Sidekicks & Sidequests

Building a world, one character at a time.

Wolf

  1. This is a character that Shannon Robichaud randomly generated with my tables.
  2. What is this character’s name? - Wolf
  3. What is their ancestry (i.e. human, elf, dwarf, halfling, etc)? - Thri-kreen
  4. What is your job or role (i.e. farmer, hierling/mercenary, shopowner, bandit, etc)? - Teacher, specifically, a professor within the College of Artificery at the Royal University. She came from humble beginnings and her family/town saved up money for her to go to university and/or a deal/relationship was worked out and that's how she became a professor.
  5. How old are you? - Child. She is a prodigy!
  6. Describe your physical appearance. - Short in size. Kind face, softer features, but with an air of naivety. Wears flowing professorial robes, always carrying some sort of book.
  7. Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Intelligent, Caring, Determined
  8. What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept or particular person (i.e. family member, guild member, honor, justice, love etc.) - She has a magic dagger of her own creation. It operates like a Dagger of Returning/boomerang, but it can do other things like splitting into small daggers or forming into different weapon combinations, lockpicks, etc.. It's basically a clockwork/magic Swiss Army Knife of a dagger. She has a close relationship with her mentor, Dean Sullivan, who helps to guide Wolf through not only university life but real life as well (to help her learn to advocate for herself and speak up and turn naivety into wisdom). Her family is always sending her carepackages from home.
  9. What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - Help Wolf to locate the missing Mike Wazowski, a green psuedodragon, that belongs to her mentor, the Dean of the College of Artificery, Professor Sullivan (a blue dragonborn). The psuedodragon is an emotional support animal that allows Professor Sullivan to be able to perform her functions and duties of running the college.
  10. What would be their reward for succeeding? - Wolf will craft a communication device or some other small magic item for the party.
  11. What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - If the players refuse to help, they definitely won't receive any of the magical items she was making. If the players are unable to locate the missing Mike Wazowski, Dean Sullivan will resign from her position because she will be unable to perform her job. The disgruntled professor (Randall Boggs??) will finally gain tenure and will be chosen as the new Dean of the College of Artificery. The mood and attitutde of the college will become much more dour and unpleasant. Not as many students are enrolling into the college anymore, and Wolf's professorial job and responsibilities have become much more difficult and not fun.

Optional Questions - not required

  • What are the goals and motivations of your character? - Wolf wants to advance her craft and push the boundaries. She wants to see what she can create and what materials she can use and what she can discover. She's young with her whole life ahead, so she wants to continue to learn. Eventually, she'd like to become the Dean of the College of Artificery at the Royal University or a similar position at another university. She wants to live a truly academic life with research, treatises, and distertations. She will get her fantasy PhD and multipe degrees. She would eventually like to get the equivalent of the Noble Prize for an extraordinary achievement in magical engineering.
  • How do these affect your general personality? - She is very analytical and can visualize complex engineering in her mind. She has a tendancy to be absent-minded in needing to leave a conversation/room to go write something down and then return as if nothing happened. She is quirky and eccentric, but she is endearing. She is very motivated and to continue learning and devouring information. Wolf wants to use all her knowledge for good to help people and to just have all the knowledge. She's very excited, curious, and ask a lot of questions (like children do!).
  • How do you normally interact with your family/friends/peers? With your enemies/rivals? With people who work for you/report to you? With player characters? - Wolf is well loved by her students, and is very welcoming of everyone and wants to be friends with everyone. Friends and family are treated the same! There is one particular, older professor (maybe named Professor Randall Boggs???) that hasn't made tenure yet that is annoyed and disapproving of a "child" being admitted to teach at the university before they were able to be promoted. Wolf is often quiet around this professor or anyone else that she doesn't like, but Dean Sullivan is teaching her to speak up and not be afraid to voice her opinions and objections.
  • Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - Wolf doesn't have a particular accent, but her mandibles buzz and click faster when she's excited (which is a lot of the time). Her tone is very high energy, excited, full of wonder and amazement.
  • What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - Wolf has inspired many children to seek higher education, to strive for success, and to aspire to major magical and scientific/engineering accomplishments. She is a role model for children.
  • Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - Her young age and naivety about the world.