Zenith Nymph's Adventures / Characters

The Zenith Nymph's Adventures series features plenty of characters from both the canon Terraria game and several new enemies and allies.

Because Romancing the Last Dryad is the "main" story of this, it should be assumed that story-related tropes are referring to that and its continuity (including the True King Slime side-story and the "canon iteration" of Nymphlopedia) unless otherwise stated.

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"Naked Empire," Main Trio

The Naked Empire as a Whole

The "Naked Empire" is Sonata's extremely bizarre group that she gathered out of a mixture of boredom and a legitimate attempt to save the world.

Color-Coded Characters: Every character in the comics has their own text color in general, but with the main trio and the Nymphs, it's much stronger. Vince is blue (his eye color, and he tends to dye his armors and outfits blue in the comics at least), Sonata is cyan (her hair color is a washed out cyan-ish, her magic color is purple, but her text uses bright cyan to make her stand out), and Tania is lime, formerly green (to match her own hair and her magic color). Nymph Variants except Oreads and to a lesser extent Dryads all have a very strong association with a specific color or two (including a specific light/saturation level of it), and are almost always almost entirely that color, which is what codes them.
Full-Frontal Assault: It's right there in the name. The Naked Empire is made of people who go around and fight naked. Vince is the largest exception, actually having armor on account of being the Token Human. The other town residents also some times wear clothes, but ones that are "closer" to the gang like Iris have converted to nudism and don't mind walking around naked like the Nymphs.
Everyone Has Standards: The Naked Empire are generally crass and shameless, and as Nymphs they have much less of a sex taboo than Humans, but they still deeply respect boundaries. In Chapter 5 of Romancing, when Sonata and her friends think Vince is uncomfortable with said friends "joining" the two of them for a bed session, they genuinely ask if Vince is okay with it and say that they will leave if he just wants it to be him and Sonata. Vince accepts them anyway, but because he thinks the idea would be hot, not because anybody — not even Sonata — pressured him at all.

The Main Trio

The three actual protagonists of the series are the title Zenith Nymph Sonata, the Terrarian Adventurer Vince, and the Dryad Tania.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: All three of them are hit with this, with Vince and Sonata given some tragic pasts when none was implied for the player/Nymph enemy, and Tania both elaborating on the Dryad's story and throwing even more sorrow in her life:
- The reason why Vince went to the Nature Islands in the first place is because his home life in the Human Continent was abyssmal. He lived in a polluted hell where he was overworked and ran the risk of dying young to diseases. The Nature Island is no joyride normally, but compared to what he had been through, he considers it a utopia and flat-out tells Impetua he would still prefer having her cut off his limbs and torment him to going back.
- Sonata was an orphan who never knew of her parents and had to survive on her own in the world as long as she remembered. At some point, she was manipulated by Lindsey, brainwashed in to thinking she was a good person, and is heavily implied to have been mistreated/abused by her. She was born and raised in a world where battles to the death are common and people are constantly killing each other for food, survival, and dominance, which is also true of every Nymph. Not even the Dryads are exceptions to this, as implied by the final chapter of Nymphlopedia.
- Tania is characterized as having a burning rage towards Cthulhu for wiping out her kind underneath her stoic look, and she has to deal with seeing areas such as the Human Continent polute and corrupt themselves to oblivion. She is also given the task of single-handedly preventing the Mainland, infected with a superpowerful form of Corruption and other Evil Biomes, from spreading through the world, constantly using her power to try keeping it at bay.
Freudian Trio: Sonata is the id, being very "feral," quick to act on her physical needs (she's the most openly horny and gluttonous), and having the strongest emotions. Tania is the superego, taking things with a reasonable, mystical approach, and being rather difficult to get a rise out of unless Evil Biomes are involved, but she is also something of a stick in the mud. Vince is the ego; while he leans towards having more in common with Sonata than Tania, he's still the one balancing them out as a normal "buffer" in-between the two of them. In the early chapters of Romancing the Last Dryad, Tania isn't there because no "Cthulhu organ" boss has been killed yet, leaving it as just Sonata and Vince. Back then, Vince pretty much has to have an extra dosage of sanity to better balance out Sonata's antics. This is even reflected in their notes: Sonata's are blunt, highly opinionated, tend to not have focus, and especially regarding the Nymphs, there's a lot of sexual gushing involved; Vince's are somewhat analytical and go over some basic things about fighting or whatnot, but he still has emotions in here and there and doesn't really dive in to the topic aside from basing his opinions on what he already knows from his first impressions; while Tania's are heavily analyitical, going in depth about things like biology or ecology and being much more factual than either of the other two.
Nice Mean And In Between: Usually, Tania acts as the Nice, being the understanding, patient nature guardian who takes her job very seriously; Sonata is almost always the Mean, a jerk acting for herself first and her heart of gold being burried quite deep; and Vince is the In-Between, while he's nicer than Sonata, he still has his moments of being rude here and there. They can alternate, especially when it comes to Nymph culture in general, where Tania can suddenly flip to the In-Between if not Mean due to the rocky history between Dryads and Nymphs.
Rotating Protagonist: Of the three, none of them are supposed to be "the" main character. All of them are meant to be roughly equally important, have even levels of screen time, and have arcs that all matter as much as one-another. This is most evident when they split up, and the story cuts back and forth between them fairly evenly, with each one serving as the "protagonist" for that bit.

Vincent "Vince" Tarius the Terrarian/Adventurer

A Human who took up adventuring to get away from his soul-crushing life in the Big City, as he'd rather prefer trecking deadly caves to get material and build his own home from the ground up in a land infested with the undead to city work. (This is not an unpopular opinion in this world.) He effectively represents the player character from the base game, although he is not a blank slate.

Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the monster girl Harem Seeker hero. The story and Sonata herself suggests that there's at least a little wrong with him for thinking the Nymphs, dangerous people-eating monsters, are hot despite the risks, and still wanting to bed them even after having a very nasty encounter with one of the most poweful, evil Nymphs in all of Terraria. The biggest obstacle to his and Sonata's romantic relationship is that Sonata isn't sure how much said relationship would be him unhealthily loving a shadow, and suggests that they wait a bit before seeing if his feelings for her really are "love" or not. His forgiveness is also something Sonata sees as a negative, with him wanting Sonata to go easier on Impetua and spare her driving a wedge in their relationship.
Everyone Has Standards:
- Vince is not a creep, not even to his enemies that he legitimately hates. When he's angrilly shooting at Fridginy for beating up and imprisoning him, Iris, and Madeline, he accidentally fires an arrow at her ass. Vince quickly and genuinely apologizes, not for attacking her in the first place, but because he was aiming for her head, that it wasn't meant to be sexual harassment, he just missed.
- He's a Nightmare Fetishist willing to romance a lot of Nymphs, regardless of how antagonistic they start out as or how creepy they are. But only if they actually turn around and, more importantly, stop being a jerk. It speaks volumes that even he wants nothing to do with Nillea because of her abrasive behavior, and outright tells her that he'd rather chop his dick off than be with her. He's also not happy about Fridginy until she makes up for her unprovoked attack, and antagonizes Impetua to the point of not caring about her depression until she makes steps towards redeeming herself. Nillea however is someone he has zero positive feelings towards.
Hero of Another Story: During most of the joke comics, he's implied to be out doing heroism stuff while the NPCs are out getting in to shenanigans. Sonata and Tania may be helping him out too depending on the comics, but the Dryad & Nymph five-parter and the original Teasers almost entirely have them messing around while Vince is the one pulling off all the heavy work offscreen.
Nightmare Fetishist: One of his personal dreams is having a "Nymph Harem" and he's obsessed with learning about them, despite knowing full well how monstrous they can be. He's still like this even after his near-death encounter with the first Nymph he saw and the very dangerous run through Lindsey's city. This is lampshaded often, such as in the Spring Nymph story in Nymphlopedia. It's downplayed in that he's mainly interested in the Nymphs for their general, almost species-wide free love culture, and just sees their monstrous traits as a risk he'd have to get through. He also on average shows more interest in conventionally attractive aspects of the Nymphs, such as how he's more attracted to the "conventionally" fanservice-y and seductive Diltica.
Refusal of the Call: Vince does not want to be an active "hero" and would rather just live a comfortable life on the Nature Islands as much as he can. He ends up getting sucked in to adventures and trying to fight Cthulhu's forces mainly for one of two reasons: Sonata pressures him in to doing so (Sonata only getting in to heroics because Vince convinced her to, meaning his attempt at redeeming her had Gone Horribly Right), or the enemies come to him and give him no choice but to fight back.
Straight Man: Compared to Sonata's general wackyness and even some of Tania's Not So Above It All moments or her bouts of oddness, Vince is "the normal guy" of them.
Token Human: He's not the only Human of the entire Naked Empire, but he is the only one of the main group, and fittingly, his story is more mundane, understandable, and less mysterious than the backstories of Sonata and Tania.
Would Hit a Girl: He has zero problems attacking any Nymph or other female enemy (it's usually a Nymph however) that tries to harm him, whether it be Lindsey's minions, Fridginy, or in the case of the hinted True King Slime spinoff, Fountaya and Fallacy (the former of which even makes herself look like a young girl). In Nymphlopedia, he also tries to provide combat tips for all types of Nymphs except Dryads, and that exception is because the only one of them alive is his friend. This suggests that he's fought them plenty of times over his adventures. While he never actually attacks Sonata in Romancing the Last Dryad pre-Heel–Face Turn, that's moreso because he was only armed with a Copper Shortsword at the time and knows that Sonata is much stronger than him; he still threatens her and makes it clear he didn't like having his life threatened after she switches to his side.

Sonata Osfortis the Oread/Nymph/Nudist/Zenith Nymph

The title Zenith Nymph. She's an Oread, essentially the one who falls under the role of the "vanilla" Terraria Nymph enemies in terms of appearance, and wants to become a powerful ruler feared by all. At least, she thinks. After 500 years of boredom in her life, she has given herself two seemingly impossible tasks just to have some goals to look forward to: Forge the Zenith, and make a massive "Nymph harem" of all the known Nymph Variants (of which there are over 500, and one Variant — the Dryads — only has one member left alive, who is a bit of a prude). She intends to do this especially with the help of Vince and later Tania.

