Baelgrum

Baelgrum

Dwarf cult-hunter; divine spellcaster

Baelgrum is a dwarf from Goldenfields who joined Deez Nuts in Session 50 under extraordinary circumstances: his was the substitute soul that Lady Calera bound into the party when she could not retrieve Alexios from the Hells. He is the character now played by Richard.

Background

Baelgrum was a farmer of Goldenfields until a dragon attack burned a grain store with his brother inside it. He spent the three years that followed hunting the Cult of the Dragon in vengeance, until he was ambushed and killed. His soul lingered in the Hells, where Lady Calera — unable to reclaim Alexios, whose cries of "smite me!" repelled her — seized upon Baelgrum as a willing substitute and bound him into Deez Nuts in Alexios's place under the Compact. He arrived mid-battle against Arauthator with no ceremony and an easy grin: "Dragon fight! I think I like you people already."

Abilities

Baelgrum fights as a divine spellcaster, opening the rematch against Arauthator with a Guiding Bolt in the party's killing volley. Stepping into Alexios's place, he took up that paladin's pact item — The Apostate's Rosary (holding Ray of Sickness, Hold Person, and Bestow Curse) — and, like the rest of the reforged company, chose a fiendish pact feat and received the Tempered Soul feat, along with the Monster Harvester benefit. (His patron deity is not yet set and will be settled in a future session.)

His infernal pact feat was detailed at the table in Session 51: he adds his Charisma modifier (+9) to Wisdom saving throws — but on a failed Wisdom save, the afflicting force can command him to move or to cast a spell. As he put it after volunteering to open Halvard's cursed chest and squeaking past the DC: "this shop does seem to be in fireball range, so I'm glad we passed."

Session 51 — The Curse-Breaker of Luskan (2026-06-28)

Baelgrum was the engine of the red-coin cure: he personally performed all three Remove Curses that freed Luskan's corrupted key figures —

• Halvard Greyskein — a clap on the shoulder mid-conversation, freeing two lost weeks and a 3,000-coin hoard;
• the dockmaster Bargan Thrust — delivered by touch mid-handshake after winning initiative (spell attack 28), so powerful a cleansing that Bargan uniquely kept his memories of the coins' call;
• Zelene — a feint ("hold out your hands… they're pretty precious") that landed the cure instead of the coins, freeing the Arcane Brotherhood's ranking mage and, ultimately, the city.

He also contributed Burning Hands to the forge test that established the cumulative-3rd-level-magical-fire cure, stood in the vault for the final melt, riding out the largest psychic pulse clean, and good-naturedly bankrolled the party's bridge tolls throughout the corrupted city. His benediction on the dockmaster's pledge to Ship Kurth: "Spread the word of these nuts, indeed."

Relationships

• Deez Nuts – The party he was bound to serve
• Alexios – The paladin whose place, and pact item, he took
• Lady Calera / Zarchelia – The erinyes who bound his soul into the party
• Cult of the Dragon – His sworn enemy, blamed for his brother's death
• Halvard Greyskein, Bargan Thrust, Zelene – Luskanites he freed from the red-coin corruption with Remove Curse (S51)

Appearances

• Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14) - bound into the party in place of Alexios; joined the killing of Arauthator and the voyage toward Luskan
• Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28) - cast all three Remove Curses that broke the red-coin grip on Luskan's key NPCs