Characters appearing in the High Rollers Aerois Campaign. Beware of spoilers.
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Aerois Campaign
The Storm Chasers (the Player Characters)
Lucius Elenasto
Race: High Elf
Class: Arcane Chromat
A sheltered daddy's boy, living in a rich noble estate atop the floating city of Gusthaven. As a trained Arcane Chromat Lucius pulls upon the very colour of life to cast spells and thanks to his heterochromia, can augment acid and cold spells. Played by Chris Trott.
- Accidental Marriage: He ends up getting blackout drunk and marrying one of beastwalkers on the crew, named Faythe.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: After putting on the Crown of the Fairy Princess, Lucius becomes more androgynous and he starts referring to himself as Princess. This is averted after he removes the crown, as he is firmly male once again.
- Bad Liar: He has a habit of blurting out secrets the rest of the party are trying to keep.
- Character Development: Goes from literal daddy's boy to badass airship captain after the events of the Elanasto Fiasco arc.
- The Dandy: Lucius is incredibly concerned about his appearance and fashion in general.
- Death Faked for You: When he finally gets back home, he learns that two weeks after the airship crash apparently the authorities found a body that they identified as him, so they stopped looking for him.
- Elemental Powers: Lucius is an Arcane Chromat sorcerer, drawing power from color in his environment. This gives him Monochromatic Eyes and affinity for acid and ice, though he's also capable of casting non-elemental spells.
- Glass Cannon: Lucius has both the lowest Max HP and AC in the entire party. He also hits very hard.
- Heroic BSoD: Lucius completely shuts down after he learns that Daddy has died.
- I Will Only Slow You Down: Invokes this in Episode 50, when the gang are trying to escape the failing spaceship Aegis V. Lucius gets stuck behind and tells the rest of the group to go on without him, which only makes the party work even harder to save him.
- Karmic Transformation: After killing a Pixie princess and putting on her crown, he transforms to be much more fairy-like, growing wings and becoming very glittery.
- Light 'em Up: Arcane Chromats are a homebrew sub-class of Sorcerers that focus on light magic and colors.
- Manchild: He is never not crying about how much he hates not being back home with his Daddy.
- Near-Death Experience: In episode 87, Lucius ends up getting one of his lungs pierced by a dragon turtle and starts to die from drowning. Cue about an hour of panicked healing attempts, Lucius losing consciousness multiple times, and him using one of his (many) final breaths to mend one of Nova's damaged Tiangong shards before Quill busts out a scroll of Sequester to delay his death just long enough for Nova to heal him.
- Odd Friendship: With Nova, Ditzy Genius and fellow magical Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He comes from a very wealthy family, but all of his money couldn't prepare him for being away from his Daddy.
- Upper-Class Twit: He clearly has no idea how the real world works.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Lucius wants to impress Daddy. This is given a darker undertone when it's revealed that "Daddy" sets very high expectations on his children.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He kills two random farm cows because he doesn't know what a cow is.
Aila
Race: Wild Elf
Class: Barbarian
Aila is a Wild Elf Barbarian and member of the Airdetithe clan. Armed with her warhammer, the Howling Gale, she journeys to find her true clan and understand the source of her unnatural storm powers. Played by Katie Morrison.
- The Big Guy: The most physically powerful of the group when she rages.
- Catchphrase:
- "I'm gonna Whack 'em."
- "I'm a delight!"
- Human Alien: Upon being told the name Hadar, Aila has a flashback to a memory of herself as a baby on another planet, with her missing tribe being loaded onto Starbane ships to go fight Hadar.
- The Lad-ette: Unlike what she would have you believe, she's much less of a "delight" than any of the other player characters, with the possible exception of Pyri.
- Lightning Bruiser: Has the highest HP and Speed in the party, and her rage lets her hit harder with her warhammer. Technically gives up range, though this is mitigated by her magic hammer, which can be thrown once per day and jump vast distances, and a quiver of magic arrows.
- Shock and Awe: As a stormherald, Aila generates an aura of lightning around her.
- Team Mom: Surprisingly, Aila takes up this mantle after Sentry’s death, and is the one who keeps Nova and Lucius going. Even more so when Qill dies and then Nova and Lucius declare her the new leader in his stead.
- Unwanted False Faith: The goblin Smeek appears to worship her, viewing her as an avatar of the storms that plague his home.
Nova V'Ger
Race: Air Genasi
Class: Warlock
Nova is a happy-go-lucky scholar who dreams of travelling into space. She travels with Tiangong; a mysterious sword that gives her the powers of a Hexblade Warlock. Fiercely intelligent, but not very world wise! Played by Kim Richards.
- Apologetic Attacker: She doesn't like using her magic for violence, but she understands that sometimes she has no choice, so as a compromise she makes sure her enemies know that she doesn't want to hurt them either, but she's going to anyway.
- Body Horror: After sacrificing some of her lifeforce to hold a portal open, all of the flesh on her right arm falls off over the course of a few days, leaving a fully functional bone arm, and it gains innate necromantic power. She gets it fixed later.
