Vsevolodrik
Vsevolodrik is a mysterious entity that has appeared throughout the Spiritual Traveler's journey.
He has only been truly interacted with once, and this was while within the rather unreliable environment of The Maze. The room that he was in was filled with endless darkness and located behind a hidden door behind The Chained Man. There were only two sources of light in this room which perfectly illuminated the King, his Throne and his Crown. Hysteria seemed to recognize this King to some degree, and even had at least one secret conversation with him. During this conversation, the King informed Hysteria that "there is no way back", a phrase which was later repeated by Ilven while she was attacking the Spiritual Travelers as The Unblinking Sein.
The only other time he has been seen was shortly after the explosion at the Gate Camp. During these events he was chased by Kaswink and eventually stopped to just stare at her with a look of pure sorrow on his face. He offered Kaswink Another Unusual Fragment before vanishing. Kaswink's ability to track people is currently locked onto him and points her towards the Northwest. While the old man that was found there has not been confirmed to be The King, he did have a piece of the crown and looked a lot like him. Additionally, Namina was given a vision by the Chittering Spirit of a Stone Throne somewhere to the Northwest, similar to the direction that Kaswink is being led.
Physical Description
Body Features
His appearance in the Maze and at the Gate Camp Explosion were as follows:
An elderly man of indeterminate race. His flesh was pale, grey, and wrinkled. His frame was emaciated, and he had a long, straggly beard. His hair was a variety of shades of white and grey. He had dark grey eyes, and fingers that ended with unkempt nails. He appeared to be a shell of a man, dressed in rags and barely hanging on.
Apparel & Accessories
The Stone Crown - The only piece of his royal garb that "remained" while he was in The Maze was his crown. This crown was heavy, cold to the touch and a little porous like stone. Its color was a variety of greys which moved throughout the crown, flowing and reaching a point at its front-center which looked like a flame made of stone. This flame was moving like the rest of the crown, but it also licked through the air with pieces breaking off like an actual fire.
An Unusual Fragment was discovered by the Spiritual Travelers in a Well of Darkness. It appeared as the darkness that filled this well was condenced by Agave's beam of moonlight. The fragment behaves in much the same way as the crown, and it was hypothesized that the Unblinking Sein may have even been the one to take this King.
Another Unusual Fragment was given to Kaswink by someone that was likely this same King shortly after the explosion at the Gate Camp. This fragment had a similar flowing stone effect, but it was the flame portion of the crown.
Specialized Equipment
The Stone Throne - The King was seated in a throne made of stone while in The Maze. This same throne was seen in a vision by Kaswink which featured a massive centipede crawling all over it, weird! This vision seemed to take place on a cliff somewhere.
The throne was seen again when Namina was given a vision by the Chittering Spirit. It seems to be located somewhere to the Northwest in a village with Elven architecture. Somebody referred to as The Usurper was seated on the throne. This Usurper was holding a black greatsword, black banner, and wore a black crown. He appeared to be a "younger" Snow Elf.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Long before the events of the campaign, before the L’huine first built their city, Vsevolodrik was just a child. His life is still a mystery, and whether or not he was somehow a child-king of his people is also unknown, but his phrasing of "not the king of this place" when the Spiritual Travelers first met him in The Maze, suggests that it is a possibility.
At some point during his childhood, a cataclysm of some unknown design wiped out all life on his homeworld. Vsevolodrik apparently wanted to desparately forget what it was that caused this, but he also wanted the people, culture, the very world to live on forever. In his attempt to reconcile this, he somehow created the Chittering Spirit. This spirit would go on to preserve other worlds on the brink of disaster, and claimed that the ones it was too late for were apparently all lifeless expanses of desolation with a sun that had gone dark. Such a world would eventually be witnessed by the Spiritual Travelers when they encountered the Whendigo.
If the book, The Lost Child, is anything to be believed and not just some strangely accurate bedtime story written by some elf, then Vsevolodrik was left wandering this strange world for an incredibly long time. Despite this, he somehow did not die and was unable to sleep. according to both this book and Aotrom's claims, it can be assumed that Vsevolodrik was either found by Ar'en'el and guided into Her Realm, or Vsevolodrik accidentally stumbled into Ar'en'el's Realm. Either way, the two of them met while he was still young, young enough to be referred to as a child by Aotrom. Before this, Ar'en'el was alone, but Vsevolodrik began to cast shadows and a new world was slowly built.
