Caelumn

B-class article · First seen: s2 · Last seen: s17
Caelumn
Callum · Calum · Calem
Caelumn — portrait.
Character
StatusAlive
First seens2
Last seens17
PlayerToby
FactionPlatinum Order, Sevryn's recruits

Caelumn is a draconic-bloodline sorcerer played by Toby since session 2. He hails from Vhal’Zarim and is associated with the Platinum Order in a status that is best described as “former or rejected initiate” - per his own session-9 admission, “I may not have been found worthy by the majority of the people within the Platinum Order, but my mentor always had faith in me” [6]. Caelumn carries a draconic bloodline tied to Bahamut’s flame; exact dragon type unresolved (per DM ruling, post-s17 - do not confirm red). His fire-themed spell list (Firebolt, Produce Flame, Fireball, Chromatic Orb) sits awkwardly with the metallic-Bahamut imagery of the Platinum Order, an unresolved character contradiction. He is the bearer of the Soulbinder’s Packed Ring, which currently houses the soul of Maelis Dirn (s7) and an owlbear soul (s11). He is the canonical recipient of the campaign’s most disastrously memorable spell-action - igniting a spore-filled chamber with Produce Flame and downing himself in the resulting fireball [3] - and is the holder of the campaign’s most critically successful Intimidation, three natural twenties in a row at the Dawn Mercy Clinic [7]. His backpack, including The Egg, was stolen by an Aurelian chain attack in session 15.

Appearance and personality

Caelumn carries himself in a pompous, religious-draconic cadence — the persistent voice of a true believer. His combat patter is drawn entirely from a single class fantasy: “I shall fire a firebolt.” “I cast Mage Armor.” “Defiler!” “I am a Draconic Sorcerer” [4]. The fire-only spell list reads as both deliberate flavour choice and tonal commitment.

He is also the table’s most reliable comic instrument. His self-deprecation about his own bad rolls is practically scriptural, and his asides — “Hello, sorry I was muted, um, so I’m eating a burger” [16], “I want to have a look around the room, but it’s fucking pointless because I’m exhausted because Nick’s a dick” [17], recurring), “I just fucking cast fireball on us” [3] after the spore-chamber detonation), “Show me on the doll where he touched you” (recurring dark joke) — give the table its second-most-quoted bench. Post-session-15 he picked up the descriptor “heretic” — “Now I’m the heretic. Great. heretic.” [18] — and leaned into it for s16: “I’m just a believer in the holy word” [19].

His draconic-ancestry scales appear visibly during stress; he showed them to Phil Flowerforge in s12 mid-bead-of-sweat.

Background

From Vhal’Zarim, the Bastion of the Platinum Flame — Bahamut’s cathedral-fortress city. His association with the Platinum Order is partial and unresolved. His one explicit in-fiction description of the relationship was delivered to the Black Vein Quarry specters under duress: “I may not have been found worthy by the majority of the people within the Platinum Order, but my mentor always had faith in me” [6].

Two narrative threads sit awkwardly together: the Bahamut-aligned Platinum Order is doctrinally metallic-dragon, and Caelumn’s chromatic / fire-only spell list is the precise tonal opposite. The contradiction is not yet developed in-fiction beyond personal flashbacks. The campaign bible flags it as an unresolved character thread.

Build history

  • s2-current: Sorcerer, Draconic Bloodline subclass, fire-themed. Caelumn carries a draconic bloodline tied to Bahamut’s flame; exact dragon type unresolved (per DM ruling, post-s17 - do not confirm red). Spell list is flavour-locked to fire and radiant-adjacent damage; the player’s stated intent is “he just wants to be a fire dragon” (per Chris’s confirmation).
  • Level 4 at end of s14.

