Characters / Verum Kalkatesh

A list of characters in the Verum universe who are introduced in the Violet Arc, which takes place on the continent of Kalkatesh.

Non-Streamed PCs

Azolon Cal'telonius

Art by Ashlelang

^{His Appearance in Glies} 

Art by Elle

Player: MoonMoon
Race: High Elf
Class: Wizard (Illusionist)
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• The Archmage: It's a part of his title as Archmage of Glies.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Archmage part of his title isn't just for show; he's one of the only people who give the Pale Emperor pause with his impressive political and magical power.
• Big Good: Of the Tyre campaigns and of "The Divine Wind".
• The Comically Serious: His sternness contrasts nicely with the antics of the parties he encounters.
• Not So Stoic: Even he cannot keep his cool when dealing with the party of "Among the Reeds", as their constant blame shifting, inane bickering, disrespect, and inability to understand the gravity of their actions eventually causes the man to lose his temper.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Azolon is patient and forthright with the Divine Wind crew, offering solid advice on their various predicaments and elaborating on things the party had less information on. He even pays them the five hundred gold pieces that their first patron, Adrian Cotour, failed to deliver on.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: The events of the Violet Arc have taken their toll on Azolon, and the possibility that the Violet could return doesn't help.
• Straight Man: Generally plays this to the other player characters he encounters.
• Tranquil Fury: Azolon's general reservedness means that this is what occurs when he gets angry.

Recurring Notable NPCs

Gross Derick

• Bus Crash: Near the end of the 'Steel and Silence' campaign, Arcadum off-handedly mentioned that he died off-screen. Though it turned out that he was kidding.
• Green Thumb: As a druid. For his appearance in "Death and Debts", the party finds him hanging out in the sewer, using this ability mostly to tend to the mushrooms there.
• The Pigpen: It's in the name. Though when he falls for Seren, he manages to clean himself up a bit, becoming "Slightly Less Gross Derick".
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a Druid, he can transform into animals.
• The Woobie: Acknowledged as one in-universe after Seren sends him a "Dear John" Letter, to the point that he's renamed "Sad Derick" for his appearance in "Death and Debts".

Mr. Knuckles

• Cigar Chomper: His official art depicts him as one.
• Mr. Exposition: His main role is to give newly-formed parties their first quest, as he had done in "Deals in the Dark" and "Death and Debts".

Rzamd

• Cat Folk: Subverted. He appears to be a humanoid tiger, but this is just the form he prefers to take on.
• Everyone Has Standards: He normally has no trouble with people who are "naughty" with the wares he sells them. However, he sees what a certain group of his customers on Glies were doing as unforgivable, to the point that he stopped selling the specific types of masks that they were buying from him, and readily points the "Into the Mists" party in their direction without asking anything in return as he usually would.
• Greed: Very much motivated by this, and doesn't shy from admitting it, such as one exchange after Blackmailing the "Broken Bonds" party.
  Li'lu: You're a greedy tiger.
  Rzamd: Oh yes, I am.
• Intrepid Merchant: He's a merchant by trade, and makes appearances in multiple campaigns. He even eventually finds his way to Glies.
• Older Than They Look: He hasn't visibly aged at all over the 50-year Time Skip between the Violet and Glies Arcs.
• Third-Person Person: Rzamd does indeed speak in such a way. Surely you don't have a problem with Rzamd for this?
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He's suggested to have this, given his hinting that his tiger-like form is one that he deliberately chose.

Tyre

• Big Bad: Collectively of the "Shadow of Tyre", "Heart of Tyre", and "Soul of Tyre" campaigns, where he's fought in the combined one-shot session "Tyre's End".
• Demonic Possession: Post-death, he appears to be able to do this with his apprentices, as he had done with Scribbles when she met the Astral Traveller.
• Necessary Evil: He sees himself as this, believing that stopping the Herald wouldn't have been possible without his work. Arguments can go either way as to whether this is actually the case.
• Red Baron: "The Mad Wizard" and "The Traitor". In some locations, he's known as "The Stranger".
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Was originally in service to the Seven, but came to believe that the only way that he could truly face the Violet was by turning traitor against them.
• Token Evil Teammate: Was originally this in his service to the Seven, until he betrayed them and just became flat-out evil.
• The Unfettered: Oh, very much so. Absolutely no avenue of gaining power or knowledge was beyond consideration for him, as exemplified by three lessons imparted on Scribbles, Sus'ke, and Tomoe respectively, three characters in Glies that have become his apprentices, "Nothing is forbidden", "Nothing is sacred", and "Nothing is impossible".
• World's Strongest Man: One of the most powerful mortals to ever exist. It's implied that at least part of the reason that he opposed the Violet has because he couldn't stand the existence of an entity more powerful than himself.

Vizier Lozenkor

• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Generally only referred to as "The Vizier".
• Evil Chancellor: Both a vizier and evil, though he is not at all treacherous toward his master.
• Might Makes Right: Believes that only the strong are able to be kind. His master disagrees.
• Neutral Evil: His official alignment in-universe.
• Number Two: Is Azolon's.
• Sycophantic Servant: Reveres the very ground that Azolon walks on, and does not tolerate any disrespect towards his master. Azolon, for his part, takes it in stride.
• The Worm That Walks: Is composed of many, many worms. Some are appropriately grossed out by this fact.
• Token Evil Teammate: He tends to act as a voice of pragmatism and ruthlessness, although he always defers to Azolon's wisdom.

Player Characters

Saints of the Street

Trial by Fire

Trouble in Trisden

Wadu Heck

Wadu Heck

OH JEEZ.

Player: Pokelawls
Race: Grippli
Class: Rogue, later Paladin, later Shaman
Deity: Glory
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• Beware the Silly Ones: Dude may look like a goofier version of Kermit the Frog and talk like Morty Smith, but make no mistake: he's dedicated to killing followers of dark gods, and his home is decorated with the trophies of at least 39 of them that he's hunted down on his own. When the Silent Knights realize this after meeting him, they wisely decide to make themselves scarce before he could figure out Jairx's allegances.
• The Cameo: He's made some appearances in other campaigns, albeit usually as an NPC:
  • In "Silent Knights", he is the first NPC the party runs into after accepting their quest, when he provides some tea, advice, and an enchanted diamond.
  • In the first season of "The Shattered Crowns", he appears in a tavern and has a brief, but friendly conversation with Huckleberry about dreams.
• Died Happily Ever After: Arcadum has confirmed that, upon his death, he was admitted into the Hall of Heroes, where his friend Og'Narak was waiting for him.
• Dual Wielding: He is sometimes depicted dual wielding crossbows.
• Failed a Spot Check: In "Silent Knights" he manages to achieve this in a D&D game without actually doing it literally. Despite having sworn to hunt down followers of dark gods, he fails to recognize that Jairx is a servant of Wode, despite the fact that she wears his holy symbol on her face.
• Guest-Star Party Member: He reaches this status in "Duality of Dragons".
• Life Will Kill You: As Grippli have a lifespan topping at about 60 years, he has succumbed to old age over the Time Skip between the Violet and Glies Arcs.
• The Other Darrin: In many of his appearances outside of his original campaign, he is an NPC voiced by Arcadum himself rather than his original player, Pokelawls.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Naturally, as a Grippli.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After his friend Og'Narak was killed and evidence suggested that Wode was in some way involved, he embarks on a mission to kill as many followers of dark gods as he can manage. As goofy as he looks, he's actually damn good at it.
• Super Drowning Skills: Oddly for being a frog man, he claims to be unable to swim.

Beyond the Veil

The Inquisition

Wicked Ways

Wonders Within

A Sprinkle of Fate

A Tale of Two Towers/Secret in the Stones

Deals in the Dark/Maw of Abbadon/Duality of Dragons/Meaning in Madness/Heart of Tyre

Morc "Madd Morc" Snaggletooth

Madd Morc

Player: RussMoney
Race: Half-Orc
Class: Fighter (Champion)
Deity: Iass
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• The Cameo: A little thing like being dead hasn't stopped him from making some appearances in Glies campaigns.
  • In "Scrolls of Not'Chek", he shows up to have a conversation with Brewbad and Mataal Ika when they briefly end up in the Dream Realm.
  • In the one-shot "The Spirit Dance", connected to Otikata's Curse, he is in the Hall of Heroes when River arrives there after being killed, and spectates the trial she undertakes in an attempt to return to life. When she succeeds, he briefly challenges her himself before deeming her worthy to return to the Waking Realm.
• Expy: Appearance-wise, he is flat-out an orcish Jon Arbuckle.
• Humble Hero: Despite the extensive list of impressive accomplishments under his belt, he still sees himself solely as a warrior.
• Lethal Joke Character: Who would've thought that someone who started off as a walking Shout-Out to Garfield would end up the Hero of Kalkatesh?
• Life Will Kill You: He passed away from old age during the Time Skip between the Violet and Glies Arcs.
• Official Couple: With Neve.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Exclusively known as Madd Morc.
• Shout-Out: To Garfield. Besides his obvious resemblance, he also sports a greatsword with Garfield's face on the pommel, and a chestplace with Odie's face on it.

