Ralvas of Goldhaven
| Player Information |
| Player Name |
Gwiggs |
Contact |
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| AKA |
Cletus/Paggart/Takopi/etc |
| Character Basics |
| Character Name |
Ralvas of Goldhaven |
Series/Canon |
OC |
| AU/PG/Canon Point |
After curing Rozi of her tree-petrification |
Cottage |
Sun House |
| Canon Details |
Ralvas is a D&D character! He's a minotaur warlock who works for a magical traveling shop that surreptitiously teleports from city to city, selling magical goods and going on adventures/dangerous errands to collect items for the shop. |
| Character Details |
| Age |
20 |
Pronouns |
He/Him |
| Physical Stature |
Tall (roughly 8 feet tall) with a bodybuilder's physique. He clearly cares a lot about his appearance. |
Hair/Eyes |
Light brown/dirty blonde hair that usually covers his brown eyes. |
| Notable Traits |
He's a minotaur, so he's got the head & horns of a highland steer. He's canonically hot, has a 6 pack and an ass you could bounce a quarter off of, and he dresses like some kind of combat beach bum - flipflops, shorts, and a breastplate.
Ralvas also has multiple tattoos. The first, on his right arm, is a magical tattoo of a deep sea worm wrapped around an anchor, that allows him to cast coiling grasp. The second is of a shipwreck - two halves of a broken ship, one on each pectoral muscle (he can make them rock like they're on the ocean. Somehow this tattoo allows him to cast Disguise Self once per day. Lastly, he has the words SINK and SWIM tattooed on his knuckles. He has been assured that's what the tattoos say, despite the fact that he cannot read. |
| 15 Second Summary |
Ralvas is, above all else, three things: Proud, stupid, and a coward.
He comes from a long legacy of Minotaur spellcasters in the city of Goldhaven. His fathers, Archimedes and Socrates, are a high level artificer and a wizard, both of great renowned. And his sisters (of which he has many), have all grown up to be powerful arcane casters in their own right. Some are wizards, some sorcerers, some bards, some artificers... but across the family, one thing has remained true: They've come into power on their own terms, and they've all found success in doing so.
And then there was Ralvas, the baby of the family. Never particularly bright, never showing any aptitude for the arcane. There was never any doubt that his family loved him, but... it was obvious, even to him, that he didn't fit in. There was a kind of... not pity, but an unasked for sympathy that he never particularly liked. An assumption that he'd always need his family's help.
But Ralvas wasn't a feeble boy, and what he lacked in brains he more than made up for with strength and constitution. And he was determined to use those to prove himself, to earn his own living. In his late teens, he took a job as a sailor on a merchant vessel - an honest job that he was certain would earn him the respect of his family.
On his maiden voyage, however, something went terribly wrong. The ship encountered a sea monster - an impossibly large deep sea worm known as the Leviathan. It shook the sea and nearly capsized his ship - Ralvas watched as it swallowed another of the ships in the convoy whole. And in that moment, he saw Leviathan, somehow he could tell that Leviathan was looking at him as well. An arcane connection formed.
And that freaked Ralvas the fuck out. That thing was terrifying! He didn't want a connection to it! He certainly didn't want to go back out to sea, knowing it was out there somewhere.
At the same time, though, he couldn't just come crawling back to his family, the moment he got wrapped up in something magical. They'd never let him live it down, it would prove everything they ever worried about him right.
So, as soon as the ship docked back in Goldhaven, he quit his job and hastily found a new one in the form of Next Chance Goods: a magic shop he stumbled upon. He left town with them shortly afterward, no letter home, no explanation to his family. Ralvas was determined to prove that he's a big strong man who can handle his own life, while simultaneously running away from those very problems. |
| Abilities & Permissions |
| Abilities |
Ralvas is a spellcaster and knows the following spells & spell-like effects:
Cantrips:
• Prestidigitation
• Eldritch Blast
• Mage Hand
• Poison Spray
Spells:
• Armor of Agathys
• Hellish Rebuke
• Earthbind
• Hold Person
• Hunger of Hadar
• Lightning Bolt
• Thunderstep
• Control Water
• Evard's Black Tentacles
• Bigby's Worm (like Bigby's Hand, but it's a giant spectral worm)
• Teleportation Circle
• Cone of Cold
Mystic Arcanum:
• Scatter
• Plane Shift
Magic Tattoos:
• Coiling Grasp
• Disguise Self
Also, as a 13th level Fathomless Warlock, Ralvas has the following abilities:
• Summon his pact weapon (a morningstar named Hercules, made from a metal rod and a living giant isopod).
• Conjure a giant, spectral worm to fight for him.
• Breath underwater & swim with supernatural grace
• Speak with animals at will
• Speak with dead once per day
• See through solid objects for 1 minute, once per day.
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| Permissions |
link |
| Sensing |
Due to his eldritch invocations, Ralvas can understand animals, can see underwater with no issue, and once a day he can gain the ability to see through solid objects. |
| Memory Registry |
| Registry: |
Link to WIP |
| Skills |
• Sailing: Ralvas grew up wealthy in a port town and worked as a sailor for several months. He's not the greatest in the world, but the boy knows how to sail.
• Martial Weapon & Shield Proficiency: Ralvas is an experienced front-line combatant, and knows how to hit people hard enough to make them stop attacking his friends.
• Bodybuilding Expertise: Despite having an intelligence stat of 3, Ralvas has a perfect, inexplicable understanding of caloric intake, protein requirements, and how to work out each muscle group to get optimal results. All 4 of his brain cells are devoted to this.
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