Kheryph

Set's lizard. Frilled and fast. Favored terrain: hoods. Captured outside the Sunken Citadel thanks to Set's superior athletics. Originally intended to be a consolation prize for Meepo after losing Calcryx, instead refused to leave Set after Meepo's death. Has been underwater. Did not like it. Favorite food: basically everything. Almost impossible to remove from Set (we've tried). Learning Celestial, maybe.

## Description

A little green frilled lizard! Absolutely unclear what Kheryph's gender actually is, we're just going with male. Currently his back two legs don't work, so he just kind of pulls himself around with his forearms.

## Biography

### Background

We can only assume Kheryph led an equally interesting life before being caught by Set. He is has been very cagey about his past.

### "And Even Though I Tried, It All Fell Apart" (1x4)

Set caught a lizard (Kheryph, then unnamed), intending to deceive Meepo into thinking it was a newly hatched baby dragon. He put it in a jar (air holes added later) and was waiting for the perfect moment to give it to Meepo-- until Meepo unexpectedly died. Awk made moves to get the lizard jar away from Set; Set cottoned on and refused.

### "Let Your Waves Crash Down on Me" (1x7)

After completing forgetting to return the lizard to his home, Set attempted to set him free outside of Greenrest, reasoning that he could not keep catching bugs for the lizard forever and that it was time for the reptile to make a fresh start. Set released him. Kheryph, however, had other ideas and crawled back up Set's leg. After several attempts to free him, Set gave up and accepted his fate ("I guess I have a lizard now."). Fun fact: this was also when Dronie joined the party officially. Kheryph enjoyed catching flies on the docks of Janwald and did not enjoy being set on the *Wind's Pride's* deck by Set or being shipwrecked. Thus began a long journey of lizard logistics and management.

### "Sometimes It Feels Just Like I'm Falling in the Ocean" (1x8)

Set managed to pour part of his potion of water-breathing into Kheryph's mouth. Kheryph, hiding out in Set's hood, disliked immensely the water tendrils pulling at Set and left a ton of claw marks on him. When Set got drunk on the beer outside the taak, he said he'd named the lizard but wouldn't say what the name was.

### "Tidal Waves, They Rip Right Through Me" (1x9)

Discovering Kheryph's love of baneberries, Set managed to avoid taking him underwater for a bit, leaving him instead to chill out by a tidepool in the taak. This would become a useful strategy later.

### "And No Rivers and No Lakes Could Put the Fire Out" (1x10)

Kheryph was officially named. Set began to try to teach him Celestial.

### "Sometimes I Think of Letting Go and Never Looking Back" (1x13)

Milto tempted Set with cloaks to better protect Kheryph. Zeno, having cast Comprehend Languages on himself, learned the true meaning of Kheryph's name while the party was decoding the tablets. Felegum spoke with Kheryph via a spell and learned Kheryph's favorite foods were baneberries, eggs, and other lizards.

### "It's Like I'm Paranoid" (1x16)

On the cart ride up to Paripas, Set continued to work with Kheryph on learning the command "stay" in Celestial. Set used all his baneberries and the lizard mildly got the concept.

### "I Can't Pretend This is the Way It'll Stay" (1x17)

Kheryph did not do well in the cold as the weather shifted. Set was worried and tried to use a heat stone to keep him at an okay body temperature. On entering Paripas, Kheryph was markedly happier and while he did not like lamb or mashed potatoes, pink carrots were acceptable.

### "Still, the Second Hand Will Catch Us" (1x18)

Kheryph rode around on Dronie as a playdate as Set and Felegum navigated Paripas and the two became friends. Set hunted around for items that would keep Kheryph warm on their travels outside the city, and Kheryph later swam through Set's beef stew.

### "I've Been Trying to Fix My Pride But That Shit's Broken" (1x19)

Kheryph was left to guard the party's stuff while they completed the Trials of the Mage. It is possible he ended up inside a padded wall along with their supplies in the mind flayer room; Set finds it easier not to know this.

### "Superstars Sucked into the Super Massive" (1x21)

Set bought the Boots of the Hinterlands pretty much just to keep Kheryph warm.

### "We've Got a Big, Big Mess on Our Hands Tonight" (1x24)

Harry became the first person Set trusted Kheryph with as they explored and tried to find an alternate route to save Awk and Lankin besides the river. Kheryph was placed into a jar (without holes) and into Set's backpack when he and Zeno made the plunge in the river surrounded by Zeno's zombie horde.

### "I Always Put Myself in Destructive Situations" (1x25)

Again force-feeding a potion to Kheryph, Set split his Potion of Acid Resistance between himself and the lizard and then tried to set the lizard down outside the splash zone of the coming dragon battle. However, for all his practicing with "stay", Kheryph would not listen to Set and insisted on being on him during the battle. This was a grave error.

