Jourrael


 * For the fire giant gambler in the City of Brass, see Juuraiel.

 is a nightmarish specter, an ancient assassin of Lolth, the Spider Queen. As an NPC, is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
Jourrael has the appearance of a drow woman with reddish hair pulled back a little bit by a black bandana, swathed in a cloak and leathers. She has a semi-spectral form.

Background
Granted the title of Caedogeist, Jourrael was a chosen assassin of Lolth, the Spider Queen, exalted through an arrangement with Asmodeus during a brief era of unified interests. Jourrael was a nightmarish specter who walked through walls and mountains like water. Known colloquially as the Inevitable End, Jourrael could not be completely destroyed unless the contract of the agreement between Lolth and Asmodeus was destroyed. In the bloodshed at the end of The Calamity, this attempt failed, so the body of Jourrael was sundered and sealed apart in secret. The heart was buried within the Lotusden Greenwood in the Wraithroot tree, and the skull entrusted to the elves in the Veluthil. The skull was recovered from the ruins of Molaesmyr and sold to the Stassman family of Kamordah.

Obann and his party obtain the skull of in Kamordah.

Obann managed to recover the heart from the Wraithroot tree, while he and his party are under attack by the Mighty Nein.

The party is at the Invulnerable Vagrant purchasing equipment and supplies, when suddenly, Caduceus feels a searing pain in his back as he is attacked and seriously wounded by a red-haired female drow specter that immediately shifts back into the ground like a ghost.

In their first battle against Jourrael, the Nein take heavy damage from her sneak attacks. She fades back into the ground after each attack, limiting their offense. With the help of Pumat Sol, they are able to drive her off and she disappears. The next day, Pumat's Scry sees her and her companions being admitted to the city of Rexxentrum.

In the battle in the Chantry of the Dawn, Jourrael fights the Nein with Obann. Yasha, and the Laughing Hand, using the same tactics as their fight the day before. After the Hand's death, when Obann retreats to the subterranean room housing the first fane holding Tharizdun, Jourrael goes with him. The now-free Yasha realizes Jourrael is under the same charmed compulsion that she was, and Yasha urges them to try to break free. Obann is killed, possibly freeing the Caedogeist as well, but is re-formed by Tharizdun into Obann the Punished.

The Nein begin fighting Obann the Punished in terrible condition, spells and health almost universally depleted. At first, the Caedogeist moves to the outward-leading stairs, but then they sink into the floor and reappears beside Obann, attacking him. They do massive damage with their sneak attacks through the battle, and gets the final killing blow on Obann the Punished. Caduceus then heals them along with the rest of the party and asks for a hug. They respond, "Not my type of interaction," puts a finger to their lips in a shushing gesture, and vanishes into a wall.

Jester cast Sending to thank Jourrael for the help she provided down below in the cathedral dungeon and offer friendship if she is lonely. Jourrael responds that she appreciates the help in regaining her freedom, but they will never see each other again.

Obann
Obann recovered their remains and revived them, taking magical control over them in the process. They did his bidding while under his influence.

Abilities

 * Resistant to acid, fire, lightning, cold, and thunder; piercing, slashing and bludgeoning from non-magical weapons.
 * Immune to poison.
 * Cannot be frightened, grappled, paralyzed, restrained, or made prone.

Drow Abilities

 * Fey Ancestry
 * Sunlight Sensitivity
 * Innate Spellcasting
 * Mirror Image
 * Faerie Fire
 * Darkness

Specter Abilities

 * Incorporeal Movement
 * Immunity to Grappling

Class Features

 * Sneak Attack

Feats

 * Parry (reaction, adds 5 to AC)

Notable Items

 * Two poisoned daggers

Trivia

 * The title Caedogeist is derived from a combination of Latin and German, which, in a literal translation, would translate to "I kill ghost". Per Matt, it means "murder ghost".
 * "Caedo" comes from the Latin caedō, caedere, cecīdī, caesus. Caedō (/ˈkae̯.doː/) specifically is the present active indicative 1st person singular verb, which can translate to "I hack", "I strike", "I sever", "I murder", etc. It is likely that this specific form of the verb was chosen because translating the English bare infinitive "murder" into Latin is impossible due to English being a morphologically poor language while Latin is comparatively morphologically rich, and as such has no bare infinitive. However, because "Caedogeist" was created as a derivative of its two parts, whether or not it literally translates is irrelevant because it is exceedingly rare for English derivatives of Latin words to literally translate back to their original grammatical form.
 * "Geist" comes from the German noun Geist (/ɡaɪ̯st/), which can translate to "spirit", "mind", "ghost", etc.
 * One of Matt's few "How do I want to do this?" moments happened when Jourrael got the final strike on Obann the Punished. Although it was not the first time an NPC has gotten a final kill, it was the first time Matt used the phrase.