Urata Anlyth

Urata Anlyth, usually known by his nickname Anlee, was a part of the Phoenix Nebula party. He was a part of the Urata Family of the Cinoh Shogunate, helping uplift the family back into relevance before his untimely death.

Anlee was the first 5e player character to ever die in the Curse of the Blood Sea campaign and DoDungeons as a whole, and was replaced in the party by Fek.

Biography

Early Life

Born to human Urata Kanda and an unknown wood elf mother from Xi-Di in Eteru, Anlee grew up as an impoverished fisherman alongside his father Urata Kanda. He was not aware of the history of his family until much later.

His family, the Uratas, descend from an original water genasi ancestor named Urata Nagisa who served as one of the four royal guards of the Aomoya Emperor of the Empire of Cinoh hundreds of years ago. This ancestor forged the legendary katana Suiryuto, which has been passed down the family for generations. The sword had rusted and lost most of its power by Anlee's time.

When he was an adult, Anlee started working as a deckhand on multiple merchant ships that operated out of Port Cinoh. He became friends with a fellow samurai named Haru Kira .In the years leading up to the campaign, he was working on the ship known as The Hisui Maru.

Curse of the Blood Sea

Check the main campaign page for the detailed plot summary.

3E450 - Genso's Plague

The Hisui Maru seemingly abandoned him one day on the Aurian mainland. Then he met Laoch, Sif, Nyx, Elise, and Pete aboad the Teal Star, a merchant ship ferrying them to Port Cinoh. However, they were boarded by Deeprose pirates, and marooned at Tikius. There, they ended up within the service of Pirate Lord Belanar Gullis. They got involved in his investigation into the Deeprose Pirates and their leader, Roonan Deeprose, who seemed to be working with a mysterious 'Dr. Genso' in creating an abyssal plague which threatened Tikius and the rest of the Blood Sea. They also met many people there who would become mainstays later on, such as Xoe, Amari, Rumfuck, and Gary.

While they were on Tikius, the crew also found out about the supervolcanic nature of the island and the elemental who threatened the city, nicknamed Pyrovain. The party was given the repaired Teal Star (renamed the Argent Star) and traveled to Fort Rawan, meeting Commodore Zolen and Dr. Baizo, as well as picking up Shoila and the quetzalcoatlus egg that would later hatch to become Duck Norris. At the Anchorage of Whispers, they met Xaniv the Whisperer for the first time and faced off against Captain Roonan. They defeated him and arrested him, forgave Shoila for her betrayal, but the Deeprose crew escaped on their ship. On their way back to Tikius, the crew came across a meteorite and an aberrant otherworldly monster. At Tikius, they defeated Pyrovain and saved the city.

The crew continued onward towards Port Cinoh while it was hosting the Seven's Carnival. Anlee took everyone to his small home by the seaside where they met his father, Urata Kanda. He sympathized with Anlee, and then gave him the family heirloom, a rusted sword named Suiryuto. They met Monk Kazeshi of the Shidono Temple, as well as Shogun Kagegojuu Iwale who informed them that the Aekai yakuza's leader, Singularity, had kidnapped Dr. Baizo. They traveled to his complex across the island, but ended up learning that his son was possessed by an aberrant demon. They helped him exorcise his son, but had to fight and kill a possessed Singularity. The crew then went back to Port Cinoh, and helped Elise defeat her rival Uragan in a bard-off.

The crew then continued onwards to the island of Yube, where Genso's lab was located. They were ambushed by a juvenile kraken that guarded the island, which destroyed the Argent Star in the fight. Anlee killed the kraken with the rusted Suiryuto out of instinct, which awakend the sword back to its former glory as well as awakening the sea sorcery within him. They then found a wrecked Deeprose, and its crew imprisoned by the Varkanist cultists. They then met the god Vertum, who had been following them for a while in the form of a white albatross. They helped free the crew, and got a heading of Taltigo. The combined crew took over the Deeprose, and renamed it 'the Phoenix Nebula'. At Taltigo, they met Pirate Lord Lady Lyn as well as her assassin, Zai. They worked for her a bit, and then went into the sewers to fight one of the cult leaders, Yulis. He was a tough fight especially for Anlee and Laoch, who both nearly died to him. Laoch was named the first mate under Captain Anlee.

The Nebula then traveled back to Taltigo, where they had the ship repaired. Near Gravesbry, they were arrested by the Crimson Navy and forced to become privateers by Admiral Isabeau who had Anlee sign the contract. At Isla Tumba, they met a young boy named Can who helped them find some treasure- a sealed iron flask. The crew then traveled underwater in a submarine apparatus to meet the storm giant Amohr, who after testing their strength, revealed to them the location of the Black Scroll of Varkun that Genso was after, a temple on Darkgrove Isle. The crew traveled there, where they discovered that Dr. Baizo was Dr. Genso all along, a split personality even he wasn't aware of. The crew managed to defeat him, and decided to return the black scroll to Amohr for safety. They decided to split ways for a while, and Anlee named Laoch the new captain of the Phoenix Nebula during her 18th birthday party.