### "Trying to Hold on, Didn't Even Know" (1x26)

Kheryph was hit by Nightscale's acid spray and mortally injured. Set panicked, trying to feed him a healing potion. When that did not seem to do very much, Set called on the entity in the desert who appeared to him in dreams, asking for help. His wings flared out, this time glowing a new, amber color. Kheryph regrew his front legs, though his back looked pretty bad, and his hind legs, while now present, were nonfunctional. Zeno also healed Kheryph, who demonstrated being able to scoot around on his front legs, and after another harrowing battle, Set treated him to some baneberries.

### "It's Easier to Run" (1x27)

Awk tried his hand at curing the lizard, also to minimal effect. He suggested that Set might need a temple and a restoration spell for this one.

### "Set My Clocks Early 'Cause I Know I'm Always Late" (1x29)

Set had a somewhat concerning dream involving Kheryph.

### "Got a Closet Filled up to the Brim" (1x30)

Kheryph finally was well enough to be enthusiastic about meat (saiga) again.

### "I Fall Upon the Earth, I Call Upon the Air" (1x31)

Set floated the idea of maybe turning Kheryph into a familiar to restore him to his un-melted state. Felegum said he did not seem confident about it, but that he also did not know, so Set opted to do some research when he had time.

### "Fear is How I Fall" (1x32)

Set began his studies in earnest at the library in the Mage's Guild to see if he could somehow make Kheryph a familiar. Archivist Lavalle found him four tomes on familiar-making. Research indicated that one needed banishment and recall spells, as well as something to bind a creature's essence to your own. Frustrated by the scope of this new problem, Set tried to feed Kheryph some of his Elixir of Health, but it had no effect on the lizard.

### "Yo, Peep the Style and the Kids Checking for It" (1x33)

Set acquired his second magical clothing item in defense of Kheryph, the Cloak of Protection.

### "Hold Your Head High, Heavy Heart" (1x34)

Attempting to build more upper body strength with Kheryph, Set did push-ups to demonstrate. Lankin saw this and was horrified, insisting he teach Set proper form. After an exhausting bro sesh, Set asked Lankin if he would talk to Kheryph and see if Kheryph was actually doing okay or if Set was just making things worse by trying to have him hang on this long. Lankin agreed, being able to speak with animals as an elf, and struck up a conversation. Kheryph seemed to be okay, though the concept of happiness maybe was a lot of grasp for a lizard. The party also learned that Kheryph did not like fish. When Milto invited the party into his magnificent mansion for the night, Set's room was pretty sparse except for a little warm floating rock for Kheryph to sleep on.

### "I Make Plans to Break Plans" (1x35)

Set shoved Kheryph into his boot, absolutely done with dragons trying to nuke his lizard.

### "She's the Only One Who Knows What It Is to Burn" (1x41)

Kheryph hid out in Set's facemask in the mines after a lot of eyeball licking. Awk reported that Kheryph was "sassy."

### "So Tell Me, What's the Price to Pay for Glory?" (1x45)

As Set inspected a dagger at the Den's prize exchange, he had Zeno hang onto Kheryph, who was nestled into a pretzel. Zeno used his magic to make the pretzel warm so Kheryph would be nice and snug.

### "And I Go Searching Through Reflections for Your Outline" (1x46)

Set arranged for Kheryph to be cared for by Oaurrgr in a terrarium next to the oven at the Loving Lettuce, a halfling inn, paying for a week's board as he and the party went back to the mines. Kheryph loved the cave slugs at breakfast. Once again, it was difficult prying Kheryph off Set, but with some time the feat was accomplished.

### "You Were the Last Good Thing About This Part of Town" (1x49)

Kheryph rejoined the party after a cozy siesta at the Loving Lettuce, where Oaurrgr taught him to sit up and flare his neck frills on command for a cave slug treat. Set was overjoyed. Kheryph also appeared to have built more upper body strength.

## Relationships

### Oaurrgr

She taught him a trick and watched him for a week at the Loving Lettuce. A miracle.

## The Familiar Quest

Making Kheryph into Set's familiar requires three components (hypothesized):

* Banishment
	+ Felegum can do this, Milto as well
* Recall
* Binding Essence

## Skills

Kheryph, so far, has mastered or is working on the following tricks.

### Stay

* Effect: Kheryph stays.
* Notes: Honestly, this is a work in progress. Set attempted training him to stay put using food, but this reached a critical failure point when Kheryph did not do this during the Nightscale battle.

### Flare

* Effect: Kheryph stands and fully extends his neck frills when a cave slug (or other food?) is held above his head.
* Notes: Oaurrgr taught him this! It seems pretty reliable!

### Learning Celestial

* Notes: Set feels like it's a good idea, it is not reliable at all.