Time passed, different layers of the Spirit World came into being, and Vsevolodrik and Ar'en'el at some point became the being known as Ulunor. A L'huine leader known as The Psychic heard Ulunor one day and began work on a city designed to access The Spirit World, and a new era for this realm began. The L'huine built gates allowing them to access certain layers of this world, connections that helped anyone be closer to their various Smrtohnya, and they made giant glass bells to make sure everything remained open, free, harmonious. Vsevolodrik, then just a shadow, warned them against trusting everything they meet in this realm as Spirits tend to have all sorts of varying personalities or goals. This era came to an end, however, as a terrible deal was struck between The Oni and the Chittering Spirit. This deal, if it could even be called such a thing, began to change the L'huine, mutate them, and would eventually remove them from existence altogether. Vsevolodrik managed to get most of them to safety, but they were changed and would eventually come to be known as elves. Tales were told of this dreadful deal, of how a fae or a spirit tricked them into it, and elven society would forever be sculpted around this distrust. It wouldn't be until millenia later that Hysteria, a Jester with the singular purpose of hunting down fae, warlocks that make deals with fae, and other such atrocities, would learn that this history was not entirely true. The "deal" that was struck was no more than a lie weaved by The Oni, one to fuel distrust, and that the horrible event that nearly wiped them from existence was born from his own power. It is unclear if The Oni planned to have the L'huine escape, perhaps it was necessary for certain other events to occur throughout history... Vsevolodrik at this point would assume the roll of "The Patron" to a select group of elven assassins known as Jesters. Their goal was to keep elven culture alive, strike fear into the hearts of elves that grew comfortable or complacent in their near-immortality, and to prevent pacts between fae and elves or mortals. It is unknown or unclear what the intention of preventing this pacts originally was, though it is possible that he too believed some sinister fae or spirit caused the event. Or perhaps he just didn't want anyone finding another reliable way into the Spirit World.
Sometime between 50 and 7000 years ago, Vsevolodrik was taken by a being described by Ar'en'el as "A hulking figure, strong, tall, not thick like a bugbear but lithe and with a face covered with a mask. Three horns protruded from this mask's forehead." This description matched Croak's description of one of The Oni's forms. Meanwhile, in the material plane, The Patron was missing. It is unclear what exactly happened, but somewhere along the line a Jester by the name of Anguish must have taken up the title and began commanding other Jesters in place of Vsevolodrik. The name of this Jester was provided by the Chittering Spirit. Tympi, during this time, met with Ar'en'el as she was compelled to journey north. For some reason, she never wrote about this in her journal. However, she was given a piece of Ar'en'el along with instructions to find Vsevolodrik and to "Illuminate the World." Another event that happened sometime between 50 and 7000 years ago was the disappearance of all light in the Spirit World. The year that this took place in is unknown as Tympi didn't really write years down, but it was detailed in her Journal. With the help of a mysterious spirit capable of removing memories, perhaps the Chittering Spirit, Tympi and her friends were able to stop this age of darkness.
His crown seems to have been shattered at some point and scattered throughout the Spirit World. A fragment has shown up at the bottom of a Well of Darkness with Centipede iconography lining the side of the well. It is unclear who broke this crown, who burried it, who made this well, or anything really. However, the Well was also filled with darkness that was reminiscent of The Unblinking Sein. Because of this, it is also theorized that he was taken by the same spirit that took Tympi and eventually her sister.