Adaptational Heroism:
- She's still a monster in the caves that technically eats people, but is far less malicious than her in-game enemy counterpart would be, and the story explains that she never actually killed anybody. She had only eaten things like fish and fallen corpses of people who were killed through other causes. Vince is her one and only victim, she first keeps him alive to be her wingman, and then after seeing Vince and Iris both try to sacrifice themselves to save the other, she finally feels guilty about it and goes on trying to atone for everything she had done. A major arc of Romancing the Last Dryad in general is about her striving to become a better person and be up there with the canon-player Terrarian and the Dryad as one of the core heroes saving the world.
- The major rewrite to Romancing the Last Dryad tones down a bit on the Nymph Blue-and-Orange Morality in general and changes her so that she wasn't going to kill and eat Vince unprovoked. She's friendly the entire time, and only attacks him because he assumes she would and tries fighting her first, and his words made it sound like he was hunting Nymphs on sight.
Adaptational Skimpiness: Manages to fall under this despite already canonically being naked. Sonata — and Nymphs in general — do not have Godiva Hair, both because the racier stories in the set do not shy away from nipples, and because Fan just hates the trope in general. At most, she is drawn with Barbie Doll Anatomy breasts.
Ascended Extra: The Nymph goes from being a random rare enemy that exists mostly as a one-time scare and a source for a Cell Phone part to being one of the main characters, kicking ass side-by-side with the Terrarian. While she is very loosely meant to be "another NPC" (which would still qualify under this regardless, as this is still more important than a random rare enemy), she too is written story-wise to be about an equal with the Terrarian, pulling off what he would and exploring indepentantly as a hero in her own right.
The Atoner: Vince is the only innocent person she actually attacked, along with threatening Iris to a lesser extent, and she soon winds up feeling horrible about both of them. Chapter 5 reveals that she feels so guilty about what she's done that even when Vince throws himself at her romantically, she doesn't like the idea of being in a serious relationship with him (or anyone) until she has herself figured out and is firmly respected as a hero.
Bad Liar: The story portrays her "Lost Girl" disguise as very unconvincing. She hates modesty so much that even when pretending to be a Human who simply lost her clothes by circumstance, she poorly covers herself. She also snorts when trying to explain herself, and she immediatey says "I'm naked because I lost my clothes!" suspiciously. Vince is not fooled for a second, but part of that is attributed to how he researched Nymphs from what little he could know about them before he went on the Shores of Sparkling.
Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Downplayed. Sonata is somewhat more reserved when around and towards Tania in their early time together. Part of this is because Tania legitimately intimidates Sonata. Neither Vince nor Sonata are this to each other, both of them being upfront of how horny they are.
Easily Forgiven: Subverted. Vince and Iris appear to befriend her after the opening two-parter, but it's revealed over the course of the next chapters that they're not putting her attempted "kill and eat" of Vince under the water. Iris in particular has implied on multiple times that she does not like Sonata. After the battle with Impetua, Vince tells Sonata outright that he was terrified that he would have died and is not entirely over that, which he uses to try to convince Sonata to let Impetua live.
Establishing Character Moment: Has one in almost every story.
- In Romancing, she attempts to trick Vince in to thinking she's a "Lost Girl," but when Vince sees right through it, she immediately admits that she's actually a monster, casually guns after him, and then when he blurts out he wants a "Nymph Harem," she casually says she does too. But threatens to eat him if he makes for a poor wingman. This all shows how affable Sonata is pre-Heel–Face Turn, and that she's generally a weird goof even under her being a legitimately threatening monster.
- In Teasers, before describing anything, there's a conversation between her and the man that would become Vince. Vince asks if she wants clothes after being both saved from her Nymph curse and saved from the caves. Her response? No, and she would go on to become a flaunting Nudist from then on out.
- In the Dryad & Nymph comics, she's first seen in the Snow complaining about the cold, and then jumping in to a fire to keep warm. She has a giant smile on her face even as she's burning alive.
Everyone Has Standards: Sonata has a few lines she wouldn't cross even at her worse, let alone when she strives to become a hero.
- She just about says this directly in Chapter 2 of Romancing, that she might try tricking people so that she can kill and eat them, and nearly did this with Vince, but she firmly draws the line at being a "pickup artist." She also does not want to win dates by beng outright manipulative, instead knowing what to say and how to be a mildly decent person.
- Some of her comments in Nymphlopedia also imply that she really, really hates it when people boil down others to their "sexy qualities" and nothing else, evident by her rant in the Love Nymph chapter where she specifically tries to talk about things other than their sex appeal despite being "the" Nymph themed around romance, love, and lust, although Sonata ends up failing.
- Despite proudly citing "Rule #1" (Nymphs do not wear clothes. Period) every single chance she gets and being an unashamed, boastful "permanude" who refuses to even wear sunglasses^note, Sonata thinks that a certain sect of Nymphs who believe houses are a form of "clothing" and won't even enter houses as that would count as "wearing clothes" is too strict of a clothes-free lifestyle even for her. She's also okay with being under bedsheets or using towels to dry off, just not to the point of using either as a makeshift garment. Lastly, she has no problem touching people who are wearing clothes even on the clothes. Since she's just touching the clothing, no actively having it on/around her. She still respects the choices of people who don't do/touch these things though.
Her Codename Was Mary Sue: She was an author at some point in the past, based on Chapter 6 of Romancing, when Impetua is seen in a porn store checking out a novel she wrote. Based on the description Impetua reads out loud, at least one book is a total self-insert fic about "Zenia the Zenith Nymph," who has a harem of hundreds and goes about slaughtering everything, also dating a Dryad that is totally not Tania because actually inserting herself with a real-life celebrity would be creepy, so she makes up that there was another surviving Dryad that's "different." Her book is basically what the Zenith Nymph storyline turns in to, except with much less effort and Character Development on her part and more of mindless literary junk food.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sonata is arrogant, self-centered, dreams way too high about becoming a massive army leader with the most powerful sword in the universe, and is just generally not that pleasant to be around even after she stopped trying to eat the bodies of people who fell in the caves. Yet she's still heroic when pushed — she genuinely wants to stop monsters like Cthulhu's organs from ruling the world, her "I want to be a godly empress" claims fall apart the minute she actually talks to just one of her "subjects" and she stresses that she really just wants to be equals with them, and whenever put in danger or when seeing someone in need she always tries to help with no questions asked and no reward demanded from her.
The Lad-ette: She's not especially feminine and has no shame in that. On occasion the story will remind the reader that she isn't meant to just be purely sexy or purely badass, and she'll do something gross right out in public like picking her nose.
Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being older than the main Nymph Variant characters and the same age as Tania, she's somehow been unaware that Lindsey is an evil conqueror/crime lord until Lindsey straightup threatens to capture Vince and Iris to eat them on her own. It's implied that, unlike many Sun Island/Shores of Sparkling Nymphs the gang encounters, she had generally not been in any big civilizations and spent most of her life wandering around, so news came rarely to her.
Meaningful Name: Her surrname, finally revealed in the beginning of the rewrite of Romancing the Last Dryad, is Osfortis. It's essentially "strong bone" in Latin, referencing the Oreads' connection to skeletons and the general undead, and it references her power.
Ms. Fanservice: She has a weird relationship between this and having a lot of Fan Disservice. On one hand, she's permanently naked, flaunts herself a lot, is proud of her big ass, and she's trying to get other fanservice-y characters to go along with her simply because she's horny. On the other hand, she's a very messy Ladette who the story describes as doing things like picking her nose and she has her moments of being genuinely intimidating. Like all Nymphs, she can also deform herself in grotesque ways by having what's basically her "insides," a twisting mass of stone vines with eyeballs on them, pop out of her skin if she wants to. In fact, come Hardmode, she regularly does this to fly.
Named by the Adaptation: While the Terrarian is named whatever the player wants to name them and NPCs have a set list of names^note, no Nymph enemy is named at all in Terraria. This story wholesale makes up the name "Sonata," and later on in the continuity she is given the surname "Osfortis."
Primary-Color Champion: Downplayed. She doesn't wear red, yellow, or blue — she doesn't wear anything at all — and her associated colors are cyan and purple, but her first three Nymph allies are of those colors. She is also one of the main heroic leads.
Stylistic Suck: Her attempts at art of any sort. She's not that good of an artist aside from some of her sketches on how she wants her "Naked Empire" to look, with the 2021 Nymphlopedia portraying her as making just a crude and dumb wish fulfillment piece of herself. Her fiction is implied to not be that much better, with the one known book she authored being implied by its cover summary to be a thinly-veiled self-insert story of her getting everything the real Sonata wanted.

Tania the (Last) Dryad

The title Last Dryad of Romancing the Last Dryad. After barely surviving the attack from Cthulhu that wiped out the rest of her kind, she searches Terraria in hopes to find a warrior that can help her tackle the plagues of the world, all while trying to purify the Corrupt Mainland.

Adaptational Badass: While already a skilled fighter who canonically helped tear out Cthulhu's organs with the other Dryads in canon, in the Zenith Nymph story she's depicted as fighting as equals with the Terrarian at the least (in-game, she eventually becomes much, much less powerful than a Terrarian player character) if not being The Ace of the main three. Chapter 6 of Romancing heavily implies that the reason why there is only one "Eye of Cthulhu" (not counting respawns, which are not part of this story's canon) when the Moon Lord has at least seven eyes is because she single-handedly killed the other six. In Chapter 8, she fights it single-handedly and was winning until the Eye retreated due to sunrise, and that was while being weakened due to the Human Continent's polution. She is also one of the only characters who is not scared shitless of Lindsey and directly challenges her to a fight.
Adaptational Skimpiness: Zig-zagged. Inspired by this piece of fanart, Tania is always topless. Her bottom on the other hand could range from being skimpy or nothing at all, to a fairly modest large leaf or flower skirt that covers more of her than her in-game outfit from the waist down. In short, whether or not Tania falls under this prior to going around completely nude depends on if she's looked at from a topfree perspective. Her "starting outfit" in Romancing proper is something on the more modest side, but again, only for the waist and below. She is confirmed to wear less as the story goes on.
Ascended Extra: She goes from being an NPC, if one with lore, to fighting alongside the "Player" and Oread character as the main trio. She's considered more of an equal with the Terrarian than she is a "town resident" like all the other canon NPCs.
The Comically Serious: Easily the most serious of the main trio, but she still gets subjected to slapstick and other odd moments, especially in the joke comics.
Last of His Kind: Right there in the title of the main story, the Last Dryad. She's the only Dryad who survived Cthulhu's attack.
Nightmare Face: Nymphs in general can have their "internal vines" slither out of them and make their eyes disappear, but Tania has done this more often than any other Nymph seen on screen, and she usually does this when mad to give an eyeless expression with vines snaking out of her orfices. She also likes to give an Unsmile while doing it, unless she's really pissed.
Not So Above It All: She's presented as far more serious than Vince or Sonata, but often — even in the more serious works — she has her moments of being goofy and/or just plain horny.
- The entire plot of the "Quest for Clothes" trilogy is kicked off by her picking what may be the most inconvenient way to get clothing possible, after learning that the most obvious solution (Nigel the Clothier) isn't an option.
- In the original Nymphlopedia, Vince and Sonata are both Distracted by the Sexy when trying to write about Love Nymphs. Tania's entry starts out serious and factual, as hers usually are... but then she succumbs to it too.
The Spock: She is very analytical and often tries to put reason in to things, or at least her mystical nature-based sort of rules. Of the main trio, her comments are much more wordy and technical than Vince's or Sonata's.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Tania is always topless, only wearing at absolute most a knee-length skirt made of leaves. Chronologically, she ditches even that and generally wears less and less. For the Octobionicer Day 22 image, she expresses that she thinks the female nipple taboo is stupid and just wants to be treated the exact same way as a male shirtless Jungle warrior.

