Dariun Branch

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Dariun Branch is a Spring Eladrin prince from the Feywild and is part of Team 8. He is played by Connor.

"*You need to kick at the darkness until it bleeds light.*" Dariun S3 Episode 7: Feast Food Interlude

## **Background**

Dariun was born in the Feywild and is now in the prime material plane as of 3 months prior to starting the campaign. He is a ranger who also enjoys tinkering and has created a sword from his handy work. Dariun is 200 years old. He also feels a little lost as to his goals in life at the beginning of the campaign and want to find a place he belongs and to earn that place.

### **Appearance**

Dariun has a fair complexion and has a light green skin colour with light green coloured hair resembling nature. He begins wearing regular elvish travelling clothes. Dariun also has a green star metal ring on his right index finger which has an insignia of a branch on it.

### **Personality**

Dariun is a very spry, energetic and enthusiastic elf particularly at the beginning at the campaign. He is of chaotic neutral alignment, which is common among Eladrin.

## Prologue: Dariun Branch

### Release date

21st August 2018

Dariun recently left the Feywild and in prime material for about a week. He is in a forest and the sun is setting. While he is hunting, when Dariun stumbles across a small boar and kills it with his bow. Dariun heads back to his little tree house and chows down on some raw boar meat and hangs out by the fire. In the darkness, he hears a quiet chant way of

"*If you wanna romp, if you wanna stomp then you better head down to camp Wannawomp! Wanna wanna womp womp wahoo*!"

Dariun, wanting to womp, heads over to the sound and sees the light of a campfire in the distance and walks up confidently. Around the campfire is a group of kids in camp uniforms and one older camp leader. They all scatter in fear when they see Dariun, a boar blood covered Eladrin. He wipes himself off and sees that one kid stayed. A chubby little orc kid speaking in Spanish, looks at Dariun with a great big grin and they sit together around the campfire.

2 human kids, a boy and a girl, come back and call out for Jelly Belly, the orc boy with Dariun. The girl, with braces, is convinced Dariun is a people eater, despite him trying to convince then he's not. The kids run away with Jelly Belly into the woods leaving Dariun behind. Not long after they scream, Dariun gets up and goes to check on the kids who run back to Dariun and now are corned between Dariun, the person eater, and a giant boar. Dariun moves towards the boar aiming to calm down the boar but fails and the boar charges. Dariun swiftly kills the boar with the use of zephyrs strike. The kids are incredibly impressed, the girl in particular is very smitten. The kids introduce themselves as Crow and Aurora and ask for Dariun to chaperone them back to camp Wannawomp. Dariun is able to find a general direction where they need to head to find the camp.

The kids and Dariun talk about where he came from and about camp Wannawomp. Aurora continues to be truly in love with Dariun and Crow tells him about how they are all orphans and were 'bought' and saved by Papa from an orphanage in Aurum. After the kids get very tired, Dariun looks around and realizes he has lost the path. He gets to the top of tree and sees to the east are planes and very far away is a large wall. North west he can see approximately 5-6 hour walk away is a small village. He finds a decent resting area and sets up a campfire and keeps watch while meditating. Then, Dariun hears a voice calling out for the kids.

After hearing the voice, Dariun wakes up Jelly Belly and Crow and instructs Crow to call to the voices who Dariun assumes are the camp counsellors. Hearing Jelly Belly's song, a female counsellor comes out to find the kids. Dariun explains why he's with the kids and how he saved them from a boar. She is introduced as Milady Salsa and she thanks Dariun and he helps to escort them back to camp for some compensation.

Dariun and Milady Salsa talk on their way, she asks him multiple times if Dariun had seen anyone in the forest. The party take a rest and eat some berries and they talk about their dreams.

Crow says he wants to find a grand treasure for Papa. Dariun, not knowing anything about grand treasures, asks what they are. Crow explains it as "*Anything you ever wanted, whatever you wanted, it could be there*" and Milady Salsa explains some of the history of the grand treasure. The first grand treasure was a pile of gold found under the golden city known as Aurum by a group of Greeders. Then, a second grand treasure was found in the Stroom Hair Desert about 50 years ago.

Dariun is very intrigued by the grand treasure and believes he needs to find one, for himself. They get to camp wanawomp and Dariun sees camp cabins and a flag of a bear slamming a salmon onto the ground. Everyone there is happy to see the kids especially Jelly Belly. Dariun goes with Milady Salsa, questioning what is really happening at the camp. Milady Salsa sticks with her story of taking care of the orphans who live here. She gives Dariun 50 gold and a map of northern continent. Still suspicious of camp Wannawomp, Dariun asks to talk to Papa but she states he is not there.

He looks around, sees a map, scheduled events, files and list of campers including a list but come names were crossed out, When Dariun asks about the crossed off names and Milady Salsa visibly sweats and again, sticks with her story of a happy camp with happy kids. Dariun asks her full name, which is Stacey Goldtoe, and threatens Stacey that if anything bad happens to these kids, excluding aurora, he will come back and find her. Dariun leaves grabbing a piece of parchment and writes his name down with a note "*if you ever need me, find me in Aurum*" and he gives crow the note and says to find him if they ever need him Dariun leaves, casting zephyrs strike to get away from Aurora as quickly as possible, and heads to Aurum.

### **Quotations**

* Wannawomp campers: "*If you wanna romp, if you wanna stomp then you better head down to camp wannawomp! Wanna wanna womp womp wahoo!*"
* Jelly belly: "*Muy caliente!*"
* Jelly belly: "*Spicy!*"
* Crow": "*Anything you ever wanted, whatever you wanted, it could be there*" (talking about grand treasures)

### **Featured Characters**

#### New characters

* Jelly Belly
* Counsellor Goomba
* Crow
* Aurora
* Milady Salsa/Stacey Goldtoe
* Papa

### **Locations**

* Camp Wannawomp
* Aurum