- Break the Cutie: This campaign hasn't exactly been kind to Nova, from the initial crash on the Sparrowblade and having to survive in the wild, to being indirectly responsible for Sentry's death, being courted by Kalus Starbane to join his side, having her arm skeletonized holding a portal open on a failing Astral Citadel, losing Qill's trust because she smuggled the ILS off of Aegis V, and then indirectly getting one of the crew members killed and nearly destroying the Storm Chaser because she smuggled the ILS aboard without telling anyone. It reaches a head in Vortinssar, where Nova straight up dies whilst trying to save her home. It doesn't even end when she's resurrected, as she loses Tiangong.
- Cast from Lifespan: Holding a portal open with her own lifeforce nets Nova a permanent HP decrease.
- Character Tic: When the party gets stuck trying to work themselves out of a lie (which happens often), she just starts looking around at random things in the room they're in to look like she had nothing to do with it.
- Deal with the Devil: After being contacted by Starbane in a dream, she forms an uneasy pact to aid him in his war against Hadar.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Half the reason Nova pushes to hire Captain Thalia to get them back to Aerois was because, in her own words, "boobs".
- Ditzy Genius: She's very smart (High INT), but she's somewhat inattentive and easily distracted (Low WIS).
- Evil Hand: After sacrificing some of her lifeforce to hold open the portal on the Aegis V, her hand essentially transforms into that of a lich, being just bone and having innate necromantic ability.
- Fusion Dance: In Mesmera's throne room, Nova and Tiangong fused, becoming a fighter/warlock multiclass.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Nova is notably an avid tinkerer, and takes naturally to manning the engines on both the Stormchaser and the Twinstar Longbow. She also makes Quill a new arm.
- Genki Girl: Nova is pretty hyperactive, especially in regards to science.
- Heel–Face Turn: Though she could never be definitely said to be a villain, once she deduced that Starbane's plan would involve removing the artifact that keeps Aerois capable of supporting life, she definitively turned away from Starbane.
- Lovable Nerd: Nova is an excitable genasi who's unapologetically nerdy. Apart from Tiangong, her most prized possession is her library card.
- The Medic: To a very limited degree. Most warlocks can't actually learn spells that restore hit points, and Nova is no exception. However, her Pact of the Tome let her learn Spare the Dying, which prevents downed creatures from dying permanently, and a ritual version of both Heal Injury spells, which let her mend injuries over the course of ten minutes.
- Motivated by Fear: Ever since Tiangong first showed her Hadar, everything Nova has done has been driven by her fear of the Red Star. She's even started looking into methods of aiding Starbane, solely because she thinks that he's the only chance at beating Hadar.
- My Greatest Failure: She blames her failures as the reason Sentry died.
- Odd Friendship: With Lucius, Upper-Class Twit and fellow magical Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- Official Couple: Dating Thalia Whisperwind, the two having shared multiple intimate moments over the course of the campaign. Post-campaign, Kim and Mark confirmed that the two would stay together for a while, but not forever, given Nova's lifespan as a Genasi against Thalia's lifespan as an Archfey.
- Omniglot: She can speak half a dozen languages, and has a special skill to read every written language.
- Our Liches Are Different: Nova's arm is essentially that of a lich, while the rest of her is still alive and perfectly healthy.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Nova doesn't pick up sarcasm very well.
- Shout-Out: Her name is a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: Nova's brother and sister are both well known athletes in her homeland, and Nova feels overshadowed by their fame.
- Token Evil Teammate: Out of everybody the party knows, Nova is the most willing and eager to join Starbane's force's in the war against Hadar, even going behind the party's backs to try and figure out how to get in contact with him to formally pledge her allegiance to him Though she ends up deciding against it once she realizes there's better ways to stop Hadar than conquering the galaxy..
Qillek Ad Khollar
Race: Aarakocra
Class: Cleric/Wizard multiclass (former bard/cleric)
The one-armed Bard/Cleric Qillek Ad Khollar prefers to stay far from the battle, choosing to instead support his allies with healing abilities and defensive boons granted to him by his God H'esper. Plated by Tom Hazell.
- Actual Pacifist: He doesn't like fighting, preferring to stay in the back of the group and healing and buffing his allies. Which makes it all the more surprising when he absolutely decimates his opponent in the Spell Clash preliminaries.
- An Arm and a Leg: He lost his left wing after being struck by lightning. It gets replaced with a mechanical prosthetic in Episode 88.
- Butt-Monkey: Not so much character/personality wise, but in terms of combat abilities (or specifically, the lack of combat abilities) out of the 5 main party members, Quil is easily the one who has suffered the most from being caught in bad situations, some of which that have resulted in him losing several of his limbs (past examples including his left wing, right eye, ribs and most recently jaw) over the course of the campaign and this is not even getting started on the fact that he died not too long back due to a string of very unlucky rolls.
- Came Back Strong: When he's resurrected, H'esper gifts him a new eye which can let him see a minute of the past, present, or future by asking a question about it, once per day.
