Freki Sarin

Chronicle

06e02

Wildling ranger who had witnessed the massacre: a Malosi goliath had blasted the camp with a Flux-based weapon. He exchanged tokens with Ni, binding him to help her and her to use the weapon for good; gathered herbs to soothe Cal’s vargouille itch; and agreed to guide the SPI for 11 gold a day, payable upon first access to a teleportation circle.

07e01

Accepted Mallory’s offer to join the SPI full-time, and Cassandra healed his fragmented essence. He then staked out the 4th Circle of Estanesse for 24 hours ahead of the auction, watching the guests arrive.

07e04

Recalled following Tremere as he stormed out of the room, and overhearing his conversation with the lich.

07e05

Failed to sniff out the missing heart, but followed a shrieking to the Preservatory. He shot the carnivorous plant and leapt down its gullet, then, partially digested, transformed into a werewolf and tore his way out. He nearly devoured the plant’s heart, but felt vile necromancy spreading into his limb.

08e01

Woke from a vision of lying in blood beside Cal’s corpse, the murder weapon in his hand, and insisted on checking on Cal, who was only asleep. At the circus, he showed Meroe his transformation, and she invited him to perform with them that night.

09e01

Intuited two ways out of the Flux: toward crisis but also salvation, or away from harm but also from destiny. He traced the flow to its center, where the agents saw SPI HQ.

10e02

Rudely interrogated Seirye about the heist, then left to scout for water, hurrying back in time to help kill the worm that attacked the camp.

12e05

Reappeared in a puff of brimstone, claiming to have been trapped in a force maze. In the shared dream, he declined to take a side, swearing only to protect his friends; when mushroom tendrils spread up the Queen’s arm, he swung his greatsword to sever it, tripped, and brought it down on her head.

12e07

Panicked inside the portable hole and wolfed out, until Vondal banished him from it; he then flew, towing Callie. He alone passed through the illusory border to see the Tree’s true heart, and Enoki trapped in a surging thicket of thorns.

12e08

Pulled Enoki and Cornelius out of the thornbush with a grappling arrow. When the cloaked druid refused to restore Ozborn, he transformed, tore into her, and knocked off her mask, revealing Isis Ra’ksh. He later regained control of himself, and killed jellyfish Oz to restore his natural form.

12e09

Dropped down the hole (“Swift defeat to my enemies”). Sensing something off about Phoebe as Isis spoke of the Vortex, he heard her whisper “let me out,” smelled blood where a plant creature should have none, and lunged at her throat in beast form.

12e10

Held the unconscious gnome in his jaws, shook him awake, and refused to let go even when Phoebe’s lightning struck them both.

12e11

Shot at the illusory Tybalt, believing he wasn’t real, but was stunned by Janus’s mind blast, bleeding from the nose. Freed from the stun by Callie’s calm emotions, he took hybrid form to fight.

12e12

Slew the black ooze with an arrow of slaying wrapped in a page torn from the Book, leaving his hand feeling oily. When Ozborn brought the Hornblade down on the Book, Freki’s ravens appeared spectrally, and out of respect for the elves and the Tree he leapt onto the Book, taking the blow; he survived with a single hit point.

13e01

Sensed they were being followed by something connected to him: a third raven, which his ravens called a facsimile with Munin’s power, keeping its distance half a mile away, amused by him. His ravens told him his purpose was to devour the world, or to prevent others from doing so. He resolved that the party’s priority was staying together.

13e02

His ravens told him the doppelganger had walked through a veil they could not follow without knowing what she knew. Outside the agents’ mind link with the changelings, he watched the centaur Talos ride into the village with Cal’s sword at his hip.

13e03

Fired arrows at Talos, but they deflected off some invisible shield.

13e04

Fired a special arrow point-blank into Talos. When Talos yielded, Freki named the war price: the bracers, and that Talos leave. Talos called the agents godlings, and told Freki with a smirk that he was glad at least one person from his village had been strong enough to survive.

14e00

Asked the villagers of Alye’adu about shapeshifting like his. He talked with Cassandra’s monkey, and smelled on it the same magic as Andalla’s demon figurine.

