Kain

Kain the Blessed · Player: Ryan · Member of The Shattered Coin

A Blessed of the Firebrand Church — born a conduit of the All-Flame Queen
(roughly one in eight hundred children), raised from childhood in the ways of flame.
Speaks of serving the Queen "for centuries"; recruits constantly. Rage-fueled melee
with fire: flaming hands, fire damage on crits. As a Blessed he can perform the
church's ceremonies, including branding.

Session 3

• Crit a deserter clean through an interior wall (16+1 fire) — killed him; torched the
  bed-frame mimic.
• Became "business partners" with mayor Ledge; signed a charity contract to
  identify what Orathos needs (15 crates/ship, no profit).
• Watched The Flamespeaker brand the greedy nobles he'd lured to church;
  firebolted cursed seagulls off the church roof like a minigame.
• Tender "dogs through a fence" hand-to-glass moment with squatter Mikey — then set
  the hand on fire.

Session 4

• Recruited a cowardly gladiator and his "mindless" wife into the church; lectured
  Silithane on the All-Flame Queen for 15 minutes (Silithane sensed Kain is no
  mere Branded — "he's got to be something else").
• Gave little Goopo Jr. a boot to live in, then faked being KO'd by the boy's
  boot-kick (pretend self-immolation included) — convincing the kid he's far more
  powerful than he is.
• Pulled the middle lever to free Handsome Jane; when Goopo Jr.'s lever-kicking
  released Laila instead, Kain offered her the unconscious jailer as a sacrifice
  (declined). Restored the kitchen's lights afterward.
• Slept at the church (weekly teeth cleaning); arranged Warbrand faith-healing for
  the battered Magra after sermons.

Session 5

• Performed a 2 AM dwarven wedding (25-gp ceremony); attacked the Mage's Society
  elder with firebolts (all counterspelled) and was banished 2 minutes to a
  bouncy-castle punishment demiplane — which he burned to ash and counted as a win.
• Unmasked Silithane's fake Flame Queen voice in his head ("You're a phony");
  tasked by the High Sun with teaching him the value of honesty. Was scammed of
  5 gold by a doppelganger impersonating Lurch.
• Aboard ship: fought a table with hands alongside Pam (pulled groin), learned of
  the super-soldier statue, was adopted by Ugo the hippo-man, cooked Eggs
  Benedict well enough that the chef wants him all 21 days, and won statue-hold
  clearance: "the Blessed may enter... with up to 6 idiots."
• The rift widens: "You six idiots have caused me more grief than I've ever had" —
  but he still refused to believe Magra is bigger than Daewynn even seeing
  them side by side.

Session 6

• Interrogated about his race after claiming "Human, but not a human. None of your
  business" — the party learned he can see in the dark ("I've been using fire the
  whole time" — he hasn't) and smells of fresh ash; verdict inconclusive.
• Hails from Pinwy in Rivalon (pronunciation an eternal table dispute); voted
  for settlement spots and unnamed settlements to claim ("It's all ours, baby").
• Boomed "IDIOTS ASSEMBLE" via thaumaturgy and led the party below — missed the fire
  ceremony by 2 minutes; midwifed Gravis's acceptance of necromancy ("I'm proud
  of you too, Gravis") and talked the dark-elf spirit-cager into moving his cages via
  square-footage math.
• Hired on as Jugs's cauldron-heater: negotiated 3 gp/day plus a ceremony day off
  by holding Burning Hands under the product. Took 1 psychic damage listening to
  Sir Conolith; helped the blind "Fire Eyes" man to the bathroom.

Session 7

• Kain dies — on-screen. At the Firebrand Church fire ceremony, Flamespeaker Nina invited a self-sacrifice and Kain was already at
  the front of the queue. He accepted a sacrifice "complete of body and soul," muttered
  "maybe now you'll recognize her power," and climbed into the left furnace — turning
  instantly to dust and ash as his soul flew into the statue's hand.
• Out of the flame stepped a fully-grown lizardman: Draak. Nina's blessing —
  "Welcome, child born of the Flame Queen, sacrifice of Kain and body" — frames it as
  Kain being a sacrifice to create something new, not a transformation; Thalia
  and the GM both ruled it permanent.
• He left behind 26 coins (now held by Magra for Drak) and a bag of iron
  teeth (claimed by Lash). Lash waited by the statue's far
  side like a dog for him to "come out the back."

Session 8

• Kain is gone. The party's explanations to Brebo Goldfang contradict each
  other: "Kain kind of died and then this guy became Kain... I don't know, he didn't
  die" (Ashlyn); "You stepped into a fire and turned into ash... he went to the
  Flame Queen priestess" (Lash).
• The GM still keeps Kain's character sheet "hidden somewhere"; his 26 gold went
  into the pot for Drak (Magra holds it). How the party explains his absence is the
  lingering thread.

Character Sheet (mechanics)

In-play co-pilot sheet, transcript-mined; no authoritative numeric sheet exists in the sources (the GM kept Kain's sheet "hidden", Session 08). Values below are stated in play or drawn from the session notes (which cite sessions); anything not observed is marked unknown. Kain is a RETIRED PC — he sacrificed himself on-screen at the fire ceremony in Session 07 and became the lizardman Draak; this sheet covers his active run, Session 03–Session 07.

