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ezra/rook 101

🕯️ S E T T I N G 🕯️

• Rook and Ezra are characters from homebrew Blades in The Dark TTRPG campaign
• BiTD is a tabletop roleplaying game in which people get to play as criminal/scoundrels in a criminal crew
• Setting-wise it’s akin to underground Victorian era with low magic
• Rook is my player character while Ezra is an NPC played by Reina the Game Master

QUICK INTRO

🦁 Nothing is known about his past except he used to be a spy recruiter and that he attempted to summon a devil, in which he succeeded

🦁 Now lives in their cult HQ, occasionally undertaking missions from their patron deity. He’s a literal devil’s advocate/HR guy

🦌 The only surviving child of a newspaper company owner. Thirty years ago went to the neighboring city to be a rail worker after his family’s company went bankrupt

🦌 Now busy juggling multiple roles: a member of saboteur crew, a clerk as dayjob, and as a cult’s assassin

【 Ezra 】

【 Rook 】

Geriatric but appears 40s・ENTP・Chaotic Evil・Tall・Fulltime cultist・Erratic・Night owl・Religious

40s but appears 20s・ISFJ・Lawful Evil・

174 cm・Clerk・

Neurotic・Early bird・Secular

FRIENDS TO ENEMIES TO COLLEAGUES

• Rook met Ezra (then Leonard) while serving his time in jail, in which the latter showed Rook some ropes regarding arcane matters
• They parted ways after commiting a crime, much to Rook’s dismay, but reunited decades later on opposing sides
• Both have experienced each other’s worst sides
• After his own death and subsequent resurrection, Rook secretly joined Ezra’s cult
• Now they're both field agents of the same faction and are trying to learn how to collaborate

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATIONS

• Rook is often seen in white/pastel coat, Ezra in black/red coat
• Their respective color associations are white-gold and black- red/silver
• Basically pastel bf x goth bf

• Shy and awkward vs outgoing and loud
• Affably evil vs sugary malice
• Brawn vs brain
• Benevolent dictator vs violent revolutionary

COMPLEMENTARY COLOR SCHEMES

COMPLEMENTARY PERSONALITIES

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATIONS

• Both share a HQ where they can partake in residential maintenance
• Rook is keen on trying new recipes so Ezra can enjoy it
• Raising bats together
• Going on a picnic
• Frequently attend balls

• Let’s be real, both are homicidal cultists
• Ezra is often tasked with tracking targets/ consorting with targets
• Rook is often tasked with assasination
• Ezra likes high profile crimes, and is currently wanted for multiple charges

DOMESTIC FLUFF

PARTNERS IN LITERAL CRIME

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATIONS

• Turns out Rook had been missing Ezra and waited for him for decades
• Rook had confessed that Ezra was his sole reason he’s in London now
• They’re taking baby steps to getting familiar to each other

• Rook decided to join the cult because he couldn’t cope with isolation and grief after his own death
• Corruption arc, as Ezra was the one who ordered Rook to kill his former employer
• Both dealing with the weight of repeated dark arcane rituals

PINING AND SLOWBURN

DARKER THEMES

ROOK WANTS

EZRA WANTS

• To feel safe
• Power and stability

• To be himself
• Power and freedom

✨TRIVIA TIME ✨

• Both can’t age and will continue on living unless they’re killed with proper method
• Both have exact same markings on their bodies that serve as infernal contract with their patron. Ezra is less shy about it so he can be seen wearing his shirt unbuttoned
• Rook is the only person who calls Ezra by his real name (Leonard)
• In near future Ezra will try to usurp the leadership position in their cult
• GM Reina initially planned to make Ezra and his cult the BBEG of our campaign, before Rook changed course and joined them