Saffron Woodrock

* Arc 1
* Arc 2
* Masquerade Attire

 —Obiri, about Saffron

**Saffron Woodrock**, normally just called Saffron, is a Tiefling Archfey Warlock under patronship with Titania. Notably he is the team’s second warlock, although his magic is a lot more druid-based than the other. He is played by Alder.

Saffron is the only member of the party to come from a realm separate from the main world. He is currently the only known creature in recent history to have escaped from the Feywild, where he lived for an unknown amount of time. He does not remember how he got there, and considered it his home until he began to feel trapped and coerced with Titania to escape. He is currently trying to balance his relationships to the Feywild with his companions in the real world, while at the same time longing to know who he actually is.

## **Description**

### Appearance

Saffron is a pale pink Tiefling with dull red splotch-like markings scattered on the right side of his body, white hair and yellow eyes. His left horn is curved almost like a ram and wraps around his ear, while the right is broken at the base. He wears an eyepatch that covers his right eye, under which is an empty socket. He has a scatter of freckles that cover his nose, and a tattoo that resembles two branches of a willow tree on his chest.

Due to the corruption, he has opalescent cracks that spread out from the corners of his eyes.

Right at the end of the first arc he acquired a black streak in his hair after his interaction with Eepy.

### Personality

At first glance Saffron usually presents himself as a slightly narcissistic asshole, actively insulting people with a relaxed enjoyment. He could be described as having a classic Bard’s disposition, which is enforced with the lute he plays frequently. However, those are very fragile walls that he keeps up around people he doesn't trust in order to not get hurt by them. Once broken down, he reveals his true nature to be almost reversed from that, frequently going out of his way to help and save his teammates and providing comfort to those who need it. However, he has a streak of extreme cowerdess, caused by his own weakness and fear of death.

Due to the corruption caused by Titania’s magic he will occasionally snap during battles and lash out with extremely powerful attacks, such as when he saved Klaus from Wojteck or during the tavern fight with the Red Brands. He feels guilty after these attacks, and will usually shut down immediately after out of fear of what he’s done.

Saffron’s main personality trait is desperation, whether that’s over the need to help his friends or his own survival. Because of how he was treated in the Feywild he has a deep insecurity over his own worth, having spent as long as he can remember being treated like an object. Titania has used this to her advantage, telling him that he’s worthless without the magic she gave to him, to the point that’s what he truly believes. Despite this, he holds the responsibility of protecting his friends from his past as a very important role, refusing to let them be affected by the Feywild.

He is noted to have the habit of trying to see the best in people, and having that illusion broken affects him greatly. This plays an important part in his and Titania’s dynamic, who he has an almost Stockholm syndrome-type relationship with.

Saffron’s powers are usually manifested into large vines covered in thorns, which he either swings around with his hands or sends up from the ground to attack. The thorns change color depending on his mood, usually appearing green but also can come out a shimmering opalescent white, or blood red. Magic that’s not tied to Titania and that he taught himself are portrayed with ivy or morning glories, such as his Spare the Dying engulfing the target in a tangle of white morning glory vines. He is under Pact of the Tome, with an herbology book he was given by Ollie serving as his tome.

## Biography

### Background

Saffron has no memory of where he was born, or how he ended up in the Feywild. He is fairly certain that he went there willingly, and that they saved him from something, although he doesn’t remember any of the details. He spent an unknown amount of years in the Summer Court, eventually falling in love with Titania. Although he didn’t hold an official position in the court, Titania valued his opinions in the same way a ruler might go to their consort for questions. Besides Titania he was often with the other members of the court, notably including Oberon and Bacchus, but was only ever seen as a silly mortal toy to be passed around. Despite this he enjoyed his life there, spending most of the time in the surrounding forest or in Titania’s statue garden when not involved in court matters. He was also tutored by the Wise and Mystical Tree on Fey lore and culture. However, as he began to realize he knew almost nothing about himself he grew restless, and convinced Titania to help him leave. He escaped the Feywild, a feat which is considered impossible, and a month later ended up taking the same mission the rest of the party accepted. Saffron was introduced along with the rest of the party, sitting in the wagon with his legs propped up on the seat across from him which subsequently infuriated Mariam.

