Joseph

### Affiliations

Ember Atheneum (scribe wizard/arcane translator)Soulspyre Academy (graduated student)

The Snowminnow (previous crew member)

Ash (Employed by as a child)

### Family

Unknown MotherUnknown Father

The Montsozas (adopted family)

### Death Episode

Beneath the Tide: Siren Song (Episode 64)

## Appearances

### First Seen

Beneath the Tide: The Maw Sails Again (Episode 45)

### Last Seen

Embers of Autumn: Cappuccinos and Cats (Episode 23)

**Joseph**, is a human man in his late forties and serves as one of the scribe wizards of the Ember Atheneum in Anundiel City as of 68AT.

When he was a child during the events of *Beneath the Tide*, Joseph was very close to a man named Ash, and seemingly vice-versa. This seemed to come into effect when not only did Ash rescue him from the Nine Hells while in Velokash The Sly's custody, but also when they fled to the Feywild quickly after and Joseph had died after falling off the ship. Ash sold his own soul to bring Joseph back to life.

After Ash was sent to the Nine Hells to do his duty as the Ashheart, Joseph was adopted into the Montsoza family and eventually went to train at the Soulspyre Academy.

It was somewhere during his time as an adult that he suffered an injury and lost the use of his eyes, now sporting a bandage around them at all times.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

As an adult man, Joseph has receding greying brown hair, with a small brown beard and a gray cloth bandage wrapped around his eyes after losing them to some unknown injury. He has slightly noticeable forehead lines. He wears a series of purple robes set with the crest of the Ember Atheneum. He wears a faded, slightly rusted symbol of the Ashheart, and a rusted symbol of Pipshin that has been slightly modified to resemble a fey-like goblin instead of a screaming old man.

## **Background**

### Beneath the Tide

#### **"The Maw Sails Again" (Episode 45)**

Joseph met Ash on Dawnbreak Cove after fetching him a bottle of Montsoza's Finest which in turn caused Ash to hire the young boy and make him a part of the crew from there on out.

#### **"The Iron City" (Episode 62)**

While the party were travelling inside Dol Shadar, Monkfish and Joseph took the long route to the ship they were all seeking to find. On the way, Monkfish was attacked by Velokash the Sly and Joseph was kidnapped and brought to the Nine Hells and placed into the rakshasa's custody.

However, the party showed up in the Nine Hells and freed him from his cell.

#### **"Siren Song" (Episode 64)**

During the events of this episode, Joseph was charmed by a group of Nereid Sirencallers that lured him off the deck of the Snowminnow in which caused him to plunge 60-or so feet off the side of the ship to his death in the water below.

A resurrection ritual was attempted by Lea, but it failed. Not wanting the poor child to be dead, Ash made a deal with whatever entity was listening, causing Pipshin to arrive and make a deal to bring Joseph back to life. A deal was made, and Joseph returned to life.

#### **"The Voyage Ends" (Episode 97)**

After the crew of the Winter's Kiss defeated Asmodeus, Joseph travelled with Ogden Boon and Eclipse for a time on the ship helping out where he could.

### Embers of Autumn

#### **"Cappuccinos and Cats" (Episode 23)**

Thirty-five years after the events of Beneath the Tide, Joseph now forty-seven was serving as one of the scribe wizards in the Ember Atheneum in Anundiel City. He appeared to have been blinded sometime before this, and was sporting a grey bandage over his eyes.

He met with the tiefling wizard, Ven Khihalis who was looking for information about the elder brain named Ubeliek who had just attacked the town of Veranmoor.