Violet Crowe

Princess of Trick and Transit

* Level 14
* Level 10
* Level 7
* Level 5

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Violet Crowe is a hexblood bard and member of Vox Arcanum. She is played by Mitchell.

## **Intro**

*Violet Crowe is one of the more extroverted and affectionate members of Vox Arcanum. Her role in the party as a bard is to heal and buff the other members, and Inhibit her enemies. She does her best to make the party have fun and feel better when their upset (whether that be helping emotionally or physically). In spite of her appearance, she only looks like a tabaxi, but in reality she is a hag. As much as she tries to be good and behave accordingly, she has a much darker nature lying underneath that makes her do the opposite.*

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

With the fact that she is a hag, her appearance had changed a minor bit from her original form. Her figure is a tall, toned, and voluptuous cheetah tabaxi. Her hag features are shown with crème colored horns on her head, long sharp claws, and red pupils in her green eyes. Although not hag related, her left hand is a decrepit human hand instead of a tabaxi hand. Her hair is long, brown, and styled in a single braid. The clothing that she wears is a brown mantle and hood with a dark brown undershirt and a cape, leather wrist and ankle wrappings, and a brown waistcloth with a sun painted on it. She wears a bit of jewelry with a nose piercing, a ring ear piercing on her left ear and a bone piercing through her right ear, and a crow skull necklace. Finally she wears a long shimmering green cloak that has the symbol of Vula, the Traveler holding it together.

### **Personality**

In an outwardly sense, Violet portrays herself as this very outgoing and friendly individual. She's the kind of person who is able to talk for a long time whilst switching topics on the fly. Along with being extroverted, she is also very flirtatious towards people she find attractive. When it comes too the friends she keeps, as long as she can trust them she treats those people like family. She loves to joke with them and have fun. Whenever one of her friends is going through a rough time, she tries her best to listen to what they have to say and help them feel better. However her judgment can be a bit questionable most of the time. Not being the wisest person there is, sometimes she's too quick to trust someone, and that can lead to her making a lot of mistakes. This also causes her to make her decisions through emotion rather than logic. The biggest flaw that she has is that her sanity isn't something well intact. With the magic she's practiced, the company she's kept, and the trauma she experienced through her life, it left her mind fractured. Such insanity had caused her mind to spilt into two separate personalities. One of them being the kinder one, and the other being much darker. With her hag heritage being brought out more for her, the darker side has been much more prevalent.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Before she reached adulthood, Violet Crowe lived a quaint and peaceful life out in the wilderness. She didn't live in a city or any big civilization, rather she lived in a clan of tabaxi's that led a more simple way of living off the land. The goods the village had were produced only by the people in the clan. Only so often would the clan let in wandering merchants or outsiders looking for shelter. As long as the people worked, everyone would prosper. Violet and her brother Jade were raised by their mother and father. Violet worked just the same as her parents and sibling did. But one day would change her life when it took a very wrong turn.

One day, almost at sundown, Violet was collecting sticks for kindling. She was at the outside edge of the forest that most of her clan feared venturing into. Stories were told by the people that anyone who entered that forest wouldn't come back out alive because of the 3 witches that lurked in the woods. While Violet was collecting sticks, she heard singing from a beautiful, ethereal voice coming from the woods. Looking into the trees she saw a floating spectral orb in which the singing came from. Being a naïve 8 year old child, she decided to follow the specter. As the orb kept singing, it led her further into the woods, into the deeper parts where not even the sun could be seen. Finally the orb stopped singing, and once it did, it disappeared. Violet was left all alone in the cold, desolate, and dark forest. She didn't know where she came from, for there was no path. She didn't know the forest, and she was scared. She kept running out into the darkness trying to find some way back home, but she couldn't see anything. It was almost as if there were eyes watching her from the darkness. Terrified, Violet hid herself amongst the shrubbery, and cried out her terror. A couple minutes passed, and she noticed light from a lantern approaching her. An elderly, hunch-backed, cloaked woman walked towards her asking if she was lost. Violet was too scared for rational thought and told the woman what happened. The woman said that her home wasn't too far away, and that she could offer her some shelter for the night and some food. Naïve and scared as she was, she took the old woman's offer.

