Saga Maslandla

> What's a pirate's favorite letter?
>
> ―Saga to Delilah (Arc 6)

**Sagavyr "Saga" Maslandla** is a sea-elf fighter, privateer, and former member of The Runaways, otherwise known as the Defenders of Irio. She is the wife of Delilah Dachtner and mother of Lionel Dachtner-Maslandla.

## Description

### Personality

At the start of the campaign, Saga appears to be moody and withdrawn. However, as time passes she begins to return to her normal self and is shown to be easy-going, adventurous, and even kind. Throughout the campaign she continually struggles with her sense of self worth as well as handling feelings of guilt, best emphasized in her conversations with Delilah and when she steals the sending stone from J. Saga also has a strong sense of humor, and often falls back on it during emotionally challenging moments.

### Appearance

Saga has brown skin, dark blue, curly hair, and grey/silver eyes. She has many freckles and scars across her skin. Because she is a sea elf, Saga has aquatic ears (after Arc 4, her left ear is torn). She frequently wears a billowing white shirt paired with high-waisted black trousers and a pair of cavalier boots. She is 6'0.

## Biography

### Background

Saga was born in Osebridge, a small, mostly-human port town. When she was ten years old, her older sister, Kassandra, fled the town, and Saga followed. The pair joined the crew of *The Neptune,* a pirate ship led by Kassandra's boyfriend, Caspian. Saga spent her teenage and early adult years growing up on the ship, and eventually became a full-fledged member of the crew.

When Saga was 19, the ship stopped in Newport City, where she met Delilah Dachtner. The two developed a year-long relationship which only ended when was abruptly forced to leave Newport City. Word had gotten out about the relationship, and Saga was cornered by a coalition of pirate captains who believed that *The Neptune*'s crew was being given preferential treatment due to the relationship between Saga and Delilah. They offered her a choice: leave Newport City forever, or they would kill Delilah and find someone to replace her job. Saga agreed to leave the city to save Delilah's life, and immediately asked *The Neptune* to set sail.

Two years later, *The Neptune* meets its untimely end in a hurricane. Saga, believing herself to be the sole survivor, washes ashore looking for new purpose.

### Arc 1: The Earth Sage

Saga is introduced in the campaign along with the rest of the party. She is morose after the shipwreck and only finds joy in the midst of battle. She most out of anybody in the party jumps at the opportunity for a fight when a townsperson offers them the quest of clearing out a local graveyard. In the graveyard, she dismantles two zombies with her swords. When she and the rest of the party set a local building on fire, she takes the Dragon-slaying Sword, which leaves a trail of fire in her wake as she runs out.

When the party arrives at Azariah Fitch's house in an attempt to rescue Leif's sister, Saga sneaks past security and she discovers the basement. During the ensuing battle, Saga kills one of Fitch's guards, Sven, as the rest of the party dumps oil on the other guard. The group escapes from the now-burning Fitch residence and arrives at the dock, where Mori has secured them passage to Oasis and offers them a job with the mysterious organization known as The Citadel.

### Arc 2: The Fire Sage

In Arc 2, The Runaways are tasked with investigating a collapsed cult inside of a volcano, which The Citadel believes might be where the Fire Sage is. It is revealed here that Saga has a fear of horses, as the group has to travel on horseback to the city.

### Arc 3: The Water Sage

The party splits up, with J and Saga returning to Newport City, and Gummy and Frey returning to Vestell. The pair immediately find a tavern, and are drinking together when Newport Officers show up. Saga is arrested for piracy, and J is arrested for resisting. They are taken to the Newport City jail, where Saga comes face to face with Delilah for the first time in two years. Saga still believes that Delilah's life is endangered by any information Saga gives her, so she does not explain to Delilah her reasons for leaving. However, she does deliver the iconic line, "Hey there Delilah, what's it been like in Newport City?"

When Frey and Gummy break into the jail to free Saga and J, they knock out a guard who is revealed to be Delilah. Upon this reveal, Saga protects Delilah and refuses to leave her behind. After discussing it, the party agrees to take Delilah with them, and Saga brings her through the portal to The Citadel.

### Arc 4: The Air Sage

At the circus, Saga attempts to go undercover by trying to be hired as a performing swordswoman. As a result of her ongoing identity crisis, she becomes frustrated with the swordsman who, in his routine, pretends to be a pirate and openly accuses him of being a fake. After being made to leave the tent, she learns that the rest of the party is planning to regroup at the Siren Show, which she attends.

### Arc 5: The Light Sage

While in the revolutionaries' bunker, Saga has a dream in which she is standing on a dock in the middle of an empty ocean. A foggy figure, later revealed to be Vincent Roman from the original timeline, warns her that Vanessa is trying to contact and corrupt a member of the party. When Saga wakes, she is wonders whether Vanessa might be the voice on the opposite end of J's sending stone, and resolves to steal it while he sleeps. Saga successfully steals the stone and says "I'm on to you, you lich bitch." A message comes through from the stone in response, which takes Saga an hour to decode as she does not know Morse code herself. The message translates to "fuck you."

When the rest of the party wakes up, they discover Saga in the pantry where she had been hiding surrounded by morse code translations. She lies to them and manages to convince the group that what she was reading was a letter from her long-estranged family, and the translations were from Aquan. The group, luckily, don't remember that Saga demonstrated her fluency in Aquan in Arc 2.

