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Nessa Vey

A warm, energetic elf woman who owns the Fortunate Flagon, a bustling tavern overlooking New Arcanum's seventh-ring canal. She traded her mother's bracelet to a Soul Broker in exchange for business success, and soon after discovered an astoundingly talented young bard who drew in customers like crazy. She cannot speak of her bargain—a ring of golden light flares around her throat if she tries—and lies about having lost the bracelet, though she touches her bare wrist whenever her new success comes up. Later summoned to Aurelian's Spire for a "new opportunity," she was moments from being enthralled in the orientation office when guild agents interrupted the ritual; returning her bracelet broke the daze and sent her home shaken, though possession of her soul token alone could not lift the curse of her contract.

Featured In Modules

This lore entry is featured in the following adventure modules:

  • Shining SpireOver dinner at an open-air cafe, Guildmaster Alyndor "Aly" Marvale sends the party on a night infiltration of Aurelian's Spire, the Soul Brokers' newly revealed stronghold. Climbing the tower with captured soul tokens as keys, they interrupt an enthrallment "orientation" run by the manager Durnan Bronzeforge—freeing the tavern keeper Nessa Vey mid-ritual—file Harlan Stonefoot's botched paperwork to restore his suspended clearance, battle the eerily positive Soul Broker Recruiters of the glass-walled third floor, recite affirmations to the professional-development mirrors, and reach the Enlightenment Lounge at the top. There they learn the tower is only "New Arcanum Sector 1" of a far larger operation, that even Regional Director Elara Voss is owned by Aurelian, and—as Voss speaks through her hand-mirror soul token and locks the penthouse doors—that she will be happy to discuss their future in the morning.
  • Underworld SecretsArriving in the magical metropolis of New Arcanum, the party puts on their detective hats for Guildmaster Alyndor "Aly" Marvale, who wants to know why sentimental trinkets are being delivered to the city like grand treasures. Working the city's secretive underworld—a tavern keeper (Nessa Vey) whose fortunes turned after her mother's bracelet vanished, a crotchety second-hand dealer (Milo Venn) who refused the brokers' bargain, and the cheerful customs clerk Orville Thrice-Checked, whose records show shipments expedited by the Church of Aurelian—they trace the Soul Brokers' rotating rented warehouses to the ninth ring. There they fight the expendable Thrall Grunts left behind to burn the evidence and recover the address of a hidden "Archive Intake" feeding something called the Ledger.