Chris

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Chris is the player at this table whose characters have been Cholmondeley (s2-s3, deceased), briefly Earthwing (s3 cameo, never played in earnest), and Terry (s4-current). His on-table tenure spans the full recorded run of the campaign. He is also the maintainer of this wiki, which gives the project its outside-the-fiction shape but no in-fiction weight: in Eldurae, the work is the characters.

Characters played

  • Cholmondeley Featherstonhaugh (s2-s3, deceased): human variant Paladin, Pure Light / Aurelian-aligned, with a Magic-Initiate-driven Shillelagh-and-Booming-Blade build; killed by the yuan-ti woman’s bite during the Sunset is Nigh lair fight in s3 [1][2][3]. Last words: “I hate you all.”
  • Earthwing the Owlin (s3 cameo): introduced at [4] as Cholmondeley’s intended replacement, never actually played in earnest at the table. The name was later reused in-fiction for Terry’s owl familiar.
  • Terry (s4-current): tortle, originally Bard 3 with bagpipes, later respec’d off-screen between s5 and s6 to Fighter 1 / Wizard 2 (Bladesinger declared as the long-term path at [5]; subclass selected at level 4 in s14, [6]; first Bladesong activation in [7]).

At the table

Chris’s voiceprint is the dry, list-reciting, philosophical wizard register he settled into once Terry stopped being a bard. The shift from Cholmondeley’s gruff old-soldier American cadence to Terry’s smart-arse-wizard pithiness is the single biggest tonal change a player has made on the show. Recurring tells include rambling time-fillers (the elements song, [8]; the countries song, [9]), Lord-of-the-Rings drops, and a tendency to narrate his own party’s corruption in tidy summaries (“two of the people I’m traveling with are corrupted by demons. One’s corrupted by a dragon and one’s corrupted by the void.”, [10]).

Mechanically he optimises (the Shillelagh / Booming Blade / Divine Smite combo Cholmondeley never lived to use, the Bladesinger build path declared three sessions before subclass selection) but rarely lets the optimisation override the bit. The -1 Charisma penalty Terry took for a failed funeral performance for Harvo [11] stood for eleven sessions, until Terry finally returned Harvo’s melody on watch in session 20 and regained the point [12].

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 3, line 1214: Inline citation.
  2. ^ Session 3, line 1252: Inline citation.
  3. ^ Session 3, line 1260: Inline citation.
  4. ^ Session 3, line 2224-2302: Inline citation.
  5. ^ Session 11, line 1521: Inline citation.
  6. ^ Session 14, line 1340: Inline citation.
  7. ^ Session 15, line 173: Inline citation.
  8. ^ Session 11, line 880-884: Inline citation.
  9. ^ Session 11, line 1584: Inline citation.
  10. ^ Session 10, line 1088: Inline citation.
  11. ^ Session 9, line 1646: Inline citation.
  12. ^ Session 20, line 817: Inline citation.
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