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Karna Solara
Karna Solara is a small, slight, young chili pepper, half-starved, with green unripened skin and red cheeks beginning to bloom RW E1·00:06:53. She normally pretends to be people close to you when you discuss secret dealings RW E1·00:06:53. She shape-shifts into the queen as a joke and then returns to her own form RW E1·00:08:01 RW E1·00:08:09. She says she does not have a title like the other two RW E1·00:13:23.
In Comida Karna masquerades as her former spymaster and employer, Jacque Crudites, and sells the nobles the news that the queen is alone and friendless RW E1·00:54:23 RW E1·00:55:10. In episode 2 she is described as a 16-year-old spymaster who works to get close to Count Tomaté RW E2·00:03:25 RW E2·00:02:58. She kills Sir Drunon with a knife in a brothel while invisible, then burns part of him as an offering to the Hungry One and takes the head RW E2·00:57:45 RW E2·00:59:35. She turns into Ja'Cru in front of Deli, Colin and Amangeaux and demands a seat at the table with Tomaté RW E2·02:05:47 RW E2·02:15:33.
In episode 3 she drains a gummy bear knight with the water-steel dagger and says "You died for nothing." RW E3·01:50:09 RW E3·01:49:11. In episode 4 she tells Amangeaux "I swore to protect you and I will", threatens to tell about her child, then relents and walks away RW E4·00:05:37 RW E4·00:06:37 RW E4·00:09:28. She says she gave up her secret identity as Ja'Cru RW E4·00:12:49. Aabria says Karna slashes her own eye to sacrifice it to the Hungry One for Deli's life RW E4·01:27:11. In episode 5 she kills the corn-faced agent, takes Porrum's signet, and passes the entrance guards disguised as Porrum RW E5·00:36:10 RW E5·00:52:44 RW E5·02:36:59.
In episode 6 she pushes Amangeaux down before the Archbishop and tells Raphaniel there is no room for discretion or stealth RW E6·00:08:57 RW E6·00:11:13. The Avatar's Devour the Flesh hits her for 38 slashing damage and Aabria says she is down; Matt says she is gone forever RW E6·01:31:59 RW E6·01:32:02 RW E6·01:33:05. In the epilogue Aabria reads Karna's letter to Deli, "the only secret I have left is that I love you", signed "Skald Karna Solara of Scoville." RW E6·02:17:43 RW E6·02:18:22
Character sheet — The Ravening War
The Ravening War sheet of Karna Solara (played by Aabria Iyengar). Only what is said in play or shown on the on-screen stat cards; dotted values are derived from spoken rolls. Values shown are the latest up to your chosen episode.
Skills
- Acrobatics: +7 RW E5·01:37:36—
- Eldritch Blast attack: +9 RW E3·00:52:40—
- Insight: +5 RW E1·02:05:48 RW E1·02:07:16—
- Investigation: +5 RW E4·01:15:33 RW E4·01:15:40—
- Stealth: +9 RW E1·02:02:36—
Features
- Shape-shifting as the queen — Takes the queen's form as a joke ('Look, I'm a queen.') and returns: 'And I return to form.' RW E1·00:08:01 RW E1·00:08:09
- College of Whispers — Character feature on her card, with Pact of the Great Old One and Actor. RW E1·00:36:04
- Pact of the Great Old One — Character feature on her card. RW E1·00:36:04
- Actor — Character feature on her card. RW E1·00:36:04
- Persona of Jacque Crudites — Masquerades 'as my former spymaster and employer, Jacque Crudites' to pick up and drop off information in the slums of Comida where she grew up. RW E1·00:54:23
- Bardic Inspiration — Slips Bardic Inspiration to Raphaniel as he tries to suss things out. RW E1·02:18:42
- Persona of Gemma — Appears to Raphaniel as the brussels sprout washerwoman Gemma, the form she regularly takes when she meets him; the Disguise Self flickers between Gemma, a healthier 16-year-old Karna and her true small half-starved form. RW E2·00:38:49 RW E2·00:39:36
- Invisible kill of Sir Drunon — Goes in invisible and kills Sir Drunon with a knife in a brothel; she flicks the knife to catch the woman with him against the wall too, and cleans Reaper, her knife, afterwards. RW E2·00:56:47 RW E2·00:57:45 RW E2·00:58:16 RW E2·00:58:47
