History Characters / TheUnexpectablesIIAltonFrontiers

!Player Characters

The unnamed quintet that met in the little country of Isenvale, and were hastened to a quick death by the coming of Blightwing...only to rise again. Since their resurrection, they travel together on a mission to cleanse the corruption from Isenvale.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He reveals in a conversation with the Outsider that while he's definitely a ''marked'' improvement over previous members of Orun's cloth we've seen, he still has a tendency to look down on people in much the same way for rejecting his faith, just not nearly to the extent of the UCO.

* SinsOfOurFathers: He's more willing than most to listen to all sides of a story or put himself at risk to help others, given that his "family" [[spoiler:is the United Clergy of Orun, that caused "the Eclipse" two decades ago in the first campaign and has utterly tarnished Orun worship among common citizens]].

A drowsy looking Satyr from Veolusai with a love of combat and competition, looking to make a name for himself in the Alton Frontier.

* SeriousBusiness: He's incredibly passionate about his aspirations to make an accurate map of the entire land, to the point that having one moderately besmirched gives him an existential panic.

-->'''Race:''' Starchild

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: As one might expect: Kolliko is only interested in the economy of Martoralo, and won't commit to anything unless he can see it benefitting his bottom line or the country's bottom line.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: he comes off as an especially goofy and boisterous type, but he is very attentive to the needs of the country's infrastructure and seems to prefer the clutter his office provides.

* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:He hates and blames ''both'' of his parents for what happened to Otho. He makes it clear to Harland that if either of them come after Otho and him, he will deal with them personally.]]

OlderThanHeLooks: The April Fools Q&A on the official twitter page, with Aya and Reijorar, confirms his age to be somewhere between 50 and 60 years old, yet he looks like a man in his mid-30s at most.

OlderThanHeLooks: The April Fools Q&A with Aya and Reijorar confirms his age to be somewhere between 50 and 60 years old, yet he looks like a man in his mid-30s at most.

* Expy: Aya's art best resembles Princess Zelda.

[[folder:Prince Reijorar Ragnis]]

The Head executioner for the Royal Family. Reijorar Ragnus is a massive Berserker, a prime example of the best (but also very much the worst) of the Berserkers.

* DumbButDiligent: Reijorar is BookDumb and not very concerned with the wider political machinations of Delvaria, but he is not stupid; he's very good at reading people and when it comes to fighting, there may be none better on the entire continent.
* LoveAtFirstSight: While Reijorar's positive qualities are...deeply buried under his exterior, but he deeply loves Aya, and fell hopelessly in love with her at the first time he was left in a room with her.
* TheJuggernaut: Reijorar is a monster; way taller than most men due to his giant capable of projecting an aura of fear, impossibly strong, and a storm of violence when properly angered; as the party found out all too harshly.

!!Delvaria
[[folder:In General]]
A harsh land the party must journey to in order to meet Lady Aya; the Aasimar of Medicina. It is a harsh desert with an even harsher people known as Delvarians, but their unique culture shines through even in their brutal conditions.
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* EliteArmy: Both displayed and discussed. Delvarian Berserkers and individual members of their army are often said to be able to match the strength of ten men for every one of another nation, but it also takes into account that there Delvaria is a harsh land that relatively few people call their home. As such while they can match the strength of ten men, if they lose a single Delvarian, it's roughly the same as losing ten men at once; meaning that they only ever try to defend their traditional borders and almost never go on campaigns of conquest.
* HeroicFantasy: The Delvarian's entire vibe; it's an unbearably harsh place where most of the danger comes from the wildlife and the ever-present Gnolls, but it's held back by an army of [[BarbarianHero Barbarian Heroes]] who followed in the footsteps of ''the'' Barbarian Hero of the setting, and the prevailing culture is fairly egalitarian and generous.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The dominant culture is named for a legendary warrior-queen who founded their entire way of life.

