Scylla Loch

**Scylla Loch** is a water genasi ranger that previously made a name for herself for her years spent as a pirate within the Sea of Fallen Stars. It is likely she would still be up to this today if it weren't for her ship's willingness to work with the Thayans. After witnessing the Thayans disregard for innocent beasts, tendency to use necromancy, and general laziness aboard the ship, Scylla parted ways with her crew and arranged herself passage to Ayakar where she worked on a per contract basis. She is rarely seen without her drake companion, Charybdis or her trusty longbow that bears the markings associated with the marid.

Scylla Loch was a player character in the one-shot *Breaking Umberlee's Resolve*, and might return for other modules in the Sea of Falling Stars.

## Description

Scylla Loch is a water genasi with slight hints of her elven father. She stands at 5'2" tall (1.57 meters) and weighs approximately 100 lbs (45.36 kg). Scylla tends to wear the sides of her hair in tight braids. Her hair seems to fall like a waterfall with it starting light blue and ending in a foamy white. Most often, she is seen wearing clothes typical of a sailor or a pirate. Her weapon of choice is the longbow that her father gave her with markings on it commonly associated with marid. Wherever she goes, she is accompanied by her drake companion, Charybdis.

Charybdis is Scylla's drake. She bears an appearance slightly reminiscent of the dragon turtle that supplied the scales for the ritual that created her, though an abjuration ritual gone wrong gave her additional elemental abilities. She listens to nobody aside from Scylla, though has been known to speak Draconic if she has something to say.

## History

During his travels, her father, a Chessentan sea elf by the name of Odysseus Loch found himself castaway on an island where the only other inhabitant was a beautiful marid maiden who had been imprisoned there. Though, he was just as much her prisoner as she was the island's, he grew to love her and eventually they had a child together. Scylla's birth and most of her childhood were spent on the island until Calypso grew sad that her daughter would never know the outside world. The marid used her powerful magic to arrange for a new pirate ship in desperate need of a captain to sail close enough to the island that Scylla and her father could swim to it. Odysseus promised to return someday before the two left.

Scylla quickly found herself at home among the pirates and learned the basics of archery and swordplay from her father and the crew. Though a talented sailor, her confrontational nature, and quick temper meant somebody else was always chosen as first mate over her. Scylla didn't seem to mind too much. To her, the most fun part of pirating was raiding those who had too much, destroying those who got in her way, and being feared. Eventually, Odysseus grew tired of his life on the high seas and sought to return to Calypso. Scylla is unsure whether her parents reunited and has had no contact with Odysseus since he departed on his attempt to go home.

Without her father to tame some of her more reckless impulses, these decisions led them into both weal and woe. Most notably, one of these adventures resulted in Scylla exploring a sunken ship that seemed to have exploded in a rainbow blast. In the wreckage, she found at the center an iron pot with a stone egg that seemed to glow faintly with the colors of the rainbow sitting inside of it. Taking it as treasure, she returned to the surface. To her surprise, between the light hitting the egg and the warmth of her body, a small drake hatched from the egg. Its scales seemed reminiscent of a dragon turtle's but also glowed with the same rainbow light. She dubbed the newly born drake Charybdis and is far closer to her than any other person.

Charybdis and Scylla became an inseparable pair on the high seas for many years. Recently though, the Sea of Fallen Stars has become far more hostile as the Thayans grow bolder. And, her crew whether enthralled, bribed, or evil have begun working with them. Scylla went along with this for a bit, but after seeing dark magic, disrespect of nature, and them attacking Charybdis for fun, she had enough. At the next island they stopped at, she gave them the slip and returned to Turmish where she was working as a mercenary when she received a contract from Mezhar on behalf of House Deryan.