Silver

Basic Profile Name: Silver Age: ??? Ancestry: Hengeyokai (Fox) Class: Level 20 Swordmage Adv Paths: Ghost Blade, Binder Warlock, Ironwrought Attribute Stat Mod Final STR 14 +2 +12 CON 21 +5 +15 DEX 12 +1 +11 INT 22 +6 +16 WIS 9 -1 +9 CHA 15 +2 +12 Skills Acrobatics +11 History +15 Arcana +18 Insight +9 Athletics +21 Intimidate +12 Bluff +14 Nature +12 Diplomacy +17 Perception +9 Dungeoneering +9 Religion +23 Endurance +20 Stealth +13 Heal +9 Streetwise +9 Thievery +10 Passive Insight: 19 Passive Perception: 19

Combat Stats HP: 150/150 Healing Surges: 13/13 Surge Value: 37 Action Points: 0 Speed: 7 Squares Defense Level Ability Class Armor Magic Misc AC: 36 +10 +6 +0 +2 +4 +4 Fort: 32 +10 +5 +0 +0 +4 +3 Ref: 32 +10 +5 +0 +0 +4 +3 Will: 34 +10 +2 +2 +0 +4 +3 Basic Attacks Hit Damage Range Longsword +24 vs AC 1d8+18 Melee Weapon Accuracy: +24 Implement Accuracy: +21 Beast Nature: You are considered both a magical beast and a humanoid for the purpose of effects that relate to creature type. Elusive: You have a +2 racial bonus to checks made to escape a grab and to saving throws against effects that immobilize, restrain, or slow you. Fey Origin: Your ancestors were native to the Feywild, so you are considered a fey creature for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin.

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At-Will Powers Sword BurstAt-Will ✦ Arcane, Force, Implement Standard Action Close burst 1 Targets: Each enemy in the burst Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex Hit: 1d6 + Intelligence modifier force damage. Increase damage to 2d6 + Intelligence modifier at 21st level. Eldritch StrikeAt-Will ✦ Arcane, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon Target: One creature Attack: Intelligence vs. AC Hit: 1[W] + Intelligence modifier damage, and you slide the target 1 square. Increase damage to 2[W] + Intelligence modifier at 21st level. Special: This power counts as a melee basic attack. Utility Powers Channeling ShieldEncounter ✦ Arcane Immediate Interrupt Close burst 10 Trigger: An attack hits you or an ally within 10 squares of you Target: The creature hit by the triggering attack Effect: You reduce the damage the target takes from the triggering attack by 5 + your Constitution modifier. Aegis of Shielding: The next successful attack you make before the end of your next turn deals extra damage equal to your Constitution modifier. Armathor's StepEncounter ✦ Arcane, Teleportation Move Action Personal Effect: Teleport 5 squares. If you end this move adjacent to an enemy, you gain a +2 power bonus to the next attack roll you make against that enemy during your turn. Impenetrable WardingDaily ✦ Arcane, Stance Minor Action Personal Effect: Your warding provides its bonus to all your defenses, not just AC. Enter the CrucibleDaily Minor Action Personal Requirement: You must have at least one healing surge remaining. Effect: You lose a healing surge. Until the end of the encounter, you cannot be weakened, and you gain resist 10 to all damage. Cloud SightEncounter ✦ Arcane, Shadow Free Action Close burst 5 Trigger: You reduce a creature to 0 hit points, or an enemy adjacent to you drops to 0 hit points. Target: One creature in the burst Effect: The target takes a -5 penalty to attack rolls made against you until the end of your next turn. Special: You can use this power only once per round. Ethereal SidestepAt-Will ✦ Arcane, Teleportation Move Action Personal Effect: You teleport 1 square. Phase EvasionDaily ✦ Arcane Immediate Interrupt Personal Trigger: A melee attack hits you Effect: You gain a +2 power bonus to AC and Reflex against the triggering attack, and until the end of your next turn, you become insubstantial and gain phasing. Hero's DefenseEncounter ✦ Arcane Immediate Interrupt Personal Trigger: An enemy makes an attack roll against you Effect: You gain a +4 bonus to your highest defense for this attack only, and the triggering enemy's attack targets that defense. If the attack hits, it deals half damage to you.

