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Anika Venomblood

The lady with the eyebrows.

**Anika Venomblood** is an NPC from the *Heroes of Legend* campaign. She is a Nightwarden captain, and Vahlka Shadowbane's direct superior.

## Appearance and Personality

Anika is a thin, somewhat tall drow woman who wears a Nightwarden officer's uniform. She wears her insignia on the shoulder pauldron of her armor. Her hair is shaved into a long undercut - the bottom third of which is dip-dyed a very bright green color that matches her eyes. She has a lot of piercings, including large gauges in her ear lobes.

She has big ass eyebrows.

Anika has been shown to be very kind to those under her command, especially by drow standards. She can be a bit of a hardass - and is described as being stern, domineering, and commanding, but she does it without the cruelty of many of the Nightwarden's upper rankings.

## History

Much of Anika's personal history is unknown.

She was once lowborn, but was adopted into a family of nobility in her youth well before she became a Nightwarden.

At some point, for reasons undisclosed, Anika took a long hiatus from the wardens.

Anika was best friends with Nero, and knew him well before Vahlka did.

Anika was recently harshly punished for "stealing medical supplies" according to Vahlka, and is under investigation from the Wardens High Command. Later it was revealed that she actually, in addition to the above, took the fall for Vahlka's brother, Ender trying to desert the Nightwardens.

Anika has a daughter, Arcanist Fritz.

Like just about everyone, Anika's slept with Vahlka at least once.

## Trivia

* Anika's anshi was a pit viper.
* Anika is a good bean and I would die for her.
* Needs a big ass mirror for her big ass eyebrows.
* Dex once had a dream where she was just wearing a t-shirt that said "POWERBOTTOM" and i think that says a lot about her.
* Just Captain Holt from B99 if he was a punk rock Drow woman.
Perrin Weaseltongue

**Perrin Weaseltongue** is a gnome wizard and a member of Andrith's Adventuring Party.

## Appearance and Personality

Perrin is a pale freckly rock gnome with long brown hair and blue eyes. He is extremely tall and lanky for his race. Like every remotely good wizard, Perrin wears a huge hat. It is decorated with a bunch of dangly bits and bobs including some small animal bones.

The party has not had much interaction with Perrin, but the little bit we have suggested he was verbose, intelligent, and fairly friendly. As he avoided conflict with Barkley even when somewhat antagonized.

The party is aware that he is a Necromancer, but he does not actually animate the dead to avoid conflict with Deacon.

## Trivia

* Perrin is the tallest small, and he is the best character in Heroes of Legende.
* Perrin's surname is part of some gnomish tradition - indicating he has been accused of some sort of terrible crime.
Shad'ro Widowvane

~~Shamwow Windowpane~~ Shad'ro Widowvane is a drow nightwarden with the rank of Warden-Commander. He lead Vahlka's unit into the Sleepless Mire in search of information about the escaped prisoner Andrith Shadowbane.

Shad'ro intended to capture the party, but Olivia convinced him not to. He allowed them access to the Nightwarden camp instead, and the party eventually made a deal with him - they would help him gather information on Andrith, and in return they would earn freedom for Tauro, the dragon that the Nightwardens had been given as a delicacy to eat.

Shad'ro has a girlfriend named Shynliira Widowvane. She's way cooler than him.

Vahlka has a personal goal of punching Shad'ro in the face and making him eat his fabulous hair. She has not disclosed why she dislikes him so much.
Titus the Giant-Slayer

"Titus the Giant-Slayer — Titus was an ancient red dragon during the scale war, and a brother to Daggerspine. Like all of Nagi'atha's firstborn children, he was giving a blessing from Tiamat wherein he could not be killed, and would instead be reborn from the body of his closest living bonded follower when he was killed. He was well known for slaying the Storm Giant king, as well as eating Prince Antius of Elchezar when he went on a quest to slay him.

Titus was eventually sealed in the weapon wielded by Dwarf-King Hathrus Steelfoot, preventing him from reincarnating. It has been said that Daggerspine herself gave the dwarf-king instructions on how to trap him, in exchange for the King's Jewel."
Episode 12

## Polymorphing into a Bird to Avoid an Awkward Conversation

* Party heads into the quarantine district. Some weird psuedo werewolves attack. The party runs from most of them.
* Find a house with a lantern, the party foolishly goes in and fight a horrible mutated spider werewolf thing (A drow mutated by Merlin LaRoth into one of his "werewolves") During this fight, Olivia is nearly killed but is saved by Barkley using Warding Bond.
* Rest in the house after the Drow Beast is dead.
* Make our way to Andrith's Apartment. Deacon and Vahlka get into another fight when he refuses to give her any more information, he hold persons her again and tries to leave but Olivia convinces him them both to chill the fuck out and stops Deacon from leaving but he turns into a bird to avoid taking to Vahlka.
* Vahlka is very angery, but too honorable to actually do anything about it.
* Deacon tells us that his group was supposed to close a fiend's mirror here in the quarantine district, housed in Merlin Laroth's mansion. We agree to help him do that.
* Long Rest in Andrith's Apartment before moving on.

Picking up strange old men in bars <- PREVIOUS EPISODE | NEXT EPISODE -> A Big Green Mistake
Tristram Vaas

Drawn by Dex

Tristram is an NPC first appearing in Episode 28 of Heroes of Legend.

## Appearance

Tristram is a thin and dainty looking half-elven girl with long brown hair and violet eyes. She stands just barely five feet tall, and is very skinny and delicately built, with protruding ribs and spindly arms and legs. A fact that comically contrasts with the fact that she is incredibly and unnaturally strong considering her petite frame. Every inch of her pale skin is covered in intricate scarlet tattoos. She wears a beige, over-sized, and extraordinarily ugly Robe of Useful Things. Underneath her ugly robe she wears leather armor and the most obnoxiously bright fuschia and purple leggings that have ever graced Teshol.

