Dantalion 'Dante' Nowhere

## Kuran Hornraven

**Kuran Hornraven**, known as **Dantalion 'Dante' Nowhere** throughout most of the campaign, is a tiefling druid, a founding member of the Fiery Five, a member of the Black Lily, and the husband of Lyra.

## Description

### Appearance

Dante is a lavender-colored tiefling. His left eye is colored crimson red, and his right is ivory white. Following an incident in his past, he only had a single horn, on the left side of his face, which is colored dark purple and spiraled downward like a ram's horn. Wrapped around this horn is a thin vine with a tiny leafs, which acts as one of his druidic focuses.

In his left ear he wears an earring that held the chipped fang of a large tiger, his second druidic focus, and one of his most prized possessions.

He wears loose clothing, comprised of a beige shirt, brown pants with a purple cloth wrapped around his waist, and fancy brown leather boots. Over this, he wears a long, dark red coat. The left upper sleeve of the coat shows Solomon’s sigil, stitched in to help promote Solomon.

On the front of his left shoulder, he bears a tattoo that resembles the symbol of the Devilish Delights pleasurehouse in which he spent many years of his life.

## Relationships

### Lyra

Dante first met Lyra in the ruined city of Yemen, which was overrun by goblins and hobgoblins. Aiding the party in their escape, he joined forces with them and eventually had a pivotal role in founding the Fiery Five.

His relation with Lyra was good though not special. There was some antagonistic joking at times (between all party members) and the two generally got along well. Until one night the party was drinking until the deep hours of night in their keep Dragonstone Manor. A drunk Dante and an equally drunk Lyra were wobbling through the manor together towards their respective chambers when they passed Dante's door. On a whim Dante invited her in, and she accepted. The two shared a boisterous night of passion together (some of which was accidentally witnessed by Randall when he teleported into Dante's chamber to drop off his belongings) and they started to explore their feelings for each other following this night.

Due to manipulation of Charir, the red dragon whose soul was being held in the red dragon orb that Dante was holding on to, Dante was driven to the brink of madness when he assaulted Lyra after she took the red dragon orb from him, as she saw the danger it was posing to him and to the rest of the party. Exhausted and blinded by addiction, he took her leg and furiously went through her stuff, giving her just enough time to escape from him.

The next day, Dante met his end at the hands of an oblex in the Nine Tails Inn in Norasi. The two would not see each other again for a long time. During the events of the post-campaign adventure "The Search for Lyra", Dante and Lyra were reunited, albeit under extraordinary circumstances. The two had been surviving on the plane of Stygia for a couple of weeks, oblivious to each other's presence. At their emotional reunion, during which Dante profusely apologized for what he had done, the two lovers were well and truly together again.

When Lyra and the rest of the party all went back to the Prime Material Plane, Dante was narrowly able to get a one-way ticket out of hell to the City of Souls, where he remained until his resurrection about a year later.

Following their 'retirement', the two eventually got married a couple of decades after their adventures. They eventually had a grand total of five children.

## Character Information

### Notable items

#### Current Items

* Glamoured Studded Leather Armor
* Storm Gloves

#### Former Items

* Gnarled, spiky quarterstaff with a skull at one end. The skull has a red rose blooming in one of its eye sockets. According to Dante, the skull belonged to a girl named Melissa (lost upon his death).
* Dragon Cultist's Scimitar (lost upon his death).
* Red Dragon Orb (destroyed).
* A scimitar made of ice from the plane of Stygia (lost upon his resurrection).
* Boots of the Winterlands (lost upon his resurrection).

### Abilities

#### Tiefling Abilities

* Darkvision
* Hellish Resistance
* Legacy of Dis
	+ *Thaumaturgy* cantrip
	+ *Disguise Self*
	+ *Detect Thoughts*

#### Feats

* Resilient (Constitution)
* War Caster
* Skilled (Athletics, Deception, Survival)

#### Druid Abilities

Being a druid Dante is gifted with the ability to harness divine nature energy to cast spells, as well as transform into animals through Wild Shape. Being a Circle of the Moon druid allows him to use more powerful wild shapes such as higher CR beasts and elemental forms. He is a level 16 druid, giving him access to all druid spells up to 8th level. Each day he can prepare up to 20 spells.

##### Çlass Features

* Druid Circle: Circle of the Moon
	+ Circle Forms
	+ Combat Wild Shape
	+ Elemental Wild Shape (Circle of the Moon)
	+ Primal Strike (Circle of the Moon) (Beast attacks count as magical)
	+ Thousand Forms (Circle of the Moon) (*Alter Self* at will)
* Ritual Casting
* Spellcasting (Wisdom-based ability)
* Wild Shape

#### Druid Spells

Dante has access to all druid class spells up to 8th level. As a 16th-level druid with a Wisdom score of 18, he knows 4 druid cantrips and can prepare up to 20 spells per day.

##### Cantrips

* Druidcraft
* Mending
* Primal Savagery
* Shillelagh

##### 1st-level

* Create or Destroy Water
* Cure Wounds
* Detect Magic
* Fog Cloud
* Goodberry
* Healing Word
* Ice Knife

##### 2nd-level

* Barkskin
* Enhance Ability
* Gust of Wind
* Healing Spirit
* Heat Metal
* Hold Person
* Lesser Restoration
* Moonbeam
* Pass Without Trace

##### 3rd-level

* Call Lightning
* Conjure Animals
* Dispel Magic
* Plant Growth

##### 4th-level

* Blight
* Conjure Woodland Beings
* Guardian of Nature
* Polymorph
* Stone Shape

##### 5th-level

* Antilife Shell
* Contagion
* Greater Restoration
* Mass Cure Wounds
* Scrying

##### 6th-level

* Heal
* Heroes’ Feast
* Sunbeam
* Transport via Plants

##### 7th-level

* Plane Shift
* Regenerate

##### 8th-level

* Animal Shapes
* Control Weather
* Feeblemind

## Trivia

* Dante is the last player character of the first campaign to be revived.
	+ Upon his revival, he lost all memories of the events of the "Search for Lyra" adventure.
* Dante hates porridge.
* The tip of Dante's tail is vaguely heart-shaped, reminiscent of the tail of a succubus.
* In demonology, Dantalion (or Dantalian, or Dantaylion) is the seventy-first demon in the demonological grimoire the Lesser Key of Solomon, a powerful Great Duke of Jinnestan, with thirty-six legions of demons under his command. He "knows the thoughts of all people" and can change them at his will. He is also depicted as a man with many appearances.
	+ Coincidentally, as a Dispater tiefling, Dante has access to the *Detect Thoughts* spell, allowing him to read people's thoughts. He also has access to the *Disguise Self* spell, allowing him to take the form of any person he wishes.
* In *The Divine Comedy*, Dante is on a journey through hell. In the "Search for Lyra" adventure, Dante is also journeying through hell with the rest of the party, in order to help them escape.
* According to Dante, his real name, Kuran, means 'Monster'.