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Welcome! On this blog my passion for art, games, nature and stories collide and create a little place, where I can enjoy all the things that make me happy. I hope you´ll enjoy it, too (╹▽╹)~✿
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Captured Hearts

ABOUT CAPTURED HEARTS

Captured Hearts is a Dungeons and Dragons campaign that me and my best friend, @visceryl are running between the two of us that we have decided to novelize. Each of us hold a host of npcs and trade off DMing while following the main storyline. Here’s some tidbits about the campaign and what its’ about!

  • Captured Hearts is inspired by Captive Prince and shares many similarities - though the plot and direction of the stories both go in very different directions. You may find some Captive Prince ‘easter eggs’ here and there as well as nods to that amazing series.
  • The campaign takes place on a homebrew continent in the Forgotten Realms setting called Aeliorn.
  • There are mature themes that take place in this campaign, including and not limited to: gore, torture, sexual encounters, sexual abuse, drug use and alcoholism.
  • We aren’t looking for any suggestions! This is merely a novelized version of our campaign that we thought would be fun to write and all of our ideas are already set in stone.
  • We have homebrew rules set in place for our campaign and as such you may find the mechanics of the game working differently. (For example, wizards and sorcerers are the same thing, and don’t draw power from spellbooks but from their own ‘mana’, as well as the fact that all people have ‘mana’ but only mages can control it.)
  • We have been playing the 3.5 edition.
  • All characters used in Captured Hearts are our own personal characters. Please refrain from using them anywhere. Our art is custom, their personalities are custom, and their stories are custom no matter the nods or links to the mentioned book series.  We would appreciate it if the characters depicted in this story remain unused!

The Plot

  • Every being in Aeliorn has the ability to use magic. Every being - save for the Kheistan family, who long ago were cursed to bear no magic or arcane abilities. After his father, who had been in the Kingsguard of the King of Aeliorn was killed off for being different and cursed, Aven found himself on the streets struggling to survive.
  • He eventually found himself in the gladiatorial arena of Aeliorn where he made a name for himself, taking on a runt of a cub and caring for it and beating down every monster faced until he became known as the Beast Tamer. His infamy and notoriety attracted the attention of Prince Lucian Arceneaux who purchased him and brought him on as his slave.
  • Lucian is the son of Aimeric and Estelle Arceneaux. The two cherished royals were cut down and murdered on the road while the three were traveling to another province and Lucian was left the orphaned heir to Aeliorn. It’s currently in control of his uncle, Lord Darrien who - since Lucian was a young boy, has manipulated and used him in his vulnerability. Years of abuse and manipulation turned Lucian cold, arrogant and uncaring. Darrien’s plans to use him began to disintegrate due to the fact that Lucian no longer heeded the advice of anyone - including his uncle.
  • Soon after purchasing Aven, Darrien informed the young prince that he was to sail from Aeliorn on his first international diplomatic mission - to the city of Amn. Naive to his uncle’s murderous intention, he departed from Aeliorn and embarked to Amn. But no one had anticipated the strength and skill of the Prince’s new slave.
  • When the ship was attacked by Amn pirates who intended to capture the Prince and sell them off in a slave market, Lucian and Aven are forced to work together to free themselves, survive in this strange and foreign land and begin to build an army that can allow them to return to Aeliorn, take back their home and undo Darrien’s dark deeds. Little do they know - a threat far worse than Lord Darrien waits.

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The story of High Hopes Low Rolls | Chapter 2

The story continues in our most ambitious installment yet, as we dip into another of the High Hopes members’ histories!
As always, we’re already excited to get to work on the next chapter, and we’re incredibly grateful to all of you for your continued patience, excitement and support! In the meantime, we’d love to hear your thoughts and theories about this chapter, so please let us know in the comments either here or over on YouTube! 💖

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…………………………………………….

Rizo needed a little bit of help when he first decided to become an arcane warrior. He got it… eventually.

(this is really sketchy and hastily done but whateeeeever)

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