Time passed, different layers of the Spirit World came into being, and Vsevolodrik and Ar'en'el at some point became the being known as Ulunor. A L'huine leader known as The Psychic heard Ulunor one day and began work on a city designed to access The Spirit World, and a new era for this realm began. The L'huine built gates allowing them to access certain layers of this world, connections that helped anyone be closer to their various Smrtohnya, and they made giant glass bells to make sure everything remained open, free, harmonious. Vsevolodrik, then just a shadow, warned them against trusting everything they meet in this realm as Spirits tend to have all sorts of varying personalities or goals. This era came to an end, however, as a terrible deal was struck between The Oni and the Chittering Spirit. This deal, if it could even be called such a thing, began to change the L'huine, mutate them, and would eventually remove them from existence altogether. Vsevolodrik managed to get most of them to safety, but they were changed and would eventually come to be known as elves. Tales were told of this dreadful deal, of how a fae or a spirit tricked them into it, and elven society would forever be sculpted around this distrust. It wouldn't be until millenia later that Hysteria, a Jester with the singular purpose of hunting down fae, warlocks that make deals with fae, and other such atrocities, would learn that this history was not entirely true. The "deal" that was struck was no more than a lie weaved by The Oni, one to fuel distrust, and that the horrible event that nearly wiped them from existence was born from his own power. It is unclear if The Oni planned to have the L'huine escape, perhaps it was necessary for certain other events to occur throughout history... Vsevolodrik at this point would assume the roll of "The Patron" to a select group of elven assassins known as Jesters. Their goal was to keep elven culture alive, strike fear into the hearts of elves that grew comfortable or complacent in their near-immortality, and to prevent pacts between fae and elves or mortals. It is unknown or unclear what the intention of preventing this pacts originally was, though it is possible that he too believed some sinister fae or spirit caused the event. Or perhaps he just didn't want anyone finding another reliable way into the Spirit World.
Sometime between 50 and 7000 years ago, Vsevolodrik was taken by a being described by Ar'en'el as "A hulking figure, strong, tall, not thick like a bugbear but lithe and with a face covered with a mask. Three horns protruded from this mask's forehead." This description matched Croak's description of one of The Oni's forms. Meanwhile, in the material plane, The Patron was missing. It is unclear what exactly happened, but somewhere along the line a Jester by the name of Anguish must have taken up the title and began commanding other Jesters in place of Vsevolodrik. The name of this Jester was provided by the Chittering Spirit. Tympi, during this time, met with Ar'en'el as she was compelled to journey north. For some reason, she never wrote about this in her journal. However, she was given a piece of Ar'en'el along with instructions to find Vsevolodrik and to "Illuminate the World." Another event that happened sometime between 50 and 7000 years ago was the disappearance of all light in the Spirit World. The year that this took place in is unknown as Tympi didn't really write years down, but it was detailed in her Journal. With the help of a mysterious spirit capable of removing memories, perhaps the Chittering Spirit, Tympi and her friends were able to stop this age of darkness.
His crown seems to have been shattered at some point and scattered throughout the Spirit World. A fragment has shown up at the bottom of a Well of Darkness with Centipede iconography lining the side of the well. It is unclear who broke this crown, who burried it, who made this well, or anything really. However, the Well was also filled with darkness that was reminiscent of The Unblinking Sein. Because of this, it is also theorized that he was taken by the same spirit that took Tympi and eventually her sister.
Associated Characters:
The Usurper
Hysteria
Ulunor Other Names
The King
Unnamed Child
The Patron
The Usurper
Hysteria
Ulunor Other Names
The King
Unnamed Child
The Patron
Children
Hair
white, grey
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
light grey, wrinkled
Height
5'8"
Weight
95lbs
Related Plots
Related Reports
- Session 07: A Mysterious King, The Crown, The Heart and The Spirit World!
- Session 20: The Wheel of Fortune, Follow the Leshy, The Well of Darkness, and The Old Woman's Cottage!
- Session 30: Confronting Hysteria, The Paper Bird, and Weresnails Attack!
- Session 40: Treating the Afflicted and Paying Quince a Visit
- Session 41: The Tea Party and an Unexpected Guest
- Session 48: Ice Cream, Pizza and Suffering
- Session 50: Saving the Tourists / An Unsettling Discovery
- Session 51: Something about a Diner and a Shadow?
- Session 57: So Long, Stinktown!
- Session 59: "Why are We Here?" thought the Adventurers.
- Session 60: Revelations and Convolutions
- Session 63: A World of Darkness
- Session 78: Between Themselves and a Prisoner
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