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Gnome (Rock)
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Sordia Vignti
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Dyslexic
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<div style="font-size:1em;opacity:.65;letter-spacing:.06em;">Path of the Berserker Barbarian</div>
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<div style="opacity:.75;font-size:1.05em;">Level 16</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">STR</div><div style="font-weight:900;">27</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">DEX</div><div style="font-weight:900;">16</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CON</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">INT</div><div style="font-weight:900;">8</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">9</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">12</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">40</div>
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Darkvision 60 ft. • Tremorsense 40ft
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Mini & Badge
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
>**Species:** [[Gnomes|Gnome]]
>**Identity:** Female(She/Her)
>**Class:** [[Barbarian]] - Path of the Berserker
>**Titles:** "Bane of the Conclave" , *"Storm Calmers of the White North"*
>**Also Known as:** Little Hammer (by [[Bhaldorus Emberfoot|Big Guy]]), That Child (by almost everyone upon first meeting her)
>**Languages:** [[Common]], [[Giant]], [[Gnomish]], [[Goblin]]
>**Connections:** Sordia Vignti [[Team]], Team "Domfoch" (with [[Graxen Varrow|Graxen]])
>**Family:** Last known deceased
>**Place of Birth:**
>**Significant Other:** [[Bhaldorus Emberfoot]]
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
> Diamond Emberfoot grew up in a small, bustling gnomish village nestled deep in the hills. Her family was a mix of artisans and spellcasters, with most of her relatives showing a natural affinity for magic. But not Diamond. From a young age, she was drawn to the grit of manual labour and the thrill of outdoor adventure. While her siblings practiced incantations, she was knee-deep in dirt, digging holes, climbing trees, and exploring every inch of the surrounding fields.
>
>Her father, a renowned blacksmith, recognized her fiery spirit and crafted her a gift unlike any other: a sturdy hammer with a diamond pommel. The hammer became her prized possession, a symbol of her bond with her father and her love of practical craftsmanship.
>
>One sunny afternoon, Diamond was playing in the fields with her loyal dog, Steve, when her world changed forever. The sky darkened, and the air filled with the acrid smell of smoke. Distant screams echoed across the hills. Alarmed, Diamond rushed back to the village, only to find it under siege by a horde of undead, their forms twisted and grotesque. Above them, a figure cloaked in dark robes hovered, commanding the destruction a necromancer wielding terrifying magic.
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>Steve watched in horror as her neighbours fell one by one. Steve barked and charged to protect her, but a massive undead soldier wearing a spiked helmet struck him down. Heartbroken and terrified, Diamond buried herself in the dirt, trembling as the chaos unfolded around her.
>
>When the attack finally subsided, silence settled over the ruined village. Emerging from her hiding place, Diamond found her home reduced to ashes and her family gone. Grief turned to determination as she clutched her hammer tightly. She vowed to track down the necromancer who had destroyed her world and bring them to justice or die trying.
>
>Diamond left the ruins of her home behind, embarking on a journey filled with danger, self-discovery, and the search for answers. Her hammer, a gift from a father she could never see again, became both her weapon and her reminder of what she had lost. She took the name Steve as her alias and with courage and grit, she set out to carve her own path, one swing of her hammer at a time.
#### Playlist
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#### After the Jump
![[Steve.Hammer.png]]
For Steve, the year at the keep was not about war or politics, but about joy, mischief, and making the world just a little brighter in her own peculiar way.
The Goblin Village Project
The goblins, once scattered and disorganised, soon found themselves swept into Steve’s latest obsession: building a proper village. She insisted on helping them “upskill” as she called it, teaching them crafts, trades, and the basics of community building. The result, however, was a curious blend of cultures. Steve’s gnomish roots inspired her designs, spiral rooftops, too-small doorframes, and overly elaborate pulley systems, that the goblins gamely tried to recreate. The houses looked ridiculous, half-whimsical and half-wobbly, yet the goblins adored them. It was impractical, hilarious, and exactly the kind of chaos Steve thrived in.
Learning Goblin
In her efforts, Steve picked up more than hammer and nails. she started learning Goblin. Her accent was atrocious, and her phrasing often left goblins howling with laughter, but they understood her all the same. By the end of the year, she could cobble together simple phrases, enough to bark orders at a building site or share a joke around the fire.
**Mastery of Mold Earth**
Steve also spent time perfecting _Mold Earth_. Though she never cast it more powerfully, she learned to use it more cleverly. One trick she mastered was carving little animated shapes in the dirt, rudimentary gnome faces, goblin caricatures, or a crude hammer rising up from the ground like a puppet. It wasn’t grand magic, but it delighted the children and added a touch of playfulness to the work.
The Hammer’s Shadow
She enlisted the help of Zoltan do repair her hammer, who in turn enlisted the help of Isolde, together they were able to build a hammer that was magnificent and emit a pure radiance for combat, although it missed the heart of her father's, he would be proud.
Love and Companionship
Amidst the building and experimenting, Steve found time for her heart. She and Big Guy spent their evenings together, sharing quiet meals, stargazing, or sparring for fun. Their dates were simple but heartfelt, proof that joy could bloom even in dark times.
Modeng’s Training
And of course, there was Modeng. Steve devoted herself to teaching her companion fun tricks. Modeng never reached Peanut’s legendary level of mischief, but she learned to fetch tools, to sit patiently during council, and even to play little games Steve invented. Each trick became another source of laughter in the keep, proof that small joys mattered as much as great victories.
