Aoife

Aoife is a female tiefling necromancer born in Neverwinter Wood. She belongs to the Silver Ashes sect though she left for a while in 1489 DR seeking a more independent life.


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Description
Aoife is a female tiefling born in Neverwinter Wood in a barbarian tribe. She has light grey skin, golden eyes and a set of horns coming from under her white hair.

She is fascinated by Necromancy and and all sorts of magic that can exert control over both alive and dead people. She is very resourceful and cunning, doesn't like to be taken advantage of and always tries to get the better deal for herself.

She has her owl familiar Tartaruga perched on her shoulder at all times who is probably the only creature she trusts completely.

Aoife drives a mechanical, custom made, crab engineered by the gnomes of Gnomengarde, and rides an undead horse named Dust.

Personality Traits
«I'm prudent and cold hearted and prefer to follow my own interests.»

Ideals
«I'm ruling this world through the shades and soon you will see that.»

Bonds
«The shades of nature create my shelter.»

Flaws
«I'm afraid of dripping water and butterflies make me anxious.»

Early Life
Aoife was born in 1454 DR in Neverwinter Wood in a tribe of barbarians. Not much is known about her birth family except that at a certain point in her life she decided that the barbarian lifestyle did not suit her and left her tribe.

Some time later she joined another nomadic tribe that lived in the woods, the Silver Ashes. Led by Kethra Sepret, they are a group of Necromancers who aim to study and control all forms of necromancy. While with them she grew close to another tiefling called Hamun Kost, they studied and practiced their magic abilities together while climbing the ranks of their organization.

Aoife however did not appreciate all the rules and regulations they had to observe and, at last, left the Silver Ashes to live by her own rules. While going out of the woods she found a road that led her to the village of Hangrad, north of Neverwinter, where she met Alfirin and Elrod Linxakasendalor and decided to join them in a more independent life.

The Forge of Spells And the White Dragon
While walking down the High Road, Aoife and her new companions stopped at the High Road Inn where they met the dwarf merchant Gundren Rockseeker and his human escort Sildar Hallwinter for the first time. There they got the job of delivering a wagon of supplies to the nearby town of Phandalin for the dwarf. This job led to the creation of their adventuring group, the Fellowship of the Luchd-Iomairt, and their involvment in the events following the rediscovery of the Forge of Spells and the appearance of the white dragon Cryovain.

After the first appearance of the white dragon, the adventurers were sent around the Phandalin area to warn people outside of town. After spending some time in the gnome wizards settlement of Gnomengarde and helping them with a mimic infestation, Aoife asked if she could have one of the gnomes inventions, a vehicle built from a barrel with the shape of crab. The gnomes agreed and built a custom Barrel Crab that ended up receiving many upgrades as time passed reaching the last recorded version of 4.5.

Some time later the fellowship decided to investigate a disturbance at some old ruins called Old Owl Well where people said to have seen many zombies roaming around. As they approached the place and entered a conspicuous tent placed near a collapsed tower, they met Hamun Kost, an old Aoife's acquaintance and member of the Silver Ashes. Both surprised to see each other again, it became slowly clear that Hamun was mad at her for leaving even though he tried to hide it. Aoife then decided to talk to him alone and as they were discussing her reasons for leaving and he explained his current assignment, something sparked between the two and they spent the night together. After this episode she kept seing Hamun as he offered some help while trying to convince her to go back to the Silver Ashes with him.

While in Thundertree Aoife and her companions met some cultist trying to talk to the green dragon Venomfang. Wanting to stop them they followed them on the dragon's tower where Venomfang decided they had to fight for her attention. Defeated the cultist they agreed on becoming part of the dragon's "treasure" in exchange for help against Cryovain. Being now at Venomfang's service, the dragon tasked them with driving a group Talos worshipping Half-Orcs from the Neverwinter Woods. In doing so, they met Rhogar Linxakasendalor, Elrod's older brother, who having had some experience with the anchorites of Talos lead them to their hideout where they discovered the source of the Blights that were swarming the forest, a Gulthias Tree that, thanks to Alfirin's ability to talk to plants was discovered to be a cursed Treant.

Rhogar also pointed out the location of a tomb near the High Road were Lady Tanamere Alagondar, a hero from Neverwinter who died killing the green dragon Azdraka, was buried supposedly with her magical sword Dragonslayer. The adventurers decided it was worth looking into it and explored the underground tomb where, in addition to finding the sword, they discovered that Lady Tanamere's horse who died with her was buried in the same tomb. The horse however, despite being not more than a skeleton, was still alive, the last traces of its former self still perceivable by touch as ghostly muscles around its bones. Aoife immediately felt a connection and slowly tamed the undead beast adopting it as her new mount.

Before dealing with Cryovain, Alfirin decided she wanted to break the Treant's Curse and they asked Hamun Kost for help. Shortly after, Aoife received the unexpected visit of Kethra Sepret, the Archnecromancer leader of the Silver Ashes. She said that if they wanted the complete ritual to break the curse Aoife had to go back to their sect. This however was just a bluff from her part, a way for her to assess what kind of bond Aoife had with her companions. Kethra gave her the complete ritual and explained how she now understood the mistakes she had made with her, and how she wanted to make up for it if Aoife agreed to rejoin them.

After defeating Cryovain, Aoife and her companions received a Lord's Alliance signet ring from Sildar Hallwinter and were named Cloaks for the help they provided with securing the Forge of Spells and ending the white dragon threat over the High Road. Gone back to Axeholm, where Phandalin had been evacuated in the meantime, Alfirin, Aoife and Elrod, decided to go their separate ways and the Fellowship of the Luchd-Iomairt was disbanded. Aoife decided to follow Hamun towards Neverwinter Wood to meet with the other members and rejoin the Silver Ashes trusting Kethra's word for the time being.

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Skills

 * Arcana
 * History
 * Insight
 * Religion

Saves

 * Intelligence
 * Wisdom

Weapons

 * daggers
 * darts
 * slings
 * quarterstaffs
 * light crossbows

Armors
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Tools
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Languages

 * Common
 * Infernal
 * Gnomic
 * Draconic

Other Features
Hit Point Maximum: 44

Items

 * Hat of Wizardry
 * Necklace of Fireballs (6 beads)
 * Piece of Artifact
 * Potion of Flying
 * Ring of Protection
 * Scroll of Misty Step
 * Sending Stone (paired to the one held by Fibblestib)
 * Spider Staff
 * Staff of Defense
 * Wand of Magic Missiles
 * Wand of Pyrotechnics
 * Wand of Secrets

Vehicles

 * Barrel Crab Mk.4.5

Shares

 * 4.125% of the Forge of Spells profits