Emmeline Hallowleaf

In-game
Portrait

Stats

Size

Medium

Type

Humanoid

Race

Human

Balanced Difficulty Stats

Level

1

HP

106

AC

12

Initiative

+2

Proficiency

+2

Movement

9 m (30 ft)

Weight

75 kg (150 lb)

Ability scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)

Saving throws
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
+4	+2	+3	+1	+1	+2

Features

Darkvision
Can see in the dark up to 12 m / 40 ft.
Fey Ancestry
Advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can't put you to Sleep.
Opportunity Attack
Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach.

Emmeline Hallowleaf is a Human

Selûnite and mother of

Shadowheart. She can potentially become a Camp Follower.

History

Emmeline Hallowleaf, and her husband Arnell Hallowleaf, raised Shadowheart, originally known as Jenevelle Hallowleaf, in Moonhaven.^{[note 1]} As a child, Jenevelle undertook a Selûnite coming-of-age ritual in which she was left alone in the woods and trusted to use Selûne's guidance to return to her family. However, the villagers discovered a Sharran spy near the village, and learned that his accomplices sought to abduct Jenevelle. Arnell took on his wolf form to quickly traverse the woods to find Jenevelle, but she had not known about his curse, and panicked at the sight of the wolf, allowing enough time for the Sharrans to find and abduct both of them, as well as Emmeline.

Emmeline and Arnell were kept in the Cloister for about 40 years, while the Sharrans made Shadowheart "practice" their techniques, such as trickery, interrogation, and torture, on her parents.

Involvement

Emmeline and Arnell can be found in the Cloister of Sombre Embrace as part of Shadowheart's personal quest, Daughter of Darkness. Shadowheart is forced to make the choice of either letting them die and freeing herself of her incurable wound, or freeing them and having to live with the wound her entire life. Both Arnell and Emmeline urge Shadowheart to let them die and free herself, but the player character can persuade Shadowheart to free them through a DC 20 Religion, or Persuasion check.

If Emmeline and Arnell are freed, they become camp followers and reveal information about themselves and Shadowheart's past. Arnell is more talkative than Emmeline, as Emmeline is a human with a natural lifespan much shorter than Arnell's, and her memory is fading with age.

Related quests

Daughter of Darkness

Gallery

In-game
Render by Luna De Groote
Cinematic of Emmeline Hallowleaf

References

↑ Multiple things point to Shadowheart having grown in Moonhaven, the former name for the now ruined Blighted Village, such as her reaction when picking up the Old Schoolbook or her scene at the Selûnite statue behind the mill. However, it's difficult to confirm as different sources in-game indicate that the village was destroyed over a hundred years ago by Ketheric Thorm's dark justiciar army, and Shadowheart is estimated to be roughly fifty years old. Conflicting timelines regarding the village and its destruction don't line up, thus, it's possible that the intent during development was that she and her family had indeed lived in Moonhaven, but that the inconsistencies were never properly fixed for release.

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[1] Multiple things point to Shadowheart having grown in Moonhaven, the former name for the now ruined Blighted Village, such as her reaction when picking up the Old Schoolbook or her scene at the Selûnite statue behind the mill. However, it's difficult to confirm as different sources in-game indicate that the village was destroyed over a hundred years ago by Ketheric Thorm's dark justiciar army, and Shadowheart is estimated to be roughly fifty years old. Conflicting timelines regarding the village and its destruction don't line up, thus, it's possible that the intent during development was that she and her family had indeed lived in Moonhaven, but that the inconsistencies were never properly fixed for release.

[note 1]