[[folder:Heather]]

A native tracker and trader of the harsh lands of Athel, the Party joins her caravan to make their way to the Delvarian capital.
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* AnArmAndALeg: She has an amputated limb which was taken by her own father after being bitten by one of Delvaria's many dangerous fauna. She doesn't really hold it against him, however.
* TheBeastmaster: She knows the dire boars that Delvarians use to get around better than nearly anyone, though her herd is smaller than most.
* IWantGrandkids: The subject of this from her mother; something she isn't terribly keen on due to her job...and also because she's a lesbian.
* OddFriendship: She strikes up a friendship with the eternally nervous and unsure Isqan.
* TraumaButton: The Sandwyrms that plague Delvaria; they eat Dire Boars for one thing, but she also has personal history with one of the larger ones that has taken over the roads to the capital. Notably when they beat the great Sandwyrm, she's less excited and more absolutely relieved.

[[folder:Aya]]
-->'''Race:''' Aasimar (Human)
The former princess of Hearthlen; married to Reijorar in the aftermath of the Athel-Hearthlen War. She is very much unlike most of her subjects; gentle, helpful, and extremely book smart...and may be the only one capable of curing a previously uncurable disease brought about by a Bead of Hoketh.
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* CourtPhysician: She is a de facto example if nothing else, as all other medicine is administered by clerics and druids in Athel.
* Expy: Aya's art best resembles Princess Zelda.
* FishOutOfWater: Athel is ''nothing'' like Hearthlen and even though almost everybody is nice to her, she feels unbearably lonely as Reijorar is cagey about letting her near strangers, and most of the people of Athel don't really value what she's interested in.
* LovedByAll: The entire palace and all it's residents and passersby absolutely adore her, none moreso than her husband.
* SuperDoc: She's probably the foremost expert in medicine in the world; which is why the party seeks her out in the first place.
* TouchedByVorlons: Averted; Aya is absolutely an Aasimar of Medicina, but she shows almost no outward signs of it beyond a supernatural understanding of medicine. She explains that the difficult circumstances of her birth meant she experiences being an Aasimar a bit differently.

[[folder:Prince Reijorar Ragnis]]
-->'''Race:''' Half-Giant
The Head executioner for the Royal Family. Reijorar Ragnus is a massive Berserker, a prime example of the best (but also very much the worst) of the Berserkers.

* BerserkButton: In general he is a very angry guy, but whatever you do, DO NOT INSULT AYA.
* {{Expy}}: His art could best be described as Ganondorf as a barbarian, though he's considerably less evil.
* DumbButDiligent: Reijorar is BookDumb and not very concerned with the wider political machinations of Delvaria, but he is not stupid; he's very good at reading people and when it comes to fighting, there may be none better on the entire continent.
* LoveAtFirstSight: While Reijorar's positive qualities are...deeply buried under his exterior, but he deeply loves Aya, and fell hopelessly in love with her at the first time he was left in a room with her.
* TheJuggernaut: Reijorar is a monster; way taller than most men due to his giant capable of projecting an aura of fear, impossibly strong, and a storm of violence when properly angered; as the party found out all too harshly.
* TroubledChild: He didn't have it great as a young man; his father was rarely around due to his duties, and he lost his mother in childbirth, something he took ''very'' hard.
* InsecureLoveInterest : Part of the reason he dotes on Aya like he does is in part due to his previous marriages, which ended in both women fleeing him and Athel altogether, which has cast a poor reputation on him that he's desperate to avoid.
* WarriorPrince: Way more "Warrior" than "Prince". He's directly related to the Crown Prince but would much rather be on a battlefield than deal with any of Athel's political concerns. [[spoiler:Which came back to bite Delvaria after the war, as taking one look at Aya made him blanket-agree to whatever Hearthlen's peace terms. Redmond stated that had he the capacity; he would've strangled him.]]

!Bead of Hoketh holders
[[folder:Mira Treetender]]
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In the land of Hearthlen, a little logging village called Acorn set up shop near an old Druid's glen that they senselessly deforested. A certain gentleman named Wormtongue "woke" it's previous tender back up from her eternal slumber hundreds of years to show her what happened, and gave her a Bead of Hoketh, allowing her to exact her vengeance.

