Elyse

Elyse, the storm sorcerer - official character art by Laura Tolton

## Additional Info

### Also Known As

Thunderstorm (by Cassian), Sky Rat (by Kenrah), Cordelia (Disguise), Zavine (Disguise), Aisha (Disguise)

### Languages

Common, Fulgan/Primordial, Dwarven (from attuning Ear Cuff of the Dwarf)

### Associations

Airship crew (Allies), College of Arcane Arts (Enemies), Arakhian Guard (Enemies)

## Appearances

### First Appearance

1x01 - "Converging Paths

1x01 - 1x28

Elyse is a human sorcerer. She is a member of the party, created and played by Isa on Life Of The Party.

Currently, as with the other player characters, Elyse is Level 6. She is a powerful and cunning caster who also displays skills in stealth and deception, and has a keen interest in arcane items and artefacts.

After setting off with the party from Mirrortail, Elyse tells them that she is an arcane researcher travelling in search of a particular artefact, though she seems unable to divulge any more information on the exact nature of said artefact.

Elyse seems to be used to adventuring already. She cares little about discomforts such as sleeping outside, tries to ensure the party have important supplies, and is always ready to spring to action when it's necessary. In battle, Elyse is shown to be both calculated and ferocious in equal measure.

**Warning: everything below this point may contain major and minor spoilers for the show!**

## **About Elyse**

#### **Appearance**

Elyse has warm brown skin, bright blue eyes, and long hair an equally vivid shade of blue, shaved into an undercut on the left side. She is 5ft10, and her build is described as slender, but surprisingly toned for a spellcaster.

She wears an outfit resembling a hooded sari in vibrant red, gold and blue tones, grey trousers and sturdy looking combat boots. Her boots, along with her gloves and a leather pauldron on her left shoulder are made from black leather and have spikes and shearling trim. Her clothes are described as "once looking nice", but are currently torn, tattered and dirty. She also wears two gold armlets, both set with turquoise stones.

#### **Personality**

Elyse is a cunning and ambitious sorcerer who takes great joy in practicing the arcane arts. She is tough, energetic, driven, intelligent, and resourceful. Elyse's background as an arcane researcher has given her a love of learning, an unquenchable curiosity, and a tendency to conduct unusual magical experimentation.

However, she seems to take any failure or mistake on her part extremely personally. She is something of a perfectionist and is often extremely self-critical, seeming to fixate on what she perceives as her failures and assuming that others will think less of her for them. This has been seen to be particularly amplified since she learned that she was the cause of her airship's destruction (1x16), a guilt which she continues to carry with her. Elyse also doesn't like to show weakness in front of others and has a tendency to seclude herself at times when she feels vulnerable. This was first seen in 1x05 when she told Astra that she didn't want the others think she couldn't handle herself because of the injury on her back.

#### **Equipment and** **Key Possessions**

**Arcane Focus**

Elyse carries and wields a unique arcane focus - a crystalline and golden lantern containing a ball of thrumming magical energy with golden chains attached to either end. She is very attached to the focus, and keeps it on her person at all times, even when sleeping. Elyse will sometimes speak to the focus, seeming to ask it for advice, help or guidance. She seems to be aware of some kind of entity being able to speak back to her through the focus.

**Research Journal**

Elyse carries an old, battered research journal on her. Both its cover and pages are littered with stains, scuffs and tears. Its contents appear to be numerous and eclectic, ranging from writing to drawings to diagrams to pages torn out of other books. Elyse will often write what seem to be research notes in the journal while the party are traveling, though she also likes to draw interesting or important objects, creatures or locations they encounter. She has also shown Astra an older drawing of a member of her crew - Khalev - in the research journal.

This journal also serves as her ritual casting book. Much like her arcane focus, Elyse never lets the journal leave her person.

## **Relationships**

#### **The Party**

Renard

Elyse and Renard had a rocky start. She clearly finds him difficult to get along with at times, especially in how judgemental he can appear to be towards both her and magic in general. Elyse has admitted that she was surprised when the others, but in particular Renard, offered to help her after finding the wanted posters of her in Sanskra.

Cassian

Elyse and Cassian seem to get along well for the most part. They have both shown interest in each other's magic and abilities, and have worked well together in combat.

