Petrichor

Petrichor, more commonly known as Petra, is a young half-drow woman who was pursuing the Cloud Giants' castle when she met the party in Nightstone. She visited Goldenfields in pursuit of more Giant activity, helping some of the Emerald Enclave, and eventually leaving to go north to find the Heroes of Happenstance to ask for their aid against the looming Hill Giant threat in the southern cities, then accompanying them on the journey, including their stay in Gauntlgrym learning about Umbros Ilystryph's murder. Afterwards, she fled from the group, admitting to Bean that she had another reason for travelling north to begin with: to finally find her biological father. Knowing he was now dead, she intended to hunt down the person who killed him. After intercepting letters form the party to Petra, foiling their plan to help her, Lord Delphize decided to 'see how the hunter enjoyed becoming the hunted'. Petra has not been seen since.

She is a skilled combatant and musician, and plays the flute. She is the biological child of Umbros Ilystryph and Ashai, and thus is Bean's half-sister.

## Personality

She is charismatic, confident and competent, although a little reserved at times and with hints of a temper. She is used to being considered untrustworthy as a result of being a drow and despite being steeled to this, she says it still impacts her.

## Meeting at Nightstone

Petra first discovered the Heroes of Happenstance in Nightstone while they were recovering from a goblin encounter gone wrong. During Silix and Bean's patrols, she was outside of the town walls, playing music and deciding whether or not to approach the group. The following day, she saw the Seven Snakes enter the town and snuck in herself, offering Bean help via the Message spell when things got dangerous. She threw a dagger from hiding and killed a bandit, then jumping into combat by helping the party with utility spells, healing, and her exceptional martial prowess. With her help, the party killed Kella Darkhope and defeated the Seven Snakes.

As the party was recovering, she introduced herself and told the party about some of the Seven Snakes' history, which she knew from having to do a few odd jobs for them in past years. She also explained that she was held back from following the cloud castle by the elves of the Ardeep Forest, who turned her away not only as an outsider but also as a drow, who they believed to be distrustful and of evil intent. When the party decided to take a detour to search for the missing villagers at the risk of losing the castle's trail, Petra offered to continue to pursue it and sent word back with Bean's paper bird.

### Return to Nightstone

When the party returned to Nightstone with the missing villagers, Petra was in the town once more. She explained to Bean and Impression how the castle returned above the clouds about a half-day after her pursuit, leaving the trail at a dead end. Expressing frustration at this, she asked if they would have any information on other Giant attacks nearby, and Bean showed her Elder Helera's Letter. When Impression and Bean mentioned their party's plan of going to the Spine of the World, she seemed shocked, and even more so when they mentioned the ancient enemies of Giants, namely the dragons. When Bean held back any more information, however, Petra seemed a little hurt but unsurprised, and then quickly left towards Goldenfields, promising to send word of any updates.

## Reunited with the Heroes of Happenstance

Petra encountered the Heroes of Happenstance again while in Mirabar, having searched for them in hopes that they would be able to help rid Goldenfields and the southern cities of the Hill Giant problem that continued to grow. She accompanied the group through various journeys in the North, including to Gauntlgrym, where they met with Morgana Morwick about helping with Blimey's memories. While she wasn't able to fix Blimey's lost memory, she was able to share information about the brutal murder of Umbros Ilystryph and the red scale left behind on his corpse. She traveled with them all the long road south, helping against Fire Giants on the Long Road and eventually seeing in her crystal ball that Goldenfields had already been attacked. She joined the party in infiltrating the heart of the Hill Giants' den of Grudd Haug, slaying their chief and helping to free the imprisoned.

After their safe return to Goldenfields and their hero's welcome, Petra quietly slipped away, leaving notice admitting to Bean that she had another reason for travelling north to begin with: to finally find her biological father. Knowing he was now dead, and now that the Hill Giants were dead, she intended to hunt down the person who killed him. Worried, the party sent letters to Petra to try and plan a way to ambush Lord Delphize together, to avoid her falling at their hands. These letters were later revealed to have intercepted by Lord Delphize themself, however, foiling the party's plan to help Petra, and instead endangering her life as Lord Delphize decided to 'see how the hunter enjoyed becoming the hunted'. Petra has not been seen since.

## Trivia

* Petra once worked some jobs with the Zhentarim several years ago, which is where she first came across the Seven Snakes
* She once infiltrated the Cult of the Dragon, and told Bean that Malazan the Red's favoured lieutenant had also snuck their way into the cult's ranks in order to dismantle them from the inside and prevent them from raising Tiamat
* Silix had one of his prophetic dreams about Petra, seeing her laying motionless in a cave with blood dripping from her mouth
* She has a crystal ball that she showed Silix, using it to keep an eye on Goldenfields while she was away
* Petra was sacrificed at the mouth of a cave by her mother in order to end a devastating drought; this inspired her name, 'Petrichor', referring to the smell of rain, especially after a long period of dryness