Scar

Scarlet

The Red Dancer

aka Astarion's Cumdumpster

A dhampir with a complicated past. Scarlet seeks vengeance on whoever put her on that nautiloid. She struggles with her inner turmoil to navigate the world controlling her wrath and thirst.

"My past is... complicated. It's not something I talk about. Ever."

Child of Woe

Scarlet, born as a bhaal-blood dhampir - lived a life riddled with bad luck and misery. As a child of Bhaal, she is cursed not only by her Dark Urges, but the curse of a vampire, struggling with her inner turmoil to do good, but struggling with her innate desire to kill and feed. Bhaal was aware of this when creating her. He wanted to create the perfect vessel who is by birth a natural killer.Scar was born from a pile of gore that a farm couple discovered, just on the outskirts of Evereska. At first, life was alright. She was being raised by a loving family. Went to preschool, and made friends with an Elf, the daughter of a High Elder. The two were bound to the hip, until one day, they had an argument. Scar, not knowing how to control her emotions, had blacked out, only coming to her friend completely ripped apart. Scar had run to her family to let them know what happened, her foster family were fearful of her. Scar, not knowing how to handle the stress and intensity of her feelings inside her, accidentally finds herself having killed them. Her thirst for blood gets the better of her. She was exiled and hunted after the death of her friend, where eventually, she found her way to Baldur’s Gate. She lived on the streets as an Urchin, dancing for petty coin. Then, she was plucked off the streets by a Zhent, later sold to a Judge in Baldur’s Gate, who had abused her during her childhood up until she was an adult The Judge kept Scarlet under a binding spell, which disallowed her from hurting him.Bhaal only once intervened once he was satisfied with her torment, ready for his Chosen to come home. Bhaal wanted Scarlet to suffer, to know not love, but only hate and yearn for brutality. To have her distrust the world. Hate the world. To kill everything in her wake as she was destined to.

DHAMPIR ORIGINS

Bhaal-Blood

Scarlet is a Bhaal-Blood Dhampir, inheriting the divine essence of the Lord of Murder, Bhaal. She was created from Bhaal’s own gore, carefully crafted to not only be his vessel as his Chosen, but molding his bloody essence into her ancestral lineage as part vampire. Her bloodthirst and predatory traits are doubled due to her innate thirst for blood and murder. Scarlet has ashen skin like a corpse, short horns, bright cat-like eyes, sharp dainty fangs and long claws. Her appearance gives off an intimidating, murderous aura, making her an outcast.

Racial Feats

Traits

Preface - Scarlet is a multi-class between Bard and Paladin. She's lived a long life and gone through different stages. These are custom/homebrewed classes I made based on her personal lore and story.

Bard

College of Blood Dance

Bards of the College of Blood Dance use song and dance to feel the blood flow through their bodies, and to use it to feel the ripples of song through the blood of others. This is a specialized type of dancer reserved to those well-versed in the sanguine arts.This peculiar bard entertains with forbidden acts of blood, not something for the fainthearted, and only advised to patrons who can stomach it. Blood Dancers perform bloody footwork, entertaining their guests by using the dancer's own blood to create beautiful displays of blood ribbons, . These dancers are graceful and swift in their footwork, mesmerizing their audience. But through their bloody dance, with their guests mesmerized, leaves the perfect opening on their targets.Blood dancers are flexible, acrobatic, and expert contortionists. Because of their nimbleness, they are experts at evasion and can swiftly avoid unwanted contact.Blood dancing is an art in which Scarlet had created for herself while trapped in isolation. Having no one in her life to teach, train or mentor her, she learned this forbidden art on her own. She's always been fascinated and inspired by blood and gore all her life, that to fully use it in her dance empowers her.Because she is the first to found this art, she has not trained any others.

Paladin

Oath of the Devoted Daughter

When Scarlet returned to the Temple of Bhaal and became Bhaal's chosen, she couldn't help but think of her father Bhaal as her savior at the time. She swore an Oath to Bhaal, the Oath of the Devoted Daughter.Scarlet trained with the cultists of Bhaal honing her craft and becoming the heir to the throne as Bhaal's Chosen. She was devoted to her father, and swore to the Tenets of Murder to appease her father, Bhaal, indulging in her insatiable thirst for blood, carnage and power.

"I am your devoted daughter made of your gore and blood. You have shown me that the only thing I can trust is my own hate for the world. I will kill everything in my wake, in your name. I am your Chosen, Father."

Oathbreaker

When Scarlet was usurped by her blood-kin Orin, this broke her oath. She thus becomes an Oathbreaker at the start in BG3. Because of her amnesia, Scarlet can't recall who she sword her oath to or why it was broken, but she accepted her status as an Oathbreaker, combinining it with her Bard knowledge.

