At an early age Saphy began exhibiting signs of nuclear sorcery, inherited from her mother. In the society Saphy lived in, sorcery was illegal, so from an early age she worked hard to maintain the secret of her identity. Her mothers overprotectiveness and general fear of getting caught caused Saphy to be a shy (kind of weird) quiet kid, constantly clinging to her mothers hand in crowds or seeking her father after a long school day.

Despite this her older brother Sandar pledged to make Saphy’s life fun and explorative, causing the satyr to get into quite a bit of mischief as Sandar’s quiet plus one. Sandar was Saphy’s biggest hero growing up and one of her only friends. She also made friends with a halfling named Harlow, the daughter of Worlvum’s close college friend. Unfortunately Harlow “passed away” under a sudden illness and was completely replaced in the family by “Echo” , a tiefling with a sour attitude. Saphy only clung to Sandar more in those years after Harlow until she had to say goodbye to him too. Sandar was going to boarding school and Saphy was alone.

But it all turned out okay, because Saphy had her parents and a new found fixation on pianos. Better yet Dansnari got pregnant and had Samie, her little sister! Saphy wanted to provide a role that Sandar had done for her when she was younger, so she took on the mantle of being the best older sister she could be (and being a lot more careful about it). Around this time Saphy was also told about her mothers chronic depression (and how postpartum was making it worse.) After how much her mom had done for her, Saphy made it a goal from a young age to always help her mom out whenever her sickness got bad!

As late elementary and early middle school came around Echo began to bully Saphy fully. Oddly enough it had the opposite effect than it should have, as Saphy began to push herself to be “normal”. She began covering up her freckles, being more social and focused on becoming more charismatic so people could like her! Echo FINALLY left and as highschool began Saphy bloomed into her primary personality today: a happy, bubbly (and a bit loud and oblivious) satyr! Life was GOODl. She went to a private highschool and since the drinking age in Taleoni is pretty young she began to get invited to a lot of parties and totally rock it out in experiencing flings, girlfriends, break ups and everything in between!!

However after Dansnari’s eighth panic attack about all of Saphys close calls in her reckless teenage years, Worlvum elected to get Saphy a bodyguard!!! Out of all the options he chose an 18 year old ex-gang member, bailed fresh out of prison with a new prosthetic leg. Her name was Bishop. Saphy was more than excited to get to know a new friend, however her upbeat personality, lack of awareness and painful privilege of growing up rich caused a huge divide between her and the less fortunate tiefling. Oftentimes Saphy would get berated or ignored for trying to create a bond closer than “client.” Saphy had never experienced hardship like Bishop had, she could hardly grasp gangs were a real ‘problem’. Sometimes she would overstep so much that Saphy would leave a conversation in tears. In these months she was granted the nickname “princess” by Bishop and she was embarrassed by it--not just for its condescension but a bit for its accuracy too.

It didn’t help that the family around this time had also adopted a human infant named Seriah, causing more tension with a new, exhausting change. Saphy knew Dansnari’s depression was getting bad again, so she took on alot of the elbow grease behind taking care of Seriah (who also seemed to be showing signs of some intense power beyond Saphys sorcery?) Dansnari hated Bishop and her mood around this time made their fights worse. She didn’t feel like Saphy was getting guarded by this outsider…and she didn’t want any of her children involved with her! But Worlvum saw something in Bishop and pushed and pushed that everyone gave her chance after chance.

Finally, after about a year or so of complications, Saphy was let in on a project Bishop was working on, creating a working beetle as a side project for her inventions. She helped Bishop come up with an approachable design and Saphy was finally let in, if not just a little, into Bishop’s personality and hobbies. From there on it was a gradual friendship. Saphy would be invited to Bishop’s joy rides. She would get a bit more protective when Saphy got too wasted at a party. She would teach Saphy some skills, even teaching her ‘undercommon’ at the peak of their friendship.

