Farvex Dusk

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System: D&D 5.5e
Played: April 25, 2026 to present
Sessions: 3
Status: alive

Farvex Dusk, going by the stage name Vex, was my character in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. He was a stage magician, performing acts of real magic for the entertainment of the non-magical masses. He dressed in a purple suit and had a top hat that was bigger on the inside than the outside, which he’d pull things out of as part of his performances. His parents were traveling merchants and, being used to life on the road, he’d wander from town to town to perform.

His magic came from the archfey Zybilna who had appeared in his dreams at a young age, and granted him magical powers as long as he used them for good. And that he did, not only bringing joy and awe to the crowds with his magic, but also using it to fight any evil he’d encounter on the roads or in the villages.

As part of the hook for the adventure, he’d once snuck into the magical Witchlight Carnival as a child. How could he not? After all, there was no carnival more legendary than that mysterious fey event, appearing only every eight years and bringing the wonders of the Feywild to the Material Plane. But he had snuck in without a ticket, and was caught performing magic tricks for a small crowd. As punishment, he was thrown out and lost his ability to come up with new magic tricks. He could still learn new spells, but could never seem to put them together into proper stage acts.

At the start of the campaign, Vex had felt his patron’s presence dimming in his mind for some time. He received a letter from a fellow warlock of Zybilna, urgently calling for his help with a mysterious errand. Attached to the letter was a poster from the Witchlight Carnival. He realized it was eight years since its last appearance, and the carnival would return any day now.

In terms of game mechanics, Vex was a human archfey warlock. With Pact of the Tome and Magic Initiate, he had more spells than the party’s wizard when we started out, and all of them focused on social interaction.

Except eldritch blast, of course.