Silithane

Player: Johan · Member of The Shattered Coin (joined Session 4)

A pale elf sword-mage with a spy background — moon-grey skin, long black hair,
piercing golden eyes; "half fighter, half mage" with professional combat training.
Born in Orathos, trained in the Veilwood, and living in Varia for the
last 30–40 years. Fights with Sir Grape, his carefully balanced agile longsword
(finesse d8); spells seen so far: Sleep, Booming Blade, Detect Magic. Carries a
spellbook, ink, quill, and leather. Signed up for the reclamation expedition; fell
through an open sewer grate in Port Quaybay, hit his head, and was dragged to
the arena jail by the Rat King.

Session 4 (debut)

• Introduced waking up in Jail Cell 1 with John the Jailer — locked in his own
  jail by the rival adventuring group's shapeshifter prank.
• Won his arena freedom on a technicality: Sleep-spelled the slime champion Goopo
  before a single blow, angling the spell up through the ceiling to spare the
  spectators ("I had a whole thing, I was gonna pour ink in his eyes...").
• Reclaimed Sir Grape via the "Minute to Hit It" challenge — drew a paper-cut of
  blood from the Atollian grand champion, who shook his hand: "my brother from
  another coast" (Silithane trained in the Veilwood, the champion hails from
  Atollia).
• Con of the year: sold his prison butter knife to Mean Claude as the legendary
  Knife of Ooze Spreading (with Thalia as fake rival bidder), netting the
  War Machine Club and a dusty bottle of sewer wine. The knife turned out to
  actually work.

Session 5

• Charmed the Mage's Society elder (Liam's father) out of a free Guild component
  pouch — then conned the Firebrand Church with a Minor-Illusion fake brand for
  incense, brazier, charcoal and a prayer shirt.
• Pushed it too far: cast Message into Kain's head as a knockoff Flame Queen.
  Caught ("You're a phony"), mark thumbed off by a ranger, branded "a pitiful
  creature" — and moonwalked out of the church anyway.
• Took Figueroa's 10-gold spy job: find out what the Firebrands are doing with
  the burning statue behind the guarded hatch on the bottom deck.
• Retroactively confirmed his war-effort signup paperwork; his formal spy contact
  will be arranged once they reach the island.

Session 6

• Backstory shared: a city elf of Nighthaven who spent his childhood in the
  Veilwood "till I was like 99," kept books and watched the trade by the
  Hellgates — and means to unmask whoever cursed the Veilwood (everyone blames
  the fae; he doubts it).
• Debuted his spider familiar: a 10-minute deck ritual, an embarrassed instant
  dismissal ("there's a lot of critters on this boat"), then remote scouting of the
  lower decks as a house spider — warging out hourly while Lash talked
  to his empty body.
• Received the Silvered Short Sword (Fenric's borrowed blade, silvered and
  rebalanced for his height) — unaware it's wanted for a ghost test.
• Hired by Jugs as vial-mender: a soothing box of 10–20 smashed-vial jigsaws,
  Mending cantrip at the ready. Still no movement on Figueroa's spy job, despite
  now working one room from the guarded hatch.

Session 7

• Debriefed Flamespeaker Nina after the ceremony — pressed her on whether the Flame
  Queen is good or evil and got the church's many-depictions doctrine plus introductory
  Fire Domain literature; came away with reservations about "what the Flame Queen really
  wants in Orathos."
• Closed Figueroa's statue job: reported the dragon statue and Kain's
  reincarnation ("a Drak, one of the big ones") and was paid in a survival ring — then
  took (alongside Fenric) the new 60-gold tasking to find the stowaway Vana Vermillion
  Vermillion, daughter of the Veilwood Voivode.
• Performed the silver-on-ghosts test: thrust the Silvered Short Sword into a
  caged sea-spirit (a 21 "hit" through no resistance), killing it and confirming silver
  bites ghosts; got the necromancy-vs-Soulbinding lecture from the ghost-catcher.
• Plans to spend the 25 days learning the party's backstories and building House
  Bloodworth rep; agreed to deliver Philip's airship-flying book to a missing cabin boy.

Session 8

• Homecoming: first breath of Orathos air in decades — Arathi traders haggling in
  the Arathi language at Fort Foothold felt like home. Gathered bar rumors
  (bounty boards, Keraford, the drunk volcano-conspiracy mage whose square Johan
  later plotted for real).
• Sat through three hours of council speeches and was rewarded: spotted that
  Sir Danica's squire announcement was paperwork cover, got her oathbreaker
  confession dictated straight into his notebook — and was clocked as a Varian spy
  in eleven seconds, which is going to bother him. Homework: "ask your nearest
  knight what happened in Frostmourne."
• Reported "we have found the princess" (Vana Vermillion) to Figueroa — who, badly
  burned over the hidden cabin, demanded mutual amnesia but still handed over a
  Gwyndinas city map marked with the next contact, Dominus the tannery man
  by All Saints Cathedral, plus a code phrase TBD.
• Savored Queen Ysolde's speech as a professional: Varia buying Firebrand-tier
  gratitude for "a silver a person" in road tax made him genuinely proud.

Session 9

• Debuted Bladesong ("an elven technique") in the initiate spar and put the
  morale drummer to sleep mid-drumroll — pillow out, actually asleep.
• Honor reckoning: started the campaign at 2 (the dock prologue: impersonating
  the Flame Queen, stealing from the church), now 3 after the honorable spar.
• Frostmourne homework corrected on a history recheck: Sir Danica told him to
  ask his higher-ranked Varian spy contacts, not knights — Sir Ronald of Chapston has never heard of the place ("if it's got frost in the name...
  Baelheim").
• At Ankley: sent a hawk familiar to scout the spike-rock tidal island
  (report deferred to next session — "Boss, boss, I'm back!"), and sat out the
  freak incident drafting a formal apology letter with a coin pyramid, three
  revisions deep before anyone asked.

