Characters from the nineteenth season and twelfth sidequest show of Dimension 20, Burrow’s End.
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Stupendous Stoats
In General
- Badass Family: Fittingly for stoats, everyone in their family is a fierce fighter.
- Doomed Hometown: The Red Warren is taken over by the same deadly smog rapidly overtaking the forest. The last thing Ava sees before leaving is the bodies of countless other stoats and Walmer closing the Warren to try and protect the survivors, though it's heavily implied to have done nothing to help them survive.
Ava
Ava
Played by: Erika Ishii
- Class: Barbarian (Ancestral Guardians) / Fighter (Battle Master) / Cleric (Grave Domain)
Grizzled Grandmother
The mother of Tula and Viola, and the grandmother of Jaysohn and Lila. Alongside Tula, she serves as the matriarch as the Red Warren. Far more brusque and assertive than her daughters, Ava has had a long and harsh life. She was married to Kenji before his death.
- Cane Fu: She uses the baculum of a raccoon to support herself and strike her opponents.
- Ear Notch: Her character art portrays her with a chunk missing from her left ear.
- Never Mess with Granny: At four years old, Ava is both the oldest of her family and quite old for a stoat overall (stoats normally live about five years), but she's still the strongest and toughest by far.
- Parents as People: Ava dearly loves her family, but her rough personality, cynical outlook, past hardships, and stubbornness mean their relationships can be somewhat tense. Her player describes her as "the embodiment of generational trauma".
- Rugged Scar: On her character art, Ava has a blind right eye with scars running through / over it.
- The Undead: She dies in episode 7 and comes back as a revenant thanks to the power of The Blue.
Tula
Tula
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Class: Paladin (Redemption) / Cleric (Life Domain
A single mom who works two jobs
Ava's daughter, Viola's sister, and the mother of Jaysohn and Lila. She was married to Geoffrey before his death; in his place, alongside Ava, she serves as the leader of the Red Warren. Somewhat melancholy and reticent, she's not much of a fan of adventure.
- Cool Big Sis: Viola looks up to her quite a lot, and the two have been close since childhood.
- Really Gets Around: According to Ava, Tula used to be a ho. Returns to her ho phase in the epilogue with her eyes on Bennett.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Behind the soft voice and constant politeness hides a brutally efficient warrior.
- Struggling Single Mother: After the death of her husband, she was left alone to raise Jaysohn and Lila, and as a consequence gets little sleep.
- The Undead: She died long before the start of the campaign, and was brought back by The Blue.
Viola
Viola
Played by: Rashawn Nadine Scott
- Class: Paladin (Devotion) / Fighter (Champion)
First Lady of the Cult
Ava's daughter, Tula's sister, Jaysohn and Lila's aunt, and Thorn Vale's wife. Although Thorn is technically the leader of the Lukura, members are much more scared and respectful of his wife.
- Battle Couple: Just as dangerous a fighter as her husband.
- Cool Aunt: Jaysohn and Lila are her nephew and niece, and they're happy to see her when she returns to the Warren.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Not in the season itself; however, Viola notes that she and Tula used to be similar, but Jaysohn and Lila's births and the death of Tula's husband Geoffrey meant their lives went in very different directions.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: She's far better at leading the Lukura than Thorn, which the latter outright admits.
- Pregnant Badass: Realizes she's pregnant in Episode 3 and remains just as much a dangerous combatant for the rest of the series. Especially when she kills Phoebe and her revenants in one turn in the finale
- Royal Rapier: Wields a blade of grass that's been crafted into a rapier, and is an elegant, somewhat cold woman.
Thorn Vale
Thorn Vale
Played by: Jasper William Cartwright
- Class: Ranger (Fey Wanderer) / Cleric (Tempest Domain
Reluctant cult leader
The Thorn of the Vale - or just Thorn Vale - is the head of the scouting group-slash-cult the Lukura alongside his wife Viola. In possession of strange powers that earn him the title 'the Conduit', Thorn's connection to nature and the Blue may run much deeper than anyone assumes.
- A God I Am Not: He's not particularly thrilled about being worshipped by the Lukura.
- Battle Couple: Just as dangerous a fighter as his wife.
- Butt-Monkey: Thanks to his player's frankly abysmal rolls, he has frequent failure that are played for laughs. In-universe as well, since he's the only member of the party that married into the madness of the family rather than being born into it.
- Character Catchphrase: "Brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind."
- Covered with Scars: His character art depicts him with a large lightning-bolt-like scar on his face, another on his chest, and several other scars over the rest of his body.
- Cult: He's ended up leading one in the form of the Lukura.
