Curse Updates:

• Hoarbale 12, 205 A.B.: Yono-Oko is gifted the In Mirë Isildur ("The Necklace") from M'Haaren as a way to apologize for his past mistakes. He took the necklace from Apollo, causing a rift in the family. Yono has control over the curse side effects for the first time in her life.

• Hoarbale 25, 205 A.B.: Apollo steals the necklace back from Yono, while she is sleeping, and runs away from L'Appilia. Yono eventually chases after him. [start of campaign]

• Vym 71, 206 A.B.: Yono asks the Oracle in the Divination Shop in Astricia to answer questions about her future:

  • • Question: "Will I get the family necklace from my brother?"; Response: "Yes, but it will come at a price."

    • Question: "Will I become a powerful magic user?"; Response: "Yes"

    • Question: "Will I ever know enough to break my curse?"; Response: "Yes, you will but you will need moral fortitude to do it."

• Vym 73, 206 A.B.: Yono goes through her first MūnMūūn with the group while under the full effect of the curse. She attacks her group but is stopped by Urt.

• Vertalum 36, 206 A.B.: Yono meets Apollo in Drachir and she is able to get the In Mirë Isildur ("The Necklace") back from him. She no longer has to feel the negative effects of the curse. 

• Vertalum 37, 206 A.B.: Apollo meets up with Yono. Apollo has a tattoo on his chest to subdues the effects of the curse. Although the mark is only temporary while he further researches for a cure for the family curse.

• Vertalum 83, 206 A.B.: While visiting Hader in Falome, Yono asks the quills for a spell to cure her family's curse. Po is assigned to investigate and work on the spell. While he is investigating, Yono's curse mark burns.

• Vym 72, 207 A.B.: Due to pressure from King Eristan during their visit to L'Appilia, Catarina reveals to Yono that she made a deal with Ozrahmah, who is the same entity that cursed Yono's family. Yono is angry and upset with Catarina due to the betrayal of keeping secrets from her.

• Vym 74, 207 A.B.: Catarina dies while battling the Behir monsters with the group inside Jean's Magnificent Mansion Colosseum arena. She was struck by a lightning attack from a behir after losing all HP.

  • • Yono attempts to revive her but is unable as Ozrahmah claimed Catarina's soul through the bargain she made with him for her new powers.
      
      

Meeting the Group: Vym 1, 206 A.B.

Yono-Oko travelled to Falome to begin her search for her brother, Apollo. Unfamiliar with the social norms outside of L'Appilia, she found herself in a tavern named "Resbit" with only gold and silver family antiques to trade for currency. She attempted to order a meal but was unable to pay with her goods, so Ren and Urt offer to pay for her meal. While introducing herself to the human and wood elf, a bard steps onto the stage and begins to preform a song "L'Appilian Girl" (tune of Uptown Girl by Billy Joel) to Yono-Oko after realizing that she is a fellow elf with a strange mark across her face. After his preformance, he introduces himself as Jean Leaneux, a half elf boy from Pebble's Bottom in Narta.

They decide to all travel as a group to support Yono-Oko's goal of finding her brother. In return, Yono would take Jean to L'Appilia and also help Ren find a White Hart, a rare and sacred L'Appilian deer. 

The group travels towards Astricia by ship and begin their adventure.

Meeting the Princess Aurona & Kiventh: Vym 26-65, 206 A.B.

On Vym 26, Yono, Jean, Ren, and Urt arrive in Astricia and are taken to the castle in the Capital city where they meet, Kamus, the best friend of the Lord Ruler Kiventh, who is missing. They are sent on a mission towards L'Appilia to find Kiventh and his crew on the Ship "The Graham".

The group stop's by Torre's Speck and become acquainted with the pirate folk, before setting sail for Falome and L'Appilia again. Upon getting to shore, they find the Kiventh's ship and mend it for the return passage. They go into the forest outside of L'Appilia where they run into and fight undead like dwarves (zombies) begging for help saying phrases such as "I don't wanna die" while attacking the group. They are only able to be killed by the group from crit rolls. 

