Player characters · first: CC E11
Queen Saccharina Frostwhip
Queen Saccharina Frostwhip first appears as a figure towering over a hall as fire reaches the throne: a warrior ice cream sundae with a caramel cape, cherry epaulets and a Neapolitan-colored Mohawk, wearing plate mail CC E11·01:20:58 CC E11·01:21:45. She carries Winterscoop the Spooning Staff, a giant wood-wrought spoon frosted with ice cream, and a long sword and short sword at her side CC E11·01:21:32 CC E11·01:21:47. Her card calls her Queen Saccharina of House Frostwhip, sovereign ruler of Candia and the Sugarlands, high priestess of the Sweetening Path and enemy of the Faith CC E11·01:21:17. When the prisoners are brought to her she says she is the legal Queen of Candia and the Sugarlands, and Queen Caramelinda asks by what claim CC E11·01:22:34 CC E11·01:22:48.
Brennan says Saccharina is a witch-queen deep in the mountains with a band of marauders serving her CC E11·01:28:01. In CC_11 Amethar says "So, I'm looking at my daughter" and she answers "you said it, not me" CC E11·01:24:10. Later she tells him "You can just call me Saccharina, I am your daughter" CC E11·01:36:08. Brennan says Amethar sees Catherine Ghee's eyes in her CC E11·01:28:01. She says she is a penniless orphan who escaped a nunnery and earned every follower she has CC E11·01:38:26. She says she does not care about the Candian throne except as a very fancy tool, and that her goal is a golden age of magic and the destruction of the Church CC E11·01:55:20. She tells Cumulous she has studied everything Lazuli did and is her niece CC E11·01:31:30.
In CC_12 she saves Joren in the fight at Buzzybrook, casting Spare the Dying on him CC E12·00:48:48. She hands him to Amethar with "I got your cousin" CC E12·00:50:46. She burns Commander Grissini's banner with a lightning bolt, calls the retreat when Caramelinda cannot hold on CC E12·01:25:16 CC E12·01:53:31. Brennan says she looks as if she is holding back some while Ruby decides not to finish the badly injured Grissini CC E12·01:27:30. In CC_13 she tells Liam she grew up in a nunnery where she was abused by nuns, and says that if she is queen the Bulb will not be in Candia CC E13·01:01:32 CC E13·00:59:03. The Order of the Spinning Star's monks pledge themselves to her CC E13·01:02:37. She opens the Ice Cream Temple's gate with her spoon, saying "Lazuli, watch over me," and Brennan says she knows by heart one of the Sugar-Plum Fairy's true names on the stair door CC E13·01:31:16 CC E13·01:37:56.
Against the Sugar-Plum Fairy in CC_14 she counterspells the Fairy's first area spell CC E14·00:06:06. She burns the dark chocolate egg with Create Bonfire, and a dragon hatches CC E14·01:01:27 CC E14·01:03:14. She claims it with "I finally have a family" CC E14·01:04:49. Emily says "Cinnamon is the dragon" CC E14·01:30:21. She weakens the Fairy with Create Bonfire so Ruby can finish her CC E14·01:33:10 CC E14·01:33:18. Ruby tells her she cannot have both a sister and a queen, and Saccharina answers "if I must choose, then I choose to be your queen" CC E14·01:54:38. In CC_15 she is crowned at Castle Manylicks in a pagan ceremony performed by Spearia Mentha, and asks Liam to head her archers CC E15·01:14:45 CC E15·01:15:21 CC E15·01:05:25. She tells Theobald that Cinnamon is the first creature who ever freely and immediately loved her and that she will have difficulty saying no to him CC E15·01:55:47 CC E15·01:56:39. In a village she lets Cinnamon eat Bulbian clergy, and later she lets him go to Port Syrup, which the party finds sacked CC E15·01:33:07 CC E15·01:38:08.
