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{{Infobox character|name=Naevys Duskbloom|role=War High Mage|race=Moon Elf|faction=[[Magnus Arcanum]]|status=Alive|location=[[Arcanum Tower of Deadreach]]|titles=Arcane Protector of Rosereach|tier=gm|src=heralds-a#5}}
'''Naevys Duskbloom''' is a Moon Elf archmage of [[Magnus Arcanum]], the war high mage who now holds the tower over [[Deadreach]] — the city she made when she turned a modified Cloudkill ritual into a weapon against the invading [[Winter Elves]] and [[Bella Worthmore]]'s forces. {{Src|heralds-a#50|heralds-a#51|heralds-a#117}}

== Overview ==
Naevys was sent to the city then called Rosereach by Magnus Arcanum as its War High Mage. {{Src|heralds-a#50}} While she appeared to be helping the war effort, her real assignment was to identify the Winter Elves' magic and the frozen corruption it carried. {{Src|last-winter#753|last-winter#754}} As the invasion reached the city, she sacrificed it: she reworked the Cloudkill ritual to raise the dead as weapons against the attacking Winter Elves and Bella Worthmore's forces. {{Src|heralds-a#17|heralds-a#51}} She had full authority to cast the spell, but what it made — the walking dead and the creatures later called the [[Reminder|Remains]] — grew beyond anything she could control. {{Src|heralds-a#17|heralds-a#51}} She and the arcanists who remain with her in the tower now hold what was Rosereach, and she is still trying to bring the dead she made back under command. {{Src|heralds-a#51|heralds-a#117}}

=== Assignment and the fall of Rosereach ===
Magnus Arcanum sent Naevys to Rosereach as its War High Mage; publicly she aided the war effort, but her true mission was to identify the Winter Elves' magic and their frozen corruption. {{Src|last-winter#753|last-winter#757|last-winter#758}} She used a faked assassination attempt — one staged by the party — as a pretext to evacuate the Count of Rosereach, [[Aric Rosemen]], despite not being under the city's other mages' orders and knowing the enemy would not reach him there. {{Src|heralds-b#43}} She took a measure of the Count's blood before he left; he is now safe in [[Timbermire]]. {{Src|heralds-b#49}} For the evacuation, the regency's Arbiter granted her the title Arcane Protector of Rosereach. {{Src|heralds-b#49}}

With the Winter Elves' power and Bella Worthmore's magic destabilizing the region, Naevys ran a project to arm the city's defense with plague-touched undead subjects, turning a modified Cloudkill spell into an instrument of chaos and death; the infected dead it produced spread without limit, and the region's magic collapsed into what is now remembered as an arcane catastrophe. {{Src|heralds-a#17}} Thousands of Rosereach's people died in the ritual, and both the Remains and the [[Reminder]] trace their origin to it. {{Src|heralds-a#74|heralds-a#76}}

=== Deadreach ===
Naevys and the tower's surviving arcanists were left holding what remained of the city, now called Deadreach. {{Src|heralds-a#51}} She can direct the dead's movement, quiet clusters of them, and delay outbreaks, but she cannot stop the spread, undo the infection, or permanently kill the Remains; she is still preparing a ritual meant to bring them fully under her command, and that ritual requires a subject who has died and returned. {{Src|heralds-a#51|heralds-a#103}} Naevys survived the events that later unfolded within Deadreach, alongside the arcanist [[Selvara Mourn]]; in their aftermath she came out of it politically weaker but far better informed. {{Src|heralds-a#144|heralds-a#149}}

== Power and politics ==
Naevys holds the county-level Arcanum Tower of Deadreach for Magnus Arcanum, in a regency that is neither a duchy's nor a regency's capital and carries little importance of its own. {{Src|heralds-a#122}} As the region's Arcanum war-manager she directs Deadreach's undead like a standing force, and means to destroy [[Snakecross]] before advancing on Winter-Elf-held Grayhost. {{Src|heralds-a#5|heralds-a#6}} She has sought to bring the tower's other mages under her own command as the war reached the city, straining her relations with its local high mage. {{Src|heralds-b#53}}

== In play ==
When Naevys learned that [[Elnaril]]'s party was in the city, she invited him to the Arcanum Tower; she means to travel on to [[Lucerion]] with him next, though she has never met Lucerion herself. {{Src|heralds-a#120}} She regards Elnaril as a witness to the day she sacrificed the city, and has no one else close enough to see that weakness in her. {{Src|heralds-a#118}} She has admitted, at least to herself, that she has gone too far into her plans to turn back. {{Src|heralds-a#118}}

The party has already met Naevys once, in the ruins beneath the city; the two sides talked but could not agree on a common purpose. {{Src|heralds-a#137}} {{Spoiler|GM:Naevys Duskbloom}}

== Related pages ==
* [[Magnus Arcanum]] — the arcane order she serves and that sent her to Rosereach.
* [[Deadreach]] — the city her ritual made, and that she now holds.
* [[Elnaril]] — invited to her tower, and her companion on a planned journey to Lucerion.
* [[Winter Elves]] — the invasion her sacrifice of Rosereach was meant to stop.
* [[Aric Rosemen]] — the Count she evacuated from Rosereach under false pretenses.
* [[Selvara Mourn]] — the arcanist who survived Deadreach's fall alongside her.

== Unconfirmed ideas ==
''The source conversations contain proposals for Naevys Duskbloom that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on [[:Idea:Naevys Duskbloom|Idea:Naevys Duskbloom]] so they cannot be mistaken for canon.''

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