- The Chosen One: H'esper chose him to act as his agent on Aerois when he first got struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms. He eventually leads the party to stop the raging maelstrom at the center of the Valley, fulfilling his purpose and receiving the Spear of Oracles.
- Cowardly Lion: Qill is, by his own admission, frightened most of the time, but he will summon his courage when he needs to.
- Deadpan Snarker: He usually has a sarcastic comment to the antics that happen around him, particularly in regards to Lucius.
- Determined Defeatist: Qillek is usually pessimistic about the party's chances, but he goes along with it anyways.
- Eye Scream: Loses an eye in the battle with the Goliath.
- Faking the Dead: After he got struck by lightning, lost his wing, and lost all chances of becoming a messenger, he just never went back home, leaving all his friends and family to assume he died.
- Glass Cannon: He can deal a lot of damage, but he can't take much in return. Almost every fight he ends up getting knocked down. Because of this, he's the second party member to fail three death saves.
- Hyper-Awareness: Due to his high wisdom, has an absolutely ridiculous passive perception of 26.
- I Shall Taunt You: During their fight with Brett Brookstone Qill delivers some viciously biting commentary at the expense of their opponent, which backfires and only makes him and his Angry Mob more aggressive.
- The Leader: He doesn't want to be, but he's the one the others look to for decisions, especially after Sentry dies and they're sent to his homeland to try and resurrect her.
- Light 'em Up: When forced to directly deal with opponents, Quill tends to use Guiding Bolt and Spiritual Weapon.
- Magical Eye: After he comes back from the dead, Hesper replaces his missing eye with a magical artifact that can answer questions about the past, present, and potential futures with one minute visions.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: For obvious reasons, he now has a deathly fear of lightning.
- Wrong-Name Outburst: When startled by lightning he tends to shout "SENTRY! SENTRY! SENTRY!" to try to get her to protect him from it. Even when she's dead.
Sentry
Race: Guardian
Class: Paladin
Sentry is a proud Guardian, tasked with protecting the Royal Family of Solwynn. Until a cruel fate violently tore her from her home and the people she loved. Now tasked with discovering and preserving the knowledge of her forgotten world, before her time runs out. Played by Rhiannon Gower.
- Ace Custom: Sentry was a special guardian build to protect the Princess of Solwynn. Because of her advanced build, she is chosen by the Prime to take control of the Prime Matrix.
- The Ageless: As the new Prime her Matrix no longer ever needs recharging. The previous Prime lived for countless millennia unchanging before passing on the Matrix.
- Arm Cannon: Sentry gets a laser attached to her arm after taking it from the feral Guardian in Dwallenden.
- Beware the Nice Ones: After her friends are hurt and killed, Sentry goes ballistic against the Goliath.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Sentry is the first of the party to fail three death saves.
- Came Back Strong: After being taken to the Midwife's Forge, she is repaired and recharged, and given additional armor, as well as having Echo upgraded to be able to transform into a mount.
- The Chosen One: She was chosen by the Prime to carry the Prime Matrix out into the world and rebuild the Guardian race because of her advanced build.
- Comfort Food: She can't eat, but holding a warm plate to her face is the closest equivalent for her.
- Eye Scream: After destroying the ILS, the resultant explosion destroys one of her eyes, like Quill. It gets fixed later.
- Gentle Giant: Sentry towers over the rest of the party, but is quite friendly with them and very curious about this mysterious future she's found herself in.
- Golem: Guardians were a type of advanced Golem built by the people of Solwynn, made of wood, stone, and metal and powered by The Matrix of Will.
- Healing Hands: As per the Paladin's Lay On Hands ability. Can also be used to cure diseases and minor conditions.
- The Heart: She is the emotional core of the group, and the group starts suffering strife when she dies.
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Guardians aren't supposed to be radically sentient like she is, but she was made specifically to be a caretaker.
- The Paladin: The most defense oriented over the party, she focuses on protecting and healing her allies.
- Team Mom: She's quickly identified as the most responsible and level-headed member of the party. She was built to be a protector and nanny for a princess, after all.
- Took a Level in Badass: While being resurrected, Sentry is upgraded by the Midwife's Forge. Her armor is reinforced, and Echo can now serve as her paladin mount. And again after accepting the Prime Matrix.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Guardians are built to last for 15 years before needing to be recharged, and Sentry was active 13 years before going into hibernation. But since the technology to maintain them has been lost for centuries, she needs to find a way to recharge before she powers down for good or goes feral. This gets even more pronounced when it's revealed by the dragonborn that arcane damage to Sentry's matrix has cut her two years down to something more like two months. With Sentry now possessing the Prime Matrix, she has become ageless.
Oriya
Race: Half-orc
Class: Ranger/Rogue
A (former) captain the party encounters in Voksar, who they hire as a guide. Played by Rhiannon Gower.
- The Bus Came Back: Very shortly after parting ways with the party they send her a message telling her to come join them again as First Mate of the Storm Chaser.
- The Captain: She used to be one, before her bastard of a brother stole her ship. She comes back later to help pilot the Stormchaser.
