Vess

Velkrin monk, Warrior of Mercy, played by RunAwayHero. Gone from the party since session 26.

She woke as the stag, walked out of Castle Ravenloft making the sound a stag makes, reached the Pendant of Nyss outside and changed again into a fox. The party let her go without learning anything.

Vess — Appearance

Reference art: vess.png

Vess is a Velkrin (she/they): slight, quick, and fey, with a frame built for movement rather than force. Their hair is white and windblown, falling loose around a young, watchful face. Their ears are long, pointed, and expressive — closer to a deer's than an elf's in how far they sweep back. Their eyes are pale blue. Branching tan antlers rise from their hair, slender and many-pointed, and white dappled fawn markings dot their brow and the line of their cheekbones. A faint barklike shimmer runs along the skin in the right light.

They dress like the monk they are: a simple olive-brown short-sleeved tunic and loose dark green trousers, nothing ornamented, nothing that catches. In the reference art they wear the moon-glass crystal pendant — the spiral Vess carved themself. The physical pendant is no longer theirs: Strahd took it in session 14, it was discarded in session 21, and Myra carries it now.

The art shows Vess mid-motion, low and balanced, hands open — the unshifted resonance described in their backstory made visible: not child, not beast, the fawnlike self surfacing through the composed one.

Current state (session 26): gone from the party. Beheaded in stag form in session 23 and stabilized, she woke as the stag, walked out of Castle Ravenloft, reached the Pendant of Nyss outside and changed again into a fox.