The Heart of the Keep
By the year’s end, Steve had left her mark, not through treaties or battles, but through laughter, odd architecture, and small moments of light. The goblins had a village (crooked, chaotic, but theirs). Modeng had new skills. The keep had more warmth. And Big Guy had Steve.
She had not fixed her hammer, not yet, but she had fixed spirits, and in her own way, that mattered just as much.
![[gobo house.png]]
##### **Modeng: Steve’s Companion**
Under Steve’s training, Modeng picked up a repertoire of tricks: fetching tools, rolling over, even sitting “guard” at the Griffon’s doorway (more adorable than threatening). She became a favourite of the children and goblins alike, spoiled with scraps and scratches. In the dark nights, she never strayed far from Steve’s side.
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Cat
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Sordia Vignti
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Heningfos-born
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">16</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">176</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">50</div>
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Darkvision 60 ft.
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Mini & Badge
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
>**Species:** Maine Coon - Blue/Grey Fur
>**Identity:** Male (He/Him)
>**Class:** [[Paladin]] - Oath of Ancients
>**Titles:** "Bane of the Conclave" , *"Storm Calmers of the White North"*
>**Also Known as:**
>The Velvet Reaper, The Phantom Claw, Little Lightbringer, The Cinder Prowler
>**Languages:** [[Common]], [[Sylvan]]
>**Connections:** Sordia Vignti
>**Family:** Eladra Sylora's Faithful Companion
>**Place of Birth:** [[Heningfos]]
>**Significant Other:**
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
> Eladra Sylora's familiar, A venerated Druid known as the "Moss Veil", gifted with awakening for years of companionship and reliability.
For decades they helped local farmers, cured wounded villagers, protected and enriched the forests and brought comfort to those they met. A courier bearing a royal seal arrived, his druid mistress was called away and never returned despite her loving promise to be back. He tended to her tower, her cottage and her gardens, until one day, a friend of the family returned with her sundered staff.
Leaving Heningfos heartbroken, he vowed to find those responsible for removing a kindness from the world.
The Mossveil was respected & well-connected among local fey, druids, & mercantile guilds, and the noble house saw her as an intermediary to soothe tensions or strike an uneasy alliance. Her presence was a gesture of goodwill.
However, A hidden faction or political rival sabotaged the summit, leading to her death.
A scholar, wizard, or advisor from another noble family with a grudge, hiding behind their own ignorance or arrogance sought to undermine the house’s goals, not realizing their interference would lead to death. They tampered with a ritual & spread misinformation, unintentionally causing chaos and not just the loss of a royal heir, but the death of Eladra.
#### Playlist
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#### After the Jump
![[Kyo.Silent.Hunter.png]]
The loss of the Hand haunted Kyo more than any wound upon his body. It was not only a relic slipped into darkness, but a personal failure,an omen that he had missed, a weapon he had not prevented from falling into evil hands. He grew quieter in the weeks that followed, withdrawing from the laughter and warmth of his companions. When the others built, he vanished.
**A Month in Silence**
He disappeared into the wilds without farewell, ghosting away from road and settlement alike. For a month, he lived among rivers and stone, sleeping beneath canopies of pine and waking to the breath of mountains. There, he remembered why he had begun to walk this path: the circles he had sworn to protect, the bonds of nature, the simplicity of survival.
But still, silence was not enough. He needed answers.
**Voices of the Mossveil**
When his solitude could no longer steady him, Kyo sought an old chapel where the veil between worlds ran thin. There, through barter,healing the sick, repairing broken beams, foraging herbs,he earned the right to commune with the dead. He spoke with the Mossveil, not as one who interrogates, but as one who longs for counsel. Their words, fleeting and cryptic, gave him little in strategy but much in resolve: that his strength was not in preventing all loss, but in refusing to yield before the tide.
**The Hunter of Shadows**
Reforged by that communion, Kyo returned to the living world with new purpose. He became a scourge upon the minor cults and cells responsible for the Mossveil’s passing. Moving like a phantom through alley, glen, and ruin, he hunted them with a merciless focus. Some he broke for information,his voice low and cruel as the screams echoed in the dark. Most, he executed. He culled their numbers, left their corpses hidden in shallow graves or sanctified earth, and returned again and again to ensure no one rebuilt their nests.
His presence became a whispered terror among Zargathax’s lesser followers: a hooded figure that came in the night, a silent avenger who left no trace save blood and ashes.
**Study and Expansion**
Between hunts, Kyo did not rest. He threw himself into study, into sharpening his magic. Whether seeking greater holy power to scour the unclean, or diversifying with storms of fire, lightning, and ice, he expanded his arsenal. Armour was tested and replaced,lighter, stronger, enchanted by craftsmen and reforged by his own hand. He knew the battles to come would demand more than resolve; they would demand overwhelming force.
**The Shadow War**
As his skills grew, so too did his scope. Kyo turned his eyes toward the greater threat: Zargathax and Vecna. He could not hope to defeat them outright, but he could _frustrate_ them, bleed their strength, and stall their ascendancy.
He struck where the enemy thought themselves safe. He cut down mid-tier agents who funneled influence upward. He raided caches hidden in ruins and wilds, seizing relics, scattering supplies, and burning whatever knowledge could not be moved. Where he found innocent folk at risk, he shielded them,sometimes with enchanted wards to hide them from scrying, sometimes by smuggling them far from danger. But when he found the wicked, or those too enthralled to be swayed, his mercy was absent. More than once he left their bodies hidden beneath the floorboards of holy places, cloaked in sanctified wards, ensuring no dark eye could find them.
