Finnetharyn Fimbleshanks

Character overview

Finnetharyn Fimbleshanks, also known as Finn, is a young male gnome in his mid to late twenties, a Nirmathan, militia member, survivor of Phaendar, and one of the Fangwood Six.
He has short, wild purple hair, matching purple scruff along his jaw, violet heavy-lidded eyes, small feet, a lean build, and a wide, slightly lopsided grin. He wears a brown leather jacket with decorative trim over a dark olive-green high-collared shirt, with a small star or compass brooch at the collar. He carries a lute and speaks Fey. By the end of the recorded events, he has a fine cloak, dragon-skin boots, and two wands in his backpack, one of them a wand of Fireball.
At the Phaendar market festival, local hunters recognized and mocked his illusory war horn; his tale of a kobold who believed he was a red Ibzairiak was well received, and patrons sent ale and food to his table. When Aubrin the Green was struck by a ballista bolt at the Taproot Inn, Finn began an anthem and hurled a tankard at a Fahrak with telekinetic force. He later found his family home ransacked and bloodied, prayed at Desna’s statue for his parents, and found Aubrin’s ebony butterfly carving at the shrine, which he planned to return. He supported allies with performance and magic during battles with the Ironfang Legion and while the Fangwood Six fought wasps. He took a leadership role in his survival team, helped gather food and goats for camp, tracked with Wren, and recognized a javelin bait set by a Zulgat patrol. He fought the attackers with spells, gathered provisions, and bolstered the Fangwood Six against Bramble Lashes. After rescuing a wounded girl from a surviving Mitflit, he questioned and threatened the Mitflit, then secured him as a guide to the marked Treasure House. Finn used healing and cold magic, attempted to prevent further aggression during a confrontation with Kellogg, and restored Bruneg to consciousness twice. At Gristledown he attacked a blood-soaked skeleton with cold magic; at Kellogg’s shack he found a secret compartment beneath the floorboards and contributed items and gold to the party’s stash.
Finn opened an ambush on a Hobgoblin patrol with a battle song and needle-like magic, and continued with the party toward the caves after the fight. At the campfire he told an embellished tale of Vendel Coldblade as a terror of Mitflits. Near the Cradle entrance he noticed shrieker mushrooms, and in a small underground chamber he found shiny objects and a hidden niche. He identified the Braided Root Cradle as a religious object to the xulgaths and recovered a Potency Crystal and Leaf-Shaped Gold Pin. He triggered a spear trap, was injured by a xulgath clamp and a monitor lizard’s bite, and retreated while renewing his anthem. He later used Animated Assault against a xulgath and finished an ambush enemy with magical darts.
At Fort Ristin, Finn played a drinking song to draw out the korreds, praised one’s beard, and signaled an attack. He used Phantom Pain, an enchantment, Force Barrage, Command, and Revealing Light against them, renewing the party’s battle song and frightening several into fleeing. Against a redcap, he supported the front line with magic and song. He conversed with the wood giant Herge, explained that the party were Nirmathans investigating refugees, and offered Herge lodging in their cave. Finn taught Mira and the wolf cubs to sing, bought a battle lute from Norby, and warned Herge about Hobgoblin mercenaries tied to Maltheum. In other engagements he bolstered allies with song, afflicted a scout’s mind, created a firewall, and froze and finished a corrupted pixie after resisting its sleep arrow.
Finn used battle songs and magic in the party’s engagements with Scarvinous and others, and carried a Force Barrage Scroll. He calmed frightened draft animals with a performance, fed them dried fruit, and told them to wait until the party returned. He found and warned the party about a hidden stair trap, bargained with leprechauns over liquor, tried to manacle a korred, and joined the search of Halk’s sealed stone caches. During the fight with Halk, he maintained his song, urged a spriggan to flee with magic, and used mocking magic before Halk slowed him with oppressive magic. Finn carries a Wand of Reaching given to him by Vendel Coldblade. At a fort occupied by fey, he tasted pink magical paint with Vendel Coldblade, helped retain the Marvelous pigments, and discovered a secret door in the former commander’s room. In a fissure, his Disorienting Flash dazzled two giant beetles. He examined a scroll later identified as a scroll of Cursed Metamorphosis, which he could not yet learn.
At Fort Trova-Lay, Finn began a Courageous Anthem and dazzled two hobgoblins with Disorienting Flash. He knocked three hobgoblins prone with a gravity wave, frightened a soldier with visions of death, and killed a badly wounded hobgoblin with needle-like darts. He placed an albatross’s curse on a specter and struck it with force darts before Bruneg destroyed it. He put recovered Molthuni military medals in his sack and told hobgoblins who threatened slavery that they could surrender instead.
