History Characters / ZenithNymphsAdventures

* HateSink: While Elves are not inherantly born evil and it has been suggested that some minor civilians truly are innocent, the Elven society as a whole are meant to be seen as the {{jerkass}} faction of the confirmed races. They are imperialistic, hypocritical assholes who loathe the Nymphs and their nudity[[note]]While the Nymphs are far from saints, they're also the focal race and the main source of both fanservice and the big world building of the story, so it is easier to root for them over the Elves even if the Elves didn't attack them unprovoked[[/note]], the first significant leader shown is a cowardly hypocrite, and the "main" Elf of the story (Nillea) is a downright horrible person with a creepy fixation on Vince. While the story invokes EvilIsCool and EvilIsSexy for the villainous Nymphs to different degrees, the Elves don't even get that, instead relying on boring and old-fashioned bows and swords as opposed to the flashier magic attacks the rest of the world has.

[[folder:Vincent "Vince" the Terrarian/Adventurer]]

[[folder:Sonata the Oread/Nymph/Nudist/Zenith Nymph]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: She's still a monster in the caves that technically eats people, but is ''far'' less malicious than her in-game enemy counterpart would be, and the story explains that she never actually killed anybody. She had only eaten things like fish and fallen corpses of people who were killed through other causes. Vince is her one and only victim, she first keeps him alive to be her wingman, and then after seeing Vince and Iris both try to sacrifice themselves to save the other, she finally feels guilty about it and goes on trying to atone for everything she had done. A major arc of ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' in general is about her striving to become a better person and be up there with the canon-player Terrarian and the Dryad as one of the core heroes saving the world.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: While the Terrarian is named whatever the player wants to name them and [=NPCs=] have a set list of names[[note]]According to the author, all of the [=NPCs=] are named after the current names of them in one particular world in his game[[/note]], no Nymph enemy is named at all in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''. This story wholesale makes up the name "Sonata."

[[folder:Trent the Guide]]

* ChildhoodFriend: To Vince. The canon game does not suggest any sort of relationship between the Guide and the player, but in the ''Zenith Nymph'' continuity, Trent and Vince had known each other since childhood and decided to both make the journey to the Nature Islands together. According to Vince, Trent is the only person or thing from the Human Continent still alive that he likes.

A mysterious island mentioned by various characters, starting from Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods and they have several people who are good with technology. As of Chapter 8 of ''Romancing'', little is known about it other than what is gleamed from an attempted entrance by Vince, Sonata, and Impetua to get around having to deal with Arborea. They are fairly sealed off and apparently put a bigger emphasis on technology than the Nymphs of Sun Island. Washed Island is planned to be explored further later in Book 1, and given proper focus starting from Book 2.\\

* AmbiguouslyEvil: They are antagonistic, but for the first few arcs it is not clear by how much, compared to the previous antagonistic Nymphs or otherwise. They want at least one Human for some reason, and had specifically arranged some deal with the Sand Gang for Billy Bones in exchange for support against the Deep Woods. They have been shady about why. They hate the Deep Woods, and almost certainly hate the Elf Kingdom, but they are also fairly antagonistic towards at least outsider Humans and Oreads.
* ContrastingSequelSetting: As Book 2's "focus island," it is much more technological and futuristic, as opposed to the savage nature land-look of Book 1's Sun Island.

* TheGhost: In the island's "debut chapter," 8, none of their resident Nymphs are actually seen. Vince, Sonata, and Impetua simply get scared off by a number of sea mines far away from the island proper, and a giant ship of theirs appears with a digital screen displaying a message to taunt them. Nobody manning that ship is even mentioned.
* LeetLingo: One of their higher-ups Impetua is familiar with uses chat acronyms in her message. Her message directed as Vince, Impetua, and Sonata ends on a loop of "LMAO LMAO LMAO..." that goes on until at least they all teleport away.

* SeaMine: Their island is absolutely surrounded by them. And their explosions are large enough to dwarf a raft with three people on it.

Only mentioned in Fan's profile as of Chapter 8, there are islands mostly with lightly-colored Nymphs that have a soft, mild fairy tale-esque feel to them distinct from the Hallow's presentation. One of them, given the working name of Faded Island, is planned to be explored in Book 3.

A researcher of animals who was inflicted with a lycanthropy curse at a young age. In ''Romancing'', she first appears in her transformed werefox state, then immediately turns back as she runs in to Sonata, getting her and her friends to rescue Mollie's brother. She is the first "NPC" that Sonata encounters without Vince around, not counting Sonata's red/yellow/blue tenant trio.

A specialist in color and dyes that comes to the Shores of Sparkling on news that it has all sorts of rare dye ingredients, especially noting Vince's plucking of a Yellow Marigold as he approaches the East Beach.

[[folder:Nigel the Old Man/Clothier]]
A man cursed by the Dungeon's wrath to stand guard of it, transforming in to his "master," Skeletron, when challenged.

* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, he initially seems like a one-off gag in the first one, then he returns in the background converting everyone to nudism in the second, and the plot of the third is kicked off because his conversion to nudism A: made him retire from the clothing business, so he no longer makes or sells clothes, and B: almost everyone else runs around naked, so there are less options to borrow clothes from, which is what "forces" Tania to go all the way to the Underground Jungle to get her outfit in the first place.

* MakesMeWannaShout: She can blast deafening sonic waves even without an instrument or other sound weapon, which she does to blast Vince and Mollie off of her when they start attacking her from distrust.

* OffModel: In the joke comics, including Vince's first appearance without his face hidden by armor, he is some times drawn without his goatee.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Chapter 6 of ''Romancing'' reveals that she became a military sergeant by beating up her would-be commander, and then making her surrender by siccing the Terra Tank on her. According to Impetua herself, this is completely legal among Sun Island, and it's implied that this is not too rare of an incident as the Nymphs (at least in Sun Island) are a Proud Warrior Race.

* TheDreaded: She's a Nymph that specializes in bomb-related powers, war tactics, and has a HairTriggerTemper to boot, making her feared by most other Nymphs across Sun Island/the Shores of Sparkling. To hammer this in, Chapter 4 introduces a muscular mage guard Ice Nymph twice as tall as the average Human, and even ''she's'' outright scared of Impetua. Her own mothers are afraid of her as well. Impetua is genuinely good friends with Fridginy, Harsahne, and their friend groups, and will refuse to attack them even if they attack her, but they too are aware of how intimidating she is.

%%[[folder:Pemtera the Canyon Nymph (Orange)]]
%%Another roommate of Fridginy's in the Snow Half. She is a very laid back earth user and, compared to the bulk of the Snow Gang, wants to try to lower conflict.

%%[[folder:Harsahne the Desert Nymph (Gold)]]
%%The "leader" of the Sand Half of the Snow and Sand Gang, and a best friend of Fridginy. She lives in the Desert, by a home underground with seven other Nymphs in her group.
%%[[/folder]]

Another Snow Half member.

A mysterious person who is likely a Nymph, but none of the leads know for certain, that hides somewhere deep within the Underground Jungle. She contacts Sonata and Vince after their victory over Impetua's Terra Tank asking them to bring her Tania. According to her, Tania knows who she is. As of Chapter 8 she is unseen, only communicating through a pair of colored bunnies. May or may not be the "Dual Nymph" from the old ''Nymphlopedia''; it is yet to be confirmed, and ''Nymphlopedia'' is questionably canon as it is planned to be rewritten.

[[folder:The Naked Empire's Washed Island Recruits in General]]
A mysterious island mentioned by various characters, starting from Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods and they have several people who are good with technology. As of Chapter 8 of ''Romancing'', little is known about it other than what is gleamed from an attempted entrance by Vince, Sonata, and Impetua to get around having to deal with Arborea. They are fairly sealed off and apparently put a bigger emphasis on technology than the Nymphs of Sun Island. Washed Island is planned to be explored further in a future book.

* TheAce: They are implied to be among the best of the immediate Nature Islands. The Snow and Sand Gang go over to them for help, they are much more advanced technologically, and their security system is so good that even [[HotBlooded Impetua]] finds them almost impenetrible.

* MagicVersusScience: All Nymphs hold some magic, but the Nymphs of that island value technology far more. They use metals and "HardLight" energy systems as opposed to wooden and elemental tools seen in Sun Island.

!!! "Dark Island"

[[folder:The Naked Empire's "Dark" Recruits in General]]
Some Nymph Variants are darker in coloration, and at least one type of island for them briefly mentioned and explored in a flashback in Chapter 6. Such an island is seen covered in shade. One of the "dark" islands is planned to be explored further in a future book.

* DarkIsEvil: They are darker in coloration than at least the Sun Island Nymphs and Arborea calls them the Sun Island's "Sisters of Shadow" as a term of solidarity. One of their biomes is also called the "Dark Woods." They are stated to be especially vicious even by Nymph standards, at least when it comes to the definitely-evil Elves.
-->'''Impetua:''' If you see an island with a dark palette, be afraid! Nymphs of the shadow are ''bitches!'' In the good proud "we kick ass and don't get taken over by anybody" way!

!! "Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

[[folder:Trent the Guide]]
An old friend of Vince's who came to the Shores of Sparkling with him to start a new life, him being the brains to Vince's brawns and telling him about the inner workings of living as an Adventurer.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Fan has no intention to change him getting killed to begin Hardmode. He also stated that he is not going to "respawn" or be replaced by another Guide, so his death will be ''more'' permanent than in the game proper]].
* NiceGuy: As a small contrast to Vince, who has his moments of quick selfishness and snark, Trent is considerably more polite and reaches out to others.

[[folder:Iris the Stylist]]
The first Human aside from the Guide Vince and Sonata encounters on the Shores of Sparkling, a hair stylist who gets trapped in a spider cave. After being saved, she moves in and becomes an ally of Vince's, as well as a shaky friend of Sonata's.

* JerkassToOne: She's considerably meaner to Sonata than she is to anybody else, giving plenty of snide remarks about her and in one case in Chapter 7, shutting Sonata up when she was about to comment about her sexy lingerie. It's all-but said that the reason for this is because she hadn't fully forgiven Sonata's actions in the first chapter, especially how she had Vince in much more of a bind than before the two properly got together.

[[folder:Edwin the Merchant]]
A seller of general goods and tools that moves in after Vince works up a bit of money from his disasterous first night. Sonata takes a liking to him and wants him to be the official merchant of the Naked Empire.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: He's a secondary character as the go-to "merchant of the Naked Empire," and is introduced at the very end of the second chapter along with Madeline.
* TooDumbToLive: In the Octobionicer comics, he's seen encountering a Mimic that Greum tattooed with "VEGIN" (sic), and thinks it's a totally harmless vegan Mimic. Subverted in that he escapes alive and well and even somehow befriended the Mimic, as seen in the big finale.

[[folder:Madeline the Nurse]]
A medic that moves to the Shores of Sparkling after hearing about an Adventurer, Vince, with enough life to turn up a profit if she heals. While an ally of the Naked Empire, she doesn't get along with them as well as most others. Vince in particular is openly not on good terms with her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Of the women in the group, Vince and Sonata noteably butt heads with her more often than they do with anyone else. They generally dislike her snarky personality and find her healing services too expensive for their tastes, so they generally are only around her as a last resort. When she herself tells Vince and Iris to huddle up with her naked to survive the cold, Vince treats that as a bad thing, despite also liking Iris and not minding huddling with her.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She debuts at the very end of the second chapter, and would go on to become a semi-major character afterward.

* TheDreaded: ''The'' top of the Nymph foodchain in the entire planet. Everybody else, even other Dreaded characters like Impetua, are afraid of Lindsey, as she is a conqueror who had raided and pillaged Nymph villages for centuries and currently lives in a gigantic metropolis fortress. ''Nymphlopedia'' is the only time as of June 2022 [[OrcusOnHisThrone where she is seen in action,]] and [[spoiler:she is shown to be capable of curb-stomping a Dryad army during their prime, even when armed with giant plant mechs.]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Nymphs of almost all kinds are very colorful in their true forms and have some sort of color theme to them. The "basic Nymphs"/Oreads are usually green-skinned with some reddish brown patches that resemble blood, but they can at least also have yellowish skin or blue skin (the latter is implied to be rarer). The Nymph Variants are more uniform, being colored after whatever Variant they are and matching their hair and eyes: Fire Nymphs being all red, Lightning Nymphs being all yellow, and so on. What color Tania or any Dryad's skin "really" is is not revealed as of June 2022, as nobody has mentioned it and Tania has always been seen in her disguised Human skin tone form, even when sufficiently pissed off.

* BizarreAlienBiology: All Nymphs do not have "internal organs" per say, but a series of vines of sorts that they can make come out of their orfices/through "tears" in the skin at will.

* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Aside from some weird colors (and even those can be changed via light shapeshifting) and ''possibly'' pointy ears, Nymphs of all Variants discussed as of April 2022 look completely human on the outside. Even their true forms are confirmed to just be them with odd colors[[note]]Meaning Sonata's true form is in fact her with green skin and red patches, while Tania's has yet to be seen[[/note]]. On the inside, however, they have bizarre vine-like organs with eyeballs (green and vinelike for Dryads, gray and stonelike for Oreads), and they can take these in and out of themselves at will, mostly to intimidate people who piss them off. They are also capable of having their eyes retract in to their sockets.

