Characters who debuted in the second season of the Fantasy High subseries of Dimension 20.
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Leviathan
Garthy O'Brien
Garthy O'Brien
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Half-Orc AasimarClass: Paladin (Oath of Devotion)/Sorcerer (Divine Soul)
A half-orc aasimar pirate and proprietor of the Gold Gardens, an entertainment and pleasure house on Leviathan. The Bad Kids come across their name in the Hotel Cavalier guest book and is discovered to have been an old friend and business associate of Bill Seacaster.
- Character Check: Despite being nothing but friendly, affable, and surprisingly moral for a pirate, they still try to con Fabian out of his money when they ask them to locate the Nightmare King's spellbook.
- Ethical Slut: Ensures that everyone they sleep with is having a good time, and refuses to sleep with romantically-involved monogamous people. When they have sex with Sandra Lynn, they apologize to Fig and Tracker, saying they had no intention to cause any harm in doing so.
- Hunk: Described as handsome and muscular.
- Loveable Rogue: A charming criminal who's nonetheless easy to get along with, and woos Sandra Lynn.
- Mr. Vice Guy: Exaggerated. Despite being a pirate who indulges in heavy alcohol and drug abuse, they're as friendly as they come and part of a line of fallen orcish angels, thus embodying the pleasant, comfortable, peaceful parts of life. As they put it themself, this order's motto is basically to fuck people into being decent.
- Nice Guy: Despite being a pirate, Garthy is friendly and welcoming toward the the Bad Kids, and helps them in their quest to recover the Nightmare King's crown.
- Non Human Nonbinary: Nonbinary Half-Orc Aasimar. Downplayed, as Garthy, like most of the cast of Fantasy High, is a normal person who happens to be a fantasy creature.
- Our Angels Are Different / Our Devils Are Different: Despite being an aasimar, their race, the Zajiri, are technically in opposition to the Orcish god and therefore described as "ascended devils" rather than "fallen angels".
- Truce Zone: Their tavern and pleasure house is a place of non-violence, and that rule is strictly enforced by them and their staff.
Captain Jim Whitlaw
Captain James Whitlaw
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: Mind Flayer
One of Leviathan’s foremost pirate captains and an old enemy of Bill Seacaster.
- Arch-Enemy: He is the most personal enemy to Fabian. Meanwhile, Fabian has inherited the status of Jim’s Arch Enemy from his father.
- Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the Leviathan arc in Sophomore Year.
- Expy: Of Davy Jones, being a tentacle faced, Scottish-accented pirate.
- Giant Space Flea Out Of Nowhere: Simply shows up in a bar with no previous hint of his existence, and proceeds to utterly demolish Fabian’s spirit, prompting a massive existential crisis from the young man.
- Knight of Cerebus: Sophomore year was already darker than the previous season, but James takes it a step further by utterly destroying the spirit of Comic Relief character Fabian, brutally murdering Alistair Ash, and setting in motion the events that allows Kir to kidnap Adaine. The standard he sets remains for the rest of the season.
- Master Swordsman: An incredibly adept and lethal swordsman, even setting aside his psionic powers.
- One-Man Army: Kills over a dozen of Bill’s followers on his own, and proves a significant threat to the Bad Kids on his own even without the intervention of Fallinel's agents.
- Seadog Peg Leg: One of his face tentacles ends in a peg "leg".
- Would Hurt a Child: Just like all Fantasy High villains.
Alistair Ash
Alistair Ash
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: TieflingClass: Warlock
A young inhabitant of Leviathan who joins up with the party as a guide. Reveals himself to be a warlock of Bill Seacaster, who's forgone the whole "selling your soul" business for simply charging money in exchange for spells.
- Affably Evil: He's nice towards the Bad Kids the first time they meet him, but he's still an amoral pirate working for Bill Seacaster as his warlock and later as his lackey.
- Alliterative Name: Alistair Ash.
- Body Horror: When he shows up on Bill Seacaster's ship, the back of his skull is split open to reveal blazing fire, reflecting his death by brain-eating courtesy of a Mind Flayer.
- Broken Pedestal: As soon as he's introduced, he's shown to have a hero-worship crush on Fabian, being the son of his patron. However, after the encounter with Jim Whitlaw where nearly all of Bill's warlocks are massacred and Fabian abandons him to have his brain eaten, Alastair shows up later as a vengeful spirit on the Goldenrod who immediately goes to kill Fabian for revenge.
- Comically Missing the Point: After being defeated by Fabian on the Goldenrod, seeing how the latter's personal journey to dance battling has led to personal fulfillment, Alastair concludes that he had to die for Fabian to be the chosen one... ergo, he's actually the chosen one for helping Fabian reach that goal.