## First Arc

**NOTE- all plot being shared in this outline is centered around Saffron and his lore. For the complete story, see Plot**

### Session 1-5

**Session 1**

During the very first scene in the cart, Saffron is mainly seen throwing insults at specifically Mariam despite barely knowing him, retorting with “you and your mother” every chance he got. Once the goblin fight happenes and he gets to show off his powers it's fairly obvious he isn't very strong- while Obiri and Klaus tore up the enemies, he did only a few points of damage to one and in addition took the first hit of the campaign by being slashed in the side. He ends the fight by putting the last remaining one to sleep to take hostage for information.

When the party gets to Ida’s house, he is one of the first to connect the dots and figure out that the goblin general she told the party about was a bugbear. After Klaus freaked out at the idea that Gundren Rockseeker might be dead and killed the captive goblin, Saffron tried to comfort him in Sylvan by saying that “no matter what happens, it's not your fault.”

Mariam calls his boyfriend later that night while Saffron eavesdroppes in and mockes him afterwards, which causes Mariam to follow him when he goes out to the forest to speak with Titania.

**Session 2**

Party finally enters the Goblin mines. Due to most of his life spent among greenery and the open air, Saffron has a deep-seated fear of caves.

Immediatly once they enter , Saffron moves to investigate a noise which reveals itself to be a large dark gray direwolf. With Mariam and Titania’s help he befriends it, mentally communicating that he won't hurt him.

They clime up a narrow shaft and encounter the bugbear General Wojteck in the following cave, Saffron stayes with Klaus while Obiri and Mariam split off. He cheers him on at first in Sylvan, preparing to attack if Klaus is downed. When Klaus loses his weapon and Wojteck turnes to attack Saffron, it causes Klaus to go into a rage and attack Wojteck without a weapon, subsequently being dealt a blow that dropps him to 0 HP. Saffron panicks, thinking Klaus has been killed, and the shock and anger causes a rush strong enough to let Titania take over. He ends up ripping Wojteck limb from limb while screaming, turning the bugbear to stone due to the force of the power before the pieces even hit the ground, while simultaneously causing foliage to spread “like a sickness” throughout the cave. After recovering, he manages to stabilize Klaus with vines. Obiri and Mariam join them soon after to find there are no traces of Wojteck left in the cave except for some stone dust.

It was revealed later that Saffron saw another face that wasn’t Wojteck’s when he watched the bugbear go down, hinting at something in his past.

Saffron’s observation check on Sylvia, a captive Obiri and Klaus saved from the cave, revealed that she’s a member of the Fall Court, causing him to distrust her.

**Session 3**

Saffron escapes to the forest to get away from the rest of the party, but no matter how fast he runs he's followed by roses at every turn. Finally, unable to escape, he picks one and bringst out Titania. When he asks her angrily why she had used enough magic to kill Wotjeck that horribly she reacts strongly, gluing his mouth shut with tree sap and telling him to “know his place”. She reveals that she’s planning something, and after some warnings leaves Saffron to calm down with Puck. When he finallyventures back to talk about what happened with Klaus, telling him he was sorry for interrupting the fight in Sylvan, something sparkes a memory in Klaus and he turned away quickly. Saffron takes that as Klaus being angry at him for ruining his fight and goes back to the forest again to collect himself.

When Sylvia announces that the party is headed towards a major town at some point in the near future, Saffron feels extreme anxiety for an unknown reason along with the memory of rope tightening around his neck.

**Session 4**

The party arrives in Phandalin. They are immediately led by Sylvia to an Inn called the Nestled Nook where they encounter Lyric Songspire, a blue tiefling bard who Saffron is immediately infatuated with because of how fey-like he is. They do a nice jazzy little duet together with Lyric on the piano and Saffron with his lute, but is quickly interrupted afterwards by Mariam stealing Saffron’s hat.

