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Aqua

CanonOfficial lore from the booksBoDp. 87▶ Actual play

Aqua is the fey spirit of the forest of Sınır Sapı in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"). By Lady Teresa's account, she comes from water and chooses to live mostly beneath it. A dense part of her spirit dwells in the heart buried near the forest's centre, and the rest spreads through the forest's workings.123

Nature

Teresa does not hold her wholly ill-meaning, but says that her twisted mischief can do harm without her knowing it, and that she once persuaded her not to harm people. The loss of recent memory suffered by campers she does not count as friends, who come back knowing little, Teresa puts down to the fey's wide influence. She lets no one she does not count a friend come near the heart. The small lake and the good its water does the animals are given as signs of her influence. The fey are held to be creatures of chaos and creative power whose danger changes with their mood.45678

The audience

Teresa meant to ask Aqua to take sides in the war against the enemy and, if need be, to move her heart. With Teresa, Jonathan River and Olaf were carried by the great black snake to the caves beneath the lake. In the corridors, the spirit at first spoke through writing and shapes that appeared on the walls. To Jonathan's offer of help against a shared enemy she showed confusion; at the relic bracelet on his wrist she showed fear and recognition. She said she wished to trust him but wanted proof. Jonathan showed her a document and wrote of the friend he was thinking of, and she asked leave to look into his memories; then the wall opened.910111213

Beyond a stone arch lay a lower chamber whose moss on floor and walls glowed from within in many colours, with scents of flowers and spices. There the snake settled on the moss, its eyes and voice changed, and Aqua laughed like a person and spoke with Jonathan aloud. She told him his friends were safe.1415

The pact

For her heart Aqua asked a gift, and Jonathan offered his tears in a small vial, which she was pleased to accept. She also told him of a former visitor who could turn his face into other people's and wished to leave because of his family and duties; when Jonathan guessed Olaf, she named Tim. Jonathan promised to help Tim leave if he wished.16171819

She asked that he kill the creature troubling the forest, the mind flayer, with the power of her heart, and afterwards leave control to Teresa. She said she would teach him how to find it. Through the snake's bite she passed a dense part of her heart into him, and warned that if he failed, it would kill him.202122

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 45:21
  2. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 16:32
  3. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 55:27
  4. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 36:50
  5. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 49:09
  6. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 1:03:20
  7. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 1:23:51
  8. ↑BookBook of Dead, p. 87
  9. ↑At the tableUyanış / DnD 5E Oynanış#15 (Zincirsiz #15), 1:07:28
  10. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 10:52
  11. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:18:58
  12. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:21:42
  13. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:32:32
  14. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:34:43
  15. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:38:06
  16. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:39:19
  17. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:40:43
  18. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:42:51
  19. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:45:16
  20. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:46:57
  21. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:48:56
  22. ↑At the tableKalp | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Zincirsiz #16), 1:50:21

Sources

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Books

  • BoDBook of Dead(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 87

▶ Actual play

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