In CC_16 she reproves Swifty and Gooey, saying that what happened in Port Syrup was disgusting, and she says she will not send Cinnamon on any more trips with them CC E16·00:22:45 CC E16·00:31:29. From Swifty she learns that her mother died before Amethar's marriage, and says that if the family had been straightforward she would have used the throne to destroy the Church CC E16·00:24:10 CC E16·00:24:53. In the battle of Dulcington she rides Cinnamon, and cries "My baby!" when a ballista hits him CC E16·01:51:18. After the final battle Brennan says both she and Ruby chose to look for understanding rather than strike CC E17·01:59:36. She asks Amethar whether he really wants to be king, and he defers to her CC E17·02:06:28 CC E17·02:06:48. When the party realizes Amethar can swear on the Book of Saint Citrina that he was named Emperor, she says Candia would certainly need a queen CC E17·02:08:51 CC E17·02:09:03. Brennan's epilogue calls her the new and powerful Witch Queen of Candia, with Ruby as her advisor CC E17·02:23:33.
Character sheet — A Crown of Candy
A Crown of Candy sheet of Queen Saccharina Frostwhip (played by Emily Axford). 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.
Features
- War Caster — Feat on her card. CC E12·00:48:04
- Tempestuous Magic — Emily: "before I cast a first level or higher spell, I can fly 10 feet" (used as a bonus action). CC E12·00:47:52
- Channel Divinity: Destructive Wrath — Emily: "I'm just doing max damage" on a lightning/thunder spell (Thunder Step), 40 points of damage. CC E12·00:48:48
- Storm aura — Emily: everyone still takes 3 damage "'cause that's my sort of stormy aura". CC E12·00:52:12
- Quicken Spell — Metamagic; Emily uses it to turn a spell into a bonus action (Spare the Dying on Joren). CC E12·00:48:48
- Empower Spell — Metamagic; Emily rerolls four of her damage dice on Lightning Bolt (39 damage). CC E12·01:24:26
- Sorcery points — Emily: "I can't use two sorcery points on one spell, but can I use two sorcery points in a turn?"; Brennan: yes. CC E12·01:26:52
- Lucky — Feat on her card. CC E16·01:16:11
- Wind control — Emily reads from her sheet: if it is windy, she can use her bonus action each round to choose the direction of the wind in a 100-foot radius sphere centered on her. CC E16·00:42:31
- Lucky (Luck point) — Emily spends a "Luck point" to make an enemy reroll a saving throw. CC E17·00:33:07
Spells
- Wall of Ice — Cast from her Winterscoop as an ice dome around Caramelinda; needs concentration. CC E12·00:11:57
- Thunder Step — Cast at fourth level, taking Joren with her; creatures nearby take thunder damage (DC 16 Constitution save). CC E12·00:48:37 CC E12·00:51:40
- Spare the Dying — Cast on Joren as a Quickened spell. CC E12·00:48:48
- Lightning Bolt — Cast on the soldiers in a line; empowered. CC E12·01:23:19 CC E12·01:24:26
- Booming Blade — Cast with Quicken Spell. CC E12·01:27:17
- Shield — Reaction: an attack that would hit her does not hit. CC E12·01:38:17
- Invisibility — Cast on herself to go to the helm. CC E13·01:26:02
- Counterspell — Cast as a reaction at fifth level against the Sugar-Plum Fairy's spell (Brennan: an ability check with her spellcasting ability, DC 10 plus the spell's level). CC E14·00:04:40 CC E14·00:05:05
- Healing Word — Cast at fourth level on Cumulous; casting it lets her fly 10 feet (Tempestuous Magic). CC E14·01:00:13 CC E14·01:00:29
- Create Bonfire — Cast on the Sugar-Plum Fairy (24 damage). CC E14·01:32:24 CC E14·01:33:10
- Cone of Cold — Cast from her Winterscoop staff to put out fires in the village. CC E15·01:32:05
- Detect Thoughts — Cast on Amethar. CC E15·02:07:19
