Born near Hollin, Aeris lived at the Hollin orphanage and worked as an
apprentice before he was pressed into service for Captain Burns' expedition
to Hilde.
Aeris is a wizard dedicated to science, which he's advancing with knowledge
and equipment he finds in his travels. But there are hints of another Aeris:
his alliance with the lich Ishild, his revenge killing for the abomination
Haas, and the conspicuous, unexplained burlap bag he carries. Aeris often
argues for a macabre vision of human progress, and is darkly quotable.
Aeris drove off the spirits protecting the meteor Noreste in the hell-town
Bruegel, rescued the fairy Ivy from the lich Ishild, and put down the fairy
usurper Inkling with Ord Redding. Besides the burlap bag, some items he
carries include a shirt
of Heroic Effort, taken from the hell-town Bruegel; and the Raven House Origami Armor
and Laurel Crown, taken from Inkling.
Aeris' miniature.
Beowolf
Born on Hilde, Beowolf was orphaned when Highpyre was burned, and was raised
by adoptive parents in Hollin. He joined the party to investigate Lofton
Castle with Gregor the naturalist.
Beowolf harbors the belief that he is nobility of the Inkeri, Hilde's
barbarians. He revisited Hilde once with Captains Burns' mission to
find the lost Admiralty explorer Ammiral, and returned a second
time to press his case to Inkeri leadership.
Betrayed during the second visit by an Inkeri rival,
Leutwin, Beowolf is back in Hollin preparing for a third
visit.
Beowolf's family weapon store in Hollin, The Winter Wolf,
refused to pay protection to the Hobnail street gang and was
recently burned. Afterwards, the party found Beowolf's stepparents
in the divine prison Narsasha, and rescued them by
defeating the prison guardian Katamayan and Lahar, a
personification of death.
As the party's raging barbarian, Beowolf has defeated many
opponents, and killed Alaric Volker in single combat. Among other
items, he carries the Wolf Helmet, made from the pelt of Muninn,
patriarch of Hilde's wolves; and a halberd of Threatening Reach,
taken from the Dowager survivors' camp.
Here is the original
description of Beowolf given by his stepfather Carric, after
the style of Conan the Barbarian's chronicler, the Wizard of the
Mound. Here is Beowolf's
description of his stepmother, Pale Moon.
Beowolf's miniature.
Kasskar
Kasskar was born to a merchant family in Hollin, and joined the party
to investigate Lofton Castle with Gregor the naturalist.
He is the party's flanker and lockpick, and as a rogue, works to blend
in with the crowd. While Good, he's a little greedy and welcomes
shady opportunities.
As a self-described enforcer, Kasskar might have been a natural ally
to the Hobnail street gang, but the Hobnails killed
Kasskar's family as part of a protection racket gone awry. Later, Hobnails assassinated Kasskar's boxer Godwin while protecting their turf. Since then, each side has
escalated the conflict, with Kasskar executing the Hobnails enforcer
Auld, and the Hobnails burning the Winter Wolf, Beowolf's family business.
Kasskar killed Muninn, the patriarch of Hollin's wolves;
and killed a personification of death, Lahar, using the Kirsi
assassination spell Word Without Warning.
Among other items, Kasskar carries
a Ring of Glamour, given to him by the abomination Haas,
and a chipped-stone dagger taken from Tolland Wood trolls.
Here is Kasskar's original background.
Kasskar's miniature.
Ord Redding
Ord Redding is a foreign runepriest who came to Hollin looking for
Prosper. He arrived soon after the Volker brothers kidnapped Prosper and
joined the party to search for him. The Witches' Chorus
described Prosper as a heretic, exile, and conspiracy
theorist, but the party does not know his full background or larger
goals.
Ord led the party to the fairy home Renhannes seeking help in finding Prosper. He defeated the necaratu Damadara in
single combat under Shear Pass, and put down the fairy usurper
Inkling with Aeris. Among other items, he carries the sword Isra, taken from a Hereward
portal guardian; and
the Asmund House Shield, taken from Mound Clan trolls.
Ord miniature.
Party Alumni
Jennish Cole
Jennish came to Hollin with his brother and sister after their father died,
and
hopes to open an artifact shop.
He joined the party to investigate Lofton Castle with Gregor the naturalist,
helped steal a body from Meade Hospital for Herndon the anatomist,
and sailed for Hilde with Captains Burns and Krill.
He carries a rod with
the power Cunning of the Insane, taken from the Dowager survivors' camp
and skillfully carved with a depiction of life there.
Mikal
Mikal is a shy, dishevelled fourteen-year-old who sailed for Hilde as a
stowaway on the Hedgepeth. He helped capture the Blackwells ship Durst,
rescue the Dowager survivors, and put down the alleged witch Captain Krill.
Prosper
Prosper was a ragged twenty-one-year-old who suddenly appeared in
the icy waters off Hilde, where the party found him
disoriented and yelling for help. Not sure how he got there,
Prosper believed that he was sent by a Guilty God to atone
for the god's sins.
Prosper was kidnapped by necromancers, the Volker brothers, while
hunting them in Meade Hospital. The party enlisted the help of
fairies, who told them that Prosper was the reincarnation of the
demigod Huldremose and that he was in Hollin's City of the Dead.
There, the party found that the Volkers had turned Prosper into
an abomination and were forced to kill him.
A second Prosper, another reincarnation of
Huldremose, appeared and took Prosper's body into the west.
Here are Prosper's original background notes.
Here is the fairy king's history of Hollin that describes the ancient Huldremose/Prosper's
origin.
