Kat's backstory (As written by Kelly)

Kat Tanager was born as the 7th child to the Tanager Clan; a large and well established family that has been wildly regarded as a Merchant House for generations. The tanager is a songbird and serves as the symbol of her family's business. It's expected that all Tanagers will further the cause in some capacity. As she's just come of age and is not particularly enthusiastic about the idea of having her whole life already planned on her behalf, Kat is given a very low ranking job: courier. Her parent's plan was just to expose Kat to the world so she would appreciate the comparatively cozy job as a businesswoman. The job as a courier brought her around the seaside, delivering mail and other correspondence between artisans and sellers, and the freedom she experienced was eye opening.
 
On one particular trip during the winter Kat gets caught in a storm- even though she'd traveled that particular path many times, she still got lost. She stumbled through the forest for much longer than she should have, and even when she should have emerged from the trees she kept getting turned around. Eventually, after hours of stumbling, Kat came across a long forgotten shrine to some unknowable deity/being/creature. It was very, very old and in horrible shape, and overcome with exhaustion and with hypothermia setting in, she collapsed at the foot of the statue.
 
After some time, Kat woke up. It became very quickly apparent that something was different: instead of the dead of winter it was spring/summer, and the statue/shrine was now in pristine condition. Something about her felt off as well- some sort of power that hadn't existed had suddenly manifested itself in her. Kat felt rejuvenated when she should be have been dead, and compelled by some force to go out an explore. Who knows how much time has passed, or who this unknowable entity that now has a stake in Kat's life is????
 

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Brainstorming section

Questions to answer.

1. What gods do the Tanager family and company patronize? Some god out fortune, trade, and mercantilism, likely. Or a god of law, justice, and protection? Maybe theres an elven pantheon god for one ofe those and her father's family/company patronized the other. Theyre a mixed religion household.

 
Free writing area.
What was the shrine and statue dedicated to? Maybe it was built for someone else, but was reconsecrated for another god. The construction is old and eroded, but new and restored upon her return.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kat and her patron <3

Relationship.
Mutually unknown to each other.
 
Feywild Trip.
Kat was given the courier role of delivering a big trade agreement to secure a deal with a [dwarven blacksmith guild] in Proto'Jon. The deal was to create a working relationship between the houses, the Tanager's selling their fine dwarven goods on the other side of the [western mountain range].
 
A Pact Created.
A large cold front rolls down the mountains, slamming into Kat and her horse
 

• Hand swap. Kat is taken further into the tree line and nursed to health for 10 days, while time passes 113 years on the Prime Plane. Her hand is operated on (shoddily) by Kazire; he swaps their hand's places and whole or not, puts a magical gem or item in her new hand while he remains attuned to it. He has no healing magic, so he had to use infernal magic to combine the hand to wrist, creating gnarly, dark bands of scarring like it was sewn with dark magic.

 
Conditions of Pact.

• Boons. Kazire grants her 1) pact magic, 2) saves her life & 3) a working hand


• Payments. Kat is expected to 1) break his Fey bindings & 2) return power equivalent to what was granted. Number (1) may not be outright admitted in writing, instead requiring, "obedience in any assistance needed" or the slow, piece-meal completion of certain tasks


• Overtaken. On a failed CHA save, Kazire can control the hand, altering or changing the intended spell cast, or transforming the hand between humanoid and draconic.

 
Kat's Hand.
Kat's dominant (R) hand was frost bitten in and it's associated magical winter storm. While in the Feywild, Kazire amputated both hers and his right hands and swapped them; this is what allows him to provide her with pact magic and it gave him a place to hide his loot. Fused into the center of her grey, clammy hand is a solid disc that somehow ligament, bone and tendon either form around or oddly... through? It is a static circular fixture in the center of her right hand.
 
Maybe the object in Kat's hand is only 1 of multiple pieces to a whole. Together they create a more powerful item Kazire needs to perform his work. Or just the staff and a powerful gem combine to make 1 exalted item.
 
The Shrine.
 

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The Tanager family

Building out the family tree

• Human Father: Pappa Tanager - Born 599 TE, Pact with a fiend, life extending magic items


• Elven Mother: Momma Tanager - Elven


• HE S1 - Pa'lion Tanager : Born 597TE, Known as Polina, 1st mate of The Secret


• HE S2:


• HE S3:


• Tiefling S4: Twin w/S5


• Tiefling S5: Twin w/S4


• HE S6:


• HE S7: Kat Tanager - Born 650 TE


• Imposter *S8*: [Name]. Imposter working their way in to grift or maim Kat

Ideas for family

1. A set of tiefling twins, Father's fiendish magic keeping him alive was passed down

 
 
Kat Tanager
Race: Half-elf. Class: (2) Warlock - Fiend patron. Background: Guild merchant.
Description. Abilities, tools, & traits.
Abilities. 60ft darkvision, charm resistance, magical sleep immunity.

Pact Magic. Knows 2 cantrips, 3 spells and has 2 spell slots of 1st level.

Invocations. Agonizing blast adds +3 to damage. Eldritch Mind gives ADV on concentration checks.

Guild Merchant.

Ideas.
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Kat was sponsored by the Tanager Co. obviously and her test was to sell a deal to the dwarves of some place and then make it back with the signed affidavit and deal.

Mullet warlock. Mullock?

Fey touched feat. CHA boost, misty step and bless. There is a Fey magic spring nearby that Eos knows of, that may be a source of this feat

Game flow.

Starting place is near a pristine statue; passed out in a snow storm to a dilapidated statues and woke up about

Traveling a relatively safe passage through the [western mountain range] that was commissioned by the Tanager family, generations before. It consists of permanent, but obscured arcane gates, assistive measures and warding magic placed along the route to make passage through the very dangerous mountain range to Proto'Jon feasible.