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The Sweet Dragon

"Do we really want to be the place where weird shit happens all the time?"

Panic Grimtongue, tempting fate.

The tavern's official logo.

Once a rundown building rewarded to The Unexpectables turned base of operations. The place was renovated and transformed into the titular Sweet Dragon, a Bar that has evolved and expanded as the campaign has gone on, being host to a numerous and ever growing cast of employees that both work there and call it home.

In General

Beware the Silly Ones: Next to all of them are silly, off the wall characters who you would be hardly blamed to not take seriously, but whenever the Inn has been attacked any combat able member of the staff jumps into action, rarely ever losing as a group.
Out of Focus: Whenever the party goes out adventuring it’s only natural the entire staff would be this, but the party rarely sees a good number of them in game, usually only going to the ones of the most use or story relevance leaving the rest to just do stuff in the background.
Ragtag Bunch Of Mis Fits: The entire staff is made up of an entire slew of colorful characters of all sorts of backgrounds, races and stories who many employers wouldn’t even give a second glance at, but thanks to the parties generous hiring practices and love of odd employees they’ve made up a very well put together operation who work off each other very well.
Undying Loyalty: Doesn’t come up often but the thanks to The Unexpectables incredibly kind and charitable treatment of their entire staff they are this to them. When the party brought forth that The Yugoloths were spying and potentially planning to target all of them and they were given to option to quit, none of them took it, saying they love working their and would rather fight then be pushed around. Which was put into practice when several demons assaulted the Inn and several adult dragons attacked the Inn during the Dragon attack of Alivast.

Leadership

Helga

A woman who has given her last fuck long ago

The Orcish barmaid, general manager and unofficial proprietor of the Sweet Dragon whenever the party is out adventuring. She is a rather brusque woman who doesn't truck with nonsense.

Almighty Janitor: She's officially just the Sweet Dragon's barmaid, but she's the one who actually puts in the effort into running the tavern, handles all the finances and she's the default leader when the party takes one of their many trips away. There's also the fact that for a majority of the series she was higher leveled then the entire party, only becoming weaker then them after the Elemental Planes arc.
Bare-Fisted Monk: Is a Monk mechanically speaking of incredibly high skill and the strongest seen so far. only ever using her hands she has racked up some of the most impressive feats of strength thus far. Being able to snap a Fire Giants neck with ease, obliterate (a much lower level) Borky in one round of combat and could stand, at the time, equal footing with Tiengo in a fair fight. With her most recent one being helping the guards fight off and even kill several adult dragons attempted to break into the Sweet Dragon.
Collector of the Strange: Not as bad as her employers, but she has a particular love of exotic and hard to find alcohols and often asks the party to collect them when out adventuring. Greckles makes a point to collect all sorts of odd top shelf booze to give to her to get on her good side.
Eye Scream: Lost an eye while defending the Sweet Dragon during the Dragon Cult's raid on Alivast.
Heartbroken Badass: She's lost a lot of her children and her mates, and it weighs heavily on her.
Husky Russkie: In spirit if not in fact (since Russia doesn't exist), but she's a stern and quite built up women who once snapped the neck of a fire giant twice her size, and she speaks with a thick Russian accent.
Informed Attractiveness: According to Borky she is "so goddamned ugly", but it's really only him who thinks this. According to Monty, she's actually quite attractive for a full-blooded orc.
Life Will Kill You: She ends up dying in the 20 year time frame of the epilogue thanks to a stressful life and Orcs shorter then average life spans.
Mama Bear: Had a lot of kids while she was an adventurer, and it's clear she cared pretty deeply for them. She extends this to younger women who work in the tavern, being very protective of them.
Not So Above It All: She tries to give out a no nonsense disposition, but bring in rare wine and she's willing to drop to the rest of the tavern's level.
Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: She's usually described as cleaning a glass whenever she's not busy dealing with the party's antics or a customer.
Retired Badass: She's incredibly strong, but she considers her days of adventuring behind her, being content to run the Sweet Dragon's bar.
Team Mom: Shows legitimate concern for the well being of her fellow employees, such as when she forces Luistrong to take time off of work to recuperate from a stab wound.
They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Whatever made her split away from her former mercenary group, she's not keen on sharing anything about it and shuts down whenever it's brought up.
War Is Hell: She is quick to stop the parties more idealistic ideas of warfare noting how war ripped her family and home away from her and her main reason to fighting anymore is to make sure others don't have to suffer the way she did
The Worf Effect: After dominating Borky in a fist fight, she ends up losing to Tiengo in a relatively even fight, which considering that Helga's a monk and Tiengo's a fighter, indicates how out of his league he is compared to everyone else.
You No Take Candle: She has a habit of dropping articles in her statements.

Bar Workers

Tai Borpington

Please ignore the fish head.

The chef of the Sweet Dragon, he is a flamboyant halfling man who happens to have the head of a fish.

Berserk Button: People who don't talk about their feelings, as he was stuck at sea for years with sailors who were tough manly men who never dealt with any of that and it drove him nuts.
Chef of Iron: Thanks to his Rogue class, he can utilize his cutlery in battle.
The Dandy: Has shades of this trope in his mannerisms and style, and tends to get easily flustered in stressful situations.
Forced Transformation: He's a halfling but was cursed with the head of a fish. Downplayed because, while it does make his appearance somewhat disarming, he doesn't really have a problem functioning in day-to-day life and has quite a few friends despite his appearance.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Borky, although the "heterosexual" part might be in question given Borky's propensity for giving him affectionate pecks on the forehead and cradling Tai in his rippling arms. Tai has stated on multiple occasions that he loves Borky, and never clarified whether he means as a friend or romantically.
Meaningful Name: Pr0bait is an audience member who is often credited with "feeding the team" through generous donations. Monty reversed the name to get Taiborp, which evolved into Tai Borpington, the party's resident chef.
Mr. Fanservice: Is often depicted with rippling muscles under his chef's regalia, and fought shirtless against monsters during Stillhavity's eclipse.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Firmly on the sensitive side. He's very in-touch with his emotions and tends to crumble under pressure. Generally contrasts with Borky as the Manly Man.
Supreme Chef: Fish Head aside, the man is an astounding cook, able to make all sorts of delicious dishes for the folk who visit the Sweet Dragon. One of the reasons he is so cut up over his fish head is that it made it exceptionally hard for him to get a job cooking anywhere until the Unexpectables took him on.

