Penerence Aster

Penerence Aster, or Pen to his friends, is a humanoid being of seemingly arcane descent who uses his own body to form beasts that fight by his side.

Appearance
Penerence appears as a faceless humanoid with aetherial purple skin that pulses with veins of lighter shades. He wears a loose fitting sleeveless, with hands and feet bound in digitless dark wrappings. He also wraps his shoulders and neck in an oversized, long grey scarf.

Personality
Penerence is a friend to everyone, but what exactly that means it seems hard for him to understand. Pen's relationship to life and death is also tenuous and he seems uncannily willing to kill.

Background
Even Penerence knows very little about his background, but tells tales of his strange and surreal homeland on the Isle of Aster. For a reason unbeknowst to him he was banished from the Isle and has been travelling Grand Pridain since. At some point during his journey he was aboard a ship with Galius Morn and ended up stranded in a rowing boat with him for one reason or another.

Chapter 1: Pebblefoot
Penerence washed up on the shore of Pebblefoot with Galius Morn on the first day of the year 1642, and was discovered by Moddeus Hulix and Jecily Bright. Their meetcute was quickly interrupted by the screaming of a woman, who they found encased in a golem-like mass of shifting pebbles. During the fight with the beast Pen altered gravity in an attempt to harm the construct but ended up crushing the lady within, leading to her passing out. With the assistance of Rizent Lowpitch and his band of goblins in the nearby inn the party were able to save the woman.

Penerence displayed his arcane prowess and willingness to kill throughout Pebblefoot, learning to combine his abilities with Galius' during a fight with an enchanted telescope and landing the killing blow on the gangster Tokara.

Chapter 2: Elsett and Scampley
After leaving Pebblefoot in the company of the others the road led them to Elsett where the party spent the night, after a run in with an irratating tavernkeep by the name of Rorie. That night Pen had a vivid dream in which he walked the unfolding streets of an almost pop-up book town, filled with alien and elemental creatures who were going about their daily business when he was pulled out of the dream when a guard of said town called him a human and said he was not allowed to be there.

Galius Morn
Penerence often refers to Galius Morn as his best friend, but it is unknown exactly how long before their arrival in Pebblefoot the two actually knew each other. Penerence seems oblivious to Galius' frustration with him, but this appears to be normal behaviour for him.

Abilities
Penerence is a proficient spellcaster, and seemingly a sorcerer whose arcane abilities are derived from the circumstances of his birth.

Summoner's Gift
Penerence uses his natural gift to create creatures out of his mutable body. These creatures are inspired by the animals of the world around him seemingly but his grasp of their form is lacking, usually creating cartoonishly malformed things who often do not follow the currently understood laws of physics. He favours a form shaped after a dog that he calls Dog. It appears that Penerence's magic is more potent when used upon these fragments of himself, and that he himself knows very little war magic, mostly relying on his creations to protect him.

Summon Wildfire Spirit
At 2nd level Penerence grew in size a little, allowing him to access more energy to summon his friends into the world. The result of his technique is an elementally charged twin of Dog who takes the form of a dragon, which seems to have even less stability than that first abstract beast.

Arcane Defender
At 3rd level Penerence spawned into the world a golem-like being of his material, which he named Junior.

Notable Items

 * Aster Bindings. Most of Penerence's body is wrapped in dark linen bindings to which the being himself feels bound to.