- Guest-Star Party Member: She is a temporary character for Rhiannon while Sentry is dead.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: At one point she tells a story about how she and her crew used to take bets on fisherman ships getting torn apart by Clacks.
- Walking Spoiler: She only exists as a character because Sentry died.
Pyri
Race: Fire Genasi
Class: Monk
A treasure hunter who mysteriously fell out of a portal. Separated from his mysterious employer, he joins the party for lack of having other options. Played by Tom Hazell.
- Book Dumb: According to Nova, he was "That idiot at the back of the class".
- Contrived Coincidence: As it turns out, Nova actually knows him from their days at the Atlas Academy.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He is a temporary character for Tom while Qill is dead.
- Playing with Fire: As a Fire Genasi he has natural fire affinity.
- Walking Spoiler: He only exists as a character because Qill died.
Special Guest Player Characters
Johan
Race: Human
Class: Sorcerer
A mysterious fisherman the party meets, who had been having strange dreams of a bird with one eye falling from the sky. Played by Ravs.
- The Call Left a Message: He had to track down the Storm Chaser to remind the party that they had promised to come help end the storms plaguing Myrskir, because they had almost completely forgotten, with the entire Gusthaven and City of Glass arcs having started and ended in the meantime.
- The Chosen Many: He's one of Hesper's other champions.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Hesper gives him visions of the future through his dreams.
- Dream Walker: During the fight against the nightmare creatures in the Temple of H'esper, Johan is able to pull some of the party into the dragon's dream to help purify the corruption.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He was first played by Ravs while Trott was away, but then later joined a full cast episode to remind them of the quest he set for them.
- Living Dream: Of Johandrius, the storm dragon at the center of the Valley of the Storm. Once he awakens, Johan disappears back into him.
- Shock and Awe: As a storm sorcerer, he has power over thunder and lightning.
- Shrouded in Myth: Oriya has heard of Johan before, with legends of a fisherman who called down a storm and destroyed a ship, killing most of the crew.
NPCs
Allies
Arval Dagos
Race: Dwarf
Arval is from merchant from Goldthrone who was on the airship as it crashed. He has traveled with the party ever since, carrying his trusty crossbow, Evangeline.
- I Call It "Vera": He calls his crossbow "Evangeline".
- Friendly Sniper: Quite a nice guy, and wields a fancy multishot crossbow that he is quite adept with.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns approximately 80 episodes after we last see him, when the party travel to Horizon.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The party don't get to learn what happens to him when they are teleported to Qill's homeland.
Valla
Race: Human
Class: Rogue/Sorcerer
Valla is a young human girl with was traveling aboard the airship with two clerics. She possesses a great but unstable magical power.
- The Artful Dodger: While she was living in the Temple of Siaska she would sneak out almost every night to wander town.
- The Chosen One: Heavily implied. The church of Siaska recognised her potential and gave her special protection (her cleric guardians), and she has been targeted repeatedly by the Ancient Conspiracy. Confirmed when it's revealed that her father is Kalus Starbane, and he created her the same way the gods created their children.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Valla has no known parents, which is why she was taken in by the church of Siaska. It turns out her real parents are Starbane and Siaska herself.
- Divine Parentage: She was created by two gods to be their child.
- Living MacGuffin: A lot of the plot early on is centered around people trying to kidnap Valla for an unknown reason.
- Manchurian Agent: Accidentally on the part of the "brainwasher". As an infant Valla saw Starbane punch in the coordinates to his throne room so many times they became embedded in her memory. The first time in her conscious life she encounters a place to input those coordinates, she does so instinctively. Doing so is what brings Starbane back to Aerois.
- Really Royalty Reveal: She's actually the daughter of Kalus Starbane, and presumably heir to his empire.
- Tagalong Kid: The Teen Genius variety. She's very resourceful, deceptively powerful, extra stealthy, and at one point the party admits that she may be smarter than any of them. They struggle pretty hard to balance her being a useful part of the team with her being safe.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She has an obsession with knives.
- Tyke Bomb: She's developed some powerful sorcery at a pretty young age.
Tiangong
Nova's magic sword, which she found while spelunking in a crashed dropship from before the sundering, and which grants her access to magic as a Hexblade Warlock.
- Empathic Weapon: They are able to communicate their emotions to Nova.
- With three shards now merged together, the shard carried by Nova can now give yes and no responses.
- With five shards, they can now carry a casual conversation.
- Energy Being: Their species were originally beings of pure magical energy before being enslaved by Starbane.
- Dismantled MacGuffin: The sword that Nova found was actually only a part of the original Tiangong, who was broken into pieces so he could be used to fuel more of Starbane's ships.
- Nova runs into a second shard (a sai-like tri-bladed throwing knife) in the depths of the Night Eye. With it, Tiangong becomes a +1 weapon.
- Way later, when the party gets thrown into Astral Space, she picks up a third shard (an ornate rapier) from an unfriendly ultraloth, allowing Tiangong to say yes or no.
- A few episodes later, Nova finds a fourth shard (a shield) in a spaceship crashed into the side of the massive frost wyrm which guards Aerois. This gives Tiangong the ability to manifest a shield and speak one word at a time.
