April Pinup #1 Poll (Patreon)

Poll time! Time again to exercise your democratic rights!

This poll will be up from March 19th 10am CET to March 22nd 10pm CET.

And the suggestions are as follows:

1. The Re-imagining of King Necrochadnezzar - The undead that haunt the Frostlands of the 7th realm have largely been considered a inexplicable menace, their origins and whatever malignant purpose the ravenous dead serve lost to time. A common (if unverified) theory is that they are remnants of the mythic 6th realm, animated by the same wicked powers thought to have brought about that epoch's calamitous end.

One of the better preserved undead hubs was a site known as the Winter Palace, an ancient stronghold dedicated to an ancient king called Necrochadnezzar. Much has been made of this revenant in popular culture since archeologist-adventurers uncovered what details they could on a daring expedition, with Necrochadnezzar becoming a kind of stock villain in many plays and novels.

Enter Courtney Celadon (she insists the name is alliterative, though it's unclear which way), famed goblin "scholar" and pulp fiction author. Her hit series "Queen of the Sixth" radically reimagines the Sixth Realm not as a epoch of infernal evil as is common in most cultures, but instead a bygone era of science, exploration, and passion. Its heroine, Dr. Necroka Nezza, is the realm's foremost arcane scientist, whose list of brilliant accomplishments is only matched by her list of steamy romantic interests.  While derided by actual scholars as wildly unfounded and almost offensively inaccurate, the "Queen of the Sixth" series has a massive commercial success, with over sixty entries and counting and hundreds of thousands of copies sold. Its fanbase, who call themselves "Sixers", are vast, enthusiastic, and prone to brutal arguments over which of Necroka's lovers is her OTP.

The strangest wrinkle of this rather indulgent reimagining of a largely unknown bit of history came recently, when a new archeological/zombie hunting expedition made its way to the Winter Palace. To their surprise, they found the site not a frozen over fortress occupied by legions of mindless undead, but a technovilla occupied by revenants of the Sixth realm, undead but far better preserved in bodies and minds thanks to the wonders of (unfounded) arcane science. And at this strange procession's head is Necroka Nezza herself, short a pulse yet otherwise ripped right from the bawdy cover of a Courtney Celedon novel, her brilliant mind and tendency for melodrama and passion undiminished by time, cold, or her own uncertain reality.

(Seventh Realm, Male lich/zombie king reimagined through the power of fandom into female science revenant, with the aesthetics of a retrofuturistic dime-store novel and the personality of a harlequin romance heroine. Because clearly what the 7th realm is lacking are bodice-ripper revenant nerds.)

2. Playing Yourself: The Second- Dexter, an uptight nerd is convinced to multiclass his tiefling Paladin into a Rogue after seeing how much fun Denise (From this https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-pinup-2-78972027 ) is having with her Mage-Knight in their Seventh Realm campain.

A few weeks later, Bexxy has adopted a more punk look, and is known for her wild trickster-esque schemes and pranks, which she also brings to the tabletop with her jovial but resolute Imp-turned-Valkyrie Inquisitor.

(Empire Bay, human male-to-female tiefling)

3. True-Soul Chronicles Part Three: Tempest Silverthorn - Following the egg cracking of Elia, he and Tysandre discover yet another egg in among the nobles of the City of Vigil. They're the eldest child of a noble family and are expected to assume their assigned gender to marry into the royal Crowley family as a means to secure wealth and prestige to their family for generations to come. But this young noble dreams of breaking free from the rigid expectations of Vigil's upper class. Their heart belongs among the people and they wish dearly to help the less fortunate of West Galria with a more hands-on approach. But first they really need to get out of that stuffy suit their mother forced them to wear!

Tysandre and Elia overhears this wish at a fancy gala and with a few slashes of her sacred blade, Tysandre helps the young noble shed all their assigned traits, and now they break out into a glorious and proud non-binary form that is how they always saw themselves!

(Seventh Realm, male-presenting human to non-binary human)