When she materializes her pact weapon it takes the form of a comically massive sparkly pink greatsword that looks as if it was drawn by Lisa Frank.

## Personality

Tristram is affable, charismatic and excitable - seeming to have a fondness for weird morbid tokens and magical items in particular. The party has often chastised her for her hoarding of dead animals and other oddities. Any criticism of her behavior is blithely ignored, even when she endangers herself.

She has a poor understanding of morals and behaves in ways that are often impulsive and illogical. Tristram is here to have a good time, even when she really shouldn't be.

She loves her girlfriend, Grim, despite the tiefling gunslinger being a enormous bitch.

## Backstory

The party discovered her mid-escape attempt from a Cult of the Dragon dungeon. The party helped her fend off the Cult, defeated her captor Aisling, and convinced the witch to stay with the group rather than flee into the Underdark alone.

Tristram asked the party to help her look for her girlfriend, a tiefling named Grim. They both lived in Tamvrien before being captured and taken to the underdark.

Tristram has claimed that the white wyrmspeaker, Tenebrous, is a friend of hers and her girlfriend's and is really "Very Nice." It turned out that Tristram's "capture" by the cult was really Tenebrous ordering Aisling to safely extract Tristram from Tamvrien before Val's invasion of the city.

## Other Interesting Facts

* Tristram seems to have quite a few ridiculous and goofy magic items at her disposal - a Robe of Useful Things, Slippers of Spider Climb, a Bag of Beans, a Deck of Illusions, and has been confirmed to draw from a Deck of Many Things at least once.
* Tristram drew Euryale out of the Deck of Many Things and her saving throws are all horrible.
* Tristram's blood magic seems to function similarly to Grey's, but enables her to dramatically increase her physical strength to ridiculous levels. She has been shown to be able to lift Vahlka in full plate armor over her head like a feather.
* Trist's animal symbolism is a Magpie.
* Tristram is an D&D OC of Rachel's adapted as a Tesholan NPC.
Important Locations

## Major Cities and Locations

Elchezar - The King's March, where Barkley completed her cleric training

Glintveil - The City of Gold, home of the dragonborn

Grindwall - The Iron Gate, where the mist is alive and there are werewolves

Sri'Syr - The Rune Ward

Stormend - The Tide Watch

Tamvrien - The Alabaster City, where Olivia attended bard's college

Umbravall - The Throne of the Depths, home of the drow

City of Dogs - Another large underdark city

The Black Ziggurat - The fortress of the illithid in the underdark

Oasis - A city in the Vastlands, populated by sand elves.

Aket'O - The largest city in the Vastlands, the capital of the sand elves.

## Regional Areas

The Vastlands- The desert lands of Teshol, populated by sand elves, gnolls, drow raiders, and thri-keen.

The Northmarch - The snowy wildlands to the north of Teshol, dotted with arcane leylines and small villages, mostly forgotten by the rest of Teshol

The Drakelands - The thick, mysterious forest where certain dragons make their lairs.

The King's March - Including both Elchezar and the surrounding countriside, the King's March includes much of the Chezarian Grasslands

## Minor Townships and Landmarks

Banar's Landing - a sleepy coastal town on Shark's Maw Isle

Lorane - Olivia's birthplace, a rural town south of Elchezar

Summer Fields - A town in the Chezarian grasslands, part of the Summer Fields county that includes Lorane.

Anxucotl's Rest - The island near Atol'Harok where Haven made her lair among the lizardfolk.

Whitehill/Dragonsfall - The village in the Northmarch where Tanith killed Haven and captured Minerva, renamed from Whitehill to Dragonsfall by Anamelech who has claimed it as her lair.

## Moving Targets

The Lady's Vengeance - the ship where it all began, crewed by pirates

## Beyond the Material Plane

Barovia - voted The Worst Place to Visit by *Gravespeaker's Weekly*

The Void - also known as The In Between

The Shaded Valley - The dwelling place of the Tesholan monks

Ysgard - One of the upper planes, the good and neutral aligned plane of eternal battle.

The Abyss - The plane of evil chaos, consisting of infinite layers of horrible demiplanes ruled over by Demon Princes. Some examples of layers of the Abyss are The Demonweb Pits, ruled over by Lolth; Thanatos, ruled over by Orcus, and The Gaping Maw, ruled by Demogorgon.

The Shadowfell - The plane of Shadow where the Raven Queen makes her home. It is is also a land filled with undead creatures.

The Feywild - A plane of vibrant and intense life, full of seelie and unseelie fey, eladrin, and other fairy creatures.
Astrid Stumbleflask

Art by Rachel

**Astrid Stumbleflask** is a hill dwarf fighter/blood hunter and a guest character played by Rachel during Vahlka's solo adventure.

The party encountered Astrid locked in a cage by Yuan-ti slavers. They freed her and she decided to stick with them for the meantime due to safety in numbers.

## Appearance and Personality

A squat solidly built dwarven woman. Tan like someone who spends a great deal of time outdoors. Auburn hair, streaked with gray and cut into a square bob. Nosering. Couple freckles - she has this scruffy beard that comes in a bit redder than her hair. There's a geometric tattoo in faded blue beneath one eye - the other eye is covered by a dark green cloth tied around her head. Heavily scarred, especially across the arms.

She's wearing wellmade looking plate armor decorated with artful geometric designs over the breastplate and pauldrons. She has a large pentagonal shield strapped to her back that makes her look kinda like some weird turtle, the center of which has a metal plate that's engraved with a geometric eye-like design.