* CameBackWrong: She died at some point long before the town of Acorn was established, and her return...didn't end well. Her use of Druidic magic since her return has also changed and not in a good way, with her intentionally trying to warp and twist the stumps of the trees she was previously responsible for into being fully grown, only leaving them looking deeply unnatural and strange, as well as resurrecting creatures that recently died there as undead.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her response to a chopped-down forest? [[spoiler:Create a curse based on the ''Barkskin'' spell, which slowly turned all of the town's inhabitants into trees.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In her post-defeat vision, [[spoiler:Ky finds her weeping uncontrollably over the devastation she caused, insinuating the bead caused her own outrage to be twisted into something horrific.]]
* PuzzleBoss: Her ability to revive herself is tied to several special trees in her glen, which also give stages of the ''Barkskin'' curse once pierced or harmed in any way. The trees had to be destroyed before she could receive the killing blow.
* RasputinianDeath: The party is ''finally'' able to put her down after whittling down her health to zero no less than three times only finally put down by Ky ramming a dagger up into her throat.
* RevenantZombie: What she is now, and the town of Acorn has suffered ''dearly'' for it. It's zig-zagged however: [[spoiler:When her spirit is freed, she admits that what she's done is far too terrible than she ever would've wanted, giving the impression the bead fed on her grief and anguish to twist her into what she became.]]

[[folder:Crew of the ''Hesper's Wake'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mallie Noir, Captain of Hesper's Wake]]
The ''Hesper's Wake'' was a barge of the dead under Oslomir Harland's employ; designed to help ferry the bodies of sailors to their final resting place at sea, until a freak storm dashed it against a ship's graveyard known as the Sea Dragon's Bones.\\\

Unfortunately for the crew and it's cargo, the figurehead at the bow just so happens to hold a Bead of Hoketh, meaning their vigil over the dead and at sea is far from over. Their Captain was '''Mallie Noir''', who serves as the boss of the encounter and holder of the bead. She is joined by her crew; a series of ghost crewman, Bones Mackenzie, two wizardly skeletons...and Polly, the [[PirateParrot pet parrot]].

* AssistCharacter: Polly serves to harangue foes while everybody else attacks by flanking.
* DenserAndWackier: Compared to Mira. They all died together in the line of duty due to a tragic accident, and are mostly just guarding their old ship from trespassers; so their fight is full of hijinks at the expense of their undeath.
* DemBones: All of the crew are spectral skeletons, and are more than aware of it.
-->'''Mallie, recoiling in "pain":''' AH! MY BOOB!...Oh wait, I don't have those anymore!
* DutyThatTranscendsDeath: They aren't as corrupted as Mira, but they still defend their broken vessel with their unlives.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Gaius is treated to meeting the entire crew in a vision after he defeats the captain, and they all appreciate him releasing them from the bonds of the bead, complete with a celebratory toast.
* GhostPirate: played with; they were actually normal sailors of Martoralo...but now they fit the trope perfectly.

[[folder:Gertrude Gallowsway]]
!!"Sour" Gertrude Gallowsway
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--->'''Race:''' Gnome
--->'''Class:''' Cleric
A bitter, terse veteran of Centralia's most dangerous installation; a defensive fortress set above an entrance to the Abyss, Gertrude is a Hoketh clergywoman who knows Lynne personally...and isn't terribly keen on giving the bead up, as it is part of her spell focus.

* BreakingOldTrends: She's the first bead holder that isn't undead, whose bead isn't corrupted, and doesn't fight the party. Instead tasking the party to fight demons in exchange for her bead.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She lightens up her attitude after the party manages to go above and beyond their task in helping deal with a demon incursion.
* GreenEyedMonster: She knew Lynne before the fall of Isenvale, and it's implied there's a kind of history to her that's given her the kind of bitter feelings she harbors towards Lynne.
* KnightInSourArmor: While she's perfectly devout to the cause of Hoketh, she gave up ever hoping that Isenvale could be saved by any means, and has buried far too many optimists in the defense of Centralia to count.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She's ''extremly'' prickly, but her reasons for testing the party are entirely valid: Showing up as four mere mercenaries saying you have been able to fix what's been happening in a supernatural death zone for the first time, one that the Hoketh clergy itself seems to have given up on, is ''extremely'' suspect.
* NoTrueScotsman: She doesn't consider the followers of Lysend to be any more than a trendy cult despite getting official word that they're a proper deity.
* WarIsHell: While the Paladins and Clerics at the fortress make sport of their demon foe, Gertrude is under no illusions that the abyssal threat is far too dangerous to make light of.

