Roz Ela
Roz Ela (she/they) is a character played by Keiran (she/they) in Arc 3: Dragon Counter Courters. She is a Level 4 Necromancy Wizard, Level 2 Great Old One warlock.
Description
They're about 22 years old, in the third decade of their life, and they're about 5’0” even. She’s usually seen wearing golds/yellows and burnt oranges to accentuate the warmth of her color palette. She has hazel-green avian eyes and a pair of large wings. Their beak is an orangey-red that barely stands out from the rest of her feathers. Roz is a very cheery person, very straightforward, and is very extroverted and talkative. She’s convinced she has met every person she meets in this life already in a past one and will outwardly tell them that. They're constantly casting “detect magic” as a cantrip in an effort to “read their auras”. Despite their darker magical tendencies (see: necromancer and warlock), they're very upbeat.Backstory
Roz is a Reborn, and in this case, they're being consistently reincarnated by their warlock patron for reasons that they usually forget upon their entrance into the new life. In this life, she spent her early years raised in the capital city of Acropolis. She made her pact with her patron by the time she was 2. Although she doesn’t know the name of her patron, she refers to them only as “The One”. When they continued to work with their patron in an effort to understand their fractured memories of lifetimes past, they found themself falling deeper into an obsession with “The One” and the powers granted to them. They’d originally enticed her with empty promises of information about why she was the way she was, but one day The One made a mistake: they’d regarded her reincarnation as an Aarakocra, a being with a short lifespan of a mere 30 years, as a punishment for something she’d done in the past. They’d pulled back from their patron then, taking on their own route into wizardry and studying necromancy feverishly in an attempt to further understand the process of their reincarnation. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely in this lifetime that she will be able to uncover the secrets she so desperately seeks. She actively avoids the wants of The One as much as she can and sets her sights on uncovering pieces of her past and the magic that makes her the way that she is. This has led them into many different experiences in their short life, including being entangled with their current adventuring party. Despite her personal mission paired with her short lifespan, she often gets distracted by the small things in life. They've tied up most of their loose ends already, preparing for a life that's yet to come, and for now does their best in uncovering what information they can while enjoying the last decade of their life. She's grown close to her current party and wants to spend the rest of her life with them, however long or short that may be.During Arc 3
Secret Roz Lore
Spoilers for Mal and Roz lore. Good for pulling on strings as a DM.
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Roz Ela is actually one of many reincarnations. The most prominent of them is Sawyer Everhart (they/them), a close friend of Mal and the one who sacrificed their life to make sure Mal survived their illness. Sawyer was a protector aasimar and knew that they were reincarnating over and over again, had the memories from past lives, and knew that they could find Mal again in their next one. They intended to fool the hag witch into killing them, sacrificing this life knowing there would be another in the future. However, the hag witch is not one to be fooled, and took something from Sawyer's future reincarnations as a prize: their memories. Additionally, the hag witch cursed Mal with immortality.
The reincarnation of Sawyer/Roz is because of an unknown entity; however, the hag witch has convinced the future reincarnations of Sawyer that it is them who is reincarnating Sawyer and continues to make warlock pacts with Sawyer's reincarnations to control them and urge them into Mal's path once again as punishment. The reincarnation right before Roz had gotten too close on the trail of the hag witch, and as a result was punished with a shortened lifespan in the form of an Aarakocra.
Sawyer had a small, personal library (really, the size of a shack) that housed journals from their past reincarnations. Through some old friend (to be decided), each reincarnation of Sawyer is found and passed the key to their inheritance.
The reincarnation before Roz had found Mal at the behest of the hag witch posing as their warlock patron. They worked to track down the hag witch and had a breakthrough, but ultimately the trail went cold. When that reincarnation passed, their journal was put into the collection of journals and locked up for the next one to find Mal.
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