Thagwen Drestegen

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Thagwen Drestegen
Player	Denise
Aliases	Gwen
Species	Dragonborn (Gold)
Class	Barbarian Warlock
Alignment	good.....duh!
Gender	Female
Age	24 years
Spells / Abilities	Mage Hand / Prestidigitation / Detect Magic / Counterspell / Dimension Door
Familiars	Kowl
Home	Somewhere around Carnivar
Firstappearance	195: Open Up and Eat the Rainbow!

Thagwen Drestegen (or Gwen) was a Barbarian/Celestial Warlock dragonborn. She was the owner and master confectionary genius at Celestial Confections on Waterside in Morrow's Inlet.

Description

Appearance

Gwen has the sweetest, most gentle disposition, however, she looks a bit... harsh. Her head is like that of a T-Rex or a Velociraptor – piercing eyes, a strong jaw, and sharp, glistening teeth. It can be a bit jarring to some. She has golden scales, and long, pearl white claws. She stands at a whopping 6'10", 255lbs and is built like a brick shit house. She wears slightly revealing white robes with red and gold accents. Her robes have a hood with a golden horn and a rainbow colored mane.

Personality and alignment

Good and Sweet to the core...just watch out for that Rage

Religion

Moondreamer

Abilities and traits

Languages

Common, Draconic

Weapons

Her Lollipop Quarterstaff - there must be something special about it.....

Sticky Bricks

• 195: Open Up and Eat the Rainbow!: Gwen: "Let me go grab some sticky bricks and then we can get going! [...] I'll let you try one of my sticky bricks because they're my speciality. I'm known for them. They have the nice little light and airy crispy bits inside, held together with a delicious, sweet sticky goodness."
• 209: Various Brick Sounds: Moondreamer tells Gwen to check under the pillow on the cot bed in her cell. Gwen does so and finds a purple, glittery cloth pouch sealed by a flap. Reaching into the pouch with excitement, Gwen realises it's magical property: she is able to retrieve one serving of any confection she's ever made. She does so and pulls out a sticky brick.
• 212: Hubbubbada Bubbada!: Gwen gives each of the tunnel workers a sticky brick from her pouch to thank them for their help. The workers recognise the candy, saying "These are good. Didn't someone bring us one of these from the other side of the wall once?" Gwen explains that would have been her; she made those. Batthwack asks the workers not to mention that they've seen them and they agree, saying "Seen who?" Gwen gives them another sticky brick each.
• 215: Do You Hear It Scream When You Close Your Eyes At Night?: Crumplemeyer says he's heard of Gwen's candy store and she offers him a sticky brick, which he gratefully receives.
• 225: The Dead Among You Have Nothing to Fear: Gwen says "I was just gonna make food for everyone. Do you want to stay with us and eat?" Curtis' internal struggle is evident as he pauses and then says "Um, what are you making?" Gwen says she's going to look in the kitchen, but gives him a sticky brick in the meantime, which he gulps down in one.
• 234: The Halter Top of Eyes: Roger invites them in and asks if they'd like some bread and Gwen offers a sticky brick from her purple pouch in return.
• 241: Raphina Phalange and the Pots: Sheemie offers to take first watch and asks how much the pay is. Will scoffs, but Gwen offers him a sticky brick from her magical purple pouch. Sheemie is sceptical about being paid in candy. Will is concerned about how readily Gwen is offering people candy from her magical pouch of dubious origin.
• 244: Saying Someone Sucks Is Evil: Will suddenly realises that Gwen is only carrying a small pouch (the one she was carrying her sticky bricks in) and the magical purple pouch, and nothing else.
• 245: Meesa Mo: Gwen wonders about whether Beartoggle would be a good location for a new candy shop, but is disappointed to hear that they have lots here already. The dock worker says they've never had a sticky brick before though, so perhaps there is a gap in the market.
• 252: The Pied Piper of Puppetry: Gwen wonders if the university offered pole-dancing classes, maybe that would pique people's interest. Will thinks this is genius; you could charge people to take the classes and charge people who just want to watch! You could get paid twice! The dean doesn't want to lose the puppetry, so Raphina suggests using the puppets to demonstrate the stripping. Will begins brain-storming new names for the university, "Sticky bricks... sticky licks?" "Licky bits!" offers Raphina.
• 254: I'll Hug Them Until They Enroll: Gwen offers Mark a sticky brick, which he is very impressed with. She explains that she makes them and used to have a store. Mark says there's a few candy stores in Highground, but he's never tasted anything like this before. He says he might go to the university if you can learn how to make sticky bricks. Raphina's very encouraging.
• 271: Gleb: The party stand in shock, staring at Gwen's body frozen in crystalline form, almost like a statue. Her outstretched hand holds an actual sticky brick, not a crystalline one, and when Raphina takes a closer look and casts Detect Poison and Disease, she finds it is even safe to eat.