Scarbles The Mistress

Scarbles the Mistress

A goblin serving girl who was hired after looking for less seedy and more inclusive work. She joins the Sweet Dragon as a tavern wench.

Collector of the Strange: Has a "hoard" of sorts, but it's mostly filled with bobs and bits and a lot of junk in general. She takes great pride in all of it, however, and is loathe to part with almost any of it.
Dug Too Deep: Averted, at one point it seemed like she accidentally unleashed a swarm of ghosts, but she really just accidentally activated a Major Image rune inside a large room.
Fantastic Racism: This is the reason she gives for her being fired from the Romansion, though later events indicate that they just got tired of her tunneling habits.
He Was Right There All Along: Played for Laughs thanks to the audio medium of the series; Given that her size makes her easily overlooked, she typically announces her presence like this whether she means it or not since both the characters and the audience won't notice her until she actually speaks up. Often she'll come into a conversation without anyone else's knowledge and make them all jump out of their skins.
Borky: (on more than one occasion) HOLY SHIT!
His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Apparently the "the Mistress" part of her name isn't a sobriquet, it actually is her surname. She claims her mom gave it to her.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: It's never implied that she was a "working" girl, but she did work at a place called the Romansion at one point and has a slightly flirtatious attitude.
Phrase Catcher: Whenever Scarbles announces her presence, Borky usually loudly exclaims some variation of "JESUS CHRIST"
Offscreen Teleportation: She moves so fast that she gives this impression. She actually moves through a series of holes in the walls and ground of the Tavern.
The Pig-Pen: She turns out to be completely covered in dirt and grime, as Borky found out when giving her a bath.
Stealth Hi/Bye: She always appears directly behind Borky, startling him.
Tunnel Network: Has one underneath the Sweet Dragon, and since she technically isn't on the property but under it, she doesn't have to listen to the group there.

Meryl Quilitin

Meryl Quiltin

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Trying her best one day at a time

A sixteen-year-old girl who takes a job at the Sweet Dragon to fund her education, as she and her entire family are illiterate and poor.

Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is always cut short.
Children Are Innocent: Most of the party and workers at the Sweet Dragon have this opinion of her, and Helga in particular takes something of a shine to her since she's a good worker and is trying to better herself. This is notable because Helga typically doesn't take a shine to anyone, even calling Borky, one of her own kind, a coward to his face. Though she’s recently been developing a rebellious streak.
Damsel in Distress: She's been used as a hostage twice. The first time it was due to being with Arlo when he was captured by Monster's Culling and the second time by the Yugoloths as leverage.
Higher Education Is for Women: Downplayed since she's just trying to get an education, since she came as a refugee from the old Eltmurian regime, where women were forbidden to learn how to read.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She and Skinny working together can get the tavern spotless within a few minutes of it opening.
Morality Pet: One for Hassrad and arguably the entire Sweet Dragon.

Skinny

A Southern Belle if there ever was one

A Spinx-Tabaxi the crew hired as a second maid as the Inn's needs evolved. She's a charming woman who got on everyone's good side within seconds of interviewing, working in Alivast to support her husband while he trains at the Blacksmith's guild in Southern Tracadia.

Babies Ever After: Planning on starting a family in Alivast once her husband finishes up his training. Sure enough, once he came to Alivast, she was pregnant by the time the group returned from the Elemental Planes.
Badass Bystander: Compared to Meryl, Skinny holds herself pretty well when she was stuck in the middle of Madam Mirage's ship.
The Fashionista: Has very intricate and beautiful attire.
Furry Reminder: She has huge, powerful claws and bundles up in a lot of layers in the cold, since she doesn't have any fur.
Happily Married: to her "hubby" named Fluffy.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She has a lot of specific jobs as maid and gets them all done before the tavern even opens. She effectively takes over most of the maid duties or at least ends up directing them.
Opposites Attract: She's appropriately skinny, hairless, and a social butterfly who does a service job. Her husband is a massive ball of fuzz that barely speaks who does a trade. They love each other dearly.
Southern Belle: Her voice projects the spitting image of one.

Alice

A human woman who survived the Off-Screen dragon attacks on Lebraeus. She was taken in by the Iron-Axe orcs, but sent to Alivast because she wanted to be back with her own, and the Matriarchs decided she wouldn't survive the winter with them. Borky convinces the group to hire Alice to be a server after a lengthy conversation with her bodyguard, Ollem. She later left the bar after a while to begin farm-life in the outskirts of Alivast.

Exotic Extended Marriage: Left one as an orc prisoner to work in Alivast.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Alice just wants to return to simple farm life more than anything, and is only working at the Sweet Dragon long enough to start her own.
The Generic Guy: She doesn't have any stand out traits.
The Stoic: She's quiet, but polite.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets the least amount of characterization of the Sweet Dragon employees, before she ends up leaving. To the point that Monty has to struggle to remember her name.
Zen Survivor: She's been through a 'lot.'