- Rot and hunger — Feels 'a new burning itch across my like, neck and chest' and a new rotten spot on her body, which she cuts away; she burns a little of the snow pea woman and a little of the knight as an offering to the Hungry One and takes his head. RW E2·00:58:47 RW E2·00:59:35
- Ja'Cru — Her Jacque Crudites persona, Ja'Cru Dite in Fructera: turns into Ja'Cru in front of Deli, Colin and Amangeaux. RW E2·02:05:47
- Reaper, the dagger from a seed — Reaches into herself, crushes a seed and summons Reaper, her dagger. RW E2·00:58:47 RW E3·01:36:40
- Psychic Blades — Asks to stack her psychic blades on the attack, burning a Bardic Inspiration. RW E3·01:36:54 RW E3·01:37:01
- Cunning Action — Aabria: 'And I also Cunning Action dash.' RW E4·02:12:29
- Sacrificed eye — Aabria narrates that in fear for Deli's life, in a nasty battle, she slashed her own eye with her blade to sacrifice it to the Hungry One, not knowing whether it worked; she now has a whited-out eye with a long scar and is 'a fully ripened Carolina Reaper'. Her card now shows Rogue 4 and the Phantom feature. RW E4·01:27:11 RW E4·01:27:35
- Phantom — Character feature on her card, new beside College of Whispers, Pact of the Great Old One and Actor. RW E4·01:27:35 RW E5·00:14:03 RW E6·00:20:55
- Sneak Attack — Kills the downed corn agent, throwing everything at it with Sneak Attack and Psychic Blades. RW E5·00:35:49
- Bardic Inspiration die d6 — Gives Amangeaux a Bardic Inspiration, 'which is only a d6'. RW E5·00:37:29
- Disguise Self as Porrum — Disguises herself as Master Porrum in his robes and follows quickly after. RW E5·01:03:19
- Reaper's ability — Uses Reaper's ability: a DC 15 Constitution save, which Matt rolls as 12, and she adds 2d10 on top of everything else. RW E6·00:48:17 RW E6·00:48:23 RW E6·00:48:29
- Steady Aim — Bonus action Steady Aim to give herself advantage without moving in. RW E6·01:11:40
- The cut-out eye rots — When she screams 'No' or 'Run', the eye she cut out rots and splinters open, and her clothing can no longer hide how much she is rotting, since she has gone through nearly every gift from the Hungry One. RW E6·01:11:40
- Attack bonus +8 — Green-Flame Blade attack with Steady Aim: 'Plus 8. Dirty 20 to hit.'; higher than DEX +3 and proficiency give; no reason stated RW E6·01:12:14
- Hit points on screen — A frame shows modifiers +1, +3, +2, +3, +2, +5 (STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA, matching the level-9 card), then 15 and 66; only the Qwen reading shows it. 66 is her hit points at that moment: after the 35 piercing and six regained from Regenerative Spores she has the 37 she states; whether 66 is her maximum is not said. RW E6·01:13:15
- Taken by the Avatar's suction — Takes 35 piercing damage pulled into the Avatar's mouth after her temporary hit points are gone. RW E6·01:13:58 RW E6·01:14:01
- Death — Killed by the Avatar's Devour the Flesh (38 slashing damage): 'I had 37 hit points. I'm down.' She smiles because she 'died nine years ago'; Matt: 'she is gone forever.' RW E6·01:31:59 RW E6·01:32:02 RW E6·01:32:24 RW E6·01:33:05
Spells
- Eldritch Blast — Fired from the shadow around the carriage to make a yam fall onto the knight. RW E1·00:36:50
- Silvery Barbs — Used on Raphaniel's natural 20, forcing a reroll. RW E1·02:07:04
- Disguise Self — Used as the washerwoman Gemma in the Bulbian cathedral. RW E2·00:39:36
- Silence — Ritual-cast on the centre of the bridge where they plan to pin the carriage. RW E3·00:34:59 RW E3·00:35:47
- Invisibility — Drops Silence and casts Invisibility on herself. RW E3·01:12:11
- Green-Flame Blade — A Green-Flame Blade attack with Reaper. RW E3·01:40:10 RW E3·01:40:19
- Wails from the Grave — Hits Porrum for five necrotic damage as extra on her Sneak Attack. RW E5·00:36:10 RW E5·00:36:39
- Charm Person — Attempts to charm the pizza-headed agent. RW E5·02:21:54
Items
- Jacque Crudites's ring — Her package holds a finger of Jacque Crudites wearing his ring (a stylized kernel); she puts the ring on at once, turns invisible and goes ahead. RW E1·01:50:26 RW E1·01:56:34
