In before the mad. :B

Cool shield there. :)

That is wonderful. As someone who's starting D&D soon it's perfectly timed 030

I had a D&D character like that. Bodelain Chorenzka. DM was like "oh btw they're like just a few decades past openly lynching half-elves in the street" and I was like "... makin a half-elf of the Noble background".
Oh and he was blatantly half-elf. His father was like Indian/Middle Eastern race, and his mother was a moon elf, so he had dark brown skin, silver white hair, and bright green and gold-flecked eyes.
Backstory was his dad was a tyrant that strong-armed a wife out of the elf kingdom and then had a spite baby. Then the boy grew up and got tired of his dad's shit and stabbed him and let his mom take over a ruler, and now he's a paladin of the Oath of Vengeance for the Raven Queen, the goddess of death, and is multi-classed as a cleric of the Life domain, wears her symbol on his shield and necklace. He literally carried around a pair of manacles with scratched-in tally marks for how many times he'd hauled someone to the local prison for assaulting him.
And racism-induced paranoia totally saved our asses once, when the guy we were escorting got attacked by assassins, but Bodelain always sleeps with his backpack by the door and a bell resting on top of it that's tied to the door, so when the assassin tried to sneak into his room the bell woke him up and he straight up shivved the dude with the dagger he'd killed his dad with. Nat 20'd, dumped like a 3rd level Divine Smite into it, and did 50 points of damage, which was apparently exactly how much HP the guy had left, and his face like exploded in raven feathers XD

holy jeez thats an impressive elf bahah

Oh yeah, he was one of my more intense characters.

I've had ones as silly as a Green Dragonborn bard named Ginshalakar Jasaf (they do last name then first name), who ran a brewery making gin, and since none of the locals could pronounce Jasaf well, he just went by Josef and called it Josef Gin. Even had a Portable Hole he'd use to make deliveries. Just loaded the barrels in and folded it up. He played the Dulcian (basically a medieval Bassoon) and the Crumhorn (looks like a wooden recorder that curves like a saxophone. It's that one instrument you always hear in Renaissance festival music that has that like kazoo-buzz to it). Once thwarted an Oni's attempt to run away invisibly by flinging a bottle of quill ink all over it.

Or I made a Tabaxi cleric of the Trickery domain (deity is the Cat God), named Silver Tongue of the Stone Forest Clan, or Silver for short, and he's basically like a somewhat disgruntled "getting too old for this shit" kind of guy. He's also a morbid drunk and smokes catnip to get over it (when cats sniff catnip it makes them hyper). His background is the Charlatan and his fake identity (used the term "fake" a bit loosely) was a merchant named Kité Katt. He went to a different continent and joined a merchant caravan, and the caravan master just referred to him as "Kitty", but had an accent, and then once he had enough money he ran off to be a merchant on his own and bought a bunch of merchandise, only to find out he needed a merchant license. Then he ran into a guy, Eric, who wanted to be a merchant and could afford the license, but then would be too broke to get any merchandise. So they found a loophole wherein you can share a merchant license with family, so they had a gay marriage of convenience and became business partners and Kité didn't have a last name, and Eric was like "uh, my last name is Katt." He still thinks Eric made that up. Anyway, Eric died in a caravan raid, and Kité decided to go back to his home continent and go by Silver again. He still has the ring and a map marked with Eric's grave. And it's a secret he'll take to the grave, but one time Eric caught him with his stash of catnip and he panicked and ate it (eating catnip acts more like smoking weed for cats), and he got all overly aware of all of his fur and thus super cuddly, and he and Eric were pretty lonely on the trail and maaaayyyy have finally consummated the marriage.