Astrid is fairly genial and polite and straightforward. She seems to be easygoing, although with a mercenary focus on her work as a Blood Hunter. She is a member of the Order of Arcane guild of hunters out of Elchezhar.
Episode 112

## High Stakes Go-Fish

* Lucius urges the party to use their gold to their advantage and try and ply some favors that way to get the fish eyes we need. Barkley suggests looking for the eyes just in a spell component shop.
* We descend into the watery part of the city. Looking around the upper rings of the city for a shop that sells spells components, we do not find one but we do find a shop selling potions.
* The potion seller turns out to be a large orange jellyfish. Lucius asks if it has any healing potions - it answers him with a low BOOM. Barkley casts tongues to talk to him, he greets her warmly in a very posh voice. He comes back with several potions when she asks for them. We buy several potions. A Kuo-toa comes in and asks the jellyfish for another pink potion and addresses him as Paul. Paul tells him "For the last time you're not supposed to drink the love potion its for the other person." He shows us his cool Sea Spider in a bubble. We also buy a Potion of Growth and some Oil of Etherealness. We ask Paul about Spell Components but he says that the Big Fish has forbidden the sale of them. We ask who the big fish is and he explains that he is Dagon's right hand. I love Paul.
* We discuss what to do for a bit, then move on to a bar called The Fisherman's Hook. There are a lot of merfolk and merrow around. Vahlka orders a mug of slime from the hagfish demon behind the bar. It tastes like rum and she has another while we're discussing what to do. Seven drunk wastriliths are gathered in a corner of the bar. The party argues about how to handle the situation while Vahlka drinks the slurm. The wastrilith eventually leave and we tail them deeper into the city until they reach a casino called The Ocean Floor.
* We argue for a bit about what to do. Then decide to backtrack and try and find some easier marks. Vahlka summons a giant catfish (because she can) his name is Maurice. We swim back up to the upper tier of the city and are greeted by a group of merfolk who tell us about The Big Fish. He's meeting with prospective clients. We end up deciding to go back down to the casino.
* Once we are in the casino we pig out at the buffet for a bit before we are approached by a glabrazu. He tells us he can check and see if the Big Fish will speak with us and swims off, after a bit, he returns and tells us that The Big Fish will agree to speak with Lucius, Olivia, and Godfrey - but that he does not want to talk to the others.
* We argue about what to do for a bit. Vahlka and Olivia are adamant that and that we are here to kill the Big Fish, not to make any sort of deal with him. Godfrey and Lucius are more willing to listen to a prospective deal. Vahlka does not like the idea of leaving this in their hands, but is eventually placated. The divine casters all pile into the portable hole, which Lucius carries into the meeting room with the Big Fish.
* During the conversation with The Big Fish, Olivia pickpockets the portable hole away from Lucius and throws it open - ending any pretense of negotiation. Combat ensues instantly.
Episode 102

## why are paladins like THIS

* Regroup after fight with inquisitors and wardens.
* Vahlka and Katya work together to open the cell containing the pegasus.
* We talk to a winged figure in a cell, Vahlka divine senses that she is a celestial. (Deva) Her name is Tabbris and she was jailed here a few days ago. Godfrey blunders into some traps
* Vahlka opens a door and is knocked out by a spear trap. Lucius yells at her to quit being dumb. She yells back then u do it bitch
* we continue... find elevator
* decide to go up and find place to rest - all the way to level 50
* Vahlka shittily chases some quaggoths off - one of whom warns that osynas been hanging out in the matienence areas and we hide out in a boiler room for an hour to take a rest.
* after rest nero's like "we should go down and find ani" but Vahlka says she wants to check out Ysera's office due to the letter. We find an elevator and Vahlka plugs in floor 14.
* when we reach floor 14 Vahlka casts locate object, seems to find nothing, then goes "lol whoops wrong floor, stupid me" and hits 33 - however as we pass floor 25 she gets a blip and immediately sends the elevator there without explanation
* Paladin just GOES and Olly clings to her demanding explanation. Lucius gets Pissed. Olly Begs Deek to help but that boy has Vulnerability: Girl and doesn't do shit. Barkley insights that Vahlka's acting strange because of abyssal influence and Deek casts greater restoration on her despite her protests.
* Sanity flaw supressed Vahlka explains that she's after Osyna's sword as the RQ suggested weeks ago. Olly begs her to stop this and focus on the reason they came here. Vahlka refuses at first, but gradually backs down and agrees, reluctantly to leave.
* After the argument is over, Vahlka realizes the sword has not moved from its position in awhile and bolts for it - at the same time, Osyna drops down behind the party from where she was spiderwalking along the ceiling.
Episode 4

## Episode 4: "My name is Tauro!"

This is the fourth episode of the "Heroes of Legend" campaign. The party, consisting then of Barkley, Rashi, Olivia, Kakara, and Stella, entered the nightwarden camp stationed in the Sleepless Mire. They saw the drow and their tracking spiders, as well as two dragon wyrmlings that Shad'ro had purchased and strung up for his troops as food. When the party asked the one wyrmling that was still alive what his name was, he answered that "[His] name is Tauro!" which is a reference to a character from another setting that the players all knew and was QUITE A SHOCK. The party was upset at the idea of the dragon babies being eaten, and so offered to do a mission for Shad'ro in exchange for what was to him basically the still-alive Thanksgiving turkey he'd acquired. He told them to bring back information about the missing criminal, Andrith Shadowbane and the party agreed. While in the nightwarden camp, the party also met Shad'ro's navigator girlfriend, and Barkley tried to ride Shad'ro's tracking spider to no avail.

