Vauxhill Osterbrand

**Vauxhill Osterbrand**, is a halfling man and is the head of government in Veranmoor and serves as the head of the Anundiel Trading Company.

## **Campaign Notes**

### Episode 19: The Domination of Veranmoor

Vauxhill arrived at the main Anundiel Trading Company warehouse in Veranmoor after an incident involving the Faust and the Furious in which his eldest son, Durnan was overwhelmed by a psychic influence inside Dax after insulting Quoin's deity, Bahamut and Durnan began attacking his fellow mercenaries, but refrained from harming Dax.

His son was rendered unconscious, and healed by Ven, but was unable to heal the strange domination effect that had taken hold. He ordered the party to stay in town while the investigation was underway while he called for a divination mage from the Soulspyre Academy.

During the psychic attack on Veranmoor, it was said that Vauxhill fell into a comatose state, but survived when the effects lifted, unlike others who fell under the same effect.

### Episode 33: A Rough Homecoming

Vauxhill sent Anundiel Trading Company mercenaries to stake out the town of Trundleheim and keep an eye on Dax's parents. He also had his mercenaries place wanted posters for Dax all over the town, and specified dead or alive for crimes against the city of Veranmoor and for the murder of his son Durnan who had died from the effects of the psychic domination being lifted, but not before Durnan told him that Dax had spoken into his mind about an entity known as Ubeliek before he was dominated.

The Faust and the Furious arrived in town, and Dax murdered two of the three mercenaries keeping watch over Dax's parents while Druck rendered the third unconscious for questioning. Realizing how screwed up the situation was, Dax used the cambion hand to cast wish, and wished that everyone forgot their involvement in the incident on Veranmoor and time skipped ahead ten weeks.

### Episode 34: Ten Weeks Later...

With two of his mercenaries murdered in the home of Dax's parents, and the surviving mercenary mentioning that when they entered the home he was knocked out and when he came to, these two goliaths were standing in the room with his fellow mercenaries having been murdered.

He called for the other mercenaries in town, and the parents were shipped off to Anundiel City and taken to Highgate Prison under direct orders from Vauxhill Osterbrand. The Faust and the Furious were told this by the goblin who runs the Wayfarer's Guild in Trundleheim, and that this had happened ten weeks ago so their trial was most likely already over and they would be sentenced to death for murder.

### Episode 35: Break in at Highgate Prison

While sneaking through the prison to rescue Dax's parents, Quoin overheard a conversation between Vauxhill Osterbrand and the prison's warden about the two goliaths and the Warden told him that the goliaths weren't serving the experiments well. Quoin learned that Vauxhill Osterbrand was experimenting on people in the prison, and imprisoning people here unofficially as Druck had found documents for every legally imprisoned prisoner, and Dax's parents were not on the registry.

Quoin then entered the Warden's office with the rest of the party and discovered that Vauxhill and the Warden had moved through a secret passage that lead under the office. The party followed and came to a large, open circular chamber with a massive, 30-foot radius sphere of black stone that whispered ominous things to Ven and Dax. As the party arrived down here, the recently invisible Vauxhill appeared and stabbed Ven in the back before saying "Welcome to the party."

### Episode 36: Whispers of the Moon

Vauxhill engaged in combat with the Faust and the Furious alongside the Warden, Menzova Myett. During the fight, he was stunned and then thrown into the sphere by the magical effect on Dax's magical weapon, Mindcarver. He let out one final scream as he was pulled into the sphere and consumed, nobody knowing if he was alive or dead.

### Episode 48: Teine and Time Again

The Faust and the Furious discovered Vauxhill alive and on the moon when they arrived to defeat Seadan. He was found in a chamber similar to the one under Highgate Prison, complete with a defunct sphere. He was clearly driven insane, and was painting on the walls in blood. He paid no attention to the party, and they continued on their way.

He was most likely left on the moon when Seadan was destroyed, and the archway off the moon was closed indefinitely.