- Deal with the Devil: Is a warlock with a pact with Bill Seacaster after he became an infernal entity.
- Keet: He's very chipper and excitable.
Chungledown Bim
Chungledown Bim
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
"I'm gonna shit in yer mouth!"
- Race: GnomeClass: Warlock
One of Bill Seacaster's multi-level marketing warlocks.
- Deal with the Devil: With Bill Seacaster after he becomes an infernal entity.
- Determinator: Somehow finds his way into the Forest of the Nightmare King, which cannot be accessed without a devil's aid, so he can shit in Fabian's mouth.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from seemingly a one-off joke character to one of Fabian's worst nightmares.
- Hidden Depths: According to the "Making Chungledown Bim" bonus episode, Chungledown is a 20th level adventurer with an 18 in intelligence.
- Spell My Name With An S: Originally spelled as Chungle-down Bim, but the hyphen was later omitted.
Fallinel
Kir
Kir
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: High ElfClass: Wizard (School of Divination)
A young member of Fallinel's Court of Stars who seeks to return Adaine to the elven nation.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Legitimately doesn't understand why Adaine is upset about being kidnapped, or why she's resistant to being forced into being the oracle for Fallinel.
- Faux Affably Evil: She acts extremely polite and like she's doing Adaine a favor by blackmailing Adaine into coming with her in exchange for not killing Adaine's friends, but underneath that thin veneer is nothing but arrogance and enjoyment in the harm she causes.
- Underestimating Badassery: Her response to Arthur Aguefort's threat was to pick the "No" option when asked if she would like to avoid her doom and release Adaine. Aguefort responded in kind, and subsequently showed Fallinel why he's one of the greatest wizards in the world.
- Would Hurt a Child: Fully willing to kill the Bad Kids to acquire Adaine. She also plans on executing Adaine for not being cooperative, in order for another high elf to become the Oracle.
Telemaine Lomenelda
Telemaine Lomenelda
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
- Race: High Elf
Fabian's maternal grandfather, and watcher of the elven sanctuary Kei Lumennura.
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Pronounces his grandson's name as "Fah-bee-AHN," and Gorgug as "Jor-judge" (or "Chej", which Gorgug notes has absolutely no syllables correct).
- The Ageless: Being a high elf, he is naturally immortal. This has skewed his perception of the passage of time, finding it difficult to discern between an eternity and an hour.
- Can't Argue with Elves: His entire character is a parody of this trope. While posturing as an inhumanly beautiful being who is appreciative of nature's beauty and naturally better than most other races, Telemaine and pretty much the rest of Kei Lumennura come off more as a bunch of condescending, out-of-touch weirdos who — while harmless — rub a number of the Bad Kids the wrong way.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's supposed to be watching over the young elves living in Kei Lumennura, but his daughter notes that he spends most of his time picking flowers and turning into sand, not realizing that the teens are spending a lot of time fucking unsupervised.
- Condescending Compassion: Pities non-elf races and their mortality. He specifically feels bad for Gorgug, who he believes — as a half-orc — will only live for 20 years, something everybody else is quick to correct him on.
- Jerkass to One: While he had bad interactions with both Gorgug and Riz, Telemaine felt bad about not being able to say Gorgug's name correctly and attempted many times to get it right. However, he and Riz become hostile very quickly; partly due to Riz's short fuse with the elves' weirdness, and partly due to Telemaine's disgust at the very concept of Riz's gun, which he views as dwarvish shit. When the Bad Kids arrive to spend the Moonar Yulenear in Fallinel in Junior Year, Telemaine immediately begins to call Riz "Rizbert" before leaning over him in a mocking way and saying "not your house, little guy". Even Fabian acknowledges that his grandfather is being weirdly aggressive to Riz.
- Not So Above It All: He calls Riz a dick when the former mouths off to him.
- Prone to Tears: Played for Laughs. He sheds a Single Tear at a dying blossom, in awe of its ephemeral beauty which while touching becomes less so when he does it constantly for everything else he comes across. His regular crying is also quite unusual in that his face doesn't move and he just makes a monotone, moaning sound.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Weird and condescending though he may be, Telemaine is the most reasonable of the Fallinel leaders, and offers the Bad Kids respite in Kei Lumennura and protection against the Court of Stars when they break Adaine and Aelwyn out of their clutches.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: Telemaine may be one of the greatest swordsmiths alive, having crafted both Fandrangor, Sword of the North Star and the Sword of Sight, powerful elven relics imbued with magic qualities. In fact, it was his work on Fandrangor that caused him to be gifted Kei Lumennura as his holdings.
