Reputation: A meticulous crystal-channel expert known for her safe recovery methods and obsessive documentation.
Description:
Selin is tall and willowy, her hair the color of smoked quartz. She dresses in layered robes stitched with mirrored glass panels that refract light into faint rainbow spectra. She keeps a single lens from the recovered array, which she studies constantly, muttering to herself about “phase resonance” and “light as memory.” Her speech is deliberate and formal, but her mind races faster than her words.
Personality:
Cool-tempered, disciplined, and unfailingly polite. Selin believes knowledge should be preserved, not hoarded. Her one vanity is the perfection of her craft—she views lenses and crystals as living conduits of magical will. She respects those who protect artifacts responsibly and scorns reckless spellcasters.
Role in the Party:
She agreed to assemble the crystal array worth 12,000 gp, on the condition she could keep one lens for her own research. Her arrangement was:
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Payment: 6,000 gp upon completion (value offset by her retention of one lens).
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Timeline: uncertain, with a monthly chance of success (Referee may assign a % chance per month based on available resources).
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Motivation: to prove that “light itself can think.”