Neve

Neve

Art by milkytiddyboy

Player: Naomi
Race: Changeling
Class: Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
Deity: Crowley
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• The Cameo: She makes an appearance in "Servants of the Spire" to deliver news of the Labyrinth to Azolon.
• Official Couple: With Madd Morc.

Seren Ethune later Thistlehoove, later Tredder

Seren

Art by 4hnyu

^{Her original appearance at the beginning of Deals in the Dark} 

Player: SummerSalt
Race: Satyr, later Eldar
Class: Land Druid later Dream Druid, Undead Cleric, Eldar Dream Druid
Deity: Talven later The Seven
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• Back from the Dead: Upon the Herald's defeat, making her the only one known to recover from Violet Death.
• Killed Off for Real: Suffered Violet Death at the end of "Heart of Tyre". Or at least, it seemed that made her an example of this.
• Official Couple: With Raost Tredder.

Derok Dranf / Lord Antonius Volnaris / Rivitah

Derok Dranf

Art by kenha604

^{His appearance as Lord Antonius Volnaris} 

Art by Sanji_chwan

^{His appearance as Rivitah} 

Art by Sanji_chwan

Player: ScottJund
Race: Vega, previously Azaloti Daemon, previously Aasimar
Class: Sorceror (Wild Magic)
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• The Cameo: He's had a few.
  • In Shattered Crowns, the party enters an event from his past and ends up calling the present version of him into it as well.
  • In Otikata's Curse, he is called in by Moe Kowbull to advise him on what to do about Tomoe being under Demonic Possession by The Grey One.
• I Have Many Names: Just look at that mouthful in that folder name, though he didn't go by all of them at the same time.

Turr Khei

Turr Khei

Player: Cryaotic
Race: Hobgoblin, previously Vampire
Class: Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)
Deity: Sekelcuse
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• Killed Off for Real: He suffered Violet Death at the hands of Hoto the Vengeful.

Argh'xl Roz

Argh'xl

Player: AMGSheena
Race: Human
Class: Barbarian/Bard
Deity: Kaheeli
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• But Now I Must Go: She leaves the party to go out to sea with Torl.
• Official Couple: With Torl.
• Shout-Out: Her name is one to Axl Rose.

Ives Brightburn

Ives

Art by DeemeeArt

Player: Snake
Race: Human
Class: Rouge (Assassin)
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• Cold Sniper: A calm and calculating man who prefers to attack enemies from after. Even moreso when he eventually obtains an actual sniper rifle.

Gailen's Gate/Soul of Tyre

Belanovan Eguardo Luciabell

Bela

Art by yeselleyes

Player: Surefour
Race: Tiefling (Dispater)
Class: Rogue (Mastermind), Guardian
Deity: Matron of Fate
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• Cool Sword: Al'derok, Blade of Harmony.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He is a florist, loving flowers and tending to gardens.

Braktor Ironbellows

Braktor

Art by yeselleyes

Player: Sean
Race: Hill Dwarf
Class: Cleric(Forge)/Wizard(War) later Weaver(Hkari Tradition)
Deity: The Seven
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• The Cameo: He makes an appearance in "Death and Debts" following the party obtaining a plot-important MacGuffin, where he invites them to Camp Last Stand.
• Magic Staff: His Weaver's Wheel.
• Official Couple: With Hackne Silvermask.

Gruff

Gruff

Player: Ster
Race: Variant Human later Triton, later Rexsas Human
Class: Paladin(Vengeance)/Ranger later Barbarian(Zealot)
Deity: Gazenaroc
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Hackne Mitra Silvermask

Hackne

Art by smoliuwu

Player: Miss Universe
Race: Svirfneblin
Class: Cleric(Nature) later Lore Wizard
Deity: Inca
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• Cool Mask: The Burning Visage.
• Magic Staff: The Staff of Undulating Sight, which grants her limited use of a variety of ray spells.
• Official Couple: With Braktor Ironbellows.
• Playing with Fire: With The Burning Visage, she has access to every fire spell available, and can deal additional damage with them.

Oswald Darkfeather / Ozzie Whitebeak

Ozzie

Art by WhompRonnie

Player: WhompRonnie
Race: Aarakocra briefly Grippli
Class: Druid(Circle of Shepherds)
Deity: Lorn
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• Fantastic Racism: Slightly, in that he doesn't much care for non-bird Skinwalkers.
• The Nose Knows: He has an improved sense of smell due to being from the Howling Hills in Dolten.
• Poisonous Person: As a product of Path of the Rotted One.

Glorybound/Iron and Sorrow

Silent Knights

Rainbow After Rain

Rainbow After Rain

Player: Faelyix
Race: Tabaxi
Class: Druid (Land)
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• Miracle Food: She has a spell that allows her to conjure Goodberries.
• Panthera Awesome: As a Leopard Tabaxi.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: She's started out as one at the beginning of "Silent Knights".

Rochelle Odain

Rochelle

Art by StarStainStuff

^{Her original appearance at the start of Silent Knights} 

Art by Canary Witch

Player: Mara Naiade
Race: Half-Orc
Class: Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior)
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• Blood Knight: As she put it, "Kill stuff, fun! I go where fun!"
• You No Take Candle: She tends to speak this way.

Jairx

Jairx

^{Her original appearance at the start of Silent Knights} 

Player: Miss Universe
Race: Changeling
Class: Paladin (Conquest)
Deity: Wode
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• The Cameo:
  • She made an appearance in "Death and Debts" in order to lead the party to Camp Last Stand, where they would move on to the "Steel and Silence" campaign.
  • Not her, but her Cool Horse Krakow made a brief appearance in "The Spirit Dance".
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Performed this role in her appearance in "Death and Debts", managing to rein in the party's eccentricities and keep them on task, while Braktor had utterly failed to do so the episode before, and even Arcadum sometimes had trouble with.
• Cool Horse: She can summon a Nightmare Stallion named Krakow.
• Official Couple: With Nox.

N'varja "Nox" Ilven

Nox

Art by Aran Chezhire

^{Her original appearance at the start of Silent Knights} 

Art by gamerag3

Player: Mimika
Race: Blue Dragonborn
Class: Fighter (Samurai)
Deity: Oun
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• Amazonian Beauty: She's a beauty with a tall and muscular body, as a few members of "Among the Reeds" notice.
  Rattacus: We met God, she's eight feet tall with washboard abs.
• Breath Weapon: Can use one as a Dragonborn.
• The Cameo: Due to residing in the Dream Realm, members of a fair few other parties have run into her:
  • She made an appearance in "Steel and Silence" when Zara is transported to the Hall of Heroes, and assists in training her.
  • In "The Herald's Call", Riku meditates in order to enter the Dream Realm to seek help, and finds her. She provided him with information and a rune capable of granting the Haste buff.
  • She made an appearance in "Among the Reeds", when Ratticus, Eli, and Kaju entered the Dream Realm as a result of a really bad drug trip.
• Guest-Star Party Member: A couple of her appearances in other campaigns were extensive enough that they could be considered this, such as "Meaning in Madness", "Strange Roads", and "Broken Bonds".
• Official Couple: With Jairx.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Pretty much exclusively known as "Nox".
• Navel-Deep Neckline: In her original outfit, she had a plunging neckline that went down to her abs.
• Shock and Awe: Being a Blue Dragonborn.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She became this towards Jairx upon being defeated by her in their shared backstory.

Alyla Aurora

Alyla

^{Her original appearance at the start of Silent Knights} 

Player: ObliviousVR
Race: Protector Aasimar
Class: Cleric (Dreams)
Deity: Oun
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• The Cameo: Made an appearance in "Among the Reeds", when Ratticus, Eli, and Kaju entered the Dream Realm as a result of a really bad drug trip.
• Cool Mask: Initially wears one to hide her doll body.
• Creepy Doll: She transferred her self into a doll prior to the events of Silent Knights, a status that she typically keeps concealed.
• In the Hood: Initially wears one to hide her doll body.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As a result of events in her backstory, she tends to panic around fey types.
• Winged Humanoid: As an Aasimar.

