Veiko

Appearance

An Orc with intricate white tattoos spread across his grey-green skin. His long black hair is braided into a chord that reaches his lower back. Tough and resilient from his years in the wilds, Veiko's body is thick and muscular. And though he was never classically educated, his eyes are dark and piercing, constantly assessing what he sees. He is a simple man, preferring to wear cottons and furs instead of leathers or steel plate that might offer more protection, retaining the ability to move freely. Around his neck is a medallion. A symbol of his people and his ancestors that he believes protects him.

Veiko wields a single headed axe with a worn ironwood handle. Both the head and haft bear the markings of his tribe in the Deep Woods. He carries a simple shield as well, which he uses more often as a tool than for protection. He wields it only for particularly bloody work.

Backstory

Born on the fringes of the Deep Woods at the base of the mountains of Thain-win, Veiko is a member of a particularly spiritual orcish tribe. They are connected to the Orcs of old, perhaps by magic or, more likely, simply through an oral history. They believe themselves guided by the spirits of their ancestors. They seek to learn from past mistakes so as not to be banished below the earth like their people 35,000 years previous. As all in his tribe, Veiko was trained to read the signs of the spirits. Receiving visions in his dreams. Seeing visions in the fire and smoke.

Living a simple life, Veiko soon began to crave more. He traveled further from the woods, encountering travelers and traders. Through them he learned about the world beyond his home. He spent years trading animal furs and his services as a bodyguard and guide, and though he never learned to read, he eventually learned the common tongue.

One night, in a dream, Veiko was delivered a vision of a cave in the mountains. A cave he had never seen, far beyond the Deep Woods. A cave that contained a great evil. For days he meditated on the dream, staring into smoke and flame, eventually deciding to travel deep into the mountains. As he traveled, his dreams and the visions in the smoke became more and more detailed. More urgent. On his travels, he encountered twin elves selling fluorescent furs that offered to lead him to the cave. He was slow to trust them, though in the end the urgency of his visions spurred him on and he relented. A week of travel later, and he found himself at the cave from his dream, a yawning black cavern leading into the earth. Traveling below the earth, Veiko comes across a group of dwarves. They tell him of Torunn, the forces gathered there, and a great evil rising. They trade directions, and advise Veiko of the path he must take, imparting with him a secret phrase to grant him passage.

Now Veiko waits outside Torunn. The dreams have not come to him in weeks, though he wakes each day with a feeling of dread. And each day he meditates by the fire in hopes of receiving another sign.

Notes

2020-02-23

• In a bad way after fighting Tharzidun
• The Shadowfell begins to change after we defeat Tharzidun
• The portal back to the material plane begins to collapse
• Remnant is distracted by something as the group makes for the portal
• The portal collapses
  • Damn, man
• Remnant teleports us
• We’re in a small room, stairs lead up and down.
  • The room seems simple, quickly assembled, constructed
• wwwWWWWwwwwWWWWwwWWWWW
• We find a room where the dwarf Torun Torun greets us
  • He was the dwarf who made the stone creatures that Remnant once was.
  • He thought he was making copies of people and storing them in the warforged.
  • He was actually trapping their essence in the warforged.
• Remnant can create connections between planes.
  • Can effectively cast Planeshift at will??
• Remnant draws the planes together and takes us back to the material plane where…
• There’s a FIGHT!
• The two parties meet!!!
• IT’S GLORIOUS!!!
• OH GOD THERE’S A FIGHT
• JEEESUS
• O FUK