Eventually she was brought to a small cottage that on the outside looked run down and in shambles. But on the inside it was much larger and looked almost like a laboratory. In the cottage were two other women and one man. Violet was told that the 3 women were sisters, and the man was their caretaker. Violet was offered some food, a warm blanket, and a place to sleep for the night. The woman said that she would bring her back home in the morning, and that she did. As the morning came Violet was brought back to her clan. The woman that brought her there then confessed to Violet that the stories of witches in the woods were true, because the 3 women were those witches. At first Violet was scared, but then she was confused. If the stories she heard were true, then how come the witches didn't kill her? As years went by and Violet got older, she decided to visit the witches every now and then when she was off doing work. It was odd though, even in the first couple of visits, Violet felt strangely at home.

Her parents and brother were unaware that she had been visiting the witches. As the years have gone by, the witches grew fond of Violet and offered to teach her their way of magic. Violet reluctantly took the offer and was taught the weird, mystical, and dark ways of the witch's magic. As Violet got older, there was a noticeable change in her demeanor. Sometimes she was caught talking to herself, adorning herself in strange trinkets, and she played around with dark forces that she barely understood. Her parents started getting concerned as the witches taught her more dark magic. When Violet finally reached the age of 19, she was fully committed to learning dark magic. But at that same time, her brother Jade had unfortunately fallen ill to some strange sickness. It wasn't any normal disease, for nothing seemed to cure it, not even the most basic of magic. With her brother only getting sicker by the day, Violet decided to ask for the help of the witches, in which they agreed to help.

The following day, Violet went to the witch's shack, ready to receive the witch's aid to cure her brother. But by the time she arrived there, the witches, the caretaker, were all dead. Slaughtered, with blood drenching the entire room. The only thing to be found was a single piece of parchment that was written for Violet. The note was written by an unknown individual that cursed the witches, and cursed Violet and her family name. It stated that the individual knew of Violet's true origin and that she should be punished for it. In grief for her friends and for her brother, she ran back home to tell her parents what happened. Revealing to them the truth of why she had been sneaking off so many times, and the note that was left for her. Whether her parents didn't want to tell her or did not know, she never found out what the note meant by "true origin".

From that point on, Violet and her parents weren't on the best terms. It was then that Violet realized that she needed to help her sick brother, to rid him of the disease that torments him. So without saying a word to her parents or anyone else but her brother, she left the clan. She vowed to her brother that she would find the person responsible for killing the witches, kill them, and then work on finding a cure for his illness.

### **Meeting Vox Arcanum**

After Violet had left her home clan, she decided to try and travel around to earn some money to help her brother out. She had traveled to the town of Axiton after hearing of the Crimson Chord Festival. It was her thought that she could potentially earn some good money performing in this festival, as well as have some good fun. Staying at the Grey Ent's Tap in town, she had met Zulphr Ra'sh as a part of a job both of them completed for the barkeep. Soon after she encountered Sasha Winstine, Orlien Ther'esmis, and Bosmath Kettlepot. After tagging along with them in the festival, and taking down the Shadowstep, she stayed with them.

### Vula, the Traveler

When Violet had started her life as an adventurer, she did not have any particular faith in a certain god. Most of her clan followed an Eidolon named Imahi, the Feline's Eye, but she did not follow said patron. It was only when Vox Arcanum had gone to Direlight that she had seen the first instance of Vula. At the time there wasn't much to know about him from the locals who seemed to follow him, those locals being the Vuljani. He had an abandoned church in the Umber Hills that the party had come across, and that was the first point in which Vula took notice of Violet.

Later in Vox Arcanum's journey, after the defeat of Cindermaw, Violet was contacted by a voice in her head, that was later identified as Vula, telling her to go to the city of Verdun within 30 days. Along the journey to Verdun, Violet had come across a couple people who were also heading there for the same exact reason. When the 30th day finally arrived, Violet and the others who gathered for the same reason were told by Vula to complete a task for him. All there were told to set out into the town and collect some gifts for him, and then return to climb the cliff a bit off shore from the town. Violet with the help of her party was able to gather the items needed, with a fair bit of conflict on the way, and return to the peak of the cliff. When she climbed the peak with the items in hand, Vula had spoken to her and offered her the place of his chosen in order to spread his name. Violet accepted this offer, and was given the green luminescent cloak that she wears now, as well as the right of being Vula's chosen.

