Yazmin Vaughns

**Yazmin Vaughns** was a Human Warlock who served several questionable and extralegal roles under both the administrations of Oddleifus and Shahd. It was later revealed that she derived her magic powers from an otherworldly entity known as The Superintendent, who communicated with her via a icosahedral pendant that she wore around her neck. As a Warlock, she was imbued with many special magic abilities that made her an extremely adept infiltrator and assassin, including the ability to change her appearance at will or to summon a weapon out of thin air.

## Yazmin Vaughns

### Aliases

Agent Lucid; Yennefer; Melissa; Restitution; Known Terrorist Yazmin Vaughns

### Relatives

Finnegan "Finn" Vaughns (brother); Jazmine Vaughns (niece);

### Occupation

Sirex Guard (former); black ops assassin (former); Vigilance's intelligence operative; Warlock of the Superintendent

## Biographical information

### Place of death

Sirex, after succumbing to Void Parasite infection and being stopped in monstrous form by the S.C.E.

## General Characteristics

Aged 45 during the events of the campaign, Yazmin appeared as an otherwise unremarkable human with darker complexion, brown eyes, and brown hair. However, after she encountered her patron and developed magical abilities, she was rarely ever seen in her true form. She learned to take upon many humanoid forms -- usually female or feminine, as the disguise could not mask her voice for her -- and could be seen in any of them at a given time. For most of the campaign, however, she favored two main disguises, for the convenience of her co-adventurers (and would doff them as necessary when law enforcement caught up to them): "Melissa" and "Yennefer."

## Background

### Early Life

Yazmin was born to Melissa and Aldus Vaughns in Lower Sirex, in a small neighborhood often contested by rivaling Syndicate gangs in the city. Her father was an outspoken pro-Protectorate partisan, which influenced her early views in politics and civil affairs. When she was 16, her views on crime and big government redoubled when a Syndicate territory dispute led to an arson plot that fatally trapped her mother in the burning wreckage. She would later cite this as the catalyst that led her to choose law enforcement as a career path. The Academy was tough, but she came out the other side, ready to serve as a Sirex Guard. Earning her badge at 19, she was certainly one of the youngest members of the force, but her determination to stamping out "the bad guys" led her to begin climbing the ranks rather quickly.

### Warlockhood & Agent Lucid

During her second year as a Guard, Yazmin was tasked with raiding a thieves' guild hideout. The ensuing fight rapidly went south after the surprise appearance of an illicit magic user, taking down most of her fellow guards. Destruction of the surrounding area led to a devastating head injury from which she would not have survived had it not been for a mysterious magical artifact uncovered in the rubble: a glowing icosahedron. In a state of semi-consciousness, she was contacted by an otherworldly entity, promising her survival as well as a set of magical abilities in exchange for her compliance with its instructions — whatever they may be. On the verge of death and with no alternatives, Yazmin formed a pact with the entity, later known to her as "The Superintendent."

Her newfound magical powers garnered the attention of her superiors, who offered her a promotion of sorts. She was to be tasked with more dangerous, more critical missions for the Protectorate’s interests. Believing this to be the right path to put her powers to use, she took on her new role, taking on the codename “Lucid” as part of this new endeavor. She was sworn to total secrecy, and the government took care of the rest of her identity. She wouldn’t be able to see her family again any time soon, but at least her father and her little brother had each other.

### Going M.I.A.

Over the next several years, Yazmin would find herself carrying out extralegal operations on behalf of the Oddleifus administration.

## As an Adventurer

### To The Outer Lands

*Main article: A Mystery in Norbury*

Working closely with the cleric Soleste, Yazmin followed her on a missive to Norbury, a small town in the Outer Lands where the Church had ordered Soleste to investigate some bizarre unnatural phenomena. Without Soleste's knowledge, Yazmin was also responding to her patron's orders to gather a group of specific individuals: Ivan Kalnychevsky, a former brother-in-arms of Soleste; and Elizana Nimblefoot, a Sirex Herald journalist and colleague of Inazorwyn.

Bearing the guise of "Melissa," with only Soleste the wiser, the four of them met in the Outer Lands alongside one Sarovar Arland, who joined the group on their trip to Norbury on a whim. While in Norbury, Yazmin encountered sheriff Eldon Lafalas, who asked for her Sirex Guard badge ID; in a lapse of judgment, she provided the ID she had used before her identity was covered up by the Oddleifus administration. Yazmin also had to reveal her magical abilities while fighting Manius in werewolf form.

### Restitution

*Main articles:*

Yazmin reveals her identity to the Don only after he threatens Jazmine Vaughns, her niece. She had spent years staying as far from her brother Finnegan's family as possible, keeping them safe and uninvolved, as it was what she believed they deserved. The threat that all of that effort could go to waste led her to break her facade.

### Death

After being captured and interrogated by Don Quinn, the Don revealed that his primary intent is to take vengeance upon Yazmin for killing his son. He challenged her to a duel while his men and the party spectate; it was no secret that, at this time, Yazmin was severely weakened from accrued battle wounds and fatigue. The duel went poorly for Yazmin, and she believed she was going to die at his hands. Preparing for the final blow, Yazmin carefully timed a disguise to look exactly how she remembered his son looked as he died, hoping to inflict additional emotional damage to the Don. This act stymied the Don's final strike, buying a few extra seconds.

Seconds turned to minutes as Mother appeared in the warehouse at this moment, getting the Shadow Hand involved and halting the chaos as everyone took in the revelation; however, this turned out to be an even worse outcome, as the Nihilanth infection inside Yazmin metastasized in those minutes, leading to her complete transformation into a werewolf entity. Yazmin's identity died at the moment of this metastasis; her material form died a few minutes later when the S.C.E.'s panther construct defeated the werewolf.