Sybil

Art of Sybil by Raziel.

25 (apparent age)

Unnamed siblings (3)
Unnamed typesetter father
Unnamed tiefling mother
Unnamed aunt

**Sybil** is a tiefling divination wizard and adventurer. She is played by Hex.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Sybil is a thin, moderately tall tiefling woman with pale red skin and long dark hair. Her horns curve directly back from her hairline, following the shape of her head and then curving back up to a point at the back of her head.

She wears a set of thick spectacles, and a single earring with a black feather on it. Several scarves are draped across her neck, one loosely covering her hair. She a long black cloak hangs over her body, which she wears off-center. With sets of rings and runes inked onto her fingers, and a beaded bag, she *almost* gives off the vibes of some kind of fortune teller. If not for the fact that she has a bit of an intimidating aura about her that you can't quite place.

### **Personality**

Sybil is mostly quiet and reserved, though tends to be blunt when she speaks. She speaks in a monotone, and can often be sarcastic or dryly mocking. According to Sybil, she is not the best at communicating, but has been gradually improving. She's used to working alone or silently, as evidence by her tendency to act first in stressful situations or when the party is taking too long to decide in moments of urgency. She is visibly frustrated when people try to be vague, but generally only when she doesn't understand all the implications. She has referred to herself, albeit tongue-in-cheek, as depressing and dreadfully boring, claiming she's been called that more often than she has been called fun.

She doesn't have a strong tendency for good, but generally recoils at harming others without cause. She is particularly averse to killing given her past as a Scourger and subsequent death, stating that her own death was both painful and terrifying, but is willing and capable of doing so when it's necessary or in self-defense. Hazel noted her alignment, in game terms, as neutral.

Sybil has a talent for Divination specifically, and has demonstrated that in seeing flashes of opportune or inopportune moments, as well as peering into the future intentionally through spells like Divination and Augury. She's stated that she took on the name "Sybil" to honor her escape and survival from her captivity at the hands of Dynasty soldiers, as this was the first time she saw the future. Currently going by "The Oracle," her divinatory powers are evidently important to her. She finds knowing comforting in the face of things she cannot understand.

As a Hollow One, she doesn't feel things very strongly, but admitted that she used to. Occasionally, such as after parting with Kroosh, Sybil feel emotions more strongly and suddenly than she is used to, and has lashed out before in anger or sadness. She also confirmed that she sounded different when she was alive, and that's she aware she "sounds dead," implying this is a recent development.

She is not bad at impressions.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

When she was a child, Sybil said went to school. Her favorite food was a frozen sweet that she and her friends would get on the last day of classes.

At some point, Sybil traveled with a different party before she came to Urzin. She's confirmed that she had died before then, but refused to elaborate, calling it "private". Later, after a dream, it was revealed that Sybil died at the Miskath Pit, killed by a Core Spawn Seer. She was brought back by the latent magic of Blightshore as a Hollow One, which leads to her registering on spells to detect undead presences while the rest of the party does not despite all of them having died. Sybil is familiar with the Miskath Strand, also known as Blightshore, and recognized the town of Rotthold and features of it such as the Red Market and Cairn Hill. She told Cyprus that she had been to Blightshore, mentioning visiting their hometown of Charis on the way up from there. When asked if it was dangerous, Sybil joked that it was deadly.

Sybil told Alonne and Fiona that when she was fifteen, she was taken and interrogated by soldiers of the Kryn Dynasty. She said she was ill, probably feverish, and it was the first time she really thought she would die. This is when Sybil saw the future, and saw herself surviving, which is how she claims she chose the name "Sybil."

Sybil has five siblings, “some closer than others”. Two of these are Kroosh and Harland. She has a tiefling mother, a human father, and has mentioned an aunt, comparing a hag to her.

She admitted to the party that she worked for the Cerberus Assembly until her death, after which she had a change of priorities. It is presumed that she worked as part of the Volstrucker. She did not directly deny the accusation, neither from Hummel nor when Alonne referred to her as a killer. She admitted she was sent to the Miskath Pit to push someone in, but didn't get a chance to before she died.

### **Unwelcome Spirits Arc (Levels 1-2)**

Sybil was summoned in Urzin alongside a group of other adventurers, and was killed in the Brokenveil Marsh a day after spending a day wandering around in a big circle. She died by a spear to the neck, by the lizardfolk inhabitants of the marsh.

Following her death, she and the rest of the party appeared in a space between life and death, where a masked figured remarked that she in particular had been due to cross over into death for a while. She and the rest of the party were called back to the land of the living through some unknown mechanism, returning back to the day before they set out for their place of death, and taking a different direction through the swamp.

