Remedy Minnowbrook

An image of Remedy by Raziel.

**Remedy Minnowbrook** is a Glasya tiefling rogue. He is played by Dusty.

### Appearance

Remedy is a tall and slight tiefling, with short, dark purple hair that is graying at the roots. His horns lean behind him, twisting half-way to make slight spirals. They (very intentionally) lack any distinguishing body modifications or flashy clothes, making some of the few noticeable things about them the usually-full quiver of arrows at their hip, and the daggers settled in sheathes on their belt. The only jewelry he wears is an iron ring on a chain necklace.

He tends to wear dark blues and reds, and is rarely seen out of his armor, though the clasps give easily (perhaps a bit more easily than would be safe) if he needs to shed it for stealth or other purposes. He tends to hoard supplies, and as such his pack is almost always filled to bursting with various tools.

### Personality

Remedy appears to be calm under most circumstances, and has proven himself capable of acting appropriately under pressure, albeit stumbling through most social situations when the need calls for it. That said, he has shown a tendency to get defensive when he perceives someone else as judging him, or is worried they may perceive an action "incorrectly." He's also been known to have a sense of humor, if only during dire or tense moments. He has seemed sympathetic to people around him, and appears to genuinely care for the party, and for the people they travel with.

Remedy has also proven himself to be extremely nervous about his reputation and what others think about him. He often prefaces conversations with promising he is not something, and finishing them by checking to make sure no one thinks worse of him for any of it.

## Biography

### Background

Remedy is from Rosohna, in a household that he claims to have shared with his brother Aymer in addition to his sibling, Theta. He's referenced the name Morrakir, but has insisted on no blood relationship. His parents and Aymer are drow. He's also stated that they grew up, or lived, near where Nyx's house in Rosohna currently is. He has referenced being a criminal in the past. He has implied it was burgling, but he seems to have no problem with committing violent acts or killing. He has referenced having a set protocol for corpses, though he did specify that it didn't happen "often," and claimed that he's never tried to kill someone.

In his twenties, he worked as an accountant to manage his family's finances. During this time he faced "accusations," and claims his family "threw [him] to the moorbounders."

After this, he joined a guard in Xhorhas under duress. He claims to have left after a friendly fire incident, during which he accidentally killed his then-fiance, Alakryn Seniah. He has described himself as "at large," and has expressed extreme measures of guilt over the situation.

Once he left the guard, he changed both his first name (to Remedy) and his family name (to Seniah, to honor Alakryn). He later took Alder's last name when the two married, as he felt it would be awkward to keep Alakryn's last name while married to another man.

A few years ago, he began courting his current husband, Alder Minnowbrook. The two married about a year ago.

A few weeks before the start of the campaign, Remedy was tricked into retrieving documents about a betrayer god. He killed one of the cultists who hired him and was arrested with the other in the ensuing fight. He claims he would have been executed, if not for his husband's silver tongue.

Instead of facing execution, he ended up on a ship headed north which ran into a storm and sank. Remedy almost drowned, but managed to make it to shore, where he stumbled to Palebank Village and met the rest of the party.

### Frozen Sick Arc

After spending a few days in town moping, Remedy stumbled into a funeral for one of the adventurers living in the town. When asked to find a cure of the sickness ailing the town, Remedy joined a small party of adventurers. They then went on to bully a fuckton of sick people until they learned where it was.

While on the ship to Syrinlya, Remedy spent most of his time looking at the clouds to check if there was a storm coming. There was also a battle royale between the party (to unconsciousness) which Remedy won.

Once in Eiselcross, the party began to travel to the Salsvault. On the way, they discovered a silver baby dragon being under attack. After defeating the hostile creature, the party adopted the baby dragon, naming him Merric.

Upon reaching the Salsvault, the party managed to defeat the undead inside and gathered clues as to what had happened and how to get the cure. This culminated in a peaceful but tense conversation with Ferol Sal, led by Nyx Amaryllis, and a short heist involving giant crabs.

On the way back to Syrinlya, the party encountered a mysterious figure in the snow, causing Nyx to dive into the frozen water. She was saved by Kroosh, and Remedy seemed deeply effected by the event. Once they made it back to Syrinlya, they delivered the cure to the appropriate channel to be sent back to Palebank Village.

### Wails in the Night Arc

As the party traveled to Uthodurn, they were robbed by travelling bandits, who they swiftly either killed or scared off. Remedy revealed that, while he hasn't dealt with dead bodies often, he did have a history with them and typical protocols. Once in the city, the party went to the Adventurer's Guild, where they met the then-unconscious Lena Copperleaf. She quickly joined the party, who agreed to help boost the guild's reputation by winning a battling game at the upcoming festival.

The party enjoyed their time at the festival, and Remedy played various games, sticking to what he was already good at. After winning the battle, the party approached a young elf, Nel, who had screamed at the guards after the contest. She explained that her father had died under mysterious circumstances, and that the guard wasn't taking her seriously. The party offered to help, and Remedy remarked that the guard is always useless.

Afterwards, the party returned to their inn rooms, and discussed various thoughts on murder. Remedy revealed he was a member of a guard in Xhorhas, but did not want to be. He asked the rest of the party for their thoughts, and upset Nyx to the point of her leaving the room. When she returned, Remedy apologized, claiming he is not a cruel person, and explaining that he should have known better. He claimed that if someone asked him the same question after his fiance died, he would have punched them.

The group broke into a temple to see the dead body of Nel's father, with Kroosh, Laelrith, and Lena working as distractions while Nyx and Remedy examined the body. Remedy stopped Nyx from stealing from the temple's donation basket. As the mystery progressed, the group fought a banshee, eventually cornering it in a tunnel in the abandoned mines surrounding Uthodurn. The party managed to bring it down, and on the way out, Remedy discovered a Thieves' Cant symbol.

