Inneth

Inneth Vahl
Status	Active
Race	Elf
Gender	Male
Guild	Necromancer
Instance	Prime

Appearance

You see Herald of Nightmares Inneth Vahl, Valpatur of Ilithi, an Elf. 
A little ephemeron of an omnimass is sitting on his shoulder.
Inneth has a legion of deep-seated wrinkles framing a shrewd face with a gruesome scar on one side, numerous tyrium chimeras piercing the curvature of one of his pointed ears and a pair of horn-rimmed bifocals with whorled glitvire frames magnifying his silver-flecked violet eyes. His grey hair is shoulder length and peppered with stark white streaks at the temple, and is worn loose, tucked behind his ears. He has freckled skin and a gaunt build.
He is unusually tall for an Elf.
He appears to be an elder.  
His forearm has a tattoo of a bloodshot eye bearing teeth where the lashes should be. 
He is in good shape.

He is wearing wearing a red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain, a dark silk robe adorned with meticulous flourishes of silver and violet, an austere madun belt restrained with a chaotic array of aldamdin buckles, a hiromin ritual knife infested with helical purple veins and some polished dragonar-lined boots laced up both sides with twisted silk cords.

Notable Events

Year	Age	Event
342 AV	0	Born during the month of Nissa the Maiden in the year of the Crystal Snow Hare.
389 AV	47	Begins adventuring in Kermoria.
390 AV	48	Becomes a citizen of Therengia.
392 AV	50	Attends the first Hollow Eve Festival.
427 AV	85	Meets Zamidren Book, joins the Philosophers of the Knife.
427 AV	85	Renounces citizenship in Therengia.
428 AV	86	Forsaken by the Immortals.
428 AV	86	Parts ways with the Philosophers of the Knife.
428 AV	86	Meets the Lich Jeihrem.
428 AV	86	Attends the Hollow Eve Festival.
429 AV	87	Begins using the title Valpatur.
430 AV	88	Becomes a citizen of Ilithi.
430 AV	88	Reaches legendary status as a Necromancer.
430 AV	88	Witnesses the death of Maelshyve and Osven's sacrifice.
430 AV	88	First encounter with the Hounds of Rutilor.
431 AV	88	Begins researching the older traditions of Necromancy. (Still Perverse, but no longer mechanically  so.  Now "independent".)
431 AV	88	Attends the Festival of the Guilds. Works twice as an assistant for the Witch, Keishalae.
432 AV	89	Amasses enough power to be declared a Necrolord.
432 AV	89	Attends the Hollow Eve Festival. Works again as a Witch's Assistant. Works twice as an assistant for Phinara. Witnesses the destruction of Kurmin's Massive Metal Arachnid. Witnesses the demise of Kurmin himself, Keishalae, and many others.
433 AV	90	Returns to the Soul of Maelshyve as part of an expedition to study the Philosopher's Knot.
434 AV	91	Explores the Temporal Pocket and travels into the past, facilitated by V's experimentation with Feral Energy.
435 AV	92	Meets the Old Man.
435 AV	92	Guided by the Purified Scholar Zauldin, finds Redemption with the Immortals. Once again gains the favor of Phelim.
436 AV	93	Visits the island-city of Andreshlew, attending the Hollow Eve Festival. Supported the Supplicants of the Tide faction. Murdered by the Gillborn Loyalists.
437 AV	94	Saved from the Plane of Exile by Phelim's own hand.
437 AV	94	Casts off the holy chains and returns, yet again, towards necromantic persuits.
437 AV	94	Assists with efforts to put pressure on the Great Houses of Ratha and discourage an outright (and unprovoked) assault on Basalt Isle. Helped raze the wheat fields of Reshalia, after the Rathans refused to deescalate.
437 AV	95	Obtains an enslaved Dream Eater.
437 AV	95	Assists directly in the defense of Basalt Isle trying, unsuccessfully, to keep the invading "Coalition against the Lich" forces from terrorizing the local villagers and driving them from their homes.
438 AV	95	Attends the Festival of the Guilds.
438 AV	95	In response to continued aggressions, joins forces with a group of necromancers to contaminate Ratha's fresh water supply.
438 AV	95	Participates in a naval battle in the Reshal Sea, again fighting against forces led by temple zealots and House Moglin politicians. Fought alongside the pirate Srinoja aboard the Hangman's Pursuit, against Commodore Khoheke and his armada of ships. Witnesses the onslaught of an arisen kraken monstrosity upon the Oshu'k'et.
438 AV	95	Encounters a Vessel of the Dream Eater, a living shadow of the pirate Srinoja, remolded to serve as an acolyte of ... something greater.
439 AV	96	Travels to the Precipice Over the Unknown, guided by the Mysteriarch, glimpsing upon "what may yet come."
439 AV	96	Defends Basalt Isle against the those who foolishly sought to destroy its master.
439 AV 440 AV	96 97	Returns to Andreshlew for the Hollow Eve Festival. Supported the Inverted Crucible faction. Works again as an assistant to the Witch's Apprentice. Works as a design consultant for Merchant Megaya. Works twice as a design consultant for Merchant Sindah. Begins using the title Herald of Nightmares.
443 AV	100	Reaches the final circle of advancement, unable to ascend any further.
443 AV	100	Attends the third Hollow Eve Festival on Andreshlew.