"Naked Empire," Nymph Army

As a Whole

Sonata's various Nymph followers and lovers that she eventually ends up befriending from around Terraria.

Cast Herd: They are split up in multiple ways. First is the island they hail from, with each island eventually having twenty-five recruits. Even within the islands, many of them are broken down in to sub-groups. Sun Island in particular has Sonata's first three tenants (Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla), then there's the Snow and Sand Gang which themselves are made of two groups of eight and one leader, and then there's the "others" dotted around that round them out. They are introduced one group at a time to keep things simple, and the small red/yellow/blue trio is up first, building to the larger Snow and Sand Gang.

Sun Island

The Naked Empire's Sun Island Recruits/"Saturated" Nymphs in General

Nymphs inhabiting Sun Island, AKA the Shores of Sparkling by the Humans, AKA Nude Beach Island according to Sonata's plans. The island is named by the Nymphs for its massive Solar Temple in the Jungle, which Lihzhards have used to draw connections to the sun. Sun Island is, for all intents and purposes, a "vanilla Terraria world," mostly consisting of Forest, having a Jungle, Dungeon, and bordered on the west and east by standard beaches/Oceans. If one were to go directly west to east from one end to another, they would only encounter vanilla biomes, which may not be able to be said for the other major islands. This is also where the gang lives; the place Vince settled down to begin his life as an Adventurer, and the island Sonata wandered over to. The Sun Island recruits are all of very saturated, vibrant versions of their hue.

Out of the Naked Empire's Nymph Variant fighters and Sonata's harem, these (eventual) twenty-five are the "main" ones.

Expy: Most of the Sun Island Nymphs are based on the deans(/formerly professors) of run:gifocalypse, except translated as Nymphs instead of .GIFfany copies, and none of them are related or knew each other to completely remove any selfcest/incest implications. Generally, they are "Nymph counterparts" of the deans of the same color, although Impetua and Expvira are two exceptions. With the exceptions of Arborea and Impetua, none of them are in nearly as high of positions of power as the deans were either:
- Impetua is Dove: Foul-mouthed, wants to rule over people who aren't her species with an iron fist, and has bounced back hard from some sort of Fantastic Racism conflict that includes hating Humans. She's over the top antagonistic but is ultimately reasonable, and is also a sworn pacifist despite being a massive jerkass. Like Dove, everybody else hates and/or fears Impetua. Fan directly says that Impetua is the "Dove" of the Nymphs.
- Igniss is Burnda's counterpart, as the fire-themed character who is lighthearted yet implied to have some issues they're atoning for. Like how Burnda wants to go through everything she can to cheer Burrda up after not forgiving herself for fighting her in the past, Igniss feels regret whenever she so much as makes fun of someone and can flip in to a serious mode when she feels she needs to.
- Fulgra, like Kathody, is a yellow-themed, electric member with a Large Ham, a bigger ego, and likes inflating her image. She even has the similar Verbal Tic of shouting her own compliments at a high volume, although much less often than Kathody does.
- Venatii is Natalie(/Wendy in the original version), the teal-colored wind-user that likes picking fights even if they are petty and stupid, has a strange code of honor, and most tellingly an obsession with King of the Hill to the point of treating it like her own personal Bible.
- Expvira is Burrda, as the quiet one with an association with death/spirits/ghosts that generally hangs out with somebody else as a "sidekick." Unlike Burnda and Burrda, Igniss and Expvira have no relation and did not even know each other until their respective groups meet in Chapter 5.
- Sahnah is Sonia, the azure/sound-themed member who is a bit quieter and more reserved than a bulk of the group, but is much more brutal than she appears underneath that.
- Aquafla is Searah, as the blue/water-themed "jock" who takes everything very seriously and wants to be as efficient and fancy as possible. She has an Odd Friendship with Fulgra, just as Searah and Kathody were foils to one-another (who got along much less than their Nymph counterparts).
- Veynnimi is Dian, the poison-themed pushover chemist. She has an added flair of being more powerful than her peers, something Dian did not really have compared to the other deans, but otherwise they're similar Extreme Doormat types.

(General) Impetua the Energy Forest Nymph (Fuchsia)

The "leader" of the entire Snow and Sand Gang, an infamous "Force" Nymph with a short temper. She really, really does not get along with the gang at first. She patrols Sun Island with the Terra Tank, which is described under the "bosses" section.

Arc Villain: She is the main villain of the Snow and Sand Arc, as the "leader" figure of both halves of the group, who had spent the arc at first harassing the heroes before turning around. Impetua by far is more aggressive than them and it takes more effort to get to her. She and her tank form the "boss" of that arc.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Chapter 6 of Romancing reveals that she became a military sergeant by beating up her would-be commander, and then making her surrender by siccing the Terra Tank on her. According to Impetua herself, this is completely legal among Sun Island, and it's implied that this is not too rare of an incident as the Nymphs (at least in Sun Island) are a Proud Warrior Race.
The Dreaded: Downplayed. She's a Nymph that specializes in bomb-related powers, war tactics, and has a Hair-Trigger Temper to boot, making her feared by most other Nymphs across Sun Island/the Shores of Sparkling. To hammer this in, Chapter 4 introduces a muscular mage guard Ice Nymph twice as tall as the average Human, and even she's outright scared of Impetua. Her own mothers are afraid of her as well. Impetua is genuinely good friends with Fridginy, Harsahne, and their friend groups, and will refuse to attack them even if they attack her, but they too are aware of how intimidating she is. In spite of that, she is only this for Sun Island, and not even the whole island. After her defeat, it is quickly made clear that she is just chump change in the grand scheme of the Nymph heiarchy, with there being larger figures in her own island such as the "Dancer." She is especially child's play compared to Lindsey, the true Dreaded Nymph in the world.
Establishing Character Moment: After two chapters of being referred to ominously, Impetua's first proper appearance has her ramming in to Vince and Sonata with her Terra Tank, while shouting "I FINALLY FOUND YOU LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO!" Showing that she's a hammy jerkass who is as powerful as she is mean. She then drops a big speech hinting at her reasons, and during the first fight with her, she refuses to attack her fellow Snow and Sand Gang members even as they attack her.
Everyone Has Standards: She is a hot-tempered asshole whose idea of "greeting" someone who is simply trying to live a new life on what seemed like a deserted island is to ram at them with a giant tank and threaten to beat them until they move out, but even she has some code of honor. She refuses to attack anyone she considers her friends, even if they attack her for the aformentioned tank-ramming. She is also a Technical Pacifist, as while she's fine with beating people black and blue, killing them outright is where she draws the line unless the person in question is an all-powerful eldritch horror trying to end the world. Her refusal to seriously hurt Arborea when she's tricked in to fighting her is what turns most of Sun Island against her, at least until she has her recovery, meaner than ever, and once again takes the lead by force.
The Friend Nobody Likes: At some point in her timeline, she became this to the Snow and Sand Group, and is this to the "Naked Empire's" Non-Nymph portion in general. Her attack on Vince and Sonata labelled her as an enemy to the rest of the Snow and Sand, and while they ended up forgiving her, they are still pissed off about the incident and do not just sweep it under the rug entirely. When seeking redemption, she bends over backwards to ask for it and offers supplies from her job to help make ammends, and even then they barely accept her back in. Sonata in particular has no problem attempting to kill Impetua if Impetua harms her friends again, and it takes days before she shows the slightest signs of warming up to her.
From Nobody to Nightmare: She was a lower-class, shy bully victim that eventually turned her life around, became a praised war hero, and then after her downfall turned in to a force that terrified every other Nymph on Sun Island. Even her own parents are scared shitless of her.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Impetua is infamous among Sun Island for being very short-tempered. Vince killing the Ultimate Hydra of Death and Destruction, despite it not being endangered and Nymphs (except Dryads) generally not caring about the well-being of creatures too much, is what seriously pisses her off. That action makes her ram Vince and Sonata with her Terra Tank, give them, the townies, and Sonata's tenants a week to move out of the island (originally she wanted them to move out immediately, but her own friends attacking her convinced her to give them a week of breathing room), and she challenges anyone who refuses to leave the island to a fight — which is everyone.
Having a Blast: She uses the energies found in her home biome to blow things up most of the time. Her Variant is even unofficially considered an "Explosion Nymph" or "Bomb Nymph" according to the 2021 Nymphlopedia.
Morality Pet: The Snow and Sand Gang are walking proof that Impetua isn't just a heartless asshole even in her first appearance. Even when they attack her, she refuses to raise a finger against them. This goes for both their first meeting and their proper battle. She was also genuinely nice and friendly to Arborea. Until Arborea was hired to work with the Deep Woods and betrayed Impetua. Not only does Impetua want absolutely nothing to do with her, Impetua outright says she's willing to break her pacifism streak and make Arborea her only kill. She mellows out on that somewhat in the present, but still hates her.
Orcus on His Throne: She would have fought Vince and Sonata the moment she literally ran in to them for considering them invading pests, but she decides after her own friends turn against her to delay the fight for seven days. She tries to explain this by saying that she's giving them time to reconsider being on the island and leaving nonviolently, although she is more than willing to fight them earlier than one week if the gang says the word or even just pushes her buttons about giving them more time too much.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: She cusses a lot, and is fond of dropping "fuck" in almost every sentence she says. Her very first line in Romancing is "I FINALLY FUCKING FOUND YOU LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO," dropping two f-bombs in one sentence.
Starter Villain: With Lindsey's attack in the beginning two-parter being more of a Final Boss Preview as Lindsey never even fights the group back then, Impetua is the actual first villain that the Naked Empire faces directly and ends up fighting. While she is much more intimidating than her immediate "subbordinates" Harsahne, Fridginy, or their friends, and her tank is a straight-up "boss battle," she's ultimately small potatoes compared to Lindsey, the Moon Lord, or the True King Slime. Even before the proper showdown with her, an extended chain of flashbacks throughout Chapter 6 already points to Arborea for the next villain Vince and Sonata will have to deal with.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was originally a meek, stuttering, friendless nerdy nobody who had to deal with bullies on a regular basis. Then, with inspiration from Arborea and encouragement from her moms, she decided to "flip the script" and become a badass. Then this ended up biting her in the ass when the Deep Woods outed the holes in her mentality, and made her look like a hypocrite for refusing to be merciless when her opponent was her own wife. That was when she doubled down and became especially nasty, turning in to the trigger-happy, border-guarding terror and asshole she is by the beginning of the story.
Wake-Up Call Boss: She, largely thanks to her Terra Tank, is the first real fight that Vince, Sonata and company have to deal with. She curb-stomps all sixteen of her former Snow and Sand friends without scratching them by avoiding everything they throw at her, paralyzes the "non-main" town residents, throws Trent to the ground and gives him a bad skin scrape, and fights pretty well against the combined forces of Vince, Sonata, Mollie, Iris, Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla. She gives the entire town a week of prep time, and as Chapter 7 reveals, they needed it.