- Ja'Cru's ring given to Tomaté — Takes off Ja'Cru's ring (the Jacque Crudites persona) and puts it on the table: 'Hold that for me.' RW E2·02:17:56 RW E2·02:18:01
- Water-steel dagger — Walks over with the water-steel dagger to hand it to Colin, who declines; she keeps it. RW E3·00:13:47 RW E3·00:13:54
- Porrum's signet — Takes Master Porrum's signet (a blade pushed through an eye) with his finger and keeps it for later; she looked for it to sign secret messages. RW E5·00:52:44 RW E5·00:53:16
By episode
RW E1: The Seeds of Conflict
- A small, slight, young chili pepper, "half-starved", green unripened skin with red cheeks beginning to bloom — 00:06:53. She "normally pretends to be people close to you when you discuss any of our secret dealings and matters" — 00:06:53
- Shape-shifts into the queen as a joke, then returns to her own form: "Is this better?" — 00:08:01; "And I return to form." — 00:08:09
- Her own title: "I don't have a title like you two. And that's okay." — 00:13:23
- Works her own agenda in Comida: "My priority isn't the queen. I needed a ride here, but I have work to do." — 00:44:28
- Masquerades "as my former spymaster and employer, Jacque Crudites" — 00:54:23; "I'm from the streets, the slums of Comida" — 00:54:23
- Sells the nobles the news that the queen is "largely abandoned in Greenhold" and "alone, and friendless" — 00:54:56, 00:55:10
- Stat card: Bard level 3, Warlock level 2, AC 15, College of Whispers, Pact of the Great Old One, Actor; STR 12, DEX 16, INT 16, CON 14, WIS 14, CHA 18 — 00:36:04
- Casts Eldritch Blast on the knight's yam — 00:36:50; gives Raphaniel Bardic Inspiration — 02:18:42; and later "I replaced a really powerful spymaster several years ago." — 02:29:22
- Her package holds a finger bearing Crudites's ring and she puts the ring on at once — 01:50:26, 01:56:34
RW E2: Bloody Harvest
- Karna's goal for the two years: "Karna is just trying to get as close to the would-be king Jacque Tomaté" — 00:02:58; Matt gives her a 17 and says she works into "some elements of the Fructeran hierarchy" — 00:03:25
- Aabria on Karna's message: "wherever she goes, she's actively trying to disrupt any sort of like, Bulbian footholds" — 00:04:41
- Karna's loyalty to the group, Aabria says: "this like, group of four people her true... Five people. She wasn't including herself." — 00:06:06
- She is "a 16-year-old spymaster" — 00:03:25; she disguises as "a like, brussels sprout washer woman" named Gemma — 00:38:49; in the cathedral her Disguise Self flickers between Gemma, a healthier 16-year-old Karna, and her true small, half-starved form — 00:39:36
- Inside the Bulbian cathedral she feels "that growl deep within your torso" (Matt) — 00:39:08; under Disguise Self she begins to slaver "when your mouth fills with spit before you throw up" — 00:46:16
- Asks Raphaniel for "a chess piece or at least the head of one" to embolden Tomaté — 00:40:24
- She kills Sir Drunon with a knife in a brothel while invisible — 00:56:47, 00:57:45; says "We are all eventual food in the maw of the Hungry One." — 00:58:16; flicks the knife at the woman with him — 00:58:16
- Aabria describes a "new burning itch across my like, neck and chest" and a "new like, rotten spot on her body" that Karna cuts away — 00:58:47
- She burns "a little bit of the snow pea and a little bit of this unfortunate eggplant knight" as an offering to the Hungry One and takes the head — 00:59:35
- Blushes near Deli: "Karna regrets how much she's blushing right now." — 01:28:44
- Tells Amangeaux "I think we can trust Deli" — 02:01:41; "I'm the weak link. I'm gonna go tell Deli everything." — 02:02:22
- Shows Deli the decaying head — 02:04:50; turns into Ja'Cru in front of Deli, Colin and Amangeaux — 02:05:47
- With Tomaté as Ja'Cru, she demands "a seat at the table" — 02:15:33 and "you will call me by my true name then, Karna." — 02:17:46; leaves Ja'Cru's ring on the table — 02:17:56
- Gemma — Karna's alias, a brussels sprout washerwoman Raphaniel regularly sees — 00:38:49.