Lila
Lila
Played by: Isabella Roland
- Class: Rogue (Inquisitive, later Arcane Trickster) / Wizard (Bladesinger)
The Bright Detective
Tula's daughter and Jaysohn's sister. Lila is endlessly curious about the world she lives in, the people in it, and the events that happen there, often feeling like the adults in her life are actively keeping information from her. Though she loves her mother, Tula's reticent nature and desire to avoid conflict often put her at odds with Lila's desperate desire to understand.
- Kid Detective: She's hellbent on figuring out what is going on around her that the adults won't talk to her about.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Zig Zagged. She's remarkably perceptive and thorough in her investigation, outclassing even the adults around her in this regard. However, she's still a kid at heart, which reflects most in her simplistic view of the world.
Jaysohn
Jaysohn
Played by: Siobhan Thompson
- Class: Monk (Astral Self) / Rogue (Swashbuckler)
Karate Boy
Tula's daughter and Lila's brother. Not as prone to worrying as his sister, Jaysohn's interests involve doing cool tricks, climbing tall things, and not usually thinking too far in advance about it all.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the Stupendous Stoats, and sure acts like it.
- Blood Knight: He really likes to fight
- Cheerful Child: More often than not he's having a good time.
- Childish Tooth Gap: Has one.
- Genki Boy: He's constantly brimming with energy.
- Precocious Crush: He develops one on Sybil.
Allies
Oliver & Teedles
Oliver & Teedles
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
Thorn's oldest friends and compatriots, and fellow members of the Lukura.
- Beta Couple: They're partners, but as a pair of NPCs, they aren't given the same focus as Thorn and Viola’s relationship.
- Brains and Brawn: Oliver isn't dull, but Teedles is the more intelligent and cunning of the two; Oliver is more physically focused.
- Coitus Uninterruptus: Teedles's reaction to a surprise visit by Thorn mid-sex is to exasperatedly tell him he's being inconvenient and not bother getting out from under the moss. Oliver's is to just keep going.
- Put on a Bus: Due to how the finale plays out, they don't get to be a part of the final battle. The last that's seen of them they're planning to head a division of stoat warriors against the humans, and they aren't mentioned in the epilogue.
Meatwolf
Meatwolf
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
The Goodest Boy
A mutated wolf created by the First Stoats as a weapon.
- Adaptive Ability: He spends his fight constantly mutating and evolving to become more dangerous. After about three turns, he has an extra claw in the center of his chest, a head that's pretty much nothing but a massive bony mouth, and a barbed tail twice the length of his body.
- Androcles' Lion: How Tula earns his loyalty. In a world where everything is pain and danger, she shows him that there were things that wouldn't try to hurt him by spending her entire pool of Lay on Hands to heal him.
- Boss Subtitles: Averted. Aabria mentions the phrase "The Wolf of Theseus" when describing him, but when he gets an art card it's after Tula's befriended him. So instead, in the space where other NPCs get dramatic boss titles, he gets "The Goodest Boy."
- The Dog Bites Back: Almost literally, as he kills Jomei after the experiments the First Stoats ordered to make him into their weapon.
- Put on a Bus: Due to how the finale plays out, he doesn't get to be a part of the final battle, and later on he's not mentioned in the epilogue.
The Last Bastion of the Light / Last Bast
Bennett
Bennett
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
So Single
The leader of Stoat Team 6, and a member of Last Bast.
- Retcon: Aabria's notes for Bennett originally had a family for him, right up until the moment Ava tried to set him up with Tula, at which point Aabria deleted that entire paragraph and replaced it with a single line. "So single"Brennan: Oh no! I killed one of Schrödinger's cats by hoe-ing it up.
Sybil
Sybil
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
A younger member of Resource Acquisition.
- Neck Snap: Suffers one at the paws of Kiran.
- Youthful Freckles: The facial markings on her art give the impression of these.
Lukas
Lukas
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
A very young stoat who rapidly takes a liking to Jaysohn.
- Childish Tooth Gap: His art depicts him with one.
The First Stoats
Kiran, Uri, Jomei, & Hester
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
The founders of Last Bast, each over twenty winters old. Their members are Kiran, the director; Uri, the pope; Jomei, the head of propaganda; and Hester, the head of communications.
- All There in the Manual: Apart from Kiran, their names are never spoken in the game itself, being revealed only in their art cards.
- Apologetic Attacker: Uri briefly apologizes to Jaysohn at the start of the fight.
- Body Horror: Their unnatural growth didn't come with any new fur, leaving swaths of raw pink flesh between the portions of their original hide.