Essa Essler

Essa

Player: Starstainstuff
Race: Yuan-Ti Pureblood
Class: Monk (Way of the Long Death)
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• Constantly Curious: Will frequently be seen scribbling observations about the various beings that she encounters in a notebook.
• Mad Scientist: Has elements of this.
• Sssssnaketalk: Has a bit of this in her speech.
• Weak, but Skilled: She gets around her relative lack of physical strength by understanding anatomy well enough to know how to strike for the greatest effect.

Notable NPCs

Alle Eskator

• Added Alliterative Appeal: He threw out a fair bit of alliteration when addressing the party.
• Large Ham: Oh yeah, very much so.
• Mr. Exposition: He's the one to provide the Silent Knights with their initial quest.
• Red Baron: Parodied. His contract for the Knights attributes a variety of titles to himself, with the party readily recognizing that many of them were made up by him.

Broken Bonds

Bryan

Bryan

"I live only for you, Babylon. I won't let you down."

Art by datsean

Player: QuarterJade
Race: Dhampir (Feral)
Class: Monk (Way of the Long Death)
Deity: Babylon
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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She has an obsession with the dark god Babylon.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: She does not wield a weapon before eventually learning how to use the Sinister Scythe that she obtained early on.
• Bloodlust: Naturally as a Dhampir, but especially so when she uses her Blood Frenzy.
• Dead Person Conversation: As a Dhampir, she can speak Necril, the language of the dead.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She was arrested as a result of responding to someone offending her true love by skinning them alive.
• Gender-Blender Name: Is named Bryan despite being female, as her father Wanted a Son Instead.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Her vampiric father wanted a boy, leading to a poor relationship between them.
• Life Drain: She had this early on as a Dhampir, but added to it still further by choosing the Way of the Long Death Monastic Tradition.
• Sinister Scythe: She wields a powerful magical scythe, gifted to her by a spirit.

E'ar later Fe'ar

E'ar

"All my friends have powers! I want powers!"

Art by datsean

^{Her later appearance} 

Art by datsean

Player: Valkyrae
Race: Genasi (Water)
Class: Druid (Circle of Dreams) later Shrine Maiden
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• Casting a Shadow: After becoming a Shrine Maiden, she gains 'Shadow Presence', which adds necrotic damage to her damage-dealing spells.
• Combat Medic: She has some healing spells in addition to her damaging ones. Her healing abilities were added to further by the Balm of the Summer Court that she received from her Druid Circle.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Like the rest of the party, she's a prisoner who is roped into the campaign with the promise of freedom. Her crime, though? Stealing cheese.
• Elemental Hair Composition: As a Water Genasi, her hair is made of water. It becomes more of a black ichor after she becomes a Shrine Maiden.
• An Ice Person: A good portion of her offensive arsenal is ice-based.
• Kill Sat: She gained a magical version one in the spell Moonbeam, which is, as the name suggests, a damaging beam originating from the moon.
• Making a Splash: Naturally, as a Water Genasi.
• Smoke Out: Her 'Fog Cloud' spell.
• Spell Blade: More of a Spell Club, actually, thanks to her Shillelagh cantrip.
• Wrongfully Accused: She didn't actually commit the crime that landed her in prison and, by extension, the campaign.

Hashbrown

Hashbrown

"You want a Hashbrown?"

Art by datsean

^{His later appearance} 

Art by datsean

Player: Sykkuno
Race: Halfling (Stout)
Class: Ranger (Hunter) later Seeker
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• Bow and Sword in Accord: Averted. He has a sword, but due to wanting to focus on his bow, he refuses to use it, even when in melee combat.
• In the Hood: After becoming a Seeker.
• Long-Range Fighter: Very much prefers to fight well away from his targets.
• Magic Knight: After becoming a Seeker.
• Money Fetish: He has a clear infatuation with gold and money.
• Stealing from the Till: The crime that resulted in his being imprisoned and subsequently roped into the campaign.
• Too Dumb to Live: In one instance, he repeatedly walks up to the burrow of a massive spider, despite said spider emerging to try and pull him in each time he does it. On the third time, he fails the saving throw to avoid it and gets caught, requiring the party to save him^note In fairness, Sykkuno was under the impression that the spider was a boss encounter that he was trying to call in the party to fight, and not the non-combat trap that it actually was.; for no readily apparent reason, he then requests that the party not heal him despite the fact that he was dying, until E'ar just heals him anyway.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Hashbrown likes hashbrowns. A lot.

Li'lu

Li'lu

"Who named you?"

Art by datsean

^{Li'lu alongside Shadow Li'lu} 

Art by datsean

Player: LilyPichu
Race: Sprite (Iron Wing)
Class: Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior)
——

• Disproportionate Retribution: She was arrested because she responded to someone looking at her wrong in a bar by chopping his head off.
• Flowers of Femininity: She has hairpins that are shaped like flowers. This being Li'lu though, the specific flower they resemble are African Blood Lilies.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She has some clear anger issues.
• Lightning Bruiser: Li'lu has a fly speed of 50 ft, and hits harder than anyone else in the party.
• Me's a Crowd: With her 'Shadow Dance', she can create a shadow version of herself that fights alongside her.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: As a Sprite Barbarian, she's probably one of the purest examples of this possible.
• Tsundere: Is explicitly described as one by LilyPichu.
• Unstoppable Rage: When using her Rage ability.
• Your Size May Vary: Her official height is about three feet tall, but it's been known to vary depending on what is needed for roleplaying purposes, sometimes being small enough to be carried around in a birdcage or fit in a sock.

P'mis

P'mis

"Oooh... free child!"

Art by datsean

^{His later appearance} 

Art by datsean

Player: DisguisedToast
Race: Kobold later Daemon Scorn
Class: Rogue (Swashbuckler)
Deity: Crowley
——

• Accidental Pervert: When the party is first locked up, he tries stealing a key off of Gallant Venicci, but fails and ends up groping her behind instead.
• Amazon Chaser: Though he will serve a strong master of any gender, he seems particularly interested in women.
• Appropriated Appelation: P'mis is what he was called by other Kobolds who bullied him as a child, which he adopted in an attempt to get them to like him.
• Clingy MacGuffin: When he throws one of his daggers in a way that doesn't end with it imbedded in something, it just flies right back to him.
• Cowardly Lion: Despite being described as a complete coward by his own player, he proves surprisingly capable when he has someone that he wants to serve, even facing down Vesseven Talisbane for E'ar, though Vesseven soon made clear that he couldn't have harmed the party if he wanted to.
• Cower Power: As a Kobold, he has this.
• Empathic Weapon: After getting his daggers, he starts hearing voices from them telling him to kill.
• Happiness in Slavery: He wants to serve a strong master.
• I'm a Humanitarian: A Dark Gift he obtained from using his daggers allows him to consume corpses to regain health.
• Long-Lived: Due to his later transformation, P'mis has become much longer-lived than ordinary Kobolds, and has been confirmed to still be alive after the Time Skip to the Glies Arc.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A Dark Gift he obtained from using his daggers transformed his teeth into sharp, serrated crocodilian ones.
• Optional Boss: He has been confirmed to be an optional boss where he currently resides in the Rotten Wound within the Badlands. However, given that he's in Kalkatesh and the current storyline takes place within Glies, it seems unlikely that anyone will run into him anytime soon.
• Sdrawkcab Name: His name backwards is "simp". After transforming into a Daemon Scorn, the party starts referring to him as D'ahc, which is "chad" backwards.
• Sole Survivor: Twice. First when the Kobold hovel where he grew up was invaded by bandits. Then again when he was drawn into a band of marauders, which were all killed by officials, who P'mis managed to convince to let him live, though they do still arrest and imprison him.
• Unfortunate Names: P'mis, pronounced "pee-miss", a name given to him by his "friends".
• You Are Who You Eat: He was transformed into a Daemon Scorn by devouring a heart he had found, which presumably previously belonged to one.

Remag

Remag

"We'll all be with god soon."