On Vym 56, the group enters the L'Appilian forest with the help of Yono. Within the forest, they see a white glowing figure with long white hair and wearing all white. She is standing next to a sleeping figure, who is presumed to be Lord Rule Kiventh. The woman introduces herself as Aurona, the princess of L'Appilia. She explains that Kiventh enterest the forest, nearing death, and she healed him through sleep. She tells us more about the Blight spreading from Mirse and Kratel, but assures that it cannot penatrate the Enchanted forest of L'Appilia. 

The Princess agrees sneak out of L'Appilia, against her father's decree, to transport the Lord Ruler back to Astrica once he regains enough health. The group travels back to Astricia.  

The Battle at Astricia: Vym 66-71, 206 A.B.

Joman soldiers appear outside of the Astrician walls to attack the capital. Half of the group dresses up as performers to sneak into the camp undercover to get intel. Ren runs into a halfing from Joma named Drax, who decides to join our group as he is opposed to Queen Jisenia, who is trying to exterminate the halfings from her domain. Ren, Draw, and Jean drug the army before returing to the capital walls.

Yono agrees to partner up with Princess Aurona to use a spell to fight the Joman Army. They both cast Erupting Earth against the army from the top of the wall. The spell is very effective. In the morning, the total casualties are:

• 188 dead

• 73 mortally wounded (eventually 261 dead in total)

• 2,000+ wounded

• Investigator's Note: drugging the army causes far more causalities.

Princess Aurona bursts into tears and runs away after the attack, overwhelmed by guilt. Yono, on the other hand, internalizes her guilt. As  MūnMūūn approaches, her emotions become subdued, leaving her unable to express herself fully. Once the effects of MūnMūūn wear off, Yono remains mostly silent about the event, although it continues to weigh heavily on her. Her self-confidence and sense of morality deteriorate as she doubts the effectiveness of her attempts to be good.

During the aftermath of the battle, Princess Aurona tells the group about the origins of Lithara and powerful stones that were spread across the world. These stones were powerful and hold even greater power if all are obtained. She thinks that the Joman government is seeking these stones and asks us to search for the a stone thought to be in the Joman Bay. Camus awards each member of the group with  a pin of a small falcon with ruby eyes to show that we are  loyal servants of the Lord Ruler Kiventh, and also allows the group access to government buildings.

First MūnMūūn with the Group: Vym 73, 206 A.B.

Yono goes through her first MūnMūūn with the group while under the full effect of the curse. The group decide to go to the forest outside of Astricia to explore, while Ren searches for an Astrician falcon. They came overnight by a lake. Yono decides to mediate by the water. Her powers become overwhelming and she levitates across the lake with water flowing all around her effortlessly. She is provoked by the group, from a rock thrown, and then attacks her friends. Jean chooses not to fight and Ren does not want to do any serious damage, but Yono is eventually knocked out by Urt.

Yono is annoyed and angry at being bested when she wakes up as she is still under the effects of MūnMūūn. After the period ends, she is ashamed of her actions and feels embarrassed but does not bring it up to the group. She buys a healing potion necklace for each member of the group as an apology, but still feels regretful and worries about her friendships. The group leaves  for L'Appilia but Yono decides to stay behind in Falome as she is afraid to face the King after disobeying his order to stay within L'Appilia. 

Blue Water Stone Obtained: Vertalum 16, 206 A.B.

Catarina Blanchelette and her ship's crew takes the group to Semsual Bay, outside of Joma and Riktar, and finds an underwater Elven Ruin. The group  uses the Amulet of Water Breathing gifted by King Eristan to stay under water for long periods of time. They find a main hall where they solve a puzzle by making the statutes sing to open a secret door. Within the new room, they enter a garden with carvings of L'Appilian symbols and animals from the L'Appilian Forest. They solve another puzzle and another room opens. The group obtains the Blue Stone.  