Spells / Abilities

Being a dragonborn of gold ancestry, Gwen has a fire breath weapon. Also, apart from having some fairly significant magic-casting ability, Gwen is also apparently a skilled dancer, having worked at the strip club Roladexaroonie

Home

Somewhere around Carnivar

Treasure

Gwen carries a purple, glittery cloth pouch sealed with a flap. Using this pouch she is able to retrieve one serving of any confection she's ever made. This was given to her by Moondreamer while locked in a cell beneath the Tomorrow, Today! office.

Relationships

Allies

• Kowl - Gwen's long-haired snow white kitty with heterochromia
• Aleister Corneo - Gwen's tiefling apprentice at the candy store
• Bella - a friend of Gwen's, although she did describe her as "not the smartest peanut in the turd", to which Bella took great offence.
• Tess - an old acquaintance of Gwen's, apparently from a time when they may have both worked as dancers at the strip club Roladexaroonie.
• Gwen has a patron in the form of a mysterious god-like unicorn called Moondreamer that she communicates with through Kowl.

Enemies

Anyone who is evil.

History

Spoiler warning! This article contains plot details that are still unknown to some members of the cast.

Gwen's clan is from the Carnivar region. The clan's army was very great and she proudly desired to join her father the king and her brother on the battlefield. Unfortunately her clan's strict tradition was that only the males were allowed to fight; as a female, her duty was to cook and provide for the clan and, when old enough, to bear future generations of dragonborn. She was feeling so disenchanted and frustrated by this that when she encountered the mysterious god-like unicorn Moondreamer and was offered powers to allow her to forge her own path, she chose to leave her clan. She wanted to do good in the world and Moondreamer's patronage provided her "a path, a route and an exit from [her] clan to free [her] from nurturing and caring". Doing so must have been a very difficult decision as Gwen would have been well aware that dishonouring her clan in such a way would mean she could never return.

After leaving her home, Gwen was travelling in Six Rivers when a half-orc named Gene Dudas and his wife opened their house to her and allowed her to stay with them for a time. She helped out on their farm growing herbs and vegetables. While she was there, the nearby town was struck by a strange sickness. Gwen discovered that Gene and his wife were poisoning the produce they were selling to the town and offering overpriced "medicinal" herbs to the townsfolk as a cure. Gwen was very upset to learn this and confronted Gene and his wife about it. She tried to be as nice as possible, but they didn't take it well and escalated things. It was at this point that, in Gwen's words, "things just got a little ugly." In the ensuing fight, Gwen's anger got the better of her and she lost control. Gene's arm was ripped off and his wife was killed, though she claimed it was in self-defence. After the fight, Gene left his home and Gwen went back on her travels.

Gwen eventually ended up in Morrow's Inlet, arriving with nothing to her name. To make ends meet, at first she worked as a dancer at Roladexaroonie, where she became friendly with Tess. Having earned enough from that, she then put her talent at cooking to use and started her own candy store business as "master confectionary genius" at Celestial Confections on Waterside. Gwen wrote to her mom, but never received a reply, not knowing whether she had even received the letters.

It's during this time that the party first meet her. The group were in possession of a locked book that she is very interested in, as she's been studying the gnomish symbols on it's lock using another book. Gwen gave a clue to her past life as royalty when Will offers the party a change of appearance, joking "Anyone else want to look like they have a crown?" and Gwen replies "Been there, done that, thank you!" However, she does later state she's never been called a princess, nor does want to be one, and she doesn't wear a crown. A little while later, Gwen used the knowledge she'd gained of the symbols to help the party unlock the book, which depicted Dew's missing family locked in cages. She also also made reference to her brother, stating "My brother always had really good plans, so I kind of learned from him"

When Moondreamer appears to Gwen in her cell beneath the Tomorrow, Today! office Gwen apologises that she hasn't had a chance to "wield [Moondreamer's] might" and promises to accompany the party to make amends. Moondreamer also gives Gwen a magical pouch from which she can pull any kind of candy or sweet treat she chooses. However when she later contacts Moondreamer again for advice, they disconcertingly have no recollection of the earlier conversation, suggesting that it must have been an imposter who spoke to her in her cell.

Some time later when the party were exploring Beartoggle, she recognised Gene, the half-orc whose arm she'd ripped off, who was selling herbs at a stall in the Scarlet Market. The two recognised each other and Gene, utterly terrified, tried to make his escape. Batthwack gave chase, grappling Gene before he could get away. This time however, there was no fight. Gene promised to leave the city and Gwen agreed to let him go. Having seen how scared Gene was of her, Gwen was forced to tell Batthwack the story of their previous encounter, but asked that he reveal this to no-one else for fear of what they might think of her.

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