Veil of a Mask

> *"This place is giving me the heebie-jeebies!"*
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**Veil of a Mask** is a nimble yet overweight tabaxi rogue. For a time he had an affiliation with the Zhentarim, and after that was a pirate on the Sea of Fallen Stars.

## History

### Interior Faerûn

During the Ancestors' Day festivities in Nathlekh in 1488 DR an elderly man named Hiroshi employed the assistance of Veil of a Mask to help him reconnect with his lost love again. As they reached their destination it became clear that somehow spirits were reappearing in the material plane and possessing revellers. Along with the help of local samurai Musashi Wang they were able to put down those possessed and follow the spirits back through a portal to the other side and deal with the source of the disturbance.

Veil chose to follow Musashi when he travelled away from the city, despite Musashi's reluctance to bring one so dishonourable along with him and after weeks of travel they happened across the swampside settlement of Lochside, where children had been going missing during the worst famine in decades. They were able to determine that the disappearances were not due to any swamp monster eating them, but kobolds that were taking them for their own safety. On their way back from the swamp to Lochside Veil and Musashi decided to track the swamp monster and defeat it, however during the battle Musashi was killed. Veil returned to Lochside to share what they had discovered and lay Musashi to rest, and he found that the Temple to the Raven Queen had been sacrificing children to try appease her and mitigate the famine. The head priest of the Raven Queen's followers fled and Veil received a heroes reception.

After a week he left the friendly village to find a larger city to obtain new wares and he reached Ormath. In 1489 DR whilst there he found word of unspecified work for adventurers in the closeby hamlet of Brisbyrg, and once there alongside Kurk of the Lastfingers and Aeron Dunkrild they were to learn of the Grim Harvest tolled by Lord Winterthorn. The three of them were able to narrowly defeat him and his minions, freeing the surrounding villages.

As Veil of a Mask and Kurk headed south in the months that followed they spent a night in the village of Myefod in the kingdom of Erlkazar. Their breakfast was interrupted as they were asked to help find a missing family that the local wizard had managed to locate deep in the nearby forest. They were joined by Bulzo Warmwater as they headed out and locate the family, right in time before they were sacrificed and eaten by a group of kobolds.

### Border Kingdoms

Aeron, Veil of a Mask, and Kurk finally arrived in the city of Thollos, and Aeron sought out a contact of his family's business ventures, member of the town guard Jayne Matillion, to discuss opportunities and in return offers to lend assistance if any is required. Jayne agreed and described a growing concern over headaches suffered in the market square and strange music being heard which was suspected to be coming from the underground pits of Thollos.

The trio ventured into the pits and discover the cause of the song was the undead soul of Lady Olynda, mourning the slaughter of her family and beginning to wreak vengeance on the city inhabitants above. The adventurers were able to subdue and defeat her, ending the haunting musical notes.

Aeron and Veil of a Mask then took on a job from Duke Roon Magoon and headed into Calimshan with Zirilia Windsinger of the Institutional Adventurers Magical Academy to locate an archaelogical dig site which purported to have found an altar to the deceased goddess Tierra. Once they reached the site it was not long before they were ambushed by the Moles bandit gang. Two of the archaeologists were killed in the melee but Aeron, Veil, and Zirilia were able to defeat the raiders.

They entered the cavern and Zirilia was able to read the celestial inscription on the altar, confirming it was a shrine to Tierra. A spiritual vestige of Tierra appeared before the adventurers and revived the fallen archaeologists on the surface at Aeron's request. She bestowed on Veil a blessing to allow him to exude light from his person. The archaeologist that survived the battle asked Tierra for her legendary Blessed Ring of Sunlight but this caused her to turn violent, cursing his greed and smiting him.

Veil travelled with Aeron to the Cosarchian Kingdom and whilst in the capital city found himself drawn into Fineas Floop's Funhouse. He spent months within the kingdom and whilst in Allaton took on a quest to clear out goblins raiding local farmers. Along with Mick Picklewick and Winston Duckmunch II he succeeded and on their way back to the city were approached by Finethir Shinebright in the form of a reindeer. They agreed to try return him to his true form by battling his former apprentice, Master Noke. They defeated Noke and his polymorphed minions but their attempts to transform Finethir went awry and he died. They were able to negotiate his revival in return for heading to Port Nyanzaru to search for Derio, a missing cleric.

### Chult

Veil and Winston were teleported to Port Nyanzaru and were joined there by Aeron. They traced the mysterious "Call of the Dead" to a ziggurat in the Old City, where a priest named Viplo was carrying out rituals and raising undead. The party defeated and captured him but were not able to save Derio and the other captives from the undead horde.