Alterations

Ritual Knives

Original: a sanguine-hued gutting knife with a punka-wrapped handle 
Alteration: a wickedly honed ritual knife sculpted from a shard of white glaes

Fashioned from a single vicious shard of tapered white glaes, the knife has been engineered for bouts of disciplined barbarity. The base has been wrapped in a thick alabaster fabric to provide both grip and protection against the unrelenting edge. Slight differences in texture and opacity are all that distinguish handle from blade.

A ritual knife reads:

"Obey me, and the universe will bend to your will." 

Alterer: Liave, Hollow Eve Festival 428

Original: a sanguine-hued gutting knife with a punka-wrapped handle 
Alteration: a pristine ritual knife graced with a watch of telothian nightingales

An ominous, razor-thin edge gleams triumphantly before surrendering to the knife's bolster, surrounded by a chorus of silvery songbirds. The purple-tinged icons perch in triumvirate on opposing sides, each triad magnificently rendered and silently observing. Delicate balance, necessary to the weighty blade, is achieved by virtue of a modest handle fashioned from dense dragonwood.

A pristine ritual knife reads:

"Be worthy of this, lest it be taken away." 

Alterer: Tansae, Hollow Eve Festival 436

Original: a sanguine-hued gutting knife with a punka-wrapped handle 
Alteration: a hiromin ritual knife infested with helical purple veins 

Circuitous arteries weave audaciously through the frigid metal, creating a simulacrum of organic vasculature. Heliotrope-tinged filaments bleed from the tortuous network of elaborate incisions and exploit every opportunity to escape the arterial tree. Binding the base, a simple leather wrap occludes the glorious hiromin and bestows grip and insulation. The blade itself exudes both artistry and menace, obviously forged by a master for a master.

A hiromin ritual knife reads:

"Even Immortals die alone." 

Alterer: Loriale, 438 AV

Magical Items

Original: a small granite disc scorched along the edges (TM focus)
Alteration: a dense hiromin sphere engraved with a maelstrom of glowing violaceous whorls 

This metallic orb is cold — inexplicably, unnaturally cold. The violet-tinged silvery-white facade of the sphere has been engulfed by a labyrinthine vortex of deep, turbulent trenches, each groove emitting a muted purple. Though tumultuous, there is a degree of coherence to the channels, which are strikingly reminiscent of a fierce winter storm.

A dense hiromin sphere reads:

"Valpatur" 

Alterer: Voucher Redemption, 432 AV 

Original: a Katamba-black diacan brooch set with a large moonstone (post room string)
Alteration: a cracked aldamdin brooch etched with bizarre markings

Strange symbols curl up and along the circumference of the damaged brooch like calligraphic tentacles, but it is unclear if they represent something or are merely decorative.

STUDY:

You think you can RUB your aldamdin brooch to activate its magic.

[OOC: Your post room string will be set to who is enshrouded by scabrous slivers of fragmented reflections.]  