BIOGRAPHY

EARLY LIFE

Born in 1337, the Year of the Wandering Maiden, Scarlet's birth was rather peculiar, she was found in a pile of gore and flesh just on the outskirts of Evereska, and discovered by an Elven couple that lived on a farm. They took her in and raised her, curious about her unusual circumstance. The couple had thought she was a weird little thing, with horns, bright red eyes.When Scarlet was two, she went missing. The couple searched for her, and finally found her in the barn, finding her to have killed one of the sheep. She was feasting on it. They knew something was not right with the child, but did what they could to help domesticate her. They thought perhaps she was a vampire, which, they were close.The farm couple didn't know what it was, but they knew Scarlet needed blood to survive. When they tried to keep blood from her, she grew paler than usual. So, they agreed to let her feed on one of the animals, and trained her to not kill it.They were able to get Scarlet domesticated and to control her cravings. They thought by the time she was four, she was ready to go to school. To learn to socialize with other children. Scarlet did well in pre-school, and made friends. Filauria, an Elven girl, the daughter of a High Elder.Scarlet and the daughter got into an argument and Scarlet, unable to control her feelings of anger and hate, accidentally kills her best friend, just shy of four years. She went to her foster parents, asking for help, but when she saw the fear on their faces, she couldn't handle the feelings of abandonment.Having killed a High Elder's daughter, Scarlet was exiled from Evereska and hunted. She eventually found her way to Baldur's Gate, where she was able to blend in with the culture of the city. She lived at an orphanage, hoping for a better life. It wasn't under her thirst for blood got the better of her and she attacked another child; she was kicked out of the orphanage and was back on the streets, living on the streets as an Urchin, dancing for petty coin.After a few years, a Zhent had picked her off the streets, and Scarlet was sold at an auction to a Judge in Baldur's Gate.

CHILDHOOD

TRIGGER WARNING: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse

A High Elf elder had bought Scarlet at the auction the Zhents held. He was an esteemed Judge in Baldur's Gate, many looked up to him. However, behind closed doors he was a corrupt Elf.When Judge Rivorn first laid eyes on Scarlet, the first words to come from his lips were "what a pretty little thing." He bought her out of curiosity. She wasn't like the other options at the auction and thought she was the most beautiful.When he brought Scarlet to his estate, he immediately had a room ready for her. There was not much in there, but a bed, a wardrobe, a window, and a tub for bathing.At first she didn't know what to think of the Judge. Should she trust him? But that changed when the Judge brought her to his office and performed a blood ritual on her, binding her to him, body, mind, soul. He knew her thoughts, her feelings, everything. And in turn, she was never to harm him.From then on he had her trained. He hired specific tutors to help with her trainings to become the perfect bride and wife. He didn't give her a proper education, didn't teach her to read, thought those things did not matter, but also wanted to keep her in the dark on many subjects to not give her any resources or power. She only needed to know to be a good wife that listened.Scar had to follow specific rules of the estate:
Always listen.
Never speak unless told to.
Never leave the estate.When Scarlet had turned seven, that was when her life had changed for the worse. He had come home one day and while the servants were bathing her, he pushed them aside and told them to leave. He shut the door and grabbed Scarlet out of the bath, pulling her against her will to her bed. She couldn't fight him due to the binds he had on her. She had to listen.And it was like that every night. Some nights were quiet. When he had a party. Guests over. But most were not.She tries to escape from her window, but ends up falling and breaking her leg. The Judge quickly found out and after a doctor treated her, he locked her away in solitude, in a cold damp room with no light. She wasn't allowed to drink or eat for weeks.

ADOLESCENCE

She was still at the estate, forced to listen to her betrothed.She tried to escape often, but her bindings would keep her there at the estate. The Judge would punish her every time.
She was locked away in solitude at the estate in a small, cold, dark room. She wasn't allowed to eat or drink or feed. Scarlet survived by eating the bugs or vermin that would find her.
In her time of solitude, she discovered and practiced her sanguine arts. Secretly in her solitude, albeit weak, she trained and learned how to control her blood, thus entertwining it with her bardic knowledge.

ADULTHOOD

By the time she became an adult, Scarlet had stopped aging at the age of 30.During the time of the Bhaalspawn crisis, Scarlet was still kept in isolation in the estate. Because of this, she avoided the crisis altogether, without knowing her own origins.When she turns 33, that is when she frees herself from the Judge. He attempts to assault her again, but Scarlet blacks out, only to wake up to his body ripped to shreds. She recalls the feeling, the feelings of those urges she once had when she was a young child. Scarlet wasn't sure what had happened or why, but whatever it was she was thankful to.

