Yorva

*"You may be thinking, 15 people is a lot for just one person, and you really only have enough room for 7, but the trick is..." - Yorva taking her time explaining what safewords are to Elfi Sparkwocket*

## Yorva

### Aliases

Restaurant owner in Vheninggrave
Nicole Wizebun II

Myth

Oli

Barry

Swampman #2

Dad

Ruthgar World Eater

Mrs. Bright

Mr. Bright

Joey Bright

Cari Bright

Various others

### Relatives

Unknown father - DeceasedUnknown mother - Deceased

Unknown brother - Status Unknown

### Occupation

AssassinHand Of Aryonia (Formerly)

Chef (Formerly)

Erotic gatherer (Formerly)

## Physical description

### Biography

Yorva is a drow-changeling who acts as an ally to The Party in *Tales Of Ye Old Interest.* Originally, Yorva attempted to assassinate the party if they became too much of a threat to Aryonia, whom she was secretly acting as one of their Hands. During her time becoming close to the party in order to discover any weaknesses, Yorva formed a close friendship with Myth, which ultimately helped her turn against Aryonia and truly join the party.

### *Tales Of Ye Old Interest*

#### **Introduction**

Yorva was introduced to the party during their time in Hushire as one of two friends Ellys Sparkwocket had teamed up with in the hopes of killing Aryonia. In an attempt to discourage her sister, Elfi challenged their strongest to a one-on-one duel to prove how unprepared they really were. Ellys would pick Yorva and the duel ended with Yorva being momentarily banished after failing to counterspell the attack, this plus the fact Quickfang immediately joined Eldremons cult upon meeting him meant the group would not be attempting to kill Aryonia together. This was especially good as Yorva was actually a Hand of Aryonia sent out to spy on and eliminate any threats to Aryonia.

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> A few nights after meeting the party Yorva was abducted into Insintium by a creature called The White Mask who had been looking for Elfi. Moments later Myth would also be abducted in the same way as Yorva, leading to the two of them basically spending a night trying to survive as monsters such as Star Spawn and Manglers prowled Insintium. During this time Yorva secretly contacts Aryonia for help getting out of Insintium but lies and tells Myth she had instead messaged her father who works for Aryonia. Myth who had been mostly trying to keep them alive had absolutely no suspicions about Yorva and was very lax with information. Yorva at all times would be somewhat holding back in fights, trying to do as little magic as possible and hide her lineage, however she would use disguise self. After a near death experience with a Mangler and with more monsters on the way, Aryonia teleports both Yorva and Myth back to Hushire.
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After the abduction Yorva went back to Ellys and told her all about what had happened. The very next day Myth barges in and asks Yorva to disguise herself as her while Myth disguises as an annoying woman she'd made up the night before in order to distract Bertha the green hag while the rest of the party kills Burtha the night hag. This ends with Bertha and actual Myth making out and leaving, don't really know what Yorva does after but it's probably fine.
With Ellys no longer deemed a threat and Quickfang having joined a cult, Yorva switches focus and asks to join the party on their adventures for a while. Having no idea she's working for Aryonia, the party accept and let her tag along. Yorva joined the party as they travelled and entered the Forest of Veshen in order to use the forge it hid. When inside the party faced many dangers and along with Yorva got to not only use the forge but successfully save an old friend of Drals.

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> For a time the group would go their separate ways to catch up on various things before planning on heading to Insintium. Yorva began living with Myth in a Vheninggrave house she had rented from Jig. The two generally started hanging out more during downtime.
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> During downtime Yorva runs into Myth (having potentially been spying on her) in Vheninggrave, Yorva joins Myth while she sneaks after Corrilla Larenspoke in order to find out how she's cheating at cards for Dyrwock, who was also cheating but apparently not well enough. Yorva and Myth followed Corrilla Larenspoke who met up with Arbastrop outside of a religious camp set up by Aryonians. This escalated quickly with Corilla casting Death Touch on Arbastrop, killing and turning him into her undead follower before anyone could intervene. Corrilla then revealed she knew the pair were there, taunting them and attempting to kill them. They would just barely survive but not before being magically aged, Dyrwock saved them as she appeared quickly after a messege from Myth and threw the both of them into a demiplane with no obvious way out.
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> Unsure of who's won the fight back at Vheninggrave, Yorva and Myth wait for a while to see if they'll be teleported back automatically. Two hours of looking for a way out go by and once realising there's really no other way out, Yorva contacts Aryonia. Yorva and Myth are magically teleported straight into Yorva's room in Aryonias castle. Yorva tells Myth to wait there and goes to find Aryonia. After a while Yorva and Aryonia come to the room, Yorva and Myth both have any magical aging undone and Aryonia explains exactly what Yorva is with the threat to not tell anyone or they'll undo any magical aid they've given. With that both Yorva and Myth are teleported back to Vheninggrave and despite everything remain very awkward roommates.
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#### **Rutnib Wedding (Oli&Elfi)**

