Hey friends, I have already talked about my D&D character, Aisling's backstory in a previous video
which I will link in the cards and in the description
But, this time I wanted to let you get to know her in her own words
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Now, without further ado, I will turn things over to...
Also me, but with elf ears on
[Soft music]
-Hello, I'm Aisling, as you can see I'm an elf
Not something I'm usually very upfront about considering how people feel about elves in my area
I'm a warlock, and my patron is Ùir, the Woman of the Soil
She's an archfey of growth, and decay, and rebirth, you know, dark shit
She gave me this necklace full of dirt
Oh, and I've recently started learning some druidry
I would use the word tree hugger, but I'm not really much of a hugger
Tree respecter, maybe
The very first impression people get when they meet me
I smell amazing
You can smell it from really far away
It actually sometimes makes stealth kind of hard
It's not intentional, but when you grow flowers out of your hair, it's sort of unavoidable
People pretty quickly realize that's the only sweet thing about me, though
I don't mean to be so prickly
But I have other things on my mind besides being friendly
Plus I'm a little foreign to human culture
So, I'm not up to date on the formalities and such
It can be a bit off-putting on a first meeting, I've been told
In an ideal world, when we get to a tavern I order my hometown classic
It's an elven wine made from tree sap
But they don't usually have that kind of thing in the places we're going, so, I'll settle for an ale, I guess
Although nothing's ever strong enough to suit my tastes
When you're raised on elven wine, you build up a tolerance
I would have to drink a gallon of what humans are drinking to feel the way they feel after a few drinks
Why are humans so weak, right?
When it comes to my other party members, I'd say I have the best relationship with Bryn
She's a wildling, a little fox person, if you've never met one
She's sneaky as hell, and she really likes poisons, which I can relate to
I mean, my familiar is named Nightshade
She really likes that I can make her invisible
One time, I cast invisibility on her and she hid on Mee-Mar's back, that's our orc barbarian
And jumped off and BAM, stabbed somebody right in the face
One shot
My worst relationship in the party
I hate to say this, because when we first met he did teach me this human farewell
But I think it's Alistair. He's just so easy to make fun of
Last week he ate some beans we found in this cultists camp
and then later we figured out there was human flesh in them
He really wants us to let it go but "human beans" is just so funny. I can't help it
I've only just started learning druidry recently
But I have to tell you, being able to just turn into a direwolf, quickly becoming my go-to combat move
Scares the absolute shit out of an opponent, let me tell you
It's good defense too, because I can't exactly take a lot of hits
More of a distance fighter, in this shape, at least
The most memorable moment from my adventure so far
That's a tough one
We've gotten into some real messes together
Oh, there's one that happened recently
We had finally tracked down the thieves that had stolen our artifact
The severed hand of a dead god, very intense stuff
And we were all set to infiltrate their hideout and steal it back without them ever noticing
See, we had already fought them, and they're really strong
They had beaten us kind of embarrassingly easily
So, we really didn't want to fight them
But it turns out that they had been hired to steal it for a client
The Chancellor
Blackmail material if I ever heard it
Anyway, she had showed up to pick it up at the same time that we were there
So there we are sneaking around this old observatory trying to duck both the Chancellor's guards and the thieves
And, abysmally failing at both, might I say
I thought we were done for
But, somehow we managed to trick the thieves into thinking we're the Chancellor's guards and the real guards are impostors
And then we get ourselves locked in a room with the hand
And through some wild stroke of fate our barbarian manages to grab the hand
And literally hurl herself out a window and escape with it
We made it out with our lives, but only barely
Why do I feel like that's gonna come back and bite us in the ass someday?
Coffee or tea? Oh, no question, tea, obviously
How anyone drinks that bitter bean sludge is a mystery to me
I make a really delicious tea from the flowers that grow in my hair actually
And that's not as weird as it sounds, I promise
It changes flavors with the seasons
My type? Oh, you mean romantically?
To be honest, I haven't really thought about that
I didn't have a social circle back home, per se
People weren't exactly lining up to get to know me. They were more like "Ah! that's the witch's daughter"
It's not that I don't find people attractive, I do
Maybe someday I'll meet somebody
But, right now, I'm just really focused on this whole world-consuming rot problem
It takes up a lot of my time
And you know, I'd hate to get involved with somebody casually, and then Nightshade really bonds with them
And then it would be super destabilizing for her if we split up
You got to be careful when you have a little one in the picture
If someone handed me 10,000 gold
Oh, yeah, I would keep that
I would spend that
I would find a place in the woods where nobody goes and I would dig a hole a really deep hole
And I would bury it so nobody could find it but me
And then I would dig some of it up whenever I wanted
really beautiful new custom armor, or a hot three-course meal
Or a room at one of those really expensive inns with the big soft beds where the rooms have windows
Oh, and I would share it with my party. Of course. I would totally do that
The quickest way to get me to trust you is to be nice to Nightshade
She's extremely fickle, half the time she acts like she doesn't even like me
So, when she does like somebody, that means they're good people
Or that they gave her a pickle, she really likes pickles
She can be bought
-If you want to learn more about Aisling, make sure to check out my meet my D&D character video which I will link to the right
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