My Personal Goals

I started to put together this D&D group once I realized that as much as I enjoyed playing with my other group, the players and the DM were nowhere near as invested or experienced as I think my expectations were.

That isn't to say anything against them, I love playing with them, but I think I need a little more chew to my D&D bread. I love creating characters with lots of story that force them into difficult situations.

Most of my characters are searching for something and are motivated by their complex history, inner turmoils, and imaturity. I can't say I'm the most mature person, but my personal journys have asked a lot of me in terms of personal introspection, and I try to put that into my characters.

So, basically, I'm trying to make something really emotionally dense that perhaps an earlier me would have made edgy, so please let me know if I cross that emo barrier and it's just too much.

However, I also want to create something really fun in a positive way as well! I love to roleplay, I'm a bit of an actor, so I have built my character towards more roleplay solutions rather than numbers solutions.

So it will be important for me make sure I'm not hogging the spotlight. So if at any point it seems like I'm taking too much space or encrotching on other players, please let me know. It will be my goal to try and hand off the RP to others to avoid the issue, but I want to make sure you know as a DM that you can always talk to me if I'm causing an issue.

Shenannigans I like To Pull

This is my first time playting an illusionist, and I'm really excited. I have always wanted to play a trickster character, so it's my plan to use her illusion magic to it's fullest extent (mentioned in the next section as well).

For example, if the party were attacked by an overwhelming force she might use thaumaturgy to increase the sound of her voice, shake the earth, and change any flames around her to a demonic color.

Assuming she can continue casing she would then cast cackles to really hit home the fear inducing aspect of a scream that rips into the enemy's mind.

Say we were brought before a king to receive judgment. She may cast major imagine and make it look like she has turned into a dragon or other terrifying beast, and cast illusory terrain to make it seem like there is a crevice around the kings throne (maybe throwing some in some shaking from thaumaturgy ).

Basically, always be prepared for my character to attempt deception and non violence based solutions. I will also be a very skill focused player. I enjoy using my character's social skills to help explore the world and manipulate NPCs. So I may call upon a history check very often in order to get a feel for the cultures we are interacting with.

Hags of the Bleeding Moon

• The hags cannot leave the tower unless there is a blood moon. As soon as the sunrises, they are teleported back to their tower. During a full moon however, they can physically manifest within the vicinity of the forest surrounding their tower.

• The hags have minions which they can send to the outside world.

• The hags have a lot of control over the entire forest in which they live, and have more control the closer you get to the tower. They can manifest illusions of themselves at all times

• The Elphaba and Evanora do have a capacity for love, a rare trait in Hags. This should inform their behavior, but should not prevent them per say, from being evil.

• The Hags need consent to transform Lanfear into a Hag. They will do whatever is necessary, from torturing her friends, to offering gifts, in order to convincer her.

Lanfear

• Lanfear's true form has flowers and other plants growing out of her head like a laurel. This crown responds to her emotions. Examples: Thorns growing for anger, wilting for sadness, vibrant growth when happy, roses growing when romantic.

• Leanfear willl hide her identity, using the name Lanfear, until she is forced to give up the ruse. She will always try to sleep alone in order to try and hide her true form.

• Lanfear will utilize illusions, manipulation, and deception to their fullest extent, so a solid system or intuition on how creatures will or won't recognize illusions is necessary.

• Lanfear will constantly be on the lookout for more rituals.

Crafting

Lanfear will have several crafting systems associated with her, the details of which are discussed in a later section. This includes poisons, health potions, other potions, and more, so please ensure that the following systems are up to your standards. If at any point they are just too much and need to be simplified or removed, please say so.

Illusions & Deceptions

As stated before, Lanfear will be a character who focuses on the use of illusion magic, which historically, can be a place of tension between DM and player. To alieviate this, it is pertinent that the DM and player have open communication about the intention of Ebanessa's spells, to make sure that everyone is one the same page. If the DM is not fond of illusion based characters, such a preference should be stated as soon as possible, so Ebanessa can be adjusted.

Whiles & Knowledge

Lanfear will often use her appearance to manipulate NPCs. I will always try to keep this taseful, but please let me know if I cross a line. She will also be a knowledge focused character, using her various skills to gather information which will help her better manipulate others.

Poison

Even the greatest wizad will still fall to lowliest of poisons. Lanfear will heavily utilize poisons in social situations and as defense mechanisms for up close enmies.