Art by datsean

Player: Michael Reeves
Race: Tortle
Class: Rune Mage (Enervation)
——

• Canon Foreigner: Rune Mage is not an actual class in standard D&D, but rather Arcadum's homebrew version of an Artificer.
• Goggles Do Nothing: He sports a pair.
• Long-Lived: More so than other Tortles as a side effect of gaining a Violet Eye, to the point that it has been confirmed that he's still alive after the Time Skip to the Glies Arc, despite already being elderly before it.
• Master Forger: The crime that got him roped into the campaign was creating counterfeits of various items. He's quite good at it.
• Polyglot: By virtue of having been a courier from Daborak, he knows six different languages.
• Ride the Lightning: His signature ability.
• Scatterbrained Senior: He suffers from dementia.
• Sdrawkcab Name: His name is "gamer" spelled backwards.
• Wise Old Turtle: Downplayed. He is quite knowledgeable, but he's also very crass and suffers from dementia.

Notable NPCs

Gallant Venicci

• BFS: Her main weapon.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: When the party is first locked up, she uses Li'lu-trapped-in-a-sock to slap P'mis around for a bit when he accidentally gropes her during a failed attempt to steal her key.
• The Handler: She is this to the party.
• Pet the Dog: When she is taking the party out for their first quest, she gives the party a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech, letting them know that, regardless of what anyone else thinks, they should be proud of putting themselves in harm's way to help people as their effort to atone for their crimes, rather than simply waiting out their time in safety.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: As annoyed by the party as she's shown to be, she demonstrates a vested interest in their well-being and safety, and refuses to send them on missions that lack a worthwhile reward.
• Surrounded by Idiots: She is often more than a little exasperated by the party's antics.

Lazarus Lodestone

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: How he gets the party onto the quest that he had for them, explicitly pointing out that they really have no choice in the matter.
• Bad Boss: Especially in contrast to Gallant. He outright tells the party that if they're captured, they're to kill themselves just to make sure that their mission can't get traced back to him.
• Jerkass: The guy's a pretty nasty piece of work.
• The Load: When in combat, he leaves all of the fighting to the party, save for a couple of heals that he throws out when it becomes clear that they're necessary.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He's an asshole who clearly doesn't give a shit about the party, but he does recognize that they wouldn't be useful if they died before they could get to the mission that he tasked them with, and so heals them a couple times when in battle.
• Smug Snake: He has considerable power in both combat prowess and political influence, and does not hesitant to flaunt either.

Te'mi

• Mix-and-Match Critters: Implied that this is the case, as she has use of both bear and wolf totem features.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: She speaks with a Russian accent.
• Red Scare: She often references communism in her suggestions to Li'lu.
• Sapient Steed: She serves as one to Li'lu.
• Talking Animal: As Li'lu's totem animal spirit.

Vesseven Talisbane

• Badass Family: He comes from the Talisbanes, which were a highly infamous example of one of these.
• The Cameo: He makes an appearance in "Death and Debts" when that party finds a way to summon him in the process of freeing the soul of his nephew.
• I Owe You My Life: When the party frees him from his seal, he mentions that he's bound to both reward them and not kill them, despite being annoyed both by their running away when he attempted to do this, and P'mis attacking him.
• Last of His Kind: He's the last of the Talisbane family, which were thought to have been wiped out some time ago.
• Magic Knight: Given what is known of the Talisbane family, it's safe to assume that he's highly skilled in both martial and magical combat.
• Named Weapon: The Claws of Vesseven were apparently named after him. They ultimately end up in the hands of Vaeri.
• No-Sell: When P'mis shoots him in the head with a crossbow, it does little more than annoy him.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has glowing red eyes, and he is definitely not one to be taken lightly.
• Sealed Badass in a Can: He was sealed in a chained coffin when the party finds and frees him. Possibly also a Sealed Evil in a Can.

Death and Debts / Steel and Silence

Terryn Zabi

Terryn

"No. I refuse to use it responsibly!"

Art by Emurray3D

Player: Projekt Melody
Race: Changeling
Class: Warlock (Old Ones)
Deity: Wode
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• Brats with Slingshots: Terryn has one, though it rarely saw use. She acknowledges this in the Crossover Grand Finale, pointing out how little she actually used the slingshot as she randomly uses it to shoot a rock at another player character.
• Capture and Replicate: Replace "capture" with "incapacitate and stuff somewhere out of the way", and you have an occasional trick in Melody/Terryn's arsenal, though her ability to actually imitate the person she shapeshifted into can be questionable.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Terryn originally comes across as a rather serious, cold, and distant individual. One encounter with the mind-altering goop of a friendly sewer monster and she becomes a font of chaos, weirdness, and general lewdness. Probably represented in its purest form by her long-running war with the concept of wearing trousers.
• Combat Tentacles: Has had them from the start, but rarely made use of them.
• Consummate Liar: Has a +7 bonus to Deception checks, which helped her in the second episode of "Death and Debts" to lie to Revlis about what she was doing when she broke away from the rest of the party before entering the ballroom, despite getting the same base roll as Revlis's opposing Insight Check. She later manages to convince everyone that she was unaffected by the mind-altering goop from Puckpickle, despite it being incredibly obvious that she was.
• Emotion Bomb: Terryn's "Tasha's Hideous Laughter" spell can induce, well, laughter in its targets, as shown in one particularly infamous battle.
  Terryn: ... because I'm hilarious and they need to agree.
• Indy Ploy: A big believer in them, as she typically tries pulling off at least one in pretty much every battle beyond her first.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Terryn's morality is all over the place, due to Melody occasionally struggling with reconciling her nonviolent nature with Terryn's predilection for murder, but she also shows great mercy to Jormungandr and is also quick to see if she can ease the suffering of the Lord of Blades.
• Omniglot: Where writing is concerned, anyway, thanks to gaining Eyes of the Runekeeper.
• Tsundere: Her initial personality, with Melody herself namedropping the trope when describing her. This... did not last.
• We Need a Distraction: Terryn's battle plans often involve becoming this, succeeding to at least some extent with surprisingly high frequency.
• Wild Card: Terryn seems to have cemented herself as this. At points where everyone else is busy flirting with NPCs or each other, she is often doing the most to actually pursue the party's current goal, but at other times does random things that aren't especially helpful, such as deliberately exposing herself to a hallucinogen that induces arousal and/or murderous insanity, or basically flushing a good portion of the party's gold down a toilet ^note (in fairness, her character was high for that one). In combat, her fighting style can usually be boiled down to "figuring out the exact level of bullshit she can get away with", with plans including kidnapping a miniature slime and chucking it into crocodile-infested sewer water, attacking an enemy by ripping off their nipples, and using her Changeling abilities to transform into an opponent so that she could seduce him as him.