14e01

Crafted more special arrows, and collected a hair from most of his colleagues in case he ever needed to track them. At Evershroud, he caught the fleeing false Malachai with a grappling arrow.

14e02

Offered Lady Nightshade a mutually beneficial alliance, but refused her terms; feeling her try to take over his mind (“That is gonna cost you an arrow”), he shot her with ensnaring strike.

14e03

Shot a lightning arrow into Nightshade’s rift, and later shot her in the neck as she climbed back out, so that the rift snapped shut and took her head off. In the mirror beyond the portal, Munin showed him what he had forgotten: his father, a weretiger, fighting Talos as their village burned, and falling to Talos’s finishing blow.

14e04

Tracked the lost Vondal by scent. His ravens told him he was born under the sign of death, a bringer of death whose power might destroy him or save everyone, and that he would get another shot at Talos; but when he pressed about his lost memory, Munin grew spooked and the ravens vanished. In the Gallery of Whispers, he declined a portrait’s offer to tell him about Munin if he came inside. He shot Invictus with an acid arrow, to no avail.

14e05

Attacked by vampires, he felt the urge to claw, and reaching for his sword felt wrong. When a vampire bit him and drained his blood, it awakened the beast within, and he could not control it: he became a wolf.

15e00

Calmed by Callie in wolf form, he realized he had always known about the beast within, and gained a deeper understanding of his wolf nature; his ravens returned, freed from Vecna’s hold. He told the others he came from a village of lycanthropes, and that Talos had killed his father.

15e01

Sniffed out glowcap mushrooms growing in soil that smelled faintly of decaying flesh. When Bilbo turned invisible, Freki smelled where he was and grappled him, but Bilbo wriggled free.

15e02

Chatted with vampires curious about his werewolf nature while trying to tail Lestache, and sent his ravens to spy on him, learning that a halfling, Frokim, had delivered an exiled guardswoman to Lestache. He asked the ravens to search for captive halflings to free, and asked Lestache to stop treating the halfling village like a vegetable garden.

15e03

Feigned fear of fire as a distraction while Ozborn slipped Sophie a gift. He tracked Sophie through seven illusory scent trails, and, near the end, sent Hugin and Munin to a mysterious building to find her and tell her the agents were on her side.

15e04

When his ravens vanished near Sophie’s hideout, he crashed through a window, and was deafened by her defenses. Inside, among three Sophies, he bit the real one, drawing first blood to win the hunt, but the sword turned her against him. Later, his arrow of tidal force ensnared the vampires in kelp and running water.

15e05

Carried the others into the Soulbound Rest in the portable hole, opening it periodically so they could breathe. Bolstered by Meerlinda’s illusion of his home, he led Sophie stealthily past graves and ghosts, including a sorrowful ghostly Goratrix, to a huge chapel.

15e06

Lightly shot Sophie in the back to jostle her out of Bec’s trap, and zapped the Death Tyrant with a lightning arrow.

15e07

Hit the Death Tyrant’s central eye with a hail of thorns. He made an arrow of slaying from a wall tentacle and swore an oath on his bow; Hugin and Munin appeared to escort the arrow, grievously wounding the tyrant. He smelled Ozborn’s sword in the window’s shadow woman, and Cal’s in the other.

15e08

Growled in Goratrix’s face, then grappled Enoch in the chapel. His ravens urged him to let the bloodlust go and come back to himself, since all his forms are him; with their distraction, he bit Enoch’s bat form into mist.

15e09

Slashed Enoch’s mist form apart as it fled toward a crack in the foundation. He grappled Goratrix so his ghost could reach him, possibly disrupting Goratrix’s teleport. Back at HQ, he swiped Ozborn’s dagger of venom while Ozborn slept.

16e02

In hybrid form, with a camouflaging feathered cloak, he struck Megaera with hail of thorns, and finally shot her through the throat; the mists of Flux absorbed her. He pressed Audreth about Mallory’s actions during the ambush.

16e03

Sheltered Callie under his cloak when the Furies shrieked, shot Tisiphone with an acid arrow, and fired hail of thorns into the flesh-beast’s maw. In the tower, he smelled the monster dog and found a staircase down, with sleeping sounds below.

