Vellynne Harpell

Character Art of Vellynne

Vellynne Harpell is a human wizard and a member of the Arcane Brotherhood.

## Description

Vellynne is an elderly human wizard. She had short white curly hair, a wrinkled face, and is missing an eye, over which she wears a black eyepatch. She dons heavy furs and is accompanied by her familiar, a snowy white owl. In addition to her owl, she also travels with a band of kobolds, who diguise themselves as three kobolds in a trenchcoat.

She speaks intelligently but bluntly, and is not shy to inform others around her that they are tools to be expended as opposed to allies or friends, going as far to refer to her kobold companions as 'health potions.'

## Relationships

Vellynne is part of the Harpell family, a group of powerful wizards from Longsaddle.

Vellynne is also a member of the Arcane Brotherhood, and part of a fractured expedition comprising of her apprentice Naas Lantomire, Avarice, Janth and Dzaan.

Vellynne has gathered a troupe of kobolds to act as her traveling companions.

## Biography

Vellynne Harpell was born into the Harpell family, a family of powerful wizards. Vellynne was born with a tremor though, which made practicing magic difficult. It was not until her later years that she began to truly focus on becoming a powerful wizard.

At some point, she came into possession of a powerful magical artifact called a Professor Orb. The orb carried an abundance of knowledge of Netheril.

Eventually, she joined the Arcane Brotherhood, likely gaining entrance due to the weight of her family's name. She was chosen to be a part of the expedition to Icewind Dale to search for Ythrin, a crashed Netherese city. She traveled to Icewind Dale with her apprentice Naas Lantomire, Avarice, Janth and Dzaan. However, the group splintered as soon as it arrived in Icewind Dale as the wizards betrayed one another to find Ythrin first to claim it's treasures. In this betrayal, Naas Lantomire stole Vellynne's Professor Orb.

At some point after arriving in Icewind Dale, Vellynne met a group of kobolds. This group included Doby, Toggle, Snox, Gulp, Bat and Furgle. She disguised them by having three stack on top of each other and don a trenchcoat.

Eventually, her search lead her to Lonelywood. Frustrated with her lack of progress, she exited the Happy Scrimshander, where the Snow Drifters just happened to be passing by. She approaches the party and offers to pay them 50 gp if they could capture a living Chwinga. Vellynne knew this task to be impossible, but assigned it as a test, and provided them with a lantern of revealing.

Eventually, Vellynne went to Bremen and stayed in the Buried Treasure, and hid some of her kobolds in the stables. Upon returning, she found V snooping about, and inquired what she was doing before V left. Later, Vellynne would find the Snow Drifters in the Bearded Brother Tavern. When she finds that the Snow Drifters have not yet captured the Chwinga, she grew annoyed, calling the Snow Drifters useless and lazy before taking her leave.

At some point, Vellynne learned of the duergar threat and found the Snow Drifters had gone to Sunblight Fortress to stop it. She gathered her kobolds and raised some dogs from the dead to pull some sleds and raced out to meet them. She found the party outside the mountain as the chardalyn dragon passed overhead, and together with the Snow Drifters, raced back to Bryn Shander to fight it.

In their journey, she seemed particularly interested in Gabar's interest in Netheril, given she was searching for Ythrin. Learning that Gabar has a map to the Lost Spire of Netheril, she agreed to allow Gabar to copy a spell from her book for a copy of the map.

After the chardalyn dragon was defeated, Vellynne once again approached the Snow Drifters as they are attacked by an Intellect Devourer. She identifies V's crystal, claiming it radiates powerful psionic energy. While the Snow Drifters left for Karkolohk, Vellynne remained in Bryn Shander to perform research.

Upon their return, Vellynne grew particularly interested in a magical mechanical egg they returned with, and grew irritated that the Snow Drifters refused to allow her to inspect it or research it. She claimed no harm could come from simple research, even if the item they were researching was of immense and dangerous power. The Snow Drifters did not let up in their refusal to allow her to investigate it. Later, she agreed to trade Gabar several pieces of parchment for copying spells in return for a Cursed Pearl of Power, which she was able to remove the curse for, and for Gabar to direct Sahnar to protect her as well if she would be wounded in battle. During this discussion, she offended Gabar several times, claiming that Sahnar, an undead, is nothing more than a tool to be used.

At the Lost Spire, the party found a magical room that could turn illusions into reality. However, upon investigating it further, Vellynne found it to be unstable and stopped the party from using it. In the ensuing argument, V and Quintus sided with her, that it should remain undisturbed until it could be repaired or studied. Gabar, Big Smile and Ilikan wanted to use it to create riches to pay off their bounties or create material components for spells, and Sapphira wanted to destroy it.