That night Saffron has to room with Klaus as Obiri wants to keep an eye on Mariam. Neither of them say anything for a long time until Klaus finally asks why Saffron seems to be avoiding him, to which he replies that he thought Klaus was angry at him. Klaus explains that he’s not, and they get to talking. They find out that neither of them understand the people around them and both feel like they don’t quite belong in groups. Saffron tells Klaus that the reason he felt a connection with him starting off was because he’s a fey creature, and Saffron is desperate for any connection back to his home. Klaus tells him that he didn’t want to be seen as just a piece of Saffron’s past. They begin to talk about scars, prompting Saffron to take off his eyepatch and reveal his empty socket covered in scratches. He tells Klaus that he doesn’t know who he is and thinks he did something bad in his past which he is deeply afraid of. At the end they don't agree to be friends, but they decided to form a kind of companionship based on their similarities to one another.

Later that night the entire party is woken up by Mariam, who seems to be deliriously looking for something after having some kind of nightmare. Oblivious to anyone else in the room he finally turns to Saffron and conjures up an image of Titania, demanding to know who she is. This causes Saffron to panic and use Sleep to knock him out.

**Session 5**

The next day the party heads over to Barthom’s Provisions to meet with Barthom, the owner. Once there, Saffron meets a man named Bentley Le’Mais, who identifies himself as the owner of the Apothecary in Phandalin which he runs with his husband.

Mariam refuses to listen to the rest of the party, which prompts Saffron to throw a pebble at his head using Magic Stone. The damage was enough that he panicks, and promptly forgot the spell entirely.

When they finally meet with Barthom, he begins to explain the state of Phandalin. There is a criminal organization called the Red Brands who have established a hold over the village, to the point many of the guards are in cohorts with them. Both them and the Black Spider are the reason behind Gundran’s kidnapping, and it all ties into something known as Wave Echo Cave. When Barthom asks the party if they’re willing to accept another mission Saffron is the first to agree, stating that he’s got nothing else to do and that they might as well, since they’re already all dragged in.

After the meeting, he heads to the Apothecary where he meets Ollie, Bently’s husband. Saffron asks him if he has any stuff that could help ward off fey, warning him that if he tells anyone about this he’ll track him down. Ollie agrees and shows him a box of iron rings which according to him ward off all fey- Saffron knows they only work on the Winter Court, Fall Court and Unseelie but buys some anyways. He also buys a number of potions which he agrees to pay for by running an errand, and is gifted the herbology book that later becomes his Pact of the Tome.

When he heads to the library, he finds that Mariam is already there and reading a book about the Summer Court. Still agitated over their previous interaction he demands to know what Mariam knows about Titania, and slams his hand down on the book once Mariam starts reading it to him out loud. As he does this, he sees ink-like blots start to spread out from behind Mariam, and feels a strong presence. He tries to cast magic but finds there’s some sort of anti-magic field in the library. Mariam starts questioning Saffron repeatedly, becoming more and more frantic similarly to how he acted the night before. Saffron sees this and tries to calm him down by agreeing to answer the questions he’s asking, but no matter how he responds it just seems to make things worse. Finally he grips Mariam’s shoulders to try to physically calm him down, it works enough to drag him out of the library and away from the book. They make their way back to the Inn, while Saffron promises that there will be time to go back to the library.

Saffron hands Mariam off to Obiri back at the Nestled Nook, and after Mariam’s non-stop muttering reveals they’re both warlocks he explains a bit of what that means to her as well. He then leaves, heading to the forest to discuss things with Titania. She tells him that she wants him to collect information on Obiri and Mariam, specifically about their magic. She doesn’t know who the Great Old One is, and seems concerned. After she leaves, Saffron promptly collapses due to exhaustion.

The party regroops at the inn, where Saffron finds that Lyric’s been caught by both Klaus and Mariam after they found out he’s a member of the Black Spider. They begin to interrogate him, but are interrupted when he performs a lightning attack which knocks all of them back.