Boblem

Though at first Elyse appeared to be amused by Boblem's sheltered outlook at times, they get along well, and have been shown to be supportive of one another. The two seem to have very different views and experiences of the world, with Boblem being more optimistic and Elyse being more cynical. However they are able to see things from each other's perspectives and learn from each other at times.

Sariel

Sariel and Elyse didn't speak much at first. Their first proper conversation was in the bath house (1x10), while Elyse was both drunk and seemingly trying to keep her distance from the rest of the party, especially those she had been forced to attack while charmed by the Dryad (1x08)

Astra

Astra and Elyse appear to be close, with Elyse offering to cross the river with him when he was scared (1x04). She allowed Astra to braid her hair while they camped in the Flooded Hills, stating that no one had ever done this for her before (1x03). The two spend much of their time on the road walking and talking together.

#### **Key Characters**

**Shahrivar**

Shahrivar is a being from another plane. They appear as a humanoid figure made of swirling stormclouds or smoke with two bright, burning gems for eyes.

Elyse has seemed to contact or be contacted by Shahrivar several times

While alone in the bathhouse in 1x10, Elyse felt the presence of another being, and saw a shadowy figure behind her reflected in the mirror. The being seemed to be familiar and comforting to her, and she asked it if it would ever tell her who it was, to no response. In 1x12, Elyse asks the being for help with her situation in Sanskra, saying that she feels it knows more than she does, but only receives a one-word response; "patience". In 1x15, Elyse asks the being to help her during the battle with the Sanskran guard. It seems to grant her some heightened power for a brief moment.

In 1x16, Shahrivar fully revealed themselves to Elyse for the first time while she meditated with her arcane focus on the prow of the Lyra Bird. Shahrivar comforted and reassured Elyse, saying that although they cannot help her directly, they will be watching over her. Following this conversation, any further attempts by Elyse to communicate with Shahrivar haven't been successful.

**Velohs Kenrah**

Kenrah is the captain of the Arakhian guard. She is in pursuit of Elyse and the other members of her crew for the theft of Elyse's arcane focus from the College of Arcane Arts in Arakhis. Elyse managed to evade Kenrah and her guard for a short time in Sanskra, seeming extremely fearful and wary of them, and of Kenrah in particular.

Later in Sanskra, Kenrah cornered Elyse and the party in the Watersnakes inn. The party managed to overcome her soldiers, and Elyse took Kenrah captive in order to question her on the status and whereabouts of her crew, and fill in some of the gaps in her memory.

Elyse has shown a great fear of, and hatred towards Kenrah.While interrogating Kenrah, Elyse claims that one of the few things she remembers from Arakhis and the subsequent airship battle was Kenrah "trying to kill (her)", giving her the scar on her face. Kenrah also states that Elyse blasted off one of her horns during the battle.

**Aerenthias Van Wymarck**

Elyse gets along well with Aerenthias and clearly enjoys his company.

In 1x24, Elyse mentioned that she was looking for lockpicks in Lakeside. Aerenthias seemed intruigued and remarked that she would have to tell him about herself one day. Later, he gave her his spare set of Thieves Tools and helped her practice with them while aboard the Lyra Bird (1x25). Upon finding that Aerenthias had placed the Thieves Tools into her pocket without her noticing, Elyse was amused, and remarked that she could learn a lot from him.

During the battle with the Weeping Eye in 1x26, Elyse and Aerenthias stationed themselves in the watchtower together. When the Fang seemed about to kill Aerenthias, Elyse put herself between them and used Thunder Step to teleport both herself and Aerenthias to safety.

**Jocelyn D'Fabron**

Elyse was wary of Jocelyn at first after witnessing Renard's extreme reaction to seeing her, but quickly warmed up to her. Elyse showed a particular interest in Jocelyn's fighting style during her duel with Renard, saying that she knows someone else who fights in that manner. She also seemed impressed by her talents as an artist and went over to watch her paint Renard.

#### **Mentioned Characters**

**Airship Crew**

Elyse showed an immediate familiarity with the crashed airship (1x05). She suspected that the "fallen star" the party had been looking for was in fact this airship all along. In 1x06, she tells the party that she was looking for the ship because its crew were the last people known to have the artefact she's searching for. After finding the shipwreck, there is a notable shift in Elyse's demeanour and she becomes far more withdrawn, irritable and quiet for a long time.

It is later revealled that Elyse was in fact a member of this ship's crew. How Elyse became separated from the airship and her crew is not yet known.