2019-12-29

• Arrive in the Shadowfell
• Pass through the wilderness of the Shadowfell
  • It’s spooky
• Approach the gate to Lolth's fortress
• Fought two guards at the gate
  • Tolnor banishes the troll with the awful tummy mouth
  • The party defeats the thicc scorpion and tens of small creatures that crawl down from the top of the gate
• We heal up and with a key found on the scorpion pass through the gate
• Entering the hall, it’s empty
• An awful creature appears
  • It taunts us
  • I’m gonna kill this thing, I swear
• Remnant knows this awful creature is Tharzidun
• Tharzidun claims that the throne of the Shadowfell is his and not Lolth's
• Tharzidun reveals his awful fight servant:
  • Eldritch Horror, Stephen Gorsula
• We fight Tharzidun and the winged-goat-demon Stephen Gorsula
• It’s a tough fight
• Veiko ain’t going down
• Tolnor is enfeebled
  • We really need to find a way to dispel this
• With teamwork and luck, the aspect of Tharzidun and Gorsula are defeated
• The fortress begins to collapse
• The group gathers on the dais which seems magically protected from the collapsing fortress.
• Luana casts Greater Restoration on Tolnor.
• Veiko survives the encounter with 1hp.

2019-11-17

• Captured an angel who claims she was created by the god Tharzidun.
  • Followed Wrath in service of her creator.
• Tharzidun is a dead god.
• Verity rips the soul from the angel and places it in her great axe.
• We walk throughout the day to meet with Mab.
• We arrive at Mabs icy castle and are greeted by Otrin.
• We meet Mab!
  • What are we here for again?
• Mab gives us food and drink and talks about the gods
  • "What has Hextor done?" "I pushed him into a well."
• Mab's great. I'd die for her.
• Tolnor: "To be clear, I will tattle on you."
• Everyone is real mean to Mab even though we all love her.
• Mab reveals that a condition of her helping us is that we owe her a favor.
  • Veiko doesn't like it.
  • Tolnor offers to take the owed favor on himself.
  • He doesn't
• We agree to enter the Shadowfell through Mab's portal. We take on her favor.
• We do some shopping.
• An Epilogue
• Lem, Hark, an old elf, a young elf, a sailor, and a tiefling make their way through the mountains towards a giant cave in
• !!!!!!

2019-10-06

• Verity is blindfolded and placed in a wooden carriage pulled by a pair of goliaths.
• The gang follows the carriage at a distance.
  • We get seen and the carriage pulls away.
• Verity is taken to a small village where Wrath may be located: a collection of huts.
  • A gathering of goliaths, they kneel.
  • Wrath reveals himself.
• Wrath delivers a speech.
  • He once was a marked one but Vanua blessed him
  • The other goliaths praise Wrath above their god.
  • They hate Verity's tattooed markings.
• Luana arrives and STARTS SOME MAJOR SHIT!! REVERSE GRAVITY!!!
  • Some of the goliaths burst, Bone Devils emerging from their skin husks.
    • It's. Awful.
  • Gravity returns and everyone falls; committing a war crime.
• Even with the aid of Reverse Gravity, the fight is long and tough, but we defeat Wrath and his followers.
• We're left in a large field of bodies, including the bodies of two bone devils
• Remnant retrieves the unconscious body of the angel woman with a cursed flaming sword.
• The party begins creating a pyre to give funeral rites to those that died.
• Tolnor is real upset.

2019-09-22

• Verity's god sends a sign. Verity goes super sayan.
• Discuss what to do with the captain of the ship.
• Veiko casts clairvoyance to spy on the other ship and sees:
  • A beholder
  • ~30 crewman
  • ~6 harpies
  • 1 gods damn pirate king
• The crew bickers with themselves forever and Veiko doesn’t want to argue.
• Veiko tries to help prepare the ship for whatever they may encounter in the morning.
• Veiko doesn’t think they should attack the ship because the crew may be in more danger than the gang.
• Veiko believes that Verity is guided by Vanua and going to parlay with the other priests(cultists?) of Vanua will work out if it’s what the goddess suggests.
• Remnant contacts another plane where his collective consciousness was banished.
• Verity sneaks out of the ship to row over to the other ship to meet the other priests of Vanua and pirates.
  • The pirates and priests take Verity, disarm her and bind her hands
• BOY HOWDY DOES SOME SHIT HAPPEN, HUH?
• SOMETIMES IT JUST BE LIKE IT DO I GUESS
• We’re following the caravan?