Sylnan Vengolor

> "I'm Sylnan fucking Vengolor, bitch!" *-Sylnan, to his father, Brendan.*
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Sylnan is a Rogue who is skilled with daggers and at swiping coin, and is part of an underground Thieve's Guild on the Wharf. He is a member of the Fated Five and was played by Condifiction, aka Condi.

## Description

### Appearance

Sylnan is a Half-Elf man with short-cut dark brown hair. Sylnan has light skin, dark brown eyes and a patch of facial hair on his chin, and his eyebrows are thick and pointed. He is nimble with a bit of muscle definition.

After touching a large purple gem, Sylnan's left arm has turned purple from the elbow down. He conceals this by wrapping it in bandages.

Arc 1: His Arc 1 attire consists of a gray-blue jacket he keeps shut, with cuffed sleeves. He wears stark white gloves, darker gray-blue pants and a pair of calf-high blue-gray boots with many straps. He wears a series of belts, seeming about 3, around his waist along with a white fedora-style hat with a red strip and golden buckle, as well as a red and white feather or decoration. Additionally, he keeps a navy blue-gray cloak over his body that is a bright red on the inside, clasped together with a golden buckle. He wields a set of red and golden-hilted daggers that have small 6-sided dice baubles hanging off the ends.

      Arc 2: In his Arc 2 attire, Sylnan keeps his navy blue-gray cloak (now more of a cape) that is a bright red on the inside, but it is now clasped with long golden "chains" of sorts, and the collar on it is high and pointed. He also has a bright red undershirt, with the sleeves bunched up to his elbows. He keeps his left arm, which is affected by the purple arcane energy from the gem demon, bandaged all the way up. He wears a bluish-gray suit-shirt with buttons down the side of it and identically colored dress pants. He has one belt with a golden buckle and a red undershirt, as well as a holster strapped to his right arm and right thigh, the one on his thigh having a small pouch attached to it. He also wears a pair of darkish gray-blue shoes. Additionally, he wields a set of arcane purple daggers.

## Background/History

King Rigmund, ruler of The Great King's Wharf, had Br'aad and Sylnan's mother, Miriam Vengolor, killed immediately following Br'aad birth. Sylnan actually bore witness to this but did not remember until Episode 21: Ghostly Grapes when reliving his memories. Before this, both brothers believed she died birthing Br'aad. The truth, however, was that the doctor (likely not who he seemed to be due to Sylnan finding his voice "familiar") that delivered Br'aad administered (presumably) some sort of poison via syringe to Miriam, killing her immediately. After Miriam's death their father, Brendan (aka Alwyn) Vengolor abandoned them in his grief and desire to get revenge - something that had bothered them both ever since, but Br'aad struggled with wanting a parental figure whereas Sylnan was only bitter at him for never being there. Harboring hatred for Brendan and never losing love for Miriam, Sylnan often visited her grave in childhood, bringing it flowers. Regardless, losing their parents led to them living at an orphanage in the Wharf for many years. King Rigmund saw to it that they lived - even giving the orphanage a "gracious" amount of gold to ensure they were kept there, saying they were "needed for later". This was something that Sylnan overheard one of the workers at the orphanage that he had particularly bad memories of, Patrice, and a handful of seemingly local guards discussing, while they suggested that the brothers weren’t even people and should simply be gotten rid of — to which Patrice agreed, but King Rigmund wanted them kept alive. His motives for this are unclear (WIP).

Both brothers faced abuse and mistreatment from (mostly) other children at the orphanage, but also from staff. They were treated so badly overall, in fact, that Sylnan only vaguely recalls *one* woman, a younger caretaker there, at the orphanage that was kind to him and Br'aad. One thing they had that they considered themselves lucky for, though, was the fact that the brothers had a separate room together at the orphanage in their later years there, Br'aad around 7 and Sylnan around 10. Despite this fact, they were only ever given sparse hand-me-down items and clothes and blatantly treated with less care than other children there, treated as less than people. Both Br'aad and Sylnan faced hardship there, but Br'aad especially was more often an easier target to be physically and verbally attacked due to his timid and soft nature in childhood, causing Sylnan to stick up for and protect him, to varying degrees of success. It seemed that Sylnan was always more concerned with Br'aad's distress and wellbeing over his own, even from a young age. Sylnan holds a grudge against their childhood bullies as he admits to Katherine in Episode 21 - He says that Wendell, specifically, he would ”probably still kill” if he saw him now because he was “just a bitch.”

