Other Saviors

The principal eight (the Briarwoods, Ripley, Vecna, Orthax, the Chroma Council) get their own files. Several other figures contributed to the war and the modern peace and deserve their own entries — shorter ones, but flavorful.

K’Varn — The Deep Broker

Original Canon: a beholder/mind-flayer hybrid Vox Machina killed in the Underdark.

This World’s Truth: K’Varn is an aboleth-touched mind-broker who maintains neutrality across the Underdark trade-paths beneath Tal’Dorei. He is a creature of considered cruelty — old, patient, and not benevolent in any human sense — but he is fundamentally invested in stability. The deep paths under his influence are safer than the surface roads.

War Role: when Vox Machina attempted to use the deep paths to move forces undetected, K’Varn closed every path to them. He charged the Saviors a price (an arrangement Vecna negotiated, the terms of which are not public — but Vecna has stated they were acceptable), and held the underdark closed for the duration of the war.

Modern Day: dwells in Emberhold, a mind-broker holdfast deep beneath southern Tal’Dorei. Receives delegations rarely. Will deal honestly with mortals if approached correctly. Mortals approaching him incorrectly have a tendency to forget significant portions of their lives.

Plot Lever: a Tier 2 / Tier 3 trip to Emberhold can yield information unavailable anywhere else. The price is always specific and always memorable. K’Varn never asks for gold.

Lady Kima of Vord

Original Canon: minor recurring NPC, a paladin of Bahamut.

This World’s Truth: Kima is the Raven Queen’s living Champion — the title Vax’ildan tried to claim. A half-elf woman, mid-fifties in 836 P.D., devout, blunt, and one of the most respected paladins of her generation. She is the Raven Queen’s hand on Exandria for matters of death’s dignity, and she has the bearing of someone who has seen too many bad ends and intends to prevent more.

War Role: Vax’ildan was sent to assassinate her. She killed his agents. She did not need to kill him personally — Vecna did that — but she would have, and she has said so on the record.

Modern Day: lives in Vasselheim, in a small house attached to the Raven Queen’s temple. Trains paladin-aspirants. Wears Vax’ildan’s recovered armor — the Deathwalker’s Ward — in formal proceedings. She had it cleansed by Vecna and sanctified by the Raven Queen herself; it is hers now in every meaningful sense.

Plot Lever: a paladin or cleric PC (especially one drawn to death-domain or the Raven Queen) could plausibly study under Kima. A Tier 2 arc could involve assisting her in a Vasselheim case. She is direct, not warm, and the party will know exactly where they stand with her at all times — which is itself a kind of warmth.

Lady Allura Vysoren

Original Canon: an arcane archmage, founder of the Tal’Dorei Council, ally of Vox Machina.

This World’s Truth: same role, opposite alignment. Allura founded the Tal’Dorei Council in the 770s and has presided over it ever since. She convened the Saviors’ alliance — Lady Delilah’s strategic mind set the war’s direction, but Allura’s diplomatic infrastructure made the alliance possible. She is the reason the Chroma Council, the Briarwoods, Ripley, Vecna, and the Vasselheim factions could communicate.

Modern Day: lives in Emon, eighty in 836 P.D., still chairs the Council though she has begun to delegate. Married for forty-three years to Lady Kima of Vord (yes, that Kima — they live separately but visit often, a celebrated arrangement). Trains young politicians and arcane diplomats. Considered the most politically powerful mortal on the continent.

Plot Lever: any PC moving in political circles will encounter Allura. She is the gatekeeper to high-level audiences — she can grant or deny access to half of Tal’Dorei’s machinery. She is also the campaign’s most likely source of legitimate adventuring contracts for Tier 2 parties: the Council pays well, expects results, and asks pointed questions afterward.

Pala — Voice of the Air Ashari

Not in original canon directly (she is a successor to Keyleth’s role).

This World’s Truth: Pala is a half-elf druid in her late forties, the current Voice of the Air Ashari (the equivalent of “Keyleth’s role had Keyleth not turned”). She was Keyleth’s contemporary — they trained together — and she bears the weight of having watched her friend become something neither of them could come back from.

She knows about the lake-presence in Vesper Timbra (Keyleth’s water-self; see 03-Fallen-Machina/07-keyleth.md). She has not told Korrin (Keyleth’s father, still alive at 89). She has told Lady Delilah and Vecna. She has not told the rest of the Concord. She is waiting for the right time, which has not come.

Modern Day: leads Zephrah, presides over the Aramente of new Ashari aspirants, and tends the sealed lake personally.

Plot Lever: the Keyleth lake-presence arc is Pala’s storyline. A Tier 2 group exploring Zephrah will deal with her. She is gentle, sad, and exact — and she will trust the party only as far as they earn it.

Lady Cassandra de Rolo

Original Canon: minor character, Percival’s younger sister, a survivor of the Whitestone purges.

This World’s Truth: in 836 P.D., Cassandra is the ruling Lady of Whitestone, twenty years into her reign. She broke from her brother Percival in 811 P.D. — a moment chronicled in the war’s histories as one of its most painful — and aided the Saviors’ counter-attack. She is now in her late forties, married, with three children, and considered one of the most just rulers Whitestone has ever had.

She is also broken in a quiet, contained way by the betrayal of her brother and the bone-deep guilt of having loved him before she knew what he was. She works through it. She is functional. She loves her city. Lady Delilah is her closest friend.

Modern Day: rules Whitestone. Her court is small, accessible, and unusually warm. She receives petitioners weekly. She makes time, personally, for survivors of the war.

Plot Lever: Cassandra is the campaign’s most likely first-tier political contact for Whitestone-based PCs. A Tier 1 / Tier 2 arc can establish them in her trust. She is generous with that trust and devastating when it is broken.

Sherri Daggerheart

Not in original canon. A campaign-original NPC.

This World’s Truth: Sherri was Scanlan Shorthalt’s secretary during the war years — the only mortal who saw all of Vox Machina’s correspondence. She survived the war, testified to the Saviors, and is the single most important historical witness to Vox Machina’s internal workings. She is now in her sixties, retired, lives in a small house outside Westruun, and writes memoirs that the Concord has agreed not to publish until after her death.

Plot Lever: if the party needs inside information about Vox Machina’s character, planning, internal disputes, Sherri is the source. She does not give interviews. She might give one to a party that earns her trust.