aliases:
- Eric
Eric Brennus
5'10", lean, roguish, young adult between 17-25 years old; canonically in his original setting, he stays mostly human looking, but we like turning him into a creature for fun.
Eric makes a deal with Eiriogh in which he trades his mortal soul and gains Eiriogh's fire abilities. The circumstances surrounding how they get to making the deal, usually involve Eric dying or coming close to death in order to meet Eiriogh in that "space between." Eiriogh promises Eric that he will live, if he accepts Eiriogh's gift of fire without explaining the terms and conditions, so of course Eric says yes.
Eric has very little control over these "gifts," he struggles to summon the fire when he wants it and it always seems to manifest when he doesn't want it or when he is in distress. The more he gives into it, the greater the chance that Eiriogh takes control.
In the Everking setting, Eric live with his brother in a remote, rural farming settlement in the eastern steps of the continent, one of the last vestiges of civilization that practice the "old ways" of magic and ancestor worship. His brother Sean is adept at magic potentially one of the best mages in their settlement, while Eric is not and seems to have no potential in this regard. So it comes as a surprise to everyone when Eric suddenly has the ability to create and control fire. Elemental magics are forbidden because they are the domain of the Fomori, if someone possess them, they are either Fomori themselves or the servent of one of the Fomori.
This spurs them to make a journey to seek help in correcting Eric's possession before he is complete consumed by the fire.
In D&D canon, Eric is a newly turned tiefling (based on the original lore of how the tiefling race was created), cursed by Eiriogh who would be the equivalent of a devil in the nine hells. Rogue is a better class fit than warlock (he's still not great at magic), however, he would have a "warlock pact" type of relationship to Eiriogh.
In an urban fantasy setting, much is the same with the execption of Eric being classified as a changeling (half human, half fae) with Eiriogh mostly likely being his biological father. Some catalyst causes him to undergo transformation from human to creature as his abilities manifest, has to quickly figure out his shit while saying off the radar of the Wicces (magic police).
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