Character

Falkred el-Nassil

CanonOfficial lore from the books▶ Actual play

Falkred el-Nassil is a young mage of the Archon in the Mürekkep ve Çelik ("Ink and Steel") campaign, an evoker in a red robe, short-haired and wearing small spectacles, who works for the Archon in Neptune. He is strong in war and conjuring magic but weak in learned matters, and he shares his first name with the new emperor. He was close to Nocklin, his friend and teacher; like many evokers he found it hard to stay long at the Archon, and though he had weighed the legion, he chose to fight for the Archon instead.¹ ² ³ ⁴

The shipyard

When Castor came to guard the shipyard where the warforged prototypes were to arrive, Falkred was laying out a temporary teleportation circle in chalk and asked Castor to check his work. He sent the signal for the blocks to come through, set a stone golem to push them aside, and broke the circle afterwards so that no one else could use it; he had also given the place some shelter against divination. He planned to go on to White City after the shipments, and he and Castor thought of travelling together.² ⁵ ⁶ ⁷

The shipyard had been bought by the Empire two weeks earlier under the pretence of building a great ship. It reaches out over the sea with water in its middle, and has curtained bays in place of rooms; two legionaries, Erno and Leros, guarded the gate dressed as dock workers. The intelligence officer who met Castor in Neptune gave his name as Jonas Halber, saying at once that it was not his real one. He worked for the spymaster Lorenz and kept the political side of the work, the dealings with the city's gangs, for himself, leaving Castor charge only of the prototypes' safety; he himself did not know what the blocks held.⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³ ¹⁴

The undead raid

Seven undead attackers, with white eyes and marks carved into their foreheads, came up out of the sea while three prototypes remained. Falkred hurled balls of fire among them while sparing his companions, and fought on even when one of them closed with him. He was wounded but survived. Afterwards he found that the magic in one of the blocks had gone out.¹⁵ ¹⁶ ¹⁷ ¹⁸ ¹⁹ ²⁰

The bodies melted away. Raising such creatures needed powerful necromancy and great expense, far beyond the gangs, and whoever sent them seemed to know both what lay in the blocks and when the gangs would strike.²¹ ²² ²³

Spoiler: Falkred's fateSpoils: Mürekkep ve Çelik #14; Mürekkep ve Çelik #15 · Say what you have read

On the sixth day Jonas Halber came to end Castor's task. His orders were to take Falkred away for "questioning" once Castor had left, which he said plainly was a polite word for execution, since very few knew what the blocks contained. Castor persuaded him to let him read Falkred's mind first. Falkred, frightened, protested that he had fought the attackers, but opened his mind. Castor found no contact with any enemy and no betrayal, only that out of curiosity he had used magic to look inside the blocks while his comrades were outside, and so knew they held advanced golem-like things and bloodstone. A very powerful enchanter could have altered his memories, but Castor thought it unlikely.²⁴ ²⁵ ²⁶ ²⁷ ²⁸ ²⁹ ³⁰

The danger was what he might reveal if he were ever taken. Castor put him to sleep with a spell. Jonas rewrote the orders to say that Falkred el-Nassil had died in the fighting; intelligence and the Archon's highest ranks would know the truth, and everyone else would hear that he died a hero for the Empire. Castor asked that it be done cleanly and without pain. As he went out, Jonas moved towards the sleeping young man, and no sound came from inside. Falkred was killed after the Neptune mission.³¹ ³² ³³ ³⁴ ³⁵ ³⁶ ³⁷

Later, Castor met Jonas leaving Lorenz's office in White City. Lorenz wanted Jonas to sail with Castor's expedition; asked whether it was wise to risk a valuable man, he answered that Jonas was no friend of his and was valuable only as long as he remained so.³⁸ ³⁹

Notes

↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 41:15
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:05:47
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:11:31
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:06:51
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:12:42
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 35:37
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 1:51:02
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 1:59:42
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:00:03
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 2:10:59
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 3:37:13
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 3:42:15
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 3:44:02
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:15:39
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:18:14
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:20:32
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:26:28
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:27:37
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↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:31:54
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:34:26
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:35:24
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:36:26
↑At the tableGizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 4:38:20
↑At the tableMermer Saray | Dnd 5e Oynanış #15 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #15), 3:19
↑At the tableMermer Saray | Dnd 5e Oynanış #15 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #15), 5:11:08
↑At the tableMermer Saray | Dnd 5e Oynanış #15 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #15), 5:23:31

Sources

This article draws on:

▶ Actual play

Gizli Görev | Dnd 5e Oynanış #14 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #14), 35:37, 41:15, 1:51:02, 1:59:42, 2:00:03, 2:00:51, 2:04:47, 2:05:47, 2:06:51, 2:08:13, 2:10:59, 2:11:31, 2:11:58, 2:12:42, 3:37:13, 3:42:15, 3:44:02, 3:47:06, 4:02:22, 4:07:57, 4:08:50, 4:10:04, 4:15:39, 4:18:14, 4:20:32, 4:21:30, 4:22:39, 4:23:50, 4:26:28, 4:27:37, 4:29:02, 4:31:54, 4:34:26, 4:35:24, 4:36:26, 4:38:20
Mermer Saray | Dnd 5e Oynanış #15 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #15), 3:19, 5:11:08, 5:23:31

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ArtifactHellfire cannonThe great magical cannons of the Empire as they appear in the Sürgün Günlükleri and Mürekkep ve Çelik campaigns, where the palace's chief engineer claims their design and a new cannon, Gloria, is unveiled outside Gromkar.PlaceAkşelaleAn unwalled city of strong elven character in the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, named for the white waterfall on its slope and ruled by a council of eight lords, where the party investigated the legion's firing on a peaceful crowd.CharacterAlcarin NovaAn imperial Justicar of the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, famed for catching the killer called the Dark Knife, who is sent by the emperor to investigate the cannon fire on the townsfolk of Akşelale.CharacterAlexA student of writing, languages and history from White City at the Archon in the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, a long-standing member of the Golden Arrow who befriends Castor and brings him to a secret gathering of discontented mages.CharacterAypol MorksA diviner trained at the Archon Academy in the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, who travels as a street conjurer and guided Castor and Leonard to the bloodstone hidden beneath South Razel in return for a share for his alchemy.CharacterBoboA small former circus bear in the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign, left to Castor and Glanfall by their comrade Roland, whose growth was halted by elven runes around its neck and who follows Glanfall everywhere.ArtifactCastor's estate contractA written agreement of the Mürekkep ve Çelik campaign by which Castor received two Starsong books and a pseudodragon egg from Esnarril Softart, in return for his personal belongings passing to the Starsong academy at his death.