to put into perspective how long I've been procrastinating this post, this was originally saved in my drafts as "Syby lore post because my campaign is ending this week!!!!" (that campaign ended back in June)
I'm not sure how many people are/will be interested in my pathetic little dnd character's tragic little love story (to say she is a disaster lesbian is an understatement), but it'll be below the cut :)
Sybil started out as an orphan on Darktow. Scrawny and just generally weird, she essentially fended for herself until she grew up to become a pirate, but her first crew she joined had been wiped out by an unexpected sea serpent attack. (That's how she lost her tail.)
Luckily for Sybil, she was rescued by another passing pirate crew. They fished her out of the water, figuring that disaster had hit, and Wetherby convinced Captain Covell to have mercy on her. He begrudgingly let her join the crew.
Covell was not very nice to Sybil, though. She was also not very keen on his general cruelty towards others. Still, she stayed—she was grateful that Wetherby stood up for her. They were quick to develop feelings and eventually became a couple.
But Sybil growing tired of Covell's tyranny. She came up with a plan to overthrow him and take over the ship, and with Wetherby's help, they made an attempt at mutiny—but it failed.
Sybil managed to escape, but in the chaos, she left Wetherby behind. She decided not to turn back, though, and fled across the continent, away from the Menagerie Coast and away from the Revelry.
She did not know what happened to Wetherby, but she felt guilty nonetheless. She ran for months, barely surviving with just her weapons and the clothes on her back, until she reached Asarius on the other side of the continent, where she met with an odd group of lost souls (with whom she would join their adventuring party named Requiem to lead a quest to save the world, but that's not what this post is about).
During their quest, they encountered Wetherby again—on the enemy side of an ambush in an alleyway. But during the battle, she betrayed her group of attackers and joined the fight on Requiem's side. After the battle had been won, an awkward (and slightly angry and violent) reunion between Sybil and Wetherby revealed that Covell nearly had Wetherby's head after the mutiny, but he'd evidently decided to spare her. Worse news for them yet was that in the time that Sybil had been gone, Covell had earned the title of Plank King, so now he was the leader of an entire pirate army (yikes).
Wetherby offered her aid to Requiem, telling them to travel to Darktow—that they could find something there to help take down their enemies. She led them back across Wildemount, headed west towards the coast.
A couple weeks' worth of shenanigans ensued. Some team bonding happened, we learned that Wetherby was a chaotic bitch. Wetherby was also apparently not mad enough at Sybil to Not sleep with her in a dark, echoing tunnel 20 feet from the party's camp. At one point during their journey, Wetherby had been severely injured in a fight against a troll. Instead of flying down to be healed, she stubbornly flew higher up out of earshot. In a silly joking manner, Sybil fired a warning shot with her pistol to try and get her to come down. It worked a little too well and she ended up hitting Wetherby directly—shooting her out of the sky.
Player's note: My DM said that I'd only hit Wetherby if I rolled a nat 1. You'll never guess what I rolled.
Luckily, the healer of the party managed to bring her back from the brink of death. Needless to say, Sybil was quite distraught that she'd nearly killed her girlfriend for the second time. But for some reason, Wetherby seemed unphased by it.
Either way, they continued travelling. Wetherby started acting suspiciously as they got closer to the coast, leaving the group for certain amounts of time. Sybil received a coin enchanted as a tracking device from another party member, which she turned into a necklace and disguised as an apology gift to Wetherby so she could see where she was going. Nothing of note came from that investigation, though.
(There was also an awkward reunion between another Requiem party member and his boyfriend-who-he-thought-had-been-dead-this-whole-time. This is relevant information, I promise.)
Once the team made it to the coast, they secured a ship to Darktow and started sailing, but it was only smooth sailing for so long. A few days into their journey, a hostile ship marked with one of their enemy's sigils attacked. Wetherby revealed herself to be working with them. She took the boyfriend-who-was-thought-to-be-dead as hostage, and slit his throat when he tried to fight back. He fell dead at her hands, just out of reach of the party.
In a moment of chaos and betrayal and clarity, Sybil raised her pistol and fired, shooting Wetherby down in one shot—intentionally, this time.
There was not time to reconvene or grieve. The enemy ship—led by none other than Captain Covell himself—was upon them. In an awful stroke of luck, the necromancers on Covell's side brought Wetherby back to false life. She rose rotten and spectral; a ghost. And she said to Sybil,
"It's too bad you're as weak as you are. We could've been immortal together."
They fought on opposing sides of the battle. It was a difficult fight, but Requiem managed to win in the end (surprisingly with no lives lost). Covell had been defeated—the final blow being dealt by Sybil herself—but Wetherby escaped with the rest of the enemies.
Requiem was left with the grief of being betrayed, and the heavy task of figuring out what they should do next now that they'd been led astray. They regrouped, went back to the drawing board, and figured out where to go from there—more traveling ensued.
They were ambushed in the forest, led into a trap by some cultists—and of course Wetherby was there. Requiem fought hard, but they were quickly overpowered and captured. (Some stuff happened when they finally managed to break out, but I'm going to gloss over that because this is a Sybil and Wetherby post. Long story short is that chaos broke out and Wetherby fled the scene again.)
They continued their quest, gaining more allies for the final battle—and they did not see Wetherby again. That is until a mysterious letter appeared on everyone's bed, asking them to meet at a certain location to collect a reward. One of Wetherby's feathers accompanied Sybil's letter.
Despite all their suspicions, Requiem followed the letters' orders to meet at the address—and they quite literally found themselves in a portal to Hell. They were face-to-face with the very cultists they were fighting against, and the cultists offered them a gift and a bargain—an attempt to sway them from being enemies.
The gift was practically heads on a platter. People that had caused the party grief throughout their journey, tied and gagged and handed over. Powerful enemies at Requiem's mercy. Among them was Wetherby.
But unlike her party members—who took great pleasure in striking the final blow on their offerings—Sybil could not find it in herself to kill Wetherby again. She was angry, but she was not vengeful.
She asked Wetherby if she'd ever loved her. She didn't. Not at the end, at least.
Both of them were resigned to their fates. Wetherby returned the necklace to Sybil, and disappeared when Sybil released her back in the material plane.
That was the last that Sybil ever saw of Wetherby. (During the campaign, at least.) It wasn't a violent, satisfying ending, but it was still the closure that Sybil needed.
Requiem and their allies fought their battle and won. With their newfound success, Sybil bought a ship of her own, and now she captains her own crew, free from the heartache that old bird used to cause her.
And that's it! Not including all the aus and epilogue shenanigans I have with them (through some silly circumstances, she has a son now <3)
They mean lots to me, even if Sybil is a disaster and the bird was a traitorous evil bitch !!!
(We revived the boyfriend by the way. They got married in epilogue, it was very cute)
I have their playlists linked too btw!! in case anyone's curious :)
[Sybil's playlist]
[Wetherby's playlist]
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed my silly little rambles <3