- The party managed to grab a fifth shard (a spear) from a group of bullywugs. Tiangong is now capable of full conversations, albeit slowly and without emotion.
- During the timeskip, Arvil sent an expedition to reclaim a sixth shard of Tiangong, actually the first shard Nova was trying to get.
- Mathematician's Answer: With three pieces united by Nova, it can now give yes and no answers to questions.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Tiangong was so powerful that Starbane had to break him into an unknown number of pieces so he could be used to power more than one thing at a time.
- Talking Weapon: With four shards, Tiangong becomes able to give speak one-word phrases. With five, they can converse freely.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that they even have a race is almost a spoiler on its own, let alone the details about it.
Petal
Princess Guinevere "Petal" Astoria of Solwynn
Race: Human
The Princess of Solwynn, whom Sentry was entrusted to protect before the Sundering.
- Human Popsicle: She was Sequestered, frozen in time and place in a Sundering ruin, for almost 500 years, before being rescued by Danica Bloodfire, the leader of the sky city of Horizon.
- Never Found the Body: Sentry has held out hope that even though she likely died 500 years ago, there's a possibility that somehow, somewhere, she managed to survive until Sentry can find her. And she did.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: When she and Sentry finally find each other again, Petal is much much older than she was when Sentry last saw her.
Senna
Race: Beastwalker:
A rabbit beastwalker mercenary who was hired to look into the disappearance of a girl with a similar description to Valla. She encounters the party when they reach Ironwick.
- Ambiguously Lesbian: Mentions kissing girls when she was a teenager, and was extremely attracted to Aila after drinking quite a bit.
- Beast Folk: She has the legs, ears, and nose of a rabbit, but otherwise looks like a human.
- Kick Chick: Her main method of attack is using her developed rabbit legs to kick her opponents.
Nightfrost
Race: Gladio Aeterna
Like Tiangong, Nightfrost in a living weapon. He was found in an underwater Remnant ship, being used for nefarious purposes to drain the life force of girls similar to Valla.
- Empathic Weapon: Nightfrost was taken by the Remnant and used against his will to perform dastardly experiments.
- Living Shadow: His humanoid form can emerge from Lucius's shadow.
- Living Weapon: Nightfrost is from a race of sentient, transmorphic weapons.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He feels immense guilt for what he was forced to do to those girls.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Twofold: Nightfrost was originally bound to a physical form so he could be used to power magic devices, and then after 500 of inactivity the Remnant tried to recharge him by having him consume the souls of kidnapped girls. He is later destroyed to power a portal to the Nine Hells.
- Scarf of Asskicking: He can take on this form for Lucius.
Miliika
Race: Aasimar
The Field Warden of Kalie's Rest, who first meets the party when they once again arrive in town and trouble starts happening around them.
- Rage Breaking Point: When the party tells her that they managed to rescue, capture and interrogate a member of the city's xenophobic cult, and then they let him go, she takes the sword she has hanging in her office and smashes her desk to pieces.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She knows full well that the Abbey is at the center of the growing racial tensions in the city, and outright hires the party as mercenaries to go around the restrictions placed upon the Harvest Guard.
Kalu
Race: Orc
Class: Paladin
An Orc Aila encounters walking through town shirtless during a storm. Something about that, and his tattoos, makes her follow him. After a fight, she receives a vision of the Goddess Zephyr.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Very boisterous and can easily hold his own in a fight with Aila.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Aerois's Orcs are inspired by Polynesian culture, especially the Samoan people.
- Shock and Awe: Calls down lightning on Aila during their fight.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: He speaks with what seems to be a mix of Jamaican and German accents.
- Wild Samoan: A strong, boisterous Orc whose race was inspired by Polynesian culture.
Skaldi Ravenskar
Race: Dwarf
A Dwarven priestess of Kilara.
- I Owe You My Life: When Qill dies helping her cleanse the temple of Siaska in the Night Eye, Skaldi pledges that in repayment she will go with them on their journey to revive both Qill and Sentry.
- Light 'em Up: Wields a lantern that is equipped with many light based spells.
- Support Party Member: Invoked by Mark, who switched some of Skaldi’s priest statblock spells to better fit her role in the narrative, which is to provide healing and buffs for the party.
- White Mage: She fills this role in the party after Sentry and Qill, the two Player Characters with healing abilities, die.
Vessik
Race: Goblin
A goblin Remnant soldier who the party meets as they arrive at the Midwife's Forge, who they strike a deal with to help bypass the Forge's defense mechanisms.
- BFG: He wields a Starbane-tech cannon that shoots lightning and fire.
- Faux Affably Evil: He ends up Brookstoning the party, once they power up the Midwife's Forge, fearing that the power source they supplied wouldn't be enough to repair his war machines and the party's fallen guardian ally.
- Mr. Exposition: As the first Remnant soldier who the party doesn't kill on sight, he gives them a lot of new information on history from before the Sundering.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He's obviously not enthused by his fellow goblins' lack of intelligence and Always Chaotic Evil tenancies.