In 1x12, Elyse finds a wanted poster depicting herself and two other individuals; a half-elf man and a humanoid woman with braided hair, who JD says Elyse easily recognises "as part of her crew".

Kenrah gives vague reference to the fates of other as of yet unnamed crew members, saying she believes four or five of them to be imprisoned in Arakhis, and that one of them is a Dwarf and another may be a woman of unknown race. However, later on, Shahrivar states that they can see only three of Elyse's crew imprisoned.

**Khalev**

Khalev is a member of Elyse's crew who she has referred to on two occasions. He has been described as a human man with brown skin, blue eyes, long dark hair pulled back into a messy ponytail and a scraggly beard. He is 6'3. When Elyse disguised herself as him in 1x27, he was wearing blue robes, a red and gold scarf, black leather gloves and a dishevelled black leather jacket with spiked shoulders.

In 1x15, Elyse asked Kenrah about the fate of a member of her crew, a man who she believed she had seen struck down and killed during a battle following the events in Arakhis. Kenrah said that the man survived the battle, having "put up a good fucking fight", and is currently imprisoned in Arakhis.

In 1x27, Elyse asked Astra to send a message to the member of her crew that Kenrah said was imprisoned in Arakhis. She names him as Khalev, and shows Astra an old painting of him in her research journal, as well as disguising herself as him with magic in an attempt to help Astra complete the spell. Unfortunately, the spell seemed to be blocked by an outside force and the message wasn't received by Khalev.

After the spell failed, Elyse was distraught and fled Astra's side to cry uncontrollably where no one could see or hear her.

**Amara**

Elyse names the other woman on the wanted poster in Sanskra as Amara to Boblem, but tells him nothing else about her other than she hopes she is travelling with Xander. Amara appears to have been another member of the airship crew.

On the poster, Amara is depicted as a humanoid woman with her long hair braided down one side of her head.

**Xander**

Xander seems to have been a very close friend of Elyse's, as well as a member of her crew. He is the half-elf man depicted on the wanted poster in Sanskra. He seems to have been in the part of the ship that crashed in the Flooded Hills, before moving onto Sanskra. Elyse has referred to him fondly as "adorable".

In 1x17, Elyse tells Boblem that she has known Xander for four years, and that Boblem and Astra would get along well with him, as he has a lot of respect for nature.

Elyse tells the party that Xander keeps five bats as both pets and spies. The party encountered one of them, called Zizi, as they were fleeing Sanskra. Zizi passed a message from Xander onto Elyse via the Animal Messenger spell, reassuring her that he would find her eventually.

**Elyse's Mother**

In 1x12, Elyse tells the party that the arcane focus she stole from Arakhis once belonged to her mother, and was passed down in her family before it went missing. Little else has been said about Elyse's mother or her family.

## **History**

#### **Background**

Elyse is an arcane researcher and seems to have had experience of adventuring prior to meeting the party.

She has stated to the party that she is currently looking for a particular artefact. This artefact is later revealled to be the unusual arcane focus that Elyse has already been in posession of ever since she met the party, which she stole from the College of Arcane Arts in Arakhis.

## **Technical Information**

#### **Known Proficiencies and Skills**

* Background Feature: Researcher
* Darkvision
* Tool Proficiency: Air Vehicles
* Tool Proficiency: Navigator's Tools
* Tool Proficiency: Thieves Tools
* Tool Proficiency: Learning how to sail Water Vehicles from Renard

#### **Sorcerer Abilities**

* Font of Magic
* Metamagic: Empowered Spell and Subtle Spell
* Tempestuous Magic
* Wind Speaker

### **Spellcasting**

The players use the Unearthed Arcana class feature variants, and thus Elyse has access to spell versatility and can swap out one spell per long rest to another of the same level.

#### **Cantrips Used**

* Fire Bolt
* Friends
* Gust
* Mage Hand
* Message
* Shocking Grasp

#### **Spells Used**

Level 1

* Alarm (Ritual)
* Chromatic Orb
* Detect Magic
* Disguise Self
* Find Familiar (Ritual)
* Grease (UA)
* Identify (Ritual)
* Protection from Evil and Good (UA)
* Shield
* Thunderwave

Level 2

* Enhance Ability
* Invisibility
* Knock
* Scorching Ray

Level 3

* Thunder Step