Caislen Campaign Notes

Aasimar (male) Cleric, Order Of The Lost Socks Scholar background

A Metaphysical Scientist motivated to try to understand the absence of humanoid gods in the world, determined to study the theory that if something has enough of a base to believe in it, it summons a related god into existence, or perhaps an aspect of a god. Zingle realized that humanoids couldn’t be forced into belief, so had to use an existing belief to test the premise. This led to the unfortunate but widespread held belief that individual socks vanish in the wash or out of drawers. Zingle converted his house in Goldvale into a Temple, now known as “Zingle's Temple”, and for research purposes established the Order Of The Lock Socks, a faith based on the belief about vanishing socks, that must evoke a chaotic entity as the sock god. This has resulted in Zingle’s Temple making socks vanish rapidly if anyone dares wear them in, and lots of people coming to pray to get their missing socks back, which oddly seems to happen with alarming frequency. The Order Of The Lost Socks is now 5 years old but it hasn’t officially spread beyond town. Zingle intends to see if the Order/Faith can be expanded for whatever might manifest next and needs to get out more, suddenly realizing adventure makes sense.

1. Firstly, Zingle went from an NPC I'd tossed into the game, to being picked up at as LV 1 PC, a filler character for the party to share, with the intent of seeing how they evolve it. Zingle didn't have a gender of race, I let the players chose and roll him up. Aasimar and Male it became.
2. After an adventure involving breaking into a The Cult Of Alden stronghold, the party walked out with a baby unicorn and baby owlbear. Some shenanigans by Jules resulted in the creatures being housed in Zingle's Temple for a few hours, wherein they trashed the place. An** official rule** of the Order is now that Unicorns & Owlbears are not allowed inside church buildings. Zingle in frustration temporarily left the party to make repairs after this incident.

• A holy symbol needs to come about, probably a sock though. One Zingle's first outing as a PC the party ran into some members of The Cult Of Alden who were wearing blue robes. After that session I painted the mini we're using for Zingle with blue robes, and painted a sock on top of that.
• Zingle counts as the “High Priest” of his order, but also because he's the only actual member of it so far. This needs to evolve as he gets around finally and spreads the word about lost socks.
• A sock god, likely about as amusing as a Flying Spaghetti Monster needs to eventually evolve in the game world.