- Our Goblins Are Different: From what he says, all Goblins on Aerois were brought there by Starbane before the Sundering, and they weren't always so simple minded as they tend to be now.
- The Remnant: He claims to not follow Starbane, but he does admit that he is descended from Starbane soldiers stranded on Aerois after the Sundering, and maintains and uses their technology.
Smeek
Race: Goblin
A goblin who became obsessed with Aila and started following the party around.
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Base-Breaking Character: Tom hates him a lot for how much time they spend not playing the game because Mark distracted them with Smeek. - Death Seeker: He wants to die because he thinks that if he does he'll be reincarnated as a Hobgoblin. And, consciously or not, he knows that following Aila around is going to make his death more likely than if he just hangs around in the Midwife's Forge.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: When he dies, because he wasn't killed by lightning, he comes back as a ghost, much to everybody but Tom's delight.
- Team Pet: Aila doesn't like how he worships her but everybody else is more amused than not by his antics. And then he accidentally tags along when the party teleports to Gusthaven, so now they're stuck with him.
- The Unintelligible: Smeek only knows how to speak Goblin. Nobody in the party knows how to speak goblin. Once they buy a Translation Earring they can start communicating meaningfully, but they can't converse easily (because they only have one earring and have to pass it around).
- Unwanted False Faith: He worships Aila, thinking she's an avatar of the storms that plague his home. She isn't a fan of it.
Nanny
Norfir "Nightshade" Tramadell
Race: Half Elf
Class: Rogue
Lucius's Nanny, the woman who raised him while his family were busy running their business.
- Battle Butler: She was very ready to kill Lucius if he didn't turn out to actually be the boy she raised. She was originally an assassin from the Lowlands, which was why she was hired to protect Lucius. She was also training Edea to fight the whole time.
- The Bus Came Back: In episode 122, the Stormchasers call upon her to sow discord in Vortensar about their decision to side with the Valkryian Empire.
- Behind the Black: She managed to beat two high perception rolls to sneak up on Lucius and put a crossbow to his head.
- Guns Akimbo: She threatens the party with two hand crossbows at once.
- Hero of Another Story: She was already a trained killer before she even met Lucius, and after finding him again she plans to return to the Lowlands and return to that life.
- Something Only They Would Say: She demands this of Lucius to make sure he's not an impostor after being told he was dead.
Moonstar
Race: High Elf
Class: Vigilante
A Masked Vigilante who has been fighting the Wind Barons and causing trouble for the royalty of Gusthaven. She claims to be a very close friend of Lucius's twin sister Edea, but is actually Edea herself.
- Faking the Dead: The body that was found in the Elenasto estate was her secret girlfriend, but she allowed everybody to assume it was her.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: She wears what is essentially an all-white batman suit. Even with an instant-acting invisibility potion, Qill is still able to see her sneaking away from their first encounter.
- Spot the Impostor: She believes that she's managed to see through the lie that Lucius has returned to Gusthaven, because the "real Lucius" was nowhere near as competent as the man trying to reclaim the Elenasto fortune is. Barring some insane reveal, she's obviously wrong.
Helios
Race: Syphus Aeterna
An Aeterna in the service of Dean Ellesandra Vastra of the Imperion Archive in Gusthaven. Before the party met him, he was tasked with making sure his master never succumbed to her vampirism and started killing innocents. After meeting Tiangong, he asks the party if he can join their quest to find Tiangong's shards.
- Beast Man: His humanoid form is that of an 6'4" lion-headed man.
- Fantastic Racism: He despises most corporeal life because it was corporeal life that betrayed and enslaved his people.
- King of Beasts: Subverted. He's very lionlike, but it's explained that he was an average Aeterna far below the leadership and especially below Tiangong.
- Power Glows: He is quite radiant, which helps him control his vampiric master.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: His other form is a chestplate. He also manifests as a Badass Cape for Sentry.
The Storm Chaser
The Crew of Storm Chaser
The crew hired to man the Sky Ship commissioned by Lucius to carry the party across Aerois.
- The Heart: Sentry's official job title is "Morale Officer".
Grelana
Race: Orc
The ship doctor.- Amazonian Beauty: She's noted to be tall and athletic.
Lookout
Race:Guardian
A Guardian designed to act as a scout.
- Army Scout: What they were originally designed for, back before the Sundering.
- The Stoic: They're not as emotive as Sentry is.
- Meaningful Name: They're the lookout.
Penny
Race: Human
A Human mercenary hired to help defend the ship
- Do-Anything Soldier: She's the jack-of-all-trades fighter of the crew.
Kamara
Race: Beastwalker
The leader of the beastwalker mercenaries hired to crew the Storm Chaser.
- Beast Man: She's a wolf beastwalker, and she leads her crew as the Alpha.
Howard
Race: Halfling
The cook, and everybody's best friend.
- The Heart: His job is to keep everybody happy and well-fed.