Herbalism Kit

Proficiency with a n herbalism kit allows you to identify plants a nd safely collect their useful elements. (Xanathar's Guide to Everything pg.82).

Components. An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar a nd pestle, a nd several glass jars.

Arcana. Your knowledge of the nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.

Investigation. When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details a nd clues that others might miss.

Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants.

Nature and Survival. When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spot sources of food that others might overlook.

Identify Plants. You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.

Foraging For Herbs

Your DM may allow any character proficient in the herbalism kit to spend their downtime foraging for herbs that decrease the crafting cost of potions, poisons, and other items listed with the Brewcraft feature. Whenever such a character has a week of downtime, they can choose to spend it collecting herbs. After completing this week,

roll an Intelligence check, adding proficiency with the charac- ter’s herbalism kit if they have one on their person. Make this

check with advantage in a marsh or jungle, or disadvantage in a city, desert, or tundra. The character then receives the item associated with the result of the check they have rolled, as listed on the Herbal Foraging table. The character can sell these herbs to interested parties, or use them to reduce the crafting cost of any potion, poison, or other alchemical item by the worth of the herbs. A character can use multiple herbs to further reduce the crafting cost of any relevant item they are creating.

Imbew Potion

When witches are unable to spend great amounts of time brewing potions, they can imbue a tincture directly with their arcane power. The result is a potion that is easier and less costly to make, but less stable and with little longevity.

Beginning at 3rd level, when you take a short or long rest and have an empty vial on your person, you can choose one of the following spells you know and can cast with available spell slots:

Alchemits Supplies

Alchemist’s supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist’s fire.(Xanathar's Guide to Everything pg.79).

Components. Alchemist’s supplies include two glass beakers, a metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water.

Arcana. Proficiency with alchemist’s supplies allows you to unlock more information on Arcana checks involving potions and similar materials.

Investigation. When you inspect an area for clues, proficiency with alchemist’s supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area.

Alchemical Crafting. You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical items. A character can spend money to collect raw materials, which weigh 1 pound for every 50 gp spent. The DM can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. As part of a long rest, you can use alchemist’s supplies to make one dose of acid, alchemist’s fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap. Subtract half the value of the created item from the total gp worth of raw materials you are carrying.

Crafting an Item

A character who has the time, the money, and the needed tools can use downtime to craft armor, weapons, clothing, or other kinds of nonmagical gear (Xanathar's Guide to Everything pg.128-129)

Resources and Resolution. In addition to the appropriate tools for the item to be crafted, a character needs raw materials worth half of the item’s selling cost. To determine how many workweeks it takes to create an item, divide its gold piece cost by 50. A character can complete multiple items in a workweek if the items’ combined cost is 50 gp or lower. Items that cost more than 50 gp can be completed over longer periods of time, as long as the work in progress is stored in a safe location.

Multiple characters can combine their efforts. Divide the time needed to create an item by the number of characters working on it. Use your judgment when determining how many characters can collaborate on an item. A particularly tiny item, like a ring, might allow only one or two workers, whereas a large, complex item might allow four or more workers.

A character needs to be proficient with the tools needed to craft an item and have access to the appropriate equipment. Everyone who collaborates needs to have the appropriate tool proficiency. You need to make any judgment calls regarding whether a character has the correct equipment. The following table provides some examples.

If all the above requirements are met, the result of th e process is an item of the desired sort. A character can sell an item crafted in this way at its listed price.

Crafting Magic Items. Creating a magic item requires more than just time, effort, and materials. It is a longterm process that involves one or more adventures to track down rare materials and the lore needed to create the item

Potions of healing and spell scrolls are exceptions to the following rules. For more information, see "Brewing Potions of Healing" earlier in this section.

To start with, a character needs a formula for a magic item in order to create it. The formula is like a recipe. It lists the materials needed and steps required to make the item.

An item invariably requires an exotic material to complete it. This material can range from the skin of a yeti to a vial of water taken from a whirlpool on the Elemental Plane of Water. Finding that material should take place as part of an adventure.

Potion Description

Prophecy

Using the rules from the Heroic Chronicle (Explorer's Guide To Wildemount pg.199-200) The following aspirational goals were generated based on the characters backstory. These should coincide with the short and longterm goals listed in the questionnaire found in the Supplemental Google Doc. Should any of these be incorrect, need changes, etc. Please alert the player.