Tsunami on Shrooms in Ilantai: Vertalum 46, 206 A.B.

The group visits the North Port in Ilantai where they run into a seaside town celebrating the Festival of Constellations. They see children dressed up as stars walking around the plaza while the adults are sitting in the town square on cusions while giving coins to the kids and preparing laterns for the nighttime celebration. 

The group gets ancy after a few drinks and presuades Yono to grow mushrooms. Ren, Aloywn, Drax, Apollo, and Yono eat the shrooms. Yono thinks people are taffy. Jean tries to mess with Yono by telling her "Make the stretchy people drown," but he is too persuasive so it backfires and Yono casts Control Water which causes the sea level to rise by 20 feet. A large wave crashes towards the town causing the children and adults to panic and run. Thankfully, a mysterious figure stops the waves and saves the people. The group GTFO out of town, as all the ships in the harbor were also damaged by the waves. After escaping consequences, the group watches the fireworks from a distance before heading off to their next mission.

Yono becomes fearful to get drunk or do drugs after this event as she is more powerful than she thought. She thinks back to the Joman soldiers that were killed in Astricia and she becomes sad and regretful. She starts taking out her guilt on the group by making snarky comments and distancing herself from fun group activities.

Sabbatical on Drachir: Lignorum 50, 206 A.B. through Vym 25, 207 A.B.

[Sarah was not playing D&D with the group from Aug 2023-July2024]

Yono leaves the group to go back to Drachir to live at the Towers for a while with her brother, Apollo. Yono decides to focus her studies on learning more Druid magic skills, but she is enticed by opportunities to make money off her schoolmates. She decides to grow plants that would be marketable to students and creates a successful business. She works with a few local shops as a way to sell the goods inconspicuously and learns spells that are good for escaping or disappearing quickly so that she is not caught by school officials or their government. She learns more social skills and figures out how to make plans that will benefit the community while also benefitting herself. In total, she makes 193 gold from her business efforts. 

She is called by the group to help terraform their new island off the coast of Ilantai that they named Pei Lei. Nearing the 1 year anniversary of her adventure, she starts missing her friends and the adventure. She feels that she has healed from the mishaps of her adventure and can do good in the world. She gives the business over to Apollo to keep it up and make money for the family and heads to Ilantai. She is at the islands for a while overseeing the terraforming, but when the group doesn't show up she seeks after them. She follows a lead which leads her back to L'Apillia. She joins up with the group and learns that they are about to invade L'Appilia. 

Attack on L'Appilia + Embassy Proposal for L'Appilia & Astricia: Vym 32, 207 A.B.

See 'Proposal of L'Appilia and Astrician Embassies' for a copy of the document. 

Yono meets back up with the group on their way to attack the high cleric, Petan, in L'Appilia. The group brings disposable pirates to pillage L'Appilia as a distraction while they find Petan. The pirates end up killing many elves and creating fires. After the group kills Petan in the tower, they help the L'Appilian civilians. Half of the group focuses on killing the rest of the pirates and the other half focuses on putting out all of the fires. Afterwards, the group heads back to Jean's Magnificent Mansion to sleep for the night. 

In the morning, Yono feels guilty about the group's actions in L'Appilia and the damage done to the forest. Although she has no love for the elves there, she does believe that the high elves need to survive in case L'Appilia falls. After talking with the group and realizing the dire situation if L'Appilia ever fell, she decided to draft up a proposal to give to Princess Aurona and Lord Ruler Kiventh with a suggestion to build Embassies in both L'Appilia and Astricia to reintroduce and reintegrate both cultures. 

They both agreed to bring it up to King Eristan. In exchange, Yono will get a nice home in Astricia where she can settle in case she does not have an alternative home. Although she created this idea out of the goodness of her heart, she did not hesitate to take selfish benefits from the opportunity. 

The group, however, is declared as enemies of L'Appilia until they are able to clear their name by obtaining evidence for the King that Petan was evil or acting in ill favor towards L'Appilia or Lithara.

