Dinia

🔈 (DIN-ee-ah)

Dinia is a bard, lore-keeper, guide, and hermit. For many years, she lived alone in the mountains near Blacksilver Peak, north of the Northern Provinces of the Chardonian Empire. She keeps and remembers many stories of the past, acting as an informal oral historian of the lost kingdoms, especially Amani, destroyed during and after the Great War.

She is a bent old woman, usually bundled in heavy furs, who moves slowly but deliberately through the high peaks. Her home near Blacksilver Peak is a warm, hidden cave that seems larger inside than outside, a place of food, shelter, stories, and practical warnings against the mountain’s dangers. She is strange and old-fashioned in manner, but not vague or helpless; she knows the glacier, the storms, the hidden paths, and the old things that still linger above the tree line.

She is friendly to travelers and enjoys speaking and sharing stories with strangers, though while she offers shelter, guidance, and healing in the high mountains, she also expects those who ask for help to do concrete work in return.

Recently, she has moved out of the high peaks, and now runs a refuge and hall of stories with Brelith on the western slopes of the Fiatara Mountains, where those displaced by the dissolution of the Northern Provinces and the break with the Chardonian Empire can find safety and peace.

Campaign Interactions

• Jul 22, 1747 DR: The Silver Tempests met Dinia on Blacksilver Peak while searching for Airion’s Floating Tower. She agreed to guide them if they killed an abominable yeti troubling the mountain.
• Jul 23, 1747 DR: Dinia’s guidance helped the party cross the glacier and find the approach to Airion’s tower.
• Jul 24, 1747 DR: After the party recovered the Skyborn Scroll, Dinia again sheltered them and told them more of northern history, including the story of Azzan, Ikos, the Great War, and Chardon’s abandonment of the Northern Kingdoms after the war.
• Jan 12, 1748 DR: Dinia discovered that Airion’s Floating Tower had vanished after a great storm and strange lights, and sent word to the Silver Tempests.
• Aug 07, 1748 DR: Dinia was among the old friends who came to Tempest Towers for the opening of The Hero’s Feast.
• Jul 16, 1748 DR to Aug 17, 1748 DR: Dinia cared for Mabist after they woke in her cottage without clear memories of their past. When the Havoc Host attacked, she ordered Mabist to flee through a secret passage.
• Aug 24, 1748 DR: The Silver Tempests found Dinia in flooded caverns near Suwi, under the psychic control of Ithu’rax. After the aboleth was killed, Dinia returned to herself and took charge of caring for the recovering slime servants.