Escalla
| Escalla | |
|---|---|
| General info | |
| Home: | Flanaess |
| Former home: | Plane of Faerie |
| Alignment: | Chaotic neutral |
| Gender: | Female |
| Species: | Fey |
| Ethnicity: | Pixie (faerie) |
| Class: | Wizard 10 (Evocation) |
The pixie wizard Escalla is a major character in three novels and a short story written by Pauli Kidd.
Description
[edit | edit source]Appearance
[edit | edit source]Escalla resembles an elven woman, but she is only eighteen inches tall and has insectlike wings. Many of her spells are bee-themed, but she's not averse to the occasional impetuously-aimed fireball. She frequentoly wears immodest outfits or, very often, none at all.
Personality
[edit | edit source]Escalla is vain, overconfident, dishonest, and greedy. She is also brilliant, irrepressible, and lovable.
Abilities
[edit | edit source]As is normal for pixies/faeries, Escalla can fly, polymorph self, and charm person.[1]
Possessions
[edit | edit source]Though the following items are not necessarily found in the novels, in the game statistics for Escalle[1], she owns staff of frost, ring of charm resistance, +5 ring of defense, portable hole, and pendant of contihnual flame.
Relationships
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[edit | edit source]Escalla's companions include the Justicar, his sentient hellhound pelt Cinders, the young soldier Private Henry, the sphinx Enid, the badger Polk. Escalla is deeply and obviously in love with the Justicar, the fire to his ice, and neither is willing to live without the other. She and Enid are fast friends, and she is friends with Henry and Polk as well. Cinders adores her.
Other acquaintances
[edit | edit source]History
[edit | edit source]Escalla was a princess of the fey who went into self-imposed exile in the Material Plane, searching for adventure. After the Justicar was forced to take her on a journey at swordpoint, there was no getting rid of her. She's adventured with Jus and their other companions into White Plume Mountain, the Underdark, and the Demonweb Pits.
Creative origins
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[edit | edit source]- Kidd, Pauli. Descent into the Depths of the Earth. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000. (ISBN 0-7869-1635-4).
- ———. "The Heroes of "Decent into the Depths of the Earth"." Dragon #290. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- ———. "Keoland Blues." Dragon #278. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
- ———. Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001. (ISBN 0-7869-1903-5).
- ———. White Plume Mountain. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1999. (ISBN 0-7869-1424-6).
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escalla | Non-player character | Female, Faerie, [3e M10], | Dragon magazine #278 | 78, 79, 80, 81, 82 |
| Escalla | Non-player character | Female, Faerie, [3e M10], | Dragon magazine #290 | 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88 |