### Session 6-10

**Session 6**

The fight starts immediately. Saffron calls out to Puck to wait by the door, and Lyric is caught by him right while he tries to leave. Klaus sticks him in a sack, which he uses as a weapon as 3 Red Brand members join the fight. Saffron joins puck quickly, using his vines to pin one of the men to the ground and letting Puck rip his head off. The fight is steadily going in their favor with Saffron mainly standing off to the side, but Obiri takes a heavy blow which causes him to panic. He brings out Titania and uses his vines to rip out the attacker’s heart, then in a confused state caused by the rush he looks around for other people to attack. Once it fades he sees the townsfolk of Phandalin standing around the scene and looking at him in shock- to him it appears that they are all eyes, looking at him with fear and hatred. Knowing that he almost attacked innocent civilians he completely shuts down, backing into the inn only to find more people staring at him. He finally ends up in a corner, curled up and shaking where Obiri finds him and helps him up. After she hands off an unconscious Lyric to Mariam, she takes him to the stables where Puck is resting to talk.

Like during Klaus’s talk they share scars, although Saffron doesn’t take off his eyepatch. He asks her if he’s a bad person for what he did, saying that he doesn’t want her to look at him like the villagers did. After her reassurances he calms down enough to fully talk, beginning to ask her what she knows about Titania before he feels a bramble vine rise through the ground and wrap tightly around his wrist. Immediately closed off again, he tells her to forget everything she’s heard about him. Before she leaves, Obiri pushes his hair out of his eyes to find that he’s crying. In the wind she can just barely pick up a voice whispering “good boy.”

Once Obiri has left, Titania comes out in a different state than usual, with some of her glamor having worn off. Her jaw is hanging open like a snake, and she has more eyes than usual. She tells Saffron he needs to keep collecting info at all costs or she’ll have to do it herself, suggesting that by doing that she’ll be hurting his teammates. Before she leaves, she mentions needing to discuss things with the Frost Giants.

When he enters the inn again some time later, Saffron saves Mariam’s ass from being kicked out by paying for his tab.

**Session 7**

They figure out they need to move to a different location, as the attack from earlier has alerted some of the guards. In order to help his teammates sneak to the new inn, Saffron uses Mask of Many faces to disguise himself as Patrick Bateman and begins his attempts at seducing the guards. It works, and with almost no issues they make it to the new inn. It's completely run down, but since Saffron isn’t used to the world he just assumes that’s normal. They enter to find a very high-strung old man running the place, who says there is only one room available despite there being three keys, and that “he” is taking up the others. They of course take the keys and claim their rooms, Saffron picking the first and almost immediately falls into a hole caused by copious amounts of rats. Despite the rats being unusually big, and the hole being extremely large, he just assumes this is normal rat behavior and moves on with his day. He chooses to sleep in the corner, huddled up where he feels safer.

After the events that cause Mariam to bash Lyric’s throat in, Obiri comes to his room for comfort. He sees that she’s crying and offers comfort, claiming that her being able to heal is a gift in itself even if it doesn’t fix everything.

He chooses to stay up and read through his herbology book, only stopping when he sees a familiar light outside the window. He climbs out and goes to investigate, finding a Rift to the feywild standing wide open with Titania and Bacchus standing nearby talking. They seem to be talking about things changing, but before Saffron can fully grasp the conversation he’s yanked back by a figure and dragged back towards the inn. Freeing himself after a struggle he sees that it’s Vulpis, an archfey from the Fall Court. Although his glamor is up it's still apparent that the iron ring that Saffron bought earlier has burned into his hand. After some bickering he drags Saffron back to the inn.

Before he goes to sleep, he slips one of the iron rings onto one of Obiri’s horns.

Saffron awakes to find almost all of his stuff stolen, and immediately accuses Mariam. Mariam swears the rats took it in the night, which turned out to be only partially true- Obiri gets him to give the bit of gold he stole back to Saffron. Mariam uses Vicious Mockery on saffron by calling him a boytoy and deals 3 points of damage. Saffron attempts to interrogate a rat Mariam managed to catch by growing plants around it, but it promptly poops in his hand.

During breakfast the party accepts the rat mission from the innkeeper, and Saffron goes off to buy some flax seeds in preparation.

