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It started as just Eozerus Largo'thog Ikezawa.

I had always wanted to try out an Undead Druid, so balancing life and death would seem like something more... savvy? World of Warcraft didn't allow it, so I went for the next best thing, which was Pathfinder. At the time, Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was not respected, which meant Pathfinder was essentially a superior version of 4th Edition, and a superior version of 3.5, the Edition most people otherwise worked with. Basically, there were a couple of things I wanted to do, the main one being playing an Undead Forsaken-type who could probably work with nature. Death was natural, after all.

I was initially disappointed with Pathfinder. The only class that was close enough to Undeath was Dhampir. Not bad, right? Being part-Vampire had its benefits, if one were to optimize it correctly. I tried to roleplay as close to a proper Undead as possible with this darling Dhampir. This generally just translated to Min-Maxing so my Constitution was low, and my Charisma and Wisdom stats were high. I needed Charisma for Undead, and Wisdom for Druid. So far, it was as I'd normally build a character anyway, as I value mental stats over physical any day of the week.

The first campaign I played this in was for one of my sister's friends. He was a fan of Katawa Shoujo like me, so I thought we'd get along just fine. He also turned out to be a Brony, however, and even more of a Powergamer than I could hope to be. The difference between him and myself, outside of his liking My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic in contrast to my finding it heavily wanting, was his prioritizing physical stats over mental stats in everything. When I told him Constitution was going to be my character's dump stat, he shat a brick and lectured me on the importance of Constitution. That was the first bad sign for the campaign. The second bad sign was his not really designing bosses or confrontations to be appropriate to our teamcomp, which was a lot more spellcaster-oriented. Eventually, a deal was made with a balor and my character was re-incarnated into a Half-Orc Barbarian. Given my usual Roleplaying playstyle, I found myself at odds with this initially. The Game Master compromised with me, and I could multiclass into Metal Master Druids, thus getting the feel I was supposed to have back. I had heavy physical stats and a passable Wisdom, but otherwise my reincarnation made me more like what he wanted rather than what I wanted.

During that campaign, we fought a Drow Kensei that worshipped Norgorber. I looked up Norgorber, and the surrounding lore of him. Everything sounded like this could also be appropriate for my Druid. In fact, for Golarion campaigns it might be a better way to use the Life versus Death thematics of nature rather than trying to make my character as close to an undead as possible. In addition, I had met Thragg through the first campaign. While I was a Barbarian, I learned of Zutara Crashstomp and six half-orc henchmen. Not realizing our party's food was magical at the time, I chopped their balls off and cooked them. I tried to offer to the remaining party members, only for them all to decline.

The second campaign was Ustalav. It was more generous. Using my being raised by Orc Druids, I took my time homebrewing a Dhampir Metal Master Druid whose longest stay was in the Hold of Belkzen. Eozerus would be betrothed to a Zutara Bad Moon, would deal with not only Iomedae-worshipping Paladins (Knights of Ozem) with Scott Strife at the helm, and also would lose Zutara Bad Moon to the Shades of Uskerwood (Lawful Evil/Lawful Neutral Druids who worship Zon-Kuthon). After a lot of loss in her life, she resided in Ulcazar and made a deal with Norgorberites. In exchange for her services to the deity and to another known as Aroden, she would acquire flayleaf as a form of medication and a means of acquiring her revenge on the Knights of Ozem, as well as any other Iomedae-worshipper. From there, she chopped a church bell in Tamrivena and jumped off of towers. She also lost to a cleric with a Challenge rating of 1/2, in huge part thanks to the Gorem cleric's use of positive energy.

The only problem was I had intended to write a tragic anti-villain, and ended up writing a tragic "villain who was simply brainwashed by people." Not a poor concept to work with, and I didn't have many sessions. If not for an Iomedae paladin eventually joining the party, I might have been able to handle more of what came my way in Ustalav. I also rolled Sense Motive checks on everyone I saw as far as NPCs went, and roleplayed a paranoid woman who also confronted a Vampire who claimed to be her father, whose last name was Lelouch. Given the Ustalav GM all but confirmed I had some connection to this Vampire, I tacked on Lelouch as a secondary surname.

So Eozerus Largo'thog Ikezawa-Lelouch would now be her full name, as of her current rendition in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. My Ustalav GM didn't want me playing Evil-type characters in other Pathfinder games (they were more public and usually ran by Pathfinder Society rules, which meant Evil was not an alignment any future PF characters could take and worshipping Norgorber would just raise eyebrows), and I didn't have any other homebrew-friendly Pathfinder games after that. I had to do a lot of analoguing for Eozerus to function in Chaos' campaign, but at the present juncture she's almost fully analogued.