After dying, Sybil was noticeably more on edge. During their search of Fort Venture, she stabbed the corpse of a guard responsible for the repeated deaths of Alonne Firth, showing an uncharacteristic level of violence. When the party went to retrieve Bol’bara, she was the one to take her down, showing restraint at the last moment. When the party attacked and killed five Righteous Brand soldiers, Sybil knelt down by one of their corpses and was distressed, asking that someone else be the one to dig their graves.

### **Recollections and Reconnaissance (Level 3)**

Back in Urzin, Sybil roomed with Alonne and opened a letter in her possession, and seemed to calm down a bit after that. The next morning she went out in search of general supplies, as well as the spell components she needed to summon her familiar, Sasha. She was handed a small pouch from the owner of the Whispered Quill, which she later magically identified to be suude. When asked how she felt about possibly delivering drugs to Asarius, Sybil expressed she didn't have personal moral problems with it, but the party could probably give the money to charity to put it to good use. Later that night, she and  Thalia disguised themselves as hobgoblins in order to boost the party's reputation in the town.

After the party picked up another job infiltrating the Rockguard Garrison, Sybil was more cautious in their second trek through the swamp. Their first night away from Urzin, the party heard repeated calls for help. Sybil was unnerved by it, saying the party should either investigate or leave. During their fight with the Oblex, Sybil was targeted as an intelligent magic user. The Oblex learned her memories and showed them back to her, badly injuring Sybil and driving her to tears. When she spoke to Alonne later, she confessed that she hadn't felt strong emotions in a while as a Hollow One, but her old memories seemed not to have lost their potency. The Oblex shifted its appearance to look like her then left, a fact which greatly unnerved Sybil.

After their second encounter with the Oblex, Sybil was upset. She did not feel anyone but her had a right to bargain away the privacy of her memories. She admitted to the party that she was not, and maybe is not still, a good person. Arriving at the Rockguard Garrison, she offered to present herself at the gates as a member of the Cerberus Assembly, going by the alias of Amelia Elder, allegedly sent by Doolan Tversky the Achmage of Dysology on an expedition into the Marsh to research aberrant phenomena, with a (real) warning about the Oblex. This was a convincing enough cover that the party was allowed into the Garrison.

### Asarius Arc (Level 4)

In Asarius, Sybil picked up a letter from her sister informing her she was dying, so that was pretty fucked up. After a few days of investigating into the mystery surrounding Kenrich and Terra, Sybil and Cyprus shared a dream in which Alonne's patron contacted them. Sybil cast Identify on the surrounding area and the patron, and the results briefly drove her mad and she woke up rambling. After that, Sybil felt compelled to inform the party that she used to work for the Cerberus Assembly, and after her first death never came back to them, and they may be looking for her. Later, Hummel pulled Sybil aside to ask if she was a member of the Volstrucker, with Sybil implying she was in refusing to give an answer. After the party ended up tailing Terra, Eally, and the tiefling, Sybil recognized some of their accents as faintly from the Empire, and spoke in Zemnian to them taking up their deal in exchange for being able to heal Alonne.

Upon finding out from Olivar that they were found out for their gambit at the Rockguard Garrison, Sybil wrote a letter then proceeded to cast it into the fire.

After their job, Sybil set about figuring out how to create a version of the Paper Bird that was sent to her, which she gifted to Hummel for her birthday. A few days later, Alonne pulled her aside to apologize, and then reveal to the whole party that they were planning on leaving. In response to which, Sybil claimed that the only person she had ever truly confided in was dead by her own hands, and so she understood where Alonne was coming from when choosing to follow him.

### Vermaloc Arc (Level 5)

Sybil was judged by Hazel to be like, just fine. It implies her alignment is some form of Neutral. She fell ill from the poison in the woods, and gained a lot of levels of exhaustion, at one point walking at half speed. When prompted by Alonne for a story, she confided she'd nearly died in the Brokenveil Marsh once before when she was younger. After Hummel has a dream in the Flesh Dome, Sybil works on the spell Intellect Fortress.

### Job Interview Arc (Level 6)

The party met their coworkers and went down into the Dungeon of Penance. Sybil seemed interested in seeing The Weirdos' specialties and projects, though cautious about being in the heart of the Dynasty. She was caught off guard to be flirted with by Cuthret. In the Dungeon of Penance, she stopped to see how those held there were faring. She was disoriented along with the rest of her party by the hallways, but eventually managed to figure out a pattern to them. She cast Intellect Fortress for the first time on Hummel. When they reached the level where there was reportedly a dragon, or a shapeshifter, she fixed Sun's watch/teleportation device, taking care not to use shorthand she thought would identify her as an empire mage.