Session 10

• The hawk's island report finally landed: ruins on one side, a ~8-person camp with
  fire-juggling and bell alarms on the other. Rigged the party's camp with Alarm
  tripwires in answer ("I can do that way better").
• The portal con: promised the party a portal to Ankley Island; confessed in
  DMs he can't make portals; delivered Feather Fall wrapped in a minor-illusion
  tunnel instead. Everyone but Fenric believed it. Draak now firmly believes
  in portals.
• Peeled the ruins' moss like wallpaper and copied the symbol inscriptions
  one-to-one into his book ("I should have majored in history instead of spycraft");
  Comprehend Languages can't crack them — they're meaning, not language.
• Bladesong made him untouchable all battle (17s bouncing off); Booming Blade crit,
  twirl-healed Magra, ran the hawk as a flying help action — then found "the
  forbidden creature, the cloyster" on the beach and burned his Queen's-speech
  inspiration to reroll the color of a pearl (nat 20: sun-colored, swirling fire,
  100 gold). Claimed Devlin's Enduring Spellbook over the owner's objections.

Session 11

• Disguised as an old woman with a mustache mid-transaction at Fort Foothold, briefly received Tegrak's bounty before Tegrak took it back; chased down a sad-shuffling Tegrak, explained the gold, pointed him at the Training Center, and watched him enlist.
• Spent the coelodon encounter half-hanging off the cliff (downclimbing to help), cast Guidance on Lash via hawk delivery + Help action — hawk's reaction plus action, two assists in one round.
• At the caravan long rest: began ritual casting Comprehend Languages repeatedly to start decoding the ancient ruin inscriptions (third cast in, getting clues); also taught gnomish children the thumb-disappearing trick (sleight of hand check — both kids got it eventually). Began assessing spellbook consolidation: merge Devlin's Enduring Spellbook contents with his own.

Session 12

• Reopened his spy network: found and activated Dominus, the Gwyndinas tannery-master spymaster. Collected 7 Palisade passes (one per party member) and a job: investigate the Ponterford child/youth abductions ~45 miles beyond the wall.
• Sold intel for coin — Roger Payton's death (2 gold) and the looted Mindel Cromelon/Cromelon letter (5 gold), learning Mindel Cromelon is the Southlander bandit lord.
• Took +1 initiative from The Serpent's training week.
• Built the session's signature "move-boom" combo with Thalia (her drag, his Booming Blade), assisting the killing blow on the Grievek; ran the hawk on Help/dodge duty; survived a lung-seizing poison and shielded a near-crit to the face.

Session 13

• Investigator-in-chief of the haunted inn: Identified the corpse as Dorian Montagu, a Medicine check dated the death past a week, and his read of the basement led the party to the grief demon.
• In the fight, conjured an obsidian Shadow Blade he narrated as "stolen from his own future self" (the GM promising a callback at level 16).
• The lore coup: after the demon died, used Comprehend Languages + Message to interview the ancient Horned Skeleton — translating the Ankley Island runes (a sealed "prison of our enemies"), Identifying the elf-ancestor Ailendyras, and learning the skeletons rose from disturbed burial-protection magic and can be re-laid to rest. Earned the party a second pip for unveiling the ancient secret.

Session 14

• Revived Lash's pet crab — not by his own spell (he isn't that powerful) but by paying for the magic; the crab reattached to her arm.
• The investigation's lead questioner alongside Fenric: pressed the medical examiner and Malcolm Locke on social class, sewers, and map patterns — spotting the 3-kill bazaar cluster and the zero kills at the ports.
• His framing rule reaffirmed: he can't pursue an active investigation on his own volition (his organization forbids it) but can "tag along" if forced — the pretext for the party taking the Smiling Sam case. From the basement madman's cabbage-raving, he extracted the real lead: scry the whole city to find the one spot you can't divine (the killer's non-detection item).

Session 15

• Used Thieves' Cant at the crime scene to spot a wall-marking pointing toward a black market, and led the party into the gated Westport Black Market.
• Cast Suggestion (nat-2 save) on the bigoted Tannery butcher to extract the location of a rival blood-seller — the South Wall Black Market outside the Ceased Gate — then walked out before the spell wore off. Earlier bought two tins of "Old Orc" blood from the same vendor.
• Replaced his dead spider familiar with an eagle (half price), sending it to scout the low-kill-density area near the west gate for the blood mage's caravan.
• Confirmed his forged Varian leaving-papers carry three fake signatures (a guard captain from Ankley; farm owners from Callahan and Gristgrinder) and that he must be beyond the wall handling Ponterford by month's end (currently the 9th). Reaffirmed he already holds his signed papers.
• Helped probe Louis and the morgue priestess on whether the victims' souls could be captured.

Session 16

• In the South Wall alley ambush, fought in a cat costume and Charmed the Tannery butcher out of the fight — keeping him confused and refusing to "pick a side" for the whole combat (the butcher already liked him).
• Rescued the breakfast-stall waitress from a thug forcing himself on her (dashed across the map to break it up), then later distracted the guards twice so the grateful waitress could quietly knife two captured gang members and Lash could loot the scene.
• Conjured his "future-self" Shadow Blade again mid-fight, swapped sword hands chasing better rolls, and Identified the dead Rikard (name, age, species, fading attunement to his looted longsword).

Session 17

• Closed out (and conceded) the Ponterford job. Revisited the tanner-spymaster Dominus, who's displeased he never left and now likely reassigning the abduction case to another spy. Traded intel (Smiling Sam "probably a blood mage, maybe a portal mage") and got a stamped discount buckle toward a ~1,500-gold truesight potion alchemist west of the Colosseum.
• Won the arena fight with a spell, not a sword. Sneak-attacked the squires with his Shadow Blade, then — with only the blind knight Elgamaia left — cast Suggestion to convince her she'd already won, and she walked out of the arena celebrating.
• Cleaned up the chaos when Draak wouldn't stop attacking the departing knight by casting Sleep, knocking out Drak and Lash (and a pigeon) to finally end the combat — netting a baffling "draw" that paid both teams.
• Lost his hawk/eagle familiar again — exploded into feathers by Elgamaia's giant blade; another re-buy pending.

Session 18

• Quartermaster for the run: redeemed Dominus's discount buckle at the wasteful alchemist west of the Colosseum, spending up to 300 gold on experimental green/pink potions-or-poisons (never sure which to drink vs. apply), and bought a standard healing potion for the whole party.
• Mapped the dark: a 27 perception/insight felt the unexplained draft from rebuilt brickwork hinting at a hidden secret sewer entrance, and worked out the route (straight on, second right). Buffed Eldrich the Elder.
• Untouched again: danced through the entire mushroom combat without being hit once (his dance/Bladesong AC plus Shield). Pulled his "future self" Shadow Blade from the portal — finding a 100-year-old wheelchair-bound Silithane to hand it over — and racked up sneak-attack kills, even hurling the blade at the elusive mushroom woman.

