Naeda Firth

Naeda Firth is a drow scholar at the Marble Tomes Conservatory, and Alonne's mother. As an NPC in the Unwelcome Spirits campaign, she is played by Raziel.

## Character Information

### Family

Alonne Firth (son)Bertlas Nen (current or former husband)

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Naeda is relatively tall, though not as tall as Alonne. She keeps her hair in a tidy ponytail.

### **Personality**

Naeda studies aberrations. It's presumed, like Alonne, that she has an interest in the Far Realms. She has a map of Blightshore in her office, which is otherwise neat and meticulously organized. She is clever and observant, as well as having a certain imposing presence, something both the party and her co-workers note.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Cuthret told the party Naeda used to live in Rotthold a while ago, along with Bertlas Nen and Alonne Firth. During that time, her assistant Daphira went missing or died. At some point Naeda left and returned to Rosohna. Alonne claims that Naeda left him in Rotthold as a "teenager", which Naeda refutes.

### **Arc 6: The Dungeon of Penance**

The party first meets Naeda as Rokeved introduces them to everybody in the office. She and Alonne have a tense reunion and Alonne later reveals that his mother doesn't know much of anything that happened to him, including possibly his death in Blightshore, and definitively his many deaths at Fort Venture. It was the first time Alonne had spoken to Naeda since then.

### **Arc 7: Bazzoxan**

Without Alonne at their side, the party decides to check in with Naeda after the crossover to ask for information about the creature that had kidnapped Perry Formance. Along the course of that conversation, Naeda presses the fact that Alonne seemed to know a lot about the party, uncharacteristically of him, and had told her much about them save for Sybil. The interaction leaves the party a bit on edge.

### **Arc 8: Nicodranas**

The party runs into Naeda again at Cuthret's party. There, Alonne, Sybil, and Thalia enter a conversation with her where they attempt to hide Alonne's scars and single glowing eye, to no avail. She tells Alonne that Bertlas is at the party, and that he's apparently replacing her already.

## Relationships

### Alonne Firth

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> *"He seems hesitant to talk to me these days which is such a shame, he was so open in his youth" -Naeda on Alonne to the Shades of the Waste.*
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Naeda implies that she was much closer to Alonne in his childhood. The two share similar affinities for aberrations, something that Naeda undoubtedly had a hand in. Alonne takes after his mother in some of his scholarly interests, though seems to diverge in attitude. Naeda generally disapproves of Alonne's friends, calling the last few "hopeless riffraff". She is unaware of what happened to them at Fort Venture, or at the hands of Dunand, though seemed to notice the change in Alonne's physical appearance. Alonne seems uncomfortable around Naeda, and has said before that she's made his life miserable. The two have a tense relationship.

Naeda pronounces Alonne's name as its original pronunciation of *A-lawn*, something Alonne is not eager to correct.

## Quotations

* " I need only find what is wrong with you, what is peculiar enough to catch my son’s eye the way that nothing ever has, well… I can already see the beginnings of it. You’re quite unique, in your own way. Mysteries, tucked away into small little boxes for one to unravel." -Naeda about the Shades of the Waste

1. ↑ Session 51