**Session 8**

The party heads down into the tunnels to take care of the rat problem. Because of his fear of caves Saffron sticks close to Obiri, even climbing on her back as she lowers herself down into the hole so he doesn’t trip and fall. They follow the rat Mariam caught, preparing to be stealthy until Saffron hears the shrill voice of a rat speaking in a New York accent and auctioning off his stolen potions, which causes him to rush in with the rest of the party. Combat starts against the rat False Prophet, a mashed-together hivemind of rats which has taken up the role of Rat King.

Saffron starts by throwing a handful of flax seeds onto the ground, distracting the nearby rats who begin eating them. Before he can  do anything else he’s attacked by the False Prophet, who wraps itself around him and brings him down to 2 HP. Obiri heals him enough so that he’s out of danger but it leaves bite-mark scars all around his neck and chest.

The False Prophet then focused its attention on Mariam and Saffron used that time to cast Druidcraft, causing all the seeds the rats had eaten to grow into flowers inside their bodies and subsequently kill them. Exhausted and heavily wounded, he lets the rest of the party take out the Prophet.

Titania comes out immediately after the rest of the party is out. Saffron explains to her that he feels completely helpless watching his friends fight, and he knows that the act of betraying them like she wants him to will just make them fall apart more. Titania tells him that he needs to keep learning about their magic, and brushes his hair out of his face (directly mirroring Obiri the night before). She gives him 3 seeds, telling him to use them when he’s in danger.

Back up at the surface Saffron tracks down Mariam who’s sitting at a fountain. He suggests they play a game of trading questions and Mariam agrees. Saffron learns that Mariam knows almost nothing about his patron other than it living in the ocean, which prompts Saffron to ask what an ocean is, having never seen one. Saffron tells Mariam that he signed a contract with Titania in order for him to become her warlock, and that somewhere along the lines it used to be equal. They are interrupted by the Phandalin guards catching sight of them and they flee to the forest, encountering Obiri along the way. The three of them duck into a shack that has a black spider painted on the door.

**Session 9**

They enter into a basement/cave-like area to find Klaus already there, along with a nothic. Since he failed the saving throw the nothic gets to see one secret from Saffron’s mind, and immediately calls him a murderer while laughing. This causes Saffron to panic and back into a nearby rock while the nothic creeps closer. Klaus steps in, reminding the nothic of an agreement he made to help the team, and almost initiates combat when it asks if it could eat Saffron. It finally agrees to help and enters a small cavern, drawing out two bugbears which it sends away. It asks Klaus to go in and catch the remaining goblin to bring to it to eat, and Klaus complies. When the young goblin is brought out screaming Saffron immediately tries to step in, asking the nothic if it would rather take anything of his. It points out Titania’s seeds and Saffron’s own arm, both of which he turns down. He finally stops when Klaus tells him it's either him or the goblin, and he doesn’t want it to be him.

The room has beds and Saffron goes to sleep immediately due to his injured state, while Klaus and Obiri stay up and talk. Klaus begins to cry, calling himself a monster and claiming that Saffron won’t be able to forgive him. Obiri tells him that she thinks Saffron has more forgiveness than any of them, and that it won’t be an issue.

Klaus wakes up Saffron when it’s his turn to keep watch, and before he heads back to sleep asks him if there’s any magic that can change your physical form completely. Saffron tells him there’s none that he knows of- the only things similar to that aren't permanent or extremely flawed. Once Klaus is asleep he goes out into the main cave to talk with the nothic. He demands to know why it called Saffron a murderer and, after figuring out it can read minds, asks it to look into his own. The nothic agrees and he opens his mind fully, letting the nothic in with the sensation of something tearing. After a few minutes he stops it and asks to know what it found. The nothic tells him he needs to trade something for the information and asks for some of his magic, which Saffron agrees to. It sucks out a part of Saffron’s magic and life force, which resembles an opalescent ambrosia-like energy, and knocks him back down to 2 HP. Saffron learns from the nothic that what he thinks happened is warped, and that he should look for his family. Saffron makes his way back to the room to wake Mariam up for his shift.

**Session 10**

Saffron wakes up to find the beginnings of a fight breaking out, with Klaus having opened up a door to the Red Brand’s room nearby. He doesn’t manage to land any hits, but puts the last man to sleep to use for information later. One the other bodies have been given to the nothic he wakes him up and explains that his friends are dead, and that if he wants to live he’ll need to guide them. The man, called Will, agrees.

