Histrove

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Histrove was a cloud giantess and orchestrator of a number of plots conspiring to acquire magic items in an attempt to repair the Buoyancy Forge of Ulding's Keep.

## Description

At a staggering eighteen feet tall, all wreathed in thick plate save her face instead hidden behind a perpetually changing mask depicting a range of emotions, Histrove was nothing short of towering and imposing - even before her usage of a glaive and the arcane was considered.

Self-styled as the Mistress of Mists and sometimes the Aloft Ascendant, Histrove seized control of Ulding's Keep from her brother, the Runekeeper Cirrus. Hoping to repair the Buoyancy Forge of the bastion through a series of rituals involving the usage and consumption of numerous magic items and the latent magic contained within dragon blood - harvested from Brightember - she sought to get the keep aloft once more.

## History

Initially, very little was known of Histrove, save that she provisioned for raiders to hold up and pillage passing vessels aboard the Great Conduit, providing them with hippogriffs and roc hatchlings to aid them in their efforts. It is also assumed that she provided the group with a *Wand of Magic Detection* to help them identify enchanted objects, the only items amongst their pilfering that she possessed any particular interest in.

Further details were established by a group of adventurers when they travelled to the village of Vottyrmoor, which had been recently damaged by a landslide. Upon arriving however, they found the city prospering, with temperate weather a far cry from the chilling winds of the surrounding mountains. It was subsequently uncovered that the village claiming continued distress was a deliberate bait for adventurers, with the intentions to slay them and take their arcane possessions.

Later, a group of adventurers reached out to the Galeriders to offer their efforts to hunt down Histrove once and for all in exchange for means to travel to Ulding's Keep. Through the renown and influence of Alwin tlo Hambert with the Guild, their request was granted, the party hiring a trio of Welkin mounts from Dakkik of Oroto Notch. After several days training, the group set off, infiltrating the Keep and eventually coming across Histrove in the study next to her throne room mid-conversation with her castellan, Uktan.

Histrove immediately proved a formidable combatant, wielding the glaive Dayspring to great effect, particularly when combined with her natural reach as a giant. As well as being able to fade away into mist and subsequently reconstitute herself elsewhere to manoeuvre around the battlefield, she also seemed to possess some limited understanding of the arcane, casting *Haste* on herself as the combat progressed, as well as conjuring coins to pummel her foes and thick fogs to obscure her movement.

### Death

After holding her own against Ódóvir Jotunsson, Elinor, Lazarus and Rover Custard Augustine, Histrove would eventually be felled by the College of Spirits Bard, having repeatedly knocked him to the floor. In a particularly intense use of *Dissonant Whispers* haunting with echoes of the bastion crumbling around her, Histrove's mind was torn asunder, and subsequently she collapsed heavily to the stone.