Revlis

Revlis

Art by Lilytharts

^{Her appearance after her pact with Babylon} 

Art by JohnSilvaArt

Player: Silvervale
Race: Tiefling, later part-Succubus
Class: Warlock (Archfey)
Deity: The Laughing Mad, later Babylon
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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Revlis is obsessed with pretty things and will go out of her way to gather or steal them, from gold coins to pretty jewels to murderous will-o-wisps.
• Big-Breast Pride: Always had this, and especially so when her pact with Babylon gave her assets a boost. In the battle against the Aphotic Indefatigable, she at one point goes out of her way to note that she has the largest bust of the party.
• Cherry Blossoms: Revlis' Eldritch Blast has this as a visual effect.
  Terryn: It's cherry blossom season, bitch.
• Deal with the Devil: Was the most insistent on working with Babylon, and even goes so far as to abandon The Laughing Mad to pledge herself to his service instead.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Revlis becomes this thanks to Shiny.
• Fluffy Tamer: Revlis decides to capture a wisp after seeing a horde of them brutalize the members of the Shattered Star—and realizing how shiny they were. Naming it "Shiny", the wisp becomes a kind of fae called a Veld after Revlis undergoes the ritual to bind it to her as a familiar.
• The Gadfly: Revlis means well but will rarely miss out on an opportunity to prank, tease or otherwise annoy her friends. It frequently verges on Troll territory. The most notable examples being her frequent claims of wanting to eat Umi, the time she interrupted Madeline's sexcapade with an illusion of a nipple-less man...and the time she punted Vaeri into sewer water.
• Holy Burns Evil: Following her transformation at the hands of Babylon, Revlis takes bonus damage from Radiant attacks. This proves almost lethal in the following fight against "The Quack Man".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Revlis is not above trickery, stealing, murdering, or selling a child's soul into slavery; she also isn't above mocking her companions. Nevertheless, she does genuinely like Vaeri, she is willing to let Hokky think he took part in an orgy with the girls in the name of boosting his self-esteem, and is quite fond of Umi in spite of her gentle ribbing.
  Revlis (upon seeing Umi aged after helping Mezzlenorte): "You turned our fishy friend into a gross hag!"
• Long-Range Fighter: Tends to stay well away from any fighting that's going on, using her spells to attack.
• Mark of the Beast: Babylon's brand—a crown wrapped in chains—is emblazoned upon Revlis's chest where his hand gripped her heart after she is transformed.
• Master of Illusion: Revlis' "Misty Visions" makes her particularly adept at this, especially when dealing with members of the Shattered Star.
• Moment Killer: She has gained a bit of a reputation for this, first for cutting short one of Vaeri's few attempts at romancing an NPC, and then later for outright interrupting Madeline while, well... in the act.
• Money Fetish: A bit, as part of an overarching fetish for shiny things in general. She tends to be in charge of the party's gold as a result.
• Power Tattoo: Revlis's womb tattoo; although it seems to be just an embellishment, it glows when Revlis falls in love with and is in the vicinity of her familiar Shiny.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Revlis backwards is Silver, a shortened version of her player's alias.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Very much so. She goes without underwear as a matter of fact, is very proud of her physique, has a habit of shoving things into her breasts for the sake of silencing them and is not above indulging someone's purient interests provided she gets something out of it. Famously, she spat on the rat Fat David after he promised to pay her for it (he lied).
• Squishy Wizard: The one time she got stuck in close range in battle against "The Quack Man", she was brought to critical health in short order.
• Succubi and Incubi: Invoked with Revlis, who becomes the equivalent to what Arcadum describes as "a Tier-2 Succubus" following her pact with Babylon. Subverted in that, although she is the first of the party to have sex, uses the most innuendo and openly talks about seducing men to murder them in alleys, Revlis doesn't actually have much sex and in fact only openly seduces anyone twice—the first time with Lassader Brone^note And she wasn't even a succubus yet at that point, the second with a cultist of the Shattered Star.
• Vain Sorceress: Fits this mold to some extent, often doing things like checking her nails in between attacks in battle, and making note of her bust size whenever possible.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Revlis quickly became the party's impromptu "bad of holding"; over the course of the campaign, her cleavage became the resting place for her familiar Daiyo, the party's gold, the Bloodseed the Laughing Mad gave her, the Bag of Nipples, and Shiny.
• Winged Humanoid: When the game begins, Revlis wears a pair of fake wings made of twigs, but upon making a pact with Babylon and becoming part-succubus she grows a real pair that grant her True Flight.

Vaeri

Vaeri

"A myan has died!"

Art by Antheia Vaulor

Player: Momo
Race: Kobold
Class: Fighter (Dancing Blade)
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• Cower Power: As a Kobold, she has this as an ability, which she puts to use against the Aphotic Indefatigable, then immediately using Action Surge to follow it up with a series of attacks, invoking I Surrender, Suckers.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Surprisingly has this habit. She becomes absorbed in dancing with a tall stranger at the dinner party they're supposed to be gathering information. Later, she and Revlis fall hard for Babylon. Finally there's the Lord of Blades. Dragons are basically intoxicating for kobolds so she has to work VERY hard to keep her head around him. Momo would later declare that Vaeri is gunning for him.
• Insistent Terminology: Momo/Vaeri is quite happy to be called a dragon, not so much being referred to as any kind of lizard. (Actually a kobold, but everyone humors her.)
• Not So Above It All: She's not entirely immune to taking part in the party's antics. Possibly the most notable instance of this is when she was the first to join in on the party's infamous nipple stealing bit after Terryn started it.
  Vaeri: Now look here! If we want your nipples, we'll have them!
• Only Sane Man: Of the party, she has arguably the fewest quirks and the strongest grasp of the game. In the Crossover Finale of Death and Debts, Braktor Ironbellows ultimately ends up trying to limit his interactions to her, recognizing that she's the one he's most likely to get sensible responses from.
• Our Dragons Are Different: She fancies herself to be one, and prefers to be referred to as such.
• Power Fist: Her weapons of choice are a pair of clawed gauntlets. Following the party carrying out a task for Babylon, he gives her the Claws of Vesseven.
• Pragmatic Hero: She won't go out of her way to do less than savory things to complete her objectives, but she's not overly bothered if it seems like she has to do such things either.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Vaeri is described as wearing pieces of broken armor held together by leather straps, due to having trouble finding armor that fits her properly. She was particularly excited when Babylon provided her with the Claws of Vesseven, which fit her perfectly.

Zara

Zara

"What a fucked up day."

Art by Dannalanart

Player: Zentreya
Race: Red Orc
Class: Monk/Fighter (Samurai)
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• Amazonian Beauty: Has a muscular form, and receives her share of attention, including from an artist who wanted to paint a portrait of her, presumably specifically because of this.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Zara goes on to become a guardian of the Hall of Heroes following the defeat of the Herald—which works in her favor, as time passes differently in that realm and she would succumb to her Orcish lifespan otherwise.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: She does wield a weapon, but she can pulverize things just as well without it. Even better, in some cases.
• Blood Knight: But of course. Her answer to every social situation or problem is to pick a fight with whatever is in front of her, usually as the others scream not to.
• Bloody Murder: Her "Burning Blood" trait, which basically lets her damage enemies by bleeding on them. Given her light Leeroy Jenkins tendencies, this tends to see a lot of use, and was even her first killing blow of the first campaign.
• The Cameo: She makes an appearance in a special episode of Otikata's Curse called "The Spirit Dance", after River dies and enters the Hall of Heroes, where Zara spectates the duel that River fights to earn the right to return to life.
• Carry a Big Stick: Her Konobo.
• Cherry Tapping: Her 'Burning Blood' passive makes a few of her kills, including her first of the campaign and the final boss of "Death and Debts".
• Cool Sword: Obtained one from the Lord of Blades.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Once hit a sailor across the ass so hard she sent him flying into the sea.
• Everything's Better with Samurai: She seems to think so, given that she's specifically working towards becoming one.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In "The End Game", one section involved the physical fighters holding back an attempted invasion. In one notable part, a mook gets its entire upper half ripped off by Zara, with a golf swing from her Konobo.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Zara loves alcohol. So very very much.
• Honor Before Reason: Refuses to end the fight with the samurai Cicilly, even when it's hinted that it might be possible to talk her down.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Not a fan of it, it seems, when she's discussing the kind of activity that tends to occur in the Hall of Heroes with Madd Morc.
  Zara: I just want to keep fighting, why is there so much fucking?
• Leeroy Jenkins: Can the person in front of you be engaged in a contest or battle? Yes? Then prepare to hear a chorus of the ladies screaming "NO!" as Zara promptly tries to punch them in the face/take them on. This has a tendency to lead her into some trouble as she will do this to pretty much anyone, up to and including the devil.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: When Zentreya began using Text-to-Speech, she started with the Russian-sounding Tatyana Ivona voice. Enforced further when she later switched to a more British-sounding voice for her own use, but would keep Tatyana Ivona for when she was directly voicing Zara, in order to differentiate between speaking in- and out-of-character, making Zara's official voice a Russian-accented one. And she is most certainly strong.
• No Indoor Voice: Zara does not do quiet. Upon finding the home of Sad Derrick, she promptly kicks in the door and shouts hello.
• The Other Darrin: In the earliest episodes of "Death and Debts", Zentreya was still The Voiceless, only able to communicate by typing into MapTools chat, necessitating Arcadum to voice Zara for her. When Zentreya began using Text-to-Speech, the "Tatyana Ivona" voice would be used to voice Zara from that point onward.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In the first season, after Revlis has sex in a library and Umi begins accidentally attracting men left and right, Zara makes it her mission to find herself a "husbando". She eventually makes a move on a man but as the party gets sucked into the battle against the Enemy, he hasn't been seen since.
• Tap on the Head: Zara frequently solves awkward situations by punching someone in the back of the head and knocking them out.
• Token Good Teammate: No one in the party is actually evil but they are, putting it kindly, chaotic. As long as there's not a fight, alcohol or drugs involved, Zara will typically make the moral or honorable choice. She respects the samurai warrior Vaeri killed, is just as resistant as Umi to making a deal with Babylon and is very protective of the ghost child they find after defeating The Quack Man.