Life before adventure

Home

Hags' Betrayal

• One Halloween night, while searching for an old book to explain a reference she encountered in her studies, Ebanessa discovered a small old journal in her mothers' secret library. The book detailed the death of her aunt, the original Ebanessa as the result of a magical ritual gone wrong. This deeply disturbed her, since she had always believed that her aunt's death was the result of a witch hunt. Yet it was the following pages that filled her with horror. In them, she discovered that she was actually a reincarnation of the original Ebanessa. Her mothers had made some undetailed pact with a wood elf girl, the result of which was the birth of Eby, a reincarnation of the original Ebanessa. Her mothers' true plan was to turn her into a Hag and invoke the spirit of their lost sister. Then they could combine their powers and break the curse sealing them to the tower.

• This is what led her to escape the tower and disguise herself as Lanfear. This experience has deeply scared her ability to trust others, and her ability to see herself as worth while and good. If people approach her, she will immediately assume that they seek to use her for their own designs, or that they are potential pawns to use in her own. This is really just a persona she engages in to feel more in control about her ability to know what's real. When the people she believed loved and cared for her turned out to be just using her, her ability to accept love from others was severely undermined.

Bonding of Bartholomew

• One day, when she had failed to summon a familiar to bond to her service, the Elphaba lashed out in a fury, smacking her. Always the cooler head, Evanora sent Eby out to the balcony, while the two hags screamed unintelligibly at one another. As Eby cried in the cold wind, she held a stuffed moneky to her chest, her best friend, Bartholomew. She whispered the words to her failed spell again and again, hoping that if she could succeed, the Hags would finally stop yelling. Yet nothing came over it. In time she passed out under the blankets and pillows that had been left on the balcony. She awoke then to something pulling on her hair, and she raised her body up she turned her head to find the strangest sight. A small, ginger furred, winged monkey sat in front of her. The first words that came to her were "Who are you?" To her surprise, the creature responded, "Silly, dontchya remember? You called for me, and I came. That's what friends are for." From then on, he was her constant companion, and whenever her flowers wilt, he will try to help them bloom. He is a symbol to Lanfear that even in the darkest times, there can be hope.

Lanfear

• Lanfear will always present herself in the form of raven haired woman as long as she is able to. Even when it is initially discovered by the party, she will likely still present herself in that form until the group helps her attain some comfort with herself. To Eby, Lanfear represents what she was supposed to be. A powerful, beautiful, commanding witch, a credit to her coven, a woman of renown. She is everything Eby believes she is supposed to be. So when Eby is using her Lanfear persona, she will present herself as calm, in control, and distant. Subconsciously, she hopes that by doing this, she will attain some level of control, or will be able to approach reality from a distance. Only once she learns to heal her trauma from the Hags' will she be able to turn Lanfear from a crutch to a tool of her power.

Ebanessa

• Eby's true name, as has been shown, is Ebanessa. When in a state of comfort, she will be prone to inquisitive behavior, getting giddy at the thought of new knowledge or books, and even being a prankster. Despite her upper layer of ice, Ebys hear is actually quite jovial and warm. In truth, all she wants is to enjoy the wonders of th world. Perhaps with the Party's help, she will learn to be herself.

The Three

Lanfear is a worshiper of the Hag idols known as the The Three: The Mother, The Maiden, and the Crone. Each of the three represents a different stage of life, and a different virtue for witches. The Three are commonly called The Concubines of Aether, or the Crones, or The Fates. Despite their dark associations, it is not strictly known whether the idols themselves are evilly aligned, despite an association with Aether.

• The Mother. She represents the time when a witch ascends from her youth to a position of leadership. Witch covens which follow the Three very strictly often use the title of "mother" to denote a leadership role. She represents the virtue of Power.

• The Maiden. She represents the time when a witch ascends from apprenticeship to a full which. At this point, a which is allowed to join a coven of her choice, and is supposed to begin her own research. She represents the virtue of Ambition.

• The Crone. She represents the time when a witch steps down from a position of direct leadership, and enters into advisory. Not all witches link this to age. Some become crones in youth. She represents the virtue of Guile.

Sisters of the Bleeding Moon Coven

The Sisters of the Bleeding Moon Coven are a group of Hags who drawn unholy power from blood moons. It has been said "As the moon shines crimson in the sky, so shall the earth be stained red with the blood of their victims."

