Black Lily
At a glance
A robed stranger claiming to serve the Kargatane who hired the party to poison High Sentinel Ablander.
Portrait
- Primary reference: Black Lily Portrait
- Canonical status: Visual baseline for Black Lily’s face, build, covert clothing, lily clasp, and rehearsed confidence.
Known facts
- Wears robes that reminded the party of Aldo in Rivalis.
- Offered 50 gp for Ablander’s death.
- Supplied poison and a key to the High Sentinel’s room.
- Told the party to meet him outside Neblus after midnight once the deed was done.
- Claimed that success might earn him promotion within the Kargatane.
- Shares Rage’s enthusiasm for Screaming Cheese.
- Lingered near the Shrine while the party prepared to infiltrate Ablander’s quarters.
- Was scooped up by Rage during the party’s flight from Neblus and carried into the Mists toward Richten House. He did not choose the arrangement, but understood the danger and did not resist.
- Feared the ghosts of Richten House but paid the party the promised 50 gp for Ablander’s death.
- Used an Azalin-faced coin as a Mist talisman to lead the party to Martira Bay.
- Described himself as a Kargatane recruiter and overseer who reports monthly to a contact in the Kargat.
- Reacted to mention of that superior with a shudder resembling pleasure, desire, or enthrallment.
- Warned the party not to speak with Martira Bay’s children.
- Arranged for his master to meet the party at the Pale Lantern.
- Identified Darian Corvrick as the full Kargat member who gives him a monthly “gift.”
- Presented the party’s success against Ablander before Darian and delighted in their praise of his leadership.
- Received a drop of Darian’s blood and appeared visibly younger afterward.
- Proposed a new assignment: travel to Castle Avernus and disrupt it on behalf of the Kargatane.
- Maintains or occupies a manor in Martira Bay’s East District.
- Claimed that evil stirs beneath Castle Avernus and that the damaged castle is healing itself.
- Agreed to arrange transportation for the expedition and supplied 40 gp for explosives.
- Received general blood-sealed orders from Darian concerning Neblus and zealots in Nevuchar Springs.
- An unidentified person radiating enchantment magic was concealed upstairs in his manor.
- Arranged a worn coach, horses, and a pale elven driver named Vermoth for the Castle Avernus expedition, but remained in Martira Bay himself.
- Packed a Bag of Holding, thirty days of rations, and several spell scrolls into the coach.
- Sent an envelope stating, “The phylactery must be hidden in the castle.” The party believes it refers to Azalin’s phylactery in Castle Avernus.
- Whether he knew of or arranged Vermoth’s roadside betrayal is unknown.
- When confronted about the coach assassination, he claimed he had arranged it only to let Vermoth demonstrate his abilities for recruitment. This claim was made under duress and remains unverified.
- Rage broke his hand, Ignatius restrained him, and the party killed him after deciding their business with the Kargatane was over.
- The party found dark-magic tomes in his rooms and three attic coffins. Two horizontal coffins released hostile tentacled, vampiric-looking aberrations; the contents of the upright coffin were not recorded.
Reliability
His name, affiliation, motives, and political claims are self-reported and unverified.
Related sessions
Gallery
- The Dead Beneath Neblus — Black Lily recruits Rage beside an opened paving grave.
- Into the Mists, Willingly or Not — Rage bodily evacuates Black Lily from Neblus.
- A Drop for Black Lily — Black Lily receives Darian’s vampiric blood before the Pale Lantern gathering.
- Black Lily’s Reckoning — The party confronts Black Lily with Darian’s sealed letter in his manor.