Session 19

• Summoned a new familiar to replace his exploded hawk — a bat named "Man" (Manbat) — and sent it ahead through the secret wall to echolocate the deeper sewers (sensing "something big" and turning back).
• The session's Varian-knowledge anchor: identified the pig-head mechanisms as likely Varian dead-drops and fiddled one into activating; recognized the lair's Varian-only wine; and, as a Varian, knew the lore of the Shard of the Autark — that a group in Varia killed a god with them 40–70 years ago.
• Picked the trapped door with Fenric's help — many Guidance prayers "to something shadowy from beyond the Veilwood" and Lash's last inspiration die landing a 34 that opened it without triggering the firebomb. Read the door's Hallucinatory Terrain trap-scroll, examined a bound "failed changeling," and (via Lash) walked the table through the three changeling grades. Probed whether Dr. Provostinalkov was Smiling Sam (he wasn't).

Session 20

• Gave the recap of the whole Session-19 sewer crawl, then sent his bat familiar (Manbat, blindsight) up to confirm a single figure in the house basement above the changeling's lair.
• The session's interrogator: mind-read the captured changeling with Detect Thoughts (peeling "thought strands" off its memories, one-minute windows) while questioning it directly, with Modify Memory held in reserve — and relayed "the day this big shifter has had" to the group, building the case that the changeling was helping, not harming.
• Provided the 100-gold pearl (his pirate loot from Ankley Island) to Identify the ashes of the lasered man as a Reclamation Signet bearer.
• Belatedly surfaced the missing children up north (Ponterford / "Ponterford") and weighed mage-ride vs. boat travel — reckoning the party ~2 pips from a faster route to the Veilwood.

Session 21

• Gave the recap of the changeling's release, then sold the party's old hoard of firecrackers (~150 gold) and cadged a free Find Familiar at the Mage's Society — a mimicry-capable crow conjured on the guild's components.
• At the Eldrich lunch, showed the old man the released changeling's thoughts off a coin (Detect Thoughts), and named the dead lab-intruder — "Franz Sands Aylwater" — as a Varian, the slip that sends Eldrich scrambling to extract the doctor. Bought a shrouded doublet (looks like commoner clothes, +1 stealth) and floated tracking the changeling via the blood at Thalia's old home.
• Pegged Tycho as a spy: ran a fake "secret handshake" (a faked dance-injury) to test the healer, then forgery-checked his certificate — finding the supervising trainer's stamp deliberately erased to scrub his past. A "Reclamation officer Dormers" probe drew nothing, leaving him chewing on who the spy really is.

Session 22

• At the bridge, floated going invisible to slip behind the bandit line during the parley (insight 12 confirmed the far archers couldn't see him); the plan was shelved once Eldrich bartered passage.
• The inn's lead investigator: traded riddles with the 200-year-old philosopher (earning the book of riddles and the intellect trinket) and worked the goateed trapper for the session's leads — pinning down Guilford (the wheat-hair lyncher), the Grabber in the Gray Veil Cave (and getting it mapped), and the grim mechanics of the Ponterford drownings (waterlogged dead, first of the month).
• Honored Thalia's grim request — promised to kill her instantly rather than let a giant squish her.
• Briefed the newcomer Jex on Varia and spycraft (the "Michael with a different letter" tell) and outed Tycho to her — moments before the spy was killed.

Session 23

• The architect of the Guilford plot. Cast Detect Thoughts to read Guilford's mind — uncovering the hanged-mother origin of his lynchings and that he was hunting a victim that very night — and on the way out found a goon's beaten corpse stuffed in a bush.
• Followed Guilford outside and cast Suggestion, sending the bewitched giant off to the Grey Vale Cave to "prove himself" — over the protective trapper's plea that the replacement would be worse.
• The party's lore anchor at the cave: identified the "piss puddle" as aqua regia (the gold-dissolving acid), tied Jex's thought-coin trick to his own magic, and supplied an experimental "monster" potion he never drank.
• Lent Valmora his spare Reclamation gambeson (cut for her wings), revealing the party's allegiance, and cast Invisibility on her for the rope-crossing; anchored the bridging rope with Fenric.

Session 24

• Worked his Booming Blade / Shadow Blade combo through the Grabbler fight — a crit Booming-Blade-plus-sneak (34 damage) "chopping hands off like a fruit game," and a disadvantaged Shadow Blade throw that tagged the intelligent drone leaping 35 ft overhead.
• Crossed the chasm the hard way (repeatedly dangling off his own rope until Magra cranked him over on the ski-lift), climbed the cache boulder with pitons, and Identified the Amulet of Crossed Fists as an unarmed-combat relic.
• Threatened to cast Identify 300 times (one per severed hand, ~50 hours) to trace the grabblers' victims. Levels to 6.

Session 25

• The party's interpreter all session: ran the full Comprehend Languages ritual to speak with the wood-folk (drawing a circle the little guards were too scared to cross), and used his Sign Language to translate the mute scholar Otto's Handspeak for everyone. Received Lorto's warning-sigil staff on a promise to return it.
• Cracked the Shushu: a 25 Arcana/Nature read revealed the rock-dwelling "shusher" is really a 9-ft body of skull-and-flesh decoration around a single chest-eye — one eye of a larger tentacled thing below, and a possible route down.
• Ran his short-sword Burning/Booming Blade through the gobbler fight (with Lash's Help), sending his screaming raven out as bait.
• Levels to 6 and keeps up his standing dragon disguise — confirmed it's a deliberate trick to bait rangers and fool divination spies. "Silithane, for another day, will pretend to be a dragon."

Session 26

• Learned Water Breathing over the long rest — from a hidden page cut out of the spellbook he stole from a Bael'Drakkor pirate's mage — and cast it party-wide (24 hours, all seven plus the raven and Squishy), opening every flooded route down.
• Acted again as the party's linguist: narrated his foggy-mist casting flavor, ferried the ledge scholar negotiations, and ritual-cast Comprehend Languages to converse with the lizard-ruler Grank in the under-prison.
• Slipped through the prison's narrow gap and crocodile-rooms with only his eyes above the waterline; raised the question of scribing found spell-scrolls into his book (standard cost, needs purchased ink).

