Zuzzak the witch
Aug. 23rd, 2020 09:21 amWith the release of the Advanced Player's Guide for Pathfinder 2e, I wanted to try out either one of the new ancestries or one of the new "versatile heritages" which can modify any ancestry.
I'd already decided I wanted to try running a witch, and use of of the special backgrounds available to people who've played first edition PFS, and I had a half-formed character concept I was calling Urban Fantasy Heroine Minus the Tropes I Hate, but then I decided to randomize some aspects of the character and the concept didn't fit anymore.
So instead, I have Zuzzak the musetouched aasimar goblin. Zuzzak hails from the Hao Jin Tapestry, a demiplane originally created by a legendary sorceress as a place to stash interesting buildings, landforms, and entire communities. For most of 1e PFS play it was under the control of the Pathfinder Society, but the grand finale of 1e was it unraveling and the Pathfinders having to rescue as many people as possible from it.
Zuzzak's mother is remembered as a beautiful and mysterious goblin woman who stayed with the tribe a little over a year, spontaneously combusting shortly after Zuzzak's birth. (Goblins think fire is kind of neat, so this event is recalled more with admiration than horror.) In reality, she was an azata aware that the tapestry would soon unravel, trying to give the goblins a little help surviving the event by taking on a mortal form to produce a child with extraordinary abilities.
Zuzzak only knows that she found the prettiest lizard in the world when she was a few years old, and it helped her learn all sorts of interesting things, including how to guide her tribe through the planar upheaval to rescue. Zuzzak took a liking to the Pathfinders, decided they were the best tribe (goblins will readily switch allegiance to a stronger leader or a tribe which offers more opportunities), and became a field-commissioned agent.
Witches don't have to ever find out who their patron is, which allows me to not quite make up my mind yet. Maybe it's just Zuzzak's mother controlling her familiar, or maybe it's a loosely connected group of azatas.
Another thing I didn't quite make up my mind about was the character's gender. So she's identified as female for now, but Zuzzak has been questioning a lot of things lately...
I'd already decided I wanted to try running a witch, and use of of the special backgrounds available to people who've played first edition PFS, and I had a half-formed character concept I was calling Urban Fantasy Heroine Minus the Tropes I Hate, but then I decided to randomize some aspects of the character and the concept didn't fit anymore.
So instead, I have Zuzzak the musetouched aasimar goblin. Zuzzak hails from the Hao Jin Tapestry, a demiplane originally created by a legendary sorceress as a place to stash interesting buildings, landforms, and entire communities. For most of 1e PFS play it was under the control of the Pathfinder Society, but the grand finale of 1e was it unraveling and the Pathfinders having to rescue as many people as possible from it.
Zuzzak's mother is remembered as a beautiful and mysterious goblin woman who stayed with the tribe a little over a year, spontaneously combusting shortly after Zuzzak's birth. (Goblins think fire is kind of neat, so this event is recalled more with admiration than horror.) In reality, she was an azata aware that the tapestry would soon unravel, trying to give the goblins a little help surviving the event by taking on a mortal form to produce a child with extraordinary abilities.
Zuzzak only knows that she found the prettiest lizard in the world when she was a few years old, and it helped her learn all sorts of interesting things, including how to guide her tribe through the planar upheaval to rescue. Zuzzak took a liking to the Pathfinders, decided they were the best tribe (goblins will readily switch allegiance to a stronger leader or a tribe which offers more opportunities), and became a field-commissioned agent.
Witches don't have to ever find out who their patron is, which allows me to not quite make up my mind yet. Maybe it's just Zuzzak's mother controlling her familiar, or maybe it's a loosely connected group of azatas.
Another thing I didn't quite make up my mind about was the character's gender. So she's identified as female for now, but Zuzzak has been questioning a lot of things lately...