- You Say Tomato: Telemaine's most notable trait is his inability to recognize, much less pronounce, perfectly common words. His pronunciation of Gorgug's name changes every time he says it, and he struggles with universal words like school and teenager. The party (sans Gorgug, who quickly becomes ticked off) find it hilarious, and continue to say words at him in the hopes he'll repeat them back.
The Nightmare King's Forces
The Shadow Cat
Kalina the Shadow Cat
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Click here to see Kalina's form in Junior Year
- Race: Tabaxi
An enigmatic tabaxi woman whose existence ties heavily into the mystery of the Nightmare King. Her presence is first discovered in an old photo Riz finds of her and his dad Pok Gukgak.
- Ambition Is Evil: Her stated motivation for following the Nightmare King during her exchange with Riz is simply that they give her more power than she could ever dream of.
- Back from the Dead: She reappears in Junior Year after Riz seemingly killed her at the end of the previous season, reconstituted by Cassandra herself.
- Cats Are Snarkers: The only comedic aspect to her character is her snarking.
- Cat Folk: A tabaxi, but an unusual example in that Kalina is close to the size and the color of a black house cat. With The Reveal of her origins, her size makes sense, as she was once the cat familiar of the Goddess of Mystery.
- Chessmaster Sidekick: Though the Nightmare King is quite good at being The Chessmaster themself, it's Kalina who manipulates the events of Sophomore Year in order to bring them back.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: With Kalvaxus. While he was bombastic and dramatic with his seriousness being played for laughs, physically formidable, wanted power and wealth for himself, stayed hidden until the finale, and used his money to get smarter people than him to carry out the plans — Kalina is soft-spoken and cold, her occasional playfulness still feeds into her threatening aura, she works for the Nightmare King, she doesn't present a physical threat, is a presence throughout the season, and uses manipulation and trickery to achieve her goals.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Kalina typically attack someone by manifesting claw-like scratches on them. It's actually her activating and proliferating her virus in the infected individuals with the symptoms appearing as nasty scratch-like rashes.
- The Disembodied: Kalina is discovered to be an incorporeal being who was trans-substantiated from a physical familiar into the form of a contagious plague. Kalina has no physical presence, but she can be seen and heard by those who are infected by her virus. She regains her physical form once in the forest of the Nightmare King.
- Dragon-in-Chief: With the Nightmare King stuck on another plane and the clerics keeping their influence at bay, she's left to orchestrate her master's return. Pok's death, Fig and Riz's kidnapping, and Arianwen's theft of the Nightmare King's crown are all instigated by her.
- Faux Affably Evil: She speaks in a polite, calm manner towards Riz even as she's threatening the lives of Fabian and Lydia.
- The Heavy: Subservient to the Nightmare King, but the villain the Bad Kids interact with the most, and whose actions cause them constant grief during the party's search for her master's crown.
- Manipulative Bastard: She loves to get in her foes' heads, and isn't above using leverage and deception to get them to do what she wants.
- Perception Filter: One of her virus' functions. Those who are infected by Kalina can see her and any record of her - namely the photo of her and Pok at a cocktail party - while everyone else is unable to, seeing an empty space where she should be.
- Plague Master: Kalina is the familiar of the Goddess of Mystery, and was transmogrified from a cat into a living plague. Her virus allows those infected to see and hear her, and is transmitted through contact via bodily fluids. She can also see and hear through the eyes and ears of anyone affected, as well as having limited control over their bodies, being able to paralyze Riz during their first formal encounter.
- Stealth Expert: Kalina used to work as a spy for the Fallinel secret service, occasionally working as a partner with Riz's father whenever the Solasian and Fallinel governments were required to cooperate. She was known for her talents in becoming invisible, breaking past abjurations and wards, and being near impossible to scry upon. Being that she's an incorporeal magic plague, most barriers — physical or otherwise — would do jack against her. All she'd need to do is infect the right person, and then simply wait for the host to unwittingly carry her into the desired location.
- Undying Loyalty: Whether serving the Nightmare King or later on Cassandra, Kalina remains fully committed to doing whatever she thinks is best for her master. And it's usually her pragmatism and ruthlessness in the pursuit of serving that loyalty that places her in conflict with the Bad Kids. Even in Junior Year, her main conflict with Kristen lies in how Kristen's apathy and carelessness has left Cassandra vulnerable to fading away once again, leading to Kalina proposing more cynical options that would at least net Cassandra a few more followers in the short-term.
Baron
Baron from the Baronies
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
"You have been naughty thrice, Riz Gukgak! Your Roëmænce Partnær deserves better trætment!"