Encounter Powers Dimensional SlashEncounter ✦ Arcane, Teleportation, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon Target: One creature Attack: Intelligence vs. AC Hit: 2[W] + Intelligence modifier damage. Teleport yourself and your target a number of squares equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier. You must appear in a square adjacent to the target. Inevitable StrikeEncounter ✦ Elemental, Weapon No Action, Personal Trigger: You make a melee weapon attack roll. Effect: Make the attack roll twice. If both attack rolls hit, the target takes 1d8 extra damage. Level 11: 2d8 extra damage. Level 21: 3d8 extra damage. (Reserve Maneuver Target below) Dimensional VortexEncounter ✦ Arcane, Implement, Teleportation Immediate Interrupt Ranged 10 Trigger: An enemy hits an ally with a melee attack Target: The triggering enemy Attack: Intelligence vs. Will Hit: You teleport the target 5 squares. The target then makes its melee attack against a creature you choose. If no creatures are within range of the target, the attack is expended. Aegis of Shielding: If the target is marked by your aegis of shielding power, the target's melee attack deals extra damage equal to your Constitution modifier. Transposing LungeEncounter ✦ Arcane, Teleportation, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon Target: One creature Attack: Intelligence vs. AC Hit: 2[W] + Intelligence modifier damage, and you teleport the target into a space adjacent to you. Aegis of Shielding: When you use your aegis of shielding immediate interrupt, you can use this power against the target as part of the interrupt, even if the target is beyond your reach. (Given up for Reserve Maneuver below) Ghost SwordEncounter ✦ Arcane, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon Target: One creature Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex Hit: 2[W] + Intelligence modifier damage. This damage ignores the insubstantial quality. Touch of CommandEncounter ✦ Arcane, Charm, Implement, Psychic Immediate Reaction Melee 1 Trigger: An adjacent enemy attacks you. Target: The triggering enemy Attack: Intelligence vs. Will Hit: The target is dominated until the end of its next turn. Fascinating ShadowsEncounter ✦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic, Shadow Standard Action Close blast 5 Target: One or two creatures in the blast Attack: Intelligence vs. Will Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and you pull the target up to 2 squares. The first time the target attacks you before the end of your next turn, it takes psychic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier. Thundering VortexEncounter ✦ Arcane, Implement, Thunder Standard Action Close burst 4 Target: Each enemy in the burst Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude Hit: 2d8 + Intelligence modifier thunder damage, and you pull the target 2 squares. The target is marked until the end of your next turn. Aegis of Shielding: The target is marked by your aegis of shielding. Marking the target does not remove the mark on another target already affected by your aegis of shielding.

Daily Powers Death's ResurgenceDaily ✦ Arcane, Healing, Implement, Necrotic Immediate Interrupt Close burst 2 Trigger: You become bloodied or brought to 0 or fewer hit points Target: Each enemy in the burst Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex Hit: 3d8 + Intelligence modifier necrotic damage. Miss: Half damage. Effect: You can spend a healing surge. If you do, you regain 1d6 additional hit points for each enemy bloodied or reduced to 0 hit points by this attack. Swordmage Shielding FireDaily ✦ Arcane, Fire, Implement Standard Action Close Burst 10 Target: One creature in the burst Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude Hit: 2d10 + Constitution modifier fire damage, and the creature is marked as if from your Swordmage Aegis power until the end of the encounter. This does not end existing marks placed by your Swordmage Aegis power, and using your Swordmage Aegis power to mark another enemy does not end this mark. Another creature's mark supersedes this one. Miss:The creature is marked as if from your Swordmage Aegis power until the end of the encounter. This does not end existing marks placed by your Swordmage Aegis power, and using your Swordmage Aegis power to mark another enemy does not end this mark. Another creature's mark supersedes this one. Aegis of Shielding: Until the end of the encounter, when you reduce the damage the target deals using aegis of shielding, the target takes fire damage equal to the amount of damage your aegis of shielding power prevents. Reaper's ChallengeDaily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic Immediate Interrupt Close burst 5 Trigger: A creature attacks an ally Target: Triggering creature Attack: Intelligence vs. Will Hit: 2d6 + Intelligence modifier necrotic damage and the target is weakened until the end of its next turn. Effect: Until the end of the encounter, if the target makes an attack that does not include you as a target, the target is weakened until the end of its next turn. Shadow MireDaily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic, Shadow, Zone Standard Action Area burst 2 within 20 squares Target: Each creature in the burst Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex Hit: 3d8 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage, and the target is slowed (save ends). Miss: Half damage, and the target is slowed (save ends). Effect: The burst creates a zone that lasts until the end of the encounter. Any creature that tries to leave the zone must roll a d20. On a 10 or higher, it cannot leave the zone during its current turn and its movement ends. Any creature that ends its turn in the zone takes 10 necrotic damage. Omnipresent AssaultDaily ✦ Arcane, Teleportation, Weapon Standard Action Melee weapon Requirement: You must be phasing or insubstantial. Target: Each enemy you can see when you first use the power Effect: Before each attack, you teleport to a space that must be adjacent to the target. Attack: Intelligence vs. AC Hit: 1[W] + Intelligence modifier damage. Effect: Until you have attacked each eligible target once, you can teleport adjacent to a different target and repeat the attack against the new target. You then teleport back to your starting position.