Umi Tormenta

Umi

Art by Lilytharts

Player: Ironmouse
Race: Triton
Class: Bard (College of Lore)
Deity: Kaheeli
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• Berserk Button: Do not insult her singing. The Aphotic Indefatigable learned this the hard way.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: Being based on an anglerfish, she naturally has the head bulb, which changes colors and blinking patterns based on her mood (most notably changing red when she's embarrassed).
• The Cameo: Arcadum has mentioned that she was intended to make an appearance in Glies's "Among the Reeds" campaign, which started on June 16, 2021. Ultimately subverted, though, with the campaign going so completely and repeatedly Off the Rails that this ultimately didn't happen.
• Chick Magnet: Gender-Inverted. In a group including a succubus, a cockblocked kobold, a woman who goes presumably weeks with no pants on, an oni actively looking for a husband and Covert Pervert Madeline it's the panicky shrinking violet who has accidentally gathered a cadre of men. She's walked into an engagement with a half-orc poet, became mother to a ghost baby, earned the favor of a vengeful spirit (which also garnered her the attention of an evil wrath god and landed her with a mansion), befriended an eccentric maybe-god and picked up an interdimensional alien boyfriend. NONE of which she intended to do.
  • This tendency even became directly plot-relevant at one point, as she ended up drawing out a Shattered Star member that the party was tasked with finding and capturing, when he was under the belief that the party was a group of prostitutes and tried to enlist her services specifically.
• Combat Medic: While she tends to default to healing or being a Support Party Member, she's perfectly capable of dishing out hurt with her naginata.
• Cute Little Fangs: Her 'toof', which she occasionally makes a point of showing off.
• Magic Music: Naturally, as a bard. Ironmouse will sometimes back this up with actual singing, when she's up to it.
• Naginatas Are Feminine: Wields one, and is particularly feminine.
• Rapid Aging: Ages into her mid-30s after giving up part of her lifeforce to save Mezzle and return him to his humanoid form. This is undone when the Lord of Blades transfers some of his power to the team.
• Shock and Awe: Umi's "Thunder Wave" spell, which she tended to be reluctant to use due to the possibility of Friendly Fire, but finally brings to bear to glorious effect as the final blow against the Aphotic Indefatigable.
• Shrinking Violet: Will yelp in panic at the slightest hint of anything foreboding, or of anyone coming on to her.
• Sleepyhead: Due to Mouse occasionally having to go AFK in order to take medication, Umi has been stated to be narcoleptic (or have "Sleeping Beauty syndrome") in order to explain these moments in-character.
• Token Good Teammate: While the rest of the party isn't really evil, they often tend towards being pragmatic, self-centered, or, as Arcadum put it at one point, "chaotic". Umi, however, tends to be quick to come to the assistance of anyone in need, and is often the most likely to consider any negative ramifications of the party's actions.
• Walking the Earth: Umi's fate following the defeat of the Violet, alongside Mezzlenorte; they both seek to restore Mezzlenorte's people.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Umi's naginata after Lorita blesses it, resulting in it gaining fire effects in addition to its default water ones. The Irony of her gaining this after touching fire a couple times is not lost on everyone.

Madeline

Madeline

Art by Agawa Ryo

Player: Bunny_GIF
Race: Wood Elf (City)
Class: Rogue (Swashbuckler)
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• Birds of a Feather: In "Steel and Silence", she meets up with a similarly flamboyant swashbuckling character named the Shining Shadow, and they hit it off to the point of getting a "Fade to Black" moment. Appropriately for the trope name, one of the things they bond over are their similar feathered hats.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Wields both a rapier and a longbow.
• Colossus Climb: In "The End Game", one section involved the physical fighters holding back an attempted invasion. In one notable part, Madeline races up the club of a Giant Mook after a missed swing to slice its throat.
• Covert Pervert: Starts out this way. She's a lot less forward then some of the other ladies but frequently hints at being as bad as any of them beneath it all. The covert part eventually drops away, as demonstrated by her poorly hidden thirst for Shiny.
• Hartman Hips: Is exceedingly proud of her cake.
• Just Like Robin Hood: One of the reasons that she became an adventurer and seeks out riches is to send it to the Orphanage where she grew up.
• Legacy Character: Her "Le Petite Guardian" persona was passed down to her by its previous holder.
• Red Baron: "Le Petite Guardian".
• Something about a Rose: Tosses them to women that she fancies. Upon meeting the party at the start of Death and Debts, she quickly ran out.
• Split Personality: The few times that's she been seen without her mask suggest that she has a much more shy and nervous personality without it.
• Transformation Sequence: Bunny has hinted that Madeline's appearance changes slightly depending on whether she has the mask on, though there's no official art of how she looks without it.
• Vigilante Man: Becomes one in the epilogue of Endgame, protecting Orde as "Le Petite Guardian".
• With Catlike Tread: When approaching The Quack Man's hideout, Madeline tried to scout out the area first. Due to a poor stealth roll, she is portrayed as doing so while humming a theme song for herself, though it fortunately didn't affect much.

Notable NPCs

Azeatec, Servant of Azeatek

• Be Careful What You Wish For: After Umi offers to be his friend, Azeatec decides to help the party by granting any wish that they desire...if he's in the mood. The party quickly learns to be very specific about what they wish for.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It's not so much that they don't like Azeatec...it's that they're terrified he'll show up and make a bad situation worse. The only exceptions are Umi, who is experatedly tolerant of him and Terryn who seems to have the hots for him.
• God in Human Form: Maybe. Initially appears as just an eccentric weirdo Umi bumps into on a dock, he quickly turns out to be a hell of a lot more than meets the eye. What he is remains to be confirmed but Umi and Terryn seem to fully believe he's some form of god.
• Pelvic Thrust: His final act of the Steel and Silence campaign, doing one of these to fly away after "assisting" against the Big Bad.
• Third-Person Person: "So, you say that Azeatec fits this trope? Azeatec will have to consult Azeatek about this, then Azeatec and Azeatek will get back to you."

Daiyo

• Put on a Bus: Vanished when Revlis abandoned her pact with the Laughing Mad to form one with Babylon instead.
• Sizeshifter: Is capable of changing size from a form big enough for Revlis to ride, to one small enough to ride in her Victoria's Secret Compartment.
• Talking Animal: As Revlis's (former) familiar.

Doug

• Humiliation Conga: After Zara knocks him out, the party leaves him with his pants down, his drugs scattered everywhere, a feather placed against his butt, and a note of apology on him.
• The Stoner: The party meets him in the middle of smoking a weed pipe, and proceed to get high with him.
• Tap on the Head: Is the victim of one from Zara.

Hokky Kepto and Big Hoots

• Accidental Kidnapping: Since Azeatec transported everyone around him to a random cave and Hokky was unconscious in the sand nearby, he ends up accidentally abducted. When he comes to and asks where he is the only response is from Vaeri, who has basically gone with the flow and decided they own Hokky now.
• Catchphrase: For Big Hoots - "Hell, yeah!"
• Expy: Big Hoots' voice and personality are reminiscent of Chef from South Park.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Hokky is introduced as a lonely man, which is what prompted him to conjure up Big Hoots as a companion. Fortunately, the party takes a liking to him, and he ends up working with them as their personal enchanter.
• Talking Animal: Big Hoots, by virtue of being a companion conjured by Hokky.
• Tap on the Head: Gets hit with this twice by Zara, and would have gotten a third one if Vaeri hadn't blocked her.

The Lord of Blades/Lob

• Chick Magnet: Dragons are basically catnip to kobolds, so Vaeri has to block her nose around him to prevent herself from just leaping on him.
• Cool Sword: Covered in them. At some point the Lord of Blades removed most of his scales and covered himself in unhilted Mastercraft swords.
• Gentle Giant: He can be quite sharp and is a terrifying enemy, but the party quickly find him a welcoming and kind presence. He also purrs.
• Handicapped Badass: He's enormously powerful but took a crippling Violet wound which left him unable to fight while getting progressively weaker. This leads him to summon the party to act in his stead. By the end of Steel and Silence the party succeeds in their primary objective of healing his wound, allowing him to personally join the final confrontation against the Violet.
• Our Dragons Are Different: He's a huge benevolent dragon covered in blades.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Extremely intimidating but largely treats the party with love and respect.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He hasn't done this in story yet but Arcadum has confirmed that this is a standard draconic ability.

