Kori
A cheerful, clumsy, earnest twelve-year-old delivery girl in New Arcanum who pilots a flying gondola in a black smock dress and a wide-brimmed conical hat, making deliveries all over the city. Endlessly curious, she loves tagging along with real adventurers. After watching a man in a white duster transform into a swan and vanish into a canal culvert—and memorizing the strange tune she heard from inside—she led guild agents to The Swan's hidden archive, and piloted their gondola through the flying chase that followed. She insists she is the best pilot in the city, having crash-landed only recently.
Featured In Modules
This lore entry is featured in the following adventure modules:
- Ledger of SoulsWhen the delivery girl Kori crash-lands her flying gondola at the party's feet, her undeliverable brass cylinder—addressed to ring three, one-hundred-and-twenty degrees, "but there's nothing here"—proves to be the missing piece of the Soul Brokers' hidden archive. Following the swan Kori saw vanish into a canal culvert, the party plays her remembered melody (F-A-C-A-D-E) on a chained pan flute, defeats the water-jug scale guarding the inner door, and finds a brass clockwork counting machine binding the Ledger of Souls—the master tally of Aurelian's debtors, friends, and materiel. The Swan and his Ugly Ducklings bar the only way out, and a flying gondola chase through New Arcanum's canals follows, with Kori proudly at the tiller. The Ledger's first page names Aurelian's Spire as the seat of the whole operation.