The party then left the nightwarden camp and located "The Rats" - a group of wererat children struggling for survival out in the marsh. The party gave the kids most of their rations and made friends with them. The rats current leader (name??) told the party that their former leader was still in the sewers of the quarantine district in Grindwall. The rats asked the party to please, if they ever went to Grindwall, to tell their former leader, Penny Tibbs, where they were now located. The party agreed, although when they went to Grindwall next they didn't actually get the opportunity to go into the quarantine sewers. The children also had accidentally converted the missing blacksmith from Banar's Landing into a frothing werebeast and were holding him in a cage. The party didn't really know what to do about that so they just let the kids continue handling that situation.

The rats gave the party directions about where they might find what Andrith was looking for. It was apparently a strange structure out in the middle of the marsh. The rat leader (again, name??) took the party there to see a huge statue of a winged serpent with a door at the base. The door at the base had a riddle in celestial preventing entry. I don't remember all the details but the gist was basically "I have rivers without water/ Forests without trees,/ Mountains without rocks/ Towns without houses." and the answer was a map. Once Kakara solved the riddle, the party was able to open the door, ending the episode.

"My name is Tauro!" <- PREVIOUS EPISODE | NEXT EPISODE -> "Lolth, why have you forsaken me?"
Episode 20

## Verde Jesus, put some fucking pants on.

* In Dazzlegleam's lair, Verde and Castra Dame fight, while Jeth and Olivia watch, hiding. Dazzlegleam doesn't seem to care much about the fight, he's bemused. The rest of the party, on the other side of the transportation pad, gets tired of waiting for Olly and Jeth to report back, and they decide to follow them in.
* Godfrey nat ones his stealth check and walks right into Vahlka in the dark with an almighty clang - Castra Dame, Verde, and company immediately realize we are there and attack.
* Dazzlegleam watches the fight in apparent disinterest.
* Olly and Jeth try and fight Verde and a few cronies while the rest of us fight Castra and company.
* Verde crits Olly for a metric fuckton, who only survives via DM fiat, and he drops his oneliner.
* Vahlka gets her ass kicked pretty hard but clerics swoop in and save the day and she's able to finish Castra off by lopping off both ears.
* Godfrey casts spare the dying on Olly and intimidates Verde into fleeing. Despite best attempts to hold him there he uses his cape of the mountebank to escape.
* Dazzlegleam allows us to leave, making it very apparent he could kill us very easily.

Saving the Bird Nerd <- PREVIOUS EPISODE | NEXT EPISODE -> Forcing the DM to copypaste extra monster tokens
Nightwardens

The Nightwardens are an Drow organization that serves as the principle military force of Umbravall. Nightwardens consist, primarily of fighters and rogues, as well as clerics and paladins in service of Lolth. One of the Wardens primary duties is the defense of the prison known as Deephold; where many dangerous criminals are kept beneath Umbravall. Currently, the Nightwardens are hunting a large number of convicts that escaped from Deephold alongside the red wyrm, Daggerspine.

## Known Nightwardens

Italicized names have not been encountered by the party other than Vahlka.

### Recruits:

* Vahlka Shadowbane

* Andromache Shadowbane
* Ender Shadowbane
* *~~Neronvain Duskheart~~*
* *Shay'ara Blackclaw*

### Warden-Commanders:

* Shad'ro Widowvane
* ~~Alister Blackcrawl~~
* *Mar'thoss Darkenveil*
* *Zendoth Deepspire*
* *Myron Dusksinger*

### Warden-Captains

* Anika Venomblood
* *Elyssa Shadeheart*
* *Tythia Underwatch*

### Warden-Generals/Grand Wardens

* Osyna Bloodeye
* Dirga Whitespine
* *Yressa Depthwalker*
Freedom

Freedom is a hellborn tiefling from Malbolge, an archer, and an airship pilot. The party rescued her from the feywild, and she's been driving their transport for a while since.

## Description

Freedom is tall, just under six feet, with green skin and long, curved horns that point outwards. Her hair and eyes are also green, and her skin is scaled in places. Her usual outfit consists of a bandana and jumpsuit.

She is a capable fighter with a heavy crossbow if she has to be, but she prefers flying rather than on-the-ground adventuring.
Episode 98

## Summary

Stealth broken, the party (without Lucius) fights their way out of the castle. They're able to eventually find shelter, not knowing when their wizard will return. He does, having spent a week in Thanatos, and learned some details about Tanith along the way. They come across the Field of Bone and are courted by Dagon, but rebuffs his advances (for now).

## Recap

* we set the wheel to ESCAPE MODE
* we land back on in the ghost level
* Vahlka leeroy jenkins back into the burning room
* we kill a drow vampire
* wander the woods, find a rock formation - small half buried cabin under there
* wakeup!! godfrey's crazy and clonks Vahl with his stick. Vahl wrestles him.
* Vahl and Godfrey sneak away and find lucy
* Lucy tells us "The green dragon that haunts our every step (don't say her name) IS a demon lord. Attending the convergence. Inviting herself. "The Serpent of the Red Mire"
* Did not get to talk to Minerva. Heavily Sedated, able to release her - calliope and minerva went to glintveil.
* Sirius is in trouble. Tanith planning to attack Sirius in Thunder Bay.
* Olly tries to send Sirius but just gets Spider Garbage back
* Lolth yells   "Deep thing. Twisting and watching below a sea of fallen stars. Beware the depths of shade-water and lost-memory. They say the oceans remember, they say the first things came from there, crawling and putrid, squirming in filth and salt, full of wanting. Do you remember, ocean-king?"
* Lolth appears very close. We hide in candle
* 2000 ft cliff, styx falls off the edge - tone changes dramatically looks like a forest. Ground looks fleshy and gross- protrusions look like flesh and bone. Vahlka knows this is the Field of Bone. Dull Light.
* big besital things one of which has horns making lots of noise
* barkley and lucy scout ahead and find a big skeletal cave thingy and we decide to stay there for the night
* Dagon comes and visits olly and is like eyyyy fuck lolth am i right and olly is like hmmmm you are right but you are a fish demon so your opinion is invalid
* Olly wakes the party up and talks to them about Dagon, other than Lucius we wholly agree we don't want to make any demon deals.
* Sleepo.