Session 27

• The under-prison's reader and interrogator. Kept Comprehend Languages running to read the sump-lids' maker's mark (Forge Lord Malifax) and the engraved cell-tokens above each prisoner.
• Detect Thoughts on the Nice One: dug out her name (≈ "Viana") and a vivid memory of her lost world — grass fields, fallen metal monoliths, infinite stars — and relived her crime (drinking the stolen immortality elixir, caught by scaled, horned guards), confirming no malice. Tied her jailers' description straight to the Elder race.
• Nearly enthralled walking past the Sad One, whose mind-grab he resisted only on the creature's nat-1 (it had ~85% odds); warned the party the Sad One — and likely the Ruined One — must stay caged.
• Ran Detect Magic across all six cells (mapping the Cursed One's petrification, the Ruined One's blinding emanation, the Blind One's immortal earring, the Mad One's near-nothing), and confirmed the Cursed One is an inert object — "he hasn't served his sentence at all."

Session 28

• Found the staff (nat 20). His pick-of-the-bunch search of Malifax's cupboard turned up the most detail in the room — the central meteorite, a curated necklace — and located the Prisoner-Moving Staff the party came for; closed the wasp fight with a level-5 Booming Blade + sneak attack.
• The connoisseur. Ate Malifax's steak and wine (conjured from the loot chest) and reported the taste back to the fleshless smith, then traded him a fresh memory of the meal — drawn out as a coin via his thought-magic — for nothing more than "my friendship."
• Sent the report home. Over the long rest, fired off a dense 25-word Sending to his Gwyndinas spy contact Dominus: "Towards Pontford. Eldrich caravan ambushed by Mindel Cromelon. Tycho dead. Send replacement. Freybell Cave. Old smuggler den. Ancient temple. Prisoner follow escaped. Grabbler Queen danger."

Session 29

• The cupboard caper. Left his bird familiar in Malifax's cupboard with the stated aim of later stealing from Keith (on a "finders-keepers" loophole, not from Malifax), and claimed the meteorite as "our treasure" — the slips that nearly read as a heist under the Zone of Truth, until he dismissed the bird and squared things.
• Joined the council late, winning the 7th tie-breaker seat over a skeleton-knight rival with a deadpan résumé — "I'm Silithane and I'm 138," "elected to the Court of the Hell for trade," and "I can read scrolls."
• Did the legwork of locking the room down: found no secret exits at first, then (nat 20) uncovered the cobwebbed door behind the cupboard, had Magra help shift it, and pushed the party to learn where the hidden tunnel led — the Shushu's teleporter room.
• Offered to rinse the dust-poisoned Jex with his water skin (and belatedly realised Water Breathing would have spared Jax the ancient-dust disease entirely).

Session 30

• Defused the Ponterford detour. Confessed he'd quietly sat on the news that his Coalition handlers (his "Knights Templar") already dispatched replacement knights to the dying-children town and that his own standing order is to investigate the Queen Grabbler — dissolving Valmora's urgency to leave. "It's not the first time I've been a little late informing them" (cf. the Coldfort/Frostmourne slip).
• Studied the broken machine. Spent the better part of two days on Gerald's transportation device but found it completely alien — an unseen magic-and-machinery infusion he can't safely disassemble (and Gerald wouldn't let him mind-read the manual loose).
• Interviewed the Nice One (whom he calls "Fiona") on which prisoners could be safely freed, drawing out her redemption-ranking and her verdict that the janitor Gerald is a hypocrite — and arguing that very honesty proves she deserves release.
• Helped the party settle on staying to finish the cell and assault the Queen.

Session 31

• Set up the opener by casting Invisibility on Fenric for his spell-slot-killing ambush, then Blade Danced into the fight.
• Shadow Blade mobility and burst. Pulled his Shadow Blade "from the past" (watching his own terrified past self lose it), landed a 47-damage double-crit, and used Misty Step / Booming Blade / Feather Fall to dart in and out — including hiding in bones Caressa couldn't reach. Fought most of the battle at ~2 HP, kept alive by Valmora's healing and saved his concentration via Lash's Magic-Hammer reroll.
• Tested "Wetzel's Pretzel." Applied the bright-green poison alchemist Wetzel mixed for him months ago to the Shadow Blade — devastating on small creatures ("it would spin a gnome's spine and crunch") but nearly useless against a creature of Caressa's size.
• In the aftermath ran to relieve Gerald's fight, slept (failed) and cut down the last Grabblers, and healed a perishing eye-creature. Followed Malifax to confirm Caressa was properly locked up, and at the closing gathering relayed his third-god news from Valmora and floated sealing the cave to its residents.

Session 32

• Gave the recap of last week's loot-sorting, the travel to Ponterford, and the snatcher investigation so far (the mechanical donkey, the racist grieving father, the Iceman, Lash-as-bait).
• The lead questioner through the village: worked the sawmill men at the Speak Loudly (learning the wood feeds Laewendas's war machines via Cathalon), the Local Bard (useless), and finally the witch-priestess, declaring himself unaffiliated and absorbing her bargain.
• Floated Speak with Dead on the burned prior adventurers and pressed the strategic angle — that turning or closing the wood factory is the real job here — while keeping the party's anti-Laewendas allegiance discreet around the guards. Skipped washing his hands again ("I use prestidigitation").

Session 33

• Attended the sermon on the witch Rhiannon, probing whether the service used any magical influence (it didn't — just weeks of repeated dissent), and clocking the doctrine that the witches choose the ruler as quietly anti-crown sedition.
• Learned to conjure a tower. Traded spellbooks with the owl wizard Renforth: he taught Silithane the spell to summon a permanent tower, and copied Shadow Blade into his own book in return (warning to only raise a tower on land one owns). Bought a cheap +1 Arcana belt and quizzed Renforth on his "fine, no problems" tower (Insight: he genuinely has had the easiest life imaginable).
• The fight's blade-dancer in the tomato extermination — Blade Dance + Booming Blade + the Wiggly Dagger sweeping several creatures at once — and sat down to ritual-cast for the murky frog-folk dock errand that followed.