As Vox Arcanum's adventures continued, Violet was getting a much better idea of Vula. She found out that he wasn't really a god, at least not yet he hoped. His goal was that he would be able to gain the title of a god within due time, which was what he needed Violet's help with. His powers as it were, were very limited. It wasn't until the party's journey to the Feywild that some significant improvement was made for Vula. Violet had been taken by Althrevia, and the party did not know where to find her. It was then that Vox Arcanum had encountered Marlion, who said that he also followed Vula. With his guidance through the Feywild, and Vula speaking to him letting him know where to go, the party had come across another abandoned church. It was in this church that the party found a tall, lanky elven figure encased in magical barrier in the shape of a crescent moon. This figure was revealed to be Vula, who was trapped behind the barrier that blocked the majority of his powers. The only way Vula could get out was for him to confess his past actions. In the meantime Vox Arcanum had to battle waves of goblins as well as some Fomorians. Upon his confession, it was revealed that because of a mistake he made, The Lunar Lady was defeated shortly after imprisoning him in the barrier. With Vula freed, he was able to gain some of his power back, as well as help the party save Violet

Upon Violet's return from the Feywild, Vula had contacted her. When the two of them had spoken, Vula had told Violet that he was big step closer to becoming a known god. He needed Violet to spread his name and influence, so that he may ascend. To help her on this mission, Vula had also gave Violet the title of the Princess of Trick and Transit as well as some boons to help her on her way.

### The Feywild

Vox Arcanum's journey into the Feywild had marked a point in Violet's story where she found out a lot of things about herself that she didn't want to accept. For her entire life, she had always thought that she was just like every other tabaxi in her clan. It was revealed by Blackjack's magic that she was actually fey, and that led her to question her actual heritage. The most notable changes prior to the feywild was her claws becoming abnormally longer, as well as a green band of fur growing around her wrist. There were two things that sparked her desire to go to the feywild. First being that she was hoping she could find someone there who could tell her what she was after hearing of researchers in fey influence. The second reason was that she was told by Erris that the person who murdered her friends was in the feywild.

Shortly before going to the Feywild, more changes took over her as a pair of horns started to grow on her head. Violet had found a leprechaun man who was able to provide some information about the plane, as well as some idea of what she may be, that being potentially a hag. It wasn't until she had met Dr. Dulby in the Feywild that she knew there was no denying that she was. Finding this out marked the point in which Violet's mind started to slip even further. She had no idea how long she's been a hag, if the tabaxi family she had was her actual family, or more importantly what it would mean she would turn into. All of that was answered when Vox Arcanum had come across the hut of Althrevia, the Leathered Egress , a powerful hag who was the cause of the demise of Blackjack's old party. After Violet had talked with her to discuss the retrieval of a special item, it was revealed to her that Althrevia was her true mother. Althrevia then gave Violet a strange brew that turned her into her hag form, a larger and more powerful version of herself that was completely under Althrevia's control

When the party had gone to rescue Violet from Althrevia, she had taken her mothers side and tried to kill Vox Arcanum. Once the party had killed Althrevia, Violet was released from her control, and returned to her original form she had prior. Although she was no longer under mind control, Violet still couldn't shake the evil within her with the knowledge that the person who killed her friends was still in the feywild. Through her divination magic, she found out that the being who did it was something called The Undying Ebon, and she found out where they were. Through her magic, she saw the Undying Ebon as this huge figure with shadow made of armor, wielding a lantern and a sword. The party had made their way to the Undying Ebon, and a long battle had broken out with Vox Arcanum being victorious at the cost of Bosmath dying and being revived in battle. It was also in this battle that when called upon for aid, Erris had abandoned Violet and left her to die. Upon the Ebon's defeat, the shadowy figure had diminished into a smaller ghostly but humanoid figure, that being the figure of Magnus.

Magnus said that he had been lied to by Erris as well. He was told that if he killed the witches of the Grim Elegy, then he would be given back his family. Upon doing so, he only received the undead skeletons of them, and Magnus was doomed into the form of the Undying Ebon. Even in spite of Violet's hatred towards him, she had forgiven him and took his soul into the lantern he held, so that he could gain justice for Erris' defeat. Vox Arcanum had returned from the feywild with only an hour passing by in the material plane. Even though Violet had found out things she never knew before, it didn't offer her any of the closure she had been seeking.