With Will’s help, they make their way to a room filled with books and paper. Saffron immediately goes to investigate anything that might include information on the Feywild, finding a book with marked pages and some letters addressed to Iarno, the Wizard, from members of various courts. The letters claim that the Summer Court is in shambles and the Winter Court is preparing for war.

Mariam hears a door slamming and the party goes to investigate, finding Iarno fleeing. They follow behind him with Will leading the way, arriving at a room which he unlocks with a word. Once the fight starts Saffron breaks off from the party, doubling back to investigate another door he saw. He unlocks it with the magic key he picked up from the rat hoard and finds an armory, where he grabs various weapons for the rest of the team and a crossbow for himself. When he re-enters the fighting chamber he fails to see that part of the floor had opened up while he was gone and falls into a twenty-foot deep hole. Only bruised but unable to get out he places down one of Titania’s seeds, which immediately grows a giant wisteria tree which carries him not only out of the hole but up through the entire mansion above them until he crashes through the roof, promptly leaving combat. Later he sees the wizard fleeing the building, broken staff in hand, after Obiri and Klaus defeated him.

The sun begins to set, and Saffron decides to stay up in the tree to watch it.

## Second Arc

### Session 11-

While watching the sun set, Saffron feels a little branch of the tree wrap around his finger. Curious, he tries to communicate with it somehow but finds that he can’t. Mariam joins him on the roof shortly after, asking what the tree is and whether it's connected to Titania. Saffron tries to shut him up by asking the tree to hit him, but is surprised to find instead the face of his old teacher the Wise and Mystical Tree. Mariam tries to read his mind and fails, and resorts to pestering him about the Feywild, with little success. He finally gives up and leaves to go back downstairs.

Saffron asks the Tree about what's happening in the Feywild, and learns that he’s unable to communicate with the trees from Summer Court. Pressing for more information, he figures out that the prince of the Court is dead.

Mariam joins him on the roof shortly after,  carrying a giant chest he got from the nothic and a completely torn-up hand. Saffron chastises him for trying to befriend it, and then notices the matching black streak in his hair. Mariam says he ate one of his spells when he tried to use it. Saffron bandages his hand with some herbs, and uses Calm Person to send a calming warmth flowing through him when he starts panicking about the idea of the nothic coming back to hurt him. Abandoning his previous attempts of gathering info, Mariam decides to call his boyfriend. After butting into the conversation for a bit, Saffron decides it's time to leave.

He goes out into the forest, making sure nobody is following him, and finds the rose that calls Titania. Immediately he begins telling her about the information he gathered on Mariam with some apprehension, feeling strongly that this is only going to hurt his companions. Once he’s finished she thanks him for his work and takes out the seeds she’d given him earlier, telling him to use them more often so he stays out of danger. Something inside him finally snaps at that and he confronts her, asking what she has to lose. She tries to perform a mental attack but fails. Saffron continues, telling her that one day he’s going to find a way to finally get away from her and that she’s not going to be able to keep the Feywild stable with all that’s happening.

She responds to this by asking if he wants his magic and life taken away, moving behind a tree with a gesture of her hand. Saffron feels the magic-caused cracks in the corner of his eye begin to fade and when he tries to cast a spell he finds that he can’t. Completely overwhelmed he collapses into a panic attack, curling up on the forest floor as Titania steps back out. Picking up his chin with her hand she flicks his head back, sending the magic back through him full force and causing the cracks to grow even more. She leaves after telling him she hopes he obeys her now.

Right after she’s gone Klaus comes running out of his hiding place to where Saffron is laying, reassuring her that she’s left. Saffron can barely speak but manages to tell him that he shouldn't have seen that, that it's only putting him in danger and that he doesn’t want to lose him. Klaus tells him it’s not his fault and explains that he was in a similar position with a father figure who had complete control over him, and Saffron asks what it’s like to be free. After some talking he explains that there’s no way out for him and that what’s happening is his fault, and Klaus asks Saffron to let him be nice to him like how Saffron was nice to Klaus before.