Click here to see Baron's form in Junior Year
- Race: Unknown
A horrific nightmare entity born from Riz's lies about having a long-distance partner in the Baronies.
- Allegorical Character: Baron is essentially Riz's fear of isolation and abandonment given material form, as Baron was specifically invented so that Riz would fit in better, and not have to answer any questions about his lack of interest in romance or sex.
- Ambiguous Gender: When first mentioned Fabian says Baron is a hot name for a girl or guy, and Adaine addresses Baron as Riz's "un-clarified boyfriend or girlfriend", and Riz later calls Baron a "weird little skeleton boy". Both Brennan and Murph use he/his, they/them, and it/its pronouns interchangeably regarding the character, and Baron's character card in Junior Year lists their pronouns as he/they.
- Berserk Button: Saying hurtful things about him or his relationship with Riz. Three strikes means bringing the offender to see his "stark father".
- Black Eyes of Evil: Has these, although his art from Junior Year portrays them as more of a Ghostly Gape.
- Demonic Possession: Pulls this on both Fabian and Adaine during the Baron's Game episode in Junior Year.
- Full-Name Basis: Refers to Riz exclusively as 'Riz Gukgak', never 'Riz'. While possessing Adaine in Junior Year, Baron does this to Gorgug, Fig, and Kristen while talking to them as well.
- Girlfriend in Canada: At the start of Sophomore Year, Riz makes an off-the-cuff lie about having a romantic pen pal in the Baronies, which nobody buys. It comes back two episodes later in a much more nightmarish way when Baron comes to life in Riz's office and abducts him.
- Insistent Terminology: Refers to himself as Riz's "romance partner", despite this term having no basis in reality.
- Laughably Evil: Baron is a truly terrifying character, and their introduction is regarded by the players as one of the scariest parts of the campaign. However, their accent and pronunciation of certain words (re: their attempt at Fathethriel's name) provide some legitimate laughs.
- Line-of-Sight Name: When Riz first makes up his partner, he specifically looks at a map of Spyre while doing so, hence the redundant "Baron" from the Baronies.
- Mirror Monster: Baron first appears to Riz from within a mirror in his private investigator's office, and is set free when Riz shoots the glass. They appear again to Riz much later in the Nightmare King's forest, in a grove composed of huge mirror shards, where they continue to torment Riz.
- Murderous Mannequin: Described as a bone-white goblin mannequin in a fancy Lord Fauntleroy outfit, and while primarily a psychological threat, they almost snap Riz's neck when they pull him through the mirror and knock him out.
- No Mouth: Essentially has no mouth, as it's just a carved line on his creepy doll face that doesn't move when Baron speaks.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Brennan plays Baron with an accent that is difficult to pin down, made only harder to identify by their strange pronunciation of some words. Their floating accent only adds to the unbalancing, creepy vibe their entire character gives off.
- Yandere: Delighted to be Riz's "romance partner", while simultaneously violently demanding more details about their false relationship.
The Nightmare King
The Nightmare King/The Unnamed Goddess/Cassandra, The Goddess of Mystery and Magic
Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Click here to see them in Junior Year
- Race: Extraplanar Being
A mysterious extraplanar being who first appeared around 850 years ago during the Last Great Sylvan War, at the time when the forest of Sylvaire was cursed, and became the Forest of the Nightmare King. In reality she is the Unnamed Goddess the Deity of Mystery, Night and Magic.
- Big Bad: Of Sophomore Year.
- The Chessmaster: Aside from being Kalvaxus' advisor and likely the brains behind his conquest of the world, considering Kalvaxus himself isn't that smart, they tricked him so that Kalvaxus' return would bring them back to the physical world, whether he succeeded or not.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: A large part of the Nightmare King plays into what the followers of the Goddess of Mystery believed in. When the church of Galicaea became convinced her teachings were heresy and her followers tried to destroy her, her efforts to stay alive ended up with her becoming the Nightmare King. And ultimately, the Nightmare King is defeated by Kristen believing in her, being the first person to do so in over 850 years and becoming her first new worshipper.
- The Consigliere: Served as one to Kalvaxus in return for being returned to Spyre after her banishment, being put in charge of solving problems related to spellcasting and breaking wards on highly protected places.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Nightmare King creates horror more than terror; making a village's children disappear, destroying monasteries or having people trapped inside dreams. All of which is very different to Kalvaxus's more straightforward "burn towns; get money" approach. Also, Kalvaxus is blatantly evil, whilst the Nightmare King is a little more complicated.
