3.4 KiB
3.4 KiB
type, role, location, alignment, race, class, status
| type | role | location | alignment | race | class | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| npc | Cult Warlock, Sunken Spire Leader | Sunken Spire | Chaotic Evil | Half-Elf (Sea) | Warlock (Deep One) 11 | dead (end of Arc 2 Hook 7) |
Mistress Veyla
Appearance
A sea half-elf with pale blue-gray skin, kelp-green hair, and completely black eyes without visible pupils or sclera. Faint bioluminescent patterns trace her cheekbones and forearms, pulsing in rhythm with the tides. She moves with an unsettling, fluid grace — as if she has spent so long underwater that walking feels unnatural.
Personality
- Serene — speaks in calm, almost hypnotic tones even while ordering murders
- Obsessive — fixated on "the song of the deep," a telepathic call she believes comes from the Primordial Wrath
- Isolationist — prefers the company of sea creatures to people; considers surface-dwellers a plague
- Pitying — genuinely believes drowning the world would be a mercy
Role in Campaign
- Arc 2 Hook 7 boss: leader of the Sunken Spire cell
- Guards the seal anchor; her ritual has been ongoing for 2 weeks when the party arrives
- Carries intelligence about the Thronewood convoy on her body
Stat Block (CR 11)
- HP: 140 (20d8 + 40) | AC: 17 (mage armor + DEX) | Speed: 30 ft, swim 40 ft
- Damage Resistance: cold
- Amphibious: Can breathe air and water
- Spellcasting: Warlock 11 (DC 17, +9). 3 spell slots (5th level). Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Lance of Lethargy, Tomb of Levistus.
- Cantrips: eldritch blast (3 beams), minor illusion, chill touch
- Spells: armor of agathys, hunger of hadar, summon greater demon, cone of cold, evard's black tentacles, scrying
- Drown (Recharge 6): Ranged spell attack +9, 60 ft. On hit: 3d10 cold damage and target's lungs fill with seawater. Target begins suffocating and can use an action to make a DC 17 CON save to expel water.
- Call the Deep (1/Day): Summons 1d4+2 merrow or 1 water elemental. Replaces any active summons.
Combat Tactics
- Pre-casts armor of agathys (5th level: 25 temp HP, 25 cold damage to attackers)
- Opens with hunger of hadar centered on the party, then uses eldritch blast to push creatures back into it
- Uses summon greater demon (barlgura or vrock) when below 50% HP as a desperation play
- If reduced to 25% HP and not subdued: tries to collapse the chamber, drowning everyone (DC 18 INT (Arcana) to stop, requires 3 party members to disrupt ritual circles simultaneously)
Loot
- Tideheart Pearl (see Items)
- Veyla's Logbook: A water-proofed journal documenting seal instability readings, cult communications, and a personal note: "The song grows louder. Soon the whole world will hear it. I envy those who drown — they taste the deep first."
- Cult Dispatch: Signed orders from Keeper Malachar directing the Thronewood convoy route and schedule.
Secrets
- Veyla was born on land. She joined the Hand of Ruin after the Crown Concordat executed her father — a Kethran fisherman accused of spying. She watched him hang from a pier as the tide rose around his feet.
- The "song" she hears is real — it's a telepathic echo of the Primordial Wrath's pain, bleeding through the cracked seal. Other creatures with telepathic sensitivity can hear it faintly.
- She never learned to swim until she was 30. She drowned herself in a ritual to prove her faith to the Pontiff, and the Wrath brought her back.