"My name is Sif. Sif. I'm Sif."
—Violette, giving Sif her voice.
Sif the Kenku was a part of the Phoenix Nebula party. She served as the ship's first mate, and was briefly the Pirate Lord of Greed when the Abyssgate opened at the end of Curse of the Blood Sea.
After the campaign, Sif was one of the two PCs to continue to stay aboard the Nebula as well as the Rummery, alongside Laoch Redfield.
Biography
Early Life
Sif was born in the streets of Taltigo, growing up as an urchin within the city. She was taken in as an orphan by the haunted orphanage known as the Walls, which was a converted prison. She grew up around spirits, eventually learning how to commune and control them.
One of the highlights of Sif's stay at the orphanage was her half-elven caretaker Violette, who taught Sif language and lent the kenku her own voice.
After growing up and becoming a thief, Sif started to use her ill-gotten gains to fund the Lilypad Home for Children in the city she grew up in. Her travels took her across the Blood Sea, from the Lunar Sea to the Jasivian Sea.
Curse of the Blood Sea
Check the main campaign page for the detailed plot summary.
3E450 - Genso's Plague
After spending some time on the Aurian mainland, she met Anlee, Laoch, 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, Sif met an elderly kenku named Snort who mistook her for his granddaughter. 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. There, 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. They also found a wrecked Deeprose, and its crew imprisoned by the Varkanist cultists. 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 Sif went to check up on the Lilypad Orphange that she funded. They learned that one of the tiefling children was kidnapped for a sacrificial ritual by the Varkanus Cult. They then went into the sewers to fight one of the cult leaders, Yulis. Sif and Nyx faced off against the cultists and saved the child while the others dealt with Yulis.
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. 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, and there 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.
Sif would spend the next two years alongside Laoch and the rest of the crewmembers as a privateer working for the Crimson Navy, under the now-promoted Grand Admiral Isabeau. They also took over the rest of Roonan's estate, including the Deeprose Rummery that they refurbished into the Silver Songbird Rummery. They even started her own rum brand, called Nebula Rum.
3E452 - The Abyssgate
After the Tidemeet in Shipwreck City, Sif and Laoch were thrown into the paranoid Pirate Lord Xiphalia Sitarro'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.
In Cinoh, the crew ended up getting involved in the political machinations of Shogun Aite and Damien Daimao. While investigating his compound, Elise, Sif, and Prince Miyoshi were captured by Damien who then executed the prince. This all eventually culminated in a battle within the Cinohan throne room. After Damien's death, Cinoh was transformed into a constitutional monarchy. The crew then traveled to the Anchorage of Whispers again to meet with Xaniv, where Sif met Snort again at the end of his life. Xaniv 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 that ended up killing Anlee. They made a trip back to the Rummery and learned more details about the imminent siege of Tikius where they also recruited Fek. The party slapped some sense into Belanar and put up a successful defense of Tikius against Volnaxokaaz and Grand Admiral Isabeau. After the battle, Belanar entrusted Sif with the Piece of Greed, naming her the new Pirate Lord of Greed. She was blindsided by this sudden promotion and responsibility, but enjoyed using the piece of greed's power to create gold.
The Nebula then traveled to Sombus, where they met with Emperor Sombra himself. He pardoned them of their crimes, while asking for their help in return for his help in closing the Abyssgate. The party was to travel to the Lightless Ruins and bring back the artifact Lightclaw. After rescuing Markal Zuriel from the ruins, the party was ambushed by Ballista Aries who they defeated.
When the party decided to reconvene the The Pirate Court at Shipwreck City, they traveled across the Blood Sea and beyond to gather all the pirate lords again as well as locate Xaniv's phylactery. While stealing Xaniv's phylactery from the Astral Sea, Sif claimed a Reaper's Bow from the treasure hoard that also seemingly marked her as a reaper of the death god Ashus. When the pirate court was finally reconvened, Belanar stood beside Sif at her seat at the table and helped her make the decisions that she needed to as the pirate lord.
Sif and the rest of the Nebula then finally sailed into the Abyssgate, defeating the Demon Prince Demogorgon with their combined powers. Xaniv the Whisperer then tried to drain Varkanus' divinity, and the final battle ensued. After the curse was lifted, the crew celebrated and went their separate ways. Sif decided to stay aboard the Nebula alongside Laoch in the end.
After the Abyssgate
Sif spent the rest of her life on Tikius and the Nebula sailing the Blood Sea. While she spent a lot of this time alongisde Laoch, Sif's final fate is unknown. Some claim that she died of old age eventually, while others claim that Greedlord Sif was blown up by a cannon much sooner than that.
Timeline
3E430 - Sif is born in Taltigo.
3E450 - Sif gets passage to Taltigo on a small ship, starting off the events of Curse of the Blood Sea. Alongside Laoch, she is one of the few to remain aboard during the timeskip.
3E452 - Sif gets arrested alongside Laoch by the paranoid Xiphalia Sitarro in Shipwreck City, starting off Acts 2 and 3 of the campaign.
3E491 - Sif dies in a hail of cannonfire at the elderly age of 61.
Gallery
Sif during Act 1 of CotBS (Credit: Shreya)
Pixel Art Evolution (Credit: Daibik)
Sif Robbery 1 (Credit: Shreya)
Laoch's Birthday (Credit: Vijay)
Sif during Acts 1 - 2 of CotBS (Credit: Shreya)
Sif Fullbody (Credit: Vijay)
Phantom Sif (Credit: Shreya)
Sif Robbery 2 (Credit: Shreya)
Sif Moni (Credit: Shreya)
Young Sif with Violette (Credit: Rana)
Sif's bow, the Reaper's Mark (Credit: Aaron)