**A Guardian Unseen**
Thus, while the world rebuilt itself under brighter banners, Kyo became something else: a shadowed guardian, waging his own solitary war. His name was not sung in the markets, nor honoured in council chambers. But because of him, leads were lost, advantages withered, and the hand of Zargathax grasped less tightly.
He had become quieter, yes,but only in voice. In action, he had become a storm that would not rest.
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box-shadow: 0 18px 45px rgba(0,0,0,.35);
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Triton
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Sordia Vignti
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Barovia-born
</span>
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<div style="font-size:2.2em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">Graxen</div>
<div style="font-size:1em;opacity:.65;letter-spacing:.06em;">Shadowmaster Illrigger</div>
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<div style="opacity:.75;font-size:1.05em;">Level 16</div>
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<div style="border:2px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;padding:10px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,#0c1325,#070b14);">
<div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr auto;row-gap:10px;font-size:1.15em;">
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">STR</div><div style="font-weight:900;">12</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">DEX</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CON</div><div style="font-weight:900;">21</div>
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</div>
<div style="border:2px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;padding:10px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,#0c1325,#070b14);">
<div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr auto;row-gap:10px;font-size:1.15em;">
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">INT</div><div style="font-weight:900;">10</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">11</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:12px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">217</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">HP</div>
</div>
<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:12px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">20</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">AC</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:10px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">50</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">SPEED</div>
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Darkvision 60 ft.
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<div style="height:1px;background:linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, rgba(124,58,237,.6), rgba(96,165,250,.35), transparent);"></div>
</div>
<div style="
background: rgba(10,12,18,.85);
border: 1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.25);
border-radius: 18px;
padding: 14px;
box-shadow: 0 12px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
">
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Mini & Badge
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<div style="text-align:center;">
<img src="Graxen New Outfit-turnaround.gif" alt="Graxen mini"
style="width:100%;max-width:380px;height:auto;border-radius:16px;border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.25);box-shadow:0 10px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.35);margin:6px;">
<img src="IllriggerDice.png" alt="Illrigger badge"
style="width:100%;max-width:180px;height:auto;border-radius:16px;border:1px solid rgba(96,165,250,.22);box-shadow:0 10px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.25);margin:6px;">
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
> **Species:** [[Triton]]
> **Identity:** Male (He/Him)
> **Class:** [[Illrigger]] - ShadowMaster
> **Titles:** *“Bane of the Conclave”* , *"Storm Calmers of the White North"*
> **Also Known As:** *"[[The Siren's Voice]]"* (formerly)
> **Languages:** [[Common]], [[Deep Speech]], [[Elvish]]
> **Connections:** Sordia Vignti [[Team]]
> **Family:** - Talion Varrow (brother, deceased) - Skaull Varrow (brother) - Valaria Varrow/The Blood Siren (mother) - Vastian Celestriaire (son)
> **Place of Birth:** [[Barovia, The Land of Eternal Night|Barovia]]
> **Significant Other:** [[NPC's/The Keep/Nissa|Nissa]]
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
> Graxen Varrow is the third - and youngest - son of Barovia's malevolent *Blood Siren*, Velaria Varrow - hailing from Voldaris, a kingdom deep below the waves in the plane of Ravenloft.
>
Graxen has served as *[[The Siren's Voice]]* for many years, acting as her envoy to the surface. Alongside his older brother, Skaull - a fearsome warrior known as the Bloodhound, who serves as *The Siren’s Will*, or enforcer - Graxen has played an important role in his mother’s continuing plans.
>
Graxen, however, was not the first *Siren’s Voice*. The title had been previously bestowed upon his older brother, Thalion. Graxen adored this brother. Even Skaull, notoriously unaffectionate, held Thalion in high regard - respectful of his abilities.
The middle child, Thalion often exerted himself to prove his worth to their mother. His eagerness, rooted in a deep seated longing for approval, would ultimately be his undoing.
>
Dispatched by the *Blood Siren* to parlay with Strahd, Thalion was tasked with brokering more favourable terms in the uneasy arrangement between the courts above and below the Barovian waves. Graxen accompanied his brother - in the hope he might learn from observing the exchange.
Strahd was unwavering, steadfast in the pre-existing circumstance - uninterested and dismissive of Thalion’s request for change. Emboldened by his craving for their mother's approval, Thalion pushed harder - his tone shifting from a gentle appeal to a firm demand. He challenged Strahd, refusing to leave his domain without a compromise. As his patience wore thin, Strahd’s temper flared. Thalion’s defiance struck the Count as a transgressive insult, causing the full measure of his ire to rush forth.
>
Graxen hurled himself between the two in a feeble attempt to protect his brother, but the deed had been done. Amused, Strahd ordered the young dhampir to leave his sight - commanding him to return to his mother with Thalion’s corpse in tow, an emphatic statement to reassert the hierarchy in Barovia.
Shortly thereafter, the Siren appointed Graxen in Thalion’s stead - calling upon him to take up the mantle as her *Voice*. As his first task, he was redeployed to Castle Ravenloft - carrying with him his mother’s sincerest apologies for her previous envoy’s belligerence. Made to smile politely and grovel before the man who had murdered his brother in front of him, Graxen would come to think of this moment as the worst in his life.