Kiwi Johnson

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Be careful, he does crime when stressed

A kiwi kenku who was press-ganged into service on Captain Bladefoot's pilfered airship. After being freed by a Storm Giant that brought the ship down and going to trial for his piracy, he's gone straight and works down at the Alivast docks. Not that it's helped his luck any. Eventually, he gets hired by Helga as a server.

Big Damn Heroes: He does this for Remy while the latter is imprisoned in the United Clergy's camp on Canary's Perch, knocking out Audrey with a frying pan and releasing him.... while Audrey was trying to help him.
Blood Knight: When he actually gets into a big fight he ends up going into a blood rage.
Dirty Coward: His first reaction to danger is typically to hide from it or run from it. This winds up saving his feathered butt when he seals himself into a box on the Green Gully during the United Clergy's Attack.
Embarrassing Rescue: He knocked Audrey out with a frying pan while she was giving Remy some food to ward off the two days of starvation and exposure the United Clergy had put him through. He thought she was torturing him.

Remy: Kiwi, she wasn't torturing me… she was feeding me.

Kiwi: Oh, bloody hell.

Lethal Joke Character: When he joined the party in fighting the Orun Clergy in episode 76, he was pitifully under leveled and was only equipped with a frying pan. However, some excellent luck with the dice meant that he arguably performed better than some of the players. He’s also an important factor in the group's strategy: since he didn't fill any important part of the group’s battle dynamic, there was little risk to polymorphing him into a Brachiosaurus and dropping him onto the clergy's fighting force. Monty even points out he's "weirdly statted", so there's a chance he was actually quite dangerous.
Locked Out of the Loop: He honest-to-god thinks that Greckles is his good buddy Fletch, and Greckles doesn't really have it in him to let him down. Eventually Greckles tells him the truth and Kiwi takes it with flying colors.
Love at First Sight: The second he lays eyes on Robin, he's reduced to a gibbering wreck.
Kiwi, lovestruck: She's the roundest bird I've ever seen...
Nervous Wreck: By his own admission, he tends to do illegal things when he gets jumpy. While it usually just amounts to petty offenses, at its worst he can turn into a bloodthirsty psychopath.
Paper Tiger: For all of his bravado while in a blood rage. He's still a low level rogue who is easiily dealt with by the party everytime he goes overboard.
Plucky Comic Relief: Kiwi spends a lot of his time as the punchline to a variety of jokes. It's most notable during Remy's time as a prisoner, where Kiwi serves as the only source of levity in an otherwise depressing subplot.
Spree Killer: While he usually avoids combat, he develops a taste for blood when the battle with the Orun Clergy pushes him over the edge. Fortunately, it's rare and doesn't take too much to get him to come down.

Guards

Vel Rock-Fist

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The biggest little guard in Alivast

A Goliath Barbarian who encountered the party in the Underbelly during a 4v4 pit fight in the Crimson Pit. She later came under their employ as a guard for their tavern.

Action Girl: When the party first met her she was a pit fighter, and it's noted that she participates in a lot of fighting competitions when off the clock.
Amazonian Beauty: The beach episode makes it clear that Vel's ripped and very attractive.
Badassin Distress: Confirmed to be among the hundreds of victims captured by the Dragon Cult during their attack on Alivast.
Defeat Means Friendship: An interesting variant. She was never an enemy of the Unexpectables, but her defeat in the Crimson Pit led to her becoming friendly with them and was later hired as the group's first bouncer.
Dishing Out Dirt: Goliaths are all very earth-centric, particularly Vel since she uses a slab of rock as her warhammer.
Heel–Face Turn: She was never much of a villain or enemy outside of the fight, and she holds no hard feelings over the fact that the party beat her and the rest of her party.
Large Runt: She's noted to be somewhat self-conscious about being rather small for a female Goliath, but that still makes her over six feet tall.

Neragen

Warrior of truth and the moon

A black-scaled dragonborn and paladin of Illunay, Goddess of the Moon. He's hired on as a part-time guard for the Sweet Dragon.

Consummate Professional: The primary reason the Unexepectables hire him.
Dark Is Not Evil: He's a black-scaled dragonborn and serves the God of the Moon, but he's one of the good guys.
Knight in Shining Armor
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: A draconic version. He has exceptionally long head tendrils and is described as having somewhat feminine features.
Nice Guy: He's unfailingly friendly and courteous to everyone at the Sweet Dragon and seems to take his employers' shenanigans with good humor.
No Social Skills: He's a sweet man, but he has the social grace of a rock.
Those Two Guys: With Vel, due to being the main guards during the day.

Luistrog

The long suffering warrior

An enigmatic warrior who was hired as a guard for the tavern, most notable for wearing a nice helmet. He does his job well but has little desire to interact with anyone else. Is actually the spirit that lives in a legendary artifact called the Helm of a Thousand Hearts.

Ambiguously Human: While apparently human, he has no need to eat or sleep and his face has never been seen.
Cool Helmet: That happens to house the soul of Luistrog.
Due to the Dead: It's revealed that his absence is due to wanting to place flowers where his old kingdom used to be, after returning he dully notes that he didn't bring enough.
Good Thing You Can Heal: He has a tendency to run afoul of hazards that would at least threaten the life of a normal person, whereas the other guards have never seen real combat while working for the tavern. First, a mysterious man stabbed him in the belly and tried to invade the premises before being taken out by one of Hassrad's snakes; later, when the Silver King caved in part of the tavern, he was the only one caught in the rubble. This is probably the reason why he was the casualty in the Dragon Cult raid as the party can get him back by simply putting his helmet on someone else.
The Hat Makes the Man: Panic learns that Luistrog's helmet possesses and overwrites the mind of anyone who dons it. The current wearer was originally a grave robber named Jaret.
Live Item: The Helmet that he wears is technically his true self, as the seat of his consciousness. The human body is under the helmet's control and not part of it.
Living Relic: Last survivor of the ancient human kingdom that previously occupied Alivast.
The Needless: Does not sleep or seemingly eat, instead choosing to work day and night unless ordered otherwise.
Omniglot: Is known to speak Common, Undercommon, and Orcish but can also at the very least read Ancient Infernal.
Survivor Guilt: Constantly outlives his companions, much to his dismay.
24-Hour Armor: He never removes his armor, which is helped by not needing to sleep.