Herald
The Prime Herald
Race: Guardian
The Herald sent out by the Prime to seek the Prime candidates, and direct them to Volcanos. But, when her time started to run out, she became desperate to be able to continue her purpose... and turned to necromancy, stealing energy from other Guardians. Eventually, her hunger for Life Energy drew the attention of a certain star-like abomination, who corrupted her into one of his servants. The Party, in their search to find Sentry more time, cured her corruption, and in thanks to Sentry choosing to spare her despite her atrocities, joined them.
- An Arm and a Leg: Her body was half destroyed in the escape from Volcanos. She waded through a pool of magma to reach the exit, melting away an arm and a leg in the process.
- Immortality Seeker: As she neared the end of her natural life, she started stealing energy from the Matrices of other Guardians, justifying it as her being needed to guide the Prime successor when they eventually arrived. Unfortunately, a hunger for Life Energy is just what Hadar looks for in his potential servants.
- I Owe You My Life: She pledges herself to Sentry after completing her purpose of directing her to the Prime.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: Her ability to steal the Life Energy of other guardians drew the favor of Hadar, who upgraded that ability to full-blown necromancy.
- Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Herald fully expected Sentry to kill her after she had finished her purpose and told her where to find the Prime. When Sentry spares her, she pledges her life to serving Sentry.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Herald as a servant of Hadar was a boss enemy. Herald as a follower of Sentry is just a regular Guardian Cleric.
Twin Star Longbow
The Crew of the Twin Star Longbow
The Twin Star Longbow was an Astral ship that the party hired to take them back to Aerois after unexpectedly being teleported to Elysium. Like the the Storm Chasers, Thalia, Bym, and Kyrie are also outlaws on the run from the empire.
Captain Thalia Wispwind
An alcoholic who Nova finds almost passed out at a bar. A high elf with a curse that turned her into a Medusa, and a skilled pilot on the run from the Empire.
- The Alcoholic: She is a very heavy drinker. The first time we meet her she is drunk to the point of almost vomiting on Nova, and once they are well on their journey Sentry comes across her binge drinking to cope with Bym's death, and discovers that Thalia keeps the ship very well-stocked with alcohol to facilitate such a thing.
- The Captain
- Expy: She's a female alcoholic Han Solo
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Unsurprisingly, Nova finds her immensely attractive despite her curse.
- Hidden Depths: As mentioned above, she's introduced as a female alcoholic Han Solo. However, she's actually a princess of an elven kingdom called Lunaria, cursed with Medusa-hood by a scorned fey deity. She's even willing to enter into an essentially unwinnable game with the Demon Lord Graz'zt to regain her original form
- Noble Fugitive: She was born a princess, before getting cursed and then exiled from her family's kingdom, and turning to a life of crime to make ends meet.
- The Tease: She repeatedly and overtly flirts with Nova during their journey.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: When Nova first comes across her, Thalia's shirt is almost completely unbuttoned, which immediately causes Nova to become distracted from her mission.
Bym
An imp, who displays Nova-like enthusiasm for technology and arcanology.
- Burial in Space: Thalia after taking a moment to eulogise, opens the airlock and gently sets him adrift while traveling through the Styx.
- Distracted from Death/Surprisingly Sudden Death: He dies after taking a single attack that killed him instantly. Nobody notices until the fight is over a few minutes later.
- The Engineer
- The Navigator: He just so happened to have been obsessed with finding the location of the legendary Aerois, which makes it trivial for him to direct Thalia on how to get the Storm Chasers back home.
- Tragic Bromance: He and Nova almost instantly become best friends, making it all the more heartbreaking that he die less than 2 days into the journey back to Aerois.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies less than 2 days after the Party met him, after Nova got so excited to spend time learning about Astral Engines from him.
Kyrie
A very very socially anxious Harpy, who prefers to spend time alone in the nest she made in the turret Thalia pays her to man.
- The Ace: She's a really good shot with the ship's turret, which is all the more surprizing because she had no training at all before Thalia hired her.
- Bird People: She's a harpy.
- Compelling Voice: She has a beautiful, orchestral singing voice which magically draws people who hear it towards her.
- Otaku: She is very socially inept, collects weapons in her turret, and is a big fan of Shansara's music.
- Shrinking Violet: She spends the first few days of traveling with the party avoiding them at all costs, and interacting with them only when forced to. It takes some work from them to get her to start opening up.
Enemies
Brett Brookstone
Race: Human
The one, the only, the son of a bitch.
- Faux Affably Evil: He puts on a friendly face at first, but he ends up backstabbing and trying to kill them. It becomes the first of many such events for the party.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The party's encounter with him was so formative that it's hard for them to not talk about betrayal in relation to his.
- Person as Verb: It takes no time at all for the party to take his name and use it as a curse word representing Betrayal.
Elois "Ironstaff"
Race: High Elf
- Aborted Arc: Mark had had an entire investigation arc planned for the lower half of Gusthaven, involving finding the missing mage who had identified Lucius as dead in the slums, which got skipped by Qill's ridiculous passive perception detecting his secret lair.
- Accidental Murder: The party manages to incapacitate him, but he is struck during his Shield Guardian's attempt to escape and bleeds out before they can save him.
