Location: Swamps near Teras

Date: Early Fall of 1333 Avard

Characters: Nissian, Naivara, Reginald

The drow Naivara had, despite the protests of her wealthy family, married a human. They never had children, but lived together as doting, loving husband and wife. He passed away of natural causes, but Naivara never quite recovered. The War of the Undead seemed to snap something within her. After the war, she paid for her entrance into Lok Magius, where she studied necromancy. She mastered as much of the art as they had to teach, passed every truth spell and paladin's test they placed on her, and eventually let her back into the world to study the necromancy of Demik Coruth – and, perhaps, advance the study of necromancy.

She studied necromancy in the hopes of one day bringing her husband back from the dead. She killed servants when it was necessary to study more necromancy, out of love. She visited old battlegrounds and forced spirits to do her bidding, out of hope. Naivara was a ruthless, dangerous drow noble who had no time for petty politics.

Sir Reginald was a noble well past his prime. He reminded Naivara of her late husband, in some ways. Sir Reginald, however, had taken a blow to the head that addled his brains. He had been a fop and a dandy all of his life, escaping the wars by hiring the best of mercenary companies. After his blow, he abandoned his wealth, seeing enemies among friends and friends among enemies, and sought fame and glory. The beautiful Lady Naivara promised him all the fame and glory he could handle.

Nissian was a gnomish soldiers without a gnomish people. The only other gnomes she had met were dead. After searching for so long for living gnomes to protect, she fell in with Naivara. Nissian knew well the dangers a necromancer represented, but Lady Naivara was her last hope to

Date: APR2020

DM's Notes: Caileb wanted to try and push Saige to play different styles and characters, thinking that she's in a bit of a rut. He and Sualy and Saige and I bought in for a one-shot where everyone made odd duck characters that should challenge the others to branch out, but they could not play their own build. They discussed who would get which characters, and then made a go of it. The TPK was partially expected, as I was certainly building a situation that would have been difficult for a team that took their time to get to 10th level with their own characters! I think they had a good time and learned a bit. We sat around, afterwards, discussing how the characters might have been used differently or played differently, and the kids seemed to have a good time – despite the TPK.

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