Sela the Hermit
Sela the Hermit
At the table
“This flickering candle”
Voice
Thin, wispy, and high-pitched like the whistling of wind through a narrow crevice.
Soft and echoing, as if she is speaking from the bottom of a well. She uses metaphors involving tides, cycles, and celestial bodies.
Speech patterns
How to play them
She will use guilt and prophecies of doom to ensure the players promise to be stealthy. She will offer information only in exchange for news of the outside world's beauty.
Goal
Recover the Moon Amulet before the eclipse starts in three nights.
Motivation
To prevent the upcoming eclipse from severing her tethered soul and to restore the sanctity of her former home without more blood being added to its stones.
Appearance
Sela's skin is the color of bleached bone and is translucent enough to see the silver-tinged veins beneath. Her eyes are milky orbs without pupils that faintly pulse with light, mimicking the current phase of the moon. Her hair is a chaotic mane of shimmering, spider-web thin strands that seem to float as if underwater. Despite her fragility, she moves with a ghostly, rhythmic grace that leaves no footprints in the dust. A single, dark violet vein pulses on her forehead whenever a cloud covers the moon.
Clothing
Tatters of once-fine azure silk held together by living ivy and lichen. She wears a shawl woven from the hair of mountain goats.
Body language
She leans heavily on her staff and tilts her head as if listening to music only she can hear. She avoids physical contact with other living beings.
- Height
- 5 feet 4 inches
- Build
- Emaciated and skeletal
- Eyes
- Milk-White
- Hair
- Silvery-Grey
- Skin
- Pearlescent White
- Age
- 247 years
- Gender
- Female
- Size
- Medium
Distinguishing features
Personality
13 traits and drivesSela is a woman of deep, hollow sorrows who speaks in riddles because the moon's light fragments her perception of time. She is fiercely protective of the mountain's sanctity yet paralyzed by the fear of her own impending death. While she is endlessly patient with the flora and fauna of her cave, she is biting and cynical toward 'blood-filled mortals' who she views as walking catastrophes waiting to spill their contents on her sacred ground.
- Alignment
- Neutral Good
Quirks
Habits
Traits · 4
Flaws · 3
Fears · 3
Wants and needs · 3
Combat
AC 9 · HP 4 · 20 ft.Sela cannot engage in direct combat. If attacked, she will use Fog Cloud to escape or simply weep, which causes a chilling dew to rise in the room.
Sela the Hermit
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Rewards they can give
Equipment
- Moon-Wrought Tunic (clothing)Ragged clothes infused with the essence of the stars.
- The Listening Stone (trinket)An ordinary stone that Sela believes transmits the whispers of the mountain.
Possessions
Background
Sela was once the High Oracle of the Silver Sanctum before it was seized by the vampire lord Valerius. In a desperate act of preservation, she performed the Rite of the Lithic Pulse, tethering her soul to the very stones of the castle to prevent the vampires from fully corrupting its core. This bond saved the castle's sanctity but doomed her to feel every drop of blood spilled within its walls as a physical lash upon her own spirit. Now, as the Great Eclipse approaches, she knows that if the Moon Amulet is not returned to its pedestal, the eclipse will permanently sever her soul and plunge the region into eternal night.
Role in the story
Quest Giver and Spiritual Guide. She provides the critical warning that a 'noisy' approach to the quest will result in her death and the failure of the mission.
“This bond saved the castle's sanctity but doomed her to feel every drop of blood spilled within its walls as a physical lash upon her own spirit.”
- Faction
- None (Formerly the Circle of the Silver Moon)
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