Nymue

> *"Everybody dies eventually. It pays to be on the side of the inevitable." -***Nymue** to Jorg-Hammer upon revealing herself as a servant of Wee Jas
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## Summary

**Nymue** **Solamor** is a Changeling Inquisitor of Wee Jas working as a member of the Taken Sisterhood in the forests of Golgotha, and a member of the party.

## Early Life in Sunvale

In 210 A.C. a child was left on the doorstep of a newly married couple in Sunvale, in Yarmouth after their newborn daughter had gone missing. The couple named the girl Nymue, and took her in as their own without a second thought.

Growing up, Nymue was an avid learner. Her adoptive father was a clergyman of Pelor, and her mother was a bookkeeper for various establishments in Sunvale. She quickly took the traditions and scriptures, but also showed an aptitude for arithmetic. As a young girl her best friend was an aspiring writer, a gentle young man who inspired Nymue to pursue literature herself. He was skeptical of a certain Reverend in town and tried to warn the changeling, but the warning was not heeded in time.

One night in 227 A.C. Nymue stumbled upon the Reverend concocting a sinister sacrificial ritual. The dhampir of the Church of the Lost Dawn excommunicated her from the church, and forced her to silently flee from the town that night without a word to anybody. Neither her family, nor her best friend William heard from her until Nymue sent Reverend Karl Quint with letters a decade later under a pen name hoping that her words reached them safely.

## Hardships in Redbrook

Redbrook was a pleasant sight after the days spent wandering aimlessly through the wintry Wyrdwood with nothing but the garments on her back. Unfortunately, she would not always regard the town with such benevolence. Her reverence quickly turned to disdain as her only chance of work was under the employ of Mad Marge, the dwarven owner of the Black Butterfly -- a desecrated temple of Desna turned into a tavern with a brothel in the catacombs underneath. Slaving away miserably, putting her shapeshifting abilities to use more often than she would have preferred, Nymue found salvation in an unlikely circumstance three years later in 230 A.C.

A series of killings began to occur in the city. The murderer and his gang were indulging in the various vices the city had to offer and then murdering the providers while evading the scene without even a body remaining. The killings hit close to home for the sullen changeling when she discovered her coworker Amantha had been missing, and all that remained was her silver ring -- the only evidence left at any crime scene. Unbeknownst to Nymue, she was the next stop on the list for the gluttonous lupine killer.

A new patron called for Nymue in the catacombs, a scruffy man with a scar on his face who seemed to have a hard time talking, but he didn't strike Nymue as the nervous type. After having his fill, his body stretched and cracked noisily as he took on the shape of a bipedal wolf as he leapt across the room, only to yowl in pain as Nymue managed to slash him with the hand that was wearing Amantha's silver ring. The man rebuked her with a voice that sounded like a cauterized wound looks -- scarred and burnt. Nymue fled out of the room as a half-elf woman in black armor descended the stairs carrying a loaded crossbow in her hands, clearly on the hunt for something. Upon seeing the werewolf, the lycanthrope fled with the blonde elf in quick pursuit.

Just after the experience, Nymue found herself wandering the Wyrdwood again only to be woken up by that same half-elf who introduced herself as Solandra and informed the girl that it had been days since they saw each other at the Black Butterfly, but Nymue had no memory of anything after that night for the past few days outside of a Call that was beckoning to her in what she presumed was her sleep. After explaining her situation to the half-elf, Solandra took Nymue back to Golgotha since she was the best lead she had on finding the werewolf serial killer Seamus Walsh as she was the only individual to have seen Seamus as both a man and as a werewolf.

## Death and Rebirth at Golgotha

After spending three days isolated in a guest room at the Jasper Garden Nymue was finally allowed into a meeting with the Pontifex Shaedasa Umbel which is where she first encountered the other overseers aside from Solandra -- Nolana and Elata. After extracting the image of Seamus from her memory using a strange dreamcatcher with an arcane crystal, Nymue was given a day to rest as well as a choice. She could either return to Redbrook with a wiped memory, or she could join their Sisterhood.

