Imogen Temult

 is a human sorcerer and a member of the Campaign Three adventuring party. She is played by Laura Bailey.

Appearance
When she first appears, Imogen is introduced as a young, human woman with long, light-purple hair. She wears a light blue dress and has a yellow scarf tied around her neck. On occasion, when she employs her magic, her eyes briefly flash with white energy, and magical electricity appears to course through her arms.

Personality
Imogen speaks with a Southern American accent. She is generally kind and rather soft-spoken, but will advocate for herself when she believes that she is being treated unfairly. She has also proven herself to be a quick thinker, a smooth talker, and a competent strategist.

Imogen is a reserved and reclusive person, shying away from crowds and preferring not to draw attention to herself; Laura Bailey described Imogen as "an attentive, small-town girl" who is "reserved and thoughtful". This is due, in some part, to her ability to hear the thoughts of others: when surrounded by larger numbers of people, opening her mind runs the risk of inviting increasingly dissonant whispers that cloud, and often inundate, her consciousness. She has never been on a date because she would be aware of all her partner's thoughts and it would be too uncomfortable.

She is curious about the origins of her magic and wants to learn more about her powers, which she finds overwhelming and occasionally struggles to control.

Background
Imogen's home village is Gelvaan (where her father still lives), a place with green fields of tall grass in a plateau valley in the Taloned Highlands. When speaking about her home and her father, she said that she thought he was probably happier now that she had gone since her growing telepathic gifts had made life difficult for both of them, creating distance both between each other and the townspeople. Prior to leaving Gelvaan, Imogen worked for Master Faramore, who owned several stores. She also worked in stables with a boy named Samuel. She had only been in Jrusar for about a month before meeting the rest of the Campaign Three adventuring party. She has recurring nightmares about a terrifying red storm.

Campaign Three
After running into roadblocks in their attempt to gain access to the Starpoint Conservatory, Imogen and her companion Laudna responded to a dangerous magical disturbance in the streets of Jrusar, joining two other small groups. The combined group's effectiveness earned them introductions to Lord Eshteross, who offered to make connections for Imogen and Laudna if the group of adventurers proved capable of helping him clean up problems in the city. For their trial task, they investigated potential thefts at one of Eshteross's warehouses.  After dining at Lord Eshteross's estate and indulging in a round of drinks at the Spire by Fire Inn, Imogen and Laudna returned to their home in the Windowed Wall. As she slept, Imogen dreamed that she was standing in a grassy field in her hometown of Gelvaan, alongside her horse. The idyllic scene abruptly transitioned to a familiar storm of swirling, hungry red clouds, and a voice urged her to flee. Sprinting in the direction of her home, she saw a refined older gentleman who - as Bertrand Bell lay bleeding out in an alleyway - proudly walked towards the tempest and disappeared into the storm.

 Lord Eshteross was able to provide Imogen with a letter granting her access to the grounds and libraries of the Starlight Conservatory. She began her research, and learned that dreams of a red storm much like hers had been documented across Exandria, and that reports seemed to increase closer to the celestial solstice. When reading one study, she noticed one of the subjects had been her mother, Liliana Temult.

 Imogen has a dream in which she sees her mother, Liliana, telling her to "Run. Run Far."

Laudna

 * &rarr; Main article: Relationship between Imogen and Laudna

Imogen is Laudna's closest ally, whom Laudna met while she was in Imogen's town a couple of years ago. They "hit it off real well" and decided to start traveling together. They share a goal: to try to enter one of the conservatories located in the Spires so Imogen can do research. They have been staying together in Jrusar with their landlady, Zhudanna.

Abilities
Imogen has a homebrewed ability, Open Mind, where she has constant, passive access to other people's thoughts. She normally suppresses this ability, but using this feature mechanically represents her lowering her guard against these thoughts and allowing herself to hear them.


 * Open Mind: Imogen attempts to read another's thoughts, similar to casting Detect Thoughts. She makes a Wisdom saving throw based on how many people are within 30 feet of her, and if she fails she makes Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration at disadvantage for the rest of the day.

Feats

 * Telekinetic
 * Telekinetic Shove
 * Cantrip: Mage Hand (the hand is invisible)

Sorcerer abilities

 * Sorcerous Origin: Aberrant Mind
 * Psionic Spells
 * Telepathic Speech
 * Font of Magic
 * Sorcery Points: 5
 * Flexible Casting
 * Metamagic
 * Twinned Spell
 * Distant Spell

Psionic spells
Imogen can replace these spells with any divination or enchantment spell of the same level when she gains a level, so she may not know all of these spells.

Cantrips

 * Mind Sliver

1st level

 * Dissonant Whispers
 * Shock Flare

2nd level

 * Calm Emotions
 * Detect Thoughts

3rd level

 * Hunger of Hadar
 * Sending

Cantrips

 * Dancing Lights
 * Prestidigitation
 * Shocking Grasp

1st level

 * Catapult
 * Mage Armor
 * Witch Bolt

2nd level

 * Blindness/Deafness
 * Misty Step
 * Tasha's Mind Whip

Behind the scenes
After playing the outgoing Jester Lavorre in Campaign Two, Laura Bailey said that playing a "reserved and thoughtful" character like Imogen was difficult. She wanted Imogen to be constantly bombarded by other people's thoughts, thus she and Matt developed her Open Mind ability to mechanically represent Imogen trying to wall herself off from hearing them at all times.

Quotations

 * (to Bertrand, after his death) "I'm glad the noise has stopped for you. I'm glad you're at peace."
 * "Everyone, everything, is just so much. But -- and it's the same sort of feeling that I had with Laudna the first time I met her. It was there, she was there, but she was almost like a different... a different pitch than everybody else. It was musical, it wasn't painful like everybody else."

Trivia

 * Some fans have compared Imogen, who is stated to be human descriptively and mechanically, to kalashtar. Kalashtar are a psychic people in the Eberron setting created from the merging of humans and quori spirits. They are telepathic and their eyes often glow while concentrating or experiencing strong emotion.
 * Laura suggested on Twitter that Imogen has purple hair because Laura owns a purple wig.
 * Imogen's accent is similar to the one Laura Bailey previously used as Xoti in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.
 * The animation on her stat card features lightning flashing through thick clouds.
 * Imogen is terrified of Jrusar's cable cars connecting the spires.
 * Imogen's favorite mare at her home in Gelvaan was named "Flora".