Ven Mirth

## Overview

Ven Mirth was a talented illusionist who was seemingly incapable of performing most other forms of magic. As a young talent, her magical prowess got her accepted into the Mage University of Bal-Agra, but her specialization and gender meant she never passed the role of novice, despite being a very powerful spellcaster in her own right.

After a failed examination, where in anger, she cast Phantasmal Killer on a high ranking Archmage, succeeded, and killed the old man of a heart attack, she was cast from the university in disgrace.

She tried making a living as a market wizard, but few people want to pay for illusions. She realized she could make more money by tricking people into thinking a different spell cast, and this worked for some time, before she was discovered and nearly imprisoned.

Destitute and jobless, she found herself partnering up with an old halfling who realized that, at the very least, her talents could be used to make a quick bit of coin of unsuspecting gamblers. Ven was now forced to realize that her grand aspirations of being a powerful mage had led her into poverty and crime, mostly sat mutely at the gambling table, and cast minor illusion spells on dice and knuckles while Verget wheedled and scammed money for the both of them.

## First Interaction with Ducane's Adventuring Guild

In the year 1843, during the Victory Celebration, a pale skinned man (Kevin) and a half orc (Lork) stumbled into the Kobold's Knuckles, drunk, approached her and sat down for a game. They put a massive amount of gold onto the table, and Verget gave her the signal.

But these two refused to buy their scam, and when the Orc believed himself to be tricked, Kevin pulled two strange weapons from his belt, and threatened Ven and Verget. Ven, as practiced, cast darkness. In the inky blackness, she heard two bangs, and the sound of her halfling partner going down. She then cast greater invisibility on herself, and major illusion on Verget’s corpse, to make it seem as though his corpse was her still living body. She collected as much of the gold as she could carry, and from behind the bar, dissipated the darkness. She allowed Kevin and Lork to interrogate her (Verget's corpse), until the guard arrived, whereupon she dissapated the spell, leaving Kevin and Lork standing in a bar with the dead corpse of both Verget and the Barkeep. She then fled.

## Enemy of the Guild

Heartbroken over the loss of her partner, she then began attempting to kill the members of Ducane's adventuring guild.

Her first scheme was to hire a troop of bandits. She cast *seeming* on them, disguising them as guards, and used Major Image to procure an illusion of Al-Veemes. She then met the party in an alley, and nearly arrested them. As their hands were being bound, Ege noticed the illusion, and though partially bound, they were able to fight off the illusionist.

Her second scheme involved luring them, again using Al-Veemes, to the abandoned house of an Alchemist, where several grey oozes lurked in the basement. This time, it was only the later intervention of Fastro Hari that saved them.

## Capture and Death

After Ducane's Adventuring Guild journeyed into the desert to find the Pyramid of Amun-Re, Ven used their absence to form a troop of criminals, and began a crime spree, using her illusion magic disguise her thugs as the Ducane's Adventuring Guild. The guild was quickly labeled as criminals, and bounties put on their heads, forcing them underground when they returned from the desert.

Eventually, with the help of Nine-Fingered Abdul, Lork, Mohamed, and Kevin managed to catch Ven in the process of robbing a bank. They kidnapped her, leaving her thugs to be caught by the guard, and interrogated her in the sewers, ultimately learning nothing from her.

After DAG broke into the Rock, and learned of the Mind Flayers controlling the city, the Illithid raided their sewer hideout, and captured Ven. Ven was then turned into a thrall, and let loose to confront DAG in front of the Pyramid of Moha-Agra, as they went their to raise the undead army. At this point, a simple minded thrall, Ven was cut down by Lork Meatbeater, and her story ended there.

## Stat Block

Ven is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its Spellcasting Ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following Wizard Spells Prepared:

• Cantrips (at will): Minor Illusion, light, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation

• 1st level (4 slots): Detect Magic, Mage Armor, Color Spray, Disguise Self

• 2nd level (3 slots): Darkness, Arcanist’s Magic Aura

• 3rd level (3 slots): Major Image, Counterspell, Fear

• 4th level (3 slots): Greater Invisibility, Phantasmal Killer

• 5th level (1 slot): Seeming