Mezzleternorta/Mezzle

• Body Horror: Was introduced as a Gith Husk, essentially having the form of a giant, malformed larvaelike creature, a side effect of the process used to seal him. Especially so in how this form isn't capable of surviving in the normal world, forcing Umi to give him her life force to keep him from immediately dying upon being released.
• Expy: Physically resembles a muscular, humanoid Sonic the Hedgehog, as pointed out by Melody/Terryn. Though Arcadum would prefer comparisons to Blanka.
• Fling a Light into the Future: Served as the light for the Gith. Worked a little better than probably intended, given how he wasn't released until thousands of years after the Gith were wiped out.
• I Owe You My Life: Towards Umi, for both releasing him from his seal and for preventing him from immediately dying due to his body not being suited for living outside of it.
• Last of His Kind: Was thought to be this at first. In the epilogue of Endgame, however, it's revealed that there are other Gith sealed away as he was, and he and Umi set out to find and free them.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Was introduced as one. Fortunately, he was greeted by Umi, who was both able and willing to release him.
• Walking the Earth: His fate following the defeat of the Violet, alongside Umi; they both seek to restore Mezzlenorte's people.

"The Quack Man"

• Church Militant: As a member of the Inquisition.
• Deathly Unmasking: When the party defeats him, Zara's Burning Blood destroys his mask in the process, revealing him to be Lonalas Choral, who had charmed Vaeri at the party earlier.
• Holy Hand Grenade: His attacks deal extra Radiant damage, which results a particularly nasty attack of opportunity against Revlis when she gets stuck in close quarters with him and tries to back off.
• Last Chance Hit Point: After he's initially brought down by Vaeri, he's temporarily recovers thanks to 'Enduring Faith', but this doesn't last long.
• Smoke Out: He tries this in his last-ditch efforts; however, it fails to accomplish much.

Shiny

• The Charmer: As far as Revlis is concerned after he becomes a Veld. She quickly falls for him, declares him her fairy boyfriend, and is very pleased by the possibility he can become human-sized and/or turn into a sex toy.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Originally a fear devouring creature that can reduce a person to a bloody smear on a wall. Revlis named him Shiny and turned him into a necklace.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: As a Veld. Shiny is polite, capable, complimentary, quick-thinking, and constantly working to ensure his master's every wish is met.
• The Jeeves: He'll do anything Revlis asks with speed, grace, and efficiency. All while dressed in a little butler's outfit.
• Support Party Member: During the battle with the Aphotic Indefatigable, he sheepishly admits to Revlis that he has no direct attacking capabilities.

Various Partygoers

• Amazon Chaser: Bellethar Bronzeshadow, who gets slugged in the face by Zara, and only has his interest piqued even further.
• Fantastic Racism: Lord Lassitor Brone, who hates dragons to the level of making efforts to reduce all lizard people to second class citizens, and to extend that treatment beyond just where he holds direct power.
• Gossipy Hens: Sellebembem Ditzybitzy, who provides Terryn with a rundown of several of the other partygoers almost immediately after the two greet each other.
• Really Gets Around: Lord Lassader Brone, who had an encounter with Revlis, and later even manages to get with Sellebembem, who had specifically warned Terryn earlier that he was rumored to have picked up a variety of diseases due to this tendency, both on the same night.

Gambler's Delight/Shadow of Tyre

Ahst

Ahst

Art by Manda_AMSBT

Player: Strippin
Race: Changeling
Class: Ranger(Horizon Walker), Guardian
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• Cool Sword: Zamdeus, Blade of Vibrato.
• Cross Player: The male Strippin plays the female Ahst.
• Me's a Crowd: Zamdeus gives her some abilities that allow her to create copies of herself.
• Polyglot: Knows a variety of languages, and can use Speak With Dead once per long rest on top of that.
• Stealth Expert: She has several abilities that allow her to avoid detection.
• Sword Beam: Wielding Zamdeus allows her to utilize this.

Eustace Bellbawls

Eustace

Art by GoldenTot

Player: GoldenTot
Race: Genasi(Water)
Class: Monk(Path of the Open Hand) later Dream Monk
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• Breath Weapon: He can do this with ice.
• The Cameo: He makes an appearance in "Death and Debts", where he finishes bringing the party to Camp Last Stand.
• Making a Splash: Naturally as a Water Genasi, which is added to further with Ward of Waves.

Moe Kowbull

Moe

Art by sea_bayer

Player: Criken
Race: Minotaur
Class: Rogue(Pirate) later Shaper
——

• The Cameo: He's had a couple:
  • He appears in "The Divine Wind" to provide some information to the party, and to induct Brewbad Stormfinger as a Shaper-in-Training.
  • He is also inadvertently called by the party of "Otikata's Curse", and during his time with them, he uncovers significant details of a few of their members's backstories, and recruits Lucine as a Star Maiden.
• Extra Eyes: He has a third eye in his forehead.
• Official Couple: With Vinnidinci Vasakael Valakain Beatorix.
• Pirate: His original profession. Yeah, he's come a long way.
• Punny Name: More Cowbell.

Raost Tredder

Raost

Art by ZXYORi

Player: Woops
Race: Witchwolf later Ori Yokai Akuma(Shika)
Class: Barbarian(Scarseeker)/Fighter(Sightless Blade)
Deity: Babylon later Omen
——

• Aura Vision: When using The Sight Beyond.
• Cool Sword: The Gambler's Delight.
• Deal with the Devil: His transformation into an Ori Akuma was from making one with Omen for power.
• An Ice Person: With Talven's Blessing, his attacks deal additional cold damage.
• Official Couple: With Seren.

Toot

Toot

Art by DonnieDurdunkle

Player: TheNo1Alex
Race: Kenku later Royal Kenku, later Phoenixborn Kenku
Class: Cleric(Trickery) later Cleric(Stars)
Deity: Sekelcuse later Hizigori, Myth of the North
——

• Master Forger: As a Kenku, he is skilled at forgery.
• Power Copying: His Stolen Incantation Feat allows him to cast a spell he had seen cast within the previous hour once per long rest.

Strange Roads

The Cost of Hubris

Lacari Bettingfield

Lacari Bettingfield, son of Lacari

Player: Lacari
Race: Human (Variant)
Class: Fighter
——

• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Seems to go beyond Uncanny Family Resemblance. He identifies a copy of himself as "Lacari, son of Lacari, brother of Lacari", implying that his entire family looks the same, as well as having the same name.
• Large Ham: Always loud and boisterous. Even if his life depends on it, he claims to be incapable of whispering.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Tends to act without thinking, doing things like accidentally gassing the party by dropping a corpse into a pool of mysterious poisonous water.
• Memetic Loser: Became infamous after Episode 3 for the "Curse of Lacari". Despite having a +8 to hit at level 2, he managed to miss 8 consecutive attacks on basic Mooks. For reference, Arcadum calculated the odds of this to be around 0.035%. This prompted a Pretender Diss from the pirates, Condescending Compassion from most of his teammates and a Heroic BSoD from Lacari himself.
• My Greatest Failure: Played for Laughs in a Black Comedy sort of way. While the party is suffering from a mental attack - Knutte drowning in his greed, Laguna literally drowning, etc. - Lacari is just being reminded of his miss streak when fighting the pirates.

Knutte Stoneshale

Knutte Stoneshale

Player: Witwix
Race: Dwarf
Class: Rogue
——

• Unfortunate Name: Make no mistake, the amount of jokes made about his name is enough to make anyone Knutte.

Laguna Seaver

Laguna Seaver

Player: Lily Melon
Race: Water Genasi
Class: Sorceror (Storm)
——

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Easily distracted from her goal, to her active detriment. On a whim, she decided to search a sarcophagus containing a very much alive (but bound) illithid.
• Blithe Spirit: Carefree, fun-loving and more than willing to toke up with a mushroom man.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Her thought process can be... weird.
  Laguna: I'm a gooey duck!
• Mundane Utility: Her hair is greasy enough to drip oil, making her very useful when they need to silently open doors.
• Nerves of Steel: After successfully fighting off the madness of the Underworld, she gained a permanent resistance to all forms of fear.
• Nervous Wreck: Temporarily. Her first brush with the Underworld went poorly, prompting her to descend into a paranoid mess.

Gentle Godfrey

Gentle Godfrey

Player: MollsisBored
Race: Tiefling (Fierna)
Class: Cleric
——

• Anger Born of Worry: Frequently snaps at the party's more reckless actions, but only because she cares about them.
• Fetish: Opening doors, for some reason. Despite the terror of the Underworld, Kaladar opening a passage full of doors was enough to leave her very bothered.
• Nice Girl: Despite a quick temper and unwillingness to suffer fools, she is generally the first to comfort her friends if they are distressed.
• Team Mom: Of the Tough Love variety. She will not hesitate to scold them or threaten to cut off their healing if they act like morons. That said, she does have a nurturing side to her.

