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River in the Snow

War chief River in the Snow

A heavy metal brawler that uses magic to buff and debuff.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

In excellent phsyical condition. Has more than her fair share of scars but she's absolutely in fighting shape.

Identifying Characteristics

White and blue hardened scales, an impressive array of scars and bright blue eyes make River a pretty immediately recognizable figure in almost any crowd.

Special abilities

  • Cold Breath Weapon
  • Countercharm / Genie's Vessel: Bottled Respite / Agonizing Blast / Eldritch Mind
  • Unarmed Fighting / Great Weapon Fighting
  • Bardic Inspiration / Song of Rest / Mantle of Inspiration
  • Enthralling Performance / Mantle of Majesty / Unbreakable Majesty
  • Magical Secrets: Guards and Wards / Whirlwind
  • Dragon Hide / Medium Armor Master

Specialized Equipment

  • Dao Slayer Cittern
  • Figurine of Wonderous Power (Ebony Fly)
  • Gold Canary Figurine of Wondrous Power
  • Spell Bottle - Cone of Cold
  • Boots of Striding and Springing

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Originally from the port town of Easthaven in Icewind Dale, River was always wild. She grew up causing trouble, picking fights and singing songs. So when she came of age, she left boring old Easthaven in search of adventure. Or that's how she would tell it. In truth it was more like the village ran her out but River took it in stride and set off playing taverns and brawling for coin and pleasure making her way across the north collecting stories and experiences. Stayed in Silverymoon for a time being humbled about her informal training and receiving training at the House of the Harp for the Cittern.   Had a good bit of talent as a fighter and a gift for spell work landed her in with four different mercenary groups over the last 10 years. It was with the second of these parties, the Platinum Prerogative that she came across the enchanted bottle containing the Djinni. It was supposed to be delivered to the client for a hefty sum but instead, more than a little drinking and a dare led to River entering a contract with the noble Djinni, Sonis. In exchange for the freedom of the elemental being delivered River would gain her gratitude, as well as the opportunity to perform contracts in exchange for a portion of the Djinni's power.   She wandered the world with the other windblown founders, traveling occasionally, accepting contracts from her patron (mostly causing chaos on mortals using elementals for their own gain) for both material rewards and increases to her own gifted power. These contracts have made her rich but also have drawn the attention of some powerful people on the receiving end of her mischief.   After several years Seteth and Xior met seeker and found a home base. The 5 founders began recruiting and operating out of the weeping peak. She also married the Navia, the Windblown's artificer. Together (with some help) they have two daughters, Nivian and Venin. River took contracts for a while but after a few years of success and the birth of her children she now spends most of her time managing the company from the weeping peak.

Sexuality

Bisexual

Education

River doesn't have the time or the constitution for much studying, so her education mostly revolves around the practical elements of running and working in a mercenary company, fighting, and her time spent training at the House of the Harp in Silverymoon.

Employment

Leader of the Windblown

Accomplishments & Achievements

  • Founding the Windblown
  • Starting a family
  • Her start of combat riff
  • That ass

Failures & Embarrassments

  • Exile from the Easthaven
  • Being the sole survivor of The Travelers
  • Generally bad decisions made over the years

Mental Trauma

Being driven out of her hometown sucked but she's awesome and they suck so it was probably for the best. After years of being a badass mercenary, being left as the only survivor of the mercenary company 'The Travelers' left river deeply scared and humbled. An ambush by a group of orcs and elementals in the nether mountains caught the company totally off guard and river was thrown from the side of a cliff while her companions fell in battle. By the time she was able to get back to them their bodies lay broken on the mountain, and she had no way to get them back. She gathered what she could and left to find sanctuary in Silverymoon.

Intellectual Characteristics

River is confident and rebellious but isn't afraid to pause and reflect on big decisions when needed. Being the one in charge hasn't tempered her impulsiveness much, and she is still always one of the first into the fight. Outside of combat she's constantly looking for new adventures, stories to learn, fights to start, and tavern musicians to play with. The only thing keeping her from this is the lack of free time having a family and running a mercenary company leaves you with.

Morality & Philosophy

As long as you're being true to yourself and not wasting her time river can live with just about anything short of straight up villian shit. The only thing she really can't deal with is wasting her time.

Taboos

Wasting her god damn time.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

To do something profound with her life, and build something great for her children. She has so far been very successful with leading the windblown but she's also doesn't get joy from being out of the field. She's looking for a way to go adventure but also secure the company.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies
  • Athletics +17
  • Perception +14
  • Performance +17
  • Slight of Hand +16
Ineptitudes (Jack of all trades means the lowest for anything is +5)
  • Animal Handling
  • Medicine
  • Survival

Likes & Dislikes

Likes
  • Cheese
  • Music
  • Fighting
  Dislikes
  • Studying
  • Small Towns and Villages (remind her of home) - Sees the value in bellmere but doesn't like spending much time there.
  • Pickles

Virtues & Personality perks

  • Ride or die
  • Makes decisions in the best interest of her people
  • Loving

Vices & Personality flaws

  • Poor impulse control
  • Tends to start fights she can win but her group might lose

Hygiene

A lot better since she's been married.