While Oreads are all around the world and often live with biome-Nymph Variants, the most noteworthy Oread-majority cultures are the Underworld capitals, and Lindsey's metropolis. They are not friends to each other.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Downplayed. The Human Capital is corrupt, polluted, and most of its population are downright miserable, to the point where living on a DeathWorld island filled with Zombies is considered something people save up and train up to do because they see it as a preferable way of life. But they have a pretty small track record of antagonizing other races, and most of them aren't saints themselves. The Elves are portrayed as more antagonistic and racist, and the Nymphs in general are portrayed as more hostile and creepy. Nymphs don't really care about Humans; they antagonize them, but that's because they see them as a nice food source and hate their support of the Dryads, they're not mad for destroying their environment and risking it spreading to the rest of the world. Tania ''is'' pissed at them, but her anger is only at the higher ups, and she's mad at them for making other Humans suffer. In short, the opinion on Humans is less "They're vile monsters who will kill us all" and more "Heh, look at those idiots slowly choking themselves to death."

A race of cave-dwelling, short people that have a fondness for bombs and digging. As of June 2022, the only member seen is the one from the original game -- the Demolitionist, in this case named Tordak.

* FantasticRacism: They see Nymphs in general as horrid animals who need to learn modesty and put some clothes on. Based on the sheer hatred that other races have to ''them,'' they don't treat the others much better, and the Elves are widely loathed by everyone else in return, the Wood Elves in particular. Even the recap narrator drops an F-bomb when describing them in the Snow and Sand recap.

* AdaptationalBadass: While already a skilled fighter who canonically helped tear out Cthulhu's organs with the other Dryads in canon, in the ''Zenith Nymph'' story she's depicted as fighting as equals with the Terrarian at the ''least'' (in-game, she eventually becomes much, ''much'' less powerful than a Terrarian player character) if not being TheAce of the main three. Chapter 6 of ''Romancing'' heavily implies that the reason why there is only one "Eye of Cthulhu" (not counting respawns, which are not part of this story's canon) when the Moon Lord has at least seven eyes is because she single-handedly killed the other six. Chapter 6's stinger has her outright hunting down the final Eye.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Zig-zagged. Inspired by [[https://old.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/g4vmw7/decided_to_fanart/ this piece of fanart,]] Tania is ''always'' topless. Her bottom on the other hand could range from being skimpy or nothing at all, to a fairly modest large leaf or flower skirt that covers ''more'' of her than her in-game outfit from the waist down. In short, whether or not Tania falls under this prior to going around completely nude depends on if she's looked at from a topfree perspective. Her "starting outfit" in ''Romancing'' proper is something on the more

A Nymph who lived in the Deep Woods, an especially thick forest with its own "Underground Forest"(/Underground Deep Wood). She's a rival to the entire Snow and Sand Gang, and various allies of her in the Deep Woods antagonize other parts of Sun Island. She used to have a personal history with Impetua.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She's a major obstacle of the third arc, following right after Impetua. While Impetua was loud, hammy, and swore every other sentence, Arborea is much more subdued, proper, and doesn't curse nearly as often. Impetua had a melting pot of Nymphs from all sorts of "saturated" biomes who were from different spots of the island, Arborea works mainly with other Nymphs of her own kind. Impetua hated the Naked Empire just for being on her island, Arborea is much more neutral towards them but wants to control what they're doing. While Impetua was a TechnicalPacifist who was willing to get violent, Arborea ''does'' believe in killing people but only if she sees it as a last resort. Impetua shows up midway through her arc and does not properly confront the gang at all until the climax, while Arborea debuts in the previous arc and is a constant recurring threat/"frienemy" throughout her arc.

* FriendlyEnemy: Despite being the main antagonistic force of the Deep Woods Arc, she holds zero hatred to Vince or Sonata, and outright tries to use {{Loophole Abuse}}s to help them out by the letter of the Deep Woods trials, believing that she thinks the trials ''could'' be used to tell if outsiders are fit but wants to correct their bias. Mollie gets confused and outright asks if she's supposed to be good or evil.

A mysterious island mentioned by various characters, starting from Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods and they have several people who are good with technology. As of Chapter 7 of ''Romancing'', little is known about it.

!! "Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

[[folder:Trent the Guide]]
An old friend of Vince's who came to the Shores of Sparkling with him to start a new life, him being the brains to Vince's brawns and telling him about the inner workings of living as an Adventurer.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Fan has no intention to change him getting killed to begin Hardmode. He also stated that he is not going to "respawn" or be replaced by another Guide, so his death will be ''more'' permanent than in the game proper]].
* NiceGuy: As a small contrast to Vince, who has his moments of quick selfishness and snark, Trent is considerably more polite and reaches out to others.

[[folder:Iris the Stylist]]
The first Human aside from the Guide Vince and Sonata encounters on the Shores of Sparkling, a hair stylist who gets trapped in a spider cave. After being saved, she moves in and becomes an ally of Vince's, as well as a shaky friend of Sonata's.

* JerkassToOne: She's considerably meaner to Sonata than she is to anybody else, giving plenty of snide remarks about her and in one case in Chapter 7, shutting Sonata up when she was about to comment about her sexy lingerie. It's all-but said that the reason for this is because she hadn't fully forgiven Sonata's actions in the first chapter, especially how she had Vince in much more of a bind than before the two properly got together.

[[folder:Edwin the Merchant]]
A seller of general goods and tools that moves in after Vince works up a bit of money from his disasterous first night. Sonata takes a liking to him and wants him to be the official merchant of the Naked Empire.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: He's a secondary character as the go-to "merchant of the Naked Empire," and is introduced at the very end of the second chapter along with Madeline.
* TooDumbToLive: In the Octobionicer comics, he's seen encountering a Mimic that Greum tattooed with "VEGIN" (sic), and thinks it's a totally harmless vegan Mimic. Subverted in that he escapes alive and well and even somehow befriended the Mimic, as seen in the big finale.

[[folder:Madeline the Nurse]]
A medic that moves to the Shores of Sparkling after hearing about an Adventurer, Vince, with enough life to turn up a profit if she heals. While an ally of the Naked Empire, she doesn't get along with them as well as most others. Vince in particular is openly not on good terms with her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Of the women in the group, Vince and Sonata noteably butt heads with her more often than they do with anyone else. They generally dislike her snarky personality and find her healing services too expensive for their tastes, so they generally are only around her as a last resort. When she herself tells Vince and Iris to huddle up with her naked to survive the cold, Vince treats that as a bad thing, despite also liking Iris and not minding huddling with her.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She debuts at the very end of the second chapter, and would go on to become a semi-major character afterward.

[[folder:Tordak the Demolitionist]]
A Dwarf with an affinity for explosions that shows up because Vince nabbed a bomb after his close encounter with Lindsey's Door Nymphs at the beginning of the story.

[[folder:Mollie the Zoologist]]
A researcher of animals who was inflicted with a lycanthropy curse at a young age. In ''Romancing'', she first appears in her transformed werefox state, then immediately turns back as she runs in to Sonata, getting her and her friends to rescue Mollie's brother. She is the first "NPC" that Sonata encounters without Vince around, not counting Sonata's red/yellow/blue tenant trio.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Downplayed, but she's entirely aware of her curse and how it works compared to the original game, where she would wonder about her passing out and waking up.
* AuthorAppeal: She ends up losing the fox curse much earlier than in the game (which takes until at least the Moon Lord is defeated, in the epilogue-credits; in ''Romancing the Last Dryad'', it happens towards the end of the second arc, and a mere one chapter after her first appearance) mostly because Fan doesn't like part-animal/anthro characters in general. Also, Fan just felt sorry for her and her cursed state in general and wanted her to have a happy ending sooner.
* BaitAndSwitch: Her introduction is her, transformed in the full moon, breaking in to the shack that Sonata and her group were resting in. (Which was actually the shack that ''Vince and his group'' built to survive the blizzard.) A fight between her and Sonata's quartet is set up, and it's implied that Mollie's werefox form is a good deal ''stronger'' than a "normal" Nymph... except the night ends right as Mollie dashes at them, and she turns back, harmless. She immediately trusts the four and asks them to help her out, and they do not actually fight.
* BodyPaint: Her "Halloween costume" in the final Octobionicer entry is just strips of paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]]'s fur stripes. This is based on an actual cosplay of her.
* MagicPants: Averted. Her transformation apparently destroyed her clothes, but she doesn't mind.
* MotorMouth: She talks fast and a lot, especially under distress. It reaches the point where even Sonata, herself no slouch in the energy department, has trouble understanding her and asks her to slow down.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her transformation to a fox-like form destroys her clothes, but she doesn't care, and is never in a hurry to re-dress or even just dress herself. She's one of the first people Nigel converts to nudism in the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, and in Fan's Octobionicer finale, her "Halloween costume" is just strips of white paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]], along with a wig and tail. Even through the week going over the preparation for fighting Impetua in ''Romancing'', she is never once seen actually wearing clothes.

[[folder:Billy Bones the Golfer]]
Mollie's older brother and a golfer that got stranded out in the Desert, dragged underground by the Sand Nymphs. Mollie recruits Sonata, Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla to rescue him.
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* BadassInDistress: Like all of the town residents, he can still fight, but he's captive by a team of eight Nymphs and surrounded by Desert monsters that all overpower him.

[[folder:Hiram the Dye Trader]]
A specialist in color and dyes that comes to the Shores of Sparkling on news that it has all sorts of rare dye ingredients, especially noting Vince's plucking of a Yellow Marigold as he approaches the East Beach.

* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Downplayed. Unlike most of the other town residents, he's distressed with nudity, but he can tolerate it. He enters an OddFriendship with Iris, who by that point just decides to go full-on nudist (aside from wearing clothes to protect herself from the cold). By Chaper 6, he's outright having casual sex with Iris, showing that he ''really'' doesn't mind being around her, although he's embarrassed at the thought of their relationship going public.

[[folder:Stefano the Painter]]
An artist that arrives right as the gang is planning their fight with Impetua. He has a fondness for Nymphs and almost immediately becomes friends with Sonata.

* AscendedExtra: He's one of the least-useful [=NPCs=] in the original game, and in ''Romancing'' his role is pretty minor, yet in the comics he tends to have a bigger role as either half or all of a "pervert team" with Darnell, owing to his blatant crush on both Tania and Sonata.

[[folder:Nigel the Old Man/Clothier]]
A man cursed by the Dungeon's wrath to stand guard of it, transforming in to his "master," Skeletron, when challenged.

* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, he initially seems like a one-off gag in the first one, then he returns in the background converting everyone to nudism in the second, and the plot of the third is kicked off because his conversion to nudism A: made him retire from the clothing business, so he no longer makes or sells clothes, and B: almost everyone else runs around naked, so there are less options to borrow clothes from, which is what "forces" Tania to go all the way to the Underground Jungle to get her outfit in the first place.

[[folder:Sophia the Mechanic]]

!! Lindsey's Gang

[[folder:Lindsey]]
An extremely powerful, ancient Oread who rules her own massive city deep beneath a distant, desert island with an iron first. A raider and pillager, Nymphs and to a lesser extent Non-Nymphs are afraid of her, including the Dryads.

* DomesticAbuse: She's said to treat her entire harem terribly. From what is seen as of Chapter 4, they are all blindly worshipping her out of fear of any retaliation, and it's pretty obvious she doesn't even value their lives or wellbeing.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Vince is not a creep, not even to his enemies that he legitimately hates. When he's angrilly shooting at Fridginy for beating up and imprisoning him, Iris, and Madeline, he accidentally fires an arrow at her ass. Vince quickly and genuinely apologizes, not for attacking her in the first place, but because he was aiming for her ''head,'' that it wasn't meant to be sexual harassment, he just missed.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She's a major obstacle of the third arc, following right after Impetua. While Impetua was loud, hammy, and swore every other sentence, Arborea is much more subdued, proper, and doesn't curse nearly as often. Impetua had a melting pot of Nymphs from all sorts of "saturated" biomes who were from different spots of the island, Arborea works mainly with other Nymphs of her own kind. Impetua hated the Naked Empire just for being on her island, Arborea is much more neutral towards them but wants to control what they're doing. While Impetua was a TechnicalPacifist who was willing to get violent, Arborea ''does'' believe in killing people but only if she sees it as a last resort.

* OppositesAttract: She's proper, dignified, likes following her home culture to a T, and is very sociable to others. Impetua is a swear-happy, loud, explosive warrior that would rather just embrace her inner animal. The two of them were married for a long period of time.
* SinisterScythe: Her main weapon is the wood around her arms morphed in to arm-covering scythes, and the narrative even nicknames her a "reaper" at one point. While she isn't evil, she's still antagonistic even to the StarterVillain Nymph group, and would later antagonize the main gang by getting in the way of them summoning the Eye of Cthulhu.

%%[[folder:Aquafla the Lake/Ocean Nymph (Blue)]]
%%The third and last of Sonata's initial "tenants," a "Water" Nymph that found Sonata's flyers and wanted to check out her living place.
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fluane the Deep River Nymph (Indigo)]]
Another Sand Half member.

* MakingASplash: Her main weapon is a staff that can fire a heavy current of "river water" that can push her targets.
* OddFriendship: Her friendship with Harsahne is considered this, as according to the description given on Deserts at the end of Chapter 5 of ''Romancing'', River Nymphs and Desert Nymphs getting along is rare. They're known to get in to fights more often than not.

[[folder:Cold Temple Guard]]
A huge, muscular spellcaster Snow Nymph assigned to guard the Cold Temple in the Shores of Sparkling's Snowfield. Vince, Iris, and Madeline briefly run in to her while escaping from Fridginy's ice prison.

