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Pizza time with Saffron! (& Casadiella)

Presenting my character Saffronia "Saffron" Scalopina Sparacello!

 

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Character Info:

Safronia “Saffron” Scalopina Sparacello

 

Classes: D&D 3.5 Duskblade/Swiftblade.

Duskblade info: srd.dndtools.org/srd/classes/basePhb2/duskblade.html

Swiftblade info: dnd.arkalseif.info/classes/swiftblade/index.html

 

Race: "Dwarfling" Daughter of a Dwarf and a Halfling.

 

 

Born in the dwarven city of Hillsafar Hall in the Galena Mountains as a refugee during the siege of the tyrannical Warlock Knights of Vaasa, she however barely remembers her days there.

 

Fruit of the unusual marriage between Fayuela Escalopina and Giuseppe Sparacello.

Giuseppe was one of the members of the Topolino House of Delthuntle, this one took to the road after a series of unfortunate jobs, abandoning his mob family name and making a name for himself as a merchant. Fayuela was part of the Scalopines Clan of Mithral Hall, a branch of which migrated far to the east with the Machacaogros Clan after the opportunities that arose in Vaasa when the Great Glacier melted due to the Spellplague, establishing their small kingdom in the Galena Mountains focused on the mining of precious gems.

 

The Clan of the Scalopines, known to be the Mithrall hall clan that has always provided the best chefs, long ago cooking for King Bruenor Battlehammer himself. This branch of the family now serving King Cubik Machacaobros and Prince Rubik.

 

Fayuela and Giuseppe participated in the conflict to dethrone the Warlock Knights of Vaasa, along with a resistance led by a group of adventurers. When peace returned to Vaasa, the refugees, both from the different dwarven fortresses and The Great Glacier were finally able to return to their settlements. Saffron and her family then returned with the Ogreshmashers, she grew up happily and healthily with her parents. Saffron was interested in her mother's cooking from a very early age, and wanted to learn and absorb all this knowledge. Giuseppe, as any halfling, enjoyed these sessions more than anyone else, and acted as a gourmet for both of them. A healthy rivalry developed between mother and daughter, often having cooking competitions, of which Saffron never won any of them.

 

At the same time Saffron grew up admiring the stories of her uncle, Trabanco Cabrales, Fayuela's brother, an acclaimed traveling bard who brings festivity and joy wherever he goes, she herself dreamed of going abroad and seeing the world, it was something her parents could see in her eyes.

 

Saffron's cooking eventually stagnated, having mastered both the gastronomies of The Silvermarches and Aglarond respectively. Fayuela one day took her to task and explained a philosophy that would change her life. The Transcendental Gastronomy. Which consists of finding the dish that in the end, in a similar way as Trabanco did achieved through music, would bring the ultimate happiness to all those who tasted it, as well as cure any evil that squeezed the soul, to achieve such knowledge, she would have to travel the world, hunting, learning, and tasting dishes of all gastronomies, only then Saffron could surpass a legendary chef like her mother, Fayuela.

 

And so Saffron grabbed her backpack and marched off on an adventure, heading for the Silver Marches back to the place of origin of his people, working in Mirabar at “The Silver Spoon”, there, for a few months, learning from the one who would be one of Fayuela's apprentices long ago, a round and affable human chef named Romero Oleastro, acclaimed in Mirabar for his incredible skills, known for being a skilled Duskblade. Who anyone would say was part dwarf as well, as his proportions seemed to indicate. Oleaster took Saffron under his tutelage for an intense but enjoyable time, developing a great appreciation for both his more southern cuisine and himself, as he learned the useful applications of magic in the kitchen. But all this was jeopardized when agents of Hellgate Keep of House Dlardrageth infiltrated Mirabar, affecting the food stores with their perfidious demonic curses to create servants, Oleaster included, suffering from an illness, which would take Saffron once again on an adventure, in search of the source of the evil that would save both Oleaster and the people of this new city that welcomed her with open arms. Or who knows, maybe she could finally find that dish that could remedy these evils of which The Transcendental Gastronomy spoke?

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Uploaded on April 4, 2025