Uromajister

Wild Mage of the sands

A Lizardfolk Sorceror from the sands of Ruba. He's able to tap into the wild magic that exists within his homeland, but sometimes it has strange side effects. He is hired as another part time guard after Neragen takes off for a holiday.

Early-Bird Cameo: Was in the fight pit in the underbelly.
Guest-Star Party Member: Is only staying for the winter, then he's off to explore the Alivastian wilds.
Playing with Fire: His calling card. He wields a great amount of power over this element, but has fairly limited capability in other areas.
Power Incontinence: As a wild magic sorcerer, his magic can sometimes have humorous or disastrous consequences. Downplayed since his grasp on it is about as good as you can get with wild magic, and the only time it activates all it does is turn his skin blue.
Put on a Bus: When hired, he explains that he will only be available until spring, and sure enough leaves the continent when the weather warms.
Wild Magic: He taps into the magic inherent from the sands of Ruba.

Arlo

Son of the Silver King

One of the Silver King's sons currently staying in Alivast to provide protection temporarily. At his father's request he also works at the Sweet Dragon as a guard.

Badass in Distress: Gets kidnapped by Monster's Culling, who planned on harvesting his body.
Big Little Brother: At least in his Polymorphed form he is larger than his older sister.
Fantastic Racism: He considers every other race below him.
Humanshifting: Just like his sister he wears a pedant to maintain his Polymorphed form.
Humble Pie: Getting kidnapped by the Monster's Culling and one of his siblings perishing in the Dragon Cult's attack force fed him some, and he's said to have become much better tempered.
Jerkass: He’s sexist, racist, belligerent, aggressive, and egotistical. There’s a reason why the Silver King wants nothing to do with him.
Jerkass Has a Point: His treatment of Remy is harsh, but Remy is the one who instigated it by acting like Arlo must listen to his orders, despite the fact that Remy isn't one of the Sweet Dragon owners, and constantly belittles Arlo when given the chance.
Morality Pet: Since the party's return from the Elemental Planes, he has one in Meryl, who began to feel sorry for him after his run of terrible events.
Smug Snake: He believes that he’s better than anyone and that he’ll conquer a kingdom eventually, and constantly mouths of to everyone, even if they have killed Dragons before.
The Un Favourite: It’s made quite clear that the Silver King doesn’t think highly of him compared to his sister, and it doesn’t take long to see why.

Frank

A former smuggler who was supplying Dullmar with the soul crystals he needed to make his gargoyles, Frank made the mistake of touching one and wound up captured by it. He was then converted into a titanic four armed gargoyle, and wants nothing more than to return to his previous species. He is now the second night guard for the tavern, since he can only be active at night.

Affably Evil: Subverted; initially he seemed this way since he had kidnapped Task in a moment of weakness, but after hashing things out it is made apparent that he is genuinely looking for an honest gig and a way out of his situation. He also prepared Task some tea for when he woke up.
Big Damn Heroes: He saved Task from bleeding out after a duel with Azra Sahar went south.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was alluded to twice before his proper appearance, the first time was an off hand comment from a journal that had a smuggler complaining about one of his workers seemingly dying when he touched a soul crystal, and later when Vel mentions a construct gargoyle causing issues in the city.
Forced Transformation: His soul got ripped out of his body, jammed into a crystal, and then used to bring life to a giant stone gargoyle. Frank hates what he is now, and even made a deal with a demon in the hopes that he'd get a new body out of it, but he has since more or less come to terms with what he is and is only looking for honest work in the meantime until someone figures out how to change him back to a human.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His gargoyle body has four arms, as well as a pair of wings.

Inn Workers

Opal

A drow who escaped slavery in the Tracadian Underdark and moved to Alivast to make a new life. Hired as one of the inn's maids.

Made a Slave: She was forced into slavery by the spider cult.

Ausphelos

A bone devil Tiefling, formerly part of a circus, but now looking for work that doesn't require him to act as a Heel. Hired as one of the inn's maids.

Cool Mask: He wears a golden mask with a pleasant expression to hide what he looks like.
Gonk: His face looks half mummified and has teeth jutting out of his mouth. It's the main reason why he has trouble getting a new job.

Old Teapot

A retired hobgoblin soldier from the Eastern Isles, hired as one of the inn's maids.

Eye Scream: Lost one of her eyes to a Deep Scion.
The Lad-ette: A hard-drinkin' sea dog who took the job for more steady work.

Fight Pit Workers

Pitch

A human, former sky pirate, who dresses in Pimp Duds and is experienced in running a fight den. Thus, the Unexpectables (reluctantly) hired him as their bookie.

Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Has a full-cheetah print suit.
Large Ham: As expected of a fight announcer, everything about him is loud.

Log

Construct 4, AKA "Log"

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Would you like to hear about Oreyara?

The first of Artemis' constructs to become sentient, and who subsequently became a priest of Oreyara. Its default tone is one of exceptional cheerfulness, which, combined with its small size, makes it come across like an excitable child. They later become the on-site cleric for the Sweet Dragon, who lives in a Temple to Oreyara that was created in the backyard.

