Sister Garaele

Sister Garaele is a priestess of Tymora who tends the Shrine of Luck in Phandalin.

The Courting of the Banshee
Sister Garaele first met the Heroes of Phandalin, who at that time counted Ryathon Silverthorn, BX-88, and Shakira She-Wolf in their party, just outside of her shrine in Phandalin. After a pleasant introduction, Sister Garaele asked the heroes whether they were looking for work. After her suspicions were confirmed, Sister Garaele asked if the heroes would run a relatively simple errand for her.

Deep in the woods, near the Ruins of Conyberry, a banshee named Agatha had established a lair. Though the banshee seemed relatively harmless, reclusive as she was, the banshee was also rumored to have encyclopedic knowledge of happenings in the hinterlands dating back centuries. Sister Garaele entrusted to the heroes a small, silver comb, and asked the party to give this comb to Agatha. In return, the party would be permitted to ask a single question. Sister Garaele, for her part, wanted the heroes to ask as to the whereabouts of a spellbook that had once belonged to the mage, Bojangles, who had long since passed.

The party did as they were instructed, although BX saw fit to bring a sheep he had purchased along for the trip. While BX waited outside with his sheep, the party entered Agatha's lair, and soon enough, Agatha herself appeared, demanding to know the reason for the party's intrusion. The banshee's ire was calmed by the gift of the silver comb, however, and in thanks, Agatha offered an answer to any question the party might have. The heroes dutifully asked Sister Garaele's question on her behalf, and Agatha answered: Agatha had long since traded the spellbook away to a necromancer more than a hundred years ago. The bargain satisfied, the heroes left Agatha's lair.

It should be noted that, at this point, BX decided he wanted an answer to a question that had apparently been bothering him for quite some time. He entered Agatha's lair as well, and Agatha, not knowing that BX-88 had accompanied the guests that she had just seen, appeared again, ready to give an answer for another trinket. BX offered his bag of holding, which the banshee took with delight. Then, BX asked his question: "Will I dream?"

BX never told anyone the banshee's answer to that question, but folk say that the answer must have had something to do with his newfound hobby of shepherding.

The Phandelver Adjudication
After the Black Spider had been slain, the question as to whom the Lost Mine should be entrusted necessarily arose. For her part, Sister Garaele alerted the Heroes of Phandalin to a possible conspiracy being woven by Halia Thornton, the owner of Phandalin's Miner's Exchange. According to Sister Garaele, Halia Thornton's vocal support of Phandalin's assumption of control over the mine was motivated by Thornton's selfish desires to control the mine herself, as she intended to run against Townmaster Harbin in the upcoming election. Sister Garaele urged the heroes to infiltrate the Miner's Exchange and uncover evidence of this conspiracy.

While the heroes performed admirably in this regard, Halia's later bargain with Ryathon Silverthorn, whereby Halia would not compete with Ryathon for the position of Townmaster so long as Ryathon appointed Halia Thornton as chief administrator once he came to power, rendered the evidence of the conspiracy moot, much to Sister Garaele's frustration.

All the same, Sister Garaele testified on behalf of Gundren Rockseeker at the Phandelver Adjudication.