![[LyrathraVelvetshadowPathfinder-v1.png]] # Lyrathra Velvetshadow _Human Operative | [[Gilded Gallows]] | [[Yartar]]_ ## Summary An operative of the [[Gilded Gallows]] captured during the Crimson Siege of [[Yartar]]. Her twin sister was killed in the fighting. She was interrogated and then released — believing she had escaped — to lead the heroes back to the Gallows' base. %% ## Now Loose in Yartar and believing herself free, unaware that [[Petra]] and [[Garaele]] planted a false memory and a tracker on her. She thinks the heroes have abandoned the Dracoslayer to chase a more powerful weapon in the Anauroch Desert, and is meant to lead them to [[River's Rest]]. ## Appearance Held herself unnaturally still even bound and beaten — eyes fixed, breathing shallow and controlled. Trained composure that didn't break until she was made to look at her dead twin. ## Personality Disciplined and closed by default; a professional who gives up nothing to threats alone. Cooperated only once [[Petra]] made the cost unbearable — the promise to extract the truth from her sister's consumed soul instead. Once broken, she talked completely. ## Connections **[[Petra]]** — interrogator; consumed her twin sister's soul as leverage. **[[Garaele]]** — used _Modify Memory_ to erase the interrogation and plant false intel. **[[Decima Iscitarn]]** — her superior in the Gilded Gallows. **[[Durnik Darksteel]]** — fellow Gallows agent; the one who actually killed Queen Neri. ## Background **Twin operatives:** Worked the Gallows alongside her twin sister, who died in the siege — Petra consumed the sister's soul in front of her. **The interrogation:** Under threat, confirmed the [[Gilded Gallows]] killed [[Queen Neri]], that [[Durnik Darksteel]] struck the killing blow rather than [[Decima Iscitarn]], and that Neri's soul escaped — which enraged the tiefling soulmonger. **Assets given up:** A teleportation circle hidden in a bathhouse and other Gallows assets throughout [[Yartar]], including the [[River's Rest]] base. ## Key Info - Confirmed the Gilded Gallows killed [[Queen Neri]]; [[Durnik Darksteel]] delivered the killing blow, not [[Decima Iscitarn]]; Neri's soul escaped. - Locations of Gallows assets in Yartar: a teleportation circle at a bathhouse, and the [[River's Rest]] base. ## Secret She carries a trackable Sending Stone hidden in her quiver and a _Modify Memory_-planted belief that the heroes are hunting a weapon in the Anauroch Desert. She doesn't know she's being followed to [[River's Rest]].