New Animal Companion: Vym 36, 207 A.B.

See 'Whisper'.

While in Falome, Yono meets a Raven who introduces himself as "Whisper". His real name is the silent sound that his wings make while flying but the word does not exist in her language. Yono calls him "Whisp" as a nickname. Whisp decides to become friends with Yono and travel with her. 

Spooky Mansion: Vym 39-47, 207 A.B.

[New Feat: Undead Scourge]

The Group decides to go to Barton's Keep after a recommendation of a spooky mansion while in Ilantai. They learn briefly about the Petrence Family, who were promenent family in charge or import/export of the island that strangely disappeared 300 years ago. All that remains of the family is a 600 year old mansion that is haunted and does not let go of its dead.

The group meets and fights many spirits while navigating the maze that is the mansion filled with magical items. Yono touches a taxidermic white cat that transports her into a room filled with blood and gets separated from the group momentarily. The white cat later reminds Yono of Metzi and suggests Jean summons his cat to the mansion to help us, but the cat is revealed by Catarina to be his father, Martix, who is now with the group. While slightly possessed, Ren carelessly plays in a room filled with fog and her spirit separates from her body but is brought back to life when Urt stabs her with a special dagger. Later that day, Ren dies again from being struck by lightning after touching a painted wall and Yono had to cast revivfy to bring her back to life. Once alive, Yono scolds Ren, "YOU'VE ALREADY DIED TWICE TODAY". After reaching the attic of the Mansion, Yono casts 'Commune with Nature' spell to obtain the full layout of the mansion to explore the secret passages we missed. Yono sets a cemetery of mimics on fire on her way down just because.

The group finds the secret passage way on the first floor and enter into a large room with lava flow. A monster, Retes, appears. The group fights the monster but Yono becomes unconscious after the liar attacks. Ren is nearing falling unconscious herself with 1 HP left so Catarina decides to use a cleric spell to bring a tree from underneath and wrap it around Retes to kill him. However, Katarina falls dead after using a high level cleric spell despite the warnings from Zoa. Ren frantically runs up to Yono to heal her. Yono wakes up and is immediately yelled at to bring Catarina back. Yono casts 'revivify' spell to bring Catarina back but there is a force that is blocking Yono's magic to heal her completely. Catarina is now blind.

Jean extinguishes the forge and the mansion starts crumbling. The group splits up and each pairing obtains an item they want from the mansion. Yono obtains a firestone gem that can cast Fireball spell, and old books with instructions on how to fuse souls with objects. The group also collect Petrence Family Member bones so that they can use 'Speak with Dead' spell later to learn the full story of what happened to the family. From the gathered clues, the group believes that they made a pact with the demon once the business started falling apart. The group escapes unharmed before Yono throw a fireball into the mansion before celebrating in the local bar.

The group learns a new feature: 'Undead Scourge' which gives each individual the ability to instant recognize anything undead within 60 ft, and cannot be surprised by undead attacks. Each will also have advantage on attacks and saving throws against the undead.

The Sakashima Tree Slaughter: Vym 39, 207 A.B. and 49-50, 207 A.B.

See 'The Yono Accords' for the agreed repentance.

On Vym 39, the group returns to Pei'Lei to offload a spooky sarcophagus that the group got from another haunted mansion while Yono was on sabbatical. Urt buries the sarcophagus in a spot right outside the main forest. Yono casts 'plant growth' spell to grow a tree over it as an added layer of protection, but the tree that grows is a strange looking spooky tree called the "Sakashima" tree. The group gets bad vibes from the tree and wants to cut it down. Yono protests but is persuaded by Jean to return to the ship and that he "will not cut down the tree". Unbeknownst to Yono, the ones that stay behind cut the tree down, with Urt and Ren doing most of the heavy lifting work. The group then went to the haunted mansion for a few weeks.

