Tatiana Tollanessa

Tatiana Anmarea Tollanessa [Former]

## Episode Appearances

### First Seen

 Sterling Mylheart (Episode) (heard, only by Sterling)Mirror Tricks & Magic Books (physically seen in for of Manifest Mind)

### Last Seen

Signs from the Sand

**Tatiana Tollanessa** is an NPC on *Another Bad Side Quest*. She is a Human, described as a woman, with long blond hair, who wears deep blue robes and a silver choker adorned with a large sapphire around her throat. The party has met her as a split conscious of herself in a corporeal form of the the visage produced when Sterling activated *Manifest Mind* and cause her to appear from his spellbook.

**Ep 28 - Sterling Myleheart**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling, in the form of a blue light, when he rested for his upcoming expedition, and told him how the group he was with had lost friends and felt deep loss, before she helped prepare his magic for the upcoming day. She also warned him, when they went in the Aetian Ruins, of a magical and draconic creature within.

**Ep. 29 - Deeper Into The Cold**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling, as he and the others struggled to solve the riddle on the door, and told him the riddle was not that hard, that he had to solve his own problems and that she was watching.

**Ep. 30 - Mirror Tricks & Magic Books**

Tatiana met the rest of the group when she asked him to be more honest with the party, which prompted him to activate *Manifest Mind* on his spellbook and as she appeared in her corporeal form Quincy, Yashani and Sterling recognized them to be Tollanessa of the Aj'Snaga Pantheon, Goddess of knowledge and magic. Sterling explained when he was simply an anthropologist he found a dilapidated book that fell apart in his hands into many scrolls, that after taking the time to put it back together found the book had a consciousness and since then had aided Sterling in his growth as a wizard while he tried to help find the rest of Tatiana's mind. The group also realised that this portion of her mind did not remember she was divine, but as it was mentioned recalled her time as a part of the Aj'Snaga before they ascended and their time fighting back the destruction brought by Velix Rex Ignis. When Tatiana also brought up the topic of her arcane focus Quincy revealed it was seen in the collection of Baron Elzagerick Vintorvas in *Cessunaler*.

**Ep. 31 - The Moth Witch**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling and offered information on the books that they searched for, namely that there were five of them. Tollanessa was also deemed a valuable for her opinion, when the topic of opening the book for research on what it was was brought up, when Yashani said if the Goddess of knowledge deemed it a worthy risk she would consider letting Sterling open it.

She was manifested in her incorporeal form when the party stopped in hopes of making camp as an extra pair of eyes since he was anxious from the party's earlier conversations. Tollanessa was able to sense something odd in the air, warned Sterling of incoming danger just before three wendigo ambushed the party and brought an end to the fight when she cast *Lightning Bolt,* which Sterling claimed he was unaware she could do.

Tollanessa later identified and told Sterling who Lunala was, noting she was "*the destroyer, the next, the one that [the party] intend to stop".*

**Ep. 32 - Dream Walker (The Ballad of Bo & Gal - Part 3)**

Tollanessa was manifested into her incorporeal form to assist in writing a spell for his tent building competition against Boreal and helped him combine two spells, *Fabricate* and *Magnificent Mansion*, to create a new spell which produced a tower for the party to sleep in, but when she tried to warn Sterling not over extend himself in his excitement ended up ruining a portion of the tower, though it was still usable as a home base for the night. Tollanessa's fractured existence was revealed to Bo and Galatea who took the news of a partially conscious God tagging along fairly well.

**Ep. 33 - Baron Vintorvas (The Ballad of Bo & Gal - Part 4)**

Tollanessa helped Sterling create pamphlets to explain his plans for infiltrating the Baron's castle and eventually killing him. She also told Sterling she could ask what magic Alaerith used to disappear when he asked, but reminded that his magic was innate and could not be taught the way Sterling needed it to be understood. She later begrudgingly failed to cast *Vortex Warp* on Quincy twice, before she agreed with Quincy that Sterling's mother was objectively attractive which only served to make Sterling uncomfortable and grumpy. She became exceptionally excited when Quincy later explained the possibility of creating bullets that contained spells and encouraged Sterling to help while she took notes.

Tollanessa came forward in Sterling's mind to note that Velix was indeed still alive, when Ob and Bolton arrived in preparation for their plan, and seemed surprised but not altogether unhappy about it. Tollanessa also later was summoned in her incorporeal form to distract Elzagerick Vintorvas, Tristan Vintorvas and Garrith Nostru temporarily, allowing the party, Ob and Bolton to *Teleport* in and start the battle and also aided a little in the ensuing fight.

**Ep. 34 - Lost Friends & New Allies (The Ballad of Bo & Gal - Part 5)**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling and was unable to tell what happened to his mother Lysandra, but was able to identify someone cast *Disintegrate* on the upper level of *Castle Vintorvas* before it fell into rubble. She also pointed out a spell torn from a spellbook while they searched through the rubble and presumed it was left by Ob for Sterling to find.

