Lux

▶Lux spent the ghoul fight as the party's primary healer, riding on allies' shoulders and dropping area heals that restored the party while burning the undead — repeatedly turning fights around and, at one point, more than half-killing several ghouls with a single cast while keeping everyone standing.

▶He was the second person compelled by the orb, walking into Shim's pack to touch it and gaining the wrist tattoo. He immediately began testing it: using it mid-combat to turn misses into hits, discovering that the cost in drained falls on everyone bound to it, and confirming with Shim that the orb could be recalled from another bound person's hand.

▶He also handled the aftermath of the drow deaths, arguing for a compromise between respect and practicality, searching the bodies for navigational aids rather than valuables, and collecting the sound talisman brooches — pinning the leader's silver one on himself. He attempted to heal the dying priestess and had the heal rejected outright, which he later theorized was because she was turning.

▶Lux spent most of the descent and the cavern crawl perched on Vosk's shoulders, and lit the entire encounter with the Wayfinder pendant — the party's only light source at first. He made a point of watching the ceiling, on the reasoning that slimes fall from above.

▶He opened combat by throwing silver coins at the angler's lure, then spent the fight in a support role: Bless, sustained and widened to thirty feet, Guidance on Vosk, Shield on himself, and Blazing Armor to put a burning spear in Lia's hands. He was immune to the lure's fascination through mythic proficiency and kept fighting while others stumbled toward the light.

▶When the creature died, Lux immediately squeezed in through its teeth to pull Lia out of the stomach, complaining loudly about how disgusting it was the whole way. He then investigated the inflowing stream and found the cracked-open egg — deducing that the thing they had killed was a juvenile that floated in from elsewhere.

▶He tested the glowing bulb by shining it at Ottora, confirmed it fascinates, and then spent the walk out arguing with Lia that the earth of the Abyss is just earth — that awful things come from it does not make the dirt itself evil. When the brooch on the dead elf spoke, Lux was the one who answered it, gave his full name, and told the voice their friend was dead.

▶Lux attended the betrothal ball at Valecourt Manor in fine clothing. Guests kept taking him for a fey dragon, which he strenuously denied — he has neither the colouring nor the insectoid wings, and said as much to anyone who raised it.

▶Pressed on his size, he said at first that this is simply how he prefers to travel, for ease. Then he admitted that this was true once and is not any more: he can no longer return to his grandiose size. He is, he says, quite old, and has lost a great deal of his memory.

▶It is the first time he has said any of that out loud to anyone. He was offered an introduction to Zellen, Guardian of the Jade Coast — a sea dragon, and possibly a peer.