Herrik Folium

## Stats

**Herrik Folium** is a Human Druid, who was captured by the Remnants, and currently travels with The Forsaken. Herrik searches for answers down the dark path they all follow.

## Character Description

### Appearance

Herrik is a moderately tall human with brown hair, wearing leather armor and shoulder pads. He contains packages of alchemical supplies, and wore a brown crow mask to cover his face, similar to that of a plague doctor. Herrik stated that he wore it to protect himself from experiments, and according to him at an earlier point in the campaign, his face was quite normal looking under the mask.

Following his death by the hands of the Sisters and his resurrection, Herrik's right hand had a brand of the Roman Numeral "I" on it. Following his nightmare in the final sickle room, Herrik's right hand had a brand of the Roman Numeral "II" on it. These brands disappeared after Ahgregoil's defeat.

Following his vision in Neobabel, Herrik abandoned his mask, and his left arm is completely blackened. Dark veins grow up on the right side of his face, near his eye, and his right arm is beginning to spread more of this infection, seemingly a side effect from his *Wild Shape* vials rapidly spread due to his death at the hands of the Sisters. In addition, his Roman Numeral brand occasionally seeps dark-green pus. Herrik also appears to have discarded his beaked mask after this event as well. After the events inside Alexandria, Herrik's affliction has spread to his left eye, which noticeably caused him a great deal of pain, as a single dark vein spread to it, turning his left iris purple and his sclera black. Eventually the affliction covered his entire body after the nightmare in Neobabel.

After Azrael cast True Resurrection on Herrik, his affliction ceased to exist in his new body, and it was identical to his body before he started using the Wild Shape Serum.

When he uses his *Wild Shape* ability, he turns into an animal of his choice, except the animal has rigid spikes coming out of its joints and a more deformed, menacing appearance.

### Personality

At the start of the campaign, Herrik was a pragmatic and curious individual, studying the black clumps of "dark matter" from the floor in the Shadowfell church by experimenting that they cause organic plants to wither. He stayed calm under pressure, and is willing to assist his fellow party members during combat.

After his vision in Neobabel, Herrik was emotionally broken and closed off to the party, barely noticing his own infection anymore, and seemed more like a hollow shell than an actual person. As of late, Herrik has acted with more impulse rather than logic.

After the events of Alexandria, Herrik is much more irritated with the other Forsaken after they hid Halima's journal from him behind his back, and clawed Larold when he learned Larold had done so and placed the journal back on his person. In the aftermath of the fight with the Wendigo, Herrik and the others put aside their differences, and had a night of drinks and hope before crossing into darkness.

After the fight with Project WENDIGO-2, Herrik wanted to live on and keep fighting despite taking hit after hit.

## Backstory

Herrik was an aspiring alchemist from a town far from Nova Aurora. He has mentioned some brief memories as an alchemist, stating he did not have an affinity for magic, and found the natural world much more interesting, and lived in Endymia's forests for a while.

Herrik was visibly disturbed by the Horrors in the Crypt of the Remnants, backing away after the dissection for an unknown reason. The Sisters of Babel also stated that they had acquired his "work," proved by the existence of Ahgregoil's Project WENDIGO-2 and the diary revealing its extent.

The diary in Alexandria confirmed Herrik had a research partner by the name of Halima Natura, and was very visibly stricken by grief upon learning she was dissected by Ahgregoil. When he experimented on live people during the finalization of the Wild Shape Serum, she left him once discovering this, and Herrik was ridden with guilt. After Halima's soul inside the Wendigo apologized to him and begged for forgiveness, he was able to partially forgive himself and put the Wendigo out of its misery, along with Halima and the other souls inside of it.

## Character Information

### Druid Abilities

* Druidic
* Wild Shape

### Circle of the Blighted Abilities

* Defile Ground (1d4)
* Blighted Shape

### Spells

#### Cantrips

* Frostbite
* Poison Spray

## Trivia

* Herrik does not use traditional spell slots for magic. Instead he uses alchemical devices and contraptions as flavor for his spells, such as yellow-vial syringes for *Healing Word*, a wrist-mounted contraption for *Poison Spray*, or throwing a handful of alchemical pellets on the ground for *Defile Ground*.