Sybil

Sybil is a tiefling divination wizard and adventurer. She is played by Hex.

Appearance


Sybil is a thin, moderately tall tiefling woman with pale red skin and long dark hair. Her horns curve directly back from her hairline, following the shape of her head and then curving back up to a point at the back of her head.

She wears a set of thick spectacles, and a single earring with a black feather on it. Several scarves are draped across her neck, one loosely covering her hair. She a long black cloak hangs over her body, which she wears off-center. With sets of rings and runes inked onto her fingers, and a beaded bag, she almost gives off the vibes of some kind of fortune teller. If not for the fact that she has a bit of an intimidating aura about her that you can't quite place.

Personality
Sybil is mostly quiet and reserved. She tends to watch others, and speaks in an even monotone voice. She is allegedly bad at communicating, and trying to work on improving that, and tries to make sure the party is on the same page. She is visibly frustrated when people try to be vague, but generally only when she doesn't understand all the implications.

She hasn't expressed a natural instinct to do good, but she doesn't approve of doing wrong by people either, such as when the party was debating over whether to give back Alonne's scimitar. Laws don't necessarily impact what Sybil views as moral, but she is particularly averse to killing. She's stated before that her own death was painful, and scared her, and she overall has a complicated relationship with death.

Sybil claimed to have a talent for Divination specifically, and has demonstrated that in seeing flashes of opportune or inopportune moments. She is not bad at impressions. She finds knowing comforting.

She doesn't feel things very strongly, but admitted that she used to. She also confirmed that she sounded different when she was alive, and that's she aware she "sounds dead".

Background
When she was a child, Sybil said she went to school. Her favorite food was a frozen sweet that she and her friends would get on the last day of classes.

At some point, Sybil traveled with a different party before she came to Urzin. She's confirmed that she had died before then, but refused to elaborate, calling it "private". Later, after a dream, it was revealed that Sybil died at the Miskath Pit. It's presumed she was brought back by a different mechanism after her previous death, due to her registering on spells to detect undead presences while the rest of the party does not. Sybil is familiar with the Miskath Strand, also known as Blightshore, and recognized the town of Rotthold. She told Cyprus that she had been to Blightshore, mentioning visiting their hometown of Charis on the way up from there. When asked if it was dangerous, Sybil joked that it was deadly.

Sybil claimed that when she was fifteen, she was taken and interrogated by soldiers of the Kryn Dynasty. She said she was ill, probably feverish, and it was the first time she really thought she would die. This is when Sybil saw the future, and saw herself surviving, which is how she claims she chose the name "Sybil."

Sybil has five siblings, “some closer than others”. She left her address most recently in Asarius before venturing to Urzin.

She admitted to the party that she worked for the Cerberus Assembly until her death, after which she had a change of priorities. It is presumed that she worked as part of the Volstrucker. She did not directly deny the accusation, neither from Hummel nor when Alonne referred to her as a killer. She admitted she was sent to the Miskath Pit to push someone in, but didn't get a chance to before she died.

Unwelcome Spirits Arc (Levels 1-2)
Sybil was summoned in Urzin alongside a group of other adventurers, and was killed in the Brokenveil Marsh a day after spending a day wandering around in a big circle. She died by a spear to the neck, by the lizardfolk inhabitants of the marsh.

Following her death, she and the rest of the party appeared in a space between life and death, where a masked figured remarked that she in particular had been due to cross over into death for a while. She and the rest of the party were called back to the land of the living through some unknown mechanism, returning back to the day before they set out for their place of death, and taking a different direction through the swamp.

After dying, Sybil was noticeably more on edge. During their search of Fort Venture, she stabbed the corpse of a guard responsible for the repeated deaths of Alonne Firth, showing an uncharacteristic level of violence. When the party went to retrieve Bol’bara, she was the one to take her down, showing restraint at the last moment. When the party attacked and killed five Righteous Brand soldiers, Sybil knelt down by one of their corpses and was distressed, asking that someone else be the one to dig their graves.