A week before Elfi and Oli were set to get married, the party met back up to prepare to hangout. Yorva found the party talking in her and Myths house, with Myth immediately getting rid of her by asking her to pick up some books at the library. Yorva messaged Myth warning her not to reveal her secret to the group. Myth would continue to try dodging Yorva meanwhile Yorva kept conveniently finding the group again. In the most manipulative move in history, Yorva 'admitted' that Myth had been dodging her lately when Elfi asked if things were okay between the two, asking Elfi to help her spend time with the party despite Myth trying to dodge her by inviting her along to things. Later in the night Yorva, Elfi and Myth went to a local tavern and while Yorva got the group drinks Elfi confronted Myth about what was going on, however the conversation ended with Elfi thinking Myth had a crush on Yorva and was 'running away from things'. Later Yorva would get extremely drunk, not noticing when Aryonia stopped by the house to talk to Elfi after Myth tried to summon them for a question. The house would also be raided by the vampire Lupo after Elfi talked harder than she could hit, Yorva would enter this fight and be bitten however she would not be cursed with vampirism.

Yorva travelled with the party to Rutnib, a small village not far from Vheninggrave, for Oli and Elfi's wedding. The morning of the wedding Oli's mother Cerfala and brother Odvear were kidnapped, Yorva went along with the party to rescue them. The party and Yorva successfully rescued both family members. On the way back to the village however, the party and Yorva would be intercepted by Osmorn's Monster, a monster created by Osmorn Reaver who the party had previously killed. Osmorn's Monster had gained some semblance of control over himself and offered aid in killing Aryonia when the time came. Yorva magically messaged Myth explaining should that happen she'd no doubt need to kill the party, which would be a bummer. Myth ends up summoning her patron Promise and starts a massive fight, culminating in the death of Osmorn's Monster. Later Yorva attends Oli and Elfi's wedding, yet again getting super drunk.

#### **Emberfell**

After the wedding, the party along with Yorva travelled to Myths childhood home in Emberfall on the road to Insintium. Just outside the village they met Mora Vin, a retired adventurer and buyer of interesting stuff. Continuing into the village they ran into Kreave, a tiefling man around Myths age who had apparently written a letter of proposal despite the fact she'd definitely viciously bullied him as a child. Upon reaching the house, Myths mother Malevira Eerie let the party spend the night. The next morning Malevira had gone through all their items, labelling any weapons as sharp and having burned Yorvas journal after briefly reading it. She's also left noted in Myths journal, underlining any spelling mistakes and crossing out any particular unseemly passages.

Later the party explored the village more, meeting \_\_\_, the old man had a soap collection which he had sculpted to replicate many people in the town including both Myth and her childhood descriptions of Promise. Myth stopped Yorva from stealing the mans 'soap son' (a sculpted replication of his son who he'd lost in the ongoing war made from soap). The party agreed to help him with his crops by keeping an eye on them during the night. They discovered that another neighbour \_\_\_ who was a druid, had been using bears to sabotage his harvests. \_\_\_ explained it was due to \_\_\_(oldman) lying about the safety of his crops earlier in the year. The party agreed to help fix the issue but quickly forgot about this quest as they had more important things to do.

Mora Vin informed the party about a nearby tomb which they decided to check out. The tomb was small with narrow walls leading to a massive door. Myth was pulled into what turned out to be a Living Wall, almost dying as the party killed the wall just in time. The door now destroyed, the party looked around finding old gods blood and discovering the tomb was the dedicated resting place for the vampiric Empress Laena and her husband. Above their coffins rested Laena's crown as well as that of her husbands. After a brief debate and after Myth spoke to both the undead she would take and hold onto Laenas crown, with Elfi holding onto the other.

#### **The Queens Castle**

The party (including Yorva) finally reached Underground Insintium. As they look around, Myth gives Yorva a new journal to replace the one her mom destroyed. In order to get an audience with the Queen of Insintium, the party would have to fight in a gladiatorial competition to impress her. Yorva sat this fight out, claiming she doesn't like to hurt people without good reason or without it being funny. Eldremon entered as a single combatant, while Olivandria, Elfi and Myth entered as a team. With Olivandria, Elfi and Myth succeeding to gain the Queens attention, the entire group went to meet with her. Myth asked for help reaching her father, Kairon Eerie, who had been drafted, offering that her team could end the war against the unknowable threat themselves, so losing one weak fighter wouldn't hurt much. The queen agreed, allowing them to spend the night in her castle and assigning them a guide to lead them part of the way to where Myths father was assigned.

That evening the group had drinks in a tavern commonly used by knights and the like with Myth leaving to go "get her purse". Elfi sent Oli after her but stayed to chat with Yorva, Eldremon at the time had already gone to bed. Yorva wouldn't know this, but Myth had in actuality gone to place very longwinded disguised notes under Eldremon, Elfi and Olis pillows, warning them about Yorva while also highlighting her unwillingness to kill the assassin. The party would find these notes in the morning.

> During the night, Myth and Yorva shared a room. Myth tried to encourage Yorva to switch sides which resulted in a bit of an argument. Myth accidentally let it slip that she'd spoken to Hathus, who was another Hand of Aryonia. This prompted Yorva to attempt reading her mind. Yorva didn't succeed, with Myths patron preventing her from finding anything useful.
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The next morning Yorva apologizes for reading Myths mind, however this was after Myth had pointed it out to the group so this may or may not have been genuine. Honestly it seemed like apologizing to keep face.