Knowing Bishop back then helped Saphy mature into an adult. After graduating Highschool and becoming closer with her bodyguard she came to an understanding of her. They proceeded to grow closer and closer for seven years. Bishop became Saphys best friend, the person she could talk to about anything at any time. She was there for Saphy during her worst breakup ever with…Stephanie…a white tiefling who left her for Matpat. Bishop was there during Saphys decision to make piano her career and Bishop was there as she raised Seriah. They drank and got chips implanted together. She was oblivious that Bishop had fallen in love with her during their later years. Bishop invited her on DOZENS of dates and Saphy was completely unaware of every single one's implications. You just can’t beat around the bush with this satyr.

Saphy had thought her feelings were platonic until one day a group of gang members jumped her in an alleyway and attempted to saw off her horns. Bishop saved her and she was swept away by just how much this tiefling meant to her. Unfortunately Bishop’s sour arrival still had its scars as Dansnari actively encouraged Saphy not to pursue a relationship with her once Saphy revealed her developed feelings. Mom still held a very strong grudge against Bishop and knew she would do nothing but hurt her precious daughter. Samie also began to have doubts about Bishop, as she was afraid Bishop was taking her older sister away from her.

Despite the setbacks, Saphy asked Bishop to move in with her (platonically because they’re disasters.) Bishop agreed and the last year of their life was spent living peacefully. Saphy jump started her piano career and Bishop began working on her inventors portfolio. Bishop had a plan to confess on a sunset near the hills…before Saphy got a call. Sandar was coming into town to visit!! This completely ruined the mood as Saphy got excited to reconnect with her brother. They stayed in touch through letters and text messages and Sandar got busy in the military after graduating from boarding school. But finally after a couple of years they could talk!

Things took a sharp turn as Samie suddenly went missing. Shortly after her parents and little sister Seriah had to leave abruptly on a business trip. Saphy went to meet up with Sandar, Bishop by her side, but instead the two got jumped by Samie. But Samie’s eyes were rolled in the back of her head, Bishop was knocked out by men with similar rolled eyes. Saphy was helpless to protect Samie, herself, and Bishop as she was crawling on the floor, resisting the darts poison. They shot her one last time as she begged for Samie to run.

Saphy woke up in a hospital room, three years later, with not a single memory of her past. She met Bishop, a tiefling who felt oddly familiar. Echo, an authoritative tiefling who Saphy felt like she annoyed. Harley, an elf hexblood who she really wanted to become friends with and Zarish, an intimidating centaur. This group navigated the halls of this odd hospital that lead into underground catacombs. As everyone grew acquainted, Saphy was hit with her first memory, which was her seven year long pent up feelings for Bishop. She watched as guards tried shooting at them, saw dead people for the first time, and she herself came close to death as a catacomb's nuclear monster tried to kill her. A cruel wake up call for a sheltered rich kid. After their first fight, the group was promptly knocked out and brought to an underground society.

The Rift was an underground society of survivors of an AI breakout called The System. Chips were being put into peoples heads and an intelligent AI is trying to utilize humans for a ‘functional society’. They were guided to the Rift by its co-supervisor, Tasha. Saphy began to get blips of her past and just how much she missed her family. The party met a gnome named Joslin and Joslin gave Saphy one of her clearest memories---Samie’s betrayal. Saphy began to worry that it was her fault Bishop and she got caught in the first place. Saphy tried not to fret, as instead she got closer with her new bestie, Harley. She worked hard to recall her family members at the library and helped Harley recall some of her past with Hexco as well. (Harley was the first to know of Saphy’s crush). Saphy instantly got attached to Harley for reminding her of Samie..even if she couldn’t quite pinpoint it.

Good news came after a couple days: Sandar Auburndale was The General and leader of The Rift. After coming home to Saphy's disappearance and their vacated childhood home, Sandar pulled together a bunch of survivors to save people from The System. Saphy felt immense guilt for never meeting up with him and failing to help Sandar through such a difficult time. Sandar seemed dismissive of his emotions about the subject. She latched onto him as one of her only points of familiarity, after Bishop confessed she didn’t want to recall the past and become a new person.

