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Ilsevel Starwick

The Archivist

An elf scholar of the Order of Lamplighters, sent to inspect the failing lanterns between thirty and forty-five. She writes everything down.
Species / class Elf Wizard
Level 1
Hit points 8 / 8
Armour class 12

What we know

  • Sent by the Order of Lamplighters to inspect the failing lanterns; signs for everything and writes it all down. (C01-E001)
  • Says she knows every warden's mark. (C01-E001)
  • Prepared seven questions for the goblin and can read a frightened face. (C01-E002)
  • Does not believe Tamsin's story about the velvet thread, and wrote something about it in her notes. (C01-E002)
  • Going because inspecting the lanterns is the task her Order gave her and the ledger for Lantern 37 is wrong. (C01-E002)
  • Cites Halbrecht's Lantern Theory, the 1002 edition. (C01-E003)
  • Noted that Tamsin is 'practised'. (C01-E003)
  • Called her familiar Pell for the first time, and was more moved by it than she let anyone see. (C01-E004)
  • Seeing through Pell's eyes does not come easily to her yet. (C01-E004)
  • Counts what nobody else has written down: three lanterns dark that no ledger records. (C01-E005)
  • Rests in an elven trance rather than sleeping. (C01-E006)
  • Is a Lamplighter of the fourth rank; rekindling a core is second-rank work she has never been allowed to try. (C01-E006)
  • Could remember only one line of the Order's history of Saint Wenna; will write to Lamplighters' Hall about the dead cores. (C01-E007)
  • Kept pace on the run to the mill, to everyone's surprise; finished the fight with Magic Missile. (C01-E008)
  • Translated the goblin boss's words; her fire bolt ended the fight. (C01-E009)
  • Received the dispatches for Lamplighters' Hall, and the black-glass pendant to study. (C01-E010)

Bonds

With Trust Tension
Brannoc ● ●
Tamsin ●● ●●●
Oriel ● ●

In their own words

A core is always warm. This is like holding a stone from the bottom of a well.
- C01-E005

The road moved. The stone stayed.
- C01-E006

It is a long way of saying I have never been allowed to try.
- C01-E006

Pell says he was excellent at it. Pell says nothing happened at all, which is the point of a watch.
- C01-E006

Magic Missile. It never misses. That is rather the point of it.
- C01-E008

He says: 'The boss pays for stones. He pays more for the ones who stop us.'
- C01-E009

It is drinking the light. And it is cold. Cold the way the dead cores were cold.
- C01-E010

I have never read of anything like it. Not in any book. Not once.
- C01-E010

Episodes

C01-E001, C01-E002, C01-E003, C01-E004, C01-E005, C01-E006, C01-E007, C01-E008, C01-E009, C01-E010