Fireteam Blackheart

The **Fireteam Blackheart** is a fireteam pledged in service to the Kingdom of Anglecynn. Juniper encounters them while they are in the process of retrieving Sorian's Castle's Teleportation Key on Larkspur Prentiss' orders, using Fenn Greenglass as a guide. They were ordered to kill Amaryllis Penndraig if they found her, as a secondary mission once the Fuchsia Coterie failed to do so.

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> —Tova Feidlimid, Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
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## Members

### Brownsnout Quills-in-Hand

The blade-bound leader of the fireteam, a porcupine animalia. He dresses in robes and carries a long, thin katana. Quills is a well-spoken man and a competent leader, sarcastic on occasion, though wholly focused on his mission.

### Inge Carter

The meatshield of the group, a kashoonk man in full plate armor with a large, finely-machined pistol and an immense shield. He's soul-linked to the rest of the group, taking their hits. Carter's nearly seven foot tall and hairless, with blue skin.

### Tova Feidlimid

The healer and bone mage of the group. She's a human wearing tight-fitting red robes, with bones strapped to her in bandoliers. Tova's an intimidating and somewhat abrasive woman, though that might have been because of the pressure she was under.

### Leonold Pavran

The tattoo mage of the group. He's a bald human, nearly naked and covered in tattoos. Leonold is a suspicious and ruthless man.

## History

Juniper Smith met Fenn Greenglass, the guide of the fireteam, shortly before reaching Sorian's Castle, where she offered letting him travel with them.A Winding Course

Fenn quickly introduced Juniper to them under the pretense of the team being looters. Juniper thought of them as a classic adventuring party, with Quills being the damage dealer, Carter being their tank, and two mages for healing and utility, Tova and Leonold. Quills was initially wary of Juniper and interrogated him on the subject of his friend Amaryllis. Juniper managed to turn the situation on his favor, making a deal for protection in exchange for information and potential diplomacy. Quills agreed to the deal, but had Leonold place the Fool's Choker around Juniper's neck as a guarantee.Life of the Party

The fireteam, Fenn and Juniper made their way up the castle, disposing of the undead as they encountered them, but they were quickly overrun. Leonold was forced to put them under a time out of sorts, a tattoo that let them rest and talk while outside of time. Tova heals Carter, and Juniper mentions Amaryllis is likely to be on the twenty-first floor. After the team exits the time out, Juniper begins to plan on how to get rid of them, finally suggesting an ambitious plan involving elevators.Time Out

The team puts Juniper's plan into motion, Leonold warning Juniper he'll kill him if he fucks it up. As they're launched by the counterweight of the elevator, grabbing onto a rope, Leonold casts the Prince's Invulnerability to protect them from damage, but the spell runs out after six seconds pass. Juniper snaps Tova's rope, killing her and the soul-linked Carter in the process. Once they get up, Leonold is suspicious of Juniper, but Fenn kills him by stabbing his head. Fenn runs away, but as Quills and Juniper run after her they finally encounter Amaryllis. They have a showdown after diplomacy fails between Quills and Amaryllis, culminating in Quills using Juniper as a hostage, thinking he can handle Fenn on his own. He's wrong, and Fenn shoots her bow's arrow barrage, instantly killing Quills and putting an end to Fireteam Blackheart.ELEVATOR facts

## References

1. ↑ “Brownsnout Quills-in-Hand,” said Quills. “Blade-bound leader of the now-former Fireteam Blackheart, pledged in service to the Kingdom of Anglecynn, long may it stand.”
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 14: "ELEVATOR facts"
2. ↑ “I ran into Larkspur Prentiss,” I said. I saw Amaryllis’ face go tight at that, but Fenn gave me a look of incomprehension. “He’s the guy that sent your fireteam after Amaryllis?”

“Oh,” said Fenn, “That Larkspur Prentiss.”
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 39: "Strategic Reserves"
3. ↑  “Fenn oversteps her bounds,” said Quills, “It is one of the worst habits she’s displayed thus far, among many. Cypress, as you call her, will be debriefed and then released.”

Ah, so they are going to kill her.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
4. ↑ Beside him was a rat-like creature with quills coming from his head, which I guess made him more of a porcupine, dressed in robes and with his hand resting on the grip of what I judged to be a katana; he was their damage dealer.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
5. ↑ “Porcine means pig,” Quills replied mildly. “But I’m sure that your famously haphazard upbringing has once again caused you to innocently botch the common tongue. We’re going to Sorian’s Castle. What can you tell us that’s of use?” he asked her.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
6. ↑ Carter finally removed his helmet for the first time since I’d seen him. He was hairless and his skin was blue; one of the kashoonk, if I remembered the races I’d created correctly.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 13: "Time Out"
7. ↑ Another corpse hit the big man, Carter, right in his immense shield, but he took it without so much as a grunt of effort. Others slammed into the ground, splattering flesh and viscera and shattering bones. It was only because I was paralyzed with indecision that I saw one of the hurtling corpses smash into Leonold, hitting the completely unarmored man hard enough that his head should have snapped back or been sheared off - but it didn’t even move him, not a bit. It was Carter who jerked back with the hit instead. Linked through the soul to take the hits himself, those had been Amaryllis’ words.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 13: "Time Out"
8. ↑ There was a big guy, nearly seven feet tall by my guess, covered from head to toe in thick full plate armor, holding a massive shield he’d scooped up from the ground when he’d seen us and a pistol three times bigger than mine, which was finely machined; he was the tank.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
9. ↑ the woman wore tight-fitting red robes with bones strapped to her in bandoliers
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
10. ↑ “That,” I began, seems long. But I was comparing this woman against Tova, an intimidating woman working under pressure and presumably with vast resources.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 16: "Kindly Bones"
11. ↑ “You’re burning our oxygen, asshole,” said Tova. Her hair was in disarray and a number of bones were missing from her bandoliers.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 13: "Time Out"
12. ↑ The bone mage swore and clutched at one of the bones by her chest, as though getting ready to throw it against the wall. “This is idiocy, Quills,” she said.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
13. ↑ while the bald man was nearly naked and covered in tattoos.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 12: "Life of the Party"
14. ↑ “There were too many failure points,” said Leonold through clenched teeth. “Eventually, we had to hit one.” And now I’m home free, until we step out into the light and they see my burnt hand and displaced tattoo. “I’d still like to check the ropes though.” Fuck.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 14: "ELEVATOR facts"
15. ↑ “If you fuck this up, I’ll kill you,” Leonold whispered to me.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 14: "ELEVATOR facts"
16. ↑ Quest Complete: Heading Off the Skin Mage - Leonold Pavran tried to kill you as he died, but you managed to move the tattoo just in time.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 14: "ELEVATOR facts"