After a few days had passed, and Nymue began to learn the teachings of the mysterious Wee Jas, and was finally ready to be baptized. Except that instead of being placed in water for a short time, she endured something much longer. She was given an odd substance to drink that immediately made her woozy and placed into a large pit. Roots and vines moved with minds of their, and stuck her like a barrage of needles along her body that entered her veins as she was buried alive, comatose, floating in the twilight between life and death being judged by the souls of the dead and the goddess herself.

Nymue died on that day in 230 A.C., but 27 days later, the vines raised the woman out of the pit, and there was only one word that consumed her entire consciousness, her new identity given to her by Wee Jas directly, the Nightshade. An Inquisitor, scholar, and reclaimer for the Lady of Book and Bone.

## A Sunken Expedition

In 237 A.C., the Nightshade was given her first fully solo mission. The Pontifex had a vision of a grave threat in the East that was being blocked by something powerful, and Nymue was to either recover the magic or put a stop to the threat. She snuck aboard a ship in the Orrukov Naval Fleet, but was forced to abandon ship after a kraken laid siege to the entire duergar fleet.

Awaking on the mysterious island of Krakengard, the changeling was drawn by the sound of battle to an odd trio of individuals in the midst of a battle with a group of restless undead. Throwing in her lot with the keelhauled castaways, Nymue helped to send the damned souls to rest and began to travel with the group to the nearest settlement they could find, a port town built from the lumber of wrecked ships called Nightport. Sensing tensions boiling over between the citizens and the denizens of the Stronghold, Sel-Duarmia, the newly formed company began their investigation by journeying east and encountering the nihilist cult dedicated to the Sunken God, the Drowned.

Upon meeting a Seer in the Stronghold, the party were submerged into a vision of the war between Sartorius and the forces of Valtoria and gained insight into the apotheon artifact keeping them trapped on the island, the Tempest Armillary. Upon waking from the vision, Nymue found herself in a stone room face-to-face with Wee Jas directly, who directly explained her current mission. There was a lost soul that was taken from her, and the Nightshade was to ensure that Jorg-Hammer returned it thusly, and if he refused to do so she was to then return the soul herself and send the tribesman back to realm of the dead for sundering his word with a god. Unbeknownst to both of the warriors, this lost soul was none other than Jorg-Hammer's missing father, Ragnar the Bold.

Returning on their journey, the party climbed the tower from their visions and found a manic, aberrated Sartorius guarding the artifact. Dispatching the Knight of Legend, Nymue had visions of the seafaring knight's work and began to delve briefly into an attempt to comprehend the ancient magic. Upon their descent, the party encountered a group of Drowned Cultists and their undead leader, the High Trident, as well as their aboleth prophet, Cthar-R'yatha. They were taken prisoner, interrogated, and eventually freed, but not before learning the High Trident's former life as Ragnar the Bold and that Jorg-Hammer would have to commit patricide on this twisted corpse of his puppeteered father if he was to carry on living.

### A Lamentation of Legacy

At the end of the moon cycle, the party stormed the temple of the Sunken God and accomplished their goals. They saved the world, but at a cost. Ragnar's soul was forever in torment over his actions as the High Trident, and Jorg-Hammer appeared to be forever scorned regarding the religion of Wee Jas. The Nightshade however, was rewarded for her reclamation of the lost soul with a direct boon from her goddess. A physical manifestation of her faith and, to her, proof of her worth to the Sisterhood as a Reclaimer.

## The Lupine Revelation

Returning to Durkheim after a successful, if unexpected, mission, the Nightshade promptly searched for the local overseer, Elata. Meeting her in a tavern in blind alley, the changeling recounted her events excitedly to the half-orc, who brought her back to earth with the news that the Walsh Gang might be operating in town. For the first real time, Nymue revealed her identity to the party as a changeling and all about her early life, and why these killings in Durkheim were a personal matter for her.

## Trivia

* Nymue's alias on Krakengard that she gave to Reverend Karl Quint -- "Natalia O'Dwyer" was the name of the protagonist in a mystery novel she wanted to write when she was younger.
* Nymue's favorite author is a half-elf woman named Cerys Valar who is primarily known for her poetry.
* Though she typically dual-wields her kukris, Nymue is left-handed.
* Nymue has complete heterochromia: One of her eyes is red, and the other is grey.
* An avid tea drinker when possible, Nymue's go-to brew is Jasmine tea.