Mariam comes out of his hiding place, having been watching as well, and manages to catch a fox running by that Saffron immediately recognized to be Vulpis. After Klaus secures him in a net they get him to reveal his human form and he tells them he’s following Titania. Mariam tries to attack him but misses, and is in turn grabbed by the neck and almost burned. Scared, he scurries back into the bushes. They finally agree to let him go after that but the moment Klaus opens the net Vulpis casts Fire Wall, igniting the forest and bringing everyone except for Mariam down to 0 HP. Mariam uses a healing potion he had found in the nothic’s chest earlier on Obiri, who heals Saffron enough so he can walk and tells him to run. Saffron refuses and rushes over to where she’s holding Klaus. He casts Spare the Dying, a spell he didn’t even know he had, which stabilizes Klaus and surrounds him in pure white morning glories. They all flee back towards the inn right as it starts to rain.

After telling the guards waiting there what was happening with the Red Brands, Obiri drags them all up towards their room. She demands to know what happened in the forest and Mariam explains that he had gone out looking for Saffron to see if he could learn something about Titania. Both Klaus and Obiri are extremely angry with the fact that both Mariam and Saffron keep hiding things from them, Klaus more so because of how much magic stuff there is that just seems like a big trap. Finally Saffron explains to Obiri that he was gathering information on the party for Titania, and that she took away his power while in the forest. This softens her and she calls out Skadi who looks at them all with kindness. Saffron realizes that he’ll never get that kind of look from Titania ever again.

## Main Abilities

* Druidcraft- Speeds up the growth of plants an extreme amount. Uses this as an attack by growing flax flowers out of the enemy
* Eldritch Blast- His main attack. Vines come out of either his hands or the ground, and he manipulates them accordingly. They can come in various colors depending on his mood, ranging from green to white to red.
* Spare the Dying- Covers the target in a tangle of pure white morning glories.
* Mask of Many Faces- Uses a jester mask to cover his face, which then spreads the disguise throughout his entire body.
* Calm Emotions- Complete warmth spreads throughout the target's body, relaxing them completely.
* Hellish Rebuke- Will-o-wisp fire consumes the enemy completely, burning them.

As an Archfey Warlock he is able to project the beguiling or fearsome presence of the fey to either charm or frighten a target, as well as being able to form connections with other fey creatures quickly. His proficiencies are in Deception, Nature, Persuasion and Survival, along with a proficiency with his lyre. He has a crystal yklwa called Shard, but almost never uses it due to his low strength. The only other physical weapon he has are his gauntlets, which when triggered grow claws made of thorny vines which attatch to his hands.

## Quotations

* “I’m not going to ask you to be friends with me immediately, I just want to offer my help- maybe we can work through this stuff together.”
* "You'd watch me walk off a cliff and clap!"
* "Nice weather we're having." (*while trying to seduce the guards as Patrick Bateman*)
* “You heal people, and that's a gift in itself. What they do after is their own choice.”
* “One day I am going to find a way to escape you, and I’m going to leave and never, ever come back.”
* “I’ve lived my life in a place that doesn’t have death and suddenly I’m thrown into a world where every outcome is death, every punishment is dying and no matter what you do you’re gonna end up dead in the end!”
* “I left the Feywild but I didn’t *escape* the Feywild- nobody escapes the Feywild. No matter where I go, I’m going to end up back there.”
* “And for a moment it felt like nothing I said or did would ever matter, no matter how hard I tried.”

## Trivia

* Saffron is tied to the Hanged Man card as well as the Fool card, specifically reversed
* When using Mask of Many Faces, Saffron almost always disguises himself as Patrick Bateman, or in one instance, Patrick Bateman with large breasts.
* According to the players, due to his character drawing inspiration from Critical Roll’s Mollymauk, Saffron has canonically the largest cock out of everyone in the party.
* Saffron’s top surgery scars are shaped like thorny vines, similar to his party.
* Despite being quite charming in canon, Saffron's flirting skills are based around how well his player understands romance which usually ends badly for him.
* Due to unfortunate circumstances, Saffron is canonically 5’12