[[folder:Augrune]]
--->'''Race:''' Flesh Golem
Augrune is the mysterious tender of an old mansion in Athel that has been warded by several different spells leading out onto the marsh on which it stands, and is the reason a number of children have gone missing from the little hamlet of Unisay Vol. However, the reasons for his serial kidnapping is a little more complicated than it first appears.

* EarlyBirdSpoiler: Augrune is briefly seen in the intro.
* LineOfSightName: The party discover a children's book called "The Adventures of Augrune", which he may have used to actually name himself.
* TorturedMonster: Augrune did ''not'' intend to be created and certainly did not intend to cause a serious plague, and knows that he needs to make amends for his master's irresponsible necromancy.
* WalkingWasteland: His creation by his old master triggered a serious respiratory disease in the children of Unisay Vol, which could only be cured by him; as he is the only one who knows the method to counteract it, but not cure it. As a result, he needs to tend to them round the clock and bringing them to the Mansion was the only way to make sure.

!Antagonists
[[folder:Blightwing]]
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--->'''Race:''' {{Dracolich}}
The Alton Frontier, while it did have its troubles, was otherwise a perfectly peaceful region; with Isenvale being most peaceful of all. Then, a horrific beast came from out of the sky, and buried the entire country of Isenvale in a plague of ashes, killing all it touched. Since then, it has occasionally taken wing here or there within the Alton Region, spreading its desolation wherever it goes.

* BigBad: He's set up as this being the being who heralds the Ash Plague and is implied by the stinger of the last campaign to be the ringleader of the four followers of Necrecta.
* BodyHorror: Part and Parcel with being a Dracolich: its wings are horrifically broken in several places, it's body is rotting away while a baleful fire rages on inside itself.
* WalkingWasteland: Blightwing carries the Ash plague; a horrifying disease that is made presumably from the ashes of his burning body, that fall to the ground in high enough quantities to have undone untold damage to Isenvale and to a myriad of other states around the Alton Frontier.

[[folder:Necrecta]]
-->'''[=MontyGlu=], in Campaign One:''' Necrecta is ''not'' shaped like a friend.
Necrecta is the goddess of the Undead and has been said to have "claimed" Isenvale for her own. Though she is not seen, her influence can be felt deeply throughout the accursed land and across the Alton Regions entirely.

* AscendedExtra: Went from a minor god from the original campaign whose only claim to fame was being the mother of Stillhavity to the main antagonistic deity for campaign two.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Episode 69 confirms that Necrecta used to be a mortal woman before ascending to godhood.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She may not be directly involved but Blightwing and his people worship her and use her powers to bring the Ash Plague across Alton.
* PlagueMaster: It's mentioned by Master Pointhat that the birth of Necromancy led to the birth of disease.

[[folder: The King of Isenvale - '''SPOILERS''']]
!!King Isaac Isenvale the XII
In the years leading up to Blightwing's emergence in the Alton Region, the King of Isenvale was working against time to cure his wife of a terrible affliction before it ended her life. He was ultimately too late, and he sought a pact with the dark powers Wormtongue offered in order to revive her...but at a terrible, terrible cost; his country, his servants, his life...and even his own form.
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Now, what stalks the castle of Isenvale is the horrific culmination of his transgression, his insane, bedraggled form ever-searching the halls of their once happy home for his beloved wife, whom he can never see again, adding any unfortunate soul to his own form. He is the one that the party must slay in order to finish cleansing Isenvale.

* ApocalypticLog: Parts of the castle are shown in the lead up to the King's descent into madness; showing it from the King's perspective, the court wizard's, and from the servants and guards, all prior to his decision.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Isaac did what he did out of love and despair, but eventually it's revealed that Isaac was merely power hungry and couldn't accept his wife's death out of sheer arrogance, leading to what he became.
* {{Greed}}: At the end of the day, this is what Issac was motivated by.

!!Followers of Necrecta
[[folder:Wormtongue]]
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A strange figure that disturbs the resting places of the Beads of Hoketh, and sets their holders to work causing mayhem and woe, as well as creating more and more undead. He currently travels with an undead ogre, among a host of other, terrifying undead.