When The Runaways are paired with revolutionaries for infiltration of the castle and training, Saga is paired with Octavian, who becomes a mentor figure to her. Octavian tries to impress on Saga that there is more to life than violence and winning the next fight. She also promises that if they make it out of the revolution, she will teach Saga how to use her sword-hands, which Saga holds her to. The pair eventually make it to the throne room, where an all-out battle erupts. Saga first duels with Princess Kat, which ends when Saga slices off one of her arms. Then, she joins the fight against the king, culminating in his death.

After the revolution, J and Saga speak on the boat. J reveals how hurt the loss of his sending stone has made him, and how much he has begun to appreciate Saga as a friend he can rely on and trust. Saga replies by telling J not to trust her, which J mistakenly interprets as a self-deprecating remark rather than an admission of guilt.

### Arc 6: The Death Sage

When the party runs into Victor Roman at the University, he reveals that someone within the party stole J's sending stone. He was able to tell by the voices that it has been possessed by both Saga and Gummy. Rather than throwing Gummy under the bus as initially planned, Saga reveals to J that she was the one who stole the stone as she thought Vanessa was on the other end, not Tory.

While docked for supplies, the party tries to get tickets to a ball they hear about in town. They see another adventuring party being given tickets as a reward for a quest. When the group splits up, Saga follows the adventuring party and attacks them alone. She is hopelessly outmatched, and they grievously injure Saga, shattering her swords and nearly killing her. The beating is only stopped because Frey finds Saga and pretends that they are siblings, and that she is merely confused. Saga returns to the ship, where Octavian interrogates her about the wounds and tells Saga that despite the way the group sees her, she is more than just a weapon for them to rely on in tough situations. Octavian tries to convince Saga to be kinder to herself and find inherent value in her existence, not her fighting capability.

The group eventually gains tickets to the ball through forgery. While at the ball, Saga, envious of the others and their happy relationships, steps out on the patio for fresh air. There, she runs into Eve Nightshade, the attorney The Runaways impersonated in Vestell. Eve reveals that she is Delilah's personal attorney, and that she is at the ball to conduct official city business. Saga reveals that she used to date Delilah, which Eve expresses disbelief at. However, she agrees to give Saga Delilah's updated sending stone number. Back on the boat, Saga calls the number and manages to reach Delilah for the first time since Arc 3. She opens with a terrible pirate joke. The two talk about their lives since the last time they met. Saga asks Delilah whether, if there were a way for her to erase all their mistakes and history (referencing the reset of the timeline), would she want Saga to take it. Delilah replies no, that history is not meant to be revised and changed, and that instead they should see what happens next. She also indicates an interest in meeting with Saga in the near future.

After the ball, The Runaways break into Tory's music producer's office. Saga is the only member of the party who does not pretend to be a Swedish performer as a cover.

### Arc 7: The Life Sage & Finale

In Arc 7, the group travels to Frey's hometown of Baker's Bend. Saga, having not received any more communication from Delilah, asks townspeople if any other strangers have arrived recently. No one has. The group stays in Frey's old home, meeting Vivi, a woman who looks almost identical to Vanessa but appears to have her memories blocked. The group becomes convinced that this must be the original Vanessa from their timeline, but later learn that they were wrong; Vivi is simply Vanessa's cousin, used by Vanessa as a red herring. The real Vanessa does actually appear in Baker's Bend, however, and the group briefly fights her. In the cornfield, Vanessa captures Mori, Vince, and Tory, disappears, and leaves behind four figures in suits of armor. Saga fights the figure in the red suit of armor, dealing blow after blow to the metal framework with the sword-gloves she received from Octavian. On the final blow, Saga slices off half of the suit's helmet, tearing the metal away and grazing the cheek of the person inside, who is revealed to be Delilah operating under Vanessa's mind control. Saga catches Delilah, whose eyes turn from magenta back to blue, and holds her as she wakes up. Delilah, realizing what has happened, hugs Saga and tells her that she missed her. Saga replies that she never stopped missing her.

As the party sails for The Citadel for the final battle, and with the knowledge that the timeline might end and she might cease to exist, Saga proposes to Delilah, who accepts. When they face Vanessa, Saga and Delilah go into battle side by side. During the battle, Saga uses the gun that she received in the first half of the campaign. The bullet does not strike Vanessa, but is instead used by Vanessa to kill Liz, who dives in front of Saga. The gun is later used by J to blind Asmodeus when he rises from hell following Vanessa's defeat. Saga climbs the demon using her sword hands and inflicts damage until thrown by him to the ground.

## Post-Campaign

### Bonus Episode

In the bonus episode "Jeopardy," Saga is taken hostage alongside J and forced to play trivia games by an enemy who wishes to extort their successful spouses. The episode takes place three years post-campaign, and it is revealed that Saga and Delilah have gotten married, as Saga stresses about what she should get Delilah for a one-year anniversary gift.

## Trivia

* Saga was originally intended to be a Drow elf
* Saga is the only one of her family's five children to have an elvish name

## Gallery

Saga and Delilah by @OratoreyeSaga by @JeniroSaga by @pocketwyrmSaga with Sword-handsSaga by @JuhuachaOfficial art of Delilah and Saga