Cebium the Savanna Nymph (Pink)

One of Harsahne's roommates in the "Sand Half" of the Snow and Sand Gang. A rather odd individual with a fixation on animal and meat-related things.

Verbal Tic: She stutters even more often than Impetua did in the past.

Diltica the Love Nymph (Blush)

One of Fridginy's roommates in the "Snow Half" of the Snow and Sand Gang.

Ms. Fanservice: She stands out even above the other named Nymphs. Her entire Variant is themed around seducing others and creating things like erotic soaps and oils, and she is no exception. She also writes erotica that is apparently very good and sells like hotcakes. She's the only Nymph outright said to probably have a bigger rack than the others, while Zenith Nymph's Adventures usually keeps exact body types ambiguous. While she's the closest of the Nymph Variants who "wears something" aside from Tania, said "outfit" is literally just a thin and see-through cloth that, if anything, just draws more attention to her naked body. She, intentionally and without even relying on any sort of supernatural ability, has a habit of teasing people until they're about to burst. She does this with Vince in her introduction chapter in Romancing the Last Dryad, her short story in Nymphlopeda also has her heavily teasing Vince and Sonata, and in the summary of her, all three writers admit that just thinking about her and her kind too much makes them want to... go run off. Including Tania. Impetua and Fridginy technically became friends because the former had the hots for Diltica; if Fridginy did not notice that Impetua was buying books by Diltica (her friend), their Crash-Into Hello may not have ended with them bonding as they did. With Zenith Nymph's Adventures being a series with a lot of fanservice in general, she's introduced early in both Nymphlopedia (she's the very third Variant covered) and Romancing the Last Dryad (the fourth chapter).
Pink Is Erotic: She and her entire sub-race of Nymphs are colored "blush," a color in-between what Terraria calls "pink" and red in terms of coloration, and they're the most sexual of the Variant types. Her whole hat is seduction and creating erotic products such as sensual bath oils.
Succubi and Incubi: Nymphlopedia says that her type is the closest not just out of the Nymphs, but of the races in Terraria in general (even when considering the actual Demons) that counts as a "succubus" or "incubus" in their verse. She is a downplayed example: She is not a rapist, does not need sex to survive, and does not feed on it either, but she does specialize in seduction as her main weapon, she's suggested to be even more "developed" than her immediate companions, and enjoys teasing other people. Vince is notably head over heels for her.

Pemtera the Canyon Nymph (Orange)

Another roommate of Fridginy's in the Snow Half. She is a very laid back earth user and, compared to the bulk of the Snow Gang, wants to try to lower conflict.

BFS: Her main weapon is a gigantic sword of hers that she effortlessly carries around.
Power Stereotype Flip: She's an earth-user and fights with a massive canyon-sword, but she's extremely laid back and out of focus, more akin to what would be seen with an air-user.

Fulgra the Volt Lake Nymph (Yellow)

Another one of Sonata's initial "tenants," an "Electric" Nymph that happily jumped at the call to go to Sonata's houses after reading about them via a flyer.

Large Ham: She's the hammiest of the Red/Yellow/Blue Trio, loving to shout some of the things she says and being full of life in general.
Shock and Awe: She's from the Volt Lakes, a biome known for everything — especially the water — being highly electric. It's downplayed in that her innate lightning powers are not perfected as of Book 1, but she has resistance to electric weapons and Sonata suggests using that to counter Harsahne's Storm Spear.

Arborea the Deep Woods Nymph (Green)

A Nymph who lives in the Deep Woods, an especially thick forest with its own "Underground Forest"(/Underground Deep Wood). She's a rival to the entire Snow and Sand Gang, and various allies of her in the Deep Woods antagonize other parts of Sun Island. She used to have a personal history with Impetua. After appearing in a flashback in Chapter 6, she appears in-person in Chapter 7 and becomes an antagonistic force from then on, serving as the main obstacle of the Deep Woods Arc.

Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: She's a major obstacle of the third arc, following right after Impetua. While Impetua was loud, hammy, and swore every other sentence, Arborea is much more subdued, proper, and doesn't curse nearly as often. Impetua had a melting pot of Nymphs from all sorts of "saturated" biomes who were from different spots of the island as her team, Arborea works mainly with other Nymphs of her own kind. Impetua hated the Naked Empire just for being on her island, Arborea is much more neutral towards them but wants to control what they're doing and kill steal the Eye of Cthulhu from them. While Impetua was a Technical Pacifist who was very willing to get violent, Arborea does believe in killing people but only if she sees it as a last resort. Impetua shows up midway through her arc and does not properly confront the gang at all until the climax, while Arborea debuts in the previous arc and is a constant recurring threat/"frienemy" throughout that arc.
Fantastic Racism: She really, really hates the Dryads, and in the pre-rewrite Nymphlopedia, she attacks Tania on sight even when seeing her peacefully being with Vince and Sonata. This happens after Vince, Sonata, and Arborea have already become friends by that point.
Friendly Enemy: Despite being the main antagonistic force of the Deep Woods Arc, she holds zero hatred to Vince or Sonata, and outright tries to use Loophole Abuses to help them out by the letter of the Deep Woods trials, believing that she thinks the trials could be used to tell if outsiders are fit but wants to correct their bias. Vince gets confused and outright asks if she's supposed to be good or evil.
Green Thumb: She has much better control over her related plant matter than most of the main Nymphs — rather than using a weapon like most of the others, she directly manipulates the matter around her limbs and forms things with them, causing giant spikes of wood to emerge from the ground or morphing wood to scythes. While she still has nothing on Tania's plant powers, she has the finest control over botanical matter in her own way, especially if it's her own native biome's type of wood.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Romancing the Last Dryad has a lot of gray morality, but she stands out among them. She's introduced as a heroic Bully Hunter in a flashback and framed as entirely sympathetic as she helps Impetua rise to power and they overthrow Elf colonies, but it was still hard to judge her overall since this was only what she was like in relation to other Nymphs and the Obviously Evil Elves. How she was towards Humans the whole time was unclear. She betrays her wife Impetua and helps the Grand Elder Wood gain power over Sun Island, but has well-meaning intentions and clearly did not want to do it. Complicating matters is that Impetua is far from a saint herself, yet at the same time this was Impetua's real Start of Darkness, at best she was Good Is Not Soft when she lead the anti-Elf revolution. Then she stands against the "Naked Empire" and wants to battle the Eye of Cthulhu for herself, and starts trying to assert control over Sun Island along with the rest of the Deep Woods. But she's reasonable to them, offers them any ways to lighten up her challenges if needed, and tries to make ammends for her betraying Impetua while still trying to justify it. Lampshaded when Vince flat-out asks if she's a good guy or a bad guy because she keeps giving him mixed signals. Arborea's response is roaring laughter, followed by saying that Nymphs deal with moral grayness so much that they've just been conditioned to avoid thinking in black and white.
A Minor Kidroduction: Unlike the other major Sun Island Nymphs, she's first introduced as a kid — pre-transitioning, going by Arben at the time — through a flashback. This is because that flashback is Impetua's story, while Arborea was still a complete mystery to the main trio. She continues to only appear in flashback until the end of Chapter 7, where she suddenly steals Sonata's Occularcall^note and announces that she'll have warriors from the Deep Wood go around killing Demon Eyes and snatching Lenses, preventing Sonata from just crafting another one.
Opposites Attract: She's proper, dignified, likes following her home culture to a T, and is very sociable to others. Impetua is a swear-happy, loud, explosive warrior that would rather just embrace her inner animal and is relatively introverted. The two of them were married for a long period of time.
Sinister Scythe: Her main weapon is the wood around her arms morphed in to arm-covering scythes, and the narrative even nicknames her a "reaper" at one point. While she isn't evil, she's still antagonistic even to the Starter Villain Nymph group, and would later antagonize the main gang by getting in the way of them summoning the Eye of Cthulhu and forcing them to do her traditional trials.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even back when she was about eleven years old, all Arborea wanted was to defend and protect others. Unfortunately, she gets suckered in to the Deep Woods form of "protection," which also involves pushing non-Deep Wooders to completely submit and comply to their rather shady system, and they are trying to bleed out the rest of the world economically if they refuse. Her devotion to this system is so extreme that it even turns her against her own wife. When she appears in the present a chapter later, it's revealed that she hasn't changed much at all — she thinks breaking and entry to Sonata's home and swiping her Suspicious Looking Eye is completely justified, to fulfill the Deep Woods' own agenda.