16e04

Saw through the false Raven Queen’s realm as a hallucination, and shoved his mirror shard in her face. After the Great Old One’s gaze, he was left desperate to escape the encroaching Flux, though he still remembered his friends.

16e05

Under the madness, as Vondal reshaped it, he believed he could squeeze himself in anywhere. He found tracks of many strange creatures fleeing downstream, and one set of sandaled footprints striding purposefully through their campsite. In the fight, his arrow of tidal force scattered the shadow creatures, and in wolf form he tore Shadow Oz to goo, knocking the real Ozborn out too.

16e06

Was revealed to have two alternate selves, one sprouting heads, and suddenly transformed into a three-headed monster like the Cerberus, eating Vondal and mauling Callie down to 1 hit point, until Cassandra’s divine spell restored him. His ravens told him the veil had been tampered with. Later he marked the shadow monkey for death.

16e07

Rained hail of thorns on the shadow creatures, dodged their attacks, and threw his cloak over Audreth, who seemed to fade.

16e08

Leapt at Megaera in wolf form and hung from her by his teeth. After the agents rejected her bargain, the Flux gave him larger, venomous teeth, and plants now wither to dust where he walks. He had a vision, from before sight existed, of a center where everything comes together in equilibrium. At the gate to the Afterworld, he told the other Vondal that he wanted the world restored to its natural balance.

16e09

Questioned the other Vondal (“Nondal”) about his power over death, and, after Ozborn’s attack, grappled him and ensnared him with a vine arrow. Nondal struck him twice with open palms, leeching part of his soul and leaving a vibrating “death hand” in him, Freki sensing he was being tested. Back at HQ, he told Mallory he thought he was missing part of his soul.

17e00

Guided by Hugin, he wrapped his cloak around the Fluxwarped Lorelei, which stabilized her through a force symbiotically connected to him. That night, he caught Lorelei and Rubinia sneaking out, and, trusting his ravens, who chose to go with them, let them go.

17e02

Introduced the agents to Claudius, the giant hybrid orchid guarding Grohnea’s cottage, using his plant speech. Grohnea let him take what he wanted from her conservatory for the mission.

17e03

Set Jorik’s beard on fire with an arrow and shot him with an arrow of dreadful glare, then unrolled the portable hole to let Vondal out, and charged in wolf form. He took a transmutation ward from Grohnea.

17e04

Tried to calm a suspicious behir with speak with animals, offering to free it if it didn’t eat them; it scoffed that it was not trapped and would eat him. Once Vondal showed it an egg was missing, it turned its rage toward revenge. Freki told Kavaki the agents sought “to return to equilibrium.”

17e05

Lassoed Rhyzophus with an entangling arrow, trying to pull him out of his water column, and withstood Skalfang’s axe.

17e06

Pulled Callie behind him, killed Skalfang (“Say I did it singlehandedly!”) and another giant in werewolf form, biting with a spectral second mouth, and finally killed Rhyzophus as he tried to escape up his water column.

17e07

Wanted to return the uncorrupted behir eggs to their mother. During Cal’s show of force, he shot the charging Thok twice with lightning arrows, leaving the killing blow to Cal.

17e08

Escorted Ulgrim down to Rhyzophus’s chamber with Bec. When Ozborn was attacked through the crystal ball, Freki grabbed the ball in wolf form, then bit Ozborn to save him.

17e09

After his bite, Ozborn stabbed at him, and later confronted him about consent, warning that if it happened again, Freki’s last thoughts should be of his home in the Selva. At Grohnea’s, Freki sensed they had been gone far longer than three days.

18e00

Rolled true in Grohnea’s extraction ritual, focusing on his ideal rather than his fear, and emerged with a deep sense of oneness, knowing that Hugin and Munin are not pawns of the Raven Queen but ancient instruments of Gaia, fatefully tied to him. He crafted specialty arrows with Grohnea, and found that plants no longer wither where he walks. Mallory rebuked him: “Do not bite non-hostiles, ESPECIALLY fellow agents!”