Vincent Trench

**Vincent Trench** is a character in the *Forgotten Realms Campaign* of Nat19. He is a rakshasa detective disguised as a human operating out of Trollskull Alley in Waterdeep. As an NPC, he is portrayed by *Aaron Robert Parnell*.

## Role in Plot

Vincent visited the Dragon Heist Party at the Obsidian Hall after they first moved in. He gifted them a bottle of Dragon's Blood wine and offered them his services as a detective if ever they needed them.

Later, Kyra would take him up on his offer and visit his home. He invited her in and they discussed her missing friend, Eurybia Maelstrom. He was willing to search both inside and outside the city of Waterdeep, but the latter was far more expensive. As an alternative to coin, he presented Kyra with the option of doing a favor for him. He explained that two men were hired to kill him, and that if she could take care of them, he would happily search for Kyra's friend.

After seeing Dalien Lachance and Abel wandering Trollskull Alley and learning they were searching for something, Kyra visited Vincent's home once again to check on him, believing they were likely there for him. She strategized ways to gain information on their employer from them with Baxter and Alyf before inviting them to the Obsidian Hall to talk. Dalien and Abel arrived and they spoke with the Dragon Heist Party about the nature of their quarry, and they divulged that they were after a shapeshifting fiend. They agreed to cooperate with Dalien and Abel to prove Vincent's innocence or guilt, but before they could begin their investigation, Dalien used his magical ring to cast See Invisibility and spotted a Scrying orb in the room with them.

Concluding that if Vincent was guilty, he'd be packing his belongings and leaving as soon as possible after hearing their conversation, the five adventurers immediately made their way to the Tiger's Eye to confront him. They attempted to forcibly enter his home before Baxter heard a voice in his head ordering him to kill Dalien and Abel. Being magically compelled, Baxter attempted to do so. Simultaneously, Vincent appeared on a nearby rooftop in his true rakshasa form. He descended and approached Abel, placing his reversed hand upon him, causing the goliath to disappear. Despite Alyf, Kyra, and Baxter's many attempts to harm Vincent, the fiend came out largely unscathed. He knocked Dalien unconscious and briefly scuffled with the Dragon Heist Party before declaring he did not wish to fight them.

They spoke about Vincent's intentions and reasons for embedding himself in Waterdeep, and he told them he simply wanted to run his business and that he had no desire to harm the citizens of the city he'd come to enjoy. When asked what he intended to do with Dalien, he said he was going to send him to the Feywild, where he previously sent Abel, the next morning.

Vincent invited the Dragon Heist Party into his home to speak further. They came to an agreement that if he helped Kyra find her missing friend, as well as help them find the keys they need to enter the Vault of Dragons, they would not report him to the larger authorities in the city. Not long after this exchange, Vincent informed them of the location of the first key: a bronze dragon, from whom they could obtain a scale.

Vincent would later inform Kyra that someone matching Eurybia's description had been spotted in the Dessarin Valley, leading her to pack her belongings and head there immediately.