Gabriella the Kind
Gabriella the Kind is a renegade wizard who actively opposed The Scarlet Spears during the Rebellion of Twinrivers. She works as a freelance mercenary, and among the common people she is regarded as a hero.1
Twinrivers and Balthasar
Gabriella owes her life to an act of kindness by the mercenary Balthasar, who spared her. Balthasar played a significant part in suppressing the rebellion before unexpectedly going his own way. Driven by an unrelenting curiosity about the motives behind his mercy, Gabriella is now on a quest to find him.2
Vansreik
Gabriella holds Vansreik in deep disdain. She sees the city as a tangled web destined to destroy itself and is determined to spend as little time within it as she can. Her only reason for being there is to meet Balthasar and uncover the truth behind that fateful day on the fields of Twinrivers.3
Character and craft
Gabriella uses her skills as a battlemage to protect the common citizens of the Empire from malevolent forces. A scholarly practitioner of magic, she specialises in evocation. In battle she turns devastating spells on the enemy ranks and picks off single targets, and against formidable monsters she works to strip away their supernatural powers. Her skills turn just as easily to support, speeding her allies or holding enemies in place, as the party that hires her requires.3
After roughly a decade as a mercenary for hire, Gabriella has gathered a small fortune. She wears expensive silk robes and elven jewellery, and channels her magic through a dwarven ring joined by a chain to a bracelet. Her favourite work is exploring ruins and aiding rebellions against the Empire, and she does not kill innocents.3
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 31, 58-59
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Mercenary Compendium (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 58. Art by the Bad Badger Games team.
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