Alterer: Megaya, Hollow Eve Festival 439 

Biomechanical

Original: a steel biomechanical tarantula
Alteration: a biomechanical zynachi spider augmented with mechanisms of blackened moonsilver

Few similarities remain between this zynachi spider and one of its typical brethren. The chitinous plating of the spider's long, hooked legs has been supplemented with blackened moonsilver, each lithe appendage softly radiating an eerie black. Huge swaths of its abdomen and cephalothorax have been covered with a profusion of tarnished phosphorescent levers, buttons, and dials with no immediately apparent purpose.

A biomechanical spider reads:

"Take that, you treacherous land octopus!" 

Alterer: Keishalae, Hollow Eve Festival 432 

Clothing / Jewelry

Original: a dove grey robe (feature hider)
Alteration: a dark silk robe adorned with meticulous flourishes of silver and violet

Thick folds of exquisite Elven silk flare and recede, enshrouding an under-robe of deep obsidian. Every pleat, every crimp and crease, of this garment is immaculate. Purple embroidery erupts violently from the sleeves, subjugated along the hems by sophisticated patterns of lustrous silver.

Alterer: Urdesas, Hollow Eve Festival 428

Original: a series of blued steel rivets (feature modifier)
Alteration: a series of tyrium chimeras 

A menagerie of mythical beasts are represented in this collection of thin-gauge piercings. Each specimen is a vibrant purple, and no two are alike.

Alterer: Keishalae, Hollow Eve Festival 432

Original: some ornate scalene boots laced up both sides with twisted silk cords
Alteration: some polished dragonar-lined boots laced up both sides with twisted silk cords

Dark grey leather has been laboriously wrought to a burnished finish, held secure by steelsilk threads that meander through an esoteric network of hooks on both sides of these indulgent boots. Hidden in the supple lining is a devious little pocket, just large enough for a surprise or two.

Alterer: Keishalae, Hollow Eve Festival 432

Original: a pair of rectangular reading spectacles with glitvire frames (feature modifier)
Alteration: a pair of horn-rimmed bifocals with whorled glitvire frames

Hewn to underscore the wearer's brow line, the upper portion of the spectacle's frames are disproportionately thick and hefty. Flecks of variegated greens and purples are ensnared within the currents of the tempestuous grain and create unexpected splashes of color in the dark finish.

Alterer: Tansae, Hollow Eve Festival 436

Containers

Original: a dark watersilk bag bearing a detailed cambrinth medallion
Alteration: a soldier's supply bag secured with a marred cambrinth medallion

Pragmatic construction and an ample supply of thick Imperial weave have converged to form this bag, designed to endure frequent and relentless crusades. The cambrinth medallion affixed to it, however, has seen better days. Severely distorted and barely recognizable, the original iconography — a hammer in front of a red spiral — has been ravaged by surgical gouges desecrating the emblem. Painted into the supplemental grooves is a crimson eye surrounded by a black sphere. 

A soldier's supply bag reads:

"What kind of power? It doesn't matter." 

Alterer: Keishalae, Festival of the Guilds 431 

Original: a light spidersilk hip pouch stitched with a dragon ouroboros (10-item container)
Alteration: an ebon-hued pouch consumed by layers of cluttered scrawlings and symbols

The array of markings coating the once-pristine pouch could, generously, be characterized as completely incomprehensible. The lowest level appears to be relatively organized bits of embroidered text, while subsequent layers are a mix of chalk, mismatched thread, ink, and even blood.  Each new snippet is piled atop the last. From complex diagrams and mathematical proofs to gibberish phrases and haphazard corrections, it is apparent that more than just a solution has been lost.

Alterer: Keishalae, Festival of the Guilds 431 

Original: an oiled leather belt with a polished platinum buckle (moneybelt)
Alteration: an austere madun belt restrained with a chaotic array of aldamdin buckles

Tarnished black threads seethe and subside against a legion of colored silk, casting a dark sheen across the weft of this wide belt. An assortment of highly polished, yet paradoxically reflectionless, aldamdin buckles are clustered erratically near the central clasp, many of them unrelated to keeping the belt actually fastened. The excess mechanisms conceal small pockets, each perfectly sized to hold a small collection of coins.