Sandar pushed them to The Enclave (a bar) to party it out. However the party got interrupted by Quinn, Harley’s ex and they began to shoot up the place while causing the crowd to go unconscious. The System got in!!! Saphy, drunk and stumbling watched Bishop collapse after a horrid hit. She tried opening up her suit of armor, but only made Bishop bleed out more. This is how she got her hand scars, from slicing them open in her failed attempts to try and save Bishop’s life. She called Sandar to save them and after battling it out a couple minutes more he came in with reinforcements. Harley disappeared during the battle and the group was quickly treated from their wounds, with no casualties.

After a couple days of recovery Saphy managed to get another meeting with Sandar. She begged him to teach her how to sword fight, to be useful to her party after failing so much. Sandar agreed (after flexing on her just how capable he was.) But as she began to ask questions about the Enclave event Sandar began dismissing her problems. She knew her friends wanted answers and actively distrusted him after it but he diminished those issues too.

“Echo went down, Bishop went down, You went down. Can’t you see I’m trying to keep you safe by keeping you out of trouble?” - Sandar

He pushed on every single one of her insecurities about her uselessness, her incompetence and her terror of the events she experienced. He made her feel stupid for asking and annoying for caring. He made her promise that, despite her friends' wishes, she kept them out of trouble. Saphy begged him for information about Samie, who he expressed he did bump into! But he told her she was a lost cause . And Saphy was better underground. He tried crushing any hope she had of getting Samie back, but Saphy refused to let go of that.

She left talking to Sandar feeling miserable. Like a burden, like a failure. So she did all she could in her power to make up for it! She sought out Harley who’d been coping poorly after the Enclave. She baked an apple pie and asked Harley to open up. But she was too pushy, and Halrey stated.

“We’ve only known each other for a month? I don’t think I’ll be around much longer.” - Harley

Saphy realized she’d overconnected herself to Harley and that Harley wasn’t intending on staying with them. This broke Saphy’s heart, and then she bumped into Echo, the biggest disliker of Sandar in the group. She caught wind of Echo breaking into the enclave and yelled at her for getting into trouble (and making Saphy break her promise to Sandar.) It ended in Saphy realizing she was the problem and Echo did see the group as a potential family. She left that day feeling awful, scrolling her phones of old pictures of Samie.

Time in the Rift was hard. It was riddled in Saphys painful homesickness and fear for the rest of her family's well being. Sandar in all their sparring sessions found a new way to shift her opinion of herself and create a distance between her and her new friends. She didn’t realize how expertly she was getting manipulated. She couldn’t understand why everyone hated her only family member she has left. She depended on him so much. He was all she had. Near the end she did learn that her mother and sister Seriah were at the feywild, something she was excited to share with Sandar…before…

The party found evidence that a hospital had something suspicious under it. Saphy begrudgingly attended this meet and fucked up so astronomically she accidentally separated Harley, Evie (an ally) and herself from the rest of the party, who all went silent after finding the hospitals secret. Then Evie disapperaed. Then Harley disappeared. And Saphy was all alone. She begged Sandar to find time to call her so she could find her missing friends. He didn’t join her until evening. She begged him for help but he did what he always did, manipulated and diminished her for being stupid. He insisted they go together to the hospital. But this time she wasn’t just going to blindly follow his word. She stole a sword off of his collection, a sword that was calling to Saphy. She blacked out and possessed Sandar’s body, getting access to his memories. It was him who took her friends away. And he was planning on erasing her memories of any of this ever happening.

Connected to the cursed sword, The Shadowed Dragon, Saphy felt something new: Numbness. She nearly killed her brother to get out of there unscathed. She stole information off of his computer for Echo, and she left.