* GentleGiant: Downplayed. She's twice the size of a Human being and much beefier than any of the characters who were around her in her debut chapter, but she's much nicer and more reasonable than the paranoid Fridginy or the short-tempered Impetua. The downplay comes from how she is still guarding an important Nymph structure and will ''not'' go easy on anybody who tries to break in; it's just that Vince, Iris, and Madeline had no intention of breaking in.

[[folder:Randy/"King Flinx"]]
A larger, more humanoid version of the Snow Flinx enemies. His debut is through the eleventh Octobionicer comic, and he appears in a few of the comics after. In ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' proper, he appears in Chapter 4 as a "friend" of Fridginy's, that is quickly shoed away when he tries to attack Vince and his friends, but Fridginy explains that they are no longer enemies. He tries to antagonize the Naked Empire, but is too weak to do much of anything.

The type that was just "Nymphs" in the canon game. One of the two "special" types of Nymphs, the other being the Dryads, they have a connection to the undead. They and the Dryads were the two Variants with the highest populations, but after the fall of the Dryads, the Oreads had become the one with the highest population by far. They are also in some ways considered the "generic" Nymph, being that they have no strong ties to any biome (except "generic" caves and the Underworld, neither of which is considered its "own biome" in the way places like the Desert, Snowfield, Skylands and the like are) and their powers are more plain and tied to biome purification than the elements, indirect Zombie-commanding aside. Lastly, they hate clothing even more than the other Variants; unlike any of them, seeing an Oread so much as decorate their limbs with an elemental/natural material is rare, and seeing them outright have an accessory, let alone being fully dressed, is unspeakably rare.

* TheDreaded: Dryads as a whole scare Nymphs, with Tania being a heroic example. Fridginy's gang implies when having Vince, Iris, and Madeline over that they don't like talking about or ''thinking'' about the Dryads for very long, and want the subject changed when it comes up. Fulgra spells out "D-R-Y-A-Ds" when bringing them up in a conversation at one point, suggesting them as [[TheScottishTrope a race who must not be named.]] If the side stories are any indication, Tania is one of the few people capable of making ''Sonata'' in to a nervous wreck.

* FantasticRacism: They see Nymphs in general as horrid animals who need to learn modesty and put some clothes on. Based on the sheer hatred that other races have to ''them,'' they don't treat the others much better, and the Elves are widely loathed by everyone else in return, the Wood Elves in particular.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed as they were still enemies in the original game (except the summons, pets, and Town Slimes), but the Slimes are portrayed as unamibguously sapient, hostile, and working under the BigBad of a side-story. In ''Terraria'', it's not clear if Slimes without faces are even sapient, including King Slime or Queen Slime.

* HornyDevils: ''Nymphlopedia'' says that her type is the closest not just out of the Nymphs, but of the races in Terraria in general (even when considering the actual Demons) that counts as a "succubus" or "incubus" in their verse. She is a downplayed example: She is not a rapist, does not need sex to survive, and does not feed on it either, but she does specialize in seduction as her main weapon, she's suggested to be even more "developed" than her immediate companions, and enjoys teasing other people. Vince is notably head over heels for her.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the monster girl HaremSeeker hero. The story and Sonata herself suggests that there's at least a little wrong with him for thinking the Nymphs, dangerous people-eating monsters, are hot despite the risks, and still wanting to bed them even after having a very nasty encounter with one of the most poweful, evil Nymphs in all of Terraria. The biggest obstacle to his and Sonata's romantic relationship is that Sonata isn't sure how much said relationship would be him unhealthily loving a shadow, and suggests that they wait a bit before seeing if his feelings for her really are "love" or not.

* PrimaryColorChampion: Downplayed. She doesn't ''wear'' red, yellow, or blue -- she doesn't wear anything at all -- but her first three Nymph allies are of those colors. She is also one of the main heroic leads.

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Zig-zagged. Inspired by [[https://old.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/g4vmw7/decided_to_fanart/ this piece of fanart,]] Tania is ''always'' topless. Her bottom on the other hand could range from being skimpy or nothing at all, to a fairly modest large leaf skirt that covers ''more'' of her than her in-game outfit from the waist down. In short, whether or not Tania falls under this prior to going around completely nude depends on if she's looked at from a topfree perspective. Her "starting outfit" in ''Romancing'' prior is not known, as as of Chapter 6, her costume was not described.

* ArcVillain: She is the main villain of the Snow and Sand Arc, as the "leader" figure of both halves of the group, who had spent the arc at first harassing the heroes before turning around. Impetua by far is more aggressive than them and it takes more effort to get to her.

* MoralityPet: The Snow and Sand Gang are walking proof that Impetua isn't just a heartless asshole even in her first appearance. Even when ''they'' attack ''her,'' she refuses to raise a finger against them. She is also genuinely nice and friendly to Arborea.

[[folder:Cassara the Tropic Nymph (Chartreuse)]]
Another Snow Half member.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pamcas the Field Nymph (Harlequin)]]
Another roommate of Harsahne's in the Sand Half. When introducing herself to Sonata, she is very quick to explain that she is not part of some kind of clown-based organization common among other Saturated Harlequin Nymphs.
[[/folder]]

* AMinorKidroduction: Unlike the other major Sun Island Nymphs, she's first introduced as a kid -- pre-transitioning, going by Arben at the time -- through a flashback. This is because that flashback is Impetua's story, while Arborea was still a complete mystery to the main trio.

* SinisterScythe: Her main weapon is the wood around her arms morphed in to arm-covering scythes, and the narrative even nicknames her a "reaper" at one point. While she isn't evil, she's still antagonistic even to the StarterVillain Nymph group, and would later antagonize the main gang.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even back when she was about eleven years old, all Arborea wanted was to defend and protect others. Unfortunately, she gets suckered in to the Deep Woods form of "protection," which also involves pushing non-Deep Wooders to completely submit and comply to their rather shady system, and they are trying to bleed out the rest of the world economically if they refuse. Her devotion to this system is so extreme that it even [[spoiler:turns her against her own wife]].

[[folder:Algara the Kelp Forest Nymph (Sea Green)]]
Another roommate of Harsahne's in the Sand Half.
[[/folder]]

* {{Jerkass}}: She's the biggest asshole of the Sand Half and competes with Fridginy in being the meanest of the Snow and Sand Gang, minus Impetua. She likes to pick fights with outsiders for petty reasons, nevermind that her overall "leader," Impetua, utterly hates it when anybody does that to anyone.

[[folder:Dhivuu the Skyland Nymph (Cerulean)]]
Another Sand Half member. She enjoys patrolling the clouds and using cloud-like tools, harkening to her home biome.

[[folder:Aquafla the Lake/Ocean Nymph (Blue)]]
The third and last of Sonata's initial "tenants," a "Water" Nymph that found Sonata's flyers and wanted to check out her living place.

[[folder:Fluane the Deep River Nymph (Indigo)]]
Another Sand Half member.

* OddFriendship: Her friendship with Harsahne is considered this, as according to the description given on Deserts at the end of Chapter 5 of ''Romancing'', River Nymphs and Desert Nymphs getting along is rare. They're known to get in to fights more often than not.

[[folder:Floyaz the Flower Forest Nymph (Purple)]]
An artist with a bit of an ego, and a Snow Half member.

[[folder:Spivva the Thorn Forest Nymph (Magenta)]]
A Sand Half member.

!!! Washed Island
A mysterious island mentioned by Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods. As of Chapter 5 of ''Romancing'', little is known about it.

!! "Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

[[folder:Trent the Guide]]
An old friend of Vince's who came to the Shores of Sparkling with him to start a new life, him being the brains to Vince's brawns and telling him about the inner workings of living as an Adventurer.
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Fan has no intention to change him getting killed to begin Hardmode. He also stated that he is not going to "respawn" or be replaced by another Guide, so his death will be ''more'' permanent than in the game proper]].
* NiceGuy: As a small contrast to Vince, who has his moments of quick selfishness and snark, Trent is considerably more polite and reaches out to others.

[[folder:Iris the Stylist]]
The first Human aside from the Guide Vince and Sonata encounters on the Shores of Sparkling, a hair stylist who gets trapped in a spider cave. After being saved, she moves in and becomes an ally of Vince's, as well as a shaky friend of Sonata's.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edwin the Merchant]]
A seller of general goods and tools that moves in after Vince works up a bit of money from his disasterous first night. Sonata takes a liking to him and wants him to be the official merchant of the Naked Empire.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: He's a secondary character as the go-to "merchant of the Naked Empire," and is introduced at the very end of the second chapter along with Madeline.
* TooDumbToLive: In the Octobionicer comics, he's seen encountering a Mimic that Greum tattooed with "VEGIN" (sic), and thinks it's a totally harmless vegan Mimic. Subverted in that he escapes alive and well and even somehow befriended the Mimic, as seen in the big finale.

[[folder:Madeline the Nurse]]
A medic that moves to the Shores of Sparkling after hearing about an Adventurer, Vince, with enough life to turn up a profit if she heals. While an ally of the Naked Empire, she doesn't get along with them as well as most others. Vince in particular is openly not on good terms with her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Of the women in the group, Vince and Sonata noteably butt heads with her more often than they do with anyone else. They generally dislike her snarky personality and find her healing services too expensive for their tastes, so they generally are only around her as a last resort. When she herself tells Vince and Iris to huddle up with her naked to survive the cold, Vince treats that as a bad thing, despite also liking Iris and not minding huddling with her.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She debuts at the very end of the second chapter, and would go on to become a semi-major character afterward.

[[folder:Tordak the Demolitionist]]
A Dwarf with an affinity for explosions that shows up because Vince nabbed a bomb after his close encounter with Lindsey's Door Nymphs at the beginning of the story.

[[folder:Mollie the Zoologist]]
A researcher of animals who was inflicted with a lycanthropy curse at a young age. In ''Romancing'', she first appears in her transformed werefox state, then immediately turns back as she runs in to Sonata, getting her and her friends to rescue Mollie's brother. She is the first "NPC" that Sonata encounters without Vince around, not counting Sonata's red/yellow/blue tenant trio.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Downplayed, but she's entirely aware of her curse and how it works compared to the original game, where she would wonder about her passing out and waking up.
* AuthorAppeal: She ends up losing the fox curse much earlier than in the game (which takes until at least the Moon Lord is defeated, in the epilogue-credits; in ''Romancing the Last Dryad'', it happens towards the end of the second arc, and a mere one chapter after her first appearance) mostly because Fan doesn't like part-animal/anthro characters in general. Also, Fan just felt sorry for her and her cursed state in general and wanted her to have a happy ending sooner.
* BaitAndSwitch: Her introduction is her, transformed in the full moon, breaking in to the shack that Sonata and her group were resting in. (Which was actually the shack that ''Vince and his group'' built to survive the blizzard.) A fight between her and Sonata's quartet is set up, and it's implied that Mollie's werefox form is a good deal ''stronger'' than a "normal" Nymph... except the night ends right as Mollie dashes at them, and she turns back, harmless. She immediately trusts the four and asks them to help her out, and they do not actually fight.
* BodyPaint: Her "Halloween costume" in the final Octobionicer entry is just strips of paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]]'s fur stripes. This is based on an actual cosplay of her.
* MagicPants: Averted. Her transformation apparently destroyed her clothes, but she doesn't mind.
* MotorMouth: She talks fast and a lot, especially under distress. It reaches the point where even Sonata, herself no slouch in the energy department, has trouble understanding her and asks her to slow down.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her transformation to a fox-like form destroys her clothes, but she doesn't care, and is never in a hurry to re-dress or even just dress herself. She's one of the first people Nigel converts to nudism in the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, and in Fan's Octobionicer finale, her "Halloween costume" is just strips of white paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]], along with a wig and tail. Even through the week going over the preparation for fighting Impetua in ''Romancing'', she is never once seen actually wearing clothes.

[[folder:Billy Bones the Golfer]]
Mollie's older brother and a golfer that got stranded out in the Desert, dragged underground by the Sand Nymphs. Mollie recruits Sonata, Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla to rescue him.

* BadassInDistress: Like all of the town residents, he can still fight, but he's captive by a team of eight Nymphs and surrounded by Desert monsters that all overpower him.

[[folder:Hiram the Dye Trader]]
A specialist in color and dyes that comes to the Shores of Sparkling on news that it has all sorts of rare dye ingredients, especially noting Vince's plucking of a Yellow Marigold as he approaches the East Beach.
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* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Downplayed. Unlike most of the other town residents, he's distressed with nudity, but he can tolerate it. He enters an OddFriendship with Iris, who by that point just decides to go full-on nudist (aside from wearing clothes to protect herself from the cold). By Chaper 6, he's outright having casual sex with Iris, showing that he ''really'' doesn't mind being around her, although he's embarrassed at the thought of their relationship going public.

[[folder:Stefano the Painter]]
An artist that arrives right as the gang is planning their fight with Impetua. He has a fondness for Nymphs and almost immediately becomes friends with Sonata.

* AscendedExtra: He's one of the least-useful [=NPCs=] in the original game, and in ''Romancing'' his role is pretty minor, yet in the comics he tends to have a bigger role as either half or all of a "pervert team" with Darnell, owing to his blatant crush on both Tania and Sonata.

[[folder:Nigel the Old Man/Clothier]]
A man cursed by the Dungeon's wrath to stand guard of it, transforming in to his "master," Skeletron, when challenged.

* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, he initially seems like a one-off gag in the first one, then he returns in the background converting everyone to nudism in the second, and the plot of the third is kicked off because his conversion to nudism A: made him retire from the clothing business, so he no longer makes or sells clothes, and B: almost everyone else runs around naked, so there are less options to borrow clothes from, which is what "forces" Tania to go all the way to the Underground Jungle to get her outfit in the first place.

[[folder:Sophia the Mechanic]]

!! Lindsey's Gang

[[folder:Lindsey]]
An extremely powerful, ancient Oread who rules her own massive city deep beneath a distant, desert island with an iron first. A raider and pillager, Nymphs and to a lesser extent Non-Nymphs are afraid of her, including the Dryads.
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* BigBad: She's the overall villain of ''Romancing the Last Dryad''. Stopping her will be one of, if not the, major endgoals of the entire gang.
* DomesticAbuse: She's said to treat her entire harem terribly. From what is seen as of Chapter 4, they are all blindly worshipping her out of fear of any retaliation, and it's pretty obvious she doesn't even value their lives or wellbeing.
* TheDreaded: ''The'' top of the Nymph foodchain in the entire planet. Everybody else, even other Dreaded characters like Impetua, are afraid of Lindsey, as she is a conqueror who had raided and pillaged Nymph villages for centuries and currently lives in a gigantic metropolis fortress. ''Nymphlopedia'' is the only time as of June 2022 [[OrcusOnHisThrone where she is seen in action,]] and [[spoiler:she is shown to be capable of curb-stomping a Dryad army during their prime, even when armed with giant plant mechs.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Great Pikmin Fan has said that she's meant to be one to Sonata. Both are Oreads who want to be a part of their own cities/civilizations, take pride in their nudity, want a harem, and are melee fighters with an affinity for swords in particular. But whereas Sonata is at worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, warms up, treats her "Nymph harem" as a group of friends that she cares for deeply, and has a decent amount of standards keeping her out of total villainy; Lindsey is an evil, abusive tyrant who murders and takes over without sympathy, and she treats her "Nymph harem" as a band of slaves.
* FullFrontalAssault: Played with. She's an Oread and is normally naked like the rest of them, which does not take away her intimidation at all, but [[spoiler:she has been known to wear clothes relatively more often than other Oreads. One case is the end of Nymphlopedia, where she is described as wearing boots, something the other Dryads find uncanny.]]
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:In the original ''Nymphlopedia''. While talked about, she is not seen in the story until the Dryad chapter, where she starts an attack on the Jungle and implicitly manages to kill several Dryads.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: She ''could'' have just chased after Vince and Sonata herself and destroy their entire village. She just doesn't think they're big enough threats to do so, so she just sics her Door Nymphs on them if they want to, and once they escape, she lets them go without much protest. After that, Lindsey spends a good portion of the fanfic just walled up in her cave-metropolis, while Vince and Sonata get in to conflicts with other Nymphs mostly.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: In ''Romancing'', she is introduced in the second chapter along with her harem and her general city. The first two chapters are halves of a two-parter, with Chapter 2 being part of the same arc and continuing directly after Chapter 1, except more focussed on Lindsey than Sonata/saving Iris.
* TomTheDarkLord: Head crimelord of the Nymph world and a powerful leader of a massive army. Ten thousand years old and not the sort of person anyone would want to piss off. Her name, "Lindsey," is very mundane-sounding and does not convey any of this. Chapter 5 lampshades this by saying that, apparently in Terraria, the name "Lindsey" actually has Nymph origins and came from ''her,'' and after her attrocities became more and more known to the public, it became a much less popular name.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Compared to most of the general ''Zenith Nymph'' content, especially the meme-y MS Paint comics, she's far more serious and threatening. She is even deliberately kept out of the meme content to help keep this image up -- [[spoiler:her only appearanace outside of ''Romancing'' is the final chapter of ''Nymphlopedia'', and while ''Nymphlopedia'' is overall more lighthearted than ''Romancing'', the chapter she is in is considerably darker and more serious than the rest of it]].

[[folder:Key Holders/"Door Nymphs"]]
A decet, at least, of Oreads that act as Lindsey's personal gatekeepers and servants. Lindsey sics them on people she doesn't feel like fighting personally.
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* TheDragon: The one with the lime hair is the one Lindsey places ''slightly'' above the others, she has a ''slight'' amount of commanding power over the rest, and in terms of blindly worshipping Lindsey she's the most lucid. In the second chapter, she's the last one standing after the rest are knocked off of the mine cart tracks, puts up the hardest fight, and manages to destroy Sonata's first Copper Shortsword.

[[folder:Dave]]
Sophia's younger brother. A mechanical prodigy just like her, but ''far'' less stable and working for Lindsey for unknown reasons.
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* MirrorBoss: He is confirmed to become this, he has his own army of Nymphs somehow, and they'll clash with Sonata's army.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: He's a goofy weirdo [[ButtMonkey always getting abused,]] whereas his leader is one of the most serious villains in the series.
* YouTalkTooMuch: He gets this from Sonata in ''Nymphlopedia''. According to her, the reason why she doesn't know anything about him isn't because he keeps his life a secret, but the opposite -- she cannot ask him anything without him telling her his ''entire'' life story, which she has no interest in hearing in its full.

!! Cthulhu, His Organs, and the Lunatic Cult

[[folder:The Moon Lord/Cthulhu]]
An extradimensional horror that seeks to take over Terraria. He was beaten in battle twice before, the first being a temporary seal that absolutely would break on its own in due time. After breaking out of that, he gave the Dryads a much tougher fight that wiped out all of them but Tania, yet his organs were ripped out and he was placed under a far stronger seal banishing him to the dark side of the Moon. It would take an active ritual to bring him back from the latter, which is the goal of the Lunatic Cult.

!! Other Canon Bosses

[[folder:Empress of Light]]
* LargeHam: The Weekly Dryad Memes show her being like this, as her "comments" are in all caps, and she speaks with a generally over-dramatic speech style. The whole joke about her is that she completely subverts how one might think she acts.

!! True King's Court

[[folder:In General]]
The main villains of the ''True King Slime Attack!'' side-story. Short bios of each of them had been posted throughout October 2021 as part of an art challenge.

[[folder:True King Slime]]
The ''actual,'' significantly more powerful leader of the Slime race.

[[folder:Terra Tank X AI]]
The "final" form of the Terra Tank weapon, and its strange-looking AI that works under True King Slime. It guards the Red Barrier in an Underground Mushroom Field.

[[folder:Fountaya]]
A being with time/age powers called a Chronic. She likes to scam people by claiming to be a legitimate fountain of youth, only to curse them and age them to dust. She ''could'' grant people eternal youth, she just doesn't want to. She guards the Pink Barrier in a Desert.
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* FanDisservice: Her true form is a naked woman. But she looks like a dried out husk with pinprick lights in empty eyeholes, and she also has arms sprouting all over from her.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She's part of the side story's QuirkyMinibossSquad and has several long and lanky arms, most noteably two of them growing directly out of her back.

[[folder:Hom Trio (Homette, Homman, Homretta)]]
A triad of spring toys based on a ''Simpsons''-esque [[ShowWithinAShow Franchise Within the Story]] brought to life and made to serve True King Slime. They are easily the weirdest of True King Slime's minions. They guard the Yellow Barrier in a Snowfield.

[[folder:Fallacy]]
An Illusionist (that's the name of her race) that disguises as others and likes tricking others with, well, illusions. She can also shape-shift. She guards the Purple Barrier in a tower out in the Ocean.

[[folder:Sawflame]]
The last Flare who had not moved on to another world, a race of fire and metal beings that had been considered "anti-Dryads." He felt guilty of sticking to Terraria instead of joining his bretherin by moving to unknown worlds, and True King Slime used that guilt to recruit him. He guards the Orange Barrier in the Sky.

[[folder:Pants]]
A bizarre eldritch being that vaguely resembles a pair of pants, just partly organic and partly made of some magic horror, and with his "insides" being gateways to other nightmarish dimensions. Few if any know of his real story, and he doesn't share much about himself with any of the other Barrier Guardians, although he is rumored to talk to True King Slime. He guards the Lime Barrier in the Underworld.

* {{Bathos}}: Part of his "gimick" is that he's a walking pair of pants and yet he is also one of the most threatening villains in the ''Zenith Nymph'' series, played pretty seriously compared to the others.
* TheDragon: He is True King Slime's personal right-hand man and confirmed to be the final Barrier Guardian the Naked Empire actually fights.
* OneHitKill: What makes him so dangerous and feared by all others is that he can ''canonically'' one-shot his enemies.
* PortalCut: This is one method he uses of killing people with his "put on" attack -- put them halfway through his portal inside to another dimension, then change the destination, which also slices the person partway inside.
* ShoutOut: The "top view" of him shows the pink face from the [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Fly of Despair]] as well as [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Delirium,]] and part of his "fabric" on his bio sheet resembles [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Uboa.]]

!! Other "Bosses"

[[folder:Ultimate Hydra of Death and Destruction]]
What looks like a species of massive, fearsome, seven-headed dragon beings, but is actually little more than an annoying pest. One of them attacks the gang unprovoked early in their adventure, and meets its end quickly after.

* AntiClimax: It comes out of nowhere and seems like a terrifying beast... but the main characters, who know enough about them to know that they're harmless, don't really care. Vince kills it an instant later.
* PaperTiger: It's a huge, seven-headed, flying beast, with each head appearing to have a different elemental affinity. It's actually very weak and near-harmless, as its only main "attack" is to breathe warm air at people. Vince is barely phased, Sonata doesn't even feel anything at all because Nymphs are built for extreme temperatures, and the former threeshots it with the weakest bow and arrow in the original game.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It only shows up just to breathe warm air at Vince and Sonata and get killed by them a second later, but this death is what puts them on Impetua's radar, setting up the climax of the first arc and moving things along with the Nymphs faster than they would have been otherwise.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Invoked, the "fight" against it is supposed to be a loose novelization of a hypothetical modded "joke boss." Vince just shoots three Wooden Arrows at it and it dies.

[[folder:Terra Tank]]
A tank made out of wood and other various energy-plant parts taken from the Energy Forests, and Impetua's trump card weapon. According to the Octobionicer entries, it will end up being fought, destroyed, rebuilt, and taken over by many other factions multiple times. Its "final" incarnation has an AI that functions as its own character, as described under True King Slime's folder.

* TankGoodness: It's a giant wooden tank made from materials of the Force Forests capable of unleashing powerful energy blasts. The Terra Tank is also extremely fast -- in the time it took for Sonata to try to scare Impetua from within it, the tank already moved from the Forest to the border of the Desert, which is a pretty big gap given that the fanfic "scales up" the size of the world so that biomes are much larger.
* WarmupBoss: It is the first actual boss fight that Vince and Sonata fight in their stay on Sun Island/The Shores of Sparkling, after Lindsey just sicced her mooks on them and the Hydra turned out to be a joke fight.

!! Other

[[folder:Cold Temple Guard]]
A huge, muscular spellcaster Snow Nymph assigned to guard the Cold Temple in the Shores of Sparkling's Snowfield. Vince, Iris, and Madeline briefly run in to her while escaping from Fridginy's ice prison.

* GentleGiant: Downplayed. She's twice the size of a Human being and much beefier than any of the characters who were around her in her debut chapter, but she's much nicer and more reasonable than the paranoid Fridginy or the short-tempered Impetua. The downplay comes from how she is still guarding an important Nymph structure and will ''not'' go easy on anybody who tries to break in; it's just that Vince, Iris, and Madeline had no intention of breaking in.

[[folder:Randy/"King Flinx"]]
A larger, more humanoid version of the Snow Flinx enemies. His debut is through the eleventh Octobionicer comic, and he appears in a few of the comics after. In ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' proper, he appears in Chapter 4 as a "friend" of Fridginy's, that is quickly shoed away when he tries to attack Vince and his friends, but Fridginy explains that they are no longer enemies. He tries to antagonize the Naked Empire, but is too weak to do much of anything.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Parodied. Despite being very humanoid at least from the neck down, he still wears clothes like a stereotypical cartoon animal would, putting on shirts but not wearing pants.
* HarmlessVillain: Nobody takes him seriously, between his sensitivity to knockback, goofy appearance, and generally sucking at everything he tries.
* KingMook: Parodied. He's supposed to be a stronger version of the Snow Flinx enemies, and everything about them is "amplified" with him... including their habit of getting blown large distances. Their "knockback sensitivity" is so amplified with him that a single punch could send him flying across entire islands. This makes him ''less'' threatening than the standard Snow Flinxes.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Great Pikmin Fan rarely actually copy-pastes when making ''Terraria'' shitpost comics. King Flinx is an exception, with most of his physical appearances just re-using the image of him from his debut comic, maybe with a shirt.
* SavedByCanon: Unless ''Romancing'' diverges from the "ending" implied by the Octobionicer comics, [[spoiler:he ends up outliving the Moon Lord and True King Slime at least, and at some point has a Heel-Face Turn and becomes a genuine friend to the heroes.]]

[[folder:The Former Elf King]]
Some decades ago, the then-current King of the Forest Elves wanted to outright colonize and take over the Nature Islands, also having the Nymphs that live on them be clothing-wearing servants of his. The Nymphs rejected this, putting it mildly.