RW E3: Yonder Where the Fruit Do Be Lyin'
- Offers the water-steel dagger to Colin — 00:13:47; "So is it weird if maybe during the fight, more of it happens but I'm not gonna hurt you?" — 00:14:31
- "I don't know how to fight in the open. I'm kind of a, slit your throat in a whorehouse kinda gal." — 00:18:08
- Eldritch Blasts the ground to loosen it ("pretend to be shoveling dirt") — 00:20:53
- Prepares a ritual Silence on the bridge and centers it there: "I've got 40 feet like, yonder where the fruit do be lyin'." — 00:35:47, 00:36:22
- Eldritch Blast: a natural 1 (total 10) and a 28 or 27; the hit deals 11 force, redescribed by Aabria as "crushing peristalsis" — 00:52:40, 00:52:58, 00:53:01
- Hit by a hand crossbow (7) and a bolt (8); concentration holds on a natural 20 — 00:55:18, 00:58:31, 00:58:47; "a little bit of rot's beginning to spread out from the spot" — 00:58:52
- Casts Invisibility (dropping Silence) and speaks into a sentry's mind: "You will die here." — 01:12:11, 01:12:25; Intimidation 7, then 19 with advantage — 01:12:37, 01:12:56
- Summons her dagger Reaper from a seed — 01:36:40; Green-Flame Blade attack hits for 23 — 01:40:08, 01:40:33
- Kills a guard: "You should have run away. She's already dead, and I keep my promises." — 01:40:48; "For a moment, the ever-tinged hunger in your belly subsides." (Matt) — 01:41:42
- Drains the gummy bear knight with the water-steel dagger; answering his "I'll see you in the flames": "We were always headed there. We were made in his image. Tell him I'm coming." — 01:49:11; "You died for nothing." — 01:49:21, 01:50:09
- Learns of the Queen: "Oh... (Softly) That's different." — 01:50:47
- Reads the mold creature: "What are you?" — 01:57:24; tells Deli "Kill it." — 01:57:52
RW E4: The Light and the Shadow
- To Amangeaux at the safe house: "I swore to protect you and I will." — 00:05:37; "Look... We had a deal. You asked me at Greenhold to get you out." — 00:04:47; threatens "I'll tell him about your child if you don't turn around and go back." — 00:06:37; relents and walks away — 00:09:28.
- After: "I'm ruined. I can't go back to Tomaté." and "I gave up my secret identity as Ja'Cru." — 00:12:49
- Aabria: she is "a true believer" in the Sanctus Putris because "there's a weird hope" in keeping the Hungry One at bay — 00:15:02
- Contacts Ariana: "Position. A chance. To make something of myself in all of this chaos." — 00:21:56
- To Raphaniel about the rot: Aabria says he feels "literal holes in her body" — 00:31:48; Karna: "It's weird to be afraid to die. When that's already happened." — 00:32:29
- Aabria: she grows into "a fully ripened Carolina Reaper", with long curly red hair and, after Deli was wounded, a "whited out eye with a long scar" — she "slashed her own eye with her blade" to sacrifice it to the Hungry One for his life — 01:27:11
- Advice to Deli: "if Basha isn't enough, you could be." / "Be bold." — 01:34:49, 01:35:04
- Outfit: Fructeran cut, Ceresian gold wheat embroidery, Vegetanian elements, Meat Lands lining — 01:57:46
- Flasks and fleeing: "I'll hold your flask." — 02:08:26; after Amangeaux's telepathy: "Rude, but understandable." — 02:08:55
- "Are we wasting time on this? There's a whole war we're about to finish." — 02:17:48; follows when she sees Deli's interest: "Okay, I will follow." — 02:20:25
RW E5: The Seventh Kingdom
- Calms the small Saprophian: Insight 27, then Persuasion 26 with images of "her cutting her own rot away that's like we are the same" — 00:14:56, 00:16:08, 00:16:28