An austere madun belt reads:

"Mistakes were made." 

Alterer: Phinara, Hollow Eve Festival 432 

Original: a sleek thigh bag of black shadesatin (20-item container)
Alteration: a black madun thigh bag ravaged by a scourge of incoherent modifications

Malformed and bulbous, the bag's original silhouette has been lost to a series of incessant and inexplicable revisions. Odd protrusions and countless arbitrary seams create ripples in the fabric's umbral sheen, and the shuttle-woven madun is peppered by pockets too paltry to be functional. Fasteners extrude from inaccessible locations. Strangely, though, all the work put into manufacturing this ill-shaped monstrosity is concise and pedantic.

Alterer: Phinara, Hollow Eve Festival 432 

Original: an ordinary parcel wrapped with pale grey enaada (material stacker)
Alteration: a silverweave parcel edged with segments of notched mistglass

The parcel's interior is segregated into fifteen distinct flexible compartments. Unique indentations in the ghostly edgepiece serve as landmarks, permitting blind and expeditious navigation through the shimmering field of starry dividers.

Alterer: Sindah, Hollow Eve Festival 439 

Original: a sturdy iron-studded black leather spellbook case
Alteration: a sorcerer's spellbook case disfigured by scars and scorch marks

The ruggedness of this leather case has been challenged repeatedly and bears the wounds of numerous magically fueled battles. Wartime souvenirs, from random singes to unequivocal rips and tears, deface the surface. The most severe of the disfigurements are all well-mended, a sign of stringent and scrupulous care.

Alterer: Sindah, Hollow Eve Festival 439 

Books

Original: a hefty omnibus almanac with a sturdy indurium cover
Alteration: a leather-bound almanac ineptly defended by a shattered bloodlock

Having utterly failed as a sentry, the bloodlock affixed to the exterior of the tome cowers in a maladroit lump. Bits of ice still cling to the anterior, while soot from intense flames covers the book-facing side. The pages ensconced within, remarkably, are undamaged, though well-worn from copious use. Extensive and perplexing updates to the treatises within the almanac have been made, denoted by a furor of crisp black-inked shorthand and a dappling of ash.

Alterer: Tansae, Hollow Eve Festival 436

Masks

Original: a monstrous clown mask displaying a ghastly grin  (feature-hiding mask)
Alteration: an abhorrent mirror-like mask pocked with distortions

A distorted caricature sprawls across the surface of the reflective zenganne mask. Ripples in the cloth, caused by bulges in the underlying structure, push light off in odd and unsettling angles. The entirety of the mask's lower face is comprised of an enormous maw-like mouth, encircled by rows of tiny jagged teeth.

When Worn: 

Inneth's features are hidden behind a mirror-like mask with a distorted caricature of a face. Bloodshot, xanthous eyes peer back at you, surrounded by a horde of vaguely familiar but abhorrent reflections. Also visible through the twisted sea of eerie fragments is a wicked tumescent smile that stretches unnaturally from a distended grin, bearing thousands of consecutive needle-sharp teeth aligned in concentric rows.

Alterer: Phinara, Hollow Eve Festival 439 

Weapons / Armor

Original: a suit of woven armor composed of crisscrossed bands of thick canvas
Alteration: a suit of woven titanese armor embellished with ornate pauldrons of demonbone

Secured with a system of clever straps, a double-layered weave of thin titanese offers a surprising amount of protection and freedom of movement. Two large pauldrons are mounted at the shoulders, each of bleached demonbone etched with vignettes of irreproachable craftsmanship. The right depicts two groups of Elves clashing  in the shadow of the Dragon's Spine. On the left is a twisted device of terrible complexity, gears and organs,  and a skeletal hand clutching a ritual knife.

A suit of titanese armor reads:

"Diverge."

Alterer: Keishalae, Festival of the Guilds 431

Original: a weighted haralun throwing club
Alteration: a weighted throwing club crowned with an impaled haralun serpent 

A writhing serpent chiseled from dense haralun coils around a sinuous haft of pale darkspine. The beast's head is set with indurium-chased blood ruby eyes and pierced by a sanguine spike, the jagged reddish-brown graining enhancing the illusion of the skull being relieved of its precious fluids.