* AnArmAndALeg: Unlike his militant official, he thinks Impetua is bluffing when she threatens to cut off his legs. After refusing to back down anyway, she chops them off and he is seen in his next scene using crutches to keep himself up.
* ButtMonkey: It's clear that he's no match for even generic Nymph mooks, let alone powerful warriors and warlords like Arborea and Impetua respectively. Almost every scene he's in has him suffer some kind of abuse, and it's played for laughs, even his leg-losing [[spoiler:and death]].
* HateSink: While there is some GrayAndGreyMorality between Impetua and Arborea as to which one's methods of protecting the Nature Islands and the people within are "better" (both are horribly flawed and extreme, but they still both have a point), the Elf King in the time of Arborea and Impetua is nothing but a greedy asshole with no redeeming qualities willing to throw his own teenage citizens in to a war for the sole sake of taking over islands that did nothing to him. He's basically there to show just what kind of things the Nymphs have to deal with, and ''why'' their extreme methods exist in the first place.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:His final appearance in Chapter 6 is him getting his head sliced off by Arborea after trying to take over the Nature Islands again, this time with Child Soldiers. The story cuts to Mollie having taken off the head of a training dummy to represent this]].
* PosthumousCharacter: As revealed in the second-to-last flashback of Chapter 6, [[spoiler:he's already dead by the present. Arborea slices his head off with her thickwood scythes]].

!! Nymph Races

[[folder:Nymphs in General]]
"Nature entities" and, apparently, the first non-deity race in all of Terraria. While Oreads make up the majority and Dryads used to be the majority along with them, opposite sides of the same coin in terms of ties with the dark and light, undead and life (respectively in both cases), there are hundreds of Nymph types "in-between" that each have a biome to them. Nymphs of all types are generally bizarre monsters with a hatred of clothes.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Nymphs of almost all kinds are very colorful in their true forms and have some sort of color theme to them. The "basic Nymphs"/Oreads are usually green-skinned with some reddish brown patches that resemble blood, but they can at least also have yellowish skin or blue skin (the latter is implied to be rarer). The Nymph Variants are more uniform, being colored after whatever Variant they are and matching their hair and eyes: Fire Nymphs being all red, Lightning Nymphs being all yellow, and so on. What color Tania or any Dryad's skin "really" is is not revealed as of June 2022, as nobody has mentioned it and Tania has always been seen in her disguised Human skin tone form, even when sufficiently pissed off.
* AndIMustScream: This is the fate of any Nymph that petrifies in an Infectuous Biome. Until an outside party either purifies the area, moves them out of it, or touches them with enough "natural" things, they're stuck as "statues" of their respective "material" and yet they are fully conscious and aware of what is going on around them. Sonata confirms this in Chapter 4 of ''Romancing''; her utilizing her purification powers in the nick of time helps prevents her and her fire/lightning/water trio friends from being stuck in the Corruption indefinitely.
* TheBeastmaster: Nymphs in general are capable of communing/"suggesting" with animals, and are good at taming them to do what they want. Sonata is at least capable of having Cave Bats carry her flyers around, but her "two in three success rate" implies that they are not too good with that. The Nymphs of the Sand Gang are also able to command Antlions, enough so that they could transport six people clear across the island.
* BizarreAlienBiology: All Nymphs do not have "internal organs" per say, but a series of vines of sorts that they can make come out of their orfices/through "tears" in the skin at will.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Nymphs not only have meaningless biological sexes (HomosexualReproduction is possible along with hetero), but they are also capable of reproducing asexually, through planting seeds. The latter means that Tania is not doomed to be the last-ever Dryad and could start her own descendants. However, she was cursed so that Cthulhu needs to be killed before she can begin planting her own seeds.
* CreepyGood: Nymphs in general are shapeshifting beings that can basically be described as clusters of vines and eyes inside of a humanoid skin, and while by ''default'' they appear as CuteMonsterGirl[=s=] that at worst have unnatural body colors, they can very easily drop this act and make themselves look horrifying if they want to. Yet Sonata and her company are on the side of good, no matter how intimidating they get. This also applies to Tania, [[HorrifyingTheHorror who even intimidates other Nymphs,]] and is more prone to explosive bouts of anger or making herself look creepy than a bulk of them are.
* ExposedToTheElements: It's explained that Nymphs of all kinds can withstand very warm and very cold temperatures -- it's only extremes like lava or direct burning/freezing magic that actually deal harm to them, which explains how neither the Dryad NPC nor the Nymph enemy seem to mind being in hot/cold environments despite being naked, but they can still be harmed by lava, Frostburn, and the like, explaining why Nymphs in-game and the Dryad still take damage from lava/magma and fire/ice-based debuffs.
* FullFrontalAssault: Their entire race is naked by default, and they are dangerous badasses people generally don't want to piss off. This is why their motto as a whole is "Rule #1: Nymphs do not wear clothes, period." Even the Dryads, the badass nature warriors who are "modest" compared to them, are still topless by default.
* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Aside from some weird colors (and even those can be changed via light shapeshifting) and ''possibly'' pointy ears, Nymphs of all Variants discussed as of April 2022 look completely human on the outside. Even their true forms are confirmed to just be them with odd colors[[note]]Meaning Sonata's true form is in fact her with green skin and red patches, while Tania's has yet to be seen[[/note]]. On the inside, however, they have bizarre vine-like organs with eyeballs (green and vinelike for Dryads, gray and stonelike for Oreads), and they can take these in and out of themselves at will, mostly to intimidate people who piss them off. They are also capable of having their eyes retract in to their sockets.
* NotQuiteFlight: In addition to the standard wings from in-game, it is revealed that the enhancements brought on to the world from entering "Hardmode" also granted every single Nymph the ability to fly "naturally" (IE without any wing accessories) by making wings out of their weird vine organs.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: The Nymphs are an entire race of these, knowing about Humanity's general nudity taboo and not only not giving a damn, but being actively against it. There's a good reason why "Rule #1" (and the ''only'' "definitive" rule among the Nymphs) is that they do not wear clothes. Period. Most of the Variants have elemental/biomass-based things around their arms and legs that they can use to aide their powers, but that's it, and Oreads lack even that. The Dryads are the closest Variant to being a TokenWholesome, as they "wear clothes," but they are very skimpily-dressed compared to Humans, Goblins, Dwarves, and so on. Even then, it's implied that they only really wear "clothes" as a symbol of rebellion against the other Nymph types. The closer Tania is to Sonata and the other Nymphs, the less she wears by default. Fan confirmed that Sonata in particular will never put on a single stitch throughout the entirety of ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' at least, meaning that she never develops any sense of modesty nor does she ever have to disguise or go in any situation that would require her to put anything on.
* TakenForGranite: This is what happens to Nymphs of any type that are left in an Infectuous Biome for too long without "proper training" or magic to counteract with it, although the process can easily be reversed through purification or just taking them out. Oreads turn in to just stone, Dryads in to wood/a tree similar to what the Dryad does in the game's credits, and the Variants turn in to this color-coded muddy stuff that's like a blend of a statue form and a tree form. In Chapter 4 of ''Romancing'', this happens to Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla, and almost happens to Sonata until she manages to send a purification burst that frees all four of them.

[[folder:Oreads]]
The type that was just "Nymphs" in the canon game. One of the two "special" types of Nymphs, the other being the Dryads, they have a connection to the undead. They and the Dryads were the two Variants with the highest populations, but after the fall of the Dryads, the Oreads had become the one with the highest population by far. They are also in some ways considered the "generic" Nymph, being that they have no strong ties to any biome (except "generic" caves and the Underworld, neither of which is considered its "own biome" in the way places like the Desert, Snowfield, Skylands and the like are) and their powers are more plain and tied to biome purification than the elements, indirect Zombie-commanding aside. Lastly, they hate clothing even more than the other Variants; unlike any of them, seeing an Oread so much as decorate their limbs with an elemental/natural material is rare, and seeing them outright have an accessory, let alone being fully dressed, is unspeakably rare.

[[folder:Dryads]]
A near-extinct Variant and one of the two "special" ones along with Oreads. They were the self-proclaimed guardians of nature and defenders of the planet. Some time in the distant past, they had a falling out with the Oreads and the other Nymph types in-between them, and created a barrier keeping them underground. Centuries later, all but one of them were killed by Cthulhu breaking free from his temporary lunar prison, and the Nymphs became free to roam the surface again for the current hundred years. The Last Dryad is both trying to purify the world of all the hostile Evil Biomes and eliminate the last of Cthulhu's remains.\\
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This folder details the Dryad race in general, mainly historically; tropes covering the last surviving Dryad are under Tania's folder.

* TheDreaded: Dryads as a whole scare Nymphs, with Tania being a heroic example. Fridginy's gang implies when having Vince, Iris, and Madeline over that they don't like talking about or ''thinking'' about the Dryads for very long, and want the subject changed when it comes up. Fulgra spells out "D-R-Y-A-Ds" when bringing them up in a conversation at one point, suggesting them as [[TheScottishTrope a race who must not be named.]] If the side stories are any indication, Tania is one of the few people capable of making ''Sonata'' in to a nervous wreck.
* TokenWholesome: Compared to the other types of Nymphs. They not only wear relatively more clothes than any Nymph Variant, but they are much more reserved about sex and the like compared to their open free-love cultures. It is played for drama in that this is seen as the Dryads giving a huge middle finger to the other types of Nymphs, putting clothes on and distancing themselves, being "closer to the Humans" as a result... with all signs pointing to this ''not'' being a good thing, unlike most cases of clothing being used to "humanize" and nudity being used to "dehumanize."
[[/folder]]

!! Other Races

[[folder:Humans]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dwarves]]
A race of cave-dwelling, short people that have a fondness for bombs and digging. As of June 2022, the only member seen is the one from the original game -- the Demolitionist, in this case named Tordak.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Tordak comments something about getting nudity in the Mountains in Chapter 3 of ''Romancing'' that implies that Dwarves aren't as strict with clothing as Humans are, and he's the exception rather than the rule. When Impetua talks about "prudes" in a flashback in Chapter 6, she mentions Humans, Goblins, and Elves, but leaves out Dwarves, supporting this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goblins]]
A rather militant race considered aggressive and known to start wars over something like cloth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harpies]]
A race of bird-people who dwell in the skies. Said to be territorial and aggressive, they don't like other people going up there.
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* OneGenderRace: Averted. Great Pikmin Fan's profile explains that male Harpies do exist, but they are less common, like male Nymphs/Satyrs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elves]]
A race that almost everybody else absolutely hates. Unlike the hundreds if not thousands of types of Nymphs or Slimes, there are only two sub-types of Elves: Northern Elves that mostly live in the North Pole, fit the "Christmas" type of Elves, and are not as hated; and Wood Elves, who mostly live in Fortifica, resemble Tolkienesque Elves, [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress have been known to nag people about cutting down trees,]] and everybody ''really'' hates.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They have no problem in killing members of other races, slavery, rampant colonization, and using their own children as soldier fodder, but they really hate it when people cut down trees. Seeing that even Nymphs do this, they butt heads with every other race in Terraria.
* BullyingADragon: They have been known to pick on other societies despite being implied to be weaker in terms of both physical attributes and their gear, especially the Nymphs. This worked to ''some'' extent as they managed to set up ''some'' colonies, but it eventually backfired, and revolutions kicked them out.
* ButtMonkey: The Wood Elves are presented as tree-hugging weaklings that everyone else hates, and the abuse of their military and leaders is played for laughs. Their military and especially King deserve this, as Chapter 6 reveals that they are racist, colonizing assholes.
* FantasticRacism: They see Nymphs in general as horrid animals who need to learn modesty and put some clothes on. Based on the sheer hatred that other races have to ''them,'' they don't treat the others much better, and the Elves are widely loathed by everyone else in return, the Wood Elves in particular.
* ShoutOut: Great Pikmin Fan's profile confirms that the sheer hatred at Elves is inspired by the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' community and game, which is reflected by their love for trees.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Slimes]]
Slimes initially seem like ordinary, generic, weak (for the most part) enemies and fodder for the sword. However, they are in fact their own race, possibly from another dimension, and are ruled by the true Slime monarchs, sapient beings. Slimes and Nymphs are enemies with one-another.
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* BlindingBangs: Her hair is explicitly described as covering her eyes right before [[spoiler:she kills the Elf King]].

* {{Expy}}: Most of the Sun Island Nymphs are based on the deans(/formerly professors) of ''FanFic/RunGifocalypse'', except translated as Nymphs instead of [=.GIFfany=] copies, and none of them are related or knew each other to completely remove any selfcest/incest implications. Generally, they are "Nymph counterparts" of the deans of the same color, although Impetua and Expvira are two exceptions. With the exceptions of Arborea and Impetua, none of them are in ''nearly'' as high of positions of power as the deans were either:

[[folder:Igniss the Magma Lake Nymph (Red)]]

One of three Nymphs that found Sonata from her ads and decided to become her tenant, soon being her friend after a life-changing experience trying to cross the Corruption Chasm.

[[folder:Utavnem the Harvest Nymph (Vermilion)]]

Another roommate of Fridginy's in the Snow Half.

[[folder:Pemtera the Canyon Nymph (Orange)]]

Another roommate of Fridginy's in the Snow Half. She is a very laid back earth user and, compared to the bulk of the Snow Gang, wants to try to lower conflict.

[[folder:Harsahne the Desert Nymph (Gold)]]

The "leader" of the Sand Half of the Snow and Sand Gang, and a best friend of Fridginy. She lives in the Desert, by a home underground with seven other Nymphs in her group.

[[folder:Fulgra the Volt Lake Nymph (Yellow)]]

Another one of Sonata's initial "tenants," an "Electric" Nymph that happily jumped at the call to go to Sonata's houses after reading about them via a flyer.