The party went on a trip outside of the city for Merric's sake, and while outside, Remedy and Nyx discussed Remedy's criminal records. Remedy became openly hostile for one of the first times since he met the party, insisting that he didn't want to talk about betrayer gods under any circumstances, and that he didn't want to learn anything about them.

Once back in the city, Remedy gave the party information on Thieves' Cant so they could help him find any more information on the tunnel, though it didn't turn up anything especially useful. He eventually returned with Lena, and the two found a secret passage. Returning later with the party, the group snuck into the Vellum Steeple, where they stole a few maps, and heard the name "Carric."

The party went on a hunt for a yeti after being given the quest by the adventurer's guild. The group hunted for a number of days. One specific night, Kroosh and Remedy got curious as to what mammoth tasted like, and left camp to get some. In that time, camp was attacked, and Nyx and Lena were injured. Remedy took the rest of the night's watch of his own volition, and the party returned to Uthodurn over the next few days.

The party's next job was when they were hired by a woman named Nadenka, who offered to pay them to find her friend, Carric, and a bonus if they didn't alert guards. The party caused some chaos at the Vellum Steeple, after which they learned that Carric was hiding from Nadenka, after he'd been working for her to smuggle artifacts out of the archives. The party agreed to help smuggle him, and his family, out of the city.

Over the next few days they snuck Carric's family to an inn, told Nadenka that they'd found a (faked) letter that Carric was moving north, and managed to get the family, and Carric, out of the city. They traveled south with the family, to a shipping outpost. He talked to Nyx about his family, where he claimed to have a brother named Morrakir, a statement he later retracted. While setting up camp the next night, he told Carric that he'd gone through a similar experience for similar reasons, and that it would get easier with time.

Once at the outpost, Remedy tried to reach his criminal contact, but found that no one would be leaving port until whatever was stopping the mail was stopped. He also began to teach Nyx to pick locks.

### The Poisoned Seas

The party learned that they could help

Heading out to sea with Munikyn, Remedy quickly found himself disturbed by being back at sea. Though he made it through a storm and various altercations with marine life, he was stressed by the time they arrived at their destination. He made a valiant attempt at helping Nyx swim, and was quiet and reserved for most of their time in the underwater temple to Zehir. Gradually, the party was able to progress, and found that the cause of the water troubles was a hydra living within the small temple.

He attempted to trip the hydra with ball bearings and Minor Illusion, but the enemy apparently saw through the trick and retreated back into its lair. During the battle Remedy almost fell, but managed to get the killing blow. Afterwards he became distracted and snippy with his teammates, eager to leave to the point of drinking poison to expedite the process.

After falling unconscious in a later battle at sea, he seemed emotionally effected and asked Nyx to contact Alder for him. He described Alder's personality, how they met, and used Disguise Self to show how he looked. This was enough for Nyx to cast Sending to reach him, and the two were put back in contact.

The party also found a message in a bottle, with a ring of resistance and a letter asking for the party to inform the writer's father that she had died at sea. Remedy took this incredibly seriously, and was intent on going to Blightshore to deliver it before Kroosh revealed that she'd died on Blightshore and would never wish for any of her friends to go there. Remedy seemed confused, but took her seriously.

### Current Arc

Once in Jigow, Remedy attempted to make contact with criminal networks through a group of goblins to check if anyone was looking for him. On his walk to and from the docks, he told Lena about how a guard killed Alakryn, and how he wished he could exact justice on the person who killed him. Later that night, the party spied on a meeting of druids, before being confronted by one who Nyx quickly singled out to torment.

Later, he stole from a sleeping bugbear's shop with Nyx, and assisted her in tormenting a local druid through magic and general annoyance. He later scared Nyx with a crab, resulting in her getting bitten by a poisonous snake. He attempted to apologize through paying for the medical fee, but when this only annoyed Nyx, he settled for slipping a few of his own coins into her bag.

The next time Nyx cast Sending, Alder explained that he could not leave due to his former employers insisting he stay. Initially, the party planned on waiting for Alder to leave Asarius and make it to them in Jigow, but this caused Remedy to panic, as he explained that his husband's former employers were a Xhorhasian crime family. The party agreed to go with him to Asarius, to both reunite with Alder and help him leave the city.

On the road to Asarius by cart, Remedy's erratic behavior continued, but seemed to come to a stop when Kroosh told him he'd end up getting one of them hurt in addition to himself if he kept up with it. He seemed to take extreme offense to this, but did return to being both more subdued and more responsible. During a watch he apologized to Kroosh for speaking harshly, insisting that he had a vow and would not go back on it while insisting he would never hurt someone he cared about.

On the second to last night of travel, Remedy informed Nyx that he is a murderer without explaining who exactly he'd killed - just that he'd intended to kill, and he succeeded. He also specified that his most recent kill had been one of the cultists that had gotten him caught. Nyx seemed accepting of the situation, and reassured Remedy that she didn't hate him. The next night, he told the same thing to Kroosh, while specifying that the person he'd killed was his fiancé. Kroosh was also accepting of the situation, going so far as to call Remedy her family and offer him a place to stay where she and her siblings had stayed previously: a treehouse outside of Charis.

While the party passed a line of military officials, Remedy turned invisible, and seemed uncomfortable when they passed someone he recognized.

Once they were in the city, Remedy headed straight for his house, a small, one-story, cozy looking building with a messy garden in the back and vines on the windows out front. When Alder opened the door, Remedy was greeted with a hug and his husband was greeted with a cheesy pick-up line.