Swordmage Basics Aegis of ShieldingAt-Will ✦ Arcane Minor Action Close burst 2 Target: One creature in the burst Effect: You mark the target. The target remains marked until you use this power against another target. If you mark other creatures using other powers, the target is still marked. A creature can be subject to only one mark at a time. A new mark supersedes a mark that was already in place. Mark Punishment: If your marked target makes an attack that doesn't include you as a target, it takes a –2 penalty to attack rolls. If that attack hits and the marked target is within 10 squares of you, you can use an immediate interrupt to reduce the damage dealt by that attack to any one creature by an amount equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier. Level 11: reduce the damage dealt by 10 + your Constitution modifier. Level 21: reduce the damage dealt by 15 + your Constitution modifier. +5 DR from feat Class Feats Swordbond By spending 1 hour of meditation with a chosen light or heavy blade, you forge a special bond with the weapon. As a standard action, you can call your bonded weapon to your hand from up to 10 squares away. You can forge a bond with a different blade using the same meditation process (for instance, if you acquire a new blade that has magical abilities). If you forge a bond with a different blade, the old bond dissipates. If your bonded weapon is broken or damaged, you can spend 1 hour of meditation to recreate the weapon from a fragment. (This process automatically destroys any other fragments of the weapon in existence, so you can't use it to create multiple copies of a broken weapon.) Swordmage Warding While you are conscious and wielding either a light blade or a heavy blade, you maintain a field of magical force around you. This field provides a +1 bonus to AC, or a +3 bonus if you are wielding a blade in one hand and have your other hand free (not carrying a shield, an off-hand weapon, a two-handed weapon, or anything else). Here nor There Whenever you use a teleportation power, you gain combat advantage against one target of the next weapon attack you make before the end of your next turn. Slip the Weave When you spend an action point to take an extra action, you become insubstantial until the end of your next turn.

Ancestry Power Fey StepEncounter ✦ Teleportation Move Action Personal Effect: Teleport up to 5 squares. Theme Bonuses Ironwrought level 5: While you are bloodied, you have resist 2 to all damage. At 11th level, this resistance increases to 4. At 21st level, this resistance increases to 6. Ironwrought level 10: Whenever you use inevitable strike, you gain a +1 power bonus to melee weapon attack rolls until the end of your next turn. Feats Feat Taxes Versatile Expertise: +1/2/3 to implement attacks with heavy blades Weapon Focus (Heavy Blade): +1/2/3 to heavy blade damage Heavy Blade Expertise: +1/2/3/ to weapon attacks with heavy blades, +2 to AC vs OAs Intelligent Blademaster: INT instead of STR on MBAs Improved Defenses: +1 to NADs Normal Feats Guardian Spirit: You gain a second Immediate Action per round, which may only be used to resolve your Aegis mark. You may still only use your Aegis's effect once per round. Eladrin Swordmage Advance: When you use your fey step racial power to teleport to a square adjacent to an enemy, you can make a melee basic attack against that enemy as a free action. Skill Power: gain Enter the Crucible Double Aegis: Mark 2 targets at once with Aegis Greater Swordmage Warding: +1 all defenses Greater Aegis of Shielding: +5 DR from Aegis activations Arcane Admixture: Sword Burst is Thunder damage Resounding Thunder: +1 to Thunder Bursts/Blasts Superior Will: +3 will, save at start of turn for daze and stun Reserve Maneuver: Give up an encounter to take another lower level encounter (giving up Ghost Blade for Dimensional Vortex) Sacrifice to Caiphon: When a Warlock encounter misses all targets, take dmg equal to its level to recover the power Resilient Focus: +2 all saves

