Overview
Nathnelma is a Graveclaw-linked academic operator tied to shipment intake, poison-development records, and major Yled confrontation events.
Current Status
- Captured alive by the party and transferred to Zthni per recorded notes.
Role in Story
- Central bridge between Pagked logistics and high-level Graveclaw technical intent.
- Key source of documentary evidence on poison goals, undead-control intent, and missing ingredient constraints.
Timeline Highlights
- Arrival phase: identified as Yled-based academic recipient of Pagked shipments.
- Action phase: office/home incursions escalate to capture operation.
- Evidence phase: journals and ritual traces expand campaign threat model.
Session Evidence
- Nathnelma is identified as a leader of Graveclaw Coven.
- In Session 33, The Shroud said chemicals manufactured in Pagked were being sent by Carters Consortium to Nathnelma in Yled.
- In Session 33, Nathnelma was described as a professor at The Twilight Castrum.
- In Session 33, Nathnelma was described as a visiting professor who could be removed.
- In Session 34, party notes say the Celebrants asked that Nathnelma be brought back alive if a fight occurred.
- In Session 34, the party broke into Nathnelma’s office and was attacked by taxidermied skulls and wall-mounted mantles.
- In Session 35, the party found Nathnelma’s home address while searching her office.
- In Session 35, the party assaulted Nathnelma’s home, knocked her unconscious, and stabilized her alive.
- In Session 36, party notes identified an interrupted Nathnelma ritual called “Portrait of Spite,” with target identity unknown.
- In Session 36, party notes describe a journal where Nathnelma outlined a poison intended to kill targets and support raising obedient undead.
- In Session 36, party notes say Nathnelma never acquired Shadow Ash, described as the missing final ingredient.
- In Session 36, party notes describe a mirror room in Nathnelma’s house used to scry on people.
- In Session 37, party notes describe a basement encounter at Nathnelma’s home with a locked-room multiheaded undead.
- In Session 37, party notes say Nathnelma was delivered to Zthni of Celebrants.
- In Session 37, party notes said Zthni planned to torture Nathnelma.
Relationships
- Shipment-recipient tie to Carters Consortium goods from Pagked.
- Institutional tie to The Twilight Castrum in Yled.
- Leadership tie to Graveclaw Coven.
Open Questions
- What authority controls Nathnelma’s visiting position?
- What specific role does Nathnelma play in the chemical supply chain?