- Fantastic Racism: Insults Aila after he's found out.
- Mad Bomber: Destroys the Elanasto mansion and Norfir's apartment with powerful firebombs in his crusade against the nobles of Gusthaven.
Charridus
Race: Fiend
An archdemon.
- All There in the Manual: The name of his world, Phlegethos (one of the Nine Hells), is only mentioned by Mark out of character.
- Big Bad: Of the Kalie's Rest arc. He was the one communicating with the priests of Palador, instead of their god.
- Deal with the Devil: The party attempts to bargain for Sentry's resurrection, before ultimately deciding that it just wouldn't be worth it and sealing his portal to Aerois.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Mark mentions that he was "one of many" Archdemons.
Kalus Starbane
Race: Human
Class: God
An Ancient Evil Overlord who attempted to conquer Aerois 500 years ago, a war which ultimately resulted in the Sundering. He returns in the modern age, when Valla accidentally opens a portal to his throne room.
- Affably Evil: He spares the party out of genuine gratitude for having protected his daughter, and gives them the resources to resurrect their fallen member, though he does make sure they have no chance to stand in his way.
- Big Bad: He's the most persistent threat to the party, and to the world of Aerois as a whole, having invaded Aerois once, now attempting to do so again.
- Deal with the Devil: The party bargain with him to resurrect Sentry in exchange for Sentry having protected Valla with her life.
- Galactic Conqueror: His empire has conquered most of the planes listed in the standard planar cosmology. Since each plane is a planet, the cosmology as a whole is the galaxy.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He is the ultimate source of most of the woes of Aerois.
- Lesser of Two Evils:
- To Charridus, the other major villain of the episode he first appeared in, who planned to overrun Aerois with an army of demons and enslave the party in return for not killing them. To contrast, Kalus gives the party what they need to save Sentry and sends them away so he's not forced to kill them when they inevitably try to stop him.
- He's also the lesser evil to Hadar. Hadar wants to consume reality, and Starbane's Empire is the biggest obstacle preventing him from doing so.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He created Valla the same way gods create their own children, but was separated from her during the Sundering and she was put into stasis for 500 years.
- Physical God: As a small sample of his power, he teleports the party halfway around the planet, and gives them a small fragment of a star to reactivate Sentry's Matrix with.
- Purple Is the New Black/Purple Is Powerful: His technology is black with purple highlights. When the portal opens to his throne room, the first signal that it's his is the purple lamps lighting the night-black room.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: After the Sundering, the Gods created a special shield around the world to keep him from returning. Valla accidentally gives him a pathway into Aerois when she closes a previous portal to one of the Nine Hells by dialing his throne room.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He tells the party that what he did, he did to protect Aerois from some threat they wouldn't even be able to comprehend, which turns out to be Hadar, the Dark Hunger.
- Wham Shot: Valla punches some glyphs into a portal controler, closing an already open portal to one of the Nine Hells. That portal closes... and another opens, showing a black sky with a field of stars, and a man in very technologically advanced armor sitting on a throne of black crystal.
Spoiler Character
Hadar, the Dark Hunger
"The Hunger never stops..."
Race: Elder Evil, formerly Divine
An eldritch evil that Starbane built his empire to fight.
- The Corruptor: He consumes his followers, filling them with hunger, and leaving them with parts of their bodies replaced by a miniature image of himself. He can even corrupt people who have never heard of him, if they have the requisite hunger for life energy.
- Cosmic Horror Reveal: Until he was introduced, the campaign was standard fantasy with a little Science Fantasy flavouring.
- Eldritch Abomination: He's a living star, who imbues his followers with the magic of the void, and the incomprehensible threat Kalus Starbane invaded Aerois to protect it from.
- God-Eating: Hadar was just a normal divine until his hunger drove him to consume one of his brethren, and he became too powerful for any of the other divines to destroy.
- Horror Hunger: He fills his servants with an insatiable hunger. Or more accurately, having an insatiable hunger for life energy marks people as potential conduits for his power, whether they even know he exists or not.
- Interface Spoiler: A weird variation: He was first mentioned on the show out-of-character two sessions before hearing his name in-character. Mark and Trott explained Lucius's Luscious Light was a reskinned and renamed version of the spell Hunger of Hadar because, as Mark made an explicit point of, no-one on Aerois knew anything about Hadar.
- Leaking Can of Evil: Hadar has been sealed in the Far Realm for untold millenia, but that hasn't stopped him from collecting followers to consume the universe in his stead.
- Physical God: In his previous life as a Divine, he was already one of these like the others, but when consumed one of the others he became even more so, to the point where the only way the Divines could stop him from eating the entire universe was by sealing him within a parallel one void of sustenance for him.
- The Power of the Void: He imbues warlocks who worship him with the ability to summon corrupting shadows and mini black holes.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The Cradle, which was designed to keep Starbane out of Aerois, incidentally also kept Hadar out. Now that Starbane has found a way onto Aerois, its protection is no longer guaranteed. And technically, He's still in his can, the Far Realm, and is powerful enough to still influence the universe from within it.