Eventually, sick of enduring all this mistreatment, Sylnan planned an escape route from the orphanage one night. When he snuck out that night to scout around, he met Olguart for the first time on the streets, who said that he “knew [that] kind of place” and understood the mistreatment they faced, since he experienced similar racism, and encouraged the young boy to run away. He quickly returned "home" and easily recruited Br'aad into the plan. They tied their blankets together and escaped out of the window of their room. Resorting to thievery to survive on the streets thereafter, they became a duo of con-men, and life hardly became easier, but at least they were free and on their own. They ended up squatting on the top floor of an old abandoned warehouse still on the Wharf, whilst sharing the bottom floor with an individual named The Rat King. Sylnan, himself, got into working amongst the underground Thieve's Guild on the Wharf in order to better help support them, keeping Br'aad out of that life, however.

(wip) While living in the abandoned warehouse, Sylnan got involved in a romantic relationship with a woman named Katherine. While there are no details on the time frame of the relationship, it is known that Katherine disappeared during the same year Br'aad went on a year-long journey, leading Sylnan's mental health to spiral while desperately trying to look for leads on where the only person he had left had gone to no avail, leading him to (correctly) assume she had died.

He carries some blame for Katherine's death, thinking that if he had been there, maybe she wouldn’t have died.

## Relationships

### Br'aad Vengolor

Sylnan and Br'aad are brothers, Sylnan being 3 years older than Br'aad. Growing up, Sylnan often protected Br'aad, acting as his caretaker, not only from general danger, but from bullies that tormented the two brothers for being elvish. He would often console and reassure him that he is "perfect just how [he is]" despite what anyone said. Sylnan was also the one to give Br'aad his name.

    They are probably the two most important people to one another, having an unbreakable bond. Even now, Sylnan is very protective of Br'aad, viewing himself as someone who needs to be strong for him and prevent him from becoming "like him" or Brendan. Despite, their relationship has still come under strain multiple times, and they are pretty bad at communicating. When Br'aad first made his contract with Ob'nockshai, Sylnan became upset, yelling and asking him why he did such a thing, to which Br'aad responded that he didn't feel he was pulling his own weight enough and that he just wanted to help his brother. Seeing Br’aad become like him (or, later, Brendan) is one of Sylnan’s biggest sources of stress, and this was one of the worst situations he could imagine. Sylnan ended the interaction by saying he couldn't look at his brother anymore at that time and leaving him curled up on his own. This caused Br'aad to become more upset than he already was and he fled the Wharf without telling his brother where he was going, disappearing for a year - leaving Sylnan to think he was potentially dead. During this time, Sylnan found an injured goblin man named Hilltree and took him in, coming to see him as a "replacement Br'aad", of sorts, and nursing him back to health, taking care of him and doing things with him he often did with his little brother to cope with the loss. When Br'aad returned to the Wharf and they reunited, they didn't talk through what had happened before he left. Sylnan admits to Katherine that he is immensely guilty about lashing out at Br’aad when he found him after making his pact with Ob'nockshai, and for never apologizing for how angry he got about it. He beat himself up for it for a long time, hating himself for it, but struggled with the communication to actually make it better. He worried that Br’aad hated him, though Katherine refutes this when she asks him. (wip)

When Sylnan was dealing with the gem demon that was corrupting his body, he became cruel and uncharacteristically mean to Br'aad at times, randomly lashing out and treating him harshly, causing rifts that Br'aad tried continually to mend, but it undoubtedly put a strain on their relationship. (wip)

## Trivia

* Sylnan's (as well as the rest of the Fated's) character sheets are still public on DNDbeyond.
* In A2 Episode 5: A Bad Trip it is mentioned that Sylnan has broken out of jail "at least 7 times".
* Condi has confirmed that Sylnan and Br'aad were going to open their own orphanage together post-Fated campaign.

## References

1. ↑ Condi responding to a post about Sylnan naming Br'aad
2. ↑ Sylnan's last character sheet on DNDbeyond, Level 8

## Art References

1. ↑ Official art of Sylnan in his Arc 1 attire by MadelineIllu
2. ↑ Official art of Sylnan in his Arc 2 attire by Bad Moon Art
3. ↑ Fanart of Br'aad & Sylnan by Kazzafraz