Donnic Wryvale
Race: Dwarf Role: Member of Thaldrin's silver-mine rescue party; gambler Status (latest): Alive — recovered by the party in session 023 via "Cauterize and Spare the Dying" surgery. Started at 10/33 HP; stabilized. First Appearance: Session 021
Description
A dwarf of significant gambler's luck. Captured one of the most cinematic single-scene moments of the campaign so far: pinned beneath a fallen support beam, bisected at the waist, and lucid enough to brief the party.
He had been alive for hours when the party found him. Most people in his condition would have died of shock. Donnic held on.
What Happened
- Session 021: Found pinned beneath a beam in a corridor of the Leilon Silver Mine. Bisected at the waist; alive; lucid. Dhuxtyn cast an illusion over Donnic's severed torso — phantom legs.
- Donnic's account: the bug-swarm came after a large group led by Thaldrin. Donnic and a few others fell back as a deliberate sacrificial trail-block. The patriarch and the rest of the rescue party got ahead. Donnic and his squad bought time; the corridor collapsed.
- AC told him the truth: the party couldn't free him without killing him. The party left:
- Donnic took neither option fatally.
- Session 023: The party returns post-Hive-Queen-fight. Donnic is still alive — gambler's luck held. AC and Moist work the medicine — Cauterize and Spare the Dying with Hellfire-aided surgery (AC has a flashback to fighting side-by-side with devils in the war). Ubys offers his special herb to ease the pain. Donnic stabilizes — started 10/33 HP. KeYs carries him back to town. He recovers in Leilon — a living testament to Thaldrin's heroism and the party's return.