Virellith Mossgrave
Virellith Mossgrave is the current Thorn-Speaker of the Hollow Council, a decaying oracle who has become more lichen and root than flesh. Rumored to have once been a noble druid of the Wild Elves, Virellith was cast out centuries ago for embracing forbidden rites that blurred the boundary between nature and undeath. After disappearing into the Withered Wilds, she reemerged changed—her body transformed by centuries of communion with rot, and her mind deepened by secrets only the forest’s dead remember.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Virellith’s body is gnarled and hollow-boned, her limbs trailing root-like tendrils that snake along the floor when she moves. Her face is partially overgrown with soft white moss and clumps of bonecap mushrooms, while her hollow eyes glow faintly green in the gloom. Her voice is low and wet, like roots tearing through earth, and when she speaks, insects and spores sometimes drift from her robes.
Mental characteristics
Morality & Philosophy
Virellith teaches that death is not an end, but a transformation—a shedding of false boundaries between life, decay, and rebirth. She loathes the “pristine lies” of surface druids and sees corruption as the true face of nature: hungry, entropic, and sublime.
Social
Reign
- Voice of the Forest: Virellith speaks for Thornveil itself, claiming to hear the whispers of deep roots, long-dead trees, and the fungal dreams of the land. Her judgments are treated as manifest will by lesser druids.
- Decay Manipulator: She controls decay as if it were a tool—causing weapons to rust, bodies to dissolve, and walls to grow soft with moss at a touch. In times of war, she seeds enemies with bloomrot, making their corpses explode into infectious spores upon death.
- Ritualist: Keeper of rites such as The Seeding of Bone and The Dirge of Root and Rot, Virellith ensures Thornveil’s necrotic cycles are never interrupted.
Contacts & Relations
Among the Hollow Council, Virellith often acts as a moderating force, though not out of mercy—she simply believes that cycles must be respected. She regularly clashes with war-hungry generals or overzealous necromancers who disrupt the sacred balance of rot.
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