Equipment

  • Dragonslayer Longsword — attuned in s3 from the haul at Sunset is Nigh’s lair.
  • Soulbinder’s Packed Ring — looted in s7 after the Titan crushed Maelis Dirn. Currently houses Maelis Dirn’s soul (s7) and one owlbear soul (s11, fourth-level slot).
  • Charlatan’s Die — picked up in s8 from the dropped succubus loot.
  • Bloodwell Vial — gifted by Sevryn in session 11; restores sorcery points on a charge.
  • Backpack contents (lost s15): The Egg, the crooked broom, healing potions, and gold. The backpack was stolen by Aurelian forces in s15 [11]; the contents’ exact current location is unknown. Per the DM, the candied dentures had already been returned to Uncle Nibblecheek before the s15 backpack snare and were not in the pack at the time of the theft.

Campaign role

Caelumn has been at the table since session 2, original five-person party at the Hollow Hall Tavern. Across the campaign:

  • s3: receives a vision on Edvan’s burial mound at Wyrmbough Grove; first attunes the Dragonslayer Longsword from Sunset is Nigh’s hoard.
  • s4: present in the Black Mask black-void audience alongside Hugo and Terry. A crow appeared at his window after the audience — possibly a Black Mask familiar, possibly otherwise.
  • s5: detonates a spore-filled chamber with Produce Flame and goes unconscious in his own fireball — “I just fucking cast fireball on us” [3].
  • s7: loots the Soulbinder’s Packed Ring after the Titan kills Maelis Dirn; lights Harvo’s pyre two sessions later.
  • s9: at the Black Vein Quarry crystal chamber, declares Platinum Order origin in a forced confession — “I may not have been found worthy … but my mentor always had faith in me” [6]. Nearly killed by max-HP-draining ghost touch attacks. Says burial rites at Harvo’s pyre.
  • s10: rolls three natural twenties in a row on Intimidation under advantage and inspiration at the Dawn Mercy Clinic, breaking orderly Drew, who confesses the Aurelian abduction of Mira Hale [7]. The conspiracy thread cracks open here.
  • s11: airlifted out of an owlbear engagement by Hugo’s Winged Boots; captures one owlbear’s soul in the Soulbinder’s Packed Ring at fourth-level slot.
  • s12: revealed his draconic scales to Phil Flowerforge mid-confession; was fed into the Candy Cottage taffy puller, transformed into soft elastic taffy [9].
  • s13: triggered the Gummy Mummy ambush by grabbing a coin from the rock-candy library; cursed by the Mummy’s bite (max-HP-degradation 3d6/24h until death).
  • s14: airlifted unconscious up the basement-tunnel stairs by Hugo; cured of the Mummy curse by Uncle Nibblecheek in the bluffed mercy. Failed the save against Nibblecheek’s mass-charm and became Nibblecheek’s eternal servant for several rounds before the bluff resolved and the curse lifted.
  • s15: backpack including the Egg and the broom (plus healing potions and gold) stolen by an Aurelian chain attack during the smoke flight [11]. Per the DM, the candied dentures had already been returned to Uncle Nibblecheek before the snare and were not in the pack at the time of the theft. Targeted by Mharos’s direct attack (“Remember. You did this”, [20], saved only by Vasquez’s Mage Slayer once-per-day fail-to-succeed.
  • s16: down twice in the sewer combats; failed two death saves to a ghoul bite; survived by margin. Did not attune the Hat of Disguise (Vasquez did). At session end, on the skiff toward White Lantern Shrine.
  • s17: in his cleric-presenting register Caelumn mended Nella’s torn fishing-boat sail [13] — the spell was Mike’s Mending cantrip via the Mizzium Apparatus in fact, but Caelumn’s pious bearing was the cover story Nella accepted. Used his bonus action Innate Sorcery to open the s17 combat, then cast a 2nd-level Chromatic Orb (thunder) on a wounded water wolf for 24, bouncing for another 22 on a second wolf [21]. The headline moment came on Round 2: a second 2nd-level Chromatic Orb on a small wolf landed with a doubled damage roll, triggered the thunder-bounce mechanic, and the bounce attack itself came up nat 20 [15] for a one-shot 52-damage kill on the smallest wolf — Caelumn’s biggest single-turn damage ever and the highest-rolled crit in transcript so far. Bloodwell Vial available for sorcery-point recovery. Spent Heroic Inspiration on the initial frost-eruption surprise Dex save (rerolled a nat 1 to a 4; still failed; landed prone; [22].