- Silvery Barbs on the attack on Colin (25 down to 15) and gives Deli advantage — 00:24:54, 00:25:07
- Drops "to all fours" and kills the downed corn-faced agent: "buries Reaper in him" — 00:35:26, 00:36:10; Wails from the Grave on Porrum — 00:36:10; calls out as Ja'Cru Dite: "You're going to die down here." — 00:37:19
- Gives Amangeaux Bardic Inspiration (d6) — 00:37:29. Takes Porrum's signet, "that finger and the one next to it", leaves one finger by the mycelium — 00:52:44, 00:53:16
- Disguise Self as Porrum — 01:03:19. Silence on the biscuit cleric: "Sh. No words for the Bulb down here." — 01:20:41
- Falls into the pit (Acrobatics 11); falls again on a second try (Acrobatics natural 2, 9), then kills the biscuit cleric with two Eldritch Blasts and the mold, saying "I did this on purpose, and I didn't fall twice." — 01:22:20, 01:37:36, 01:38:33, 01:40:20
- Gets the cleric's staff while held upside down by Deli; Investigation natural 20 on the metal — 01:53:29, 01:56:07
- Trades with Raphaniel: "It's been so long since we've had a good trade." — 02:05:38; "What was the lie that got you here with us, Raphaniel?" — 02:05:48
- Charm Person on the pizza-headed agent fails (his Wisdom save 18) — 02:21:54, 02:22:16; Intimidation 22 with advantage — 02:24:18
- As Porrum with advantage on Deception passes the entrance guards: Deception 30 — 02:36:59
RW E6: The Heart of the World
- Pushes Amangeaux down in front of the Archbishop: "I immediately push down Amangeaux." — 00:08:57
- Telepathically to Raphaniel: "There is no room for discretion or stealth." — 00:11:13. Initiative 14 — 00:14:20
- Casts Silvery Barbs on Quichéi's natural 20 ("Just give him the barbs"); says "I am running out of spell slots, Matt." — 00:19:31, 00:19:38
- Goes Invisible and bonus-dashes 30 feet toward the Archbishop; says to Raphaniel: "Colliflour, we have to stop her." — 00:20:54, 00:21:04
- Round 2: Aabria says Karna is wiping away tears at "Deli's confession of love to Ariana" and "that last little bit of hope that she's been holding onto for years is gone" — 00:47:20
- Green-Flame Blade attack, 25; psychic blades, Sneak Attack, Reaper's ability (DC 15 Constitution save, 12): 40 damage to the Avatar; Gemelli takes five from the Green-Flame Blade plus three necrotic from Wails from the Grave — 00:47:58, 00:48:23, 00:48:51, 00:49:22, 00:49:35
- Round 3: her cut-out eye rots when she screams "No" / "Run": "her clothing can no longer hide how much she's rotting, 'cause she's gone through every, just about every gift she's gotten from the Hungry One" — 01:11:40. Green-Flame Blade with Steady Aim, "Dirty 20 to hit", 17 damage (Raphaniel's d8 Bardic Inspiration rolled a one) — 01:12:14, 01:12:47
- Casts her last Silvery Barbs on the suction attack (20 to hit, then natural 19); takes 35 piercing — 01:13:17, 01:13:20, 01:14:01
- Sends the advantage of that Silvery Barbs to Raphaniel with her memories of him: "every moment we've interacted since back when she was 12" — 01:18:24, 01:18:32
- Killed by the Avatar's Devour the Flesh (24 to hit, 25 after Anjali's Silvery Barbs, 38 slashing). Aabria: "I had 37 hit points. I'm down." — 01:31:13, 01:31:41, 01:31:59, 01:32:02. Her last moments: "She's holding onto the edge of it", "she smiles, because she died nine years ago", "I got to know friendship, and love, and trust, and that can't be bad." — 01:32:24. Matt: "and she is gone forever." — 01:33:05
- Written epilogue: a letter left on Deli's bed, signed "Skald Karna Solara of Scoville." — 02:17:27, 02:18:22