On Vym 49, during the journey to return to Pei'Lei after the spooky mansion adventure, the group confess to Yono that they cut down the tree. Yono becomes very angry and emotional at the group and they yell at each other. Yono is upset that they killed an innocent tree behind her back and that they kept it as a secret from her for weeks. Urt gives a honest apology but does not regret his decision in cutting the tree down. Ren attempts to apologize but then backtracks by putting the blame on Yono for not being open enough for Ren to feel comfortable to tell her what happened sooner. Jean apologized for being a bad friend but show no remorse in his tone and delivery and implied that she was a bad elf and druid as well. While still enraged, Jean teleports Yono, Alwyn, and Catarina (who is still blind) to Pei'Lei where Yono breaks down and cries. The rest of the group goes to Ilantai to go to the vault to drop off treasure.

Catarina attempts to do a ceremony to purify what remains of the tree. Yono speaks to the tree and it tells her "You do not need to ask for forgiveness as this is not your fault...please, burn me". Yono respects its wishes and burns the tree but collects its ashes for later use. In anger, Yono casts a spell on the sarcophagus before the group leaves to L'Appilia. 

The Treeport Trio travel to L'Appilia and seek Shala to ask her to heal Catarina so that her sight returns. As they spend the full day healing, Yono and Alwyn visit "The Wild Mother", a large silver maple tree that is super important to Yono.  Yono spent much of her childhood reading at the tree and when she was training to be a druid, she practiced much of her spells on the tree to offer it more life. It became huge and the field surrounding the tree filled up with more trees that Yono planted for her 'Divination' spell to ask the tree for guidance. Yono is essentailly trauma bonded to this tree and goes to it to seek forgiveness and guidence. The Wild Mother replies to Yono that she can "...grow in harmony with adversion. Things will hurt you, but that doesn't mean they're bad. If you can handle the pain, the benefits will outway the reward. If you do not, then you will grow thorns. A woodpecker may peck at a tree but it will also eat the insects and prevent disease". The Wild Mother then gifts Yono a fey wild companion raven named Soleil [pronounced "So-Lay"].  

Yono and Alwyn talk about their own religions while clearing the enchanted forest. Yono confesses to Alwyn that her family's curse mark is actually a sword and the blade is the only visible across her eyes. The sword is a symbol for Daenestra and Yono wants to learn more. Alwyn confesses to Yono that she needs to leave the group and continue her journey to serve Daenstra. Yono supports her decision and offers suggestions such as going to Joma to set up a refugee camp for the halfings. They return to Shala to find Catarina's vision healed. Yono receives a message from Jean and they set up a meeting. 

On Vym 50, everyone meets up in Vulpae as a truce. Urt, Ren, Jean, and Drax sincerely apologize to Yono for their wrongdoings and reacting due to their misunderstandings. Ren gifts Yono a level 3 mossy Soul Stone. Yono accepts their apologies but lists 5 conditions that the group must do for repentance. They agree to Yono's terms. Alwyn announces her departure and the group have a going away bar fight party for her at the Sodden Squid in Falome.

Exonerated of Crimes Against L'Appilia: Vym 52-53, 207 A.B.

See 'Petan' for questions and answers provided by Petan post mortem.

On Vym 52, the group attempts to try to use the 'Speak with Dead' spell again on Petan's dead head to get him to confess to committing crimes against L'Appilia.

The Encounter with the Yellow Dragon in Kratel: Vym 55, 207 A.B.

The group travels to Kratel to visit the mines to obtain more diamond dust so that we can use it for more high level spells such as 'revivify'. 

Neighn is captures by the Yellow Dragon. 

Birth & Infancy

Yono-Oko was born from an affair between M'Haaren Névae-Gyrah and Valantha Mossvale. M'Haaren was from a prominent and well reputable family due to his family's cursed bloodline. M'Haaren claimed the affair happened due to him losing emotional control during an Auspicious Day. Valantha was from a lower class family but was very ambitious in living a comfortable life. They met at a local Auspicious Day gathering and hit it off instantly. 