Session 34

• The spellcaster's duel. Warged his crow to scout the river, then threaded Message into the crocolion's silt cloud and cast Suggestion (telling it to attack the nearest humanoid) — only for it to shrug the spell off and silently cast back, both making their saves: "two spellcasters silently stare at each other in the water… and both gain appreciation and respect." Later Booming-Bladed it with his Silvered Short Sword and got a sneak-attack "wiggle" in.
• The frustrated spy. Found the hushed Aberforth Speakeasy "annoyingly effective" against eavesdropping — reduced to reading lips of patrons facing him — and clocked that the rowdy Speak Loudly is where real (drunk, forgettable) business gets done.
• His off-hand Counterspell knowledge prompted the GM to settle improved house rules for the spell.

Session 35

• Identified the wyrm's curse. His Identify on the screaming drake skeleton found a miscast Animate Objects keeping it half-alive at night — the lead the party (and Valmora) worked all session. Renforth handed him the item card for a stolen 5,000–7,000-gold telekinesis wand and offered to trade a servant-conjuring scroll.
• The spy lecture, on a spy. Sat poker-faced through Renforth's confident "Varian names are one letter off" theory (Gutricia/Pimothy/Paved) — Silithane being an actual Varian spy — and probed the owl on the elder race (drawing the Lambert's Crossing lead) and on founding a settlement (laws, wages, a steward, magical servants).
• The grimoire holster. Asked how to trace the owner of a spellbook holster (no book) found in a puzzle box; Renforth pointed him at the mage hunters among the southern invaders, who track magical scent like bloodhounds.
• Late-night heart-to-heart with Valmora drew out her angel/heretic backstory (her human marriage, her refusal to punish humanity, her dread of stronger angels).

Session 38

• The hunt's quartermaster and diplomat. Cast Lesser Restoration on the orc medicine woman's patient (lifting the poisoned condition, not the venom); Sent Eldrich the Elder to borrow the two squires; brought his memory-coin to Renforth for the treant diagnosis; and Minor-Illusioned wood-chopping sounds and a rickety cart to bait the Guardian out.
• Terminally poisoned. Having drunk no antivenom, he fails the venom save to the needle nova: 28 necrotic and a 3-day fatal venom turning his skin to spreading ulcers — curable only by powerful magic or the beast's venom sac. (Lash's rerolls saved him from the poison half; the venom got through.)
• Tested "Wetzel's Pretzel" (pink). Drank the rose-quartz emotion-potion (picking "anxiety/oh-shit"): gained 30 ft of fading blindsight to navigate the dirt cloud, with a complication that liquefied two days of his food (he soils himself mid-fight).
• The future-self Shadow Sword, again. Reached through a time-portal for his Shadow Sword and found it mounted as a trophy on the wall of an aged, bedridden future Renforth — borrowing it for a ~27-damage Booming Blade + sneak attack (Lash riding his back to Help). Still level 6.

Session 39

• Cured of the venom. The wyrm-venom antidote (Lash + Rhia Gagra) lifts his 3-day death-clock; he spends the day bed-bound and wheelchaired, then is wheeled to the midnight church and the postmaster job (the "Wheel of Thane").
• The party's spy-reader and translator. Spent his Insight on Timothy Leisten — finding him airtight but unreadable (classic Varian diplomacy) — and his History/Old Common to decode the cave-skeleton's "finally, another sacrifice," working out the cave is a two-birds shrine: terror and immortality-by-child-sacrifice. Messaged the ghost boy the grim meaning rather than say it aloud.
• Learned the war news. Heard that the party's own Blood Domain shrine-flip killed the Laewendas general Garruk the Red, and weighed the strategic prize of the cave's river back-door into Cathalon.
• Wheelchair errand. Magra wheeled him to Renforth at 1 AM for an Unseen Servant ("Joffrey") to push the chair; he'll learn the spell in the morning. Levels to 7.

Session 40

• Back on his feet. The venom cured, he ditches the wheelchair, collects his Unseen Servant from Renforth, and settles the morning's scroll-and-ring trades — opening the postmaster's puzzle egg (a +5-ft unarmoured-movement ring), selling off his Dark Vision scroll (from the Grabber Queen's puzzle box of Mage Armor / Find Familiar / Fog Cloud / Shadow Blade), and handing Fenric a swim-speed ring.
• The party's caster of Invisibility. Cast Invisibility on Fenric (cave scout) and then Lash (river scout) — and swapped his familiar to a small bat to fly the trap corridor; recovers spell slots on a short rest for the night raid.
• The scout-runner. Reasoned the river entrance dumps straight into the camp, weighed the Candleman's identity ("been alive all this time, sacrificing"), and helped plan the river-poisoning scheme against the crocodile. Still level 7.

Session 41

• The lockpick and finisher. Found the secret brick door to the business meeting and picked the reinforced boss doors (a 27, "a mix of magic, thieves' tools and hidden compartments"); in the businessmen fight, his silvered short sword (elf Alvinathlus multi-attacks + the wiggle dagger) carved through skeleton after skeleton.
• Offered his blood as bait. Volunteered his old orc blood to lure the Wild Man away for Rusty (the ghoul can't, being hated by the Wild Man), and floated — then abandoned — a Wetzel's-Pretzel poison-cow river-bomb scheme. Pressed Rusty for the cave's full lore.
• His own name-guess game keeps paying off: he'd cracked Timothy's name last session. Still level 7.

Session 42

• Feeblemind'd to 7 INT. Halren's twin-cast lesser Feeblemind dropped his Intelligence from 17 to 7 ("matching besties" with Pimothy) — losing Blade Song AC and his bat's eyes, fighting on feral but loyal until Patricia restored him with Dispel Magic ("I turn to gelatin again").
• The translator of the Hollow House. Used Comprehend Languages to fully translate the gravekeeper's diary, delivering the session's lore: the four immortal scholars (Corvian, Bael'Drakkor, Halren, Jairus the last survivor), the Elder tablets that lengthened their lives, and the building's drift from "Hall House" to "Hollow House." Claimed Halren's minor-magic staff.
• The wire home. Over the long rest, fired off an Ascension/Sending to his alchemist-spymaster Wetzel ("Wetzel's Pretzel") at the leatherworking store — reporting what the experimental potions did and asking after Wetzel's missing wife (thought to be "in salt water"). Still level 7.

