# Sofia ![[The Rose of Igoda/99 - Attachments/Characters/PCs/Sofia.jpg|627]] > [!info] Public campaign record > This page contains only information revealed at the table or established by campaign artwork. Private player backstory is deliberately excluded. ## Category Player Character / Wild Magic Sorcerer / Traveller ## Appearance Sofia is a young woman with silver-white hair and striking pale eyes. Her clothing is refined but practical, with jewellery and layered travelling clothes that suggest a more privileged background than most of the party. Under magical stress, her appearance and the magic around her can change dramatically. ## Known Facts - Sofia began experiencing involuntary teleportation or "blips" after the Astral storm. - Early in the campaign she appeared and vanished repeatedly around the party before finally remaining with them for longer stretches. - One appearance placed her underwater beneath [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Hy-Soran|Hy-Soran]], where [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Asher|Asher]] saved her from drowning. - Sofia has deliberately kept her place of origin and much of her personal history private from the party. - Under pressure, her magic can alter her visibly: her eyes have turned red, her hair has darkened and she has produced an effect that made most of the party unable to look directly at her. - Her wild magic is unstable enough to create unintended effects. During the Bardic Circle infiltration she and [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Votoran|Votoran]] abruptly swapped bodies. - Sofia used Mage Hand to recover the correct key during the mansion's key-room puzzle and found the concealed switch beneath the desk in the hidden study. - In the Valley of Moons, touching one of the floating jellyfish forced her to relive a traumatic memory of **the accident** with overwhelming clarity. - In Elaris she was caught standing in [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07b - Non-Player Characters/Boristov Sokah|Boristov Sokah]]'s office when he unexpectedly returned. - Sofia carried Boristov's preserved white flower through [[The Rose of Igoda/05 - Nations & Regions/Dharan|Dharan]], where the red-speckled growth recoiled from it. - In Session 8, renewed pressure about her past caused a small rain cloud to form above her and drench her. - A second surge of wild magic heated her coin pouch until thirty-nine of her seventy-eight gold pieces melted together into a single solid lump. - When Ahkai kept needling her, Sofia successfully slapped him with Mage Hand. - Sofia finally revealed that she had spent a great deal of time caring for children at an orphanage and discovered that the orphanage was selling them. - She still feels as though she left those children behind. That experience is central to why she wants to protect Rose and stop children being used or sold. - She still has **not** told the party where she comes from or the full story behind the orphanage. - At the Berran checkpoint near the docks, Sofia helped sell the group's cover story and later overheard fragments of the argument between the civilian-looking informant and a city guard. - At the [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Moonlit Bounty|Moonlit Bounty]], Sofia's intimidation helped drive the demanded passage price down dramatically. - **Player-visible memory, not established as party knowledge:** during Session 9 Sofia relives more of her journey after the incident — travelling by ship to Reskium, seeing a newspaper report she knew referred to her, travelling south with Marta and Ben before finding most of her coin gone, and feeling unsafe while alone in Jitsu village. - The memory ends after she leaves the road for woodland beside a huge body of water. Beneath a purple storm, lightning strikes a distant red glow; as the resulting blast washes over her, Sofia finally releases her own emotions and the woodland disappears with her. - Sofia recognises several of Ahkai’s Torraxian spices as familiar, though she does not explain why to the others. - During the storm fight with Edgar, fire sends Sofia into severe panic. Her panicked Shatter damages Edgar but also destroys the Moonlit Bounty’s mast lashings. - Edgar later drops Sofia with his rapier; Votoran brings her back with Cure Wounds. ## Current Personal Threads - Understand and gain control over her unstable wild magic. - Understand her connection to the [[The Rose of Igoda/10 - Threats & Phenomena/The Popping|Popping]]. - Live with the guilt surrounding the children from the orphanage and decide what she can still do about it. - Understand the accident and why the Valley of Moons forced her to relive it. - Help protect [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07b - Non-Player Characters/Rose|Rose]] without revealing more of her own past than she is ready to share. - Help find the additional Roses of Igoda Rose says she needs. ## Popping History - Sofia was repeatedly glimpsed appearing and disappearing during the early sessions. - She appeared underwater beneath Hy-Soran and nearly drowned. - She later popped back into the active group and remained with the party through Sessions 5-8. ## Connected Factions - The party - The unidentified people responsible for the orphanage trafficking operation ## Connected Items - [[The Rose of Igoda/09 - Items, Artifacts & Documents/Rose of Igoda - White Flower|The preserved white flower]] recovered from Boristov Sokah's office - The melted block formed from thirty-nine gold pieces during her Session 8 wild-magic surge ## Connected Places - [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Hy-Soran|Hy-Soran]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Berran|Berran]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/05 - Nations & Regions/Dharan|Dharan]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/The Archer and Cask|The Archer and Cask]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/The Docks|The Docks]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Moonlit Bounty|Moonlit Bounty]] ## Connected Characters - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Asher|Asher]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Votoran|Votoran]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07b - Non-Player Characters/Rose|Rose]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07b - Non-Player Characters/Boristov Sokah|Boristov Sokah]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Tilly|Tilly]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Ahkai|Ahkai]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07b - Non-Player Characters/Kephri|Kephri]] ## Open Questions - What is the true nature of Sofia's wild magic? - Why did the storm begin pulling her through the Popping? - What exactly happened during the accident? - Where is Sofia actually from? - Who was responsible for selling children from the orphanage? - Are those events connected in any way to Rose's kidnapping, or are they a separate crime? - Why can Sofia's appearance and even other people's perception of her change under stress? ## Character Arc Notes Sofia's story is increasingly about control: control over her magic, control over what she reveals and control over whether the past is allowed to follow her. Session 8 is the first time she voluntarily gives the group a meaningful reason for why protecting Rose matters so much to her. She does not tell them everything. She does, however, give them enough for Tilly to stop pushing. That is a meaningful shift from secrecy towards trust without erasing Sofia's boundaries. ## Current Status Aboard the [[The Rose of Igoda/08 - Locations/Moonlit Bounty|Moonlit Bounty]] with Ahkai and Votoran at the end of [[The Rose of Igoda/13 - Session Notes/Session 09 - The Moonlit Bounty Stowaway|Session 09]]. Sofia has been revived after Edgar dropped her, is conscious again, and is facing the immediate crisis created by the fire, storm and damaged mast. Tilly is temporarily absent through the Popping. ## Artwork ![[The Rose of Igoda/99 - Attachments/Characters/PCs/Sofia - Character Study 01.png|760]] ![[The Rose of Igoda/99 - Attachments/Characters/PCs/Sofia - Character Study 02.png|760]] ## Navigation - [[The Rose of Igoda/07 - Characters/07a - Player Characters/Player Characters Index|Player Characters]] - [[The Rose of Igoda/00 - Home & Navigation/Campaign Home|Campaign Hub]]