>
More recently, the balance of power in Barovia has experienced an unprecedented shift. Graxen has found himself more and more troubled by the quickening machinations of his mother's schemes. Rumours abound of Strahd’s demise, with songs and tales aplenty praising the band of intrepid adventurers responsible. The Siren has sensed blood in the water, her determination and resolve growing tenfold.
Graxen was dispatched to find Sordia Vignti - with a message of warning. The *Blood Siren* has laid claim to all of Ravenloft, and those that would oppose her are to stand aside or face her wrath.
>
Deeply troubled by the growing cruelty and malice demonstrated by his mother in her campaign to invade the surface world, Graxen instead beseeched Sordia Vignti to join him in opposing her - defecting to join the adventurers in the process.
#### Playlist
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CHARACTER WARDROBE
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<img src="Images/Outfits/GraxenOutfit.gif" alt="Graxen Outfit 1">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 1</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 2</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 3</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 4</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 5</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 6</figcaption>
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#### After the Jump
![[Images/Player Pics/Gifs/NissaGraxenParents.1.jpg]]
For Graxen, the year was not defined by shadows or wars, but by building a life worth protecting. Where others carried guilt or sought redemption, he turned his strength toward shaping something lasting, something his enemies could never take away.
**Discipline and Steel**
The days were filled with training. Graxen pushed himself harder than ever before, honing his swordplay, refining his tactics, and testing his body until muscle burned and calluses thickened. He was determined to be ready for whatever lay ahead, to ensure that no blow would find him unprepared. Yet his training was never just for himself, his example lit a fire in the younger generation. He trained the children who had lost parents in the wars, teaching them discipline, strength, and resilience. To them, he was not just a warrior, but a protector and mentor.
**Love in the Quiet**
In the spaces between battles and drills, Graxen found something far more precious: love. His bond with Nissa grew into a romance bright enough to soften even the hardest days. Laughter filled the quiet corners of their home, and warmth replaced loneliness. When Nissa’s hand found his, the weight of his past seemed lighter, as though he had finally found a place where he belonged.
**The Child of Hope**
Their love bore fruit, a child born into a world still healing. The baby’s cries, small and fierce, seemed to Graxen like a declaration that life would endure despite all ruin. Holding the infant in his arms, Graxen felt a kind of strength no training could ever grant him. He had fought for kingdoms, for honour, for vengeance, but now he fought for his family, for the future of this child who bore both Nissa’s smile and his determination.
**Aiding the Displaced**
Even as he built his own life, Graxen did not forget those who had lost theirs. He aided refugees, ensuring they found shelter and work. With Derek, he offered guidance and muscle to those struggling to rebuild. Every stone lifted, every wall raised, every hand offered was a quiet strike against despair.
**A Home of His Own**
By year’s end, Graxen and Nissa stood at the threshold of a home built with their own hands. Timber walls, a hearth that burned warmly, and a garden where laughter could echo, a place of safety amidst uncertainty. Within it, Graxen finally knew peace, if only for a moment.
**The Hearthfire’s Legacy**
In that year, Graxen grew not only as a warrior but as a man. His sword was sharper, his body stronger, but more importantly, his heart was fuller. He had built more than a house; he had built a home. He had sown seeds of hope in children, in refugees, in his own family.
And when the dark returned, as it always did, Graxen would meet it not as a lone fighter, but as a father, a lover, and a shield for all who gathered around his hearth.
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#### Portrait
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Eladrin (Elf)
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<span style="display:inline-block;margin:6px;padding:8px 10px;border-radius:999px;background:rgba(96,165,250,.10);border:1px solid rgba(96,165,250,.30);color:rgba(245,248,255,.88);font-size:14px;">
Sordia Vignti
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Feywild-born
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<div style="font-size:2.2em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">Ellette</div>
<div style="font-size:1em;opacity:.65;letter-spacing:.06em;">Draconic Sorcerer</div>
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<div style="opacity:.75;font-size:1.05em;">Level 16</div>
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<div style="border:2px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;padding:10px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,#0c1325,#070b14);">
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">STR</div><div style="font-weight:900;">10</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">DEX</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CON</div><div style="font-weight:900;">15</div>
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<div style="border:2px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;padding:10px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,#0c1325,#070b14);">
<div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr auto;row-gap:10px;font-size:1.15em;">
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">INT</div><div style="font-weight:900;">17</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">10</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">22</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sv-vitals" style="border:2px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:14px;padding:12px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,#0c1325,#070b14);display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);gap:10px;">
<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:12px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">146</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">HP</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:12px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">23</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">AC</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:10px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">30</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">SPEED</div>
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Darkvision 60 ft. • Fey Ancestry
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box-shadow: 0 12px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.25);
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Mini & Badge
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<div style="text-align:center;">
<img src="Ellette Reluctant Leader-turnaround.gif" alt="Ellette mini"
style="width:100%;max-width:380px;height:auto;border-radius:16px;border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.25);box-shadow:0 10px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.35);margin:6px;">
<img src="sorcererBadge.png" alt="Sorcerer badge"
style="width:100%;max-width:180px;height:auto;border-radius:16px;border:1px solid rgba(96,165,250,.22);box-shadow:0 10px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.25);margin:6px;">
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
> **Species:** [[Elf|Eladrin]]
> **Identity:** Female (She/Her)
> **Class:** [[Sorcerer]] — Draconic Sorcery
> **Titles:** *“Bane of the Conclave”* , *"Storm Calmers of the White North"*
> **Also Known As:** —
> **Languages:** [[Common]], [[Deep Speech]], [[Draconic]], [[Elvish]]
> **Connections:** Sordia Vignti [[Team]]
> **Family:** [[NPC's/The Keep/Nissa|Nissa]] (Younger Sister)
> **Place of Birth:** [[The Feywild]]
> **Significant Other:** —
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
> Ellette was born in the enchanting [[The Feywild|Feywild]], a land of shimmering beauty and eternal twilight. She grew up in House Celestriaire, a noble family renowned for its long-standing alliance with Visidera, an ancient Amethyst dragon who protected their lineage. Her father, Eladamri, served as an adviser to Queen [[Titania, Queen of the Seelie Court|Titania]], while her mother, Marwyn, pursued the life of a scholar. Ellette had two sisters: Freyalise, the disciplined elder sibling, and [[NPC's/The Keep/Nissa|Nissa]], the playful youngest.
