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firm. As they all returned to Tragos, the
mysterious figure simply nodded in contentment.
The newly transformed individuals
relished in their new forms. They have never felt
so accepted, so welcomed, in a society of
beautiful and gorgeous people.
Three months later, however, they all
woke up one morning, gazed into the mirror--and
found themselves as ugly as the day before the
transformation. Most returned back to their
measly outcast lives, except for Kalliope and
Nikolai, who wanted--who needed-- their beauty
back and more.
They returned to the hooded figure
outside the city, demanding that their
attractiveness be returned. Reluctantly, the entity
gave them a condition: they can be beautiful,
even the most beautiful, in the land, provided
they can find the human essences needed for the
transformation. Without a doubt both agreed.
At the end of four months, Kalliope and
Nikolai used their beauty to lure seven outcasts
to the Pinnacle, which was then the Temple of
Dionysius, the god of revelry. Following the
directions given to them by the figure, they
recited the chant and watched as the seven were
drained of their essences and transferred into
their own. A thick fog surrounded Tragos and
the surrounding islands, and another realm had
been taken in for the Demiplane.
Kalliope and Nikolai in the years that
followed, drained countless people's life essences
to perpetuate their own beauty. They always
picked those deemed unattractive by society, so
as not to arouse suspicion.
At first, they took only the outcasts of
Tragos. They led the elderly, the disabled, the
unwashed and the sick up the Temple of
Dionysius with false hopes of a night of revelry
with the most beautiful persons in the land.
Those people were never seen again.
Eventually, the people of Tragos
became terrified of the disappearances and the
dried-up corpses that have appeared in the city
streets. Worse, horrific ghosts of those missing
started to haunt the city. Nobody ever put the
blame on the beautiful people, seen as too
attractive to do anything so cruel. Gradually, the
city was abandoned, and the Temple of
Dionysius was renamed the Pinnacle.
Current Sketch
The two lords may look beautiful to the
rest, but they will always look ugly to each other.
They do not work as a couple; on the contrary
they frequently squabble. They only help each
other claim more life essences to perpetuate their
beauty. When out mingling in public, they take
on different aliases and different forms.
Kalliope and Nikolai are beyond any
compassionate emotion: all this vain duo cares
about is their beauty, their maintenance of it, and
the earthly, hedonistic pleasures derived from
such.
Closing the Borders
When either lord wants to seal off
Tragathos, those fleeing automatically go blind
and deaf. They remain as such until they
somehow turn around back into Tragathos.
The Lair
The abandoned city of Tragos is home
only to ghosts and the occasional non-attractive
person left alone to fend for him or herself. It
also serves as an "amusement ground" for
Kalliope and Nikolai. Therefore, Tragos is a rank
2 sinkhole of evil.
The desecrated Temple of Dionysus,
atop the Pinnacle, is the lords' home and site of
the almost tri-monthly essence draining of
victims. Such horrible acts in the name of beauty
have given the Pinnacle a rank 4.
Down with the Beautiful
Kalliope and Nikolai are vulnerable to
attacks only in the Pinnacle. When either lord is
somehow reduced to 0 hit points, their life
essence travels down from the desecrated
acropolis into the next most beautiful person in
Tragathos. Within three days, the person takes on
the traits of the slain lord.
The only way to break the cycle of
death and beauty in Tragathos is to fool one of
the lords into draining the life essence of the
other. When this happens, the other lord becomes
an ordinary fighter or sorceress, whichever the
case may be.
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