#Passion Graylock

[lusifernocturne]

The Grim Kraken

Located near the dock, it has three stories plus a basement used for storage. The top floor is off limits to guest as the innkeepers and their family live there. The bottom floor has a large tavern, a communal room with 12 beds(renting a bed and chest in the room is 5cp), and 6 small single rooms(8cp). The middle floor has 8 rooms with two single beds(2sp), 5 rooms with a double bed(5sp), and 3 rooms with two double beds(8sp).

Innkeeper: Sirus and Passion(Tiefling couple), with their kids Art(17 year old boy), Wit(14 year old girl), Naza(11 year old girl), Mavzer(5 year old boy), and Dexez(8 year old Leonin who was left on their door step as a baby).

Menu (or average price of a room/meal): Roasted Oxen and Dried Watercress with a tankard of ale (7 cp),  Goat and Quail Egg Omelets, served with lingonberrys(4sp), Roasted hazelnuts and fresh apples with a strip of bear jerky and a wedge of ripe cheese(10sp), Celebratory Goat Stew with assorted fruits, nuts, and cheeses(10cp), Spicy Jambalaya with crispy eel skin strips on top(8sp), Bread pudding with extra sharp dire goat cheese, comes with a side of grilled onions and carrots(10sp), meatloaf with garlic bread and potato edges(9cp), Shrimp Salad(8cp), Salmon Burgers with lettuce/spinach, tomato, and red onion with a side of fries(6sp), Seafood Gumbo, rice, corn bread, and fried okra(9sp), Clam Chowder, bread, and side salad(4sp), Fish and chips(8cp), baked or grilled fish with apple walnut slaw(2sp), pancakes with bacon/sausage, 2 eggs cooked to your taste, and mixed fruit(3sp), Stewed Mutton and grilled cabbage(4cp), Vegetable Stew(3cp), Wheat Porridge(3cp), Stewed Mutton and Soft Cheese(4cp), tankard of Mead(2cp), tankard of Ale(2cp), tankard of Rum(5cp-10sp depending on quality), tankard of local fruit wine(10cp-12sp), tankard of beer(2cp), and the special brew menu made by Passion.

Rumors: Ruins in the woods, imports, items of interest, and local jobs.

Passion's special brew menu:

Tarnation - A strong spiced cider served warm and traditionally drank as quickly as possible after a boisterous cheer or a lewd drinking song. Enchantmented with the effect of the consumer belching a small flame right after ingesting.(20gp)

The Sweet Roll - flavors of cinnamon and sugar blend with the strong scent of rum. The drinker gains an additional 1d4 to any pickpocket attempts for the next hour.(15gp)

The Chromatic - 5 different shots, one for each color of the different dragons. One is black and syrupy, one blue and gives a tingly feeling, one is on fire, one is green and tastes a bit minty, the last is white and frosts the closest things. They are mixed together and separate in the cup making a very nice presentation.(30gp)

Ginger Ale - Wait, this doesn’t taste like ginger at all... An ale that turns your hair ginger, effect lasts for 1d6 days.(10gp)

For Phoenix’s Sake - a local sake or rice wine, popular with priests.(20sp)

[cambius]

⸻ 𝐚𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 ﹕ ( a universe where nepharia’s mother never died in childbirth & raised her instead of her father. in this verse, neph is never sold into slavery, and she never sells her soul to a devil, so she’s strictly a rogue instead of a warlock. i write her in her mid to late twenties in this verse, and she is chaotic neutral instead of chaotic evil. this gives me an easier way to explore nepharia’s softer side. )

belphi is her mother’s name, a wild and rebellious young tiefling woman who ran away from home in her late teens to escape her overbearing family that arranged for her to marry into wealth. belphi didn’t want love without passion and emotion, she didn’t want it for money. she ended up falling in love with an older tiefling man named remus, a man she met at a rough tavern. a man who was just as rebellious and free - spirited as belphi. at the time, belphi was wearing rose - tinted glasses and couldn’t see all of the red flags. their love was chaotic and intense for years, they argued as passionately as they loved. they even got married, but he quickly became abusive, and never stopped drinking ⸻ the drinking only became worse, and in turn so did the abuse. one night after a really explosive and violent argument, belphi left when she was struck in the face by remus. it wasn’t the first time, but it was the first time she actually left. she wasn’t sure where to go, or what to do, remus really made sure that he was the only person of significance in her life. she found herself at a tavern, to drink and distract herself from how miserable she felt. that is the night that an incubus disguised as a tiefling very easily wooed belphi with his devilish charms.

belphi awoke the next morning in an empty bed at an inn, no trace of the devil from the night before. against her better judgement, but with nowhere else to go, she found herself going back to remus, who toxically love bombed her thinking that she actually really left him for good the night before. it didn’t take long for the morning sickness to begin, and she realized she was pregnant. remus actually started to try a little bit harder to better himself, for his child coming into the world.

on the day their daughter, nepharia graylock, was born, remus’ tune started to change. belphi and remus are both crimson toned tieflings, vibrant and red. nepharia, well, she came out gray and pale, nearly colorless. remus suspected that nepharia wasn’t his almost immediately, and though belphi tried to deny it, deep down, she knew it too. she looked just like that pale gray tiefling at the tavern. the abuse picked up where it left off, after that. and with a child to care for now, belphi knew she had to leave for good this time. she didn’t want to raise neph around him.