>
> Despite her serene upbringing, Ellette's boundless curiosity often led to trouble, particularly with her strict father. She was trained in swordsmanship, much to her mother’s dismay and developed a deep love for tales of adventure and heroism, shared by her father and the wise Visidera. Ellette trained alongside other noble children, her closest companions, under the guidance of Azuri, a patient yet firm elf instructor. However, her lack of magical aptitude made her feel like an oddity in her family.
>
> As she grew older, her life took a sudden turn. One night, her father announced her betrothal to solidify peace between their houses. Overwhelmed and angry at the prospect of being married off, Ellette fled into the night. She sought solace with Visidera, but the dragon seemed distant, warning of a great danger and expressing faith in Ellette's spirit. Before she could process his words, a surge of Amethyst light erupted around them. When the light faded, Visidera was gone, and Ellette’s body was alight with uncontrollable magic.
>
> Her father and Azuri arrived to find Visidera missing and Ellette surrounded by chaos. Misinterpreting the situation, they called for the guards. Terrified and confused, Ellette ran. Her newfound powers surged uncontrollably, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. As her magic erupted again, she lost consciousness and awoke in a strange place, alone.
>
> For days, she wandered aimlessly until she was found by a kind old woman named Nani Nora and her sisters. Nani Nora subdued Ellette's wild magic and cared for her. For a time, Ellette thought she’d found safety, but the truth was darker than she imagined, Nani Nora was a hag, feeding on Ellette’s magic and the lives of other children. Devastated, Ellette fled, vowing to grow stronger and return to free those left behind.
>
> Her journey led her to other stories yet to be told, however after those stories. One such Story brought her to her current companions, setting the stage for her next great adventure.
#### Playlist
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<img src="Images/Outfits/ElletteOutfit1.gif" alt="Ellette Outfit 1">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 1</figcaption>
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<figcaption>OUTFIT 2</figcaption>
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<img src="Images/Outfits/ElletteOutfit3.gif" alt="Ellette Outfit 3">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 3</figcaption>
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<img src="Images/Outfits/ElletteOutfit4.gif" alt="Ellette Outfit 4">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 4</figcaption>
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<img src="Images/Outfits/ElletteOutfit5.gif" alt="Ellette Outfit 5">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 5</figcaption>
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<img src="Images/Outfits/ElletteOutfit6.gif" alt="Ellette Outfit 6">
<figcaption>OUTFIT 6</figcaption>
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#### After The Jump
The passing of seasons saw Ellette grow into a role she had never sought, yet could not abandon. In the wake of destruction, she became not only a survivor, but a builder—her will and restless energy poured into mending what Zargathax and fate had torn apart.
##### **Alexandria, from Ashes to City**
When the dust first settled, it was Ellette’s hands that pointed toward scaffolds and her voice that guided displaced families back to hearth and home. Alexandria, once a broken shell of itself, slowly took shape under her watch. What began as a haphazard scattering of tents and rough shelters became avenues, stone walls, and markets. She did not simply lead with authority—she led with sweat and sleepless nights, walking among the workers, lifting stones, carrying timber, and sharing bread at the firesides. By the year’s end, Alexandria was no longer merely surviving; it was thriving as a small city.
##### **Diplomacy Between Ruins**
Her gaze, however, was never fixed on one city alone. The jagged wound left upon Luskan called her next, and with steady words and pragmatic promises, she coaxed the pirate city’s leaders into uneasy cooperation. Trade flowed, carpenters and masons travelled, and eventually—through her hand—the flags of Alexandria and Luskan flew side by side at the docks.
From there, Mirabar and Neverwinter followed. She was no court-born diplomat, yet she carried something more potent than gilded words: the hard truth of shared survival. With persistence, she brokered agreements that saw grain from Neverwinter, stone from Mirabar, and shipwrights from Luskan move along newly paved roads and guarded waters. Each accord stitched the cities closer, weaving alliances where once there had been distrust and rivalry.
##### **A Place for the Lost**
For the refugees scattered across the Sword Coast, Ellette was a constant presence. She oversaw their return to lands that had been swallowed in ruin, or—when homes could not be reclaimed—she helped carve new ones from fresh soil. To the children, she was the lady with pale skin and a smile weary yet kind, who always found a blanket or meal for them. To the broken, she was the firm voice that reminded them they still had strength left to give.
