Angel Rannek

Angel Rannek, also recorded as Angelita Rannek and known publicly through the modeling name Angel of Delight, is an aasimar bard of the Rannek family associated with the Vengeful affair. She is the youngest daughter of Uther Rannek, Marquess of Rannek, and Maria Rannek, and the sister of Gwyniviere Rannek. Accounts of her abilities describe her as a glamour-trained performer with darkvision, celestial heritage, and command of Celestial, Common, Common Sign Language, Elvish, and Sylvan.

Angel’s role in the Vengeful affair began as part of her family’s journey to the Travertines, but soon expanded into the Reformist crisis around Rannek, Malterdale, and the Malthrek-Travertine marriage settlement. She became important both as a bearer of shards of the Emerald Shield of Spring and as a source of celestial healing.¹ Hilis Brastok, usually styled Sir Brastok, served as one of her principal guards.

Family and Upbringing

Angel was born into House Rannek and was raised within the household of Castle Rannekford. Her known siblings include Gwyniviere, Lance Rannek, Laudine Maidenfeld nee Rannek, and Merlin Rannek. Gwyniviere’s betrothal to Mark Malthrek later brought the Ranneks into the political orbit of the Malthrek and Travertine houses.

Angel was magically gifted and strongly associated with beauty, glamour, and celestial signs. Her family employed Kelthyr Kulok as a tutor, and her angelic nature became a real source of magical danger and political interest rather than merely a poetic description.

Journey to the Travertines

Angel left Rannek with her mother Maria and her sister Gwyniviere to attend the wedding of Luke Malthrek and Pallia Travertine. The Ranneks had been invited because Gwyniviere was betrothed to Mark Malthrek, Luke’s brother. Their route required them to cross Maiden’s Bay and travel through Malterdale.

While in Malterdale, the party stayed at the Battlement Inn and paid respects to Lord Malterdale, who was the liegelord of the place and had once been a comrade of Angel’s father. During the same stay, Father Charles Renaldi, Sister Rislas, and other members of the Congregation of the Angel of Civilization were also present. Renaldi introduced himself to the Ranneks, while Rislas showed an unusual interest in Angel.

Rislas showed Angel the ruins attached to the inn, where a stained-glass image of the Green Lord stood. Although Rislas did not notice anything unusual, Angel later returned to the ruins with Sir Brastok to investigate a feeling she had experienced there. In those ruins, Angel found her first shard of the Emerald Shield of Spring.

Rannek and the Bishop

Before reaching the Travertines, Angel and Lance returned to Rannek during the crisis around Magnus Bramok, the Bishop of Rannek. Angel sent messages to both her parents announcing that she and Lance were heading to the bishop and that she had passed important information to court wizards. Angel helped rescue Bishop Bramok from a cursed token and found evidence of a Reformist connected to Sister Rislas.²

This episode placed Angel at the intersection of the Rannek Marches, Reformist infiltration, and the search for the Emerald Shield shards. Subsequent planning treated Angel as a natural lead for Rannek matters, especially once the war against Hicklanders and the persecution of local Hickland communities became a parallel crisis.

Travertine Crisis

Angel’s party arrived at the Travertines for the wedding of Luke Malthrek and Pallia Travertine while the keep had already been compromised by Reformists. Duchess Antoinette Malthrek was confirmed as a Reformist, matching Angel’s earlier suspicion that something around the Duchess carried an unnatural sense of death. Gwyniviere also reported that Mark Malthrek, her fiance, was absent after being called back to the Maltreks for unclear reasons.³

Angel was present when Marlion I Dragonheart killed a Reformist spy watching Luke. She considered Zone of TruthZone of TruthLevel 2 · Enchantment1 action · 60 ft. · 10 minuteV, SYou create a magical zone that guards against deception in a 15-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your choice within range. Until the spell ends, a creature that enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can't speak a deliberate lie while in the radius. You know whether each creature succeeds or fails on its saving throw. An affected creature is aware of the spell and can thus avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such creatures can be evasive in its answers as long as it remains within the boundaries of the truth., but instead used Speak with DeadSpeak with DeadLevel 3 · Necromancy1 action · 10 ft. · 10 minuteV, S, M (burning incense)You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer the questions you pose. The corpse must still have a mouth and can't be undead. The spell fails if the corpse was the target of this spell within the last 10 days. Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are hostile to it or it recognizes you as an enemy. This spell doesn't return the creature's soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can't learn new information, doesn't comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can't speculate about future events. on the severed head. The dead Reformist confirmed her own allegiance but did not know whether Pallia Travertine was also a Reformist.