* LargeHam: She's the hammiest of the Red/Yellow/Blue Trio, loving to shout some of the things she says and being full of life in general.
* ShockAndAwe: She's from the Volt Lakes, a biome known for everything -- especially the water -- being highly electric. It's downplayed in that her innate lightning powers are not perfected as of Book 1, but she has resistance to electric weapons and Sonata suggests using that to counter Harsahne's Storm Spear.

[[folder:Cassara the Tropic Nymph (Chartreuse)]]

Another Snow Half member.

[[folder:Pamcas the Field Nymph (Harlequin)]]

Another roommate of Harsahne's in the Sand Half. When introducing herself to Sonata, she is very quick to explain that she is not part of some kind of clown-based organization common among other Saturated Harlequin Nymphs.

[[folder:Arborea the Deep Woods Nymph (Green)]]

A Nymph who lived in the Deep Woods, an especially thick forest with its own "Underground Forest"(/Underground Deep Wood). She's a rival to the entire Snow and Sand Gang, and various allies of her in the Deep Woods antagonize other parts of Sun Island. She used to have a personal history with Impetua.

* BlindingBangs: Her hair is explicitely described as covering her eyes right before [[spoiler:she kills the Elf King]].
* FantasticRacism: She really, ''really'' hates the Dryads, and in the pre-rewrite ''Nymphlopedia'', she attacks Tania on sight even when seeing her peacefully being with Vince and Sonata. This happens after Vince, Sonata, and Arborea have already become friends by that point.
* GreenThumb: She has much better control over her related plant matter than most of the main Nymphs -- rather than using a weapon like most of the others, she directly manipulates the matter around her limbs and forms things with them, causing giant spikes of wood to emerge from the ground or morphing wood to scythes. While she still has nothing on Tania's plant powers, she has the finest control over botanical matter in her own way, especially if it's her own native biome's type of wood.
* AMinorKidroduction: Unlike the other major Sun Island Nymphs, she's first introduced as a kid -- pre-transitioning, going by Arben at the time -- through a flashback. This is because that flashback is Impetua's story, while Arborea was still a complete mystery to the main trio.
* OppositesAttract: She's proper, dignified, likes following her home culture to a T, and is very sociable to others. Impetua is a swear-happy, loud, explosive warrior that would rather just embrace her inner animal. The two of them were married for a long period of time.
* SinisterScythe: Her main weapon is the wood around her arms morphed in to arm-covering scythes, and the narrative even nicknames her a "reaper" at one point. While she isn't evil, she's still antagonistic even to the StarterVillain Nymph group, and would later antagonize the main gang.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even back when she was about eleven years old, all Arborea wanted was to defend and protect others. Unfortunately, she gets suckered in to the Deep Woods form of "protection," which also involves pushing non-Deep Wooders to completely submit and comply to their rather shady system, and they are trying to bleed out the rest of the world economically if they refuse. Her devotion to this system is so extreme that it even [[spoiler:turns her against her own wife]].

[[folder:Algara the Kelp Forest Nymph (Sea Green)]]

Another roommate of Harsahne's in the Sand Half.

[[folder:Venatii the Wind Valley Nymph (Teal)]]

A rather hot-tempered and impulsive member of the Sand Half. She antagonizes Sonata right away on meeting, and escalates a conflict Harsahne would rather be resolved peacefully. She is also a major fan of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.

* BlowYouAway: She is associated with a windy biome and has a lot of air-themed moves at her disposal.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's the biggest asshole of the Sand Half and competes with Fridginy in being the meanest of the Snow and Sand Gang, minus Impetua. She likes to pick fights with outsiders for petty reasons, nevermind that her overall "leader," Impetua, utterly hates it when anybody does that to anyone.

[[folder:Expvira the Fogland/"Graveyard" Nymph (Aqua)]]

A quiet member of the Snow Half, Fridginy's unofficial "direct assistant" of sorts.

* {{Foil}}: To Venatii. Both of them are greenish-blue Nymphs that act as the "right hands" to their respective Snow and Sand leaders, but while Expvira is quiet and wants to get rid of the conflict the Snow Half has with Vince and company, Venatii is loud, hammy, and wants to escalate the conflict the Sand Half has with Sonata and company.

[[folder:Suultae the Spring Nymph (Cyan)]]

Another Snow Half member.

[[folder:Fridginy the Snow Nymph (Azure)]]

The "leader" of the Snow half of the Snow and Sand Gang, and a best friend of Harsahne. She lives in the Snowfields. She's a paranoid Snow Nymph that initially antagonizes Vince, Iris, and Madeline as they cross through the Snow in an attempt to get to the east beach of the island.

* ConspiracyTheorist: She is the Nymph equivalent of one. She immediately thinks that Vince, Madeline, and Iris simply trying to set up shelter in the Snow to survive a blizzard is actually them attempting to break in to the Cold Temple, despite being nowhere ''near'' strong enough to so much as get past the guard, let alone actually fight the Ice Golem lying within. In a flashback, she seems to believe in some sort of doomsday theory, although it is not clear if she still does, or if said theory has anything to do with Cthulhu. If the latter is true, then it's a case of TheCuckoolanderWasRight, as the Moon Lord leaving his prison is a ForegoneConclusion given by ''Nymphlopedia'' and other side materials. Impetua's speech in Chapter 6's final flashback implies that she encourages this, saying that anybody who goes on the island should be considered a threat, or a "source" of something if they are determined not to be (Harsahne's philosophy).
* {{Jerkass}}: Even compared to the antagonistic Snow and Sand Gang, she's rather rude and quick to be violent to anybody she slightly suspects as doing something wrong. Even ''Sonata'' thinks she's an ass, and has no problem punching her in the face for what she did to Vince and Iris (and Madeline, to a lesser extent).

[[folder:Dhivuu the Skyland Nymph (Cerulean)]]

Another Sand Half member. She enjoys patrolling the clouds and using cloud-like tools, harkening to her home biome.

[[folder:Aquafla the Lake/Ocean Nymph (Blue)]]

The third and last of Sonata's initial "tenants," a "Water" Nymph that found Sonata's flyers and wanted to check out her living place.

[[folder:Fluane the Deep River Nymph (Indigo)]]

Another Sand Half member.

* OddFriendship: Her friendship with Harsahne is considered this, as according to the description given on Deserts at the end of Chapter 5 of ''Romancing'', River Nymphs and Desert Nymphs getting along is rare. They're known to get in to fights more often than not.

[[folder:Floyaz the Flower Forest Nymph (Purple)]]

An artist with a bit of an ego, and a Snow Half member.

[[folder:Spivva the Thorn Forest Nymph (Magenta)]]

A Sand Half member.

!!! Washed Island

A mysterious island mentioned by Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods. As of Chapter 5 of ''Romancing'', little is known about it.

!! "Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

[[folder:Trent the Guide]]

An old friend of Vince's who came to the Shores of Sparkling with him to start a new life, him being the brains to Vince's brawns and telling him about the inner workings of living as an Adventurer.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Fan has no intention to change him getting killed to begin Hardmode. He also stated that he is not going to "respawn" or be replaced by another Guide, so his death will be ''more'' permanent than in the game proper]].
* NiceGuy: As a small contrast to Vince, who has his moments of quick selfishness and snark, Trent is considerably more polite and reaches out to others.

[[folder:Iris the Stylist]]

The first Human aside from the Guide Vince and Sonata encounters on the Shores of Sparkling, a hair stylist who gets trapped in a spider cave. After being saved, she moves in and becomes an ally of Vince's, as well as a shaky friend of Sonata's.

[[folder:Edwin the Merchant]]

A seller of general goods and tools that moves in after Vince works up a bit of money from his disasterous first night. Sonata takes a liking to him and wants him to be the official merchant of the Naked Empire.

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: He's a secondary character as the go-to "merchant of the Naked Empire," and is introduced at the very end of the second chapter along with Madeline.
* TooDumbToLive: In the Octobionicer comics, he's seen encountering a Mimic that Greum tattooed with "VEGIN" (sic), and thinks it's a totally harmless vegan Mimic. Subverted in that he escapes alive and well and even somehow befriended the Mimic, as seen in the big finale.

[[folder:Madeline the Nurse]]

A medic that moves to the Shores of Sparkling after hearing about an Adventurer, Vince, with enough life to turn up a profit if she heals. While an ally of the Naked Empire, she doesn't get along with them as well as most others. Vince in particular is openly not on good terms with her.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Of the women in the group, Vince and Sonata noteably butt heads with her more often than they do with anyone else. They generally dislike her snarky personality and find her healing services too expensive for their tastes, so they generally are only around her as a last resort. When she herself tells Vince and Iris to huddle up with her naked to survive the cold, Vince treats that as a bad thing, despite also liking Iris and not minding huddling with her.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She debuts at the very end of the second chapter, and would go on to become a semi-major character afterward.

[[folder:Tordak the Demolitionist]]

A Dwarf with an affinity for explosions that shows up because Vince nabbed a bomb after his close encounter with Lindsey's Door Nymphs at the beginning of the story.

[[folder:Mollie the Zoologist]]

A researcher of animals who was inflicted with a lycanthropy curse at a young age. In ''Romancing'', she first appears in her transformed werefox state, then immediately turns back as she runs in to Sonata, getting her and her friends to rescue Mollie's brother. She is the first "NPC" that Sonata encounters without Vince around, not counting Sonata's red/yellow/blue tenant trio.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Downplayed, but she's entirely aware of her curse and how it works compared to the original game, where she would wonder about her passing out and waking up.
* AuthorAppeal: She ends up losing the fox curse much earlier than in the game (which takes until at least the Moon Lord is defeated, in the epilogue-credits; in ''Romancing the Last Dryad'', it happens towards the end of the second arc, and a mere one chapter after her first appearance) mostly because Fan doesn't like part-animal/anthro characters in general. Also, Fan just felt sorry for her and her cursed state in general and wanted her to have a happy ending sooner.
* BaitAndSwitch: Her introduction is her, transformed in the full moon, breaking in to the shack that Sonata and her group were resting in. (Which was actually the shack that ''Vince and his group'' built to survive the blizzard.) A fight between her and Sonata's quartet is set up, and it's implied that Mollie's werefox form is a good deal ''stronger'' than a "normal" Nymph... except the night ends right as Mollie dashes at them, and she turns back, harmless. She immediately trusts the four and asks them to help her out, and they do not actually fight.
* BodyPaint: Her "Halloween costume" in the final Octobionicer entry is just strips of paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]]'s fur stripes. This is based on an actual cosplay of her.
* MagicPants: Averted. Her transformation apparently destroyed her clothes, but she doesn't mind.
* MotorMouth: She talks fast and a lot, especially under distress. It reaches the point where even Sonata, herself no slouch in the energy department, has trouble understanding her and asks her to slow down.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her transformation to a fox-like form destroys her clothes, but she doesn't care, and is never in a hurry to re-dress or even just dress herself. She's one of the first people Nigel converts to nudism in the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, and in Fan's Octobionicer finale, her "Halloween costume" is just strips of white paint to resemble [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]], along with a wig and tail. Even through the week going over the preparation for fighting Impetua in ''Romancing'', she is never once seen actually wearing clothes.

[[folder:Billy Bones the Golfer]]

Mollie's older brother and a golfer that got stranded out in the Desert, dragged underground by the Sand Nymphs. Mollie recruits Sonata, Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla to rescue him.

* BadassInDistress: Like all of the town residents, he can still fight, but he's captive by a team of eight Nymphs and surrounded by Desert monsters that all overpower him.

[[folder:Hiram the Dye Trader]]

A specialist in color and dyes that comes to the Shores of Sparkling on news that it has all sorts of rare dye ingredients, especially noting Vince's plucking of a Yellow Marigold as he approaches the East Beach.

* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Downplayed. Unlike most of the other town residents, he's distressed with nudity, but he can tollerate it. He enters an OddFriendship with Iris, who by that point just decides to go full-on nudist (aside from wearing clothes to protect herself from the cold). By Chaper 6, he's outright having casual sex with Iris, showing that he ''really'' doesn't mind being around her, although he's embarrassed at the thought of their relationship going public.

[[folder:Stefano the Painter]]

An artist that arrives right as the gang is planning their fight with Impetua. He has a fondness for Nymphs and almost immediately becomes friends with Sonata.

* AscendedExtra: He's one of the least-useful [=NPCs=] in the original game, and in ''Romancing'' his role is pretty minor, yet in the comics he tends to have a bigger role as either half or all of a "pervert team" with Darnell, owing to his blatant crush on both Tania and Sonata.

[[folder:Nigel the Old Man/Clothier]]

A man cursed by the Dungeon's wrath to stand guard of it, transforming in to his "master," Skeletron, when challenged.

* ChekhovsGunman: In the ''Dryad & Nymph'' comics, he initially seems like a one-off gag in the first one, then he returns in the background converting everyone to nudism in the second, and the plot of the third is kicked off because his conversion to nudism A: made him retire from the clothing business, so he no longer makes or sells clothes, and B: almost everyone else runs around naked, so there are less options to borrow clothes from, which is what "forces" Tania to go all the way to the Underground Jungle to get her outfit in the first place.

[[folder:Sophia the Mechanic]]

!! Lindsey's Gang

[[folder:Lindsey]]

An extremely powerful, ancient Oread who rules her own massive city deep beneath a distant, desert island with an iron first. A raider and pillager, Nymphs and to a lesser extent Non-Nymphs are afraid of her, including the Dryads.