Kaladar Havensmith

Kaladar Havensmith

Player: Spoon
Race: Human (Variant)
Class: Paladin
——

The Herald's Call

The Tearing Veil

Weal and Woe

Shattered Crowns

Guy Dance

Guy

Art by Ashlelang

Player: Ster
Race: Dhampir
Class: Bard (College of Swords)
——

• Abusive Parents: Mostly played for laughs. His mother beat him when he was young and his father is implied to not be much better.
• Agent Peacock: Flamboyant and campy, but still a very strong swordfighter.
• At Least I Admit It: Is frustrated by the fact that the rest of his party believe themselves to be alright people who are trying to do the right thing. Guy, by contrast, knows he's an awful person and relishes in it.
• Attention Whore: Guy loves being the center of attention and will often lie about his accomplishments to get it.
• Blessed with Suck: Has a fantastic singing voice... at the cost of being incapable of raising his voice without going into song.
• Cool Sword: Wields Finale, one of the Songblades.
• Eats Babies: Well, drinks babies' blood. Guy request a newborn baby to be painted to life so that he can drink it.
• It's All About Me: In Guy's world, it's Guy first and everyone else second.
• Lack of Empathy: Guy doesn't really seem to care about other people unless they useful to him.
• Miles Gloriosus: Downplayed, as he's a genuinely good fighter and helps out when he has to, but he has spent more than one fight hiding away invisible while the rest of the party do most of the work. Whenever they reconvene, he's always quick to boast how what they dealt with was small potatoes compared to the huge threat he took on singlehandedly.
• Stealing the Credit: Guy constantly steals credit for the achievements of others in combat. Hilariously, his fellow party members believe him every time.
• The Unfettered: Encourages his party to become this in an effort to curb how easy they are to distract.

Iron Pipe

Iron Pipe

Art by Ashlelang

^{His original appearance as Big Tree} 

Art by donniedurdunkleton

Player: Admiral Bahroo
Race: Satyr
Class: Wizard (Illusionist)
——

• Curious as a Monkey: Always curious about the results of things.
• Cyborg: Adds more and more mechanical parts to himself as the campaigns go on.
• Didn't Think This Through: His Fatal Flaw. Pipe has a tendency to do things recklessly, either to find out what would happen or because of his impulses. If he had given just a bit more thought to his surroundings, it's possible the Fireball Incident would've never taken place.
• Ditzy Genius: Very intelligent and well versed in the realm of magic and science, but is impulsive and short-sighted. He seems to recognize that he has these faults, however.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Figured Kai would stick around after being released from service, and doesn't seem to understand why releasing the Harliot would be a bad idea.
• I Have Many Names: Starts off as "Big Tree", then quickly changing to "Big Pipe" before finally settling into "Iron Pipe".
• Mad Scientist: Oh yeah. He's very much into experimentation and learning and not really as concerned with things like "safety" or "reason".

Ikkar

Ikkar

Art by Ken Ha

^{His original appearance at the start of Shattered Crowns} 

Art by Vablo

Player: Joe Zieja
Race: Aarakocra
Class: Cleric (Life)
Deity: Sekelcuse
——

• The Atoner: Making up for a life of debauchery with the life he has remaining. Part of the reason he requests a bit more time from Raquel is that he's worried he won't have enough time to atone for what he's done.
• Cool Old Guy: Quite old for Aarakocras, but still willing to get his hands dirty.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a rather dry wit, and his party gives him a lot to work with.
• Fountain of Youth: Is aged down to his prime by Raquel, but still retains the same lifespan, so he's still only a couple years from dying of old age.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Has a smoking pipe. He often tries to smoke on unusual things, such as the Lantern Lighter's lantern or Big Pipe's steampunk horns.
• Mundane Utility: His Mug of Questionable Justice, the chosen form of his Spiritual Weapon, also functions as an actual mug that he'll sip from before dismissing the spell.
• Oh, My Gods!:
  Ikkar: Sekelcuse's balls!
• Only Sane Man: Ikkar is valued as a voice of reason in a party containing Guy, Huck, Pipe, and Scrumpo.
• Support Party Member: Not nearly as much of a damage dealer as the rest of his party members, but his Bless and healing make him absolutely essential in most combat encounters.

Huckleberry

Huckleberry

Art by Ashlelang

^{His original appearance at the start of Shattered Crowns} 

Player: Octopimp
Race: Centaur
Class: Fighter (Battle Master)
Deity: Iass
——

• Crippling Overspecialization: Huck's horse body makes him great at mobility, carrying things, and traversing wide open spaces, but tends to struggle a bit when it comes to more standard dungeon crawling things, such as stairs.
• Cow Boy: His whole aesthetic.
• Dumb Muscle: Downplayed as he's more Book Dumb than outright stupid, but he's the most physically oriented member of the party and often misunderstands things.
• Gullible Lemmings: Very easily tricked and gaslit.
• I Call It "Vera": Names his weapons. "Loud Iron" is his halberd and "Little Iron" is his wand of Magic Missile.
• Never Learned to Read: Huck cannot read, despite what he may claim, and is often the target of teasing from the rest of his party because of this fact. Hilariously, when he finds words etched on a cave wall, they are described as his personal demons. He finally learns in Episode 11 of Season 2.
• The Sheriff: Very much wants to be a sheriff. He gets his desire at the end of Season 1.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Huckleberry can definitely read and has absolutely read books before in the past. It's true now... not to imply that he couldn't earlier.

Robblehoff "Scrumpo" Stinkfoot

Scrumpo

Art by JohnSilvaArt

^{His original appearance at the start of Shattered Crowns} 

Player: MoonMoon
Race: Gnome (Svirfneblin)
Class: Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
Deity: Sekelcuse later Raquel
——

• A God Am I: Briefly gains a god complex after using a Monkey's Paw to remove gods from existence.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Subverted. Claims to neither have a penis nor a butthole, but Pipe checks under his fundoshi and discovers that Scrumpo does indeed have a penis.
• Casanova Wannabe: He definitely shoots his shots to say the least.
• Designated Point Man: Usually the one to spot and disable traps when dungeon crawling, often with his Mage Hand.
• Dirty Coward: Tries to hide behind others in combat and avoid any consequences for his actions.
• Fantastic Racism: Hates elves with a burning, fiery passion. Scrumpo never passes up a chance to rattle on about how he thinks elves are the worst and why they're terrible.
• Friendless Background: The other inheritors are the only people who have ever tolerated his presence.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Very boastful and self-important, but he admits that he knows no one likes him and that his fellow Lords of Flowing Water are his only friends.
• Irony: The elf hater actually shares his soul with an elf.
• Jerkass: Scrumpo's a bit of a dickhead. Eventually evolves into...
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He remains as crass as ever, but his experience refracting into Azolon and the fight to save all of creation turns him into a kinder and more respectful man.
• Motor Mouth: Scrumpo talks a lot.
• Naked People Are Funny: Spends all of Season 1 and half of Season 2 in nothing but a fundoshi. He claims it's a cultural thing, but it's unclear if that's true or if he's just bullshitting.
• Never My Fault: Refuses to accept blame. Notably, he tries to blame Hazeem Haladari for Scrumpo grabbing a cursed scroll and then killing Hazeem when he got caught.
• Oblivious to His Own Description: Rants on and on about how elves are pompus, racist bastards without ever really acknowledging that that description fits Scrumpo to a T.
• Only Known By His Nickname: Exclusively referred to as Scrumpo.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Really does not like Ronnie.
• Sticky Fingers: Very standard for rogues. If he gets caught though, it's stabbin' time.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All of the inheritors get their moments, but Scrumpo goes above and beyond what would be considered acceptable to society.

Notable NPCs

Ronnie

• Catchphrase: "Affirmative bark"
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Scrumpo. Scrumpo finds nothing but annoyance with the dog and often tries to convince the other Beetledukes to use him as a ration. Ronnie is completely oblivious to Scrumpo's loathing.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Is killed almost immediately upon the summoning of the Violet Servant thanks to The Fireball Incident.
• Team Pet: For the inheritors.

The Lantern Lighter

• Butt-Monkey: Gets very little respect from his masters, often being summoned and very quickly desummoned from his lantern for comedic effect.
• Hold the Line: Keeps the Violet Servant at bay and rules the city-state of Lieve in his masters' place while they are transported elsewhere.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Has been made to forget everything about the Violet. When his memories are restored, he immediately begs for them to be resealed.
• Mr. Exposition: Gives a lot of information to the inheritors of The Lord of Flowing Water.
• Straight Man: To the inheritors.