Venatii the Wind Valley Nymph (Teal)

A rather hot-tempered and impulsive member of the Sand Half. She antagonizes Sonata right away on meeting, and escalates a conflict Harsahne would rather be resolved peacefully. She is also a major fan of King of the Hill.

Blow You Away: She is associated with a windy biome and has a lot of air-themed moves at her disposal.
Jerkass: She's the biggest asshole of the Sand Half and competes with Fridginy in being the meanest of the Snow and Sand Gang, minus Impetua. She likes to pick fights with outsiders for petty reasons, nevermind that her overall "leader," Impetua, utterly hates it when anybody does that to anyone. She's the only one of the sixteen that even battles anybody outright — Sonata in this case, thanks to an argument that Harsahne was specifically trying to de-escalate.
Klingons Love Shakespeare: A fan of King of the Hill, a distinctly Human-product. It's downplayed in that she's just about the only one, it's about the only piece of Human culture she's particularly fond of, and the other characters find her borderline obsession with it rather annoying.

Expvira the Fogland/"Graveyard" Nymph (Aqua)

A quiet member of the Snow Half, Fridginy's unofficial "direct assistant" of sorts.

Foil: To Venatii. Both of them are greenish-blue Nymphs that act as the "right hands" to their respective Snow and Sand leaders, but while Expvira is quiet and wants to get rid of the conflict the Snow Half has with Vince and company, Venatii is loud, hammy, and wants to escalate the conflict the Sand Half has with Sonata and company.
Terse Talker: Expvira doesn't say much. When she talks, it's very direct.

Suultae the Spring Nymph (Cyan)

Another Snow Half member, hailing from a Hotspring biome.

Making a Splash: She's associated with mountain hot springs, and her weapon involves powers over boiling hot water. She can make superheated water/steam shoot from the ground like a geyser.

Fridginy the Snow Nymph (Azure)

The "leader" of the Snow half of the Snow and Sand Gang, and a best friend of Harsahne. She lives in the Snowfields. She's a paranoid Snow Nymph that initially antagonizes Vince, Iris, and Madeline as they cross through the Snow in an attempt to get to the east beach of the island.

Conspiracy Theorist: She is the Nymph equivalent of one. She immediately thinks that Vince, Madeline, and Iris simply trying to set up shelter in the Snow to survive a blizzard is actually them attempting to break in to the Cold Temple, despite being nowhere near strong enough to so much as get past the guard, let alone actually fight the Ice Golem lying within. In a flashback, she seems to believe in some sort of doomsday theory, although it is not clear if she still does, or if said theory has anything to do with Cthulhu. If the latter is true, then it's a case of The Cuckoolander Was Right, as the Moon Lord leaving his prison is a Foregone Conclusion given by Nymphlopedia and other side materials. Impetua's speech in Chapter 6's final flashback implies that she encourages this, saying that anybody who goes on the island should be considered a threat, or a "source" of something if they are determined not to be (Harsahne's philosophy).
Jerkass: Even compared to the antagonistic Snow and Sand Gang, she's rather rude and quick to be violent to anybody she slightly suspects as doing something wrong. Even Sonata thinks she's an ass, and has no problem punching her in the face for what she did to Vince and Iris (and Madeline, to a lesser extent).

Sahnah the Sound Nymph (Sky Blue)

A Nymph from the Sound Springs only allied to Veynnimi. Vince, Mollie, and Iris come across her while wandering the Deep Woods as the first of Arborea's challenges, separated from the rest of their party. Between her and Veynnimi, she acts as the "leader" between the two, at least making the decisions and being the one to directly explain things.

Musical Assassin: She can use musical instruments as part of her weapon, attacking with Magic Music. It's said to be Sound Spring tradition to learn multiple instruments, with the (passive) Rain Song being the most important of them.
Super-Scream: She can blast deafening sonic waves even without an instrument or other sound weapon, which she does to blast Vince and Mollie off of her when they start attacking her from distrust.

Aquafla the Lake Nymph (Blue)

The third and last of Sonata's initial "tenants," a "Water" Nymph that found Sonata's flyers and wanted to check out her living place.

Genius Bruiser: She is both a fighter and an engineer, strong and smart enough to figure out the Terra Tank's model and find the exact spot to jab so that it would short out.
Making a Splash: She's affiliated with water and the first "aquatic"-themed Nymph that the gang meets. She has some small-scale water powers.
Straight Man: Between her Red/Yellow/Blue Trio, and even when Sonata joins them. She's by far the most rational of the four and the calmest, in direct contrast to Fulgra's hamminess and even smoothening out both Igniss' wisecracks and Sonata's impulsive atoning hero syndrome.

Fluane the Deep River Nymph (Indigo)

Another Sand Half member.

Making a Splash: Her main weapon is a staff that can fire a heavy current of "river water" that can push her targets.
Odd Friendship: Her friendship with Harsahne is considered this, as according to the description given on Deserts at the end of Chapter 5 of Romancing, River Nymphs and Desert Nymphs getting along is rare. They're known to get in to fights more often than not.

Veynnimi the Swamp Nymph (Violet)

A stranger and apparent friend only to Sahnah that Vince, Mollie, and Iris first meet while going through Arborea's trials in the Deep Woods. Significantly more powerful than her best friend and the "muscle" between the two of them, she is also much more of a pushover.

Poisonous Person: While her home biome is the Swamp, she's mainly centered around poisons and uses a kind of poison gas as one of her primary weapons.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes flash red when she gets serious, which is unique to her^note. She is also among one of the most powerful Nymphs in the gang.
Super-Speed: She is capable of zipping around any given space and do so quietly enough that people don't even notice, almost acting as a sort of teleportation.

"The Dancer of the Jungle"

A mysterious person who is likely a Nymph, but none of the leads know for certain, that hides somewhere deep within the Underground Jungle. She contacts Sonata and Vince after their victory over Impetua's Terra Tank asking them to bring her Tania. According to her, Tania knows who she is. She has a goal of taking on Washed Island for unknown reasons. As of Chapter 8 she is unseen, only communicating through a pair of colored bunnies. May or may not be the "Dual Nymph" from the old Nymphlopedia; it is yet to be confirmed, and Nymphlopedia is questionably canon as it is planned to be rewritten.

The Ace: Before her proper debut, Great Pikmin Fan confirmed on his profile that she is one of the most powerful Nymphs in Sun Island, and could theoretically even take on Tania in a toe-to-toe fight.
Color Contrast: She is associated with both blue and yellow, those being the colors of the bunnies she communicates with.

Washed Island

The Naked Empire's Washed Island Recruits/"Dull" Nymphs in General

A mysterious island mentioned by various characters, starting from Harsahne in Chapter 5. Apparently, they have strong soldiers capable of helping the Snow and Sand Gang combat the forces of the Deep Woods and they have several people who are good with technology. As of Chapter 8 of Romancing, little is known about it other than what is gleamed from an attempted entrance by Vince, Sonata, and Impetua to get around having to deal with Arborea. They are fairly sealed off and put a bigger emphasis on technology than the Nymphs of Sun Island, having built giant metal structures and using cybernetics in their arsenal. Washed Island is planned to be explored further later in Book 1, and given proper focus starting from Book 2.

Washed Island is one of the islands with a majority of "dull"-colored Nymphs.

The Ace: They are implied to be among the best of the immediate Nature Islands. The Snow and Sand Gang go over to them for help, they are much more advanced technologically, and their security system is so good that even Impetua suggests quitting when trying to go in unprepared.
Ambiguously Evil: They are antagonistic, but for the first few arcs it is not clear by how much, compared to the previous antagonistic Nymphs or otherwise. They want at least one Human for some reason, and had specifically arranged some deal with the Sand Gang for Billy Bones in exchange for support against the Deep Woods. They have been shady about why. They hate the Deep Woods, and almost certainly hate the Elf Kingdom, but they are also fairly antagonistic towards at least outsider Humans and Oreads. They loathe the Dryads, but every Nymph faction does.
Contrasting Sequel Setting: As Book 2's "focus island," it is much more technological and futuristic, as opposed to the savage nature land-look of Book 1's Sun Island. It also has a much more centralized form of government, in contrast to Sun Island largely having individual little pockets of society that are split apart from each other (with the Deep Woods being the largest single organization there).
Evil Is Bigger: The ship that one of their higher-ups sends to taunt and attack Vince, Sonata, and Impetua is downright enormous compared to their sailboat at the time, and they are an antagonistic faction at first.
The Ghost: In the island's "debut chapter," 8, none of their resident Nymphs are actually seen. Vince, Sonata, and Impetua simply get scared off by a number of sea mines far away from the island proper, and a giant ship of theirs appears with a digital screen displaying a message to taunt them. Nobody manning that ship is even mentioned. Chapter 9 finally has some of their Nymphs appear, but their leader is still unseen (she mostly communicates to Tania through screens, and what was presumably their in-person meeting with a deal happens offpage).
Leet Lingo: One of their higher-ups Impetua is familiar with uses chat acronyms in her message. Her message directed as Vince, Impetua, and Sonata ends on a loop of "LMAO LMAO LMAO..." that goes on until at least they all teleport away. When trying to stop Tania from entering her main building, she has a screen display "LOL NOPE!"
Magic Versus Science: All Nymphs hold some magic, but the Nymphs of that island value technology far more. They use metals and "Hard Light" energy systems as opposed to wooden and elemental tools seen in Sun Island. The reason being is that their general home biome had "weaker" sources of natural magic, so they decided to instead put a bigger emphasis on building tools to help them out and even things out with the nature/magic-focused islands. Most of the islands not like them, on the other hand, had no need to dig in to technology beyond entertainment.
Red Is Violent: They are generally associated with red and gray as these are the colors most often seen in their technology, and are extremely hostile to outsiders. One of their first Nymphs seen is a Dull Red Nymph, who responds to Tania's arrival by instantly trying to blast her with lasers.
Sea Mine: Their island is absolutely surrounded by them. And their explosions are large enough to dwarf a raft with three people on it. They also have air mines, which Tania is able to easily dodge.

Faded Island

The Naked Empire's Faded Island Recruits/"Light" Nymphs in General

Only mentioned in Fan's profile as of Chapter 9, there are islands mostly with lightly-colored Nymphs that have a soft, mild fairy tale-esque feel to them distinct from the Hallow's presentation. One of them, given the working name of Faded Island, is planned to be explored in Book 3.

