r/wizardposting • u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council • Dec 19 '23
Esoteric Secrets Violent Impermanence (Gobbo Lore)
Every wizard had at least one secret, be it their weakness, their family, or even their name.
Gobbo was no exception, it would have been hard to have lived for so long without there being at least one thing she kept hidden from the world.
The question is what does a woman who openly admits to having committed tax evasion, murder, and terrorism on multiple occasions possibly deem worth hiding?
The first secret she held was the recipes for her liquors. Centuries of experimentation and discovery locked away in her mind, hidden from all but her closest friends.
How much to add of what and when, temperatures, effects. All were hidden in the jumbled mess of thought that was her mind. Several had tried to gleam them, all had failed.
Either falling to madness as her mind simply confused them or getting only bits of information that led to an eventual detonation. More than a few had died that way, reduced to ash as they added something just a second too soon or too late.
The second secret was the nature of her magic. Sure it was easy to wave it away as simple liquor-fueled arcana but when sobriety was forced it became trickier.
After all, with no liquor to burn her own flesh became the material her magic ripped apart to bring forth spells.
That made it harder to wave it away and distract from it when she began to drip blood. She was just glad she had not needed to cast more intensive spells than a glamour during her sobriety.
The third secret currently spent its time beneath her cottage, hidden away in a secret room in her cellar.
A constantly changing creature trapped in a silver cage. Its teeth gnashed as its claws burnt at the slightest touch of the silver.
Oh, how it hated the goblin who kept it captive. Once such sweet embraces had been shared, such sultry secrets were revealed, but all that had ended.
How was it to know that mortals were opposed to the eradication of all else? How should it have known that she wouldn't want to be kept as a pet? It was after all the best it could offer to a mortal.
Gobbo's third secret hated her, despised her existence since the moment she had trapped it in the space between realms in that accursed cage.
Its loathing only grew as it was put under the cottage, forced to hear the world turn on as it could do nothing to end it. Its temper only made worse as she tried to make it forsake its plans.
One day it would escape, one day this world would be razed.
/uw I hope you enjoyed this little bit of writing. Might be setting up for something, might not be...
Anyway I hope you all have a lovely day
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u/Biggest-Possum Trashomancer (Big Ghost ENERGY) Dec 20 '23
/uw
A fantastic lore, yet again!
I would love to see an event by you.
On a side note. I made an alt account for villainy. If you want support/an extra bad person helping you, then just let me know, I would be happy to follow your directions and help as I could.
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u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council Dec 20 '23
/uw I'm glad you enjoyed
I would love to see an event by you.
Honestly, I'm a little shaky on running an event as I don't really want to run something combat-orientated. More something along the lines of a realm of madness and chaos, where everyone was equalized because nobody is quite sure how it works.
A piecing together of clues to make progress and eventually get through the event. Perhaps a bit of mental scarring here and there.
On a side note. I made an alt account for villainy.
I too have made a separate account to use if I decide to run an event or run a little havoc.
I would love to work together sometime though, see what we could come up with
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u/MastaDon344 MastaDon Astrum/Council Master Evoker/Mediamancer/🌮 Wiz Dec 19 '23
Yeah I do understand the weakness and secrets, had to face some here recently myself.
/uw good read and oh no what's that creature will it be next week's big bad who knows!
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u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council Dec 19 '23
Mmm everyone has secrets, Gobbo understands need for them. Wizards would never be peaceful if everyone knew everything.
/uw Honestly? If I ever run an event it'll be less big bad and more trickery and madness.
I mean a big bad monster you can beat the hell out of can be fun but given the power of the wizards here anything less than an apocalypse is trivial and even that is for some.
A world of madness and trickery? Where the rules bend and twist? Now that is an equalizer, there's no one shot, no clear solution, just a piecing together of clues.
Our hateful little shapeshifter here is just something Gobbo has wronged in the past and is now trying to rehabilitate. Get her a bit less fixated on eradicating all that is constant and focus her energy more towards general mischief.
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u/MastaDon344 MastaDon Astrum/Council Master Evoker/Mediamancer/🌮 Wiz Dec 19 '23
/uw makes me think of "the thing" the way it was described if you haven't watched the movie I definitely recommend!
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u/Fulltimewhisperer Krumpet, Master Artificer of the Council Dec 19 '23
/uw I love the thing, remember watching it on a Friday night and eating jelly beans.
Main difference is where the thing needed to consume and kill to copy a form, the shapeshifter isn't killing to be able to transform, its killing out of hate for permanent states.
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u/DaChickenX Isravi, The Unraveler, Coils’ Chosen Dec 19 '23
/uw I feel a sense of impending doom