STORY ARCS

EVERESKA ARC

🩸She was born outside of Evereska. A farmer family took her in after finding her.
🩸She was able to sustain herself on mortal food, until she needed blood. Her foster family discovered early on after much confusion she is a vampire, perhaps dhampir. They weren't educated enough to understand her race.
🩸They allowed her to feed on the animals in the barn discreetly, but monitored her feedings.
🩸They were loving parents towards her.
🩸Scarlet made friends with someone in Evereska and they were close. Scarlet had to keep her dhampir-ness a secret.
🩸She and her best friend got into an argument one day, which upset Scarlet. Without having any control over her impulses she accidentally killed her best friend.
🩸She goes home to tell her parents, to which frightened them. After their negative reaction, it had triggered Scar and she had accidentally killed them too. She was four.
🩸She was exiled from Evereska. Deemed a monster from the hells.
🩸Scarlet found her way to Baldur's Gate, trying to find a new life. She lived in an orphanage for a while, but accidentally attacked a child for their blood. She didn't have control over her thirst.
🩸She got kicked out and lived on the streets as an Urchin for about three years.

JUDGE RIVORN ARC

🩸A high elf elder, named Rivorn, a judge in Baldur's Gate, discovered her and called her a "pretty little thing." He bought her off some slavers.
🩸Scarlet then lived with Judge Rivorn for 25 years. He forced her into a betrothal, and was waiting until she was "of age" to marry her. But behind closed doors he still treated her however he wanted to.
🩸Rivorn was highly regarded. He was able to bend the law to his will and was very corrupt. He knew Cazador and worked with him, doing corrupt favors. Used to be Astarion's superior when Astarion was a magistrate (small world).
🩸No one knew he had Scarlet captive. He kept her in his estate locked up in her room like a caged bird for 26 years. She wasn't allowed to talk to anyone. Cazador could smell her scent in the estate upon his visits and wanted her for himself, to breed more dhampirs. Judge Rivorn wouldn't allow it and Cazador needed him alive. Knowing the judge was old, Cazador figured he was patient enough to wait out his death.
🩸Scarlet was forced into a betrothal with Judge Rivorn at age seven. The Judge had placed a binding spell on Scarlet, which protected him. She could never do him any harm, and he could compel her when he felt like. She was his plaything, his doll. Scarlet became a victim to CSA rather quickly.
🩸She wasn't allowed to talk back, she wasn't allowed to speak unless told to. She was trained to become a noblewoman to fit the perfect trophy wife role. The Judge never allowed her to learn to read, to cook, anything. He didn't want to her to know anything about the world.
🩸If she ever disobeyed him, tried to run away, he would give her lashings on her back. He never touched any other part of her body since he wanted her to be perfect, so he chose a place where no one would know unless she was naked.
🩸She was locked up in cold small empty cellar for over a year without food, water and blood as punishment for running away. She fed on vermin and bugs when she could find them.
🩸She became frail and skinny. She's already petite.
🩸She never learned to read, but stole an Infernal book from the Judge's library in his house and taught herself to read Infernal secretly.
🩸She taught herself to dance and sing and only did it on her own time to pass time. She wasn't allowed to do anything per the Judge. He wanted her to be a doll.
🩸Judge Rivorn would refuse her blood as punishment and a way to control her. He would leave a piece of meat outside her bedroom door, until she'd give in to his orders. She would wait and smell rotting flesh after a while to which the servants replace. Eventually she would give in and do as he says.
🩸She has trauma with blood and meat diet-wise, so she follows mostly a vegetarian diet and only eats meat/drinks blood when she has to.
🩸When she turned thirty-three, the Judge was going to assault her. Scar blacked out and when she came to, his gore and blood was everywhere and on her.
🩸She took his gold and ran from the estate.

DANCER ARC

🩸After escaping the estate, Scarlet spent her freedom dancing for coin and entertaining guests.
🩸She worked at the Elfsong and Sharess's Caress as an entertainer.
🩸She was nicknamed Untouchable Scarlet due to never letting clients touch her, and she refused sexual/physical contact.
🩸Because it was her first time back in society she found it difficult to control her urges and hunger for blood.
🩸She'll lure guests into a private room and drain them of their blood, while also satiating her urges of murder.
🩸She wandered Faerun, traveling, and dancing. She joined a troupe, performing her unique Blood Dance art for guests, however, misfortune befalls the troupe when she wakes and had murdered them.

BHAAL CULT ARC

🩸Scarlet arrives at the Temple of Bhaal. She meets her Father for the first time, and other cultists.
🩸Scarlet multi-classes into a Paladin, swearing an Oath to Bhaal to be his most devoted daughter and Chosen.
🩸Orin usurps Scarlet.

SCAR TRAUMAS + HEALING

(CW: sex, blood, etc)
🩸Scar suffers from csa.
🩸Never developed proper emotional intelligence since she was isolated for a very long time. She is numb and lacks empathy. Lacks self-awareness.
🩸She dissociates often.
🩸After her abuser dies, she avoids sex and any potential relationships like the plague.
🩸Has a fear of touch and fear of intimacy.
🩸When she meets the companions, she starts to learn more of empathy. She gets to know the others and try to understand things from their point of view. But sometimes can be callous.
🩸She tries to show kindness where she can, when she tries to become a better person.
🩸She knows what it's like to not have autonomy over oneself. It is how she and Astarion can relate to one another.

NOTE: This is all still WIP.