## Recording

LINK.

Solo Session (Lucius): Burial <- PREVIOUS EPISODE | NEXT EPISODE -> That Damned Cat
Episode 27: So It Is Heard

* We start this session right into combat with Deathcrawl as Godfrey casts Hunger of Hadar on him - Desdemona uses one of her abilities to give us all +10 to initiative and we all manage to go before Deathcrawl does.
* Running around the platform, slipping and sliding in the slime, Deathcrawl almost drops Vahlka.
* Deathcrawl banishes Lucius despite Vahl's attempt to counterspell him.
* Lucius finds himself in a very wet humid jungle with a blood red sky. In the distance he sees a single very large black dragon with one eye -- Crow, but is returned to the material plane before anything further can happen.
* Deathcrawl manages to kill Deacon, taking a full melee multiattack on the cleric and causing him to fail enough death saves to die outright.
* Barkley immediately casts revivify on Deacon and is pulled to a shadowy realm where she is met with a massive black wolf who holds a lantern and demands to know why she wishes to bring Deacon back to the dead. Barkley explains that Deacon has done so much to help us since we met him, so much to help so many people. The wolf seems to think this is an acceptable answer and grants the resurrection spell.
* Once alive once more, Deacon heals Vahlka and runs - polymorphing himself into a bird and flying off the platform.
* Deathcrawl is slain by Barkley. A shadowy dark form seems to leech out of the dragon's body and fly away, Vahlka identifies him as a revenant and tells the group that he is almost certainly not done. We do find a fancy looking scroll case with a white rose embellishment.
* We sort of recoup our losses - investigate the treasure hoard, which is cursed in some manner, and decide to retreat upstairs to the top platform to rest for the evening. During the rest, Vahlka and Godfrey figure out how to open the scroll, which had notes from Snow. (See DOCUMENTS!)

Eat The Slime <- PREVIOUS EPISODE | NEXT EPISODE -> Lose a half-elf, Gain a half-elf
Misshka

**Misshka** is Grey's familiar. She is a little shithead of a sprite that spies on people, flips them off, generally causes mischief, and absolutely will bite if provoked. Fair warning, she's easy to provoke.

Misshka used her heart sight ability on Vahlka and apparently told Grey that she was "evil and not to be trusted." but Deacon disregarded this and tried, in vain, to convince the rest of his party of that point as well.
Allegreyana Willowstride

art by Dex

**Allegreyana Willowstride,** frequently nicknamed to Grey, is a member of Andrith's adventuring party. Allegreyana is a high elf wild mage/warlock.

## Appearance

Grey is a very beautiful high elven sorceress. She has extremely long, fullbodied, dark wavy hair, fairly light skin, and strange tattoos that cover her body. Her tongue was cut out by the drow, presumably during her time in Umbravall.

She dresses extremely impractically and shows a lot of skin. Wearing a corset, stiletto high-heeled boots, and a Robe of Stars, but only the skirt part of it, with the sleeves tied around her waist.

## Personality

According to Deacon, Grey is his party's main decision maker, despite being very foolish. As a sorcerer, her charisma is very high, to the point where she can be very manipulative, even of her friends. In addition to being a wild mage sorcerer, she seems to also be a fey pact warlock - meaning that in addition to unpredictable wild surges, she is also prone to accidentally charming people.

Deacon also said that Allegreyana was the driving force behind his party's working with Wyssa. It is unclear what sort of things they did for Wyssa, but she is seen in at least one of their photographs.

Grey openly admits that she loves to lie, and it was revealed that her patron is Lolth, the goddess of lies. Overall, Grey is confident, a little weird, incredibly charming, and a powerful manipulator.

## History

For reasons unknown, Allegreyana was at one point property of the Empress of Umbravall, traded in some sort of strange elven pact with the high elves. She is apparently royalty of some sort. At some period of time during her stay in Umbravall, her tongue was cut out.

It was also revealed that the reason Andrith is considered a thief in Umbravall is that she "stole" (presumably freed) Grey.

## Relationships

Allegreyana is currently married to Andrith Shadowbane. They appear to be very much in love according to several letters Andrith left behind in the Sleepless Mire, Andrith's journal, and Deacon.

She also appears to be the emotional center and decisive force of her party, according to Deacon.

Allegreyana's familiar is a creature named Misshka, who is a little shithead sprite that spies on people, flips them off, generally causes mischief, and absolutely will bite if provoked. Fair warning, she's easy to provoke.

## Interesting Facts

* Lies? Told. Wild magic? Surging. Tits? Out. Grey is forcibly ejected to the Astral Plane.
* Boris and Grey have the same intelligence score.
* Her hair is so big because its full of lies.
Nuriel

**Nuriel** is a White Abishai that Godfrey claims is 'bound to him'. He can summon her with the use of the spell Infernal Calling.

## History

Godfey claims Nuriel was bound to him during his solo session by Tenebrous.

Godfrey summoned Nuriel during Episode 110 in an attempt to level the playing field against the demons. Despite the devil's undeniable usefulness in the fight the party did not appreciate this. Vahlka murdered her when the fight was over.