##### **The Guild of the Lucky Griffon**
With Quintin at her side, she turned her eye to security and future threats. Together, they founded a Guild Hall in Alexandria, its heart housed within the famed Lucky Griffon tavern. What began as a gathering place became an adventuring guild—a beacon to sell-swords, monster-hunters, and would-be heroes. From here, quests were charted, bounties tallied, and expeditions sent in search of knowledge. Foremost among their pursuits: any whisper of Zargathax’s shadow, and the rumoured movements of the five Chromatic Dragons.
##### **Small Triumphs, Quiet Moments**
In the midst of diplomacy and rebuilding, Ellette never forgot those closest to her. With patient practice, she sat by Rasp’s side, teaching the beholder to shape its sounds around simple words. By year’s end, he managed halting two-syllable sounds—awkward, broken things, yet spoken with pride. She beamed at each new phrase, as if they were victories equal to trade treaties or rebuilt walls.
##### **A Council for Alexandria**
Finally, knowing her hands could not guide everything alone, Ellette established a governing body for Alexandria. Five advisors, each chosen for their wisdom and ties to the people, sat alongside her. Together, they shared the burdens of ruling: one voice for commerce, one for law, one for the military, one for magic, and one for the people. Though Ellette remained the reluctant head of this circle, she allowed herself—on rare nights—to believe that perhaps this was what leadership could be: shared, balanced, and enduring.
Commerce: [[Dagna Stonevein]]
Law: [[Derek Wulvenhaus]]
Guild: [[NPC's/City of Alexandria/Quintin|Quintin]]
Magic: [[Isolde Veythar]]
The People: [[Vargath]]
##### **The Reluctant Leader’s Legacy**
Thus passed a year and more. Ellette had never wanted crowns or titles, yet when history looked back upon those days, it was her presence that bound scattered cities into alliance, her hand that lifted the fallen to their feet, and her will that kept the fire of hope burning when all seemed ash. She remained what she had always been: a woman carrying the weight of the world on shoulders too small, yet never breaking beneath it.
##### The Keep:
- **Wizard Tower (Re-Built):**
A slender spire of pale stone, reinforced with runes etched by arcane scholars. From here:
- A Plaque on the outer wall by the entrance
"Zara's Hall" and detailing a heroes sacrifice for the greater good
- A place to study magic and house Dangerous Artifacts
- The upper chambers hold an observatory for star-charting and planar research.
- Rumours say a hidden chamber at the top contains an arcane vault, sealed by shifting glyphs.
- **Smith (Upgraded):**
The Keep now hosts an **Advanced Forge (+2)**, overseen by **Zoltan** assisted by his apprentices. It is supplied with rare ores from Mirabar. The forge specialises in:
- Repairing weapons
- Crafting enchanted steel and experimental alloys.
- Producing ceremonial arms displayed in the Trophy Room.
- **Training Ground (Upgraded):**
Expanded into a proper **military yard** within the Keep’s inner walls:
- Features archery ranges, sparring pits, and dummies enchanted to fight back.
- **Teleportation Circle:**
A marble-inlaid circle in a guarded chamber beneath the Wizard Tower.
- Its runes link Alexandria to **Luskan, Neverwinter, and Mirabar** for trade and emergencies.
- Only accessible with permission from the council or guild leaders.
- Rumoured to have secondary hidden glyphs leading elsewhere
- **Trophy Room:**
A vaulted hall that chronicles Alexandria’s victories. Items displayed include:
- **Weapons and armour** from fallen enemies and Allies.
- **A fragment of Visidera’s crystal scales**, shimmering faintly with amethyst light.
- **The burned banner of Zargathax**, torn and singed from the day of the assault.
- **A petrified claw from a chromatic dragon**, recovered during scouting missions.
- **A wall of names etched in silver** — those who died defending Alexandria.
- **Council Chamber:** Where Ellette and the five advisors govern.
- **Sordia Vignti's War Room:** Beneath the keep, maps, strategies
- **Guest Quarters:** Prepared for envoys and adventurers, often filled with travellers from Luskan, Neverwinter, and Mirabar.
##### **City of Alexandria**
###### **Buildings & Infrastructure**
- **School/Education:** A modest schoolhouse run by volunteer teachers, slowly expanding into a proper academy with Luskan and Neverwinter tutors lending aid.
- **Market Square/Store Fronts:** A bustling central square lined with merchants, stalls, and food vendors, host to seasonal festivals.
- **Guild Hall / The Lucky Griffon:** Quintin and Ellette’s combined effort; functions as an adventuring guild, tavern, and safe haven for travellers.
- **City Smith / Carpenter / Mason:**
- **Zoltan’s Student Forge:** The dwarf’s smithy and trainees, always busy repairing weapons, tools, and armour.
- **Yvette’s Timber & Stone:** Lumberyard and carpentry workshop, also the hub for construction supplies during Alexandria’s rebuild.
- **Orphanage:** A converted noble house, home to many displaced children of Alexandria’s fall, funded partly by adventurers.
- **City Guard / Courts / Jail:**
- Guard barracks near the walls, led by a gruff but honourable captain.
- A small courthouse for settling disputes.
- Jail cells for petty criminals or drunkards, larger dungeon cells beneath for more dangerous captives.
- **Post Office / Town Hall / Trade Hall / Refugee Centre:**
- Town Hall: Where the governing council of 5 advisors plus Ellette meet.
- Trade Hall: Hosts merchants, trade guilds, and foreign envoys.
- Refugee Centre: Converted warehouses that serve as housing and aid for displaced peoples from Luskan, Mirabar, and Neverwinter.