Session 43

• The sergeant-slayer. Took the watch-sergeant Kregit (AC 26, tower shield) one-on-one most of the fight — Shadow Blade, Booming/Green Flame Blade, silvered short sword and the Wiggler — and killed him (a 29 crit and a 100%-blood splatter "as big as a stamp"), kept alive himself by Lash's hit-negating reaction and Shield.
• Tried everything on Thunt. Threw psychic, thunder, silver and piercing at the unkillable Thunt — all of it bouncing off ("as if it would be that idiot") — then settled for grappling him to feed Lash's poison plan, finding only a hard "bubble" under his skin.
• The healer and mule. Handed a potion to Pimothy to revive Salamandine, Cure-Wounds'd Fenric and Lash off near-death via his bat, and eyed Simon's fire grimoire (every fire spell, levels 1–3) to scribe. Still level 7.

Session 44

• The Enduring Spellbook, completed. Pitched the party (drunk, in the speakeasy) for a 1,900-gold "loan" to scribe every spell from his three grimoires into his single waterproof/fireproof/ageless Enduring Spellbook — covering it by trading the fire grimoire to Renforth (cancelling Lash's ~1,000-gold IOU), selling an old spellbook for 200, and borrowing 400 from Fenric and 200 from Jex.
• The bartender of the speakeasy. Worked the bar 14 of his 16 downtime days for ~38 gold and a found family of co-workers (Harold, Abely) — the GM half-offering him a happy retirement before he chose the road.
• The spy's quid pro quo. Struck a deal with Thalia to trade Varian dead-drop locations, and used Sending to fire off her string of cipher-numbers to a Gwyndinas spy. Weighed (and skipped) selling spells to Renforth, who'd already know nearly all of them. Still level 7.

Session 45

• The frontline blade. Green-Flame-Blade + sneak-attacked the zombie horse (with Lash's Help and silvered short sword), jumping between the horse and the risen camper. Took the worst of the corpse-explosion (48), shaving 5 with Absorb Elements, after eating a face-full of vomit-cone (the table ruling his open-mouthed Bladesinging couldn't dodge it) and surviving the blight-infection save on Lash's reroll.
• The necromancer's analyst. Cast Identify on the camper — naming him Michael, 38, human-with-halfling, afflicted by high-level necromantic curse magic — and twice cast Speak with Dead at Old Halfwood, extracting the postmaster's account of the 800-signature petition and the town's massacre. Pocketed assorted corpse-bits "to notify next of kin," and again Sent (unanswered) word to the alchemist "Wetzel."
• The blight theorist. Argued the curse is likely Laewendas's reprisal and that the party should hunt its source; once he learns Speak with Dead now, offered to question more of the dead. Still level 7.

Session 46

• The dragon disguise debate. Spent the camp scene as a polymorphed silver dragon (a scrying deterrent), to the table's amusement; later assigned the hide-and-steal role for breaking into the grove. His crow is repeatedly mistaken by Stunghelm Elkheart for a fellow druid.
• Shadow Blade artillery. Carried his share of the road fight by summoning-and-throwing his Shadow Blade each round with Green-Flame-Blade and sneak attacks — each toss earning the GM's "Table of Silithanes" flavour (the 800-year-old elf raiding his own retirement-home suitcase). Healed the fleeing Stunghelm with his bird.
• Terrorising Wetzel. Sent a 3 a.m. Message to the potion-man Wetzel ("you can reply this time!"), getting a panicked half-asleep answer — a third night of unintentional torment. Still level 7.

Session 47

• Speaker for the dead. Casts Speak with Dead on the ancient skeleton Ulda Golgain (drawing out Clan Helmnack's "under the tors" secret) and, after the battle, on the archdruid Vedanis the Evergreen — relaying his refusal to lower the dome, his preserve-the-bodies creed, and the answer to Clover's letter.
• The grimoire's reader. A 27 Arcana reads the necromancer's book as an uncopyable spell-instruction tome; he later spends ~8 hours casting Identify across dozens of jumbled bodies to find the archdruid among them.
• Shadow Blade, again. Hacked the amalgam with Shadow Blade + Booming Blade + Sneak Attack and his silvered short sword (the sword cutting despite its psychic immunity); his familiar bat was grafted into the monster when it absorbed the downed creature. Still level 7.

Session 48 (present for the first half only)

• The moorhen hunt. Still sealed in the grove at dawn, flew his bat familiar ("Man") through the canopy on an Investigation check (his 12 to Thalia's 15) to track down the orphaned giant moorhen's mother — seeing her dive from the cloud cover "as if to kill and eat" the bat — then snapped the bat out of existence to dismiss it once she was found. Wry about the work: returning the egg is "kind of like delivering posts to people."
• The reward debate. Pushed back when Thalia called a group huddle before anyone knew the sum — argued you can sell titles and weighed a New Halfwood title against a possible thousand in gold ("what is the gold amount?") — before the party took the cash; chipped in the spare 8 silver when they split the bag (~27 gold each, his share included).
• Speak-bird, no luck. Walked over when the party hoped he could talk to Songbird's hummingbirds; he can't, and his familiar bird "speaks Common, not bird."
• The talk with Thanhold (his scene). Sought out the New Halfwood founder to ask what comes next; advised him not to let the settlement grow so large it gets found, noted that traders would eventually wear roads to the camp, mentioned the party's own claimed land up north, and floated a future trade/correspondence "exchange program" between the two towns. When Thanhold raised the unsolved riddle of who betrayed King Aethelric to Laewendas 40+ years ago (a traitor ~60 now, "Thanhold's age"), Silithane instantly made the leap to "Aelric the Elder" — i.e. Eldrich the Elder, "we just know one man" — seeding the party's suspicion of their own patron; he even double-checked the dead king's name.
• Left at the break. Set off after Eldrich the Elder's caravan trail, then logged off at the halfway break (~82 minutes in) — so he was absent for the entire Menagoles leg (the gate checkpoint, Jex's signet-smuggling, the food festival, the goblin tour and the haunted undercroft all happened after he left). Takes his coin share; none of the Menagoles content is his. Still level 7.