- Boss Subtitles: Kiran "The Director", Uri "The Pope", Jomei "The Speaker", and Hester "The Silence".
- Counterspell: Jomei counters multiple spells over the course of their fight, mostly Thorn's.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Their ultimate goal is to do this by fighting off any humans that would come to reclaim the derelict man-made structure, a nuclear power plant, that they claimed and made into Last Bast. In fact, the power plant is abandoned in the first place because they sabotaged it into threatening a meltdown, cut the communication lines, and then killed anyone left behind when the staff evacuated.
- Evil Sorcerer: All four have magical powers, and they're decidedly not friendly customers.
- Facial Horror: Hester has no lower jaw. They normally hide it with their mask, but when the mask comes off it's not a pretty sight.
- The Ghost: The recording of Dr. Wenabocker mentions five stoats during the fall of the power plant, while only four are accounted for throughout Last Bast's history.
- Large and in Charge: The smallest of them is still twice the size of a normal stoat.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: Non-stoat non-binary, but all four of them use they/them pronouns, and they're all mutated to the point they barely seem like stoats. later episodes reveal the they/them is because they all refer to themselves exclusively in the royal we
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Jomei, who hits most of the party with a fear effect.
- Support Party Member: Aside from Kiran, they mostly spend their combat casting various debuffs, letting their mutant wolf handle the actual combat.
- Total Party Kill: All four are killed by the party over the course of their battle in Episode 7.
- Would Hurt a Child: Kiran manhandles Sybil for her role in helping the stoat family find Reactor Charlie, and then snaps her neck as a message to the others. Likewise, none of the four show any hesitation attacking Lila and Jaysohn alongside their adult family members.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Kiran hits Ava with a backbreaker at one point during their fight.
The Fifth (Episode 8 Spoilers)
Phoebe
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
The fifth First Stoat, who left before Last Bast was founded.
- Big Bad: She only really appears in the final episode, but her past actions caused the nuclear meltdown that created the Blue Forest and all its horrors, as well as inspired the First Stoats' tyrannical and xenophobic reign. Her present machinations are responsible for driving the human's actions in the Blue Forest, indirectly causing the death of the Red Warren — and all of that is essentially just collateral damage to her true plan: creating a reactor overload to irradiate as much of the world as possible.
- Dead Person Impersonation: She's been living in Wenabocker's corpse for twenty years, masquerading as him the entire time.
- Lust: Her defining trait, of the "hunger for something immaterial" sense rather than sexual lust. Her obsession with power and knowledge at all costs drove her to cause a nuclear meltdown for the possibility of more power despite the possibility of death, to maim her younger sibling with the intent to kill for trying to keep her from what she viewed as a chance for another scrap of understanding, and to abandon her own kind to live among humans for years to benefit from their knowledge and resources before orchestrating yet another meltdown.
- People Puppets: She burrowed into and fused with Dr. Wenabocker, using his body to infiltrate human society for twenty years before her eventual return to Last Bast.
- Necromancer: With her Blue powers, she is able to raise the dead as revenants and control them. She does this with the human soldiers who accompanied Dr. Wenabocker, but she can do this with anyone who has come back from the dead... which includes Tula and Ava.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her goal was to expand the Blue Forest and allow stoatkind to propagate farther than the current bounds of the Blue Forest, which - in theory - is great! ...Except this would involve a Chernobyl-style nuclear meltdown, and probably kill the very stoats she's trying to help with the higher levels of radiation.
Other
The Bear
A bear parasitized by mutant chipmunks.
- Womb Level: Almost the entirety of the fight involving it takes place inside the bear's body.
The Scientist (Episode 5 Spoilers)
Dr. Robert Wenabocker
Played by: Carlos Luna (recordings), Aabria Iyengar (present)
Lead Engineer
The lead engineer at the Warren Peace Memorial Power Plant, which became Last Bast after the humans abandoned the area. He made a series of audio recordings during the events leading up to the plant's abandonment, providing valuable information and context on what exactly happened.
- Apocalyptic Log: His recordings somewhat serve as this.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Mauled to death by hyperintelligent stoats while he was recording an audio log. And there are implications he might be Not Quite Dead...
- Posthumous Character: By the time the Stupendous Stoats find his audio logs, it's been twenty years since his death. Although his body makes an appearance in Episode 10, it's only his body; Wenabocker's consciousness is, hopefully, long gone.
- Wham Line: Delivered posthumously over an audio recording of his death, after the party killed all four of the First Stoats:Robert: There are five weasels...
The Doctor (Episode 9 Spoilers)
Dr. Tara Steel
Played by: Aabria Iyengar
A scientist who's working with the military to try and reclaim the power plant.