The sisters were unique among Hags in that each was said to hold a capacity for love, thought from their cruelty, one may never know. Yet all three Hags never left one another's side, always acting together, always plotting for three, and never one. Some give credence to their capacity for love based on the legend that all three were sisters even before their malicious transformations, but few know the truth of it.

Each sister wields terrifying arcane powers, and together they create a trio to trickery, torture, and terror, the likes of which inspires fear in even the bravest of souls. Some wonder if they were sired by the Hag Mother herself, another curse to blight the land of morals. Yet the Hags were not without folly, and 20 years ago, even with three diabolical minds at their disposal, the gods finally saw fit to strike them.

It is unknown the purpose of the experiment, or what truly went wrong, but during an arcane ritual under the light of the blood moon, a curious mishap occurred sending forth a backlash of arcane force. The price to save two was the life of one, even more still, the two surviving hags found themselves bound within the walls of their twisted tower. Only in the light of their beloved blood moon could they stalk the lands.

Desperate, the surviving Hags devised a truly foul plot. Using the remains of their deceased sister, they would invoke a ritual of reincarnation. By tricking an unsuspecting woman lost in the woulds into eating soup broth from the bones of the dead witch, and performing dark rites over her sleeping body, they would call their sisters soul to haunt her womb. Should she give birth under the light of a blood moon, the ghostly hag would use it's cardinal light to imbue her very essence into the child.

Soon, the Hags got their wish, and from their tricks a child with green skin, a mark of her heritage, her past, was one day born under the light of the blood moon. The Hags took the green child away, naming her Ebanessa, a mark of her destiny, her future, and raised her as their own, training her in the craft of Hags.

In the years to come, the child would be loved, nurtured even. Black arts of beguiling the mind, and mental manipulation were disguised as methods to gather secrets and play pranks. While she was a prodigy of Hags

to say the least, she thought nothing of cruelty at first. She believed she was on the path of the Witch, a healer, an explorer, a guide to those lost. Yet as the years went on, a dark voice occasionally made itself known within her, and the Hags sat back and smiled with dark glee, for every moment of rage or cruelty was a sign that their rituals had been fruitful.

Still, they did not discourage her good heart, lying in wait to show their true colors with an occasional prod. Perhaps it was an undeserved berating, a needlessly cruel comment, or a in the worst moments, locking her within a closet.

As the years went by the Hags cruelty lessened greatly, and Eby's belief in her mothers pride and love for her, though built on fearful grounds, did grow, but soon she began to long for outside world, and with her powers growing, the Hags knew the time was night.

Soon she would be 21. To Ebanessa, this meant she would be old enough to join the greater Witch community, but to the Hags, this meant their sisters rebirth was just over yonder. Still, they required her consent to perform the ritual, and so the ruse continued until the fateful day Ebanessa discovered her mothers diaries. Yet, despite all of this, Ebanessa still believes somewhere inside, that the Hags love her, and regardless of its truth or falsehood, she will hold onto that belief.

Bartholomew

Tiny fey, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 6
• Speed 30ft, 30ft fly, 20ft climb

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	14 (+2)	11 (+0)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)

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• Skills
• Senses Passive Perception 11
• Languages All languages known by Lanfear
• Proficiency +2

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Features

Occult Nimbleness. The familiars movements does not provoke opportunity attacks. If the familiar succeeds on a saving throw and would take half damage, it instead takes no damage.

Physical Description

Inspirations

This area shall include inspirations for her personality from various sources and methods.

Analysis

This area discussing the various elements below and analyzes why they are there, and the behaviors they could lead to.

Personality Traits

• Flattery is my preferred trick for getting what I want
• I take great pains to always look my best and follow the latest fashions.
• I've read every book in the world's greatest libraries--or like to boast that I have.
• There's nothing I like more than a good mystery.
• I'm convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
• I can stare down a hellhound without flinching.

Ideals

• Power. If I can attain more power, no one will tell me what to do.
• Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge.
• Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her livelihood.
• Beauty. An alluring figure is a mightier weapon than the sharpest sword.

Bonds

• I have a family, but I have no idea where they are. One day, I hope to see them for the first time.
• I ran away from home to hide from the ones who might still be hunting me. I must someday confront them.

Flaws

• Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on its anatomy.
• I lie about almost everything, even when there's no good reason to.
• I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
• I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.