### The Grim Elegy

The Grim Elegy was the name of the coven in which Violet had become a part of. Her first induction into the coven started shortly after Calryn had brought her to the witches cottage. Although she had no idea the coven was named the Grim Elegy, she committed herself to learning the witches magic. Each of the three witches mastered their own respective forms of magic. Calyrn's being divination, Ingrid's being transmutation, and Lorelei's being necromancy. Violet had spent a good majority of her young life training with these witches, sneaking away during nights without her parents knowledge. Through this training she was also able to learn how to contact Erris, whom the witches considered to be their good friend. Once the entire coven was killed, Violet did not return to the cottage for a long time

It was only after Vox Arcanum had returned from the feywild that Violet had gone back to the cottage. Through investigation of the cottage, Violet had found out the name of the Grim Elegy and her place in it. This marked the point in which Violet started to experience minor changes into her hag from, as well as experiencing visions into different points in time. One of these said visions had brought her into the past while she was an infant, and it was in this vision that she had found out that Lorelei was Althrevia's sister (Violet's hag mother).

### Erris, Devilish Ex-Duke

Erris has been with Violet for a long time, ever since she started training to become a witch. The hags of the Grim Elegy had introduced Violet to Erris, and had taught her how to talk to him. When she first knew him, she had no real idea what he was. He never appeared in a physical form, he was only a voice that talked in her head. He had the capability of granting gifts in favor of a service to him. She had always seen Erris as a great friend to her, as he was there for her when most other people weren't. This however was later be found out as a lie. Erris had always made sure to bring out Violet's darker side when given the chance, telling her that it was something to be embraced rather than shunned. Erris also had a way with words that made someone as naïve as Violet to fall for anything he said.

After the death of Violet's friends, Erris had disappeared for a brief bit of time. It was only after Violet started to practice the rituals she performed with the witches, that she could contact Erris again. With him returning to Violet, this was unfortunately the start of his success in breaking her mind. Erris had given her the offer of helping find the person who killed the witches, providing the information of their whereabouts. He had also given some aid in Vox Arcanum's journey by reviving some teammates and helping them get out of a pinch. He still remained unknown to the party as Violet had kept him a secret for a long time, as well as his capability to alter peoples memory, including Violet's. It wasn't until Erris had struck a deal with Bosmath as well that she began to talk openly about him. But even then, in the time he was around, Violet had begun to slip further into her evil desires.

It was because of Erris that Violet knew to look in the Feywild for her friends murderer. Unbeknownst to Violet at the time, Erris had also contacted Bosmath asking him to get a special pair of scissors for him. This later led to the party arriving at Althrevia's hut, with the scissors in her possession. After Violet had been saved from Althrevia, and the scissors retrieved, Erris had brought the two together to speak with them both. It was there that he said he would grant them both boons to aid them in the battle against the Undying Ebon for the price of sacrificing some magic items, this was later found out to be a lie. When it came down to the battle and Violet had requested Erris' aid, he had abandoned her. When the Undying Ebon was defeated, and Magnus revealed as such, Violet found out that Erris was the one who planned the death of her friends. He had tricked Magnus with false promises in return for killing the witches.

After a bit of time, nothing was heard or seen in regards to Erris. Once made aware of how dangerous he was, Vox Arcanum had made the plan to find him and destroy him. Blackjack had lent a helping hand by casting the legend lore spell on Erris. It was found out that he was originally the a duke of Avernus in the NIne Hells who had left to pursue his own gains. He had attempted to become a mage with a mortal body and tried to attend some schools of magic. This did not work in the end as he was rejected by each one of them. He then sought the company of a coven of hags which was later found out to be the Grim Elegy. He became a mage of shadow, and had made a relationship with Grannie Lorelei. This however broke the rule of three that the coven had, and this made him shed his mortal skin. He then conspired against them in order to kill them all as well as taking their magical staves for himself.