#### **Into War**

The group headed out towards the front lines of defence the very next morning, with a guide they were allowed passage to where the general public were not. Periodically Yorva let the group know the time, this was thought to be because Yorva is part drow however she'd later admit she was messaging someone to tell her the time. The party finds Myths dad who refuses to simply leave the fight before being able to rescue any civilians and clear out a nearby overrun village. The group set out to rescue civilians trapped, bringing them back to the barracks. One of these civilians was a young child, which Yorva calmed down by turning into Myth.

Continuing onwards the party ran into Lord Uhtred Fireforge while fighting the monsters that had invested Insintium. Uhtred and Elfi had previously partied up together and after he explained that he'd been abducted by the White Mask on their search for Elfi almost two years ago it was decided that he would join the party. Uhtred is very wary of magic users and so he was hesitant to trust both Yorva as well as Myth. After the fight, Yorva lamented about following the party to such a dangerous place, blaming it 'accidentally' on her 'crush' on Myth. This worked particularly well on Elfi.

The party fought their way through Insintium while trying to find and stop the ritual that would bring The White Masks god back to Veshen. Along the way they worked on clearing out a castle full of Star Spawn and Manglers, saving an old mentor of Uhtreds and discovering more about the ritual. However during a confrontation with a powerful creature functionally leading part of the spawns army Yorva would be killed in the final moments of the fight. Myth immediately demanded Oli revive her, however when the druid went to try it seemed Aryonia had beat her to it.

#### **Hand of Aryonia**

Aryonia revived Yorva imbuing her with power under one condition; kill everyone in the party or die permanently. Yorva seemed apologetic but couldn't see another way out of it. Yorva apologized, stating she doesn't want hurt any of them, and a Nat20 insight check from Oli confirmed she was being honest. During the brief fight, Yorva never aimed for Myth and Myth didn't land a single hit aimed at Yorva. Yorva never took opportunity attacks on Oli and only managed to kill Keith, one of Myths summons. Unsurprisingly Yorva did not win the 1 V 5(+Keith) and died for a second time.

Immediately Myth asked Oli to revive her again. Oli was about to when Elfi stopped her, stabbing Yorva with a red crystal. The crystal transported Elfi's subconscious into the veil where Yorva had begun walking towards Aryonia. A brief conversation took place where Yorva stated that she had expected more help from Aryonia, who had basically forced her into a fight both didn't want and couldn't win. Aryonia called for Yorva as Elfi left the veil.

Coming to consciousness, Elfi tried to stop Oli from reviving Yorva entirely, telling the group that it was pointless as she 'belonged to Aryonia now'. This caused Myth to disagree, saying it was worth a shot at least, Elfi continuously disagreed, the disagreement became more heated as Elfi being so sure and not considering even trying lead to Myth threatening Elfi in a cruel outburst. At the very same moment, Elfi realized that she had misinterpreted what Aryonia had said in the void and used a scroll to revive Yorva herself. Yorva wakes up without a god and having just died twice in about two minutes.

#### **Stopping the Ritual**

The search to stop the ritual continues onwards with Yorva functioning as a party member. Yorva becomes noticeably more open to the idea of Aryonia not being great, after a chat with Elfi she basically realizes everything Myth had been saying to her might have some truth to it actually, funny right?! Although Yorva is somewhat weaker now, she's still a helpful asset to the team. Yorva is with the party when they fight a corrupted Veshling, causing Myth to lose Promise. When Myth makes her deal with Laena, Yorva is the only one to notice something is up and that she seemingly doesn't sleep. Yorva is also present as the group completes the trials of \_\_\_ (dwarven trial thing) and finally stop the ritual, ending the war in Insintium.

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#### **Current Day**

Yorva decided to stay in Vheninggrave when the party set out for The Arkon Theocracy. When Myth scried on Yorva after an assassination attempt she sees Yorva burying people under their house, Myth messages her and lets her know what they've been up to and about their plan to 'join' Aryonia.

### Skills and Talents

* Shapeshifting abilities.
* Proficient Liar.
* Assassin.
* Wizard.

### Trivia

*Note: Yorva lies a lot and not always for any particular reason which is cool but obviously take this trivia with a grain of salt.*

* Yorva's safeword is apples.
* Yorva got a wizard falsely accused and temporarily arrested when she was a child because he was rude.
* Yorva has told Myth her favourite treats are Maple Candies.
* Yorva was jealous over the idea of Aryonia sleeping with someone at a party she'd been at, she learned about this after they'd already betrayed her and left her for basically dead.
* Yorva has a strange moral code, you can kill someone if it's funny.
* Yorva has been hiding bodies under her and Myths house, even after Myth established a 'no murder in the house' rule, which I suppose she's technically not breaking.
* Yorva read Myths old journal in order to learn more about the party, nosy.
* Yorva on several occasions has had beef with Keith Eerie, a skeleton Myth reanimated.