An Arm and a Leg: A comedic version- the group initially fail to remove Log from the log it's stuck in, instead popping its legs off.
Beware the Silly Ones: The party first encounters Log stuck in a log (hence the name they gave it) and they're initially worried about leaving it alone. However, it subsequently shows it's at least powerful enough to summon a Celestial, so they decide he'll be fine on his own.
- Happens again in the 100th episode, where he spends most of the episode being who he is until he notices one of the pirates about to attack one of the Sweet Dragon Employees, decides that's illegal, and then fires off a 9th level Guiding Bolt, instantly killing the poor schmuck pirate.
Big Damn Heroes: Saves the Unexpectables, and Greckles in particular, from a rather grisly fate at the hands of Fleur Du Mort.
Cloud Cuckoolander: An astonishingly silly construct.
Cute Machines: Both in terms of stature and attitude, Log comes across as an adorable, hyperactive child (helped by the fact that it's, technically, only two years old). It belies the fact that it's an immensely powerful cleric who is quite capable of taking care of itself.
Dissonant Serenity: He quite cheerfully describes killing a manticore with the aid of a summoned Celestial ally. Really, almost every line he speaks is cheerful, regardless of its content or context.
"I've killed things that should've died!"
Lethal Joke Character: Log is a character who's meant for comedy most of the time with Monty clearly making shit up about them via dice roll. As a result, they're also one of the most powerful NPC's in Alivast with their only real rival being Tiengo.
Line-of-Sight Name: Gets named "Log" because the Unexpectables first find him stuck in a hollowed-out log.
The Missionary: Travels the world looking to tell people about Oreyara. He's delighted to hear more constructs have become sentient since he was kicked out of Alivast, and he hopes to return and spread the word about his goddess.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: A really funny version of this: Monty only put down the bare bones of what Log can and cannot do, and as a result all of his powers are determined by dice rolls. So even Monty has no idea what he can truly do.
Monty: LOG IS CHAOS, I don't know what he can do!
Parental Abandonment: How Log seemingly feels about Artemis throwing it out of Alivast once it gained sentience, and the reason why Log isn't too upset to hear Artemis was killed.
Squishy Wizard: For all of Log's divine power, he's not that durable in close range. At one point he lost a leg on accident when the party was trying to free him from a log, and he gets easily manhandled by a T Rex who wanted the egg Log stole back.

Support Staff

Adric Metal-Mane

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A good man. Just don't insult his work.

A dwarvish craftsman who originally owned the Sweet Dragon and did the original renovations on it when Abacus presented it to the party as reward for their first quest for her. Now works as their chief contractor, being the one to install, renovate, and, when the need may be, rebuild The Sweet Dragon.

Berserk Button: Insulting his craftsmanship, as Panic found out when he called the basework of the building "ramshackle". Adric has since made it a point to add something soft and overly frilly for Panic every time he adds something to the building as petty revenge.
Massive Numbered Siblings: He has sixteen daughters who all work for him in his business and all look fairly identical, minus two exceptionally beautiful ones.
True Craftsman: As is true of most dwarves in the General Craftsman District Of Alivast; he takes immense pride in his work and is an extremely skilled worker to boot, able to completely renovate and fix-up the Sweet Dragon in the space of half a day (although he did have his sixteen daughters to help him out.)
Violent Glaswegian: Downplayed, as he's fairly affable as long as you stay on his good side, and getting on his bad side leads to more petty tit-for-tat and passive-aggressive exchanges than outright violence.

Willow

Willow Greyscale /Elizabeth Eltmur

The party's first hire

An apprentice wizard that the party saved from a thug on their first day in Alivast. She is inquisitive and exuberant, and helps the party out with a few magical problems. She eventually comes to work as the Sweet Dragon's in-house wizard. Secretly, she is the sole surviving member of the Eltmur royal family, and was hiding out in Alivast to avoid being placed on the throne.

