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With eyes that see only light and shadow, the Tesserac does not see you. It does not need to. By the time you hear it, the paired dish receptors flanking its skull have already mapped every exit you will not reach in time.

A level 20 game coming up, a teammate and I have been cooking a joint story of our barbarian and enchantment witch have been travelling together since the end of the main story. She essentially runs as his manager as he fights in various tournaments and gladiator bouts.
We don’t know what the dm is cooking up but we are stoked to see what brings the team all back together

She did not return from the battle of Járnfjord. Not the woman who left, anyway. What walked back through the ash and the crow-picked field was something older — a fury wearing her face, forged in the crucible of a single, terrible day.

They say the fighting lasted from first light until the sun bled out behind the mountains. That three shield walls broke against her before the field fell silent. That she moved through the chaos like weather — inevitable, indifferent, unstoppable. By the time the ravens came down to feed, she was still standing alone on a mound of the fallen, golden hair wild in the smoke-thick wind, the skull of the enemy’s war-chief raised high on her pike like a lantern.

Odin himself was said to have watched from the ridgeline that day, his two ravens circling low. The skalds argue about what it means that he did not send the Valkyries for her. Some say she frightened them off. Others say he simply wanted to see what she would do next.

Valdís never spoke of what happened on that field. But she kept the pike. And when she walked into a hall, even jarls found reasons to look away.