Tollanessa later shared, when the party travelled from *Cessunaler* to *Krak*, what she knew of Boreal Dragons when one was overhead, noted they were intelligent and often lived in the tundra and showed interest in meeting a dragon as a possible research opportunity. She also told Sterling she could not recall information on the devil book the party was carrying, but encouraged Sterling to keep trying. She told them a little about what she did when she was in her book to rest before Sterling requested that she left his mind so he could be alone in his thoughts, and though she reminded him that was not how that worked manifested herself into her incorporeal form, joined RX on top of the carriage, with Bo and Gal, where he proceeded to ask her a number of questions about ancient history that she was alive for.

**Ep. 35 - A Dragon's Lair**

Tollanessa spoke to Bo as they followed Peligronathrax, the dragon, and asked if he could figure out his size, but Bo replied he couldn't see it as more then a speck due to the distance.

She admitted, later on in the dragon's lair, after Nubbi's alternate form was revealed, that she instigated to follow the dragon. When they left his lair Sterling joined those who apologized for the unwise decision making for himself and Tollanessa

**Ep. 36 - The Icy Heart & Hasted Horses**

Tollanessa was mentioned when Sterling told the group, in Montie's store, that he had had no luck with asking for answers related to the book yet. She was mentioned again when Sterling asked for any wizard's spell scrolls available and commented the last he had was before Tollanessa was with him, to the surprise of some of the group that Montie was aware of her. She was mentioned one last time when Sterling turned down one of the scrolls as he knew Tollanessa would be angry if he spent so much money on a spell outside of his ability to cast.

Tollanessa was manifested into her corporeal form on board the groups new ship when Sterling asked her help to create more cannons on the ship and thought she warned it would take a great deal of raw materials decided to indulge him and began to help weigh and measure the cannon.

**Ep. 37 - "Why Didn't You Lead With That?"**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling privately on their excitement and experience of him using the ring to *Polymorph* himself into a rooster.

She was mentioned a while afterwards when Sterling, in his desire to see the *Dusterburyan Lighthouse,* thought he would need to speak with her and see how she would fare in a place that made a mess of magic, as magic was what kept her alive.

She spoke briefly again with Sterling again, when they found out from Jask Helkcrow of Ob's imprisonment and the talk of him being returned to his original burial spot, that she might be able to explain what it meant.

**Ep. 38 - Putting Pieces Into Place**

Tollanessa spoke with the group, after some awkwardness at Alaerith's behaviour around her, that the magic Lunala used to seal away Lysandra and Ob was a powerful spell called *Imprisonment*, which had multiple usages from sealing someone in gem, chained or buried. She added that those under the spell did not need sustenance or air, couldn't be found or contacted through magical means, but was not unbreakable, though there had to be a stipulation for them to get free as it was worked into the casting. She also revealed that Jask's comment of Ob being in his original burial spot meant he was sealed in an orb underground, that Ob found the burial spot believed to be the container for Lunala and Rhizadeal, and that Lunala found it fit to send him back there as he was once the vessel for Rhizadeal. She also revealed to the group that Lunala had masqueraded as the Baron's wife for sometime and likely would let her die after the Vintorvas's were no more. She also suggested the years Lunala spent were to make the plane shift circles she made at *Castle Vintorvas* and later marvelled at RX's designs for a built to scale sand pyramid.

**Ep. 39 - Strands of Fate**

Tollanessa was mentioned briefly by Bo when he suggested Alaerith should talk with her about the flickering he had experienced.

**Ep. 40 - On The Meta**

Tollanessa revealed to the group that she figured out what the devil book did and, after using Quincy's gained powers through a deal, explained it acted as a contract between someone and the devil it originated from and that likely the one they had was Esmeria's, due to the same shared traits between her and Mammon of the third circle of Hell Minauros. Tollanessa theorized opening it might either act as a beacon that signalled her or just be the contract and destroying it could make the contract null and void. She suggested they should just hold on to it as leverage and see how Esmeria reacted to it to see what they should do. She later noted Quincy's ability to summon their contract with Bolton as a sign of a good relationship.

Tollanessa appeared when Sterling attempted to avoid being forced back into a Rooster by casting *Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere* and dispelled it when unsure why it was there. She later appeared after Sterling was reverted back to human form and said they were a chicken for too long.

**Ep. 41 - The Last Camp**

Tollanessa spoke briefly with party, as they made their way through the *Maltrop Strip* in a semi summoned form briefly, but returned to her book when she found the area negatively affected her magic and form.

Tollanessa later on informed Sterling, on the topic of a horde of T-Rex as a bounty, that it could mean anywhere between 30-40 of them.

**Ep. 42 - The Maltrop Strip**

Tollanessa spoke to Sterling briefly, only in a slight corporeal form to avoid the *Maltrop Strip's* effect on magic and herself, when he asked if she knew what they were hunting and replied she had no idea.

She later spoke with him when the two were accidentally *Banished* due to a magical mishap from trying to cast a spell during the mana storm, though she agreed with Sterling it wasn't too bad as they were safe there as well.

**Ep. 43 - A Discovery in The Strip**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling when he asked her if he could teach the magic that caused them to be *Banished* and while she noted she knew the spell, said it wasn't something he could teach her on that day but agreed they could try it another time.

