Scheherazade

Scheherazade first writes to Timothy through his book, in a flowing script: "My name is Scheherazade." NA E5·01:05:24 A card names her Scheherazade (she/her), "Storyteller Extraordinaire", from One Thousand and One Nights NA E5·01:09:55. She says she is very frightened of this magic book, and that she is trapped in a cave and maze with a man named Sinbad NA E5·01:05:49 NA E5·01:07:43. To show herself she sends out a wisp of red smoke that forms a woman with a sword on her back, holding a massive book and a quill NA E5·01:09:37.

In the fifth episode she tells Timothy that the realms she calls the Endless Nights are wracked by chaos and that she has learned the true nature of the world, and she sends an image of a spider glyph above a stone wall, the throne of the guardian that was supposed to be there NA E5·01:07:09 NA E5·01:09:15 NA E5·01:11:44 NA E5·01:11:58. She says the name she was told to look for when she first asked about the book was Aesop NA E5·01:14:51. In the sixth episode Timothy writes the spider story into the book to help her team, and her script answers "Got it, you're a champ, thank you so much." NA E6·01:32:28 NA E6·01:32:31 In the seventh she writes that they escaped the cave, made allies and found a doorway, and says she believes the Land of Beasts and Birds may be another realm like theirs NA E7·00:47:20 NA E7·00:48:44.

At the end of the seventh episode, as the Stepmother screams through burning pages after Pinocchio, a door opens from his book and Scheherazade grabs him with a golden rope and throws him through it NA E7·01:48:43. She then asks "What the fuck was that?" NA E7·01:49:28 In The Lines Between she stands in traveler's garb with a sword, a scar down the side of her face and an azure and gold book, and says the guardian got them back to their rock, where they found in the tomb the directions to this place, on the recommendation of a man named Aesop whom she contacted in her book NA E8·00:04:45 NA E8·00:08:51. She says her land is the Endless Nights and that she saw tapestries in a palace depicting people like the party NA E8·00:25:42.

She goes invisibly with Mother Goose to the Canonade door, gives help and a bardic inspiration while he looks through the keyhole NA E8·01:01:05 NA E8·01:02:19. When Timothy starts to go two-dimensional she touches his hand as her own begins to flatten, says "I don't give a shit. I don't come from a nice story. I believe in you, and I believe in me, and I think we're just real enough.", and casts Dispel Magic, and he slowly comes back into his body NA E8·01:09:13 NA E8·01:09:21 NA E8·01:09:31. When Aesop says the two of them may have seen something at the Canonade door, she asks what manner of being might have seen Mother Goose there NA E8·01:27:50 NA E8·01:28:46. As Key describes the vast beings behind the stories, she says "They're fine with all the bad things that have ever happened to us." NA E8·01:32:22 In the fifteenth episode Timothy says Scheherazade pulled them through to The Lines Between NA E15·02:00:31. In the seventeenth the party finds a conversation in the book in which she tells Timothy they have stopped a monster and locked it in the basement of The Lines Between, Snow White answers instead of Timothy, and Scheherazade confirms to Snow White that she can open doors NA E17·01:32:00 NA E17·01:32:23 NA E17·01:33:17. When Timothy writes that his book was stolen and not to trust Snow White, she asks who stole it and where he is, and after his answer there is no response NA E17·01:33:40 NA E17·01:33:53 NA E17·01:34:25. In the eighteenth Timothy writes to her and gets no response NA E18·02:04:20 NA E18·02:04:22.

In The Lines Between she stands beside Snow White and Cinderella, impassive, never breaking her gaze from the ink, and Brennan guesses the princesses did not have time to convince her the old-fashioned way NA E19·00:06:00 NA E19·00:07:14. She funnels energy that gives advantage to Snow White's concentration NA E19·00:29:02. She counters the Baba Yaga's Cone of Cold with a blast of golden dust NA E19·00:46:23. She says "I have my mission. I know what must be done." NA E19·01:17:06 She tries a Sleep spell that Mother Goose counters, and blows radiant energy into his face NA E19·01:17:35 NA E19·01:17:48. The Baba Yaga's Dispel Magic removes what Brennan says is a Geas NA E19·01:30:51 NA E19·01:31:14. Scheherazade asks "What the fuck is going on?" NA E19·01:31:08 Cinderella clubs her to zero with her spear haft and takes her book, and she is stable NA E19·01:45:02 NA E19·01:45:21 NA E19·01:50:00.

In the finale she comes back up at one hit point and asks for her book, which the party returns, and she puts her concentration on unweaving Snow White's spell and opens a door with a glowing page to bring Aesop NA E20·00:04:35 NA E20·00:20:26 NA E20·00:20:43 NA E20·00:20:55. She tells the Authors' hand "If your face was here, I'd look you in the eye and tell you how fucked up you are!" NA E20·00:53:37 Mother Goose casts Cure Wounds on her at one hit point, and later she heals him with an upcast Cure Wounds NA E20·00:49:12 NA E20·01:24:22. She says "We just risked it all, everything, for the freedom to write our own story." NA E20·02:07:31 After Timothy says he will see her down there, she replies "I'll see you in the stories." and Brennan says she falls back into the pages of her own book NA E20·02:07:43 NA E20·02:07:46 NA E20·02:07:47.