Venfi Bronzeboots

**Venfi Bronzeboots** is a warforged cleric played by Joanna.

## Biography

### Reactivation

Venfi was a soldier to the Soldara army but she was defeated in battle and deactivated in a ruin, buried under rubble. That was until Selwyse Bronzeboots, an adventuring gnome found her broken body in the ruins and took it back home to retire from her adventuring days. Feeling lonely and having no children of her own Selwyse repaired the broken warforged, re-creating her in a more female/adolescent form to have a child of her own. Venfi would grow up learning about the Celestial Architects, and her mother’s artificer job, and finding her passion in forging metal and delving into religious studies. She would become enamoured in what it meant to be alive, and what the gods intended when creating something. She wanted to know if a creations purpose was to fulfil its creators role or to find a purpose for itself. The older she grew, the more she questioned if her purpose was to be a warforged, or a daughter to Selwyse, or if there was a purpose out there of her own making.

When her childhood friend and rival, E'lun Tusk’s, father passes away, and he decides to leave, Venfi finds the courage to seek her own path. With a lot of convincing, Venfi gets permission from Selwyse to leave their village, but only if she would take the mercenary Tygon, with her on her adventure to protect her. Her mother encouraged her to go out into the world and seek the answer out for herself like their gods had intended, letting Venfi know that she’d find her purpose when she realises what it truly means to be alive.

### Finding a Purpose

Venfi was present in L'Trel on the day of the great fire. In the chaos she was recruited into the Volkrad Army by L'Roi and helped bring order to the troubled city. He formed a group with a few other volunteers, and after the end of the immediate crisis in L'Trel, they escorted Pitar Kratys back to his family freehold in the south. Pitar's son, Tarran Kratys, requested assistance in defending the freehold against the Blood Rune orcs, and the heroes helped the Kratys family hold off the orcs by defeating the orcish captain, Hallir and his lieutenants. After this successful mission, the heroes returned to L'Trel, where they took part in the Challenge of Champions.

After this, they acted as couriers for X'Celsiah Mia, ferrying her unpaid taxes over the Wyvernwatch Mountains to the city of Volkrad. During this journey a blizzard forced them to take shelter at Jacob's Well, where they encountered a red slaad. After a harrowing fight they were able to reach their ultimate destination and after dealing with the corrupt tax minister in the city, they delivered the funds as requested.

On their return to L'Trel, the Iron Stoves assisted a swamp-dwelling hermit named Katan, who was plagued by campestris and a giant crocodile nemesis. They discovered the source of the swamps ills, a naiive bog monster who was breeding giant mosquites, and convinced the creature to eliminate the mosquitos and return the swamp to normal. With Katan's problems solved, the Iron Stoves returned to L'Trel, eager to get their reward from X'Celsiah Mia. She received the gladly, and announced she had another task for them, to deliver a message to her compatriot, Soranna Anitah in Drelin's Ferry.

### Against the Red Hand

Drelin's Ferry was suffering from Orschan raids, and Soranna tasked the Iron Stoves with a mission to find the source of them. They headed north from the town, gaining the assistance of the hunter Jorr Natherson to guide them through the Witchwood. They reached the supposedly haunted Vraath Keep only to discover it occupied by an advance scout of the Red Hand led by Wyrmlord Koth. After a harrowing battle they defeated him, and discovered that a huge army controlled by the Red Hand was mustering at Cinder Hill, and due to march south over Skull Gorge in the next few days.

They arrived at the bridge, finding it heavily defended, with hobgoblins, hell hounds and a green dragon standing watch. Chimalli transformed into a giant badger, and burrowed underneath the bridge, weakening it significantly until a large section of it broke off and fell into the river. They engaged some of the now stranded forces and retreated, their goal of delaying the army achieved. They headed south back to Vraath Keep and then on to Drelin's Ferry, staying ahead of the horde until they were forced to engage at the town, hoping to buy enough time for the remaining civilians to evacuate.

### Mission to the Ruins of Rhest

With Drelin's Ferry successfully evacuated, the Iron Stoves went behind enemy line, investigating rumours of road blocks in the north of the Vale. Here they met the Tiri Kitor elves who told them of a Red Hand leader named Saarvith who had set up a lair in the sunken ruins of Rhest. The subsequent assault on the ruins was fatal for Venfi, and she perished by the acid breath of Regirax, Saarvith's black dragon ally.