Gilliphae

**Gilliphae** is an Aarakocra Circle of Spores Druid/Death Domain Cleric, an intern of *Foragers & Forestry* run by Taryn Doveweed.

## Character Information

### Class

Circle of Spores DruidDeath Domain Cleric

## Episode Appearances

### Description

#### Appearance

Gilliphae is described as an especially small Aarakocra with bright orange and blue feathers. Gillie does not wear traditional clothing other than a lightwwight shawl and a cross body bag where they keep a number of small jars and other supplies. Gillie has small clouds of dust and spores that listlessly cloud around the hands at the ends of her wings and small mushrooms tend to sprout from her shawl.

Gillie's appearance changes drastically when drawing nearer to her druid circle. Within 5 miles of the circle's location at the far edges of Brand and the Golden Crawl, Gillie's eyes become a milky white and their feathers begin to rapidly molt. Within a mile, their body goes gaunt and wounds open across her body, exposing her bones. Gillie explains in Coming of the Black Rain that this is due to the proximity to her second life tree and the empty grave she left when she was brought back to life 8 months prior to the start of the series.

#### Personality

Gillie is regularly brash and outgoing, barreling into everything from social situations to combat at full speed. Gillie regularly proves to be impulsive and often succumbs to the whim of her own curiosity.

### Biography

#### Background

Gillie is a member of a druidic circle at the very edge of [[Brand]] and the Golden Crawl. There the druids tend to the dead and ensure the natural order of the cycle of life and death, not fearing death but revering it as the next step.

It is revealed in *"Foragers & Forestry"* that when Gillie was 18, she had been killed in the *Golden Crawl*. Gillie's mother, Gilda, tells Taryn that if they were to count the years that Gillie had been dead she would technically be 26. It is later revealed in "(episode)" that Gillie was killed by a wood hag, one that Gillie had stumbled upon while foraging in the forest on her own. Gilda also reveals that Gillie does not come to the druid much since coming back and appears to spend more time in *Brand* and with Taryn than anywhere else.

Gillie expands on the topic of her death to explain to the party that it is entirely unprecedented that she came back from the dead. Gillie tells them that when she fell out of her second life tree, she was greeted by Black Pixie flowers, a holy symbol of Gondata who is the goddess of death. Gillie had taken it as a sign and ate the poisonous flower, deciding if she lived that she would be a cleric of the goddess. Since that day, Gillie is required to eat a Black Pixie flower daily to continously poison herself remaining "at the threshhold" and refreshing her agreement to serve Gondata.

#### Game Statistics

Gillie is an Reborn Aarakocra with the following features -

* Fly Speed - equal to walking speed (30ft)
* Deathless Nature - Gillie is not required to eat, drink, breathe or sleep and cannot be magically put to sleep. In place of sleep she must rest for 8 hours doing only light activities
	+ Gillie has resistance to poison damage
	+ She has advantage on death saving throws
* Knowledge from a Past Life - Gillie may add a d6 to an ability check after seeing the result of the d20 roll a number of times per day equal to her proficiency bonus.

Gillie is a Circle of Spores Druid and has the following -

* Halo of Spores - as a reaction, Gillie can inflict necrotic damage on an enemy within 10ft using the clouds of spores that circle around her
* Symbiotic Entity - Gillie's can expend a use of Wild Shape to do the following
	+ double her Halo of Spores damage
	+ gain temp HP equal to 4x her druid level
	+ melee weapon attacks deal an additional d6 of necrotic damage

Gillie is a Death Domain Cleric and has the following -

* Necromancy cantrips that would only target one creature can now target an additional creature within 5ft

##### Feats

* Mobile - +10ft to her movement speed, she may Dash and be unimpeded by difficult terrain.
* Mage Slayer - practiced against magic users, Gillie can do the following -
	+ When a creature within 5ft of her casts a spell, she may use her reaction to make a melee attack on the caster
	+ When she damages a creature concentrating on a spell, the creature has disadvantage to maintain concentration
	+ She has advantage on saving throws from spells cast within 5ft of her

##### Notable Items

**Crypt Keeper's Scythe** - attuned, +1 to attack roll and damage. If Gillie scores a critical hit, she forces the target to make a CON saving throw against her spell save DC. On a failure, target is poisoned.

1. ↑ Haelley says that Gillie is based on the American Kestrel, the smallest and fastest hawk in North America!
2. ↑ Gillie's druid circle offer anyone who wishes it, a "second life". This process includes being buried with a tree seed that then allows their decomposing body to feed a new, second life in a special grove tended by the druids.