- **Docks (5+):** Newly rebuilt and expanding; Alexandria’s lifeline to trade. Includes dry docks for ship repair.
- **Cleric / Temples / Healers:**
- **Shrine Row:** Modest shrines to Lathander, Tymora, Chauntea, Selûne and others.
- **Healing House:** A communal temple-hospital tended by priests and apothecaries.
- **Roads / Farmland / Inn / B&B:** Roads radiate out into farmland surrounding Alexandria; inns range from cheap lodgings to family-run B&Bs.
- **Library / College:** A slowly growing library curated by scholars displaced from Neverwinter, with hopes of becoming a proper magical college.
- **Harbourmaster’s Office:** Oversees docking rights, trade tariffs, and naval patrols.
- **Watchtower Line:** A string of rebuilt stone towers along the walls and overlooking the sea.
- **Granary & Storehouses:** Ensures the city can survive winters and sieges.
- **Public Baths / Washhouses:** A luxury turned necessity for the crowded refugee population.
- **Training Yard / Barracks Expansion:** Where adventurers and militia train; doubles as tournament grounds during festivals.
###### **Housing**
- **Apartments:** Multi-storey communal housing for dockworkers and tradesfolk.
- **Housing Blocks:** Stone and timber row houses for families.
- **Housing Land:** Plots given to refugees to build homes of their own.
- **Goblin Village:** A lively settlement on the outskirts; the goblins contribute labour, crafts, and trade, slowly becoming integrated into city life.
(Steve is the official mayor elected by the Goblin governing body for their help and dedication in rebuilding and locating)
- **Refugee Quarter:** A district of tents and temporary builds.
- **Craftsman’s Row:** Streets of homes attached to small workshops (tanners, coopers, glassblowers).
###### **Shops**
- **General Goods:** The reliable "Everyday Necessities" shop where farmers, sailors, and adventurers alike stock up.
- **Apothecary:** "The Glass Vial," run by a stern herbalist with a secret knowledge of poisons.
- **Cartographer:** "The Inked Horizon," making maps of nearby ruins, caves, and sea routes.
- **Tailor:** "Threads of Fortune," known for repairing armour and cloaks as much as for finery.
- **Bookstore:** "The Whispering Page," specialising in rare tomes, with rumours of books that shift their words at night.
- **Mortuus Noctume (Skab’s Emporium of Cursed Goods):** Skab the skeleton’s eccentric shop of dangerous oddities, often avoided by locals but beloved by adventurers.
- **Enchanter / Magic Goods:** "Arcane Aurora," run by an eccentric gnome who crafts magical trinkets and adventuring gear.
- **Bakeries & Breweries:** Supplying daily bread and ale to the docks and taverns.
- **Jeweller / Lapidary:** A small but growing trade in gems and fine craft.
- **Stablemaster / Animal Handler:** Housing for horses, caravans, and exotic mounts.
##### Luskan
Restored to former glory (Addition of 5 chosen wizards in the tower)
##### Mirabar
Restored to former glory (Mines reopened)
##### Neverwinter
Restored to former glory (Some locals said improved upon)
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Tiefling
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Sordia Vignti
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Druid Grove
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<div style="font-size:1em;opacity:.65;letter-spacing:.06em;">Circle of Stars Druid</div>
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<div style="opacity:.75;font-size:1.05em;">Level 16</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">STR</div><div style="font-weight:900;">8</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">DEX</div><div style="font-weight:900;">16</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CON</div><div style="font-weight:900;">15</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">INT</div><div style="font-weight:900;">11</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">12</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">147</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">HP</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">17</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">AC</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">30</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">SPEED</div>
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Darkvision 60 ft.
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Mini & Badge
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
> **Species:** [[Tiefling]]
**Identity:** Female (She/Her)
**Class:** [[Druid]] - Circle of Stars
**Titles:**
**Also Known as:** The Observer
**Languages:** [[Common]], [[Draconic]], [[Druidic]], [[Giant]]
**Connections:** Sordia Vignti [[Team]]
**Family:**
**Place of Birth:**
**Significant Other:**
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
>Astryx Nightbloom was raised within a secluded Circle of Stars grove that kept an ancient stone observatory hidden beneath a canopy of old trees. Her circle believed the sky was not just something to admire, but something to _listen to_, a living map of warnings, cycles, and fate. Astryx learned to chart constellations, read omen-shifts, and follow the strange thread that binds the heavens to the health of the land. In recent months, that thread began to fray.
>
Reports came in from other circles and sacred sites: groves found silent, standing stones cracked, wards gone cold, and druids either missing or discovered with their rites interrupted as if they’d fled mid-prayer. Astryx was sent to investigate, expecting poachers, raiders, or fiendish corruption.
>
Instead, she found something more unsettling, devastation that felt **deliberate**, patterned. At multiple ruined sites she discovered the same marks: careful cuts through old warding-runes, signs of research rather than slaughter, and traces that suggested someone had arrived before her, asked the same questions, and moved on.
>
A name kept surfacing in whispers and scraps of evidence, written in coded notes and spoken by frightened survivors who didn’t understand what they’d seen:
**[[Kyo|The Velvet Reaper]].**
>
Astryx came to believe the Velvet Reaper was another investigator, someone moving in parallel, chasing the same mystery through the ruins of druidic circles. She followed the trail they left behind: half-burned pages, star-chart fragments, subtle symbols placed where only a trained watcher would notice. Whoever this Velvet Reaper was, they were close to the heart of it.
