Ravings of a Textual Deviant

Role Call #23 asks a deceptively simple question–

What was the best character you came up with that you never had a chance to play?

I’ve built this character twice and never gotten to use her (hence her lack of name). The concept is that she is a Siberian shamaness whose spirit was disconnected from her body by the Tunguska Event. It seemed reasonable to me that anything with such a profound effect on the physical world would have a parallel effect on the spirit world. I intended that she would have no physical form, but was visible all the time to people who could see into the spirit world and to everyone when she put the effort into it. She would have some magic and some healing abilities. To balance the scales, she would be from a relatively primitive culture, have a rather different world-view from the other characters, and be more than a little bit out of her mind (so to speak) from being noncorporeal for several decades. One of these days, I hope she’ll get a name and a story.

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