life was hard for them, a single, mortal mother raising her cambion offspring ( unbeknownst to belphi at the time ), and nepharia was a wild child. belphi, nor any of nepharia’s teachers, could get her to behave in school, she was always being disruptive and chaotic. nepharia was kicked out of so many schools that belphi eventually had to homeschool, which didn’t go any smoother considering belphi had to work two jobs to keep a roof over their head and was always too exhausted to be a school teacher on top of everything ⸻ but she did the best she could. nepharia adored her mother, and belphi adored her daughter, but belphi didn’t realize just how strenuous raising her was about to become, until puberty hit.

things started happening to nepharia that concerned belphi, things would sometimes move on their own, glass would shatter randomly, candles would burn out on their own with no draft or wind ⸻ and it all seemed to happen whenever nepharia was upset or overwhelmed. sometimes the way she talked about how she felt about the boys she had crushes on, seemed abnormal. the way she described the feeling like some kind of intense drug, but nothing yet that raised any true suspicion of something being really wrong.

nepharia was a social butterfly as a young teenager, even being schooled mostly at home. she had no trouble venturing out around town and making friends, she has always been so naturally charismatic. it came with the nature of what she was. and gods, was she boy crazy. unaware of the fact that she’s a literal sex demon, she just assumed everyone felt as good as her when they were around someone they liked, who liked them back. nepharia got her first real boyfriend when she was 16, a boy she snuck into the house late one night while her mother was sleeping. it quickly moved passed kissing, and nepharia was completely consumed by an intense desire to consume, completely losing herself in the rush of the high. before she knew it, the boy beneath her had stopped moving, stopping making any sound at all ⸻ she had unknowingly drained him of his entire soul, his entire life, and she was feeling the intensity of the raw power of it for the very first time. it was the best feeling she’s ever felt, but it was short - lived.

it didn’t take her long after that to realize he was dead, and in her soul - drunk hysteria, she changes forms for the first time. her eyes change, and she sprouts large, leather - skinned wings from her shoulder blades. she goes to her mother immediately, frantic and erratic, her already traumatized emotions heightened from the soul she just accidentally consumed. it takes one took at nepharia for everything to finally click within her mother’s brain ⸻ she had sex with an incubus that night. belphi was in over her head with this one, a dead boy in her daughter’s bed, and her daughter revealed to be a cambion all in the same night. nepharia and her mother had a conversation that night, about what she is, and was assured by her mother that they would learn how to deal with this together, and that she wouldn’t abandon her or turn her away no matter how hard things might get. belphi hid that boy’s body, told nepharia she would take care of it and nothing else, told nepharia not to worry. they sold almost everything they had and uprooted their lives and moved shortly after.

the next few years were tough for nepharia, between the ages of 16 - 23. belphi did everything she could to treat nepharia with respect and love, she didn’t want to lock up her daughter so she wouldn’t go out and accidentally kill people, she knew that wouldn’t help anything. she knew that nepharia was a social creature, and isolating her would only make her more volatile. so the two of them always had open and honest dialogue with one another about anything and everything. there wasn’t anything that nepharia felt like she couldn’t tell her mother. however, nepharia felt very insecure about the devil part of herself, and often wished she could have just been a normal girl. her mother drilled it into her head that it was very important to hide within the form of a tiefling, and not to shift forms in front of others. belphi just wanted her daughter to be safe, and didn’t mean to make those insecurities nepharia had about herself so much worse.

nepharia knew she was dangerous, but she just couldn’t seem to stay away from those cute boys. she tried to be good, she tried to let herself go slower, stick to just kissing, maybe other activities. but that lust would always build, that desire would grow stronger as the kisses and touches deepened, and nepharia would lose herself to that hunger. she would go on to accidentally kill four more lovers in different locations, putting her mother through absolute hell with all of the disposing of bodies and using money they didn’t have to uproot and move all over again. it finally came to nepharia’s attention that her mother was wearing thin, and she’s been pushed to great limits trying to protect and love her. she realized she needed to do better, not just for herself but for her mom. the social butterfly eventually cut herself off from the world, isolating herself more and more so that she wouldn’t be tempted by another cute face and charming smile.

nepharia eventually only left the house to rob rich men blind, learning that she can use her devilish charms and charisma to her advantage. keeping a job was hard for the cambion, she could never follow the structure and etiquette of a normal job, just like with schooling. plus, having a job where she saw the same people every day made it way too easy to accidentally become close to someone again. still, she wanted to help her mom out in any way she could, feeling like a burden on her mother most of the time, even though her mother never intentionally made nepharia feel that way.

right before the events of the game, nepharia is around 25 in this verse and has abstained from sexual activity completely, not even so much as letting herself get close enough to kiss a man in two years. she is incredibly lonely and depressed, she craves love and closeness but is terrified of killing again. she’s also been a pretty sheltered devil spawn for most of her life, and she desperately craves adventure, but has been too afraid to stray too far from her mother because her mother is her only friend anymore, the only person she has to offer guidance and support and without that, nepharia is afraid of what she might do. she was out near baldur’s gate, marking well - dressed men to try and steal from, when she’s abducted by the nautiloid. i will probably just write her like a tav in this verse for the events of the game. she would hide the fact that she’s a devil from the party, and pretend to be a just tiefling. she still doesn’t have very great control of her cambion abilities, so it’s very possible she could accidentally out herself or even the tadpole connection reveals what she really is to the party.

[strawberrydice]

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