Absent-Minded Professor: Monty flat out calls her a dumbass when it comes to day-to-day living. But she's an amazing Wizard and general strategist.
Beware the Nice Ones: She is kind, compassionate, and generally good-natured. She also hatched a scheme to kill her entire family and destroy her Kingdom with it. She also threatens to Borky when he nearly states the truth in public.
- Although she's a relative amateur when it comes to magic, her wards were powerful enough to force the Silver King out of his polymorphed state. It inadvertently resulted in the destruction of her tower, but it was an impressive feat nonetheless.
- Happens again when she realizes the Yugoloths do in fact have Doros and replaced him with a Glabrezu. She polymorphs Borky into a mammoth order for him to do stupendous amounts of damage as vengeance.
  Willow: Oh, not my Husband, you bitch.
Damsel in Distress: Tends to fall into this because of her naïveté and lack of skill in magic, and typically the party has to bail her out.
- One particularly noteworthy instance involved her getting kidnapped by the Silver King, an incident that leaves her wizard tower (and a substantial portion of the Sweet Dragon's main building) demolished.
Defector from Decadence: Let's just say there's a reason she came to Alivast all by herself, and why she orchestrated the deaths of her entire family.
Didnt Thinkthis Through: Her plan about having the Silver King kill her family and leaving Eltmur to burn had a lot of holes in it. There were still plenty of loyalists to the crown, and odds are that one of them could've easily taken her family's place. Further, attempting to lie to a Great Wyrm Silver Dragon and leaving him high and dry after promising to marry him meant that she had to spend a good chunk of her adult life hiding from someone who didn't just have extensive resources on their own; they had the resources of Eltmur's coffers as well.
Everyone Can See It: Early on, her attraction to Panic was very obvious to everyone in the party.
Familiar: Gets one in the form of a Barchoba named Bright. Winds up being useful for tracking her down when she gets kidnapped by the Silver King, and when she breaks her wrists so that she doesn't have to move that much.
Gone Horribly Right: When she made her plan to assassinate her family by manipulating the Silver King, she expected him to leave the country to burn after he realizes she ditched him, she wasn’t expecting for him to actually step up as king and help rebuild the country that she wanted to destroy.
Happily Married: As of episode 116, she and Doros have finally tied the knot.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Tiny Girl in her relationship with Doros. Also applies in the non-romantic sense between her and the Silver King.
Hypocrite: When Task picked up Tarusk after Willow pet-sat for him, she scolded Task for not trimming Tarrusk's nails, which could cause him to develop joint problems. However, she allowed Doros to feed the drake cakes, causing him to gain weight while Task was away.
King Incognito: By rights, she ought to be the Queen of Eltmur, but she definitely doesn't want to be, which is why it's currently ruled by the Silver King.
The Klutz: She can be pretty accident prone, and not just regarding her magic; her first meeting with the party was when they had to rescue her from some thugs, she's gotten into more than one accident trying to make potions (including the classic wizarding chestnut of turning herself into a frog for an hour), and has broken her arm trying to be intimate with Doros not once, but twice. During the Beach Episode Doros is constantly watching out for her and insists that she wears a frankly ridiculous amount of floaties just to be on the safe side.
Love Triangle: Forms one unintentionally with Panic and Doros, although she seems rather oblivious to Doros' affections. Not so much after Doros and Willow become a couple.
Noodle Incident: She briefly turned herself into a frog once. She doesn't like to talk about it.
Not Hyperbole: She reveals that part of her and Doros' decision to adopt was to ultimately end her bloodline. As she put it before, her bloodline ends with her.
Oblivious to Love: She was completely unaware of Doros' affections towards her. It takes Task telling her outright for her to finally put the pieces together.
Power Incontinence: Occasionally tries spells and they don't get the immediate results she desires.
Prison Episode: Gets arrested after a string of murders leads to her professor at the Middle Arcana District's magic school. Downplayed in that no one really believes that she did it, including the paladins that arrested her, but she was the only suspect due to being the one person in the building when Artemis was killed.
Self-Made Orphan: Once she found out what sorts of things her family was up to, she came up with an elaborate scheme to get the Silver King to kill her family. Her only regret is that the Kingdom of Eltmur didn't die with them.
That Man Is Dead: Had her identity as "Elizabeth, Princess of Eltmur" declared legally dead by decree of the Silver King, so she could live out her life in Alivast in (relative) peace.

Fluffy

I promise you that it is all fluff

An absolutely enormous Pallas Cat-Tabaxi who is married to Skinny, who finally made it to Alivast in the months the Unexpectables were in the Underdark, and was hired by Helga as a blacksmith.

The Blacksmith: Of the Sweet Dragon!
Gentle Giant: Only seems interested in doing honest work and being supportive of his wife...And is apparently bigger than the entire crew bunched together, and takes up 90% of his own workspace.
Going Commando: Appears to be nude in his artwork save for his apron.
Happily Married: As he so eloquently puts it:
Fluffy: [Grumbles a bit] ...love m'wife.
Meaningful Name: Fluffy is, indeed, very fluffy. Any time he hugs his wife, she basically disappears into his fur.
Naked Apron: Heavily implied for it to be the sole form of modesty he has other than his impressive girth.
The Quiet One: Gruff to the point you'd think he was purposefully being intimidating. Turns out he's just not very talkative.
Super-Toughness: He tends to his forge essentially protected with naught but a patched up apron and it barely bothers him at all.
The Unintelligible: Most of his words come out as nondescript grumbling, making any form of communication with him an interesting experience.

Igmund “Iggy” Glawbrook

Igmund "Iggy" Glawbrook

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A worker you can trust, destroyed gear nonwithstanding

A lizardfolk tinkerer in the middle crafting district, hired as the Unexpectables person craftsman after they gain access to the district.

Expy: Of Mordin Solus, being a Motor Mouth Mad Scientist with No Social Skills. Taka even mentions as much during Iggy's introduction to the group.
Furry Reminder: Like a real chameleon, who's skin color changes based on mood, his changes bright red when he's hugged out of the blue. He also states that he can point his eyes in two different directions at once, just like real chameleons.
I Just Want to Have Friends: He's not very popular in his own district and has said out loud that he desperately wants some.
Mad Scientist: Described as such by the other craftsmen in his district before the Unexpectables meet him. Iggy himself says that he shouldn't necessarily be expected to produce working results, as there’s a chance some of his products explode.
Motor Mouth: Is constantly muttering to himself about things he wants or needs.

Enceladus Enclad

A relatively young Elven anthropologist with a fascination for Orcs. Hired as the Sweet Dragon's researcher and librarian.

Fanboy: Of Orc Culture.
Story Branch Favoritism: Out of the potential researchers, it was very clear that Monty wanted him to be hired due to being a character directly connected to one of the party's current objectives, no obvious drawbacks like the other two, along with showing off the most developed personality.

Anje

Protector of babies and goats

An enormous and very strong but ultimately benevolent Nature Guardian of some sort who lives near Humbrack Village. The Unexpectables "hire" him to be their new Druid after tracking him down in the mountains with the promise he'll be able to see more elves and (possibly) firbolgs.