Identity

• Role/title: a Blessed of the Firebrand Church — a born conduit of the All-Flame Queen (roughly one in eight hundred children), raised from childhood in the ways of flame. "Blessed" is a religious station, not a mechanical class; as a Blessed he may perform the church's ceremonies, including branding and weddings (a 25-gp 2 AM dwarven wedding, Session 05).
• Class/subclass: unknown as a formal class line — never named in the sources, and "Blessed/Branded" does not appear in the DM Companion class table. Played as a rage-fuelled fire melee combatant: he rages (confirmed "my rage", Session 03) and casts fire magic (see Abilities). Mechanically reads as a Barbarian-style rager fused with fire spellcasting (cf. the Companion's STR&CON "Barbarian" and CON&STR "Harbinger — Damage, More Damage" rows, dm_companion.txt:144/:158), but no source confirms which.
• Species: ambiguous / unknown. Claims "Human, but not a human. None of your business" (Session 06). The party's investigation was inconclusive: his features "check out human," but he can see in the dark ("I've been using fire the whole time" — "Nope") and smells of fresh ash / recently-burned firewood (Session 06). Silithane sensed he's "no mere Branded — he's got to be something else" (Session 04).
• Origin: hails from Pinwy in Rivalon (pronunciation a running table dispute), Session 06. Speaks of serving the All-Flame Queen "for centuries." Adoptive father is a hippo-person; the hippo-man engineer Ugo claimed him as kin aboard ship (Session 05).
• Player: Ryan. Member of The Shattered Coin.

Combat stats

• AC: unknown — never stated as a number.
• Max HP: unknown — never stated. (Took 1 psychic damage from prolonged exposure to Sir Conolith, Session 06; took 2 from a thrown burning mimic after rage halved it, Session 03 — no totals given.)
• Ability scores / saves / initiative / attack & damage bonuses: unknown — none ever announced as numbers. Strength implied by melee; a crit through an interior wall dealt 16 + 1 fire (Session 03).
• Level: unknown — never stated numerically. (The party's "level 3" milestone referenced at the island, Session 07, is a crafting tier, not his character level.)
• Damage resistance (while raging): halves incoming damage — a thrown burning mimic was reduced to 2 (Session 03).

Abilities / signature moves

• Rage (barbarian-style) — confirmed in play ("checking my rage had nothing to do with it… a Dex save, right?", Session 03); grants the damage halving above.
• Fire damage on crits — his critical hits add +1 fire; a crit blew a deserter clean through an interior wall, killing him (Session 03). He also torched the bed-frame mimic (mimics take double from fire/area effects), Session 03.
• Burning Hands — held under Jugs's drug cauldron to negotiate his wage ("are you sure I'm fired?"), Session 06; used as his fire-melee staple.
• Firebolt / Fire Bolt (cantrip) — knocked cursed seagulls off the church roof "like a minigame" (Session 03); thrown at Silithane and the old Mage's Society elder (all counterspelled) and at the animated table, Session 05.
• Thaumaturgy — boomed "IDIOTS ASSEMBLE" through the ship to summon the party below (Session 06).
• Hellish Rebuke — attempted on a handshake; disallowed as it wasn't an attack (Session 05). Whether otherwise available is to confirm.
• Blessed ceremonies — can brand new converts and perform church rites (weddings, sermons, faith-healing referrals); recruits constantly for the Firebrand Church (Session 03–Session 06).
• Darkvision — sees in the dark, a trait that fuelled the "is Kain human?" debate (Session 06).

Gear

• Flail — drawn on the Mage's Society elder (Session 05); his named melee weapon.
• A flaming sword — landed a hit on the animated table aboard ship (Session 05); whether a distinct weapon or his fire applied to a blade is unclear.
• Wages earned (ship jobs): cauldron-heater for Jugs at 3 gp/day + one ceremony day off (Session 06); paid 3 gp 5 sp in final wages (Session 07); a silver from the ship's chef for Eggs Benedict (Session 05); scammed of 5 gold by a Lurch doppelganger (Session 05).
• No notable magic items retained on death. (The cursed War Machine Club and a survival ring went to others; Kain gave away his one huge boot to Goopo Jr., Session 04.)
• Left behind at death: 26 coins (held by Magra for Draak; rendered as 27 in Session 08) and a bag of iron teeth (claimed by Lash for smithing), Session 07.

Status

• RETIRED — died on-screen (Session 07). At the Firebrand Church fire ceremony, Flamespeaker Nina invited a self-sacrifice; Kain stepped to the front, accepted a sacrifice "complete of body and soul," muttered "maybe now you'll recognize her power," and climbed into the left furnace — turning instantly to dust and ash as his soul flew into the statue's hand.
• Out of the flame stepped a fully-grown lizardman, Draak (Ryan's new PC). Per Nina's blessing, Kain was a sacrifice to create something new, not a transformation; Thalia and the GM both ruled it permanent (Session 07).
• The GM still keeps Kain's character sheet hidden and unrevealed; the party's accounts of his fate openly contradict one another (Session 08).

SUMMARY: Kain the Blessed (Ryan), a retired rage+fire melee PC — rage, Burning Hands, Fire Bolt, fire-on-crit and Blessed ceremonies confirmed, but class, level, AC, HP and ability scores all unknown; sacrificed himself in Session 07 to become Draak.