Vorn Helvlani

Vorn Helvlani was a drow inquisitor affiliated with the Helvlani Den of Morrhelvgix Khos.

He was slain in 132WD by an adventuring party.

## Description

The last living resident of the ruined drow city of Morrhelvgix Khos, Vorn Helvlani formerly served as an inquisitor for his mother, the Den Mother Chaliryn Helvlani, serving to root out dissent and plots that sought to overthrow their dynasty. During this time, he was afforded boons beyond that of many male drow, aided by his noble blood, but found a great deal of conflict from competition nonetheless - competition that was quickly extinguished wherever it stirred. With the destruction of the city, Vorn's faith in the Mother of Lusts quickly faltered, and upon finding his prayers unanswered, turned his focus instead to the figure that he perceived as Lolth's master, the creator of the Abyss in which she languished, ineffectual and weak.

Finding new resolve and strength in servitude to The Elder Elemental Eye, Vorn came to accept that the destruction of the city as a vital turning point in his life, embracing the chaos and change offered freely by the Elder Elemental. As part of this servitude, Vorn underwent a ritual that ultimately ended with his voluntary excision of his own heart, making an offering of the still-beating organ at an improvised statue depicting his new patron. In return, the Elder Elemental Eye offered unto Vorn a number of boons, leaving his body and soul lingering somewhere between humanoid, fiend and undead. Served by a group of quasits, he later recovered a badly damaged Retriever from the wreckage of the city, using it to capture roaming humanoids in the tunnels of the Underdark beneath the city, siphoning their blood and life essence to summon further demons into the Material Plane.

## Personality

By nature of his isolation, long-standing traumatic life events that taught him the value of paranoia and pre-emptive action, extended proximity to demons and the influence of the God of the Abyss, Vorn had long-since descended into madness when he was encountered by an adventuring party investigating the glacier of Threehorn following notes recovered at Black Scar Redoubt. Nonetheless, and perhaps more unnervingly so, he was quick to welcome them into his shattered and ruined abode, making offerings of food and playing along with their questioning quite freely.

He seemed to particularly delight in antagonising Gwyneth's cutesy perception of chaos, as well as meandering cryptically about servants of the Elder Elemental Eye, as well as rebuking claims that his surroundings were from another plane - a process, he remarked, would surely require a steadfast tether onto which to anchor, lest the ship drift freely.

## Death

Growing increasingly fretful of Vorn's madness and dedication to the God of the Abyss, the party sprung into conflict, spurned by Ódóvir drawing his blade. During this clash however, three members of the party were slain - Coel, Faustus Howell and Timbermitt - and the others grievously wounded by his necromantic siphoning of their life-force. Faustus was subsequently revived by Timbermitt, who was shortly after himself slain, nearly succumbing to some manner of curse or possession before being brought back round by Gwyneth.

After a long protracted battle, in which Vorn was aided by his damaged Retriever, a small army of quasits and a surprise Rug of Smothering, he was eventually defeated through the efforts of the party to target his heart and him simultaneously, being finally slain by means of *Infestation* by Gwyneth. Cast into a stream of mites and fleas, the damp and translucent skin that did little to hide the contraction of Vorn's musculature beneath proved an easy target, Vorn's own extended nails tearing and clawing at the insects as they consumed him.