At a Glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Species | Human (as presented) |
| Class | Barbarian |
| Role in the Company | Scout, hunter, and forager |
| First seen | The First Road |
Appearance
presents as human. He does not like revealing his face, and when he first walked into Corrow’s office he preferred to keep to the shadows. Arrived at the trade yard eating raw meat and returned from his first hunt with blood around his mouth. Further detail not yet recorded.
Known History
varynx became an adventurer in search of sustenance. Nothing else of his past has been shared.
Personality and Manner
eccentric. He frequently scrutinizes people for concealed intentions and prefers to watch from the edges before joining in. He does not like revealing his face and kept to the shadows when he first entered Corrow’s office. He is willing to play a part, such as posing as a beggar beside the road, and to make a sudden entrance. The two knights he startled found his behavior very peculiar and weird.
Abilities Witnessed
- Scouting: noticed dust stirring on the trail about two miles out and went ahead of the wagon to look.
- Hunting: took five rabbits near camp in a single outing.
- Gathering firewood.
- Attempts at stealth, with mixed results: he failed to stay hidden while climbing a tree at the yard, but managed to surprise two knights from the bushes.
- Climbing and canopy movement, repeatedly used to navigate and approach from above in the Shifting Forests.
- Intimidation, used to frighten away two tiny guardians after capturing a third.
- Grappling and raw strength, used to hold two bandits at once before throwing them from their outpost.
- Close combat, used beside the forest’s centaur champion against the Red Tusks.
Connections
- Travels with Elk’s Wagon as one of its five escorts.
- Cleaned and dried by Shallie after the hunt.
- Hunted rabbits that Karis cooked.
- Startled the knights Lambert and Lenk of the Order of the Flaming Rose.
- Captured Jeffrey and confined him in a lantern until Karis broke its chain and freed him.
- Created the Bloody Warning Tree near the bandits’ outpost.
Journey So Far
Session 00: The First Road
in The First Road, Varynx kept to the shadows when he walked into Corrow’s office to take the contract. The next morning he watched the others gather at the Corrow Trade Yard from the outskirts, was discovered awkwardly climbing a tree while eating raw meat, and joined the Company. On the road he acted as the Company’s scout. About two miles out he noticed dust stirring ahead on the trail and went ahead of the wagon, with Karis following close behind; he saw two figures on horseback, who turned out to be the knights Lambert and Lenk. He then hid in the bushes posing as a beggar and burst out as the knights approached, startling them. The knights found his behavior very peculiar and weird. At the Stone Marker Campsite he gathered firewood and hunted five rabbits, bringing four back and eating one himself. He was away hunting when Shallie made a discovery beneath the driver’s bench.
Session 01: The Toll in the Mist
in The Toll in the Mist, Varynx was away from camp during the wolf attack and instead confronted three tiny guardians of the woods. He caught Jeffrey, frightened the other two away, and returned with the captive before confining him in his lantern. After the battle, Varynx collected wolf blood in a bottle. In the mist he marked trees with his axe, climbed in search of visibility, fled the bandits’ first toll demand, and later crossed the canopy to approach their outpost from above. He seized both bandits and threw them from the structure, one of them landing on Corvex. Afterwards he used the dead bandit and his collected blood to create the Bloody Warning Tree, then replaced the wolf blood in his bottle with blood from the bandit.
Session 02: The Forest’s Judgment
in The Forest’s Judgment, Varynx entered the first specter fight by climbing a tree, crossing the outpost roof, and dropping into battle. When the Forest Warden demanded Jeffrey’s release, Varynx challenged her to settle the matter through combat. Corvex halted him with Command, and Karis broke the lantern chain so Jeffrey could escape. Varynx then fought the Red Tusks beside a centaur champion, trading taunts and competing with him while defending the forest. The Red-Tusk chieftain’s Lightning Javelin struck both of them and a satyr in one line.
Character Knowledge: Varynx
after the Company camped beyond the forest, Varynx returned alone to the fallen orcs, tore open one corpse, and ate its heart. No other character witnessed this, though the event was known to everyone at the table.
Unanswered Questions
- Why does he watch people so closely for concealed intentions?
- What does he make of the Company he has joined?
- What hunger drove him back to the battlefield?