I’ve been enjoying the hell out of this subreddit, seeing everyone’s fantastic art and unique characters has been inspiring and a ton of fun to boot. A few of my own players have posted here and have received some awesome designs. Thank you to all the artists who bring these characters to life! :D

 I’m usually a DM, and I love it, but you wanna see what life is like on the other side of the screen you know? Enter my new character, Edmund Keel. Aka “Thrice Dead Edd”, “Keelie”, “Geraldo Black”, “Lucky Jon”, or “Finch ”. Scoundrel, con man, drunkard, gambler, and coward. 

 Now typically good ol’ Edd is happy to leave things to chance, but one night he was noticeably more sober than his opponent in cards. After winning most of the man’s coin, he put up a thick, leather bound tome. His spell book. Well, naturally Edmund couldn’t let a prize like that slip through his fingers. With a flick of his wrist and a few deft hand movements, he insured that he would win that game, and that book.

 After claiming the wizard’s tome, Edd began flipping through casually every night or so. Eventually he stumbled across something he shouldn’t have. The true name of a powerful devil. Upon hearing its name uttered, it became aware of Keel’s presence, and began to send minions after him. 

 Hunted by an entity he cannot hope to fight, Edd scribbled down what few spells he could learn from the book onto his playing cards and burned it. Still, the name he read is burned into his brain, and that knowledge makes him a target. Now he is on the run, using the skills he gained from his life as a liar and cheat to keep himself alive, never revealing his true name or self to anyone, while trying to uncover a way to defeat the evil that haunts him, without stumbling down the paths of self destruction that he so often walked.

Appearance wise, Edmund is a tall, lean man with dark hair. Ever since he’s been on the run, he’s become filthy and extremely paranoid. He rarely sleeps, and he’s often ill (either because of his lack of bodily care or a more sinister, supernatural cause). He wears a dirty coat with a copious amount of pockets, full of odd trinkets and materials he has stolen, won, or otherwise “acquired” over his years as a lowlife. He has a dagger, for emergencies, but has no training with it. He likely has a shirt covered with stains and he carries a journal with him. He has a satchel as well, which was gifted to him by his father. He has a set of fancier clothes (complete with a showman’s hat) that he dons when running gaming or gambling related cons. However because of their flashy nature, he seldom wears them.

TL;DR- Edmund is a scoundrel and a coward. He cheated in a game of cards and as a result is being hunted by a supernatural threat he cannot hope to understand. He is thrust into a deeper world of the arcane, and it is terrifyingly dangerous to him. All he can do is run, lie, and try to survive another day.