Line-Captain Isaure Vellamy

Line-Captain Isaure Vellamy

Level	115
Health	1000
Family	Doorheld
Location	Held Door
XP	250,000

Line-Captain Isaure Vellamy is the officer who led the survey crew through Held Door in the spring, and the last of them still holding her post at the hall's terminal dais.

Overview

Vellamy stands where the hall ends, on a raised dais at its north terminus, with two of her own crew - a Doorheld Escort and a Doorheld Surveyor - kept alive at her side rather than left to fall with the rest. She wears the same drained Meridian issue as her crew, but hers runs hot rather than dead: her whole suit glows like heated anchor-iron, distinct from the near-black finish on the crew below her. Where the crew reads as drained and gone, she reads as caught - still recognizably a person, still running the same survey she started with in spring.

In battle

Vellamy fights in silence until she is struck, at which point she makes her position plain. On first engaging a player:

"Wing procedure, section nine: hold the door until relieved. Nobody relieved us."

Once wounded past half health, she names what she is defending:

"The issue is mine. The crew is mine. The door is mine."

When she finally falls, she does not resist it:

"Relieved at last. Mark the time, gauger; the ledger likes a time."

What her death opens

Vellamy's fall is not the end of Held Door's business. Her death opens a sealed door at her own stand point, onto a chamber the wing has never logged - holding whatever it actually was that took her crew before it caught her. The Meridian sends contractors after Vellamy believing the job ends with her; it does not.

Access

Vellamy is fought at the terminal dais of Held Door, reached by fighting north through the hall's Doorheld crew. Relief-Bearer Ysanne Loret sets the job that sends contractors after her.

See also

• Held Door - the dungeon she holds.
• Doorheld Escort, Doorheld Gauger, Doorheld Surveyor - her crew.
• Relief-Bearer Ysanne Loret - the Meridian warden who sends contractors after her.