Vilya

Vilya is Keyleth's mother, a member of the Air Ashari, and the spiritual leader of the Vo village on Rumblecusp. As an NPC, Vilya is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
As Viridian, Vilya is a half-elven woman with dark sunburned skin and dark brown hair that is wild and sunbleached at the tips. She has an almost formidable presence, but a gentle smile and demeanor. She wears leathers with elements of dried leaves and scales that blend together. Her left leg is a vibrant green, made of tightly knotted vines, and she carries a staff in one hand.

Background
Vilya left Zephrah on her Aramenté approximately twenty years before the events of Chapter 2, but never returned. Vilya reached the Earth Ashari, and met with the Fire Ashari about ten years before Keyleth met them.

Vilya eventually reached the final stop in her Aramenté: the Water Ashari. With the help of her traveling companions, Vilya set out to complete the final trial by retrieving several lodestones from within the Water Elemental Plane. However, all of her companions were killed in the process and Vilya herself vanished. The Water Ashari searched for a body in order to give her a proper funeral, but all they found was a single leg.

Vilya ended up on Rumblecusp for the next twenty-five years, losing her memory under the influence of Vokodo and taking the name Viridian.

Viridian was spoken of by Jaina and Pono as being the spiritual leader of the village, who would speak to Vokodo, decide upon and organize the offerings to be made, and bring them to him. She is the one who guides everyone underneath the eye of Vokodo.

Viridian invites the party to a communal dinner that night, and explains the strange geography of Rumblecusp island. She offers to escort the party to Vokodo. Along the path, she warns them of the various dangers and then transforms herself into an owl leading the party toward the volcano.

Viridian aided the party in their battle with the creatures encountered along the path to Vokodo's lair, commenting afterward that she'd never seen a specter traveling so far south. She accompanied the party in their audience with Vokodo. In Caleb's hut later that evening, Caduceus surreptitiously cast Greater Restoration on her, restoring her memories, leading her to remember her true name and how long she had been on the island.