**Ep. 44 - A Friend in the Darkness**

Tollanessa was mentioned briefly when it was revealed that her spellbook had been stolen from Sterling, along with her consciousness.

**Ep. 45 - House of Ash and Ruin**

Tollanessa, on having some of her papers returned to Sterling, managed to partially appear and speak with him before he promised to retrieve the remaining papers from the Order of Ruin. Yashani also noted, after their information from Robert, that her guess of the book they held being Esmeria's was incorrect and was actually Ilvwinter's.

Tollanessa also spoke to Sterling, when he asked about helping Quincy about fixing *Peril & Pain* but found she was unable to answer in her currently fragmented state.

**Ep.46 - The Dead Room of Dusterbryn**

Tollanessa was summoned by Sterling to check a room with six caskets and open one of them to find that elder bodaks appeared from them.

Tollanessa later warned Sterling, when he asked of the casket Yashani was interested in with her mother's name on it, that she didn't know what was inside it and that they should go.

**Ep. 47 - A Find, A Furnace and Frozen Bodies**

Tollanessa spoke with Sterling, when he found the room of statues depicting the *Aj'Snaga Pantheon*, with a statue of her and her full name *Tatiana Anmarea Tollanessa* depicted and revealed it was her original name before it was simplified when she became a higher power and that the same was for all the other Prime Gods.

**Ep. 54 - We Have To Kill Alaerith!?**

Tollanessa briefly aided in the fight against the Forest Emperor and it's two pine dooms.

**Ep. 55 - Time Takes All**

Tollanessa was mentioned briefly when Alaerith offered her, like the others of the group, the chance to ask any question they had, but remained inattentive at the time.

**Ep. 56 - The River's Port**

Tollanessa briefly appeared when Sterling quickly copied a scroll of *Cloud of Daggers* to his book in Powder and Pollen's shop and was unsummoned when both realized the error they had made.

**Ep. 57 - Doing What Is Right**

Tollanessa briefly aided in the battle against the Corpse Flower and it's spore zombies.

**Ep. 58 - The Enclave and Modipious Travel**

Tollanessa spoke to Alaerith briefly, when Sterling requested her to find him in his tower, and Alaerith revealed the reason for his discomfort around her was the choker around her neck as it brought bad memories. Tollanessa noted she could look however she wished and in spite his insistence it was ok, removed it from her projected self.

Tollanessa later spoke with Sterling, during the conversation with Kalistock, when he asked how to cast *Banishment* only to be told again she couldn't teach what she didn't remember. She later, after Kalistock left, made it clear to Sterling he was being tempted, noting he probably had waited for the chance to do so and Sterling agreed, but noted it was a hard choice before he slept.

**Ep. 59 - The Old Artificer**

Tollanessa briefly appeared when the party met Twynn II to help the party successfully repair RX.

**Ep. 60 - A Fair Warning & A Curse**

Tollanessa was mentioned briefly when Sterling requested any scrolls or spells to help her.

**Ep. 61 - The Plane of Fire**

Tollanessa helped find *Bolton's* location, via Sterling's cast of *Scrying*, and let the group know his location and state. She told them Broneli was a helpful person back in their time and was unsure if he would help them. She also referred them to see the 'tailor' in *The Plume* as a viable contact, noting he was crooked but got what she needed, and that it might be his descendants they might deal with instead. She additionally warned the group to stay out of *The* *Rookery*.

**Ep. 62 - Deals of a Different Nature**

Tollanessa spoke to Sterling when the group considered confronting Ilvwinter, who they saw in the *Fire Plane,* but she assured it was way too risky for them to do.

**Ep. 63 - Help Me, Help You**

Tollanessa helped the party in checking they were safe while they recovered after completing Pancake's request and later on, when the group were the Order of Ruin was nearby, to help the group if anything happened as best as she could.

**Ep. 65 - Varmilo Used Rollout**

Tollanessa briefly aided in the fight against the salamanders and varmilos.

**Ep. 66 - A Dungeon in Charcoal**

Sterling attempted to speak to her, when the group realized they were in an anti-magic area, but heard nothing back.

**Ep. 67 - Operation : Gun Smoke Rescue**

Tollanessa spoke to Sterling when he explained his plan to magically get Bolton out of his cage, but pointed out the possibility it might have anti magic to prevent him leaving it. She partially helped with his initial attempt, but when Sterling found his body wouldn't allow the cage to leave the hole used her to return. She later on helped remove the magic enchantment on the cage when Sterling struggled to figured how to do so.

**Ep. 68 - Signs from the Sand**

Tollanessa helped find the location of Sahar, Kaz's mother, via Sterling's cast of *Scrying* and after Sahar used Sterling to speak to the party also spoke with her in the background while speaking to them.

**Ep. 69 - It's Always Like This**

After the party rested and Yashani and Alaerith found Sterling was missing with his papers left behind, Alaerith found that Tollanessa's existance was weakened within her papers to the barest ripple incapable of conversing. Vile noted her presence was within a desert in the Material Plane, which the group believe to be the *Chasm of Spire*.

**Ep. 70 - Vayilcor & The Clockwork Castle**

Tollanessa was mentioned briefly when the party discussed what information to learn in the *Clockwork Castle*.

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