De Stem
De Stem
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Very Large, Very Heavy
Body Features
- Vestigial tail
Facial Features
- Scar across my face
Mental characteristics
Personal history
I was born at home (the forest of Aundun) and I’m the youngest with two older brothers. We where raised by our mom in a rundown shack (and that says a lot for firbolgs) because our dad abandoned us when we where young. My mother used to tell us bedtime stories every night, about heroes and I always enamored by them and wished that I could be something more than ordinary one day. However, I did have several friends growing up and I have generally happy memories about my childhood.
When I was about 33 I fell in love with Anleya, one of the most beautiful firbolgs in the forest and we’ve stayed together for over 20 years but after years of trying to get children without any success, we broke up. She is now a Laborour and has become quite successful.
When I was about 33 I fell in love with Anleya, one of the most beautiful firbolgs in the forest and we’ve stayed together for over 20 years but after years of trying to get children without any success, we broke up. She is now a Laborour and has become quite successful.
I continued my life and dedicated it to creation, building decent housing for everyone in the tribe (from sustainable materials only of course).
When I was about a century old, our village was attacked by the [enemy] and I helped rebuild it from the ground up. After the village was destroyed however a few firbolgs (including my oldest brother) didn’t want to stay in the forest anymore and decided to travel to a better place. After a few years my brother abruptly stopped sending me letters and I can only assume he died but how and for what reason (if any) I don’t know.
I spend lots of time exploring the woods and trying to help the plants and creatures grow and thrive and some of the trees I’ve planted when I was a kid still stand today. It was on one of those days where I was exploring the deeper parts of the forest to see if I could find some samples of the rare plants that grew there to see if I could let them grow in different places to increase their chance to grow when I stumbled through a magical doorway and that is where I first saw him in person: The Warden. A celestial stag that rules and protects the forest.
He asked me to be his voice, eyes and ears and to collect knowledge of the rest of the world. After I returned and explained what happened, the tribe referred to me as “The Voice” and I started my travels throughout the world on my quest to learn. I’m mostly left to my own devices with no interference from the Warden but sometimes I dread of the demands it will make when it does appear.
Alignment
Not so lawfull anymore - Good
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
One Blue and One Robot
Hair
Grey
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Grey
Height
8'4"
Weight
460lbs
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Meeting Katla
I try to cast Eldrich Blast but notice I'm not in the forest anymore. They tell me that I've been frozen as stone and they've brought me to Katla and restored me. I take some time to recover and we stay at Sven and Henk. The next day I go to a magic shop and buy a spell scroll to create a tiny hut. I write the ritual down in my own book and two days later, Jorg returns and tells us that they've had some losses and not everyone made it back.
We decide to go to Katla and Helja calls out "Who is Katla, we need to talk to ya.". Jorg puts a hand on her shoulder and points to the lady at the end of the long table. Now we have to walk all the way there awkwardly having to walk past all the people looking at us. We introduce ourselves and Katla whom was sitting on someones lap went with Jorg to a different table to talk about some business. I took a seat at the long table (making one guy at the other end fall of the bench (he went to the other side of the table and set down there)). Vinter and Helja also set down on the other side of the table (again making the same guy whom just went to that side of the table fall off) and we started a conversation. Someone at the table asked me where I was from so I answered and I asked the same of him (apparently he was from Katla, who could have known) and I continued to ask if they had any stories about recent conquests and someone answered by telling about a city to the east that was completely pink and sparkles, as if a 9 year old's coloring book was spilled all over it. We laughed a bit and I asked the guy whom had Katla on his lap "And I assume that you must be the ranking officer here" to which he replied that he was the King, leaving me with egg on my face stumbling to find words.
Turning to Stone
After defeating the Gnolls we search for a place in the forest with some trees so we can hide. We find one and setup the camp after which ... tells us a story about why Loki is allowed to celebrate both fathers-day as well as mothers-day.