- Dark and Troubled Past: At the time of the last Great Sylvan War, about 850 years ago, the centaurs, treants, sprites, and wood elves in Sylvaire were in conflict with each other, motivated by religious differences between the tribes over the correct way to worship the Goddess of Mystery. She was despised by the clerics of Galicaea who considered everything they knew about her heresy, so they convinced the Goddess of Mystery's own followers that she shouldn't have a name. Her own followers proceeded to attempt to destroy her name through a council and a ritual act of divining magic on the advice of the High Elven Clerics of Galicaea. To avoid being unmade, the Goddess performed four trans-substantiations and one great trans-substantiation before the ritual was carried out, continuing to exist as the Nightmare King.
- The Determinator: Went to pretty insane lengths, even for a Goddess, to ensure her own followers didn't erase her from existence.
- Demonic Possession: Able to enter people's dreams and possess them which endangers the lives of the Bad Kids multiple times.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: They are identified originally as a goddess, then misidentified as a Nightmare "King", then end up as a godexx that uses they/she pronouns, very much implying a nonbinary allegory.
- Dragon Ascendant: Becomes the new Big Bad following the defeat of Kalvaxus during Prompocalypse. Bonus points given that her former boss was literally a dragon.
- Dragon Their Feet: Is stated to have been a lieutenant to Kalvaxus who was the Big Bad of the Bad Kids' freshman year, but she isn't brought up very much until her crown is stolen from Arthur Aguefort's office during Prompocalypse and he sends the Bad Kids to retrieve it in their sophomore year for 60% of the final grade. Justified in Sophomore Year when it's revealed that the Nightmare King had no real loyalty to Kalvaxus, being a much older and deadlier entity who agreed to be his lieutenant in order to use him to return to the physical world.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Mentioned as early as the very first episode of Fantasy High but doesn't start to play a major role until the second season.
- Eldritch Abomination: An extraplanar being whose origin is a point of contention. The reality of what they are is equally terrifying as The Nightmare King is essentially what remains of the Goddess of Mystery's last ditch attempt to survive a ritual meant to destroy her.
- Evil Is Bigger: She is an 800 foot tall skeleton draped in shadows.
- Fisher King: Subverted. Her appearance in the Sylvaire Forest caused it to become cursed and led to the emergence of the first dark elves and evil fey, however, even after her banishment her curse remained on the forest.
- Gender Reveal: Was originally female but since they appear as a giant skeleton their gender was unclear and everyone assumed they were male, hence why they given the name of The Nightmare King.
- Greater-Scope Villain: As revealed at the end of Freshman Year and throughout Sophomore Year, the agents of the Nightmare King were working towards resurrecting their master while using Kalvaxus's plot as a cover.
- Heel–Face Turn: After overcoming the trans-substantiations the Goddess of Mystery performed to avoid destruction, Kristen reaches out to her and becomes her first new follower in over 850 years, allowing the Nightmare King to come to an end and be reformed as Cassandra, the new Goddess of Mystery, Night and Magic.
- I Know Your True Name: Subverted. Kristen has no clue what the original name of the Goddess of Mystery was, but she renames what remains of the deity Cassandra to give them new purpose and meaning before devoting herself to her as her first new follower in over 850 years, destroying the form of the Nightmare King and allowing them to be reborn once again as the new Goddess of Mystery, Night and Magic.
- Mysterious Past: Nobody really knows what The Nightmare King even is since the undead think he's a fae, but the fae and elves think he's undead. The best guess is that they are some sort of devil since The Nightmare King fought on their side in the Blood War against the demons in the past. Uncovering the truth is vital to the Bad Kids defeating her.
- Non Human Nonbinary: When turned into Cassandra, they are a nonbinary Goddexx.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Zig Zagged. In the form of the Nightmare King, they are undeniably a force of darkness and evil, however, the essence of the Goddess of Mystery exists within them and once they begin to weaken the power of the Nightmare King by overcoming the trans-substantiations, it allows the Nightmare King to be reinterpreted by her first new follower into a benevolent force once again.
- Played straight in her backstory since she was almost destroyed by the machinations of the church of Galicaea because everything they understood about her teachings and domains of Mystery, Night and Magic were considered heretical.
- Redemption Demotion: Introduced in Sophomore Year as an incredibly threatening and mysterious extraplanar being. Then in Junior Year after becoming Cassandra and trying to help the party in their battle, she gets taken out by a wet floor sign and a previously undiagnosed shrimp allergy. And while, in her defence this has more to do with Fig becoming The Jinx, she does also fail 9 straight rolls to try to dispel a transformation all by herself.
- Tragic Villain: The unnamed goddess was a kind and benevolent deity before she was betrayed and destroyed by her followers, only turning into the Nightmare King after performing the 5 trans-substantiations to save herself.