Equipment Slot Item Effect Weapon Guan Dao Mechanically a Longsword. [W] = 1d8, +3 prf bonus. Critical: 1d6 radiant. +5 radiant dmg and slow eont vs undead and shadow. Enc. Minor: insubstantial eont. Daily Standard: Shift 6 make 2 MBAs during shift Armor Dilatory Armor +5 DR. Enc Utility delay effects on an attack until failing a save Other Baldric of Shielding When you use your aegis of shielding power to reduce the damage dealt to an ally, you gain temporary hit points equal to the amount of damage you prevented. Other Mantle of Warding Close Burst 3 Aegis; Overcharge 2: Minor Action - Mark all enemies in your Aegis burst with your aegis (save ends). Spare Gear Armor Leather Armor of Sudden Recovery +2 AC, +1 Saves vs Ongoing Damage, Daily (Minor Action): End Ongoing Damage and gain Regeneration equal to it Armor Rat Killer's Leather Armor +4 DR or +10 DR vs swarm. Can move through swarms and don't provoke OAs from them Special Coat of the North Can be Armor (+2 AC) or Other. Resist 5 Cold, AW minor - make a snowman adjacent Other Circlet of the Western Warrior Daily (Minor): +5 arcane power range til end of turn Weapon Jian of the Western Warrior Crit 1d6 or 1d8 if CA. Daily (Minor Action) to MBA a target up to 5sq away. Prones on Hit. Other Medallion of Death Deferred Power (Daily): No Action. Use when reduced to 0/lower. Gain 3 HP per +1 inherent bonus. Other Boots of the Western Warrior Daily (Minor): Teleport 1 Consumables Healing Potion x2 Wondrous Items Fairy trapping bottle: Daily Power, Minor Action, Charm: Any creature of Fey origin and size Small or smaller may be forced into the bottle with a successful Arcana or Strength check. The creature inside no longer needs food or water to survive for the remainder of their imprisonment, and may be talked to through the glass. You may compel the creature inside to do any one task they are capable of in exchange for its freedom, and they will uphold their end of the bargain without question. After this, the creature is immune to the effects of the bottle for two weeks. This Daily Power is not expended until a creature is successfully captured. Bag of Acorn Houses: When you plant these in the ground as a move action, a 3x3 nut shack will arise from the spot centered on the player and enveloping them. This shack may appear as a closed acorn with a door or be an acorn's cupule suspended on poles to form a simple roof overhead. These shacks provide shelter from inclement weather and are resistant to fire, but will fall under repeated attack. Only one nut shack may be present on the battlefield at a time. Urn of Rulers' Rest: Angery Arkhosian ghost kings/queens Wooden Figurine of Menagerie: You may use this item's conjuration powers to summon any of the animals within, including: A Fey Panther, a Macetail Behemoth, a Giant Seahorse, a large fey spider or a raving crab. These act as a golden lion, a jade macetail, a pearl seahorse, and a bloodstone spider. The raving crab is treated as a Craud Crusher with 10 hit points, and possesses the ability to play music by striking its tonal carapace. The menagerie understands all languages spoken by its holder. These creatures are clearly unnatural and made of plant material, apart from the crab for some reason, which also has parts made of metal. These creatures' statistics improve with time, to be determined later. Encounter - Minor Action. Conjure one of the menagerie members to perform some sort of utility task, which can changed by speaking to it. Daily - Standard Action (Conjuration). Conjure one of the menagerie for combat. As a free action, you may spend a healing surge when activating this item to give the creature temporary hit points equal to your healing surge value.

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Hengeyokai Forms Nature's MaskAt-Will (Special) ✦ Polymorph Minor Action Personal Effect: You change into your human or Tiny animal form. The new form lasts until you change forms again. While you are in human or animal form, other creatures can attempt to discern your true nature by making an Insight check opposed by your Bluff check; you gain a +5 bonus to your check. None of your game statistics change in human form. While in animal form, you cannot use any attack powers, although you can sustain such powers. Your equipment becomes part of the form, and you continue to gain the benefits of the equipment you wear, except for shields and item powers. While equipment is part of the form, it cannot be removed, and anything in a container that is part of the form is inaccessible. You otherwise retain your game statistics. You gain a movement benefit based on your form. Fox: Your speed increases by 2. Special: You can use this power only once per round. Languages Unan (Common) The Vöice (Primordial) Seelie (Elven) Zhonghua (language of the Central Kingdoms) Travel Items Adventurer's Kit Bell and whistle Filter Mask Climber's Kit Ten-foot pole Cold-weather clothing Map case Chalk and Slate 2539.5 GP Fluff Items Silver carries a large, boxy backpack with many small compartments. Most of them hold various incenses, small animal skulls, and other tools of the trade related to necromancy. A tightly bound bag tucked deep into their robes holds a set of coins representing the contract Silver holds with the ghosts who became bound with them upon their awakening as a Hengeyokai - and which now assist in their Swordmage Aegis powers.