- Guidance — Cast to add a d4 to Theobald's check. CC E16·00:32:14
- Ceremony — Ritual "Dedication": the target adds a d4 to saving throws for 24 hours. CC E16·00:33:43
- Lightning Lure — Cast on the man manning the ballista, pulling him 10 feet toward her. CC E16·01:20:12
- Haste — Cast on Cinnamon via Quicken Spell. CC E16·01:23:07
- Cure Wounds — Cast at fifth level on Cinnamon. CC E17·01:21:20
- Cone of Cold (archers) — Cast from Cinnamon's back at the archers: DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, 57 damage. CC E17·00:30:26
Items
- Freezerburn — Magical sword at Saccharina's side, part of a long sword / short sword bound set. CC E11·01:21:47
- Winterscoop — Her staff, a giant wood-wrought spoon frosted with ice cream; she casts spells from it. CC E11·01:21:32 CC E12·00:11:57 CC E12·00:20:38
- Crown — The crown she is given; Amethar tells her "You want it, you got it". CC E11·01:38:49 CC E11·01:38:51
- Plate mail — Emily: "And I'm also wearing plate mail." CC E11·01:21:45
- Winterscoop (cold resistance) — Brennan: the staff makes her resistant to cold damage (cold damage 11 becomes 5). CC E13·01:30:01 CC E13·01:30:05
- Cinnamon (dragon) — Hot Tamale cinnamon dragon (Dracoria Azucar) hatching from an egg. CC E14·01:05:12
- Cinnamon (size of a horse) — Cinnamon has grown to about the size of a horse. CC E15·01:37:17
- Cinnamon (size of a house) — Cinnamon is now a dragon the size of a house. CC E15·01:50:13 CC E15·01:50:46
- Cinnamon (stat card) — Card: AC 18, young red dragon CR 10. CC E16·00:50:33
- Cinnamon (mount) — Saccharina rides astride Cinnamon. CC E17·00:27:32
By episode
CC E11: At the Mountains of Sweetness
- Saccharina (Emily; card text: "QUEEN SACCHARINA / OF HOUSE FROSTWHIP / FIRST OF HER NAME, SOVEREIGN / RULER OF CANDIA AND THE / SUGARLANDS, WITCH-QUEEN OF THE / DAIRY SEA AND HIGH PRIESTESS OF / THE SWEETENING PATH, ARCHMAGE / OF LOST SUCROSIA AND ENEMY OF / THE FAITH, THE SUNDAE SORCERESS / AND STORM-CAPTAIN OF THE / FROSTED FLEET") — 01:21:17; described by Emily as "a warrior ice cream sundae" with caramel cape, cherry epaulets, Neapolitan Mohawk, plate mail, Winterscoop and swords — 01:20:58, 01:21:45; "Some other people might know me as Saccharina Ghee." — 01:22:54; "I am her niece, after all" (of Lazuli) — 01:31:30; "I don't really care about the Candian throne. I see it merely as a very fancy tool." — 01:55:20 Also: "in order to be seen as a penniless orphan who escaped a nunnery" — 01:38:26; "I believe I may have been equally inconvenient for my mother and your wife." — 01:43:05
CC E12: Rescue at Buzzybrook
- Rolls a nat 1 on the group Stealth check (an 11 with modifiers): "Technically an 11?" — 00:03:05, 00:03:14
- Gives Ruby the help action: "I see you, little sister." — 00:10:35
- Asks consent from Caramelinda before the Wall of Ice (made with her Winterscoop); Caramelinda sits in an ice fortress behind a stone — 00:11:29, 00:11:57, 00:12:21
- Complains of the party's treatment: "Like even my own father is kind of behaving like a catty high schooler." — 00:21:22
- Initiative 7 — 00:25:22
- Runs, flies 10 feet with Tempestuous Magic, casts a fourth-level Thunder Step, uses Channel Divinity Destructive Wrath for max damage, and Quickened Spare the Dying on Joren — 00:47:52, 00:48:37, 00:48:48
- Hands Joren to Amethar: "I got your cousin." — 00:50:46
- Empowered fourth-level Lightning Bolt (39 damage) through Grissini: "Watch your banner burn, bitch." — 01:24:41, 01:25:16
- Holds back her Booming Blade: "I feel like I tortured him enough." — 01:27:30