At Fort Trevely, Finn carried his Wand of Reaching and again suggested surrender to hobgoblins. As trolls approached, he drew the wand, cast a spell that sent both trolls fleeing, and followed with a Rallying Anthem. He frightened a soldier and struck him with needle darts, was blinded by an enemy spellcaster, then cast Disorienting Flash at enemies beyond a doorway and later over the remaining enemies. The hobgoblin leader injured him. After the battle, Finn stored a breastplate in his bag, carried the leader’s Double-Bladed Weapon, used an elixir of life, and applied rapid-recovery bandages to himself. In the forge, his Disorienting Flash killed an invisible creature later identified as a barghest, and he followed with a Courageous Anthem. In the former armory, he used telekinetic projectiles to remove bricks from a canvas covering. With Bruneg, he told a wounded ranger that they were not allied with the hobgoblins and intended to take the fort, saying the party had liberated three forts while Trevely was still being secured. He warned a troll that it would have to leave or die if the party killed the dragon. In the tower, he began a Courageous Anthem, cast Laughing Fit on a foe below and sustained it, confused an enemy spellcaster with mockery, and frightened him with Vision of Death. He also cast Vision of Death on a troll and began another Courageous Anthem.
Finn picked up the map of Nirmathas and unfolded the atlas page beneath the dragon figurine. Its calculations considered dragon flights from Fort Trevalay, and it marked a circled place in the Fangwood as “the Blight.” He climbed with Gundugar Herdtender to the fog-filled tower chamber and told the hobgoblin woman that the party had killed the fort’s hobgoblins and trolls; he clarified that he was questioning her odds, not her loyalty. When the dragon arrived, Finn cast a Disorienting Flash at it and raised a courageous song. He later accelerated Bruneg with a spell, struck the dragon with force, and took cover beside Wren, who covered him with her cloak. He sang again and sent darts at the dragon, then offered Bruneg his flying potion. Finn used his wand to cast a curse on the dragon and, when it flew into the tower and demanded surrender, struck it again with force. Wren killed the dragon. Finn put two wands in his backpack and asked for dragon hide to be made into boots, noting his small feet. He called for their people to come clean the fort. At the caverns, he identified the party to Lirosa as those who had saved and fed the refugees and sought a home for them. He asked where the refugees who had left had gone, and carried a wolf puppy into the cave. He proposed a song to teach the puppies not to eat humanoid corpses, settling on “Don’t Eat Humanoids or Cetaceans.” When a militia representative asked the party to investigate events in the west, Finn asked how soon they had to leave, suggested the fort could house other refugees, and said the enemy now had one fewer dragon.
Finn sang behind Wren as she tracked the departed refugees. When Gundugar Herdtender warned the group not to eat them, Finn said he normally avoided eating people. He danced while Gundugar examined deer jerky, helped the party search for gloss leaf through performance, and approached the dancing woman at the feast. He declined her invitation and redirected her toward Arsène. Her spell confused him: he threw food at Bruneg, swung at Arsène, then recovered and cursed her. He answered her dance with music, later frightened her and two dwarves, and spoke in strange languages when she told him to be quiet. Finn told the dwarves that the party needed to treat the refugees before visiting Balvan, gave them directions to the fort, and suggested they say, “Finn says he’s not short,” to gain entry to the caverns. After correcting a dwarf who mistook him for a human child, he resumed the search for gloss leaf. When the party encountered a dire bear, he argued against killing her while she was eating salmon, then sang to confuse her long enough for the group to escape.
On the return journey, Finn drew his wand as the party approached the deserters’ camp. He disoriented one hobgoblin troop and helped Gundugar with a declaration that Gundugar was the story’s hero, then sang to strengthen the party and disorient the remaining troop. Afterward, he proposed mixing the refugees’ treatment into their food. He identified the fighting near the camp as the party’s battle with deserters, sang during the refugees’ treatment, and asked Wren to make the music soothing. In conversation with Arden, Finn recalled singing to a boar and later said the group did not plan for anyone to die. He denied that hobgoblins were people.

• Finn has used battle songs and anthems to bolster allies, as well as figments and musical accompaniment in performances.
• He has cast Force Barrage, gravity wave, Disorienting Flash, Laughing Fit, Vision of Death, and other spells; he has also used healing and cold magic.
• He has used telekinetic force to hurl a tankard and move bricks, and used a wand to cast a curse on a dragon.
• He has carried a lute, a Force Barrage Scroll, and a Wand of Reaching; by the end of the recorded events, he carried two wands, one of them a wand of Fireball.
• At the Phaendar festival, his comedic tale entertained the crowd and brought food and ale to his table.
• During the party’s campaigns against the Ironfang Legion and at Fort Ristin, Fort Trova-Lay, and Fort Trevely, he supported allies and engaged enemies with music and magic.
• He helped gather provisions and lead his survival team, helped the party secure a guide to the marked Treasure House, and spoke with Herge and Lirosa about the refugees and their need for a home.