Status at session 17

Alive. Aboard the skiff, mid-combat against the Rimeclaw Skulker and surviving water wolves. Innate Sorcery active. Standing over the wolf he just one-shot with the double-nat-20 Chromatic Orb [15]. Bloodwell Vial held. Soulbinder’s Packed Ring still held, still containing Maelis’s soul + 1 owlbear soul.

Player

Played by Toby throughout. Direct evidence per the s7 transcript line “great job recapping, Toby” while Speaker 1 was recapping. No absences.

Notable quotes

“I am Calem, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” — Caelumn, [1]

“I have utmost faith.” — Caelumn, [2]

“I just fucking cast fireball on us.” — Caelumn, [3]

“I’m a draconic sorcerer.” — Caelumn, [23]

“Forbidden knowledge, does it not tempt you?” — Caelumn, [24]

“I want to have a look around the room, but it’s fucking pointless because I’m exhausted because Nick’s a dick.” — Caelumn, [17] (recurring)

“I call upon my draconic ancestors and I say no fuck you you missed that’s what I have to say to that fuck you no” — Caelumn, [25]

“I may not have been found worthy by the majority of the people within the Platinum Order, but my mentor always had faith in me.” — Caelumn, [6]

“Now I’m the heretic. Great. heretic.” — Caelumn, [18]

“I’m just a believer in the holy word.” — Caelumn, [19]

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 2, line 296 — First introduction, "I am Calem, it's a pleasure to meet you".
  2. ^ Session 3, line 348 — I have utmost faith.
  3. ^ Session 5, line 572 — Fireball self-down via Produce Flame in spore chamber.
  4. ^ Session 6, line 1017 — I am a Draconic Sorcerer..
  5. ^ Session 7, line 972-995 — Looted Soulbinder's Packed Ring after Titan/Maelis Dirn fight.
  6. ^ Session 9, line 1190-1192 — Platinum Order mentor confession.
  7. ^ Session 10, line 648 — Three nat-20 Intimidation rolls break orderly Drew at Dawn Mercy Clinic.
  8. ^ Session 11, line 1572 — Captures owlbear soul in Soulbinder's Packed Ring at fourth-level slot.
  9. ^ Session 12, line 1325 — Fed into the taffy puller in the Candy Cottage.
  10. ^ Session 14, line 837 — Egg fails to resonate with Brioche; Caelumn draws the contradiction.
  11. ^ Session 15, line 500-504 — Backpack including the Egg stolen by Aurelian chain in smoke.
  12. ^ Session 16, line 1467-1469 — Two death-save fails to ghoul bite; survived.
  13. ^ Session 17, line 912 — Mends Nella's torn fishing-boat sail (cleric/divine; safe under Aurelia's arcane-magic ban).
  14. ^ Session 17, line 1538 — Perception 20 spots landfall and the Aurelian tower to the south at the morning of Day 2.
  15. ^ Session 17, line 1937-1944 — Double-nat-20 second-level Chromatic Orb (thunder) bounce kill on a water wolf — 52 damage, headline mechanical moment of the session.
  16. ^ Session 5, line 1640 — Inline citation.
  17. ^ Session 6, line 2775 — Inline citation.
  18. ^ Session 15, line 142 — Inline citation.
  19. ^ Session 16, line 113 — Inline citation.
  20. ^ Session 15, line 482 — Inline citation.
  21. ^ Session 17, line 1722-1740 — Inline citation.
  22. ^ Session 17, line 1579-1584 — Inline citation.
  23. ^ Session 6, line 1997 — Inline citation.
  24. ^ Session 6, line 2185 — Inline citation.
  25. ^ Session 9, line 2722 — Inline citation.