* BigBad: She's the overall villain of ''Romancing the Last Dryad''. Stopping her will be one of, if not the, major endgoals of the entire gang.
* DomesticAbuse: She's said to treat her entire harem terribly. From what is seen as of Chapter 4, they are all blindly worshipping her out of fear of any retaliation, and it's pretty obvious she doesn't even value their lives or wellbeing.
* TheDreaded: ''The'' top of the Nymph foodchain in the entire planet. Everybody else, even other Dreaded characters like Impetua, are afraid of Lindsey, as she is a conqueror who had raided and pillaged Nymph villages for centuries and currently lives in a gigantic metropolis fortress. ''Nymphlopedia'' is the only time as of June 2022 [[OrcusOnHisThrone where she is seen in action,]] and [[spoiler:she is shown to be capable of curb-stomping a Dryad army during their prime, even when armed with giant plant mechs.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Great Pikmin Fan has said that she's meant to be one to Sonata. Both are Oreads who want to be a part of their own cities/civilizations, take pride in their nudity, want a harem, and are melee fighters with an affinity for swords in particular. But whereas Sonata is at worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, warms up, treats her "Nymph harem" as a group of friends that she cares for deeply, and has a decent amount of standards keeping her out of total villainy; Lindsey is an evil, abusive tyrant who murders and takes over without sympathy, and she treats her "Nymph harem" as a band of slaves.
* FullFrontalAssault: Played with. She's an Oread and is normally naked like the rest of them, which does not take away her intimidation at all, but [[spoiler:she has been known to wear clothes relatively more often than other Oreads. One case is the end of Nymphlopedia, where she is described as wearing boots, something the other Dryads find uncanny.]]
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:In the original ''Nymphlopedia''. While talked about, she is not seen in the story until the Dryad chapter, where she starts an attack on the Jungle and implicitly manages to kill several Dryads.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: She ''could'' have just chased after Vince and Sonata herself and destroy their entire village. She just doesn't think they're big enough threats to do so, so she just sics her Door Nymphs on them if they want to, and once they escape, she lets them go without much protest. After that, Lindsey spends a good portion of the fanfic just walled up in her cave-metropolis, while Vince and Sonata get in to conflicts with other Nymphs mostly.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: In ''Romancing'', she is introduced in the second chapter along with her harem and her general city. The first two chapters are halves of a two-parter, with Chapter 2 being part of the same arc and continuing directly after Chapter 1, except more focussed on Lindsey than Sonata/saving Iris.
* TomTheDarkLord: Head crimelord of the Nymph world and a powerful leader of a massive army. Ten thousand years old and not the sort of person anyone would want to piss off. Her name, "Lindsey," is very mundane-sounding and does not convey any of this. Chapter 5 lampshades this by saying that, apparently in Terraria, the name "Lindsey" actually has Nymph origins and came from ''her,'' and after her attrocities became more and more known to the public, it became a much less popular name.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Compared to most of the general ''Zenith Nymph'' content, especially the meme-y MS Paint comics, she's far more serious and threatening. She is even deliberately kept out of the meme content to help keep this image up -- [[spoiler:her only appearanace outside of ''Romancing'' is the final chapter of ''Nymphlopedia'', and while ''Nymphlopedia'' is overall more lighthearted than ''Romancing'', the chapter she is in is considerably darker and more serious than the rest of it]].

[[folder:Key Holders/"Door Nymphs"]]

A decet, at least, of Oreads that act as Lindsey's personal gatekeepers and servants. Lindsey sics them on people she doesn't feel like fighting personally.

* TheDragon: The one with the lime hair is the one Lindsey places ''slightly'' above the others, she has a ''slight'' amount of commanding power over the rest, and in terms of blindly worshipping Lindsey she's the most lucid. In the second chapter, she's the last one standing after the rest are knocked off of the mine cart tracks, puts up the hardest fight, and manages to destroy Sonata's first Copper Shortsword.

[[folder:Dave]]

Sophia's younger brother. A mechanical prodigy just like her, but ''far'' less stable and working for Lindsey for unknown reasons.

* MirrorBoss: He is confirmed to become this, he has his own army of Nymphs somehow, and they'll clash with Sonata's army.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: He's a goofy weirdo [[ButtMonkey always getting abused,]] whereas his leader is one of the most serious villains in the series.
* YouTalkTooMuch: He gets this from Sonata in ''Nymphlopedia''. According to her, the reason why she doesn't know anything about him isn't because he keeps his life a secret, but the opposite -- she cannot ask him anything without him telling her his ''entire'' life story, which she has no interest in hearing in its full.

!! Cthulhu, His Organs, and the Lunatic Cult

[[folder:The Moon Lord/Cthulhu]]

An extradimensional horror that seeks to take over Terraria. He was beaten in battle twice before, the first being a temporary seal that absolutely would break on its own in due time. After breaking out of that, he gave the Dryads a much tougher fight that wiped out all of them but Tania, yet his organs were ripped out and he was placed under a far stronger seal banishing him to the dark side of the Moon. It would take an active ritual to bring him back from the latter, which is the goal of the Lunatic Cult.

!! Other Canon Bosses

[[folder:Empress of Light]]

* LargeHam: The Weekly Dryad Memes show her being like this, as her "comments" are in all caps, and she speaks with a generally over-dramatic speech style. The whole joke about her is that she completely subverts how one might think she acts.

!! True King's Court

[[folder:In General]]

The main villains of the ''True King Slime Attack!'' side-story. Short bios of each of them had been posted throughout October 2021 as part of an art challenge.

[[folder:True King Slime]]

The ''actual,'' significantly more powerful leader of the Slime race.

[[folder:Terra Tank X AI]]

The "final" form of the Terra Tank weapon, and its strange-looking AI that works under True King Slime. It guards the Red Barrier in an Underground Mushroom Field.

[[folder:Fountaya]]

A being with time/age powers called a Chronic. She likes to scam people by claiming to be a legitimate fountain of youth, only to curse them and age them to dust. She ''could'' grant people eternal youth, she just doesn't want to. She guards the Pink Barrier in a Desert.

* FanDisservice: Her true form is a naked woman. But she looks like a dried out husk with pinprick lights in empty eyeholes, and she also has arms sprouting all over from her.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: She's part of the side story's QuirkyMinibossSquad and has several long and lanky arms, most noteably two of them growing directly out of her back.

[[folder:Hom Trio (Homette, Homman, Homretta)]]

A triad of spring toys based on a ''Simpsons''-esque [[ShowWithinAShow Franchise Within the Story]] brought to life and made to serve True King Slime. They are easily the weirdest of True King Slime's minions. They guard the Yellow Barrier in a Snowfield.

[[folder:Fallacy]]

An Illusionist (that's the name of her race) that disguises as others and likes tricking others with, well, illusions. She can also shape-shift. She guards the Purple Barrier in a tower out in the Ocean.

[[folder:Sawflame]]

The last Flare who had not moved on to another world, a race of fire and metal beings that had been considered "anti-Dryads." He felt guilty of sticking to Terraria instead of joining his bretherin by moving to unknown worlds, and True King Slime used that guilt to recruit him. He guards the Orange Barrier in the Sky.

[[folder:Pants]]

A bizarre eldritch being that vaguely resembles a pair of pants, just partly organic and partly made of some magic horror, and with his "insides" being gateways to other nightmarish dimensions. Few if any know of his real story, and he doesn't share much about himself with any of the other Barrier Guardians, although he is rumored to talk to True King Slime. He guards the Lime Barrier in the Underworld.

* {{Bathos}}: Part of his "gimick" is that he's a walking pair of pants and yet he is also one of the most threatening villains in the ''Zenith Nymph'' series, played pretty seriously compared to the others.
* TheDragon: He is True King Slime's personal right-hand man and confirmed to be the final Barrier Guardian the Naked Empire actually fights.
* OneHitKill: What makes him so dangerous and feared by all others is that he can ''canonically'' one-shot his enemies.
* PortalCut: This is one method he uses of killing people with his "put on" attack -- put them halfway through his portal inside to another dimension, then change the destination, which also slices the person partway inside.
* ShoutOut: The "top view" of him shows the pink face from the [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Fly of Despair]] as well as [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Delirium,]] and part of his "fabric" on his bio sheet resembles [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Uboa.]]

!! Other "Bosses"

[[folder:Ultimate Hydra of Death and Destruction]]

What looks like a species of massive, fearsome, seven-headed dragon beings, but is actually little more than an annoying pest. One of them attacks the gang unprovoked early in their adventure, and meets its end quickly after.

* AntiClimax: It comes out of nowhere and seems like a terrifying beast... but the main characters, who know enough about them to know that they're harmless, don't really care. Vince kills it an instant later.
* PaperTiger: It's a huge, seven-headed, flying beast, with each head appearing to have a different elemental affinity. It's actually very weak and near-harmless, as its only main "attack" is to breathe warm air at people. Vince is barely phased, Sonata doesn't even feel anything at all because Nymphs are built for extreme temperatures, and the former threeshots it with the weakest bow and arrow in the original game.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It only shows up just to breathe warm air at Vince and Sonata and get killed by them a second later, but this death is what puts them on Impetua's radar, setting up the climax of the first arc and moving things along with the Nymphs faster than they would have been otherwise.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Invoked, the "fight" against it is supposed to be a loose novelization of a hypothetical modded "joke boss." Vince just shoots three Wooden Arrows at it and it dies.

[[folder:Terra Tank]]

A tank made out of wood and other various energy-plant parts taken from the Energy Forests, and Impetua's trump card weapon. According to the Octobionicer entries, it will end up being fought, destroyed, rebuilt, and taken over by many other factions multiple times. Its "final" incarnation has an AI that functions as its own character, as described under True King Slime's folder.

* TankGoodness: It's a giant wooden tank made from materials of the Force Forests capable of unleashing powerful energy blasts. The Terra Tank is also extremely fast -- in the time it took for Sonata to try to scare Impetua from within it, the tank already moved from the Forest to the border of the Desert, which is a pretty big gap given that the fanfic "scales up" the size of the world so that biomes are much larger.
* WarmupBoss: It is the first actual boss fight that Vince and Sonata fight in their stay on Sun Island/The Shores of Sparkling, after Lindsey just sicced her mooks on them and the Hydra turned out to be a joke fight.

!! Other

[[folder:Cold Temple Guard]]

A huge, muscular spellcaster Snow Nymph assigned to guard the Cold Temple in the Shores of Sparkling's Snowfield. Vince, Iris, and Madeline briefly run in to her while escaping from Fridginy's ice prison.

* GentleGiant: Downplayed. She's twice the size of a Human being and much beefier than any of the characters who were around her in her debut chapter, but she's much nicer and more reasonable than the paranoid Fridginy or the short-tempered Impetua. The downplay comes from how she is still guarding an important Nymph structure and will ''not'' go easy on anybody who tries to break in; it's just that Vince, Iris, and Madeline had no intention of breaking in.

[[folder:Randy/"King Flinx"]]

A larger, more humanoid version of the Snow Flinx enemies. His debut is through the eleventh Octobionicer comic, and he appears in a few of the comics after. In ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' proper, he appears in Chapter 4 as a "friend" of Fridginy's, that is quickly shoed away when he tries to attack Vince and his friends, but Fridginy explains that they are no longer enemies. He tries to antagonize the Naked Empire, but is too weak to do much of anything.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Parodied. Despite being very humanoid at least from the neck down, he still wears clothes like a stereotypical cartoon animal would, putting on shirts but not wearing pants.
* HarmlessVillain: Nobody takes him seriously, between his sensitivity to knockback, goofy appearance, and generally sucking at everything he tries.
* KingMook: Parodied. He's supposed to be a stronger version of the Snow Flinx enemies, and everything about them is "amplified" with him... including their habit of getting blown large distances. Their "knockback sensitivity" is so amplified with him that a single punch could send him flying across entire islands. This makes him ''less'' threatening than the standard Snow Flinxes.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Great Pikmin Fan rarely actually copy-pastes when making ''Terraria'' shitpost comics. King Flinx is an exception, with most of his physical appearances just re-using the image of him from his debut comic, maybe with a shirt.
* SavedByCanon: Unless ''Romancing'' diverges from the "ending" implied by the Octobionicer comics, [[spoiler:he ends up outliving the Moon Lord and True King Slime at least, and at some point has a Heel-Face Turn and becomes a genuine friend to the heroes.]]

[[folder:The Former Elf King]]

Some decades ago, the then-current King of the Forest Elves wanted to outright colonize and take over the Nature Islands, also having the Nymphs that live on them be clothing-wearing servants of his. The Nymphs rejected this, putting it mildly.

* AnArmAndALeg: Unlike his militant official, he thinks Impetua is bluffing when she threatens to cut off his legs. After refusing to back down anyway, she chops them off and he is seen in his next scene using crutches to keep himself up.
* ButtMonkey: It's clear that he's no match for even generic Nymph mooks, let alone powerful warriors and warlords like Arborea and Impetua respectively. Almost every scene he's in has him suffer some kind of abuse, and it's played for laughs, even his leg-losing [[spoiler:and death]].
* HateSink: While there is some GrayAndGreyMorality between Impetua and Arborea as to which one's methods of protecting the Nature Islands and the people within are "better" (both are horribly flawed and extreme, but they still both have a point), the Elf King in the time of Arborea and Impetua is nothing but a greedy asshole with no redeeming qualities willing to throw his own teenage citizens in to a war for the sole sake of taking over islands that did nothing to him. He's basically there to show just what kind of things the Nymphs have to deal with, and ''why'' their extreme methods exist in the first place.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:His final appearance in Chapter 6 is him getting his head sliced off by Arborea after trying to take over the Nature Islands again, this time with Child Soldiers. The story cuts to Mollie having taken off the head of a training dummy to represent this]].
* PosthumousCharacter: As revealed in the second-to-last flashback of Chapter 6, [[spoiler:he's already dead by the present. Arborea slices his head off with her thickwood scythes]].