At the start of the night, when the party was just asleep, we where attacked by frost snake like creatures. I completely missed them and only noticed when ... woke screaming because one of them attacked him. I look up onto the eyes of one of those creatures and am immediately frozen. I hear Grimm yell that we shouldn't look them in the eyes (a bit too late for me). I cast mirror image on myself to make it difficult for them to attack me, but I feel the freezing cold running up through my vanes until I'm completely frozen and I can't move at all anymore.
Scarecrows
We were walking through a forest searching for the Gnolls when we encountered a hag walking in the forest. I talked to her for a bit and she wanted us to go to her house. I told her that that was our plan but that I would go back to our party and go with all of us.
After a bit more walking, we saw a open field planted with a communal garden with some scarecrows in it. We decided to check it out and as we suspected some magic, I casted detect magic and walked around the fields for a bit. I detected a slight hint of conjuration magic around the scarecrows but nothing that scared me that much. However, when Anlanya told me to go to the pumpkin field and check that out I got a little bit to annoyed and decided to show her that there was nothing scary about them and poked one of them only to get hit right in the face by the scarecrow and all other scarecrows came running towards us.
I was quickly surrounded by four scarecrows and they all dropped swarms of centipedes everything together took me down.
When I woke up, I was being dragged off by 10 giant centipedes so I turned invisible and walked to safety. Then I created a bonfire around one of the scarecrows killing him so I did it again on another scarecrow, it ran away but I cast it again killing him as well.
We had a short rest after that and continued to the road to the hags house. After a while, we come to a clearing where we see a hill with a house on top of it using three trees as corners. Around the hill is a hedge that was being cut by little people in wearing red caps. I recognize those as Dwarves so I suggest that Helja tries to talk to them. She is a bit insulted as it turned out that the creature was not actually a dwarf. She did however try and talk to them but they just murmured and didn't try to communicate.
We decided to go into the cave in the side of the hill but as we crossed the hedge vines came out and grappled some of us. I managed to stay free by tearing myself loose from the vines and I also pulled Helja out of the grapple of the hedge. By the time I was done doing that, the two humans from the Katla delegation that travel with us where already down because of some tiny blue creatures that where almost to fast to see. I could heal one of those so I decided to heal the paladin. But Helja apparently didn't think I healed enough as she decided to also heal the paladin instead of the fighter that was also down.
After helping everyone out of the hedge and healing Helja whom went down trying to fight off one of the redcaps. I shot an eldritch blast to the tiny blue creature I've targeted with my hex spell.
After killing the creatures I decide we should go and enter the caves. I hand out a couple of healing potions to the ones in need and we continue to the cave.
We enter the cave and immediately stumble upon 5 normal Gnolls, 4 Skeleten Gnolls and two angry looking Gnolls. Grimm whom went first through the entrance tanked them like a boss while I moved my hex to one of the angry Gnolls and hit him with an Eldritch blast. It went down and I targeted the only other angry Gnoll that was still standing by than and hit that one with another Eldritch blast. They all went down with relative ease and we decided to leave and get a good nights rest.
Traveling to Katla
We meet up with Jorg (the leader of the delegation) and introduce Grimm.
When traveling the first night we setup camp, the delegation is impressed by our wyvern wings tent.
During the night, I hear a voice carried by the wind which sounds like elvish but not quite (it is sylvan) so I wake Anlanya whom doesn’t hear the voice and even with my mimicing of the voice she doesn’t understand the language. We wake the rest of our party and go to check out what the voice is.
We walk for a bit and find 4 fey that are singing in a ritual in an open spot. We don’t see them as a thread so we go back to the camp.
At the village we’ve passed at our way to the Dwarves, we see that the village is attacked by Gnolls. The houses burning and the villagers in a panic running around. I’ve used my thunder step twice (once to also help a civilian to get to safety).
We defeat the gnolls and decide to go north to try to find out where they’ve come from and if there aren’t a lot of them, stop them.
On our journey, we find a herd of mammoths and I try to talk to them to convince them to let us ride them but they didn’t want to so I warned them about the Gnolls and if they’ve seen them and they point us east.
We go east and during the night we get attacked by 4 Gnolls.
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