Book Dumb: Is extremely simple, but otherwise a fantastic caretaker of creatures.
Classical Tongue: Of a kind. Anje speaks in Firbolg Druidic; a language that sounds like Giant and Druidic's grandfather.
Gentle Giant: Anje is first seen shepherding a herd of goats and trying his best to care for a human baby, the Unexpectables convince him to return Thomas by having Panic pretend to be the baby's mother. However, as Mirehair the hag and the Monster's Culling will tell you, Anje is far from a pacifist when dealing with people who Would Hurt a Child.
Fantastic Racism: He does not like orcs, calling them "Fanged Destroyers" in his language, and it takes a good long time for him to be okay with Borky...but he also warns him outright that if he attempts to cause trouble, he will eat him.
Healing Factor: Tough to begin with, he recovers quickly from all forms of damage other than fire.
Kill It with Fire: Fire appears to be his biggest weakness, while he took damage earlier in the fight against Monster’s Culling, Monty pointed out that he wasn’t that heavily injured, when a Chimera shot fire at him however, he immediately fell unconscious and even after he got up, he was weaker than before.
Primal Stance: In his true form, he moves around like a gorilla.
Sole Survivor: He previously lived somewhere close to where he's been roaming now as a guardian, but whoever he guarded in those times is long gone, something he's a bit melancholy about.
Shapeshifting: Anje is given a special Firbolg-made necklace that allows him to take on a more traditional humanoid appearance: A big, bulky elf with tiefling horn nubs.
You No Take Candle: Speaks in one word sentences, if at all.

Other

Hassrad

He'll get you what you want... For a price

A Yuan-Ti Malison information dealer that monitors basically everything in the city through his many snakes. He has close ties with the Underbelly of the city. After a very close encounter, Hassrad reveals himself to be a cleric of a god called the "Quetzalqueen".

Blood Magic: Uses it to revive a kid in episode 49
The Beastmaster: He uses many varieties of snakes as his spies since they're rather innocuous and, being Yuan-Ti, he has an innate connection with them.
Berserk Button: Downplayed an it's more of annoyance than a rage-inducer, but he is irked when there are events or things he doesn't know about. Abacus Fleetfinger is one such person, much to his chagrin.
- A much more obvious one given his background is using his magic, because it's both very taxing and dangerous to begin with, and also because it alerts his former cult as to where he might be.
Dirty Coward: It takes a huge moment of personal growth for him to decide to help with Meryl's rescue, and he still has to fight the impulse to bail out at every moment. He spends most of the arc running away from enemies, only being useful outside of combat.
Hugh Mann: He has to shack up with Meryl's family after a scare, and his disguise is uh...bad.
Hidden Depths: Hassrad usually presents himself as mysterious and detached, but when he lets his guard down, he's shown to be somewhat sympathetic and more than a little anxious. He's also a prince of a cult that worships a being known as the Quetzalqueen.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite his apparent unwillingness to make friends at the Sweet Dragon, Task finds him giving Meryl private tutoring sessions after her school is temporarily shut down due to the attacks on Eltmer women in the city. Task also seems to correctly infer that Hassrad is going out of his way to protect her as well.
Information Broker: There is very little that escapes the eyes of his snakes, and he is more than willing to trade gold or favors for what he knows.
King Incognito: He's actually a prince where he came from. He left to try to get away from his sister, the current queen.
Sssssnake Talk: Wouldn't be a Yuan-Ti without drawing out those 's' sounds and having an airy, whispery voice.
Third-Person Person: In a variation, he changes his tone about personal questions when Task starts asking him for information about Hassrad.

Zotira

One of the Silver King's daughters currently staying in Alivast to provide protection. At her father's request she also works at the Sweet Dragon as Tarusk's Nanny.

Almighty Janitor: She’s undoubtedly the most powerful creature in the Sweet Dragon, and her main job and priority at the moment is being a babysitter.
Friend to All Children: Is very perceptive of children's needs and tries to stay ahead of the curb in parenting techniques, and enjoys children's company quite a bit.
Humanshifting: She wears a pendant to help her maintain her Polymorphed form.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Her attempts to speak common are this, when asked how her time in the city has been she replied "The... bowl is... red."
Loophole Abuse: She's not allowed to take on her dragon from in Alivast, unless if there's an emergency, but as far as she's concerned, a nearby beach isn't Alivast.
Loved by All: In comparison to her brother, pretty much everyone in the Sweet Dragon gets along with her.
Not So Above It All: She's the one who suggests that she and Arlo are able to take on their dragon forms while at the beach due to the beach being outside of Alivast.
Parental Substitute: She's the closest thing Tarusk has to a mother.
Out of Focus: After the parties return to the Underdark, Zotira stopped getting mentioned for awhile and only popped up again after the Elemental Planes arc was finished.

Party's Animal Companions

Tarusk

"HLECH!"

A guard drake adopted by Task, Tarusk makes for an unconventional, if surprisingly effective, addition to the party. He's not particularly bright, but he's loyal and a good boy. As of episode 55, he has been returned to the form of an egg, and in Episode 59, he hatches into a Metallic Blue Dragon.