Light Is Not Good: It has been confirmed that "light" Nymphs are no more evil or better than the other Variants in general, and would still be unpleasant. It is implied that "dark" Nymphs are worse, but barely, and when compared to the Variants in general.

Overcast Island

The Naked Empire's Overcast Island Recruits/"Dark" Nymphs in General

Some Nymph Variants are darker in coloration, and at least one type of island for them is briefly mentioned and explored in a flashback in Chapter 6. Such an island is seen covered in shade and is confirmed in Fan's profile to be called Overcast Island (final name pending). It is planned to be explored further in Book 4.

Dark Is Evil: They are darker in coloration than at least the Sun Island Nymphs and Arborea calls them the Sun Island's "Sisters of Shadow" as a term of solidarity. One of their biomes is also called the "Dark Woods." They are stated to be especially vicious even by Nymph standards, at least when it comes to the definitely-evil Elves.
Impetua: If you see an island with a dark palette, be afraid! Nymphs of the shadow are bitches! In the good proud "we kick ass and don't get taken over by anybody" way!

"Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

Trent Palms the Guide

An old friend of Vince's who came to the Shores of Sparkling with him to start a new life, him being the brains to Vince's brawns and telling him about the inner workings of living as an Adventurer.

Childhood Friend: To Vince. The canon game does not suggest any sort of relationship between the Guide and the player, but in the Zenith Nymph continuity, Trent and Vince had known each other since childhood and decided to both make the journey to the Nature Islands together. According to Vince, Trent is the only person or thing from the Human Continent still alive that he likes. Vince still finds Trent a mysterious person and has been spooked out by him on occasion.
Doomed by Canon: Fan has no intention to change him getting killed to begin Hardmode. He also stated that he is not going to "respawn" or be replaced by another Guide, so his death will be more permanent than in the game proper.
Meaningful Name: His last name is "Palms," both referring to a type of tree that is common in Terraria (appearing in Oceans and Oasies) and it could refer to "hands," a nod to his mysterious connection to the Wall of Flesh.
Mr. Exposition: It is literally his job in-universe to provide help to others and guide them on their journey.
Nice Guy: As a small contrast to Vince, who has his moments of quick selfishness and snark, Trent is considerably more polite and reaches out to others.

Iris the Stylist

The first Human aside from the Guide Vince and Sonata encounters on the Shores of Sparkling, a hair stylist who gets trapped in a spider cave. After being saved, she moves in and becomes an ally of Vince's, as well as a shaky friend of Sonata's.

Jerkass to One: She's considerably meaner to Sonata than she is to anybody else, giving plenty of snide remarks about her and in one case in Chapter 7, shutting Sonata up when she was about to comment about her sexy lingerie. It's all-but said that the reason for this is because she hadn't fully forgiven Sonata's actions in the first chapter, especially how she had Vince in much more of a bind than before the two properly got together.

Edwin the Merchant

A seller of general goods and tools that moves in after Vince works up a bit of money from his disasterous first night. Sonata takes a liking to him and wants him to be the official merchant of the Naked Empire.

Second Episode Introduction: He's a secondary character as the go-to "merchant of the Naked Empire," and is introduced at the very end of the second chapter along with Madeline.
Too Dumb to Live: In the Octobionicer comics, he's seen encountering a Mimic that Greum tattooed with "VEGIN" (sic), and thinks it's a totally harmless vegan Mimic. Subverted in that he escapes alive and well and even somehow befriended the Mimic, as seen in the big finale.

Madeline the Nurse

A medic that moves to the Shores of Sparkling after hearing about an Adventurer, Vince, with enough life to turn up a profit if she heals. While an ally of the Naked Empire, she doesn't get along with them as well as most others. Vince in particular is openly not on good terms with her.

The Friend Nobody Likes: Of the women in the group, Vince and Sonata noteably butt heads with her more often than they do with anyone else. They generally dislike her snarky personality and find her healing services too expensive for their tastes, so they generally are only around her as a last resort. When she herself tells Vince and Iris to huddle up with her naked to survive the cold, Vince treats that as a bad thing, despite also liking Iris and not minding huddling with her.
Second Episode Introduction: She debuts at the very end of the second chapter, and would go on to become a semi-major character afterward.

Tordak the Demolitionist

A Dwarf with an affinity for explosions that shows up because Vince nabbed a bomb after his close encounter with Lindsey's Door Nymphs at the beginning of the story.

Mollie the Zoologist

A researcher of animals who was inflicted with a lycanthropy curse at a young age. In Romancing, she first appears in her transformed werefox state, then immediately turns back as she runs in to Sonata, getting her and her friends to rescue Mollie's brother. She is the first "NPC" that Sonata encounters without Vince around, not counting Sonata's red/yellow/blue tenant trio. She also ends up bonding a lot with Sonata and views her as a friend over Vince.

Adaptational Intelligence: Downplayed, but she's entirely aware of her curse and how it works compared to the original game, where she would wonder about her passing out and waking up.
Author Appeal: She ends up losing the fox curse much earlier than in the game (which takes until at least the Moon Lord is defeated, in the epilogue-credits; in Romancing the Last Dryad, it happens towards the end of the second arc, and a mere one chapter after her first appearance) mostly because Fan doesn't like part-animal/anthro characters in general. Also, Fan just felt sorry for her and her cursed state in general and wanted her to have a happy ending sooner.
Bait-and-Switch: Her introduction is her, transformed in the full moon, breaking in to the shack that Sonata and her group were resting in. (Which was actually the shack that Vince and his group built to survive the blizzard.) A fight between her and Sonata's quartet is set up, and it's implied that Mollie's werefox form is a good deal stronger than a "normal" Nymph... except the night ends right as Mollie dashes at them, and she turns back, harmless. She immediately trusts the four and asks them to help her out, and they do not actually fight.
Body Paint: Her "Halloween costume" in the final Octobionicer entry is just strips of paint to resemble Felicia's fur stripes. This is based on an actual cosplay of her.
Magic Pants: Averted. Her transformation apparently destroyed her clothes, but she doesn't mind.
Motor Mouth: She talks fast and a lot, especially under distress. It reaches the point where even Sonata, herself no slouch in the energy department, has trouble understanding her and asks her to slow down.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: Her transformation to a fox-like form destroys her clothes, but she doesn't care, and is never in a hurry to re-dress or even just dress herself. She's one of the first people Nigel converts to nudism in the Dryad & Nymph comics, and in Fan's Octobionicer finale, her "Halloween costume" is just strips of white paint to resemble Felicia, along with a wig and tail. Even through the week going over the preparation for fighting Impetua in Romancing, she is never once seen actually wearing clothes.

Billy Bones the Golfer

Mollie's older brother and a golfer that got stranded out in the Desert, dragged underground by the Sand Nymphs. Mollie recruits Sonata, Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla to rescue him.

Badass in Distress: Like all of the town residents, he can still fight, but he's captive by a team of eight Nymphs and surrounded by Desert monsters that all overpower him.

Hiram the Dye Trader

A specialist in color and dyes that comes to the Shores of Sparkling on news that it has all sorts of rare dye ingredients, especially noting Vince's plucking of a Yellow Marigold as he approaches the East Beach. Despite being relatively chaste compared to the Nymph culture all around him, he winds up being a friend with benefits to Iris, who takes an immediate liking to him.

Please Put Some Clothes On: Downplayed. Unlike most of the other town residents, he's distressed with nudity, but he can tolerate it. He enters an Odd Friendship with Iris, who by that point just decides to go full-on nudist (aside from wearing clothes to protect herself from the cold). By Chaper 6, he's outright having casual sex with Iris, showing that he really doesn't mind being around her, although he's embarrassed at the thought of their relationship going public.

Stefano the Painter

An artist that arrives right as the gang is planning their fight with Impetua. He has a fondness for Nymphs and almost immediately becomes friends with Sonata.

Ascended Extra: He's one of the least-useful NPCs in the original game, and in Romancing his role is pretty minor, yet in the comics he tends to have a bigger role as either half or all of a "pervert team" with Darnell, owing to his blatant crush on both Tania and Sonata.

Lexus the Party Girl

An Adventurer that wanted to escape the dull life of the Human Capital and try to take the Nature Islands in an upbeat manner. She first arrives while the main party are in the Deep Woods, making a special entrance by jumping out of a cake naked and throwing a large celebration.

Adaptational Gender Identity: She is a transwoman in Zenith Nymph, while the vanilla game never implies anything of her gender identity beyond a patched bug where she is teleported by a King Statue or her lack of change in behavior from the Blood Moon (the latter can be chalked to any number of other things).
Birds of a Feather: Of the main trio, she surprisingly has the most in common with Vince by far, and the two hit it off pretty well and become fast friends. Vince has nowhere near Lexus' upbeat attitude, but both of them consider the idea of conversing with Nymphs to be something fun and a good escape from their old lives in the Capital, and they both try taking a wide-eyed approach to some of the more dangerous settings. She is the first of the NPCs to be confirmed to be interested in coming over to Sun Island specifically for the Nymphs, and had studied some of their culture and even learned their hair-item storage ability.
Nightmare Fetishist: Thinking that the Nature Islands are better than the Human Capital doesn't really make a person this, as the Human Capital is a Crapsack World and the Nature Islands are at least safe enough if you stay in the Forests. But Lexus finds going to the highly dangerous Deep Woods more fun than simply being in the Forest town, all because of some arguments that were happening in the town at the time. She never shows any fear towards anything in the Deep Woods during her introduction chapter, instead casually chatting things up with the Nymphs that the main group had just barely met. She also has a very casual reaction to recapping that Arborea would threaten her with a slash across the chest if she did anything that would directly help the party complete her trials; Arborea threatened Trent with this too, but this happened offpage, so Trent's reaction was not shown.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: In her debut chapter in Romancing, the most she ever wears is a trio of cake frosting patches, which disappear after that introduction. This was entirely her idea and she has zero shame over it.

Nigel the Old Man/Clothier

A man cursed by the Dungeon's wrath to stand guard of it, transforming in to his "master," Skeletron, when challenged.

Chekhov's Gunman: In the Dryad & Nymph comics, he initially seems like a one-off gag in the first one, then he returns in the background converting everyone to nudism in the second, and the plot of the third is kicked off because his conversion to nudism A: made him retire from the clothing business, so he no longer makes or sells clothes, and B: almost everyone else runs around naked, so there are less options to borrow clothes from, which is what "forces" Tania to go all the way to the Underground Jungle to get her outfit in the first place.

