Nuku

Nuku Uhane is a bladesinger wizard (mechanically?) and the right hand to her father Mānea Uhane. She is an antagonist to the party in Campaign 3. She acts as the main scout and enforcer of the Long Talon and is not considered the first mate because she spends most of her time off the ship gathering intel or enforcing her father's will. 
== Description ==
=== Appearance ===
Nuku is 7'2" and muscular. She wears her wavy black hair in a ponytail that is decorated with braids. She wears grey feathers as earrings and has silver eyes like the other Uhanes.
=== Personality ===
Nuku is quite cocky but extremely loyal to her father. She lords her size over Walker, having called them a runt their entire lives. Walker has called her a pushover and a pawn of her father's whim, and hinted that she maybe doesn't fully agree with him saying that she once tried to kill him.
== Story ==
=== Pre-Campaign 3 ===
Nuku was born 37 years prior to the events of Campaign 3 making her 3 years younger than her cousin Hekau, 5 years older than Hakupehe/Walker, and 10 years older than her brother Niho. She was fishing with her brother and cousins near the Den of Thorns when the Great Fluxx occurred. Paddling back to the Nisia village on Awaiki, they found that the island had erupted and magma elementals were ravaging the village. The only survivor they found was their Tūtū. Nuku ended up raising her brother and cousin Haku with Tūtū, because their parents were missing or dead and Hekau was petrified at the bottom of the ocean. Tūtū had lost her druidic abilities in the Fluxx, so Nuku working as soon as possible to provide for her family. She ended up finding crime to be the easiest route. 
One day when she was 16 years old, her father Mānea appears out of the blue as a pirate lord in Alulu. She plans to and attempts to murder him for abandoning them but fails. He convinces her that he had no idea they had survived and that she should join him on the Long Talon where they can live safely, comfortably, and wealthily. Mānea visits Tūtū and wants his son to come with him as well but Tūtū thinks he is too young for such a dangerous life. Haku decides to take his place but Niho would later run away and find his father's ship.
When she was 19, she would lead an expedition to a warlock's laboratory in the glaciers of northern Xi'Shu that was discovered by Haku. They found a cache of magical artifacts that they returned to the Long Talon, one of which was kept secret by Haku, the Tome of Tudogeni.
About 20 days prior to the events of Campaign 3, Nuku discovered Haku performing dark spells with the Tome and snitched on them to Mānea. When Mānea demanded the tome be returned, Haku fled the Long Talon.
=== Negotiations ===
While leaving Udecisi, the Campaign 3 party would encounter a kobold named Snurk who told them their town of Kuzubiro was raided and under hostile occupation. When asked what these raiders looked like, Snurk revealed that most of them look like Walker, tattoos and all.
=== Flames-Curtain Call ===
Walker encounters Pekelo who is a deserter of the Long Talon and warns Walker that Nuku is here in Kuzubiro and came here searching for them. The Campaign 3 party breaks in to Kuzubiro, battles Long Talon forces, and frees the locals.
=== Smother the Flames ===
Walker leaves the Starfall Theatre with the rest of the party in search of Nuku, who they find galavanting in the town center about to set fire to the town's unwanted belongings. Walker puts out the flames with rays of frost and tidal waves while combat ensues between Nuku and her forces and the party. She nags Walker about leaving the Long Talon and doesn't believe they are living a better life without all the ships' benefits or that they work well with a team. She asks Walker to hand over the Tome of Tudogeni, but they refuse. When she is significantly injured, Nuku calls forth a dark primordial force and takes the form of a black-flamed fire elemental. "This isn't you!" Walker screams at them, remembering the magma elementals that destroyed their village. Walker ends up defeating Nuku's fire elemental form, breaking through the fire shield. Injured and weak, Nuku falls to the ground, but before anyone can approach her, she pulls out a Conch of Returning and blows into it, turning into foam and dissappearing.
== Abilities ==
* Arcane Recovery
* Bladesong
* Spells
** Black-Flame Blade
** Firebolt
** Hold Person
** Scorching Ray
** Minute Meteors
** Fire Shield
* Black-Flamed Fire Elemental Form
== Trivia ==
* Nuku means "beak" in Hawaiian.
Category:NPCs