- Casts Shield against a golem: "I thought about letting you hit me because I actually have kind of a reaction that I could hurt you, but I took pity on you." — 01:38:17, 01:38:25
- Hit by a golem crit granted by Grissini; Con save 20, 31 damage, 18 hit points left: "Couldn't hit me yourself?" — 01:44:39, 01:44:46, 01:44:58, 01:45:15
- Calls the retreat when Caramelinda cannot hold on: "Retreat." — 01:53:31
- Third-level Thunder Step with Amethar to the hut; sends Swifty after Ruby — 01:58:27, 01:58:52
CC E13: Family Ties
- Explains the Sugar-Plum Fairy's role (as she sees it): "The Sugar-Plum Fairy derives her power from The Bulb" — 00:11:42
- Allows Spearia to touch her forehead and hum: "Is this a sound bath?" — 00:14:42
- Orders Swifty to let Cumulous see the weapons — 00:15:49
- At the balcony, thanks the three "for your endorsement. I'm very aware it does not come with enthusiasm." — 00:23:25; leaves with Gooey — 00:24:06
- Stays up to watch: "I'll stay up and I'll watch." — 00:33:06
- States her aim: "I already declared a crusade against them. If I'm the Queen, The Bulb will not be in Candia." — 00:59:03
- Wants a barn-and-keg coronation: "Barn and a keg, that sounds wonderful." — 01:03:55
- Casts Invisibility on herself, goes to the front — 01:27:42
- Opens the gate with her spoon: "Lazuli, watch over me." — 01:31:16
- Perception 27 in the icy hall — 01:34:51
- Hears the Fairy's voice in her head — 01:35:23
- Can read the Fairy's name on the stair door by heart: "one of the actual names of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, not her title" (Brennan) — 01:37:56
- Arcana 18 in the library — 01:44:06
- Tells Liam: "I grew up in a nunnery where I was meticulously abused by nuns for years."; to Liam's "Bulbian nuns?": "Why do you think I am the way I am? Yeah." — 01:01:32, 01:01:49
- Hears Jet's whisper ("I actually speak wind") — 01:58:34
CC E14: Encounter in the Ice Cream Temple
- Counterspells the Fairy's first area spell with a 5th-level slot (her only one; DC 17, +5, needs 12): the die reads 17 — 00:05:05, 00:05:18, 00:06:06, 00:06:44
- Pretends to drink the countered spell, a Quickened Thunder Step to bring Theobald, paddles a plinth with the spoon ("Winter Scoop"): DC 10 Wisdom with advantage, "I got it!" — 00:07:48, 00:37:57, 00:38:14, 00:38:32
- Counterspells again at 3rd level (needs 10): 19 — 00:43:55, 00:44:20
- Healing Word at 4th level heals Cumulous for 21, then Create Bonfire on the egg: threshold 12, rolls 6 and 7 = 13 — 01:00:29, 01:01:11, 01:03:14
- Claims the hatchling dragon: "I finally have a family." — 01:04:49
- Names it Cinnamon — "Cinnamon is the dragon." — 01:30:21
- Offers Ruby a lift in the second half; later uses Quickened Thunder Step and Create Bonfire on the Fairy for 24 — 01:22:05, 01:32:07, 01:33:10
- After the kill, tells Ruby she softened the Fairy so Ruby could finish her, and acknowledges "Maybe I was being conspiratorial about the Sugar-Plum Fairy." — 01:39:58, 01:40:04
- To Ruby: "I made the decision to do something with you instead of try to steal it for myself." — 01:46:01
- Of her marauders: "I know, I've let my sentimentality make me weak." — 01:47:21; "that's the first time someone's called me Queen, and it hasn't felt uncomfortable." — 01:48:40
- Chooses to be Ruby's queen, not her sister: "But if I must choose, then I choose to be your queen." — 01:54:38
- To Ruby: "I suppose it's stupid that I keep trying to reach out to you" — 01:46:01
"Suck it, bitch! Suck ice, bitch, I know ice better than you!" — 00:06:10
"I'm a sailor, but I'm also a paddleboarder." — 00:39:54
"I would like to Create Bonfire around the egg." — 01:01:27
