Through the Mists

Pearl

At a glance

A grave elemental bound to the crystal created by Castle Avernus’s five-plinth experiment. Carver accepted responsibility as Pearl’s keeper and gave the elemental its name.

Portrait

Pearl standing in an ossuary alcove, formed from grave earth with burial debris embedded throughout its body.

  • Primary reference: Pearl Portrait
  • Canonical status: Visual baseline for Pearl’s summoned form, compact nine-to-ten-foot scale, grave-earth body, pale-blue eyes, and embedded remnants of bones, graves, and coffins.

Known facts

  • The crystal able to summon Pearl formed when earth, fire, water, and air magic converged upon a plinth full of bones.
  • Carver is Pearl’s keeper.
  • Carver named the grave elemental Pearl.
  • Pearl can be called through the crystal’s summon elemental magic.
  • Pearl first manifested in Castle Avernus’s Bone Chambers as a towering, bipedal mass of grave earth with bones and shattered coffin remnants protruding from its body.
  • Grave elementals are variants of earth elementals drawn from graveyard soil or similar resting places of the dead.
  • Pearl struck a gargantuan bone beast with grave magic and fought beside the party through the resumed battle against its skeleton horde.
  • Carver dismissed Pearl after the party escaped the Bone Chambers.
  • Carver called Pearl to the Castle Avernus torture chamber, where it dealt the killing blow to the massive fire elemental Rage released from the brazier.

Current relationship

Bound companion under Carver’s care. Pearl obeyed Carver’s command to attack, but the elemental’s temperament and degree of independence have not yet been established.

Current status

Bound to Carver’s crystal. Pearl was last seen striking down the fire elemental in Castle Avernus’s torture chamber; whether it was dismissed after that battle was not recorded.

Open questions

  • Does Pearl possess memories or a will of its own?
  • What limits govern the crystal’s power?

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