**Godfrey:** Reach into the Nine Hells and you will find a Friend and a Boy.

**Literally Everyone Else:** GRANDPA NO.
To Break A Promise

## Summary

Olivia finally confronts Theo, learning hard truths as to the true price of a dragonbond with Tanith.

## Recap

* Olivia followed after Theo through the woods behind Lorane. She found him as Moira slinked away into the woods, leaving him standing before a large, dank pond.
* Theo jumped into the pond and Olivia quietly followed
* She apparently tailed him quietly for some time, though she had trouble navigating the watery tunnel beneath the lake since unlike the wearer of the green dragon mask, she can't breath under water. She turned into a small octopus so she wouldn't drown.
* Olivia described the cave below as mazelike. She apparently dodged some traps. This is clearly a dragon lair.
* At some point, she and Theo talked and Theo began to lead her out of the lair. Olivia claims to have seen a room full of mirrors.
* There was some sort of trap consisting of a series of doors, wherein travelers who went into the wrong doors were forced to see unpleasant memories.
* Olivia and Theo discussed his dragonbond.
* Olivia reports that Tanith is essentially blackmailing or extorting Theo, and that Theo claimed that his serving the dragon protects people, particularly Teshol's elven population, from rampant plague. This extortion has apparently been going on since Theo was very young.
* Theo kicked Olivia out of the lair and then sealed off the entrance to the lair through the pond.

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The Scale War

The Scale War was a major historical event in Teshol. it occurred approximately 5000 years ago when Tiamat and the Cult of The Dragon worked to free Tiamat from the Nine Hells. The Shimmering Convergence, an organization of metallic dragons, including Eldrehain, Minerva, Allohine, Sirius, and Haven fought against them. The war lasted for a very long time, and it seemed the forces of good would lose, partially due to the elves refusal to get involved in the war. When the drow of Umbravall grew impatient and finally joined the war, the other elves did as well, apparently turning the tide of the conflict. In the end, Tiamat was defeated or at least returned to to her infernal prison.

A great deal of the story of the Scale War has been lost to time. With recent events, however, the history is likely to become relevant once again.
Dragonblades

ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛ ᴏꜰ sᴀᴄʀɪꜰɪᴄᴇ,
ᴀ ᴅᴇᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ɴᴏʙʟᴇ ᴘᴜʀᴘᴏsᴇ,
*ᴛʜᴇ sᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟɪᴀʀ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ*

The dragonblades were supposedly created as a prize from Tiamat to her followers. A sort of reward for completing a terrible "scavenger hunt" - killing important people. There is presumably a blade of each color.

Sethokesh, The Shard of Daggerspine

Necrotaush, The Pestilent Fang

Haziwran, the Scourge of Amgon'thol

Braugtheros, the Eye of the Blizzard

Anxucotl, the Fury of Sapphiron
Fenryon

**Fenryon**, the First Cleric; is a celestial that directly serves the Raven Queen as a psychopomp. He appears as a massive black wolf, holding a lit lantern between his paws or in his jaws from which dangles a key, a raven's feather, and a severed hand. He is responsible for shepherding souls to the afterlife, a responsibility he shares with his fellow psychopomp, Jormungyr. He also seems to be responsible for guarding the artifact the Hand of Vecna.

## History

Legends state that Fenryon once rescued the Raven Queen from one of Vecna's schemes when the Undying King had set a trap for her. When Vecna's plan had fallen into place the wolf struck out from the shadows and bit off one of his hands, allowing the Raven Queen to banish Vecna.

In thanks for his deed, the Raven Queen made him the first Cleric of the Raven. She also bestowed upon him three objects; a feather from her breast, an unlit lantern, and the severed hand of Vecna. Later, at the wolf's death he was met by the Queen herself, and she lit his lantern and made him into a psychopomp and tasked him with guiding souls safely to her and protecting the fallen from Vecna and his disciples.

Fenryon has been seen three times to date - twice in revivification rituals; when Deacon was killed by Deathcrawl and when Vahlka was killed by the Aboleth, and once when Vahlka nearly died from her alcohol withdrawal in the Vastlands.

A note of questionable importance - Fenryon did not appear to be carrying the Hand of Vecna when he was last seen.

## Trivia

* Deacon carries with him a book detailing the story of Fenryon's ascension .
* Fenyron is a good dog and I would rub his divine belly if allowed.
Rystus Shadowbane

## Relations

### Family

Vahlka Shadowbane (Niece), Andrith Shadowbane (Niece), Ursula Shadowbane (Sister), Ender Shadowbane (Nephew), Andromache Shadowbane (Niece), Agnes Shadowbane (Mother), Deyrul Shadowbane (Father)

## Game Statistics

### Stats

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Vahlka's uncle, a cavern-speaker (underdark druid) who was working with Marli Venomblood and the outrunners under her command. He is the brother of Vahlka's mother Ursula Shadowbane.

When we encountered him he had not seen Vahlka since she was a small child. He treat

ed the party with affable curiosity and allowed us to stay within his quarters beneath the Outrunner outpost.

Rystus is in the midst of his second Anshi'kah. His Anshi is a brass dragon wyrmling named Bright Eyes.
Umbravall

Umbravall, also known as The Throne of the Depths, is the primary city of the Drow, as well as being the entirety of their nation. It rumored to be completely unassailable by outside forces; due to the shifting labyrinth of tunnels that is said to be completely impassable by non-drow.

Umbravall, and indeed all of Drow society, is led by the divine Empress Vyalia and a cabal of powerful Grand Clerics.

It is home to the prison Deephold; possibly the highest security prison within Teshol and home to several dangerous convicts dating from present day, all the way back to pre-scalewar. Many of whom escaped alongside the ancient red dragon Daggerspine.
Vahlka Playlists

Cause lets face it, I have way too many and no one can keep track even me.

