Lyrus

Deathmatch record

Episode	Played by	Result
Coriander Society, Fate of the Faithful Part 1 (A Crossover)	Mudcat	n/a. John, Asena, Lyrus and Lyrus’s militia defeat the fake “Grandmaster’s forces” in the market
Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover)	Mudcattv	none. The session ends mid-combat on a cliffhanger
Coriander Society - Fate of The Faithful Part 3 — A Crossover	Mudcattv	no Deathmatch. Lyrus defeats Ganyu Sinmal in the duel; the party rescues Kenny, recruits Circe and steals the silver ewer
Coriander Society — Fate of the Faithful Part 4 (A Crossover)	Mudcattv	no Deathmatch. Lyrus kills the Draconic Death Knight in a duel. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the Death Knight’s dying hellfire orb explodes on Lyrus.
Coriander Society — Fate of the Faithful Part 5 (A Crossover)	Mudcattv	n/a. The Yord echo of Ralzamon is destroyed. Josiah Parsons/Ralzamon is spared and dropped into the pit. The party escapes with the ewer, and John and Asena return to Yord.

. Orin’s son.

A werebear in black plate, wielding two Void swords of “solidified gloom.” The swords cut portals in reality, create singularities, and shatter portals like mirrors.
True form: a Goliath, bald, 7 ft, grey skin, tiger-stripe tattoos.
Heard the Arbiter confess and vowed to take his head “someday.”
Saved the trio, and dove into the void to save Locket. Exhausted by the magic.
Leads a small band at a covert raid hideout in a blacksmith shop; “I guess you would call us the Faithful.”
Phrases: “the cut of your jib,” “two in the hand, one in the pantry.”

Appearance: a 7–8 ft white-furred werebear in grey and black plate armor over furs.
Weapons: two light-swallowing black void swords. A cut can open a singularity that sucks the victim in, or a portal that sends limbs or halves elsewhere.
Portals: slices portals in space to dodge, teleport, dive through enemies’ chests, and let allies attack through them.
- The sword that lets an ally attack through a portal is a greater silver sword that can cut an astral silver cord on a crit.
- Artificer-infused teleport boots.
Other powers: paladin powers (smites, lay on hands, an aura of protection); green flame blade that burns with black fire.
Family and past: son of Orin. The Arbiter saved Orin as a child when his village burned, and later betrayed and murdered him.
The rebels: leads Orin’s former men from the Eastern Outpost, who deserted the Grandmaster’s forces to serve her “from the shadows.” Many are wanted for treason.
Personality: calls himself “servant of the Grandmaster” (“in a way”). Old-fashioned about looting the dead. Rambles a little “like an old man”. “Not a tactician… a soldier.” His inner struggle is living up to his father’s legacy.
In this episode: killed Hathim by decapitating him through a portal.

. A leader of the Faithful, newly in leadership.

Daily life: sleeps on his warped work table; eats Frank’s food daily, “dead inside.”
Background:
- Wanted to be a cartographer; his strict father Orin made him a soldier. He draws the Faithful’s maps himself.
- Not a planner: “kick down the door and portal in.”
- A tinkerer who crafted his own metal gauntlets and boots.
Abilities and gear:
- Void swords that cut portals.
- Divine sense (shows as void cracks through the stones), smites, green-flame blade, misty step, stone’s endurance.
- Magic Missile rune tattoo on his palm from John.
- Now carries the Ogre Revolver, and accidentally shot someone through a wall.
Prophecy: “You will fight… again and again. Until you are amongst the sand.” The Seer says he is not a great man, “Not yet.”
Accepted the Glory of the Grandmaster duel against Ganyu Sinmal.

. A “Werebearer” (bear-folk) Faithful member with Void Swords of ethereal blackness.

Can absorb their void/chaos energy to go “even further beyond”: black eyes and black chaos flames.
Abilities shown: smites, green-flame blade, Lay on Hands, Misty Step, Vortex Warp (an ethereal one-person portal), an Artificer “repulsion” blast, Stone’s Endurance, teleporting boots, a +1 aura.
Defeated Ganyu Sinmal from inside its mouth.
Serves the Grandmaster and offered Circe redemption “to serve the Grandmaster in her glory.” Gives Kenny orders.
His glued boot “was my father’s.” Thinks he’s funny (the chair joke). Claimed he couldn’t swim, then said he was kidding.

. A Goliath who is also a werebear, and stays in bear form “all the time now” in memory and honor of his father.

Background:
- His father Orin was turned as a child in an attack on his village that killed his family. The Arbiter saved Orin from that attack.
- The Arbiter later killed Orin; Lyrus heard of the death only secondhand.
Role: a member of the Faithful. He took part in the storming of the eastern stronghold when the Faithful believed the Arbiter had been kidnapped.
Powers and gear:
- Opens portals by stabbing his two swords (void swords) into the air and ripping reality. Returning somewhere is easier than going somewhere unseen.
- Green-flame blade, divine smite, Hunter’s Mark, misty step, Stone’s Endurance.
- Resistant to psychic damage. Level 12.
In this episode: made giant by Circe and used as a bridge. Duelled and killed the Draconic Death Knight. Last seen engulfed by the hellfire orb.
Funded by chat member “Jack” (600 gp, 400 ep, then another 1,000 gp).

. A member of the Faithful, described by the DM as a “werebear Goliath warrior.”

Normally about 9–10 ft tall (Large). Circe made him gargantuan, then shrank him back.
Driven by his father’s legacy and his fight against the Arbiter.
Gear and powers:
- Void Swords and green flame blade.
- Thunder gauntlets (artificer-made).
- Smites, lay on hands, Vow of Enmity, Stone’s Endurance, guardian armor.
- Misty step / void step, and Vortex Warp (rips a teleport portal).
Personality and lore:
- Rich (“I’m loaded”). Has “a little bit of a temper. I’m working on it.”
- Scared of heights. Firearms are “not my thing.”
In this episode:
- Survives a Hellball and a Soul Tear, and beats down a Bogatyr mecha.
- Warps the frozen Vargas in front of the shadow monster.
- Keeps the (replica) ewer for the Seer.
- Gives John 400 electrum. Says the Faithful aim “to reach the Grandmaster.”

Leader figure of the Faithful’s HQ, called “the bear.”

Two Void swords that look like “a black chasm in space”; enemies they kill fold into small black voids. One blade was dulled by acid.
Casts Haste and Bless, and channels divinity (Vow of Enmity).
No longer in charge of strategy; nostalgic for open-field warfare.