* BodyHorror: Wormtongue isn't actually a person, he's a hollowed-out corpse of a man with a horrifying giant worm inside puppeting it with the help of maggots.
* TheCorruptor:
** While he couldn't reach the Hesper's Wake, he did reanimate Mira...and set her about the town of Acorn.
** Arguably counts for the ''entirety'' of Isenvale, as he was the one who promised the return of [[spoiler:Queen Carolyn]] to the king.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Downplayed but Wormtongue was set up as the main villain trying to stop the party from saving Isenvale. After his defeat it's made clear that the actual final obstacle the heroes have to face is [[spoiler:the King of Isenvale]].
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: His goal for the mercenaries he hired was for them to kill one of the party members as a warning to the others to stop interfering with the ash plague.
* ParasiticHorror: A horrifying worm thing with direct ties to the goddess of undeath that puppets bodies like the bug in Men in Black and commands legions of the dead.
* RecurringBoss: due to it's nature as a ParasiticHorror, it returns not too long after being defeated the first time, although in a much weaker body far away from the party.
* StarterVillain: He's the force that constantly hounds the party when they try to purify Isenvale but he gets quickly dealt with when he pops up in person and it's made clear that of the four people under Blightwing he's actually the weakest.
* TerribleArtist: The wanted posters he made for the party look like a five-year-old drew them. The mercenary group he hired to attack the party noted that they would have laughed at him if it wasn't for the army of undead surrounding them.

[[folder:The Stitched Sister]]
!![[spoiler:Haruspex]]

A figure who winds up contacting Ky as he bonds with the corrupted beads of Hoketh, appearing as a raven.

* ExactWords: Ky's deal with the Stitched Sister was to free her spellbook, which the entire party took as "find a book in a wizard's tower and leave". [[spoiler:Her spellbook is made in the style of her ancient people; literally tattooed into the skin of an undead servant; in her case a goliath locked in a coffin. She literally needed it freed.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: For reasons not yet revealed she ended up disagreeing with what the other followers of Necrecta are doing and offers aid to Ky in exchange for the party unsealing her spell book.
* TokenGoodTeammate: She's the only known follower of Necrecta who wants to help the party.

[[folder:The Black Goat]]
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One of Necrecta's chosen champions, in the form of horrific shadowy goats.

* BodyHorror: It's implied by him calling Ky "he who wears his own skin" that he has lost his own.
* GruesomeGoat: He takes the form of a monstrous Goat when he interrupts Ky's conversation with the Stitched Sister.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Looks like a mostly black goat with only the occasional red highlight sticking out, and he's one of the main villains in the campaign.

[[folder:Dancing Death]]
!!Mel
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mel as she appears in the intro]]
A familiar face who, after planning with Blightwing to bring an age of ash, has returned to help her master bring this new dark era to Alton.

* AscendedExtra: Goes from a minor NPC from the first campaign to one of the main antagonists here.
* TheGhost: is the only major force of Necrecta who hasn't made an appearance in the campaign yet outside an appearance in the opening.

* Berserk Button: In general he is a very angry guy, but whatever you do, DO NOT INSULT AYA.
* Expy: His art could best be described as Ganondorf as a barbarian, though he's considerably less evil.

* TroubledChildhood: He didn't have it great as a young man; his father was rarely around due to his duties, and he lost his mother in childbirth, something he took ''very'' hard.
* UnluckyInLove: Part of the reason he dotes on Aya like he does is in part due to his previous marriages, which ended in both women fleeing him and Athel altogether, which has cast a poor reputation on him that he's desperate to avoid.

* Greed: At the end of the day, this is what Issac was motivated by.

* LawfulNeutral: His alignment, according to his player, Connor [=McKinley=].

* TrueNeutral: His alignment, according to his player, Edward Bosco.

* LawfulNeutral: His alignment, according to his player, DistortionDevil.

* Lawful Neutral: His alignment, according to his playerDistortionDevil.

* DeityofHumanOrigin: Episode 69 confirms that Necrecta used to be a mortal woman before ascending to godhood.

* TheLeader: Very much T
ype 1.So far, Otho has taken the lead when it comes to decision making for the group, often being the first to call for a vote when the party's opinion is split on a matter, and always honoring the outcome no matter his personal thoughts. He also plays the role of TheFace of the party in social situations.