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[corpsestuff]

PLAYER
Name: Kel
Contact + Notes: Nadat on Plurk or thekelas on Discord
Anything We Should Know: I was here before under a name that is now my dead name, so please don't use it.
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CHARACTER
Name: Emmrich Volkarin (and Manfred)

Info Page/App: Click

Who They Are: A necromancer from the Necropolis in Nevarra, a mage driven by compassion, kindness, and fear, and his little skeletal companion Curiosity.

Where They've Been: Emmrich's been in Nevarra cleaning up the undead mess, and he's spent most of his life in Nevarra City and the Necropolis. He's traveled a little, but mostly he's been down there teaching and working with the dead, undead, and spirits.

What They Want: He wants to help, teach, encourage, and watch, while not dying.

Plot & CR Desires: Everything. I've apped him because I need more of Emmrich and Bioware won't be giving that to me, so necromancy things, magic things, adventure things, friends, conflict, people who want a skeleson to run tea parties, students, research buddies, all of it.

Anything Else: I'm gonna be introducing Emmrich during the Nevarra plot that's coming up since that makes more sense than him showing up from Nevarra and then whee, right back to Nevarra. Hit me up if you'd like to pre-establish some CR from the recent trip Riftwatch made to the Necropolis or something else! We can also be flexible with keeping TDM threads/shifting them up a bit based on whatever the upcoming plot entails.

Comments

[portalling]

HELLO I am so beyond jazzed for this CR and want these two to eventually become pals :’) Middle-aged necromancers whose designs were based on Vincent Price, unite. I’d love to keep tagging our TDM thread; we could just be kinda nebulous re: timing in order to establish the dynamic + keep the vibes?

Also, Strange’s most notable contribution at the Necropolis: he was there with Riftwatch to help the Mortalitasi close a rift, but he had to let a random young NPC Mournwatcher named Rina die on the field in order to accomplish it. (It was a bummer.)

Will leave it totally up to you how much you want to incorporate that; could just be Emmrich having heard about it orrrr maybe the girl was one of his students if we want some complicated feelings there etc?

[corpsestuff]

I'm so excited too! And yeah, absolutely down to continue the thread and figure out the vibes for them on the path to pal-ness. He loves having friends.

Since I didn't know about Rina and he didn't react to Strange's name we could say that Rina was a student but Emmrich doesn't know the names of what Riftwatch members were present when she died? He only knows that a couple of Riftwatch were there closing a rift and he's trying to not dig into it because he knows he'll have Feelings Regarding Difficult Choices and losing a bright, promising young mage. The knowledge can rear its complicated head further down the line?

[portalling]

Perfect! ♥ That also makes sense in terms of like, Strange not exactly being quick to volunteer that bummer information to a stranger right off the bat, and it only coming out later after they’ve gotten to know each other a bit better and once he realises Emmrich had a personal connection there etc.

[corpsestuff]

That sounds fantastic.

[extortionate]

welcome back! looking forward to seeing how he yeets into things come plot time

[corpsestuff]

Thank you, and same! :D

[aberratic]

welcome back!! i'm very excited for cr with emmrich, i cannot adequately express just how well she'll respond to his Whole Deal. if you'd like to continue the tdm thread, i'm very happy to do so, but i'm also happy to wait to see what the modplot holds! as for prior cr, ness was in nevarra with stephen to close the rift, but she didn't have anything to do with the rina situation, so there's no complications there! they could at least have made brief eye contact in the necropolis or something if you don't want to handwave an actual conversation of any kind, lol

[corpsestuff]

Thank you! I do want to continue the TDM thread because Rosamunde especially, I've just slacked off in regard to tags for like a week.

I was figuring Emmrich would be away from most of the Riftwatch-in-the-Necropolis stuff just to avoid Johanna complications but let's do the TDM thread and we could make it wibbly-wobbily canon maybe?

[exequy]

Hiii welcome back. You know me. My current roster is:

• Kostos who has been here so long you already know him. As discussed he could have been one of Emmrich's students when he was a teenager! His deal at the time would have been that he was surly, very religious in a kind of self-loathing way, ambitious with regard to wanting to be important among the Mortalitasi, and from a family that was low-ranking nobility but high-ranking rich. He's a spirit medium which I think is different from what Emmrich does but vibes well enough he could have needed his help dealing with it! And then he got kicked out of Nevarra for political reasons, bye.

• Bastien who I think was also here when you were here before. Orlesian ("Orlesian") bard. He is not very involved in mage things because he isn't one but has mixed "I like you but you make me nervous" feelings whenever his feelings do matter. If he were a spirit he would be a curiosity spirit so maybe he will like Manfred despite being unnerved.

• Redvers, Templar, chill in demeanor but still wants to put those mages back where they came from.

• Xiomara, Rivaini Lord of Fortune from before Veilguard lore dropped, cool with mages but very "huh that's interesting I guess, do you — squirrel!!" about details.

[corpsestuff]

Who are you again?

But also yesssss, I love the idea of Kostos being a former student so much. Emmrich will be glad to see him again.

I remember Bastien a little and Emmrich will be desperately hoping people love Manfred too or at least like him.

Redvers would def be clashy, could be interesting, and Xiomara sounds like fun!

[altusimperius]

HI

I'm just here to say I'm sure we'll get some good CR as always, but also in that gif it looks like Manfred is absolutely shredding on a bone guitar and I'm enjoying it

[corpsestuff]

:D I'm so looking forward to it. And LOL, 95% of the reason I picked that gif was for Manfred in the background, beating a venatori head in.

[laruetheday]

Hiii welcome back!! Clarisse is gonna be so interested in and jealous of Emmrich's little skeleton guy (she used to be able to summon kiiind of similar skeleton guys...) and she was also at the Necropolis a little while back, but mostly hung out toward the back of the group, so we can maybe say they recognize each other but never really spoke? Looking forward to playing with you!

[corpsestuff]

Thank you! I had Emmrich as off deeper in the Necropolis at that time just so there's no overlap between him and Johanna, but maybe they could have shared a glance as he passed the group? He'll be very glad of anyone who loves Manfred since all of Cami's characters are gonna try squishing Manfred.

[extortionate]

belatedly since it's 1 am and I'm thinking about it: like a year ago now, Cedric and Vega retrieved a doll that's (secretly) possessed by a spirit of courtesy. I never ran the mini log with it that I meant to, where the doll forced everyone to have a polite tea party and behave, but it seems like a natural fit for Cedric to bug Emmrich about once everyone's back from Nevarra if that's something you'd be into

[corpsestuff]

oooh, yes, very much!!!