Session 50 (joins partway)

• Absent, then decisive. Johan was at the table but AFK/setting up for the first ~100 minutes — his character trailed the group as background ("way back there," quasi-incapacitated) through the whole disguise-and-infiltration opening. He takes control around the cage-hoist ("Silithane's moving of his own volition") and immediately becomes the party's fixer for getting down the shaft.
• The disguise kit. Earlier (GM-run) he'd used a disguise kit — from a burgling pack, found on a lucky double-20 — to turn the green half-orc Magra into a different race for ~24 hours (prosthetic nose, brow padding), enough that she doesn't read as an orc in a camp with no orcs.
• The worst cover story in the mine. Sent to get the beaten miner's sealed decree, he walks up and tries to Cure Wounds him — the miner, a trained fighter, parries the "death spell" and squares up — then flails through lies ("a healer miner," "interested in calligraphy," an adventurer "in a barrel"). The miner sees through all of it and simply sells him the ~42,000-word decree for 40 gold (of his 53).
• Forger and closer. Doctors the decree with his never-used forgery kit (an 8 — a shaky job the guards could see through on a read), then sells it anyway with a feigned shaking-fit and Salamandine gnawing the scroll, a Suggestion (upcast to 3rd) held in reserve. The guards accept the seal and hoist the hoist. Rides the platform down into the burned deep.
• Silver ends the dead. In the skeleton fight his Silvered Short Sword disintegrates any skeleton within 5 feet on the draw — the touch of silver unravelling the necromancy outright — and he lands a Green-Flame Blade that jumps to a second target.
• Lockpick and would-be orc. Scouts ahead with his bat and picks the padlock into the deepest cage on a casual thieves'-tools 26 ("one-handed, one eye closed"). His plan to get past the orc-skeleton guard — smear himself in the ethically-sourced orc blood he keeps in a vial from Gwyndinas — is quietly retired in favour of Magra simply being an orc. Still level 7.

Character Sheet (mechanics)

In-play co-pilot sheet. Numbers here are only what was stated in play; everything unconfirmed is marked "unknown." Hard facts are cited; see Silithane and the party note for narrative.

Identity

• Class & level: Rogue 1 / Wizard 6 (Bladesinger arcane tradition) — total level 7. Leveled to 6 in Session 24/Session 25, to 7 in Session 39; still 7 as of Session 50. (Level confirmed in transcripts.)
• Species: Pallid Elf — pale "moon-grey" skin, long black hair, golden eyes. (The DM companion lists Elf as a playable species but not the Pallid subrace.)
• Background / role: Scholar-spy. Varian covert operative of House Bloodworth, cover identity as a Reclamation recruit; handler is Dominus in Gwyndinas. Self-described age 138 (Session 29).
• Party: The Shattered Coin, joined Session 04.
• Note: a druid's six-mile Primeval Awareness scan registered Silithane as the area's lone dragon-type creature (Session 46).

Combat stats

All AC values are GM-stated for Silithane (player handle "Fantom"/"Johan" in transcripts). AC swings with Bladesong + Shield.

• AC (Bladesong active): 20 — "you do have 20 AC actually" (Session 31). Raised toward 22 via purchased rings/boots at Renforth's (Session 33).
• AC (Bladesong + Shield spell): 25 (Session 31).
• AC (Bladesong down / Feeblemind): 18 (Session 42). Earlier read of 16 (Session 17).
• Max HP: unknown (no clean total stated). Floor reference: "at least 13 hit points" early (Session 09); fought most of Session 31 at ~2 HP.
• Initiative: total unknown; gained +1 initiative from The Serpent's training week (Session 12).
• Key saves: numeric bonuses unknown / never stated. Note: failed the Forest Guardian's venom save in Session 38 (Wizard saves are INT/WIS by class, but no modifier was announced).
• Ability scores: mostly unknown. INT 17 is confirmed — Feeblemind "dropped his Intelligence from 17 to 7" (Session 42), restored by Dispel Magic.

Abilities & spells (seen in play)

Class features

• Bladesong / Blade Dance (Bladesinger) — boosts AC & mobility; debuted Session 09, used Session 10, Session 18, Session 31, Session 33.
• Sneak Attack (Rogue 1) — opening strikes throughout; e.g. crit Booming-Blade + sneak for 34 (Session 24), level-5 Booming Blade + sneak (Session 28), repeated thrown-Shadow-Blade sneaks vs the plague-spreader horde (Session 46).
• Arcane Recovery — "recovers spell slots on a short rest" (Session 40).
• Proficiencies shown: Thieves' Cant (Session 15), Thieves' Tools / lockpicking (Session 41, Session 50 — a casual one-handed 26 on the deep-cage padlock), Sign Language (Session 25), Disguise kit (Session 50). Not proficient with the Forgery kit — GM confirmed and the doctored decree was a plain ability check (an 8) (Session 50).

Cantrips

• Booming Blade — signature; Session 10 (crit), Session 12, Session 24, Session 28 (cast at 5th-level tier), Session 31, Session 33, Session 43.
• Green Flame Blade — Session 43; paired with summon-and-throw Shadow Blade against the horde (Session 46); jumped to a second skeleton in the burned-deep undead fight (Session 50).
• Minor Illusion — forgery/disguise; Session 05, Session 10, Session 38.
• Message — Session 05, Session 13, Session 34, Session 39, Session 46 (3 a.m. to the potion-man Wetzel).
• Mending — vial repair, Session 06.
• Prestidigitation — Session 32.
• Guidance — delivered via familiar, Session 11.

