✸ amon ✸

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Amon is a tiefling monk I played in a D&D 5e campaign from 2018 to 2025 - DM: Valentin P.

Amon grew up in the Wa monastery, his parents gave him away as they didn't have the means to raise him. Despite this, he had a peaceful childhood, surrounded by other young aspirants. The monks follow the teachings of Ohm, and they value equilibrium, and being wise enough to preserve the balance between the forces at play in the world. One motto they have is 'do not do anything without thinking about what you cannot undo when it will be done'.

When he comes of age, Amon leaves the monastery to begin a pilgrimage, one that every apprentice has to go through. It's a journey from which something of value (it can be anything from an item to untangible things like knowledge) has to be brought back to the monastery. It can last a couple of weeks, to years, to some of the monks even choosing not to return.

despite his scary appearance and aptitude to fight, he is by far the kindest of the party, and the most level-headed, and only uses violence as a last resort

the journey taught him a lot about people; he learned not to trust blindly the hard way, choosing instead to give people the benefit of the doubt willingly while still protecting himself

this led him to be the only party member who tried to understand the main antagonist's motive and attempted to find a peaceful resolution with her - it didn't work, but he tried!

he also learned that while the monastery's mantra of thinking of all the consequences of any action you make sounds good on paper, in the actual world it is impossible to put into effect in an efficient manner

he fell in love with a fire genasi wizard who works for an underworld boss in the city the party calls home

Raziel, Amon's lover, is an NPC and my DM plays him, but he asked me to draw/refine his design since he ended up being so important in Amon's story.

Amon fell for Raz instantly when they met. Raz is a wizard, working for an underground mob-type boss, a tiefling called Xerx. The party has to help Xerx with an errand, and Raz was the one to guide the party to the location.

Raziel's line of work initially made him distrust Amon, thinking there is no way anyone can be this nice and genuine. But as Amon kept coming for advice and showed that he genuinely cared for Raziel, who isn't used to this at all, he started developing feelings for him. He still doesn't rly understand why such a hero would choose to spend time with him beyond just their professional relationship.

It took them smth like a year to get together so my party calls the couple Slow Burn since it also fits with Raziel being a fire genasi and Amon being fire resistant (eheh)

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