Lindsey's Gang

Lindsey

An extremely powerful, ancient Oread who rules her own massive city deep beneath a distant, desert island with an iron first. A raider and pillager, Nymphs and to a lesser extent Non-Nymphs are afraid of her, including the Dryads.

Big Bad: She's the overall villain of Romancing the Last Dryad. Stopping her will be one of, if not the, major endgoals of the entire gang.
Domestic Abuse: She's said to treat her entire harem terribly. From what is seen as of Chapter 8, they are all blindly worshipping her out of fear of any retaliation, and it's pretty obvious she doesn't even value their lives or wellbeing.
The Dreaded: The top of the Nymph foodchain in the entire planet. Everybody else, even other Dreaded characters like Impetua, are afraid of Lindsey, as she is a conqueror who had raided and pillaged Nymph villages for centuries and currently lives in a gigantic metropolis fortress. Nymphlopedia is the only time as of January 2023 where she is seen in action, and she is shown to be capable of curb-stomping a Dryad army during their prime, even when armed with giant plant mechs.
Evil Counterpart: Great Pikmin Fan has said that she's meant to be one to Sonata. Both are Oreads who want to be a part of their own cities/civilizations, take pride in their nudity, want a harem, and are melee fighters with an affinity for swords in particular. But whereas Sonata is at worst a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, warms up, treats her "Nymph harem" as a group of friends that she cares for deeply, and has a decent amount of standards keeping her out of total villainy; Lindsey is an evil, abusive tyrant who murders and takes over without sympathy, and she treats her "Nymph harem" as a band of slaves.
Full-Frontal Assault: Played with. She's an Oread and is normally naked like the rest of them, which does not take away her intimidation at all, but she has been known to wear clothes relatively more often than other Oreads. One case is the end of Nymphlopedia, where she is described as wearing boots, something the other Dryads find uncanny.
Last Episode, New Character: In the original Nymphlopedia. While talked about, she is not seen in the story until the Dryad chapter, where she starts an attack on the Jungle and implicitly manages to kill several Dryads.
Orcus on His Throne: She could have just chased after Vince and Sonata herself and destroy their entire village. She just doesn't think they're big enough threats to do so, so she just sics her Door Nymphs on them if they want to, and once they escape, she lets them go without much protest. After that, Lindsey spends a good portion of the fanfic just walled up in her cave-metropolis, while Vince and Sonata get in to conflicts with other Nymphs mostly.
Second Episode Introduction: In Romancing, she is introduced in the second chapter along with her harem and her general city. The first two chapters are halves of a two-parter, with Chapter 2 being part of the same arc and continuing directly after Chapter 1, except more focussed on Lindsey than Sonata/saving Iris.
Tom the Dark Lord: Head crimelord of the Nymph world and a powerful leader of a massive army. Ten thousand years old and not the sort of person anyone would want to piss off. Her name, "Lindsey," is very mundane-sounding and does not convey any of this. Chapter 5 lampshades this by saying that, apparently in Terraria, the name "Lindsey" actually has Nymph origins and came from her, and after her attrocities became more and more known to the public, it became a much less popular name.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Compared to most of the general Zenith Nymph content, especially the meme-y MS Paint comics, she's far more serious and threatening. She is even deliberately kept out of the meme content to help keep this image up — her only appearanace outside of Romancing is the final chapter of Nymphlopedia, and while Nymphlopedia is overall more lighthearted than Romancing, the chapter she is in is considerably darker and more serious than the rest of it.

Key Holders/"Door Nymphs"

A decet, at least, of Oreads that act as Lindsey's personal gatekeepers and servants. Lindsey sics them on people she doesn't feel like fighting personally.

The Dragon: The one with the lime hair is the one Lindsey places slightly above the others, she has a slight amount of commanding power over the rest, and in terms of blindly worshipping Lindsey she's the most lucid. In the second chapter, she's the last one standing after the rest are knocked off of the mine cart tracks, puts up the hardest fight, and manages to destroy Sonata's first Copper Shortsword.

Dave

Sophia's younger brother. A mechanical prodigy just like her, but far less stable and working for Lindsey for unknown reasons.

Mirror Boss: He is confirmed to become this, he has his own army of Nymphs somehow, and they'll clash with Sonata's army.
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: He's a goofy weirdo always getting abused, whereas his leader is one of the most serious villains in the series.
You Talk Too Much!: He gets this from Sonata in Nymphlopedia. According to her, the reason why she doesn't know anything about him isn't because he keeps his life a secret, but the opposite — she cannot ask him anything without him telling her his entire life story, which she has no interest in hearing in its full.

Cthulhu, His Organs, and the Lunatic Cult

The Moon Lord/Cthulhu

An extradimensional horror that seeks to take over Terraria. He was beaten in battle twice before, the first being a temporary seal that absolutely would break on its own in due time. After breaking out of that, he gave the Dryads a much tougher fight that wiped out all of them but Tania, yet his organs were ripped out and he was placed under a far stronger seal banishing him to the dark side of the Moon. It would take an active ritual to bring him back from the latter, which is the goal of the Lunatic Cult.

Adaptational Badass: He was already the most powerful enemy in the original game, but the fanfic verse also makes him out to be a clever manipulator who seduced the Oreads in to letting him in the world. His organs go from being capable of being taken down by single early players to needing much more of a fight; his Eye is not Romancing's Warmup Boss (the Terra Tank is fought prior, and even that's more of a Wake-Up Call Boss), and the whole might of a Nymph army is needed to take it on.

The Eye of Cthulhu

Cthulhu had seven eyes: Five on his face, and one on each palm. After being ripped out by the Dryads, all seven of them survived and dwelled around the world. Tania hunted them down one by one, and by the start of the story, she is persuiting the last of the Eyes. It wanders about the world, looking to slay any potential warriors strong enough before Tania kills it. That is, unless someone else can beat her to the punch...

The Eye of Cthulhu makes its proper debut in Chapter 8 of Romancing, but has appeared in shitpost comics prior as cameos.

Other Canon Bosses

Empress of Light

Large Ham: The Weekly Dryad Memes show her being like this, as her "comments" are in all caps, and she speaks with a generally over-dramatic speech style. The whole joke about her is that she completely subverts how one might think she acts.

True King's Court

In General

The main villains of the True King Slime Attack! side-story. Short bios of each of them had been posted throughout October 2021 as part of an art challenge.

True King Slime

The actual, significantly more powerful leader of the Slime race.

Terra Tank X AI

The "final" form of the Terra Tank weapon, and its strange-looking AI that works under True King Slime. It guards the Red Barrier in an Underground Mushroom Field.

Fountaya

A being with time/age powers called a Chronic. She likes to scam people by claiming to be a legitimate fountain of youth, only to curse them and age them to dust. She could grant people eternal youth, she just doesn't want to. She guards the Pink Barrier in a Desert.

Fan Disservice: Her true form is a naked woman. But she looks like a dried out husk with pinprick lights in empty eyeholes, and she also has arms sprouting all over from her.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: She's part of the side story's Quirky Miniboss Squad and has several long and lanky arms, most noteably two of them growing directly out of her back.

Hom Trio (Homette, Homman, Homretta)

A triad of spring toys based on a Simpsons-esque Franchise Within the Story brought to life and made to serve True King Slime. They are easily the weirdest of True King Slime's minions. They guard the Yellow Barrier in a Snowfield.

Fallacy

An Illusionist (that's the name of her race) that disguises as others and likes tricking others with, well, illusions. She can also shape-shift. She guards the Purple Barrier in a tower out in the Ocean.

Sawflame

The last Flare who had not moved on to another world, a race of fire and metal beings that had been considered "anti-Dryads." He felt guilty of sticking to Terraria instead of joining his bretherin by moving to unknown worlds, and True King Slime used that guilt to recruit him. He guards the Orange Barrier in the Sky.

Pants

A bizarre eldritch being that vaguely resembles a pair of pants, just partly organic and partly made of some magic horror, and with his "insides" being gateways to other nightmarish dimensions. Few if any know of his real story, and he doesn't share much about himself with any of the other Barrier Guardians, although he is rumored to talk to True King Slime. He guards the Lime Barrier in the Underworld.

Bathos: Part of his "gimick" is that he's a walking pair of pants and yet he is also one of the most threatening villains in the Zenith Nymph series, played pretty seriously compared to the others.
The Dragon: He is True King Slime's personal right-hand man and confirmed to be the final Barrier Guardian the Naked Empire actually fights.
One-Hit Kill: What makes him so dangerous and feared by all others is that he can canonically one-shot his enemies.
Portal Cut: This is one method he uses of killing people with his "put on" attack — put them halfway through his portal inside to another dimension, then change the destination, which also slices the person partway inside.
Shout-Out: The "top view" of him shows the pink face from the Fly of Despair as well as Delirium, and part of his "fabric" on his bio sheet resembles Uboa.

Other "Bosses"

Ultimate Hydra of Death and Destruction

What looks like a species of massive, fearsome, seven-headed dragon beings, but is actually little more than an annoying pest. One of them attacks the gang unprovoked early in their adventure, and meets its end quickly after.

Anti-Climax: It comes out of nowhere and seems like a terrifying beast... but the main characters, who know enough about them to know that they're harmless, don't really care. Vince kills it an instant later.
Paper Tiger: It's a huge, seven-headed, flying beast, with each head appearing to have a different elemental affinity. It's actually very weak and near-harmless, as its only main "attack" is to breathe warm air at people. Vince is barely phased, Sonata doesn't even feel anything at all because Nymphs are built for extreme temperatures, and the former threeshots it with the weakest bow and arrow in the original game.
Small Role, Big Impact: It only shows up just to breathe warm air at Vince and Sonata and get killed by them a second later, but this death is what puts them on Impetua's radar, setting up the climax of the first arc and moving things along with the Nymphs faster than they would have been otherwise.
Zero-Effort Boss: Invoked, the "fight" against it is supposed to be a loose novelization of a hypothetical modded "joke boss." Vince just shoots three Wooden Arrows at it and it dies.

Terra Tank

A tank made out of wood and other various energy-plant parts taken from the Energy Forests, and Impetua's trump card weapon. According to the Octobionicer entries, it will end up being fought, destroyed, rebuilt, and taken over by many other factions multiple times. Its "final" incarnation has an AI that functions as its own character, as described under True King Slime's folder.