"Ruby, think you can finish her off?" — 01:33:18
CC E15: The Two Balls
- Flashback as a five-year-old: waits at a window for her mother's boat — 00:05:41
- Obeys the nun "because I know what disobedience will get me" — 00:06:52
- Tells the Mother Superior she lied about the woman in the mirror, then admits what the woman says: "She says that I don't have to hide." — 00:09:17, 00:10:56
- Asked what the Mother Superior wishes for her: "Is that what you wish for me, strength? Is that why you do what you do?" — 00:10:30
- Reaches for Lazuli's hand as the holy symbol is pressed on her chest; the hand vanishes and the connection is severed — 00:14:13, 00:14:21
- Defends her parentage and her mother: "My father is Amethar of House Rocks. I am Saccharina Rocks." — 00:16:59; "She did want me." — 00:17:44
- Says she can "speak to the wind" and "walk out into the ocean and have the water do my bidding" — 00:18:24
- Present: descends with "the Winterscoop in your hand" (Brennan) and Cinnamon around her neck — 00:18:52
- At the foot of the temple mountain, about the pursuing Mold People, before the trip to Castle Manylicks: "Although we should set up a series of booby traps to really fuck those guys up." — 00:59:50
- Hesitates to wreck the temple, asks Cumulous ("Yes." 01:01:12); Swifty volunteers; then collapses the door: "we're gonna blow up the foyer and the mudroom." — 01:01:54
- Asks Liam to head her archers: "Liam, will you be the head of my archers?" — 01:05:25
- Coronation at Castle Manylicks: "I think I like walk down the aisle like a bride and deep down inside, like, I'm so uncomfortable with it." — 01:14:05; wears a gown over her plate mail — 01:14:59; suggests burning Bulb Bibles: "we probably light some Bulb Bibles on fire and shit." — 01:15:56
- Group espionage: rolls "two 15" and then 23, not a natural 20 — 01:27:32, 01:28:58; flies the white chocolate ravens: "Fly my birdies, fly!" — 01:27:24
- Village scene: grabs the priest's holy symbol and casts Create Bonfire on it; lets Cinnamon feed; "Go for it, baby."; then "No, save the villagers, they're fine." — 01:30:34, 01:31:10, 01:31:35
- Casts Cone of Cold with the Winterscoop to put out the fires, and, of eating the clergy: "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! <…> I let him do it." — 01:32:05, 01:33:07
- Lets Cinnamon go to Port Syrup: "Give the boy what he wants." — 01:38:08; "I've never had the love of family before and I can't say no to you!" — 01:38:16
- Plan: "I mean, honestly that's definitely my plan." (to kill them all); "a carefully plotted assassination may be in our advantage." — 01:40:59, 01:41:20
- Confides in Theobald about Cinnamon: "I will have a very difficult time saying no to him" — 01:56:39
- Admits: "I really can't control him." — 01:58:23
- Casts Detect Thoughts on Amethar (see Roll log): finds "a very small part of wanting to love her" — 02:07:19, 02:11:22
- Brennan: after Theobald says discipline, perhaps moments after the conversation ends, "Saccharina remembers all of the ways in which she was disciplined as well." — 01:58:56
"I think she's looking for the boat that her mom is gonna come back and pick her back up because she's gonna realize it was a mistake to have abandoned her." — 00:05:41
"it's gonna become a UNESCO protected site once I'm done with it." — 01:02:50
"Many of you went to the Bulb to be saved, but hopefully today you'll remember what really saved you." — 01:32:51
"Cinnamon is the first creature in my entire life who has ever freely and immediately loved me." — 01:55:47
"Who sent all those people to threaten her?" — 02:06:38
CC E16: For Candia! (Part 1)
