Lovely displacer beast.

Awesome character! What class are they?

Thanks! Illrigger. Subclass is painkiller. None of the other classes really matched him.

Oh! MCDM! Very nice! I don't have much experience with their stuff other than Strongholds and Followers.

Been enjoying it so far although some of stuff could be better written and clearer but besides that it’s been pretty good.

I love this guy! It's so rare to see a good displacer beast!

Character Backstory?

I never really did put one in the description here because I felt it would be to nerdy of me and it’s also very long.

But here’s a summary of his story without posting pages on pages of stuff. Do keep in mind that this is multiple pages of lore stuffed into a just few paragraphs.

Tavor wasn’t born. He was forged in the Nine Hells under Dispater’s authority. Devils wanted a perfect living weapon—one with the instincts of a displacer beast, but the hands, voice, and reasoning of a humanoid. His four arms, gray-striped fur, and shifting tendrils weren’t choices; they were engineered anatomy, shaped in a silent operating theater like a masterpiece built for killing.

What made him unique wasn’t his body—it was the runes carved into him. His flesh was inscribed with Furnace Script, a rare infernal glyph system that binds intention directly into the soul. The script was meant to control him, rewrite him, and record every act of obedience. Nine bindings were carved into his spine and body, and five more were planned for his neck to control speech, loyalty, and identity.

But something went wrong—or right. Furnace Script adapts to the will of its host, and Tavor’s will proved stronger than his creators expected. As the runes learned, they changed. Instead of making him obedient, they gave him the ability to choose.

The day his mind finally woke, he felt everything they had done to him… and could do nothing but obey. The moment he gained true agency, he repaid every cut, every command, every intention. He escaped through blood and fire, killing his way out of the Iron Basilica, and stole the sigilwright’s notes as proof of what he was made to be—and chose not to be.

Now he walks the world not as a weapon, but as the first and only being to rewrite the script meant to own him. His glow is not obedience. It is defiance.

Okay, this was perfect backstory.

Why are you worried about being nerdy when this is the kind of information that takes characters from commendable to astounding?!

Thank you for the kind words!

I’ll definitely try to start being more open with his backstory and such.

I was worried about it coming off nerdy because the actual versions get very detailed in the manners of his engineered anatomy and his whole creation process. The reasoning for stuff and how it works along with how it’s applied. Others parts drifting into magical mechanics and rulings of the glyphs or psychology of him and tons of other things needed for world and character building but still keeping it easy to read and understand along with enjoy.

Okay, so what you are saying is that you have an idea to make an entire DND rulebook here, but you're holding out on us.

Haha I hope to have an idea that rivals the thoroughness of one.