Leveled spells

• Sleep (1st) — Goopo Session 04; ended the arena fight Session 17; Session 31.
• Disguise Self (1st) — confirmed known ("Silithane has Disguise Self, but not like a Disguise Other"); at the mine he used the physical disguise kit rather than the spell to alter Magra's race (Session 50).
• Feather Fall (1st) — "portal" con Session 10; Session 31.
• Find Familiar (1st, ritual) — spider Session 06 → eagle Session 15 → bat "Manbat" Session 19 → crow Session 21 → bat Session 40.
• Detect Magic (1st, ritual) — surveyed all six cells, Session 27.
• Comprehend Languages (1st, ritual) — recurring translator: Session 10, Session 11, Session 13, Session 25, Session 26, Session 27, Session 42.
• Identify (1st, ritual) — Session 16, Session 20, Session 24, Session 35, Session 38, Session 47 (~8 hours of casting across the amalgam's jumbled bodies to name the archdruid). Uses a 100-gold pearl as the component focus (Session 20).
• Alarm (1st, ritual) — camp tripwires, Session 10.
• Unseen Servant ("Joffrey", 1st) — learned Session 39/Session 40.
• Shadow Blade (2nd) — his "future-self" signature weapon; Session 13, Session 16, Session 18, Session 24 (thrown), Session 31 (47-dmg double-crit), Session 38, Session 43, Session 46 (repeatedly summoned-and-thrown vs the horde).
• Misty Step (2nd) — Session 31.
• Invisibility (2nd) — on allies; Session 23, Session 31, Session 40.
• Detect Thoughts (2nd) — interrogations; Session 20, Session 21, Session 23, Session 27, Session 30.
• Suggestion (2nd) — Session 15 (target nat-2 save), Session 17, Session 23, Session 34; upcast to 3rd and held in reserve at the mine hoist (the GM allowing the two guards to count as one target on a 3rd-level cast) (Session 50).
• Lesser Restoration (2nd) — Session 38.
• Cure Wounds — cast at 2nd level for 6 HP, plus a separate free casting available (Session 31); again Session 43; attempted on the beaten miner, who parried it as a "death spell" (Session 50).
• Water Breathing (3rd) — party-wide 24h, learned from a hidden spellbook page; Session 26.
• Speak with Dead (3rd) — interrogating the recently-and-not-so-recently dead; the ~600-year-old skeleton Ulda Golgain and the slain archdruid Vedanis the Evergreen (Session 47).
• Sending — 25-word reports home; Session 28, Session 42, Session 44.
• Tower-summoning spell — a permanent-tower conjuration taught by Renforth (raise only on owned land); Session 33.
• Counterspell — knowledge referenced (prompted a house-rule); not clearly cast — confirm (Session 34).
• Modify Memory — held in reserve, not confirmed cast (Session 20).

Items & equipment

Weapons

• Sir Grape — balanced agile longsword (finesse, d8), reclaimed Session 04.
• Silvered Short Sword — Fenric's old blade, silvered & rebalanced; confirmed to bite ghosts/vampires/demons; Session 06, Session 07. The touch of silver disintegrates skeletons/animated undead within 5 ft on the draw — "the least of all undeads" unravel outright before he even swings (Session 50).
• Wiggly Dagger ("the Wiggler") — sweeps several foes at once; Session 33, Session 43.

Worn / magic items

• Enduring Spellbook — waterproof, fireproof, ageless; taken from the pirate mage Develin (Session 10), all three grimoires fully scribed into it (Session 44).
• +1 Arcana belt — Session 33.
• Shrouded doublet — looks like commoner clothes, +1 stealth; Session 21.
• Survival ring — from Figueroa (Session 07).
• Ring of +5 ft unarmoured movement — from the postmaster's puzzle egg; Session 40.
• AC rings/boots — bought at Renforth's to reach ~22 AC (e.g. Ring of Minor Warding, +½ AC); Session 33.
• Halren's minor-magic staff — claimed Session 42.
• Lorto's warning-sigil staff — borrowed, owed back to the Woodling Den; Session 25.

Consumables / misc

• Wetzel's Pretzel — experimental potions/poisons. Green: spine-crunching on small creatures, useless on large (Session 31, applied Session 38). Pink (rose-quartz): 30 ft fading blindsight, liquefies food (Session 38).
• Old Orc blood (tins/vial) — bait/components; kept as an "ethically-sourced" vial from Gwyndinas, floated then retired as an orc-disguise smear at the deep cage; Session 15, Session 41, Session 50.
• Disguise kit & Forgery kit — from a burgling pack (rolled up on a lucky double-20); disguise kit used to alter Magra's race for ~24h, forgery kit used for the first time (not proficient; an 8) to doctor Fitzburg's decree (Session 50).
• Spellcasting kit: spellbook, ink, quill, leather, component pouch.

No longer his

• War Machine Club — conned to Mean Claude with the butter-knife trick; attunement since broken (Session 04, Session 07).

Resources (last known)

• Spell slots: Wizard-6 caster (≈ 4× 1st, 3× 2nd, 3× 3rd by standard table — not individually stated). Recovers slots on a short rest via Arcane Recovery (Session 40).
• Cure Wounds: at least one casting available, plus a 2nd-level cast, as of Session 31.
• Familiar: currently a bat (Session 40); re-summonable, frequently killed (running body-count). Used as a scout — flown through the grove canopy on an Investigation check to spot the giant moorhen mother (Session 48), and flown ahead to scout the deep-mine cages (Session 50). A "healing-bird" form was in play (Session 46) — Stunghelm repeatedly flung it ~30 ft up the road; likely the familiar delivering Silithane's healing. The 1-HP bat was grafted into the druid amalgam during the boss fight, granting it blindsight 60 (Session 47).
• Coin: gained a ~27-gold share of the party's New Halfwood reward (162 gp 8 sp split, chosen over a noble title) for finding Stunghelm Elkheart and saving the food supply (Session 48); prior baseline unknown. Held 53 gold entering Session 50 and paid 40 to the beaten miner for his decree of punishment, leaving ~13 gold (Session 50).
• Wetzel's Pretzel: green + pink each used at least once; remaining counts unknown.
• Bladesong: uses/long rest not stated (Bladesinger: INT-mod uses/rest).

Unknowns / to confirm

• Exact ability scores beyond INT 17 (Session 42) — DEX, CON, WIS, CHA all unknown.
• Max HP and HP per level — never stated; only "≥13" early and "~2 HP" survival noted.
• Save bonuses and initiative total — only a +1 initiative training bump is known.
• Full prepared/known spell list — list above is spells seen in play, not the complete spellbook (which now holds three merged grimoires).
• Proficiency bonus / attack & spell-save DC — not announced as numbers.
• Whether Counterspell and Modify Memory are actually prepared/cast — only referenced.
• Attunement slots in use — multiple magic items held; which are attuned is unconfirmed.
• Pallid Elf racial traits as applied at this table (the DM companion doesn't detail the subrace).

SUMMARY: Level 7 Pallid-Elf Bladesinger spy; AC 20–25 with Bladesong, INT 17, spells transcript-mined.