Major Rituals Speak With DeadKey Skill: Religion Category: Exploration Time: 2 minutes Duration: 10 minutes Effect: You ask the corpse of an intelligent creature questions and receive answers. The corpse knows what the creature knew in life, what has occurred near the corpse, and no more; the spirit has (usually) moved on to another plane and is not present in the body. Your Religion check result determines the number of questions you can ask. 9-: zero 10-19: one 20-29: two 30+: three At the DM's option, questioning the departed spirit might require a skill challenge using Diplomacy.

Minor Rituals Undead WardKey Skill: Arcana Category: Warding Duration: Until broken Effect: You create a magical barrier against undead creatures. This barrier can be a closed circle, with an inscription time of 1 minute per square inside the circle, or a line, requiring 1 minute per 2 squares of length. An undead creature whose level is lower than your Arcana check result – 10 cannot pass through the barrier, affect creatures through the barrier, or affect the barrier in any way. Any other undead creature takes radiant damage equal to your Arcana check result when passing through the barrier, but doing so breaks the barrier and ends the effect. Any creature able to pass through the barrier can take a standard action to obscure the inscription and thereby break the barrier.

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Progression Level Choice(s) 1 Guardian (theme), White Lotus Riposte (feat) 2 Rose King's Shield (feat), Dimensional Warp (utility) 3 Dimensional Vortex (encounter) 4 Guardian Spirit (feat) 5 Swordmage Shielding Fire (daily) 6 Armathor's Step (utility), Eladrin Swordmage Advance (feat)

Friends Back Home Strix: An owl hengeyokai who alternates between titles: Tengu, Kinnari, or rarely, Garuda. Like Silver, she awoke at the passing of the Mountain Master, and she inherited a measure of the Master's druidic powers. She's been fully aware a couple decades longer than Silver and expects somber respect from visitors, but is honestly too much of a dork for anyone to take her seriously. Strix is territorial with her metaphysical domain - Silver set her off when they were younger by tending to the corpses and souls of animals on the mountain. Li Zhiwen: The elder of Lingshan village, Zhiwen is valued both for the spiritual counsel he offers and the practical agricultural and apothecary knowledge he picked up in his younger days as a traveling merchant. He's one of the few villagers Silver will pay personal visits to outside of ritual events and has a more grounded perspective on the Hengeokai. Though he acknowledges Silver's very real role as a spiritual guardian to the village, he does his utmost to treat them like any other guest and person when they visit, in hopes it will help Silver develop a less rigid view of their purpose and place in the village. Provided Silver with an adventurer's kit upon learning they were leaving on a journey. Lyssa Yu: Former adventurer who traveled with Zhiwen in his final journey as a merchant before retiring to a modest farming life to take care of the old man. Lyssa grew up in Ashenia and adopted a local name to better fit in, though her fighting style remains heavily Western in origin. At Zhiwen's behest, she helped Silver train in various weapons because the village elder noticed that the martial arts were one of the few interests Silver pursued with great ambition outside of necromancy. Caravan and Contacts