After returning to the surface, Sybil along with Hummel and Cyprus were privy to a conversation between Alonne and Harmony, and all awoke to Alonne screaming. After confronting them about the dream, Hummel and Cyprus left and Sybil and Alonne had a short conversation.

### The Dusk City (Crossover)

After the events of the night prior, Sybil suggested they go to The Paragon as she had it on good authority they would be safe there. There she ran into her sister Kroosh again, and Kroosh's party Dracones Noctis. After a few drinks and some performances the party was called to help as the star act, miss Perry Formance, had gone missing from her dressing room. Both parties united to go find her, searching the alleys and nearby venues for information, until they found a lead down into the sewers, where Perry was held captive along with other musicians by an unknown creature. After killing the creature and freeing the hostages, Sybil and the party reunited at Nyx and Thalia's childhood home, and Sybil had a change to talk to Kroosh. She confessed that she'd died again without Kroosh there, and that they couldn't keep running into one another or else Sybil didn't think she would be able to say goodbye to Kroosh again. After another day of being together, the party eventually went off their separate ways with Sybil saying goodbye to Kroosh.

### Saraan's Mission (Level 7)

Sybil found herself in a sort of depressive state after parting from her sister again. She was like that for a few days before Alonne brought it up with her, at which point she snapped and confessed she felt guilty for abandoning her sister so as not to put her at risk while remaining with the party, even though she didn't care about them and their lives any less. Eventually she got past it and rejoined the party on their errands, where they were given a task by their employer again. Meanwhile, after being followed by birds for a period of time. the party (mostly Cyprus) was invited to dine with Absinthium. With the dragon's possessive nature in mind, Sybil met with Cyprus while the two were getting ready and handed them a poison ring, which she implied was a sort of cyanide pill if it came to that.

After the party met with Absinthe, burned a bridge, and prepared for their mission, Sybil offered to cast Divination on their way back home drunk from the Paragon. She saw rapid-fire glimpses of Absinthium, stained glass, a forest, and came out of the vision shaken and disoriented. That night she had a dream of her vision replaying over and over, and saw the unfamiliar face of a tiefling woman. She was out of it for a while after that as the party set off and into the Barbed Fields. She was the first to react when Timera Lockwave called out for help while being attacked, though her undead nature disturbed Sybil a bit, given her own. During their travels the contact from Olivar unsettled her and she was notably snappish, remarking that bad things happen to Assembly mages who run their mouths, and that while the party could probably contact them without more risk, they shouldn't get their hopes up on befriending them. In the pit with Dunand, Sybil was hit by her own rebounded spell, and acquired her bracers thanks to Alonne's risk-taking. She had a conversation with Hummel about the latter's tiefling abilities, and then about a dream she had concerning Alonne's sister, Harmony. Sybil sat with Alonne for a while after Hummel talked to them. implying she'd been thinking over her own responsibility to the party again and saying she couldn't tell Alonne to leave unless he told her the same. She asked what Alonne's sister looked liked, but did not admit to Alonne that Harmony had appeared in her own dreams.

In Bazzoxan, after receiving their mission from Roysa, the party started to investigate at the inn. Sybil made the first move to question Question by buying them a drink and flirting slightly. After finding out their list of suspects, Sybil and Cyprus went around interrogating them. Sybil cast Divination again to ascertain the demon's next move, which she saw as violence, gore, and summoning something or opening up a portal. Shaken, they continued to investigate and interrogate people until confronting Arwel and running to Roysa's house, unknowingly accompanied by Kevaid Mirakere in butterfly form. Sybil mainly kept Intellect Fortress on and tried to see what the ritual circle was and if it could be broken. Back at the inn, she had a conversation with Thalia about trust, and awoke to Hummel crying for help as Cyprus was being attacked while asleep. After Cyprus and Alonne both awoke, Sybil checked in on Alonne and saw that he was scared, and close to running from them.

## **Quotations**

* "This is no longer the land of the crown. Creatures here will not bow to your whims. If you don't leave, you will die a miserable, meaningless death, and none of your brethren will even find the courage to gather your bones." (casting Cause Fear on a Righteous Brand soldier)
* "I’m not used to feeling things that deeply anymore, but I guess some part of me remembered." (to Alonne)

1. ↑ Session 12: Conversation with Alonne