>
And that trail led, again and again, to the same place, a name
**Sordia Vignti.**
Rumours placed them near incidents involving necromancy, cursed relics, and the kind of wrongness Astryx was now finding at every shattered grove. If the Velvet Reaper truly was hunting the source of the attacks, then Sordia Vignti were either connected to the answer… or standing directly in the path of it.
>
Astryx set out to find them, determined to uncover the truth, to stop whatever was unmaking the circles, and to finally meet the Velvet Reaper face-to-face.
#### Playlist
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Human
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Sordia Vignti
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Peanut Allergy
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<div style="font-size:1em;opacity:.65;letter-spacing:.06em;">Collage of Valor Bard</div>
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<div style="opacity:.75;font-size:1.05em;">Level 16</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">STR</div><div style="font-weight:900;">8</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">DEX</div><div style="font-weight:900;">18</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CON</div><div style="font-weight:900;">14</div>
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<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">INT</div><div style="font-weight:900;">8</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">WIS</div><div style="font-weight:900;">10</div>
<div style="opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.08em;">CHA</div><div style="font-weight:900;">20</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">147</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">HP</div>
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<div style="border:1px solid rgba(124,58,237,.55);border-radius:12px;padding:10px;text-align:center;">
<div style="font-size:1.9em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">19</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">AC</div>
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<div style="font-size:1.6em;font-weight:900;line-height:1;">30</div>
<div style="opacity:.7;font-size:.5em;letter-spacing:.08em;margin-top:6px;">SPEED</div>
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Bardic Inspiration
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Mini & Badge
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#### Character Information
> [!info] **GUILD RECORD**
> **Species:** [[Humans|Human]]
> **Identity:** Male (He/Him)
> **Class:** [[Bard]], Collage of Valor
> **Titles:**
> **Also Known As:** "Steelstring"
> **Languages:** [[Common]], [[Draconic]], [[Halfling]]
> **Connections:** Sordia Vignti [[Team]]
> **Family:**
> **Place of Birth:** [[Baldur’s Gate]]
> **Significant Other:**
#### **Backstory:**
> [!abstract] **GUILD ARCHIVE • PERSONAL HISTORY**
> Cedric Steelstring was once a low-ranking but highly trusted soldier in a formal military order. He was not noble-born, not politically connected, but he was dependable. The kind of soldier commanders relied on to hold lines, escort dignitaries, and survive battles others didn’t.
>
It was during a brutal campaign that Cedric’s weapon was born. Amid the chaos of one engagement, he found himself entangled in the wreckage of a fallen battlefield minstrel and shattered arms. Splintered wood, snapped wire, broken steel. When he tore himself free, the twisted remains sang with a harsh, screaming vibration. He used it to survive the fight.
Afterward, he kept it.
>
He repaired it. Reinforced it. Reshaped it after every battle. Over time, the strange hybrid of instrument and weapon became his constant companion. Soldiers began calling him **Steelstring** long before he ever embraced music. What started as an accident became a ritual, after each conflict, he improved it, and with it, himself.
>
Cedric’s unit was later assigned to serve under a renowned battle cleric, [[Edravan Holt]], a living symbol of faith within the army. This cleric was beloved by the ranks, known for fighting on the front lines, healing the wounded, and openly opposing darker forces spreading through the world. To Cedric, they represented everything the army was meant to be.
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Not long after, the cleric, [[Edravan Holt]] was found murdered.
The army erupted in shock. Investigations were rushed. Fear spread. And answers were demanded quickly.
Cedric had already begun to suspect something was wrong.
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He had uncovered fragments of forbidden correspondence, strange rites, and coded references tying his commanding officer, [[Commander Althoren Kade]] to a secret cult devoted to Vecna. When Cedric confronted him in private, the officer did not deny it.
He smiled.
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Within days, evidence surfaced placing Cedric at the scene of the cleric’s death. Witnesses were “found.” Orders were forged. His own reports were twisted into confessions.
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The truth was buried with the cleric.
Cedric was condemned not merely to prison, but to erasure.
Rather than rot in a cell, he was magically bound into a demi-plane sealed within an object, a living oubliette designed to silence enemies the cult could not afford to execute openly. The artefact was transferred between arcane repositories, eventually moving from Baldur’s Gate to Neverwinter.
Years passed.
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Time had no meaning inside. Sound barely existed. Cedric could not age properly, sleep properly, or even scream. He existed in a long, hollow survival, memory, discipline, and the echo of music in his own head the only things that kept him from dissolving.
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Then Kalteo fell.
When half of Neverwinter was damaged by the distant catastrophe, arcane wards across the city destabilised. Vaults failed. Anchors broke.
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And the object containing Cedric shattered.
He emerged into a city in ruin, weak, disoriented, and displaced in time.
Cedric spent nearly a year recovering, relearning the world, piecing together what had changed, reforging his weapon, and hunting rumours. In that time, one truth became clear:
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The fall of Kalteo, and the chain of events that freed him, traced back to a Group named
**Sordia Vignti.**
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He learned they had crossed [[Vecna, the Lich God|Vecna]]’s influence and lived. That they had shattered hidden structures. That their actions had rippled through prisons, cults, and sealed places alike.
They had not meant to free him. But they had.
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And if they stood against [[Vecna, the Lich God|Vecna]]… then walking beside them might be the only path that would ever lead him back to the man who destroyed his life. His former commander still lives And Cedric Steelstring has already waited long enough to end this Charade
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