Spirit Register The Mob of Soul Mountain: Silver's first and most important contacts from the Underworld, the Mob is composed of various souls who linger near the entrance to the Underworld high on the mountain looming over Lingshan. Service: The end of winter festival. Silver has a pact with the Mob to help ferry the spirits of the dead on to their next destination at the coming of spring - but only if they hail from Lingshan. Some who Silver helps choose to linger, however, growing the size of the Mob. Gatekeeper 7643: A nameless guardian of the gates in the Underworld, charged with tracking down wayward spirits and trespassers. Not personally fond of Silver but treats them with a modicum of respect for playing some role in the journeys of the dead. Service: Ritual - Speak With Dead. 7643 inherited their mantle from a more naive gatekeeper whom Silver tricked into a pact. Now, they continue to honor Silver's requests to send spirits back up briefly for questioning, but only out of a sense of pride and obligation - though the yearly tribute of fresh fruits and other delicacies from the living world certainly help. Will not do any more than the minimum required of them by the pact, hence why shades usually return only long enough to answer one or two questions. Ismail, Raven Scribe: A scribe who records the stories of the dead for the Raven Queen. Naturally wary of necromancers but is curious about and has a slight fondness for Silver for their unusual neutral and somewhat apathetic stance on the conflict between the Raven Queen and Vecna. Service: Ritual - Undead Ward. In exchange for help tracking down particularly obscure ghosts and their stories, Ismail lends Silver a sliver of his power, as expressed through Silver's runes and talismans, to ward off the undead. Yan: A ghostly presence on Silver's mountain who appears fleetingly, usually prefering to remain unseen and observe. Silver tries to treat them as one might a colleague or business associate, but Yan is much more casual and almost treats Silver as a friend. Took on a name that would be recognizable as a position in the Underworld bureaucracy according to the inhabitants of Lingshan but nevertheless never interacts with them, preferring to only appear to Silver. Service: Knowledge. Yan helped Silver cultivate their gift of necromancy soon after their awakening but in recent years has taken a much more hands-off approach.

Background Silver hails from a small town of little consequence at the base of a bleak and snowy mountain that's known today only for the rumors that it is haunted and No Good to visit. No ancient treasures, no hidden subterranean cities, just spooky sounds in the wind and the occasional shade drifting through the night. The rare historian who studied the region would tell you that it wasn't always like this - decades ago, the town used to be a bustling trade hub before war broke out between several Ora Anguis city-states and starved it to death. Centuries before that, legends spoke of a sacred mountain watched over by a Mountain Lord overflowing with life and verve before the Conjoining drove a shard of the Underworld deep into the mountain's heart and slew it. Supposedly, Silver's story starts back in this distant past, when they were but an ordinary fox living on this lush and bountiful mountain, surrounded by a natural barrier of unrelenting snowstorms. Supposedly, they were marked and forever changed when they had the providence to witness the Mountain Lord's last shuddered breath, giving them and other gathered animals lifespans far beyond the norm for their species. Supposedly, this is when Silver felt the first spark of affinity for undeath, their new gift resonating with the energies of the Underworld all around them. Silver doesn't really remember any of this. They remember their last moments as a (mostly) normal fox, some twenty-odd years ago, searching in the town graveyard for food scraps from the tributes left for the dead. A compulsion overtook them, and they donned a Hjuran skull they dug up. The moment they did, the wind wreathed them in a cloak of leaves, and they awoke to sudden, rapturous awareness and found themselves in the form of the hjuran whose skull they had worn, but with the ears and tails of a fox. The first days after Silver stumbled into town were a torrent of confusion and terror. They had only the foggiest recollection of their centuries of animal life yet also carried fragments of memory from the ghosts that flooded into the mountain and shattered on its wards during the Conjoining. Fleeing, Silver watched the town from the margins and over the years became, depending on who you asked, a patron spirit to its people or a persistent poltergeist, appearing from the shadows to solve people's Ghost Problems or to occasionally deliver a message from the recently departed. Silver saw mixed reception in town, with some finding comfort and relief in their acts and others finding the fox deeply unsettling. Either way, a tradition formed around them, and the town's yearly end of winter festival became a time for spiritual rejuvenation and to send off the spirits of that year's departed so they could find peace. Silver would appear most openly to the town during this festival, visiting townsfolk to dispense advice, help them grieve, or put the literal fear of death into someone who'd been a dick that year. When not in town, Silver would live hidden up on the mountain, busying themselves with hobbies and interests briefly glimpsed in their inherited memories and learning the art of necromancy through experimentation supplemented by rare visits to the underworld and consultations with a fleeting but knowledgeable ghostly presence in the mountain. After years of watching Silver struggle to find a place in the world beyond that of the small town's guardian, the presence and Silver agreed it'd be better if the fox left to travel the world, returning to the mountain no more than once a year. Before leaving, Silver heard the village had recently received news that one of their own who had traveled afar for work had passed on, and they made the villager's last known location their first destination. As luck would have it, Lumina's caravan was making immediate preparations to head that way when Silver stumbled upon the moth's ads, and they signed on to help out immediately.