Character

Priestess of Osterhn

CanonOfficial lore from the books▶ Actual play

The priestess of Osterhn serves the temple of Amarath in the small town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign, where she prayed and cared for the townsfolk in the days of Jasper's rule.¹

The hostages

When Jasper held two farmers as hostages in the square, the innkeeper Exalon arranged for her to pray at the Golden Ladle with the farmers' wives and kin, and the women came before Kemp Corvus to beg him to save their men. The words of her prayer were that mercy is rewarded by the gods and that the merciless would be judged not by Amarath but by Alarath; she called the taking of hostages barbaric.¹²

As she prayed, a faint, unnatural light could be seen in her hands. She carried a gift of the gods and was one of the chosen, able to work miracles, though she does not formally represent the church.³

When the farmers were freed, she tended their wrists, checked them for fever and embraced them, and the people thanked her. She spoke of settling things by talk as the way of Amarath and called everyone to the next Sunday's service.⁴

Spoiler: Later eventsSpoils: Sürgün Günlükleri #15; Sürgün Günlükleri #16 · Say what you have read

After Jasper's fall, Kemp asked her for the body of Alistar, whom the witch hunters had ordered burned, so that it could go to the man who had loved him. She said she did not think the hunters' decision right, took the responsibility on herself, and let the body out by the back door with her key.⁵

When the companions brought the captured Jasper back to Osterhn, she received him into a small, cell-like room of the temple and wanted his wound and his hunger seen to; she would allow no cruelty in the temple, and Ephorus agreed that his hands stay bound in front so that he could eat and drink. She let Kemp sit alone with the body of Sarah Lia Galanodel. She said she could not bear to watch an execution, and that the high priest Godwin would bear witness that the sentence was just.⁶⁷⁸

After Sarah's burial she kept up her prayers through the nights of the full moon, so that no evil spirit would trouble the grave, and comforted the mourners with the hope of meeting again beyond.⁹

Notes

↑At the tableHassas Denge | DnD 5E Oynanış #4 (Sürgün Günlükleri #4), 2:50:24
↑At the tableHassas Denge | DnD 5E Oynanış #4 (Sürgün Günlükleri #4), 2:52:37
↑At the tableHassas Denge | DnD 5E Oynanış #4 (Sürgün Günlükleri #4), 2:54:20
↑At the tableHassas Denge | DnD 5E Oynanış #4 (Sürgün Günlükleri #4), 3:14:41
↑At the tableBazı Şeylerin Sonu | DnD 5E Oynanış #15 (Sürgün Günlükleri #15), 3:28:08
↑At the tableElveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 2:54:11
↑At the tableElveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 2:57:35
↑At the tableElveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 3:03:30
↑At the tableElveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 3:43:56

Sources

This article draws on:

▶ Actual play

Hassas Denge | DnD 5E Oynanış #4 (Sürgün Günlükleri #4), 2:50:24, 2:52:37, 2:54:20, 3:14:41
Bazı Şeylerin Sonu | DnD 5E Oynanış #15 (Sürgün Günlükleri #15), 3:28:08
Elveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 2:54:11, 2:57:35, 3:03:30, 3:43:56

PlaceOsterhnThe small river town where the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign begins, a refuge in the south-east for those fleeing their lives, with an old castle above it, three quarters divided by the Foam River and a long-empty tax office.PlaceAbandoned tax office of OsterhnThe tax office of the Harbour Quarter of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, empty for some twenty years, which served in turn as a goblin spy's lair, a cell for a goblin prisoner and a hiding place for the innkeeper Exalon.CharacterBenedict Von BarringtonThe only doctor of the town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, a well-dressed, white-haired man of the Market Quarter whose remedies were effective but costly and whose locked cellar kept its own secrets.CharacterCassius VarumThe hired mage of Jasper's squad in Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, a well-paid, meat-shunning spellcaster who answered to the Archon for his independence and would fight for pay but not for a war without end.CharacterGnome tailor of OsterhnA young, lively gnome tailor and cloth merchant of the Market Quarter of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, who made the town's finest clothes, paid taxes late or in kind, and spoke out against slavery.PlaceTemple of Amarath in OsterhnThe temple of the god Amarath in the town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri campaign, a marble-columned house of stone and wood below the castle hill whose door stands open day and night and whose priests give quiet help to the poor.

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