Warlock +1

The party escaped out of The Rift with Tasha’s help. We are back above ground! The group brought Quinn with them, causing tension the entire walk to the city. Saphy found out her sword can be turned into a magical familiar, so she named him Worvy after her father. Sandar’s betrayal made Saphy’s personality flip. Sandar had imprisoned Echo’s sister, Ness, which made her feel worse since Ness was catatonic. Outside they met a group; Nico, Katrina and Sylive. Nico was Zarish’s brother; yet despite him inviting them to a group, and being a familial tie, no one was suspicious of him like they were of Saphy’s brother. Their relationship was everything Saphy wanted from Sandar. She tried reaching out to Echo about the ‘suspiciousness’ of the situation, but she was focused on her sister. All these pent up emotions came exploding in an outburst, when Harley refused to let go of her ex, despite the fact she was under The System. Despite the fact the whole party was supporting her. Despite the fact Saphy had to give up on her brotheralone.

“You don’t think I understand?! I had to give up Sandar! I had to nearly kill him! I chose the party over him and you can’t do the same?” - Saphy

Harley left the group in a rage and she didn’t come back. Saphy assumed she finally went through with leaving the group, but everyone else insisted on looking. They tried finding Harley but all we found was blood and feathers from a mysterious winged savior. Yet another time Saphy has fucked something up and hurt someone she loved. But the sword was making her feel like something was in her control. So she began to depend on it. The party was brought to Oxytocin, a gang of survivors from The System. To cheer Echo’s spirits up she invited everyone to a drinking party. Everyone but Saphy got drunk. Bishop practically confessed loving Saphy (which made her terrified that her drunkenness was making her delusional) and Saphy was left comforting drunk Zarish about Harley’s disappearance. But Harley showed up at their room. They had an awkward encounter where Saphy learned a big part of Harley’s problem was she was struggling with a drug addiction. Another thing Saphy completely missed. Harley promised she wouldn’t leave.

That night she had a nightmare about encountering Sandar and how her mother needed her! Saphy woke up and in a fit of numbness got her first level of corruption with her sword, against a training dummy that refused to die. She came back from this event, where Bishop and her had a long conversation. It ended in Bishop pressing a kiss on Saphys forehead and she finally asked…

“What am I to you??” - Saphy

Bishop loved her. And through the darkness of her mind, Saphy finally confessed she loved her too. They got together! They began to look for information to try and help Echo’s sister situation out, where things took a turn. Saphy had a memory that Worlvum had a chip, so she requested that Echo check up on him. All she got back was coldness.

Worlvum was dead.

Her father was dead.

Sandar was right, her mother really did need her.

She experienced a new wave of numbness and the party continued. They went out to a university to help Katrina with an issue. The system was trying to transport a devil to open a portal to hell! The group did some digging and found information that Zarish’s sister Camillie was imprisoned where they were now! The group left the university after getting discovered and hatched a plan in secret to get Camille back. At night Saphy got a dream from her sister, Seriah, who is a dream walker! She indrectly confirmed Saphy's mother was very depressed, but that everything would be okay.

Saphy finally broke down about Worlvum’s passing, waking up being cradled in Bishop’s arms. The party split up in groups, Saphy and Bishop were tasked with creating a distraction by getting the devil The System captured out. The devil, Redd, also provided a solution to bring Ness back; but the two of them each had to kill someone as part of the deal. Saphy agreed, despite Bishop’s reluctance. The group managed to get Camillie out, but lost Katrina in the process. We later learned Katrina was Bishop’s half sister, which destroyed the group's morale further.