Alterer: Loriale, 433 AV

Original: a haralun dire mace (crafted)
Alteration: a haralun dire mace impacted with fragments of a shattered aldamdin nightingale 

All that remains in the nightingale's relinquished roost is a severed aldamdin foot, desperately clinging onto what once was. Remnants of the fractured songbird are embedded throughout the umbral haralun of the mace's shaft via unforgiving and overwhelming force. One of the wings is missing entirely, and its distended face is twisted in a horrid mask of pain and euphoria.

A haralun dire mace reads:

"They have forgotten to fear us." 

Alterer: The Scarecrow, Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 439

Original: a deadly meteor hammer featuring sparkling unicorn weights of polished uthamar
Alteration: a monstrous meteor hammer with a tentacle-like chain of glistening uthamar

Each link of the weapon's abnormally hefty chain is hewn to mimic powerful musculature, creating the illusion of a massive severed appendage ending in a mighty tentacular club. The gleaming metal catches the light, as if the starlight-white uthamar is perpetually damp following a ferocious breaching of the sea.

Alterer: Loriale, 442 AV

Instruments

Original: a pair of copper zills 
Alteration: a pair of blackened zills bestrewn with a myriad of crimson moonsilver eyes 

The two sets of paired discs are covered with a multitude of crimson moonsilver red eyes,  the cast of the metal giving them an eerie glow. Framed against the scorched and blackened copper, the discordant eyes scrutinize all directions and seem to follow any movement made. A small inscription is etched inside each zill.

A pair of blackened zills reads:

~Watch the Seal~

Alterer: Kouzan, Hollow Eve Festival 432

Titles

Custom Title: Valpatur 
Alterer: Zipsy, Hollow Eve Festival 428

Custom Title: Herald of Nightmares
Alterer: Zipsy, Hollow Eve Festival 439

Features

Alteration Type: FaceShape
Alteration: [a] legion of deep-seated wrinkles framing a shrewd [face]
Alterer: Hhsuna, 439 AV

Other Services

Alteration Type: Custom DEPART 
Alteration:

Your DEPART View:

Your corpse is quickly encased in crystalline panes and shatters, evaporating upward in a torrent of reflections upon reflections. Nearby, from everywhere and nowhere in particular, a hushed chorus of voices echoes out derisively to any onlookers.

Others' DEPART View:

Inneth's corpse twitches as crystalline panes wind around and across his form, then suddenly shatter. Reflections of reflections fall upward, evaporating, and the fragments of what had once been Inneth are simply gone. You hear someone faintly calling your name — in your own voice, a mocking call that beckons you to let it in.

Alterer: Olvin, Hollow Eve Festival 439 

Alteration Type: SIGNATURE verb

Verb	Actions
SIGNATURE	First Person: Idiots. Of course they cannot comprehend. But you sense — you know — that They do.
No messaging for second person.
Third Person: A hint of irritation flashes across Inneth's face. His expression shifts almost imperceptibly until a moment later, he relaxes. For just an instant you sense something else nearby, but it's gone before you can identify it.
SIGNATURE at target	First Person: You fix your eyes on the idiot, [Target], with a derisive glare. Of course [he/she] cannot possibly comprehend. But you sense — you know — that They do.
Second Person: Inneth stares at you, a brief flicker of irritation crossing his face. His expression shifts almost imperceptibly until a moment later, he relaxes. You sense something else's attention upon you for just an instant.
Third Person: Inneth fixes his eyes upon [Target], a hint of irritation flickering across his face. His expression shifts almost imperceptibly until a moment later, he relaxes. For just an instant you sense something else nearby, but it's gone before you can identify it.

Alterer: Zipsy, Hollow Eve Festival 439

Other Notable Items

• a somber woven cloak dappled with scarlet nightshade blossoms  
• a red-veined marble amulet strung upon a simple chain 
• a simple dragonar satchel with a trio of aldamdin talons 

In the News

Item	Headline	Date	Author(s)	Article number
The First Land Herald/437-10-30	Basalt Isle Evacuation Largely Succeeds	437-10-30	Navesi	55

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