!! Nymph Races

[[folder:Nymphs in General]]

"Nature entities" and, apparently, the first non-deity race in all of Terraria. While Oreads make up the majority and Dryads used to be the majority along with them, opposite sides of the same coin in terms of ties with the dark and light, undead and life (respectively in both cases), there are hundreds of Nymph types "in-between" that each have a biome to them. Nymphs of all types are generally bizarre monsters with a hatred of clothes.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Nymphs of almost all kinds are very colorful in their true forms and have some sort of color theme to them. The "basic Nymphs"/Oreads are usually green-skinned with some reddish brown patches that resemble blood, but they can at least also have yellowish skin or blue skin (the latter is implied to be rarer). The Nymph Variants are more uniform, being colored after whatever Variant they are and matching their hair and eyes: Fire Nymphs being all red, Lightning Nymphs being all yellow, and so on. What color Tania or any Dryad's skin "really" is is not revealed as of June 2022, as nobody has mentioned it and Tania has always been seen in her disguised Human skin tone form, even when sufficiently pissed off.
* AndIMustScream: This is the fate of any Nymph that petrifies in an Infectuous Biome. Until an outside party either purifies the area, moves them out of it, or touches them with enough "natural" things, they're stuck as "statues" of their respective "material" and yet they are fully conscious and aware of what is going on around them. Sonata confirms this in Chapter 4 of ''Romancing''; her utilizing her purification powers in the nick of time helps prevents her and her fire/lightning/water trio friends from being stuck in the Corruption indefinitely.
* TheBeastmaster: Nymphs in general are capable of communing/"suggesting" with animals, and are good at taming them to do what they want. Sonata is at least capable of having Cave Bats carry her flyers around, but her "two in three success rate" implies that they are not too good with that. The Nymphs of the Sand Gang are also able to command Antlions, enough so that they could transport six people clear across the island.
* BizarreAlienBiology: All Nymphs do not have "internal organs" per say, but a series of vines of sorts that they can make come out of their orfices/through "tears" in the skin at will.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Nymphs not only have meaningless biological sexes (HomosexualReproduction is possible along with hetero), but they are also capable of reproducing asexually, through planting seeds. The latter means that Tania is not doomed to be the last-ever Dryad and could start her own descendants. However, she was cursed so that Cthulhu needs to be killed before she can begin planting her own seeds.
* CreepyGood: Nymphs in general are shapeshifting beings that can basically be described as clusters of vines and eyes inside of a humanoid skin, and while by ''default'' they appear as CuteMonsterGirl[=s=] that at worst have unnatural body colors, they can very easily drop this act and make themselves look horrifying if they want to. Yet Sonata and her company are on the side of good, no matter how intimidating they get. This also applies to Tania, [[HorrifyingTheHorror who even intimidates other Nymphs,]] and is more prone to explosive bouts of anger or making herself look creepy than a bulk of them are.
* ExposedToTheElements: It's explained that Nymphs of all kinds can withstand very warm and very cold temperatures -- it's only extremes like lava or direct burning/freezing magic that actually deal harm to them, which explains how neither the Dryad NPC nor the Nymph enemy seem to mind being in hot/cold environments despite being naked, but they can still be harmed by lava, Frostburn, and the like, explaining why Nymphs in-game and the Dryad still take damage from lava/magma and fire/ice-based debuffs.
* FullFrontalAssault: Their entire race is naked by default, and they are dangerous badasses people generally don't want to piss off. This is why their motto as a whole is "Rule #1: Nymphs do not wear clothes, period." Even the Dryads, the badass nature warriors who are "modest" compared to them, are still topless by default.
* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Aside from some weird colors (and even those can be changed via light shapeshifting) and ''possibly'' pointy ears, Nymphs of all Variants discussed as of April 2022 look completely human on the outside. Even their true forms are confirmed to just be them with odd colors[[note]]Meaning Sonata's true form is in fact her with green skin and red patches, while Tania's has yet to be seen[[/note]]. On the inside, however, they have bizarre vine-like organs with eyeballs (green and vinelike for Dryads, gray and stonelike for Oreads), and they can take these in and out of themselves at will, mostly to intimidate people who piss them off. They are also capable of having their eyes retract in to their sockets.
* NotQuiteFlight: In addition to the standard wings from in-game, it is revealed that the enhancements brought on to the world from entering "Hardmode" also granted every single Nymph the ability to fly "naturally" (IE without any wing accessories) by making wings out of their weird vine organs.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: The Nymphs are an entire race of these, knowing about Humanity's general nudity taboo and not only not giving a damn, but being actively against it. There's a good reason why "Rule #1" (and the ''only'' "definitive" rule among the Nymphs) is that they do not wear clothes. Period. Most of the Variants have elemental/biomass-based things around their arms and legs that they can use to aide their powers, but that's it, and Oreads lack even that. The Dryads are the closest Variant to being a TokenWholesome, as they "wear clothes," but they are very skimpily-dressed compared to Humans, Goblins, Dwarves, and so on. Even then, it's implied that they only really wear "clothes" as a symbol of rebellion against the other Nymph types. The closer Tania is to Sonata and the other Nymphs, the less she wears by default. Fan confirmed that Sonata in particular will never put on a single stitch throughout the entirety of ''Romancing the Last Dryad'' at least, meaning that she never develops any sense of modesty nor does she ever have to disguise or go in any situation that would require her to put anything on.
* TakenForGranite: This is what happens to Nymphs of any type that are left in an Infectuous Biome for too long without "proper training" or magic to counteract with it, although the process can easily be reversed through purification or just taking them out. Oreads turn in to just stone, Dryads in to wood/a tree similar to what the Dryad does in the game's credits, and the Variants turn in to this color-coded muddy stuff that's like a blend of a statue form and a tree form. In Chapter 4 of ''Romancing'', this happens to Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla, and almost happens to Sonata until she manages to send a purification burst that frees all four of them.

[[folder:Oreads]]

The type that was just "Nymphs" in the canon game. One of the two "special" types of Nymphs, the other being the Dryads, they have a connection to the undead. They and the Dryads were the two Variants with the highest populations, but after the fall of the Dryads, the Oreads had become the one with the highest population by far. They are also in some ways considered the "generic" Nymph, being that they have no strong ties to any biome (except "generic" caves and the Underworld, neither of which is considered its "own biome" in the way places like the Desert, Snowfield, Skylands and the like are) and their powers are more plain and tied to biome purification than the elements, indirect Zombie-commanding aside. Lastly, they hate clothing even more than the other Variants; unlike any of them, seeing an Oread so much as decorate their limbs with an elemental/natural material is rare, and seeing them outright have an accessory, let alone being fully dressed, is unspeakably rare.

[[folder:Dryads]]

A near-extinct Variant and one of the two "special" ones along with Oreads. They were the self-proclaimed guardians of nature and defenders of the planet. Some time in the distant past, they had a falling out with the Oreads and the other Nymph types in-between them, and created a barrier keeping them underground. Centuries later, all but one of them were killed by Cthulhu breaking free from his temporary lunar prison, and the Nymphs became free to roam the surface again for the current hundred years. The Last Dryad is both trying to purify the world of all the hostile Evil Biomes and eliminate the last of Cthulhu's remains.\\
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This folder details the Dryad race in general, mainly historically; tropes covering the last surviving Dryad are under Tania's folder.

* TheDreaded: Dryads as a whole scare Nymphs, with Tania being a heroic example. Fridginy's gang implies when having Vince, Iris, and Madeline over that they don't like talking about or ''thinking'' about the Dryads for very long, and want the subject changed when it comes up. Fulgra spells out "D-R-Y-A-Ds" when bringing them up in a conversation at one point, suggesting them as [[TheScottishTrope a race who must not be named.]] If the side stories are any indication, Tania is one of the few people capable of making ''Sonata'' in to a nervous wreck.
* TokenWholesome: Compared to the other types of Nymphs. They not only wear relatively more clothes than any Nymph Variant, but they are much more reserved about sex and the like compared to their open free-love cultures. It is played for drama in that this is seen as the Dryads giving a huge middle finger to the other types of Nymphs, putting clothes on and distancing themselves, being "closer to the Humans" as a result... with all signs pointing to this ''not'' being a good thing, unlike most cases of clothing being used to "humanize" and nudity being used to "dehumanize."

!! Other Races

[[folder:Humans]]

[[folder:Dwarves]]

A race of cave-dwelling, short people that have a fondness for bombs and digging. As of June 2022, the only member seen is the one from the original game -- the Demolitionist, in this case named Tordak.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Tordak comments something about getting nudity in the Mountains in Chapter 3 of ''Romancing'' that implies that Dwarves aren't as strict with clothing as Humans are, and he's the exception rather than the rule. When Impetua talks about "prudes" in a flashback in Chapter 6, she mentions Humans, Goblins, and Elves, but leaves out Dwarves, supporting this.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goblins]]

A rather militant race considered aggressive and known to start wars over something like cloth.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harpies]]

A race of bird-people who dwell in the skies. Said to be territorial and aggressive, they don't like other people going up there.

* OneGenderRace: Averted. Great Pikmin Fan's profile explains that male Harpies do exist, but they are less common, like male Nymphs/Satyrs.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elves]]

A race that almost everybody else absolutely hates. Unlike the hundreds if not thousands of types of Nymphs or Slimes, there are only two sub-types of Elves: Northern Elves that mostly live in the North Pole, fit the "Christmas" type of Elves, and are not as hated; and Wood Elves, who mostly live in Fortifica, resemble Tolkienesque Elves, [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress have been known to nag people about cutting down trees,]] and everybody ''really'' hates.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They have no problem in killing members of other races, slavery, rampant colonization, and using their own children as soldier fodder, but they really hate it when people cut down trees. Seeing that even Nymphs do this, they butt heads with every other race in Terraria.
* BullyingADragon: They have been known to pick on other societies despite being implied to be weaker in terms of both physical attributes and their gear, especially the Nymphs. This worked to ''some'' extent as they managed to set up ''some'' colonies, but it eventually backfired, and revolutions kicked them out.
* ButtMonkey: The Wood Elves are presented as tree-hugging weaklings that everyone else hates, and the abuse of their military and leaders is played for laughs. Their military and especially King deserve this, as Chapter 6 reveals that they are racist, colonizing assholes.
* FantasticRacism: They see Nymphs in general as horrid animals who need to learn modesty and put some clothes on. Based on the sheer hatred that other races have to ''them,'' they don't treat the others much better, and the Elves are widely loathed by everyone else in return, the Wood Elves in particular.
* ShoutOut: Great Pikmin Fan's profile confirms that the sheer hatred at Elves is inspired by the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' community and game, which is reflected by their love for trees.

[[/folder]]

* TomTheDarkLord: Head crimelord of the Nymph world and a powerful leader of a massive army. Ten thousand years old and not the sort of person anyone would want to piss off. Her name, "Lindsey," is very mundane-sounding and does not convey any of this.

* FreudianTrio: Sonata is the id, being very "feral," quick to act on her physical needs (she's the most openly horny and gluttonous), and having the strongest emotions. Tania is the superego, taking things with a reasonable, mystical approach, and being rather difficult to get a rise out of unless Evil Biomes are involved, but she is also something of a stick in the mud. Vince is the ego; while he leans towards having more in common with Sonata than Tania, he's still the one balancing them out as a normal "buffer" in-between the two of them. This is even reflected in their notes: Sonata's are blunt, highly opinionated, tend to not have focus, and especially regarding the Nymphs, there's a lot of sexual gushing involved; Vince's are somewhat analytical and go over some basic things about fighting or whatnot, but he still has emotions in here and there and doesn't really dive in to the topic aside from basing his opinions on what he already knows from his first impressions; while Tania's are ''heavily'' analyitical, going in depth about things like biology or ecology and being much more factual than either of the other two.

* BadLiar: The story portrays her "Lost Girl" disguise as ''very'' unconvincing. She hates modesty so much that even when pretending to be a Human who simply lost her clothes by circumstance, she poorly covers herself. She also snorts when trying to explain herself, and she immediatey says "I'm naked because I lost my clothes!" suspiciously. Vince is not fooled for a ''second,'' but part of that is attributed to how he researched Nymphs from what little he could know about them before he went on the Shores of Sparkling.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's completely willing to try killing and eating an innocent adventurer that wandered in to the cave she happened to be in, but she thinks "pickup artists" are disgusting and absolutely does not want to be one.
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: She was an author at some point in the past, based on Chapter 6 of ''Romancing'', when Impetua is seen in a porn store checking out a novel she wrote. Based on the description Impetua reads out loud, at least one book is a total self-insert fic about "Zenia the Zenith Nymph," who has a harem of hundreds and goes about slaughtering everything, also dating a Dryad that is totally not Tania because actually inserting herself with a real-life celebrity would be creepy, so she makes up that there was another surviving Dryad that's "different." Her book is basically what the ''Zenith Nymph'' storyline turns in to, except with much less effort and CharacterDevelopment on her part and more of mindless literary junk food.