Acrofatic: After being left in the care of Doros and Willow for a few days while they're off rescuing Solly from Stillhavity, Tarusk puts on quite a few pounds due to Willow feeding him pastries. It doesn't actually affect his speed or combat capabilities, however.
- His rebirth has him gain some baby weight again.
- even in the distant potential future, Tarusk is quite robust for a blue dragon.
All Animals Are Dogs: Although not exact, his behavior is a lot more like a dog than any other kind of creature. He also tends to be mistaken for a dog by inattentive passersby.
Berserk Button: Post-reincarnation, it's Whistles. He almost blasted Zotira with lightning after hearing one.
Bond Creatures: Task's animal companion, to the point that he no longer necessarily needs the whistle used to control him originally.
Character Development: Of a very subdued kind. When the party first acquires him, he can't do anything, even eat or sleep, without explicit orders. Gradually he starts to take more initiative in anticipating Task's needs.
Demoted to Extra: As the crew continue their journeys and Tarusk was reincarnated, he has become less and less of a factor in their adventures, due to being effectively a child and primarily being schooled in Alivast.
Empty Shell: Tarusk’s soul was heavily damaged in order to make him follow the orders of the whistle, which is why he doesn’t do much when he’s not being ordered around. The Silver King decides to fix that by reincarnating him as a dragon.
Extreme Omnivore: Tarusk has never turned down eating anything. anything.
Fish Eyes: Is described as being wall-eyed, with eyes that blink independently of each other.
Good Is Dumb: Tarusk may or may not be good in the sense of his alignment, but he is a good boy. He's also dumb as a rock, and does little except eat and sleep unless directed to do otherwise by Task. Though his reincarnation seems to be of average intelligence for a child. In the distant potential future, he seems to be smarter, but he's still an excitable lummox.
Irony: Tarusk is the same type of dragon that wiped out Task’s tribe, and despite Task’s hatred of other Blue Dragons, Tarusk is probably his closest companion. This is even brought up by the Silver King when he’s reincarnating Tarusk, pointing out that Task plans to raise the same type of creature that destroyed his home, and for a minute before he reveals himself to be the same as he's always been, Task briefly has a Heroic BSoD over it. Happens again when Task visits him in a potential future, where he is going to help him overcome a fear he's had his entire life due in no small part to the Blue Dragon
I Got Bigger: Tarusk has a growth spurt while the party was in the Underdark, and is now a large creature.
Live Item: In mechanical terms, Tarusk is an item, controlled by the whistle owned by Task. This means he doesn't gain character levels, and is reflected in his lack of personality when not given orders. Since being reborn as a real dragon, he now grows and ages like any other creature.
Reincarnation: The Silver King returns him to the form of an egg so that he may be reborn as a Dragon.
Meaningful Name: His name is a play on Task's actual name, Tarrask.
Plot-Relevant Age-Up: In a potential future that Oreyara and Orthoc show to Task, he has made it to becoming an adult, and becomes Task's flight teacher.
Named After Somebody Famous: Indirectly. Task named him after himself, who is named after the Tarrasque.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: When he's wearing his school outfit, which resembles a sailor suit, the group can't help but daaw over him.
Spit Out a Shoe: Tarusk eats pretty much everything, and spits out things he can't digest. Usually Played for Laughs, as he'll spit up anything from feathers to clothing to sea urchins.
Suddenly Voiced: Post time-skip, Tarusk can now speak in a broken, animalistic voice. In a potential future, he improves incredibly.
Team Pet: He technically belongs to Task, but almost everyone is nice to the good boy.
- Gets upgraded to Tagalong Kid post-reincarnation
Trauma Button: Whistles, after his rebirth, if he hears or sees one, he’ll freak out and fire lightning breath at it, due to the trauma of his past life.
Ugly Cute: Drakes aren't exactly known for being cute pets, but Tarusk is usually depicted in this fashion.

Gripples

A small statue of a penguin with piercing red eyes that can be used as a remote bomb, who may or may not be a God of Evil.

Action Bomb: When Borky activates it it will waddle over to a designated target and start counting down, at which point it has a fifty percent chance of detonating and causing a sizable chunk of fire damage to anything in the vicinity.
Cannibalism Superpower: when he’s nearby another Bird statue when it’s used, he can absorb then to take their powers, and increase his detonation chances.
Fluffy the Terrible: It's an Action Bomb penguin statue that may or may not be harboring Sealed Evil in a Can... and it's name is a portmanteau of "Greckles' Nipples".
God of Evil: At least Borky thinks it is, given his reverence for it as a "dark god". The truth is more that it's simply one of many bird statues that stands out due to it's ability to talk.

Tubbs The Pigeon

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One of the more normal pigeons in Alivast

A massive pigeon with a tiny head that Borky bought in the Druidic district.

Animalistic Abomination: By all accounts it resembles a fat, massive pigeon...that eats by absorbing the bread whole, can be used as a shamwow among other disturbing things.
Body Horror: He has been described as having the consistency of a water balloon or beanbag chair, and it's currently debatable on whether or not he even has bones.
Made of Iron: The thing fell through the ground with enough force to end up at the Underdark, and by all accounts wasn't noticeably injured by it.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: To Borky, who finds his enormous body and tiny head absolutely adorable. Subverted for just about anyone else, with Tai Borpington going so far as to call Tubbs a "sin against nature".
What Happened to the Mouse?: When last we saw Tubbs he was falling down from the cloud of pigeons that lifted the party up to the Bladefoot airship, sacrificing himself to get Borky the last few feet. As of right now his survival is unconfirmed, although a large crater did have to get patched up in the city from where he landed and Borky is insistent that he is still alive. Turns out he ended up falling into the Alivastian Underdark.
- The Bus Came Back: Tubbs returns in episode 97, having apparently fallen through the earth, all the way into the Underdark. The Cult of the Undersun worships him as a "comet" sent by Orun, thus technically making him a sacred relic.

Clifford

A new born Grey Render that ends up stumbling upon the group and ends up bonding with Panic for unknown reasons

Big Friendly Dog: He's this to Panic, everyone else on the other hand needs to roll an animal handling check or take some damage.
Past-Life Memories: The reason he's friendly to Panic is due to Euphoria befriending it before it got killed and reborn.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Get's about an episode of screen time before getting separated from the group and hasn't reappeared since.

The Lizard Hounds

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The default Lizard Hound look

As a reward for dealing with the Yugoloths, the Unexpectables were rewarded with free mounts of their choice. With a pack of Lizard Hounds being their pick.

All Animals Are Dogs: Biologically they're more like monitor lizards than anything else, but they act mostly like very energetic dogs.
Furry Reminder: They all act like a mixture of dogs and geckos, and aren't terribly bright as a result.
Horse of a Different Color: They're the party's main mounts.
The Smurfette Principle: Green is the only female of the group.

Characters / The Unexpectables The Sweet Dragon

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