## Main Playlists

* Black Wolf (vol. 1)
* Sunblinded (vol. 2)
* Lupatus (vol. 3)
* Anemia (vol. 4)
* Desolate (vol. 5)
* Snap the Leash (vol. 6)
* Bite Back (vol. 7)

## Vahlka/Olivia

* Incorrigible (vol.1)
* Foolhardy (vol. 2)
* Burden of a Heavy Heart ( vol. 3)
* Lighten (vol 4)

## Vahlka/Barkley

* Fool's Pyre (vol. 1)
* Do Not Go Gentle (vol. 2)
* What We Deserve (vol. 3)

## Vahlka/Lucius

* Embers (vol. 1)
* Copper and Steel (vol 2)

## Vahlka/Andrith

* Fox & Wolf (vol.1)
* Silence (vol.2)
* Perennial (vol.3)

## Vahlka/Deacon

* Night Terrors (vol.1)
* Benefits and Benedictions (vol.2)
* The Heart's Howl (vol 3)
* Peace of Me (vol 4)

## Other

* Black Bruise, Blue Blood (Childhood)
* Pray or Prey (Instrumental)
* Strength (Instrumental 2)
* Corrode (Vahl/Kiare)
* Pyre for the Depraved (Vahl/Osyna)
* Pinion (Vahl/Nero)
* FOOLISH (Vahl/Shay)
* Envenomation (Vahl/Lolth)
* Soldier On (Vahl/Anika)
* Smite & Ignite (Vahl/Sethendrin)
* Vahl's Back On Her Bullshit (MEMES)
* Dark Side of the Moon (Disney)
Clarice Denevahn

Art by Dex!

Clarice Denevahn is an upcoming player character in the Heroes of Legend campaign.

Her full name is Clarice Victoria Antoinette Leona Florence Denevahn IV. She does not use it publicly.

## Background

Clarice's background is not currently known.

## Appearance and Personality

Clare is a very tail, almost too skinny half elf woman. Her skin is extremely pale and her hair is very dark, and she has strange dark reddish pink eyes. Her hair is almost always in a braid that reaches to her thighs. She is always seen in some kind of robes, usually dark, she is never very colorful. Her outfits also always have some kind of raven and/or crow feathers attached to them.

Clare is a very unpleasant person, generally. She is not charming and she is not polite. Clare actually often enjoys being nasty to people and picking on their weaknesses if she can find them. She has a certain ruthlessness about her when it comes to getting what she wants. She's blunt, and not an eloquent speaker if she isn't making an active attempt to sound otherwise. She's extremely impatient and does not like wasting her time. She's easily set off and will get angry at practically anything. Clare has no qualms about showing her anger, and almost always takes it out on other people because she feels they deserve it. She has issues showing things like nerves and anxiety and doubt, and would rather get angry. Very ambitious, would do pretty much anything for a bit of power. Doesn't think much of other people and has issues trusting because she finds people aren't really worth the trouble. Really wants to be left to her own devices. Very secretive, no one really ever knows what her exact intentions are. Easily exasperated by rules and pretentiousness and basically nobility in general. Doesn't listen to others like, ever, always thinks she knows best.

## Trivia

* Clarice is played by Squid, a guest player, and was adapted from a world of warcraft character of the same name.
* She is named after Clarice Starling, from *Silence of the Lambs.* Originally, her character was named Nynaeve, after the character from the *Wheel of Time* series.
Episode 37: Spiders, Gorillas, and Birds - oh my!

* We break camp and gather our stuff. Deacon hears a noise in the distance and tears after it - Vahlka grabs him, but he manages to wiggle free and take off after the sound.
* We chase Deacon down a long tunnel and discover a female gnoll locked in combat with a drider and several small spiders.
* Deacon sprints right in, trying to get to the gnoll, attacking the spiders. Vahlka casts shield of faith on him, charging past the spiders to get to the drider. Everyone starts murdering the spiders rampantly and Vahlka wails - she doesn't like killing the puppies.
* The gnoll kills the first drider and Deacon runs over and hugs her. More driders appear, one drops down behind Godfrey and grapples him. He hellish rebukes it and forces it to stay down on the ground by burning its web. We all dash over to help him.
* Vahlka continues trying to get the spiders to flee.but everyone else continues murdering them rampantly. Godfrey polymorphs into a Giant Ape to break the drider's grapple and starts pummeling driders.
* Another Drider drops down and grabs Balefire, Olivia phantasmal forces it into thinking Balefire is a fireball and then Balefire breaks free, Lucius featherfalls him to the ground. That drider drops down and attacks Olivia. Vahlka kills the first drider then runs to help Olivia.
* The drider flees across the web and climbs up a ledge as the another one drops with a longbow and shoots the gnoll shrieking "Here kitty kitty!" over and over again.
* Ter-gorrah sets Deacon down on a ledge and tells him to stay. He does so, we continue fighting the driders with Ter-gorrah's help. Tristram turns into a dinosaur and flies into the one with the bow's face.
* Godfrey throws a boulder and nat 1s, instead hitting Trist and knocking her out of dinosaurs form and she immeadiately falls, Vahlka tries to catch her but also nat 1s and just falls ontop of her. Ter-gorrah sceams. Tristram screams. Vahlka screams. Olivia screams.The drider is screaming.
* Vahlka stands and contemplates her own foolishness. Everyone pelts the last drider with their ranged abilities while the paladins stand there and flail ineffectually. The drider runs in to make one last flurry of attacks on Tristram, and Vahlka finishes it off with her glaive.
* After the fight we talk with Ter-gorrah who insists on taking Deacon with her. Claiming she would take him back with her to the City of Dogs and then onward to the Altar of Storms in Elchezzhar. We very reluctantly let the bird go... Vahlka gave him a note written in Undercommon and tucked it in his pocket and pat him on the head and Ter-gorrah left with Deacon in tow.
* We proceed onward, finding an alcove with a bit of treasure and a journal written in Undercommon. Vahlka read it and refused to translate it. Claiming it was unimportant and would only upset the rest of the party. Olivia argued with her for a bit but let it go.

