Chime Reference Sheet

"Zaphaal calls to you.  His wind is under your wings dear one.  The others have forgotten what it was like when the sky and clouds called to them, when its power raced through their bones.  

No matter what, remind them.  Find the songs of our old temple.  Of the soaring places.  Remind them, Peepkin.  And never feel that you are anything less than the pulse of our people."

Chime was a quick idea for an NPC in a game I ran fairly off the cuff one night.  She's got a fairly extensive history, even for someone as young a she is. 

Chime left her people despite warnings that if she walked into the 'Sorrow' (the area within the disaster at Whiterook) she could never return.  Her people believed that any who walked or flew into the Sorrow would be lost to the withering of the Hells that once plagued the area.

But she had to find the old temples of her people.  Old temples said to sing on the winds if the elders took their rightful seats again.  She was ambitious and headstrong.  

But she was lacking wisdom.

The Sorrow is a place that has swallowed up even well armed groups of people.  Knights and cartographers alike, looking to claim back land that has laid fallow for centuries.  She was a lone Aarakocra, and her determination could only get her so far.  She ended up stuck in a place of darkness, of beautiful seasons and utter desolation.

She constructed a little hut, surrounded by skulls and pumpkins she'd grown and collected, serving as sentry.  She made a tea known to deflect the sight of the crucified horrors that wandered the outskirts of the nearby hollow town of Blackpine.

She tried to warn the others that looked to loot the now traversable swathes of the Sorrow.  Not everything in dead towns were dead.

I haven't drawn Aarakockra in ages.  And I preferred the 'arm winged' ones in older editions of D&D.  It took a lot to figure out how to draw a decent bird person that reflected some kind of personality, but I'm fairly pleased with how Chime turned out.

-T.J.