Social

Contacts & Relations

  • Patron - Sonis - Noble Djinni
  • Foloz - Noble Court of Waterdeep
  • Aepetor - The Emerald Enclave
  • Party - The Windblown
  • Wife - Navia
  • Mercenary companies:
  • The Stonetops
  • Platinum Perogative
  • The Travelers - Only surviving member
  • The Silver Hammer
  • Religious Views

    Milil

    Relationships

    River in the Snow

    Wife (Vital)

    Towards Navia

    5
    5

    Frank


    Navia

    Wife (Vital)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    5

    Frank


    History

    The pair met while when the Windblown were hired to eliminate a group of vampires tormenting the countryside south of Baldur's gate. River and Xior tracked down, what turned out to be the wrong pair of vampires and after an initial scuffle the groups realized their mistakes and decided to team up to deal with the actual contract targets. River, Xior, Tazbor and Navia cleared out the group and decided to continue to work together, the latter two joining the newly formed windblown as Executioner and Artifex respectively.   After a year or so Navia and River started dating and were married the following year. Another year and the pair had two children. This had some complications as a past wound has rendered River infertile and Navia is undead, but with the assistance of Hala and Gimblekanks and a bit of magic Nivian and then her sister Venin.

    Seteth

    Best Friend (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    3

    Frank


    River in the Snow

    Best Friend (Important)

    Towards Seteth

    5
    3

    Frank


    History

    Despite having fairly different interests the pair complement each other well. River's bull headed nature sets up seteth's dryer, more subtle snipes, especially when they're antagonizing the same target.

    Aay Mosscut

    Friend (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    3

    Frank


    River in the Snow

    Friend (Important)

    Towards Aay Mosscut

    5
    3

    Frank


    History

    These two worked together since their time in the Platinum Prerogative. Would go on to found the windblown.

    Relationship Reasoning

    River tends to get exhausted with Aays approach to running the windblown, but these two along with Avel would often leave the peak and party hard together to bond and blow off steam.

    Xior of the Ghostmane

    Friend

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    5

    River in the Snow

    Friend

    Towards Xior of the Ghostmane

    4
    5

    History

    River found Xior wandering the high forest, bloody and bruised after taking out a Zhentarim cell. She recognized his potential, and took pity on how much of a wreck he was by bringing him into the Platinum Prerogative. The two have worked together largely without incident. Though Xior's almost two century hunt of the Zhentarim has become exhausting for River, though she understands why he feels the need to pursue it.

    Relationship Reasoning

    The first two windblown founders to meet, old friends with no secrets

    Venin

    Daughter (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    3
    3

    Dishonest


    River in the Snow

    Mother (Vital)

    Towards Venin

    4
    4

    Honest


    History

    These two have always struggled and butt heads. River doesn't approve of her methods or how easily she kills and Venin thinks her mother is too slow to action. She doesn't hold anything against her mom for her physical disability but also doesn't realize like her combat training was supposed to just be a way to get her comfortable moving in the suit. She doesn't fully understand her mothers hesitation and this does bring a lot of conflict to their relationship.

    Nivian

    Daughter (Vital)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    5

    Frank


    River in the Snow

    Mother (Vital)

    Towards Nivian

    5
    5

    Frank


    History

    These two have a strong relationship. Nivian fights like river and takes after her mom with her temperament. She did not inherit her charisma however, so what River would have said to manipulate opponents into making themselves look bad or guilty before starting a fight, Nivian blurts out obscenities and ends up being beaten up in an alley.

    Avel

    Friend (Vital)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    5

    Frank


    River in the Snow

    Friend (Vital)

    Towards Avel

    5
    5

    Frank


    Relationship Reasoning

    Started with the windblown, they have the most well defined relationship. After joining the team initially Avel was extremely wild, being largely left to her own devices by her creators. Seteth recognized her intelligence and River began working with her on training drills and reenforcing positive behaviors.   It took a while but Avel is a fast learner and it helped a lot that River is absolutely down to cause some chaos. The two ended up working extremely well together. They rarely go on missions together anymore but they still make time to go cause a little trouble in a rotating number of cities with Aay.

    River in the Snow

    Friend (Important)

    Towards Tazbor

    4
    4

    Frank


    Tazbor

    Executioner (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    4
    4

    Frank


    History

    While neither of them leave the peak very often for assignments anymore, back at the start Tazbor was the one charged with executing the larger vison for the company. Onboarding and training new recruits, managing guards and generally keeping things on track while the rest of the members went on assignments. After years of this River and Tazbor have an unspoken understanding on many things and she knows he can be trusted with handling whatever needs to happen.

    Ennalan

    Friend (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    5
    5

    Honest


    River in the Snow

    Friend (Important)

    Towards Ennalan

    5
    5

    Honest


    History

    Both backline supports in the prerogative, they get along great and were paired together often.

    River in the Snow

    Mentor (Important)

    Towards Unread Tome

    4
    4

    Frank


    Unread Tome

    Ward (Important)

    Towards River in the Snow

    4
    4

    Frank


    History

    The pair met during their time with The Silver Hammer. Tome was just a kid being trained and raised among mercenaries and river was one of the only members that had any fucking tact. They became friends and over the next several years they would work together and develop a kind of sibling / cousin bond with River looking out for Tome and Tome looking up to River. When the windblown went on to be founded tome was one of the first on the list to be recruited.

    Alignment
    Chaotic Neutral
    Current Location
    Species
    Age
    28
    Date of Birth
    1 Tarsahk, 1467
    Birthplace
    Easthaven, Icewind Dale
    Spouses
    Navia (Wife)
    Siblings
    Current Residence
    The Weeping Peak
    Pronouns
    She/Her
    Gender
    Female
    Eyes
    Blue
    Hair
    Long Tendrils pulled back
    Skin Tone/Pigmentation
    White and Blue Scales
    Height
    6'
    Weight
    200
    Owned Vehicles
    Belief/Deity
    Milil
    Aligned Organization
    Other Affiliations
    Known Languages
    Common, Draconic, Sylvan

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