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Episode 92

## Summary

A long lost Shadowbane ancestor is revealed who everyone is agreement we don’t want to vibe with. After searching for a while, the party comes across a town inhabited by a large array of fish people. They are soon courted by a yugoloth who attempts to coerce them for an exchange of information.

## Recap

An official recording of Episode 92 does not exist.

* Gahdein collects The Arsonists early in the morning. Olivia is the first to be affected by Abyssal madness, hallucinating spiders and blood on her hands.
* The party is led to meet with Gahdein's group's leader, who is revealed to be an extremely old ancestor of Vahlka's -- Galatea Shadowbane. She gives them an ultimatum that they can stay if they assist with the harvesting of flowers nearby the River Styx that stops Abyssal madness, but that they must first swear an oath to a magical rod to do so.
* Everyone in the party is rightfully leery of this proposal and leave without starting a fight, thankfully, and back into the Abyss proper.
* Barkley decides to scout around on the back of her amphithere. When she comes back, the party decides to head towards a lake and a nearby town.
* When they arrive, it's revealed that the town is full of fish people and demons. Most everyone hides in the portable hole as Barkley infiltrates the town, being accosted by demons briefly but managing to escape unharmed.
* Barkley manages to buy her way into getting a room at the nearby inn. While they're resting there, the party is approached by a yugoloth that attempts to bargain information for a possible location of the River Styx.
* Lucius tries to bargain the Deck of Many Things in his possession for the information, but Vahlka is less keen on the idea and shuts it down.
* The party takes a long rest.

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Lady Crimson

"Lady Crimson" is a pseudonymn used by one the agents of the Cult of Tiamat. She is a Death Knight by the name of Sara Payne, who was formerly a servant of the Raven Queen and Deacon's partner. She is now in the Cult of Tiamat and presumably serves the red dragon Azuhel in some fashion.

## Appearance and Personality

Crimson is a relatively short woman who wore black armor and a black helm that obscures her face. She has relatively short, brown hair and speaks with a thick, rough English accent. She sometimes wears a tattered half-cloak that bears the colors of Tiamat: red, blue, green, white, and black. She wields the terrible sentient sword Hazirawn, an enormous black blade with a green eye embedded in the hilt.

Little is known about Crimson's personality, though in the scrying attempt she seemed ruthless. She was certainly willing to kill innocent civilians in pursuit of her goals. When the party spoke with her in the beastlands, she seem 'mad' and violent and vengeful.

## Backstory

Deacon revealed that she had fallen from the Raven Queen's grace after a mission where a childhood friend of hers was slain and raised as undead by necromancers of Orcus. She went mad and fell, died from psychic backlash, and somehow ended up serving Orcus herself as a Death Knight.

The party encountered her in Bahamut's manse in the Beastlands. She told the party she had been watching them, that she knew everything that was going on with them. After an exchange of belligerence between Crimson, Lucius, and Godfrey, a combat was initiated. She and her undead minions nearly killed Vahlka and Andy in the combat at the front of Bahamut's house, but the party managed to defeat her, whereupon she and Hazirawn vanished (as Death Knights do when killed), leaving the rest of her equipment behind.

During the brief exchange with Sara, she told the party she has sworn to kill the Raven Queen. This is presumably why she is working with the cult, to acquire the Shard of Divinity required to kill the Raven Queen.

## Relationships

Crimson often has sharp words for the other wyrmspeakers, as shown by the book of correspondence Minerva showed Olivia on the way to the Northmarch.

She implied that at one point, Deacon loved her.

## Trivia

A naughty necromancy girl

* She is shorter than Verde
* She does not like sand.

## Relevant Quotes

* “So we purge the town. So much for nobody dying here.” -- Lady Crimson
* "This is a fucking revolution, not a bloody carnival. " -- Lady Crimson in a letter to Noir
Summary of Chatzy 1

## CHATZY 1 - MAKE A BIRD BOY CRY

Post Episode 11

**Synopsis:**

* Lot of stuff lost forever because I am dumb and did not save it. RIP
* Vahlka is an asshole to Deacon - unsurprisingly
* Deacon talks about how the white dragon his party killed tried to steal one of the Dragon Masks.
* Vahlka tells the story of how she met Erasthekon and punched him in the face - broke her wrist and the dragon laughed at her.
* OPERATION: MAKE BIRD BOY CRY COMMENCES
* Vahlka and Olivia team up on the cleric of Fate and Death by yelling that "FATE IS NO FUN I LIKE CHOICE" and "COMPLACENCY BREEDS WEAKNESS"
* Bird boy cries because Vahlka's sister doesn't love him and also the good cop/bad cop duo pushed him way to far. He tells us about how Andrith died and he almost didn't resurrect her because he was afraid.
* The good cop/bad cop duo decides to let Deacon rest because he is a sad man.
* Olivia grills Vahlka for backstory to moderate success. Revealing that her entire family is A MESS, not just Andy and Vahl. Vahlka says she would like to kill her mother.
* Olivia talks about how her dad is boring and doesn't approve of her being a bard much, also that her relationship with her brother is strained.
* Vahlka finds out about horses???

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