Anlee then spent the next two years mostly underwater in the Aethian Dominion, discovering his true self and the nature of his sword and sorcery. After many years in Akainii, he learned of the Abyssgate's imminent opening. He headed to Shipwreck City to meet with Pirate Lord Xiphalia Sitarro, who in her paranoia simply imprisoned Anlee.

3E452 - The Abyssgate

After the Tidemeet in Shipwreck City, Laoch and Sif were thrown into the Xiphalia's dungeon after they got wasted. There, they met up with Anlee again, as well as meeting Boz Walarson. They broke out with the help of Elise and Zai, and ran into D'vorah on the way to the Nebula. While escaping Xiphalia's fleet, they summoned the water genie Shah Heswaa el-Majraa from her iron flash prison. She sent them into the Plane of Water, where the crew was imprisoned in Castle Almarjanu by Sultan Mukaz al-Azad. The party made a deal with Heswaa and escaped the water plane after defeating an Aboleth.

The Nebula then ended up near Saturnia (Now Sergorod) and met up with one of Laoch's old spy contacts, Senator Chupov. The crew used his introduction to get into a high-class wedding and meet with lunar officials including Bolt Karboniv. The crew cleared out Pirate Lord Shri Kunala Qrozk's slave operation nearby in the Cove of Cries, and then aimed to get back to Cinoh as they heard about the political upheaval there from Isabeau. On the way, they stopped at Canau and met with Pirate Lord Fenya Cetrovna. While doing a job for her, the party helped the residents of Firewatch Monastery from a zombie invasion caused by a minor abyssgate nearby. D'vorah then started to see visions of the world freezing, the sky turning green, the ocean turning blood-red, and Varkanus visiting and whispering in his head. The god promised him immortality, and D'vorah suspected Anlee of knowing about these visions.

In Cinoh, the crew ended up getting involved in the political machinations of Shogun Aite and Damien Daimao. They teamed up with Prince Miyoshi and traveled to Taiyo & Tsuki, where Elise and Sif got captured by Damien. Anlee met his old friend Haru Kira, and recruited him for the upcoming fights. After rescuing Elise and Sif, they learned that Miyoshi was dead. While traveling back to Port Cinoh, Anlee was called into a room alongisde Boz by Monk Watate. Watate had Anlee medidate on the emotions within Suiryuto. This medidation reconnected Anlee to the memories of his ancestors who forged and used this sword over generations. He learned that his family was one of the guardians of the old Emperor. Everything eventually culminated in a battle within the Cinohan throne room, during which Monk Kazeshi and the others dealt with the Samurai and Yakuza outside the throne room. Damien ended up being killed by D'vorah, much to everyone's surprise. There was a moment when everyone including Monk Watate looked to Anlee and offered him the throne of Cinoh, but he refused. After this, Cinoh was transformed into a constitutional monarchy.

The crew then traveled to the Anchorage of Whispers again to meet with Xaniv, where he finally revealed his truth to the party. Realizing that he is the ultimate villain in all this, the party vowed to kill him. Xaniv then sent hunting horrors after the party in the night, that ended up swallowing and killing Anlee. Elise tried in vain to revive him, but his soul refused to return. Distraught, the party later returned Suiryuto to his father.

Legacy

Anlee's father, Kanda Urata, would also go on to become the Master of Shields within the Cinoh Shogunate's council. Finally having regained the lost honor of the Urata family, his father would honor Anlyth by taking care of Suiryuto and doing what he would have done- Make Cinoh a better place.

Timeline

3E415 - Anlyth is born in Port Cinoh.
3E450 - Anlee is abandoned by The Hisui Maru and gets passage back to Cinoh on a small ship, starting off the events of Curse of the Blood Sea.
3E450 - Anlee reawakens Suiryuto when he takes down a Juvenile Kraken with it. After Act 1, he heads off to Akainii to discover his origins and unlock the true power of Suiryuto.
3E452 - After coming back to the surface, Anlee is arrested by the paranoid pirate lord Xiphalia in Shipwreck City. He is eventually found by the Phoenix Nebula when they too get arrested by her, starting Acts 2 and 3 of the campaign.
3E452 - After saving Cinoh Shogunate from Aite and Damien, Anlee refuses to take the throne. His father becomes the new Master of Defense for the council.
3E452 - Anlee dies in between Tikius and the Anchorage of Whispers, when a hunting horror sent by Xaniv eats him. His soul lets go, refusing revival.