Recollections and Reconnaissance (Level 3)
Back in Urzin, Sybil roomed with Alonne and opened a letter in her possession, and seemed to calm down a bit after that. The next morning she went out in search of general supplies, as well as the spell components she needed to summon her familiar, Sasha. She was handed a small pouch from the owner of the Whispered Quill, which she later magically identified to be suude. When asked how she felt about possibly delivering drugs to Asarius, Sybil expressed she didn't have personal moral problems with it, but the party could probably give the money to charity to put it to good use. Later that night, she and Thalia disguised themselves as hobgoblins in order to boost the party's reputation in the town.



After the party picked up another job infiltrating the Rockguard Garrison, Sybil was more cautious in their second trek through the swamp. Their first night away from Urzin, the party heard repeated calls for help. Sybil was unnerved by it, saying the party should either investigate or leave. During their fight with the Oblex, Sybil was targeted as an intelligent magic user. The Oblex learned her memories and showed them back to her, badly injuring Sybil and driving her to tears. When she spoke to Alonne later, she confessed that she hadn't felt strong emotions in a while as a Hollow One, but her old memories seemed not to have lost their potency. The Oblex shifted its appearance to look like her then left, a fact which greatly unnerved Sybil.

After their second encounter with the Oblex, Sybil was upset. She did not feel anyone but her had a right to bargain away the privacy of her memories. She admitted to the party that she was not, and maybe is not still, a good person. Arriving at the Rockguard Garrison, she offered to present herself at the gates as a member of the Cerberus Assembly, going by the alias of Amelia Elder, allegedly sent by Doolan Tversky the Achmage of Dysology on an expedition into the Marsh to research aberrant phenomena, with a (real) warning about the Oblex. This was a convincing enough cover that the party was allowed into the Garrison.

Asarius Arc (Level 4)
In Asarius, Sybil picked up a letter from her sister informing her she was dying, so that was pretty fucked up. After a few days of investigating into the mystery surrounding Kenrich and Terra, Sybil and Cyprus shared a dream in which Alonne's patron contacted them. Sybil cast Identify on the surrounding area and the patron, and the results briefly drove her mad and she woke up rambling. After that, Sybil felt compelled to inform the party that she used to work for the Cerberus Assembly, and after her first death never came back to them, and they may be looking for her. Later, Hummel pulled Sybil aside to ask if she was a member of the Volstrucker, with Sybil implying she was in refusing to give an answer. After the party ended up tailing Terra, Eally, and the tiefling, Sybil recognized some of their accents as faintly from the Empire, and spoke in Zemnian to them taking up their deal in exchange for being able to heal Alonne.

Upon finding out from Olivar that they were found out for their gambit at the Rockguard Garrison, Sybil wrote a letter then proceeded to cast it into the fire.

After their job, Sybil set about figuring out how to create a version of the Paper Bird that was sent to her, which she gifted to Hummel for her birthday. A few days later, Alonne pulled her aside to apologize, and then reveal to the whole party that they were planning on leaving. In response to which, Sybil claimed that the only person she had ever truly confided in was dead by her own hands, and so she understood where Alonne was coming from when choosing to follow him.

Vermaloc Arc (Level 5)
Sybil was judged by Hazel to be like, just fine. It implies her alignment is some form of Neutral. She fell ill from the poison in the woods, and gained a lot of levels of exhaustion, at one point walking at half speed. When prompted by Alonne for a story, she confided she'd nearly died in the Brokenveil Marsh once before when she was younger. After Hummel has a dream in the Flesh Dome, Sybil works on the spell Intellect Fortress.

The Dusk City (Crossover)
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Quotations

 * "This is no longer the land of the crown. Creatures here will not bow to your whims. If you don't leave, you will die a miserable, meaningless death, and none of your brethren will even find the courage to gather your bones." (casting Cause Fear on a Righteous Brand soldier)
 * "I’m not used to feeling things that deeply anymore, but I guess some part of me remembered." (to Alonne)

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