them.
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Feb 2018 : 17:07:24
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Originally posted by Chrisvirgo
Hello.
I'm hoping i am posting this is the correct spot. [...] I'm stuck a little with my backstory. I'm playing a young drow ranger. I don't want to dig into the lore too much as i want the story to be a surprise [...] So far I have myself as a child being shunned by jarlaxle and tossed from the city of menzoburran. [...] I get caught on purpose and go undercover to try and infiltrate the bregan d'Arthe and maybe kill jarlaxle. Or something.
Good one. This is the correct spot. The forum can use a good laugh now and then.
214. There is no prestige class Drizzt Slayer. Or something. 
Thank you.
P.S.: In the unlikely case you seriously tried to do it, the common advice is to start with playing a human (even better, a human warrior) - in part, to avoid exactly this sort of thing. |
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