- Meets Swifty in her quarters and reproves him and Gooey for Port Syrup — 00:22:45
- Learns from Swifty that her mother died before Amethar's marriage; reacts with a long pause, then laughs — 00:24:10, 00:24:53
- Tells Swifty "I don't even fully 100% trust you" and keeps him on her "shit list" for Port Syrup, though he and Gooey exchange a glance she does not understand (Brennan) — 00:26:37, 00:27:13
- Asks for Theobald's counsel, says she has spent a lot of power protecting the Rocks family in earlier battles and asks if she should keep the same priorities — 00:28:26, 00:29:10
- Tells Theobald the dates and that Amethar, Ruby and Caramelinda have not shared them — 00:30:11
- Helps Theobald's Insight with the Help action and Guidance: "I want him to know I'm telling the truth." — 00:32:08
- Casts Ceremony (Dedication) on Theobald, a Ritual giving a d4 on saving throws for 24 hours (Emily reads the rule) — 00:33:43, 00:33:51
- Before the minis: "It didn't have to be this way." — 00:34:28
- Wants to tell Cumulous because "people alongside me may be a danger to me"; does not know whether "Liam ever took to me" — 00:43:46
- Table-and-character strategy: suggests Trojan-horse supply boxes, paratroopers off an invisible Cinnamon, and fog; she and others note her ideas fit "if it was just the six of us" — 00:14:34, 00:19:54, 00:20:54
- Offers herself as bait: "I am willing to be used as a pawn, if that helps in any way." — 00:15:36
- Tells Ruby she can also be "a master of arrows" and that "rankings are a very intuitive thing, here" — 00:17:08, 00:17:20
- In battle rides Cinnamon: casts Invisibility on him (she cannot cast spells while invisible), Lightning Lure on ballista gunners, Quickened Haste on the dragon, Guidance on herself, Lightning Bolt at third level with Empower Spell — 00:49:21, 01:20:12, 01:23:07, 01:46:21, 01:46:59
- Picks a landing in a tower so the ballistae will not all have open shots: "You know what, we might as well just find out what these ballistas feel like." — 01:19:32
- Perception 24 with Cinnamon's help on the fleeing archer: "Means nothing to me." — 01:26:27, 01:26:45
- Hears the Vegetanian scream: "It's actually Cinnamon!" — 01:30:43
- Watches Cinnamon hit by a ballista: "My baby!" — 01:51:18
"What happened in Port Syrup was disgusting." — 00:22:45
"I did not see any evidence that there was any guidance given to him." — 00:22:45
"If they had just been straightforward with me, of course I would have used the throne to destroy the church" — 00:24:53
"so you are still on my shit list for that." — 00:26:43
"I won't be sending Cinnamon on any more trips with Gooey or Swifty." — 00:31:29
CC E17: For Candia! (Part 2)
- Cone of Cold (8d8, 36), Fire Breath (16d6, 57), Intimidation DC 20 failed, and Luck point to reroll Keradin's Dex save — 00:26:50, 00:30:26, 00:34:26, 00:33:07
- Recharge of Cinnamon's breath on a 6 — 01:03:11
- Cone of Cold again (29): "Ice to meet you." — 01:01:10
- Fifth-level Cure Wounds, total 39 — 01:21:49
- Fire Breath (57) on Ciabatta; out of character "I don't want to kill him." — 01:38:47
- Paper choice; Saccharina: "Well, you could be my sister, for a while at least, Amethar's still alive. But someday you would be my subject." — 02:02:13
- To the marauders: "Get the feast ready." — 02:02:46
- Courtyard with Amethar; asks him to put his hand on the Book — 02:06:13
- "Thank you so much, I just became the Queen, and my realm just got fucking huge." — 02:12:05
- Epilogue: Emily's last check, Investigation 18, for pea protein in Vegetania — 02:20:11, 02:20:44
"I fully trust you." — 00:29:16
"Do you really wanna be king?" — 02:06:28