Valantha gave birth to Yono-Oko on Hoarbale 49, the day of a solar eclipse. Yono-Oko was born with pale skin, bright green eyes, and a full set of dark hair. By the end of her first day of life, Yono-Oko's hair began to fade into a white color and a dark banded mark appeared around her eyes. Her curse mark appeared different from all the other curse marks before. M'Haaren originally rejected Yono-Oko as his own as her curse mark did not appear right away compared to his first born, Apollo, but after the first day he accepted her. 

While Valantha was pregnant, she only asked for financial support from the Névae-Gyrah Family to keep her silence and distance from the family to preserve their reputation. She raised Yono-Oko as a single mother for the first few years with M'Haaren visiting infrequently in secret, but she found the reputation backlash and motherhood too difficult. When Yono-Oko was about 5 years old, Valantha appeared at M'Haaren's home and gave Yono-Oko to his family to take care of her. She blackmailed him into continuing her financial support and they made visitation agreements. The rumors of Yono-Oko's birth and parentage spread throughout the neighborhood, but Tordil and Sorané did damage control so their reputation did not become irredeemable. Most Elves assumed Yono-Oko is M'Haaren's bastard child but her grandparents pitched Yono-Oko as the family's charity case to help a child who had similar inflictions as their family. 

Despite a reminder of her husband's affair, Eloradel took Yono-Oko in and raised her as her own without prejudice. Eloradel pushed for the Névae-Gyrah Family to accept Yono-Oko as part of their family and advocated for best interest instead of catering to their family's pride. Despite her efforts, family usually did not agree with her opinions for how to introduce Yono-Oko into society. 

Childhood

Yono-Oko was kept out of the public eye and often was typically only included in family hosted events. Her father, M'Haaren, rarely spoke of her to others and her birth mother, Valantha, rarely visited. When Valantha did visit, she would pretend as if she was always a part of Yono-Oko's life and kept a happy, ignorant disposition. Yono-Oko felt that Valantha was much happier without her so she kept an emotional distance from her birth mother and viewed Eloradel as her maternal figure. Yono-Oko struggled to keep her Paternal Family happy as she was often viewed as an inconvenience or a stain on the family legacy. Her grandparents, Sorané Névae-Gyrah and Tordil (Greenstone) Névae-Gyrah, often tried to hide her or disinvite her from public events. 

Apollo and Yono-Oko grew up very close and she considered him as her best friend. They used to reenact stories from the journals of their great-grandfather, Baleodigh "Black Bird" Névae-Gyrah , when they were younger and idolized him from the stories their father told of him. 

She was home schooled by private tudors and masters. M'Haaren enrolled her to be trained in the Circle of the Land (Forest) teachings of the Druid Class because it was a prestigious honor in L’Appilia. Although emotionally distant, M'Haaren did his best to raise Yono-Oko's social standing to secure her future. She was naturally gifted in magic and had a closer connection with nature than most elves. As she disliked being around other Elves, Yono-Oko spent much of her free time exploring the forest, practicing magic, or reading. 

Yono-Oko was bullied by other elf children for her stark appearance, and often judged by adult elves for her reputation. She was a popular gossip topic of the neighborhood as most loved to speculate her family origins and why her curse mark differs from the others. Most often stared and whispered when she was in their presence. The children often outcasted her from playing with them as everyone referred to her as "The Cursed One", as she was the most cursed out of the cursed to her cursed bloodline and bad fortune. Due to her vulnerable cursed state, she often got overly emotional as a child and had outbursts, which later horrified and embarrassed her. She used to try to fit in, but after some of the children pretended to be friends with her as prank and dare, she became less trusting of strangers. Her brother, Apollo, was one of the few who would stick up for her and shame others for their treatment and judgment of her.

Family Dispute & Apollo's Disappearance

When elves become of age around the age of 100, they choose a new name for adulthood. They have a Child Name, prior, given at birth by their parents.