After Pallia was exposed as a dangerous hag and Reformist agent, Angel guarded the unconscious Travertine heiress in the infirmary alongside Maria, Gwyniviere, and Sir Brastok. The discovery of Pallia’s role also made the Malthrek-Travertine wedding settlement part of the wider Reformist and aberrant conspiracy.⁴

Celestial Blood

During the same crisis, Angel’s celestial nature became medically and strategically important. After the party obtained a sample from Father Charles Renaldi, Luke Malthrek and Duchess Antoinette were found to share a related infestation, parasite, aberrant condition, or linked affliction. Angel used celestial blood to heal or treat both of them. Luke was treated first; Antoinette had been affected for longer, and treating her cost Angel more.⁵

Angel was credited with curing or removing the parasites from Luke and the Duchess, though the exact means was sometimes described as presence, prayer, blood, or a named ability. Repeated blood-healing was considered dangerous and exhausting. The same discussions placed Angel among a small number of celestial persons whose blood could display effects comparable to healing, Greater RestorationGreater RestorationLevel 5 · Abjuration1 action · Touch · InstantaneousV, S, MYou imbue a creature you touch with positive energy to undo a debilitating effect. You can reduce the target's exhaustion level by one, or end one of the following effects on the target: One effect that charmed or petrified the target One curse, including the target's attunement to a cursed magic item Any reduction to one of the target's ability scores One effect reducing the target's hit point maximum, or Remove CurseRemove CurseLevel 3 · Abjuration1 action · Touch · InstantaneousV, SAt your touch, all curses affecting one creature or object end. If the object is a cursed magic item, its curse remains, but the spell breaks its owner's attunement to the object so it can be removed or discarded..⁵

Emerald Shield of Spring

The shards of the Emerald Shield of Spring became one of Angel’s central responsibilities. By the Travertine crisis she held two of the seven known shards, while the Reformists could sense the shards but had difficulty locating them directly. Lime Schulze’s infiltration revealed that the Reformists intended to let Angel gather more shards so they could ambush her afterward.⁶

Minfilia later assigned Angel to recover the five remaining shards, which had been gifted by an archfey to the elves of Rannek. Angel remained possibly necessary to find the rest of the Shield. The Shield was also connected to the fertility and seasonal health of the Western Lowlands, the Malter River Valley, and Rannek, making Angel’s custody of the shards politically and magically significant.⁶

Legally Bare

Before the Vengeful affair, Angel modeled for Legally Bare under the public persona Angel of Delight, after Gwyniviere Rannek persuaded her to take the work. Gwyniviere painted the originals used for Angel’s pages. Publication promotions grouped Angel with three other time-of-day personae: Miya as Morning, Angel as Noon, Cinna as Afternoon, and Maerwen as Evening. Promotional references to Angel of Delight included boon stickers and special editions, suggesting that her name circulated as a recognizable public image apart from her formal identity as a Rannek noble.⁷

Footnotes

1. See The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-29 and Threads: The Elven Boons. ↩

2. See The Vengeful Notes 2024-11-23 and The Vengeful Notes 2026-04-25. ↩

3. See The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-10. ↩

4. See The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-15. ↩

5. See The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-22 and The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-29. ↩ ↩²

6. See The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-10, The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-16, and Threads: The Elven Boons. ↩ ↩²

7. See The Vengeful EV Notes and The Vengeful Notes 2026-05-22. ↩