“What makes me the kind of person people leave?” - Bishop

They spent a month and a half at the gang trying to improve their reputation after such a fiasco. During that time Saphy found someone to kill, using her sword to brutally get rid of a man who tried to jump her. This caused her a wave of exhaustion and stained fingertips. Second level of corruption. Worvy informed Saphy none of his owners survived past a year, something Saphy was determined to ignore. They learned Harley’s mother was killed by Hexco and the two agreed to get revenge on her together. She also learned from the information she stole from Sandar that Sandar was under the system the whole time. A hard drive depicted his descent from Saphy’s brother into a husk of a soldier. As they were getting ready to leave Oxytocin there were reports that large groups of system soldiers were going to The Rift. Oxytocin intended on exploding The Rift because of this. The party managed to get in contact with Tasha to evacuate those who weren’t under The System away from the explosion site. Sandar was nowhere to be found.

After some digging they learned The System was looking for a new ‘host’ and that Sandar was the next chosen face of The System. Problem is hosts die after every couple of months and whoever was under The System before is permanently erased. The party decided to attempt to save Sandar and get him out of The System to maybe allow Saphy to salvage a relationship with him…or at least allow him to be under his own will again. They made a quick pitstop into hell to meet Bishop’s father, get revenge on Harley's mother (and failed) and got a magic item that allows them to spy on people before dropping off to The Rift to save Sandar!

Saphy allowed the sword's corruption to take her over in front of the party (corruption level 3) and she tried pulling Sandar out of the cords, consuming him. The wires attaching him to become the next host. She wasn’t strong enough and she watched Sandar’s full shift into The Leader of The System. He was fully The Host now. The party managed to knock him unconscious, after he mentioned Saphys perished father and killed Zarish.

The sword made it so Saphy could barely walk and by the end of the battle. Echo revived Zarish and Saphy casted detect thoughts on her brother. His mindscape was broken and destroyed, all that remained was their broken childhood home and him, collapsed over Saphys old letters. She talked to Sandar, the real Sandar, and he apologized for all he had done.

“Let me do the only good thing I’ve ever done for you.” - Sandar

Sandar sacrificed what remained of his consciousness to teleport the party out of The Rift and somewhere safe. Saphy watched his remains turn to dust and she woke up numb, tired and a failure. The party had no choice but to move on from the city and save Bishop's half sibling Katrina before it was too late for her too. Zarish’s wild magic was getting worse, Harley and Bishop were suspicious of Saphys sword and Echo was hiding something. They all tried to stage an intervention for her sword but it only pushed Saphy farther away from her friends. As they traveled back to the city to say their goodbyes, Saphy isolated herself in her room until they stopped by her family home. She buried what remained of Sandar, a gift she gave him long ago, in her mothers carnation garden. Bishop by her side. She used the carnation petals at the end of the ceremony to signify his loss.

Sandar was officially a lost cause.

In a way, Sandar got his wish in the end in swaying Saphy’s opinion on Samie, because in the end she did give up on her. And in the end Saphy spread those flower petals over Samie’s bed and said goodbye to her too. Because if Samie was under the system, then there was no way she could get her back. They left Saphy’s family home and visited Zarish’s, Harley’s and said goodbye to The Gang. On the road they left. But not without a little blip of hope. She got a message that Samie had fallen out of the system after being so certain she was a lost cause.

She struggles to accept it.

On the road the group stopped by Zarish’s barn to find more clues on her family's whereabouts (and adopted more animals.) Echo approached Saphy this time and tried to get her to stop using her sword. She said she found a magical solution to her sword where if she got in contact with the god, The Life Weaver, all would be okay! Saphy was offended by what felt like more pawns to get her to stop using it. Echo finally revealed that she has been seeing visions of the future from the gods and that in every one of Saphys futures she died under that sword. Echo’s desperateness finally pushed through to Saphy and she realized she needed to stop using it. She had a date with Bishop on the road which solidified her determination to stop depending on it. She wanted to marry Bishop, and the sword could affect a future she could do that. Saphy began praying to The Life Weaver to hopefully gain her approval enough to be seen as someone worth saving.

The party managed to save Katrina and Bishop reunited with her half sister. With her safe they began their travels to The Lost Woods, the place where the last open feywild portal resides….