Ranolil Nosquviir

### Occupation

Dark SorcererAgent of the Death: entrusted with hunting and eliminating traitors

### Allies

Caldean ColdfireAbbadon

Agents of the Dearth

## Character History

One of a group of twelve ancient sorcerers who sought to destroy the world, Ranolil was cursed for her hubris by the gods. She and her compatriots were transformed into a twisted and wretched forms, and cast into the Underdark: never to see the light of day again. These cursed and spiteful creatures came to be known as "Nagpa".

Ranolil and her kin haunted the underdark for millennia, feared monsters in a land of monsters. At some point in the last century, Ranolil met Caldean Coldfire and was somehow convinced into working for him in the Dearth. The gang's resources allowed her to escape her ancient imprisonment in the underdark, and now she works as a twisted enforcer for the group. Answering only to Caldean himself, Ranolil is sent to find, kill, and consume anyone who has betrayed the Dearth organization.

## Physical Description

Ranolil's body is squat, standing only around four feet in height. She frequently conceals a large part of her body in ragged, filthy robes but her basic body shape is similar to a large, featherless turkey. She has no hair anywhere on her body, though she does grow patches of small, greasy feathers. Her skin is a dark gray and is often loose and bumpy like gooseflesh.

She has two thick, short-toed legs which do not allow her to move very quickly. Her back has a pronounced hunch causing her head to often rest below her shoulders. She has a wide, beaver-like tail made of heavy cartilage and bone which drags behind her as she walks. She has two thin, crooked arms with limited range of motion: each one ends in a hand that has three thick, clawed fingers and a thumb.

Her head is avian-like with wide-set eyes and rests at the end of a long neck covered in limp, hanging wrinkles of skin. Her eyes are disproportionally large, and are a watery black. She has a long, narrow, toucan-like beak, but the top half has been replaced by a metal prosthesis: which is shaped in such a way as to allow her to vocalize and speak. Both halves of the beak, natural and metallic, are razor sharp.

## Personality

Ranolil is mainly characterized by her unmitigated sadism. She seems to possess a deep and all-pervading hatred for other living things. The only moments where she is shown to feel pleasure or to be enjoying herself is when she is actively causing another creature some kind of pain. She is equally comfortable causing physical, mental, or emotional distress: and seems to derive pleasure equally from each.

## Actions in the Campaign

* Was encountered by the party when they were searching for the angel in the undercity. Ranolil, who had been ordered by Caldean Coldfire to find and kill Slinthe Ra'akthel in recompense for his "betrayal" of the Dearth.
* In the ensuing conflict, Slinthe was killed. Ranolil also bit out Coriander's left eye as punishment for his interference in what she saw as Dearth affairs
* Later, she was present at the opening of the Feywild gate by Maria Mather, and fled into the Feywild along with the other Dearth refugees after aiding Slinthe in holding back the Seraphim for as long as she could.

## Quotes

* (Speaking to Coriander) "Are you Slinthe Ra'akthel?"
* (Attempting to demoralize Slinthe when he states that he has friends with him) "Friends? Have you ever really *had* a friend, Ra'akthel? Or is that just one of those little words you like to use to trick others into thinking you’ve got anything inside you other than cowardice and treachery? I imagine by this point you must have betrayed them in some way, it’s a matter of course for you after all. Do they even know it yet? Do *you* even know it yet? Do you even notice when you hurt those close to you, or do you just care so little?”
* (In regards to Zio Frang) “Zio was *shattered* when you deserted. Did you know that? He just couldn’t understand why you’d do something so cruel. Abbadon tells me he didn’t even try to fight when we was subsumed. Did you ever even think of him?" (Turning and speaking to Coriander and Vernher) "Do you think he’ll think of you when you’re no longer useful to him?”
* (In response to Slinthe asking to be allowed to explain himself to Caldean) "Caldean *hated* you. We all hated you. He sent you to Marta on a simple job to get rid of you, and you couldn't even do that right! Did you really think any of us would ever want to see you?"