It was only when Vox Arcnaum had gone to fight the Widowed Pyre, that Erris had shown up once more. He infiltrated Violet's mind to prevent her from succeeding against the dragon, instilling doubt and fury in her. After the dragons defeat, Vox Arcanum had made it the next mission to go after him. This was brought to be sooner when Violet was put under Erris' control and brought straight to him. This was the first time in which Violet has seen a physical form for Erris, that being a ginormous humanoid and devilish creature made entirely of shadow. It was his goal to use her as bait in order to draw in Vox Arcanum and get his hands on the Exigent Umber. The party had fought Erris in a very close battle, with the final killing blow on Erris being dealt by Violet. A fraction of him had broken off from the depleting shadow and had ran off into the trees of Knothing , left to die out in the wilds. This was also when Violet had received possession of two fragments of Lycidas, which were the staves her old friends had. With Erris gone, this would also be the point where Violet could finally take time to heal her fractured mind.

All was well until Vox Arcanum had gone into the Nine Hells to stop the dragon queen from being unleashed. Once the party knew where they were supposed to go, they were met with another devil that the party had encountered named Sorill, and a stronger version of Erris. In his possession, was the last part of Lycidas, which was revealed to be just a copy of it. During the battle Violet had seen a door made of shadow that she entered. In this door she had spoken to Lorelei, who had given her the last fragment, as well as a final goodbye. Now with the staff in full power, her and the party had killed Erris in a close call. It was during this fight however that Violet had died for the first time, being revived by Vula at the cost of having technically died twice.

## Relationships

### **Bosmath Kettlepot**

In Violet's life, she has tried several times at a relationship that would last for her life. She had gone through 2 relationships with a man from her home clan named Cadence Cloven, and the previous member of Vox Arcanum Sasha Winstine, both had unfortunately failed. When it came to Bosmath, both of them were butting heads a lot in the early part of Vox Arcanum's adventures. It was only when Bosmath had left the party for a bit that she had felt at fault for how she behaved. When the Bosmath and the party were reunited, she did her best to make sure that he was treated with respect. Over time that change started to develop the feelings she had for him, starting when Bosmath had also faced rejection from a lover. When Vox Arcanum had gone to the Feywild, and Violet started to learn the unsettling truth about herself, Bosmath was the person who was there for her. Bosmath had confessed his feelings for her, and they had both come out of the Feywild as lovers.

## **Notable Items**

### **Current Items**

* Lycidas (*Originally owned by Calryn and Ingrid, stolen by Erris and then retrieved after his defeat*)
* Cape of the Mountebank (*Found in Ghulomnissa's lair*)
* Crown of Placid Doom (*Taken from Hoth's corpse after his defeat*)
* Ornament of Trickery (*A gift to Violet given by Vula the Traveler*)
* Ornithopter of Flying (*A present to Violet for becoming a part of the Grim Elegy*)
* Scrying Bowl (*Purchased*)
* Suthix Pipes (*Found in Ethreasiackamat's lair*)
* Roll of Infinite TP (*Found in Althrevia's Hut*)

### **Former Items**

* Auspice Eye (Taken by Erris for false promises of power)
* Ghost Lantern (*Found after defeating the Undying Ebon, which contained the soul of Magnus. Was lost upon Erris' defeat)*

## **Abilities**

### **Hexblood Abilities**

* Darkvision
* Eerie Token
* Hex Magic

### **Feats**

* Feytouched
* Visionbearer
* Traveler's Blessing
* Wiccan

### **Bard Spells**

##### **1st-level**

* Cure Wounds
* Dissonant Whispers
* Healing Word
* Identify

##### **2nd-level**

* Crowe's Corium Fissures
* Detect Thoughts
* Enlarge/Reduce

##### **3rd-level**

* Absorb Mind
* Fireball
* Mass Healing Word

##### **4th-level**

* Grim Malformation
* Raulothim's Psychic Lance

##### **5th-level**

* Contagion
* Raise Dead
* Scrying

##### **6th-level**

* Tenser's Transformation
* Transport via Doors

## **Quotations**

* “What repercussion? I am your repercussion” (*Violet to Erris shortly before dealing the killing blow to him*)
* "Sex~?" (*Literally Violet all of the time)*

## **Trivia**

* Before Violet's creation, she was originally planned to be a warlock with the Undead patron.
* Erris was originally a concept developed by Mitchell when the party reached level 6. He later became a very big villain in Vox Arcanum's story and Mitchell had no idea how big a problem he created.