Tank Goodness: It's a giant wooden tank made from materials of the Force Forests capable of unleashing powerful energy blasts. The Terra Tank is also extremely fast — in the time it took for Sonata to try to scare Impetua from within it, the tank already moved from the Forest to the border of the Desert, which is a pretty big gap given that the fanfic "scales up" the size of the world so that biomes are much larger.
Warmup Boss: It is the first actual boss fight that Vince and Sonata fight in their stay on Sun Island/The Shores of Sparkling, after Lindsey just sicced her mooks on them and the Hydra turned out to be a joke fight.

Other

Nillea

A Wood Elf that Vince and Mollie run across during Arborea's Deep Wood trials, being attacked by one of the local killer flora. She is greatly attracted to Vince, but antagonizes him and everyone he likes ruthlessly, so he does not like her at all.

Establishing Character Moment: She's introduced almost getting eaten by a giant flower. When Vince and Mollie save her, she responds by punching Vince (which barely hurts him), getting mad at him, claiming that he stole her kill when she was obviously in danger, and then both telling him and his friends off and giving unsubtle hints that she wants to marry him and live with a lot of children. This basically tells everything that needs to be known about her.
Fantastic Racism: She thinks Nymphs are disgusting, naked beings and loathes them. Being a Wood Elf, this is a mutual feeling and other races hate her. Vince is hesitant to save her life before knowing anything about her just because she's an Elf.
Hate Sink: While the butt of jokes, Nillea is meant to be a massive unlikeable asshole and a short-hand representing everything Romancing the Last Dryad is not supposed to be as a "monster girl harem" story.
Jerkass: In just her first appearance alone she's an ass to everyone else around her, despite half the people in that scene having just saved her life.
Take That!: At the romanticized abusive tsundere archetype common in harem works. Rather than being portrayed as endeering and her attacking the male lead being seen as harmless slapstick, everyone sees her as a total asshole and even finds her "soft moments" (really just fantasizing about being Vince's Baby Factory) to be creepy. Vince wants nothing to do with her.
Ungrateful Bastard: Vince and Mollie save her life from a giant flower obviously in the middle of killing her. She claims that they were kill stealers and that she was handling it on her own, and gets mad at them.

Cold Temple Guard

A huge, muscular spellcaster Snow Nymph assigned to guard the Cold Temple in the Shores of Sparkling's Snowfield. Vince, Iris, and Madeline briefly run in to her while escaping from Fridginy's ice prison.

Gentle Giant: Downplayed. She's twice the size of a Human being and much beefier than any of the characters who were around her in her debut chapter, but she's much nicer and more reasonable than the paranoid Fridginy or the short-tempered Impetua. The downplay comes from how she is still guarding an important Nymph structure and will not go easy on anybody who tries to break in; it's just that Vince, Iris, and Madeline had no intention of breaking in.

Randy/"King Flinx"

A larger, more humanoid version of the Snow Flinx enemies. His debut is through the eleventh Octobionicer comic, and he appears in a few of the comics after. In Romancing the Last Dryad proper, he appears in Chapter 4 as a "friend" of Fridginy's, that is quickly shoed away when he tries to attack Vince and his friends, but Fridginy explains that they are no longer enemies. He tries to antagonize the Naked Empire, but is too weak to do much of anything.

Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Parodied. Despite being very humanoid at least from the neck down, he still wears clothes like a stereotypical cartoon animal would, putting on shirts but not wearing pants.
Harmless Villain: Nobody takes him seriously, between his sensitivity to knockback, goofy appearance, and generally sucking at everything he tries.
King Mook: Parodied. He's supposed to be a stronger version of the Snow Flinx enemies, and everything about them is "amplified" with him... including their habit of getting blown large distances. Their "knockback sensitivity" is so amplified with him that a single punch could send him flying across entire islands. This makes him less threatening than the standard Snow Flinxes.
Non-Standard Character Design: Great Pikmin Fan rarely actually copy-pastes when making Terraria shitpost comics. King Flinx is an exception, with most of his physical appearances just re-using the image of him from his debut comic, maybe with a shirt.
Saved by Canon: Unless Romancing diverges from the "ending" implied by the Octobionicer comics, he ends up outliving the Moon Lord and True King Slime at least, and at some point has a Heel-Face Turn and becomes a genuine friend to the heroes.

The Former Elf King

Some decades ago, the then-current King of the Forest Elves wanted to outright colonize and take over the Nature Islands, also having the Nymphs that live on them be clothing-wearing servants of his. The Nymphs rejected this, putting it mildly.

An Arm and a Leg: Unlike his militant official, he thinks Impetua is bluffing when she threatens to cut off his legs. After refusing to back down anyway, she chops them off and he is seen in his next scene using crutches to keep himself up.
Butt-Monkey: It's clear that he's no match for even generic Nymph mooks, let alone powerful warriors and warlords like Arborea and Impetua respectively. Almost every scene he's in has him suffer some kind of abuse, and it's played for laughs, even his leg-losing and death.
Hate Sink: While there is some Gray-and-Grey Morality between Impetua and Arborea as to which one's methods of protecting the Nature Islands and the people within are "better" (both are horribly flawed and extreme, but they still both have a point), the Elf King in the time of Arborea and Impetua is nothing but a greedy asshole with no redeeming qualities willing to throw his own teenage citizens in to a war for the sole sake of taking over islands that did nothing to him. He's basically there to show just what kind of things the Nymphs have to deal with, and why their extreme methods exist in the first place.
Off with His Head!: His final appearance in Chapter 6 is him getting his head sliced off by Arborea after trying to take over the Nature Islands again, this time with Child Soldiers. The story cuts to Mollie having taken off the head of a training dummy to represent this.
Posthumous Character: As revealed in the second-to-last flashback of Chapter 6, he's already dead by the present. Arborea slices his head off with her thickwood scythes.

Nymph Races

Nymphs in General

"Nature entities" and, apparently, the first non-deity race in all of Terraria. While Oreads make up the majority and Dryads used to be the majority along with them, opposite sides of the same coin in terms of ties with the dark and light, undead and life (respectively in both cases), there are hundreds of Nymph types "in-between" that each have a biome to them. Nymphs of all types are generally bizarre monsters with a hatred of clothes.

Amazing Technicolor Population: Nymphs of almost all kinds are very colorful in their true forms and have some sort of color theme to them. The "basic Nymphs"/Oreads are usually green-skinned with some reddish brown patches that resemble blood, but they can at least also have yellowish skin or blue skin (the latter is implied to be rarer). The Nymph Variants are more uniform, being colored after whatever Variant they are and matching their hair and eyes: Fire Nymphs being all red, Lightning Nymphs being all yellow, and so on. What color Tania or any Dryad's skin "really" is is not revealed as of January 2023, as nobody has mentioned it and Tania has always been seen in her disguised Human skin tone form, even when sufficiently pissed off.
And I Must Scream: This is the fate of any Nymph that petrifies in an Infectuous Biome. Until an outside party either purifies the area, moves them out of it, or touches them with enough "natural" things, they're stuck as "statues" of their respective "material" and yet they are fully conscious and aware of what is going on around them. Sonata confirms this in Chapter 4 of Romancing; her utilizing her purification powers in the nick of time helps prevents her and her fire/lightning/water trio friends from being stuck in the Corruption indefinitely.
The Beastmaster: Nymphs in general are capable of communing/"suggesting" with animals, and are good at taming them to do what they want. Sonata is at least capable of having Cave Bats carry her flyers around, but her "two in three success rate" implies that they are not too good with that. The Nymphs of the Sand Gang are also able to command Antlions, enough so that they could transport six people clear across the island.
Bizarre Alien Biology: All Nymphs do not have "internal organs" per say, but a series of vines of sorts that they can make come out of their orfices/through "tears" in the skin at will. Their "vine accessories" are also both actual clothing garments yet so controlled by them that they act as if they are a part of their bodies — when Tania is pissed off, her flower transforms in to a venus fly trap and extends from a vine connected to her hair, yet she is capable of removing the flower entirely if she wants. In Octobionicer and Nymphlopedia, she eventually removes the flower late in the general timeline.
Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Nymphs not only have meaningless biological sexes (Homosexual Reproduction is possible along with hetero), but they are also capable of reproducing asexually, through planting seeds. The latter means that Tania is not doomed to be the last-ever Dryad and could start her own descendants. However, she was cursed so that Cthulhu needs to be killed before she can begin planting her own seeds.
Creepy Good: Nymphs in general are shapeshifting beings that can basically be described as clusters of vines and eyes inside of a humanoid skin, and while by default they appear as Cute Monster Girls that at worst have unnatural body colors, they can very easily drop this act and make themselves look horrifying if they want to. Yet Sonata and her company are on the side of good, no matter how intimidating they get. This also applies to Tania, who even intimidates other Nymphs, and is more prone to explosive bouts of anger or making herself look creepy than a bulk of them are.
Exposed to the Elements: It's explained that Nymphs of all kinds can withstand very warm and very cold temperatures — it's only extremes like lava or direct burning/freezing magic that actually deal harm to them, which explains how neither the Dryad NPC nor the Nymph enemy seem to mind being in hot/cold environments despite being naked, but they can still be harmed by lava, Frostburn, and the like, explaining why Nymphs in-game and the Dryad still take damage from lava/magma and fire/ice-based debuffs.
Eyeless Face: Any type of Nymph can retract their eyes in to their sockets, and they have more than two eyes which they can switch around at will. If a Nymph with empty eye sockets is seen, it means they're either mad, trying to intimidate, or both.
Full-Frontal Assault: Their entire race is naked by default, and they are dangerous badasses people generally don't want to piss off. This is why their motto as a whole is "Rule #1: Nymphs do not wear clothes, period." Even the Dryads, the badass nature warriors who are "modest" compared to them, are still topless by default.
Human Outside, Alien Inside: Aside from some weird colors (and even those can be changed via light shapeshifting) and possibly pointy ears, Nymphs of all Variants discussed as of January 2023 look completely human on the outside. Even their true forms are confirmed to just be them with odd colors^note. On the inside, however, they have bizarre vine-like organs with eyeballs (green and vinelike for Dryads, gray and stonelike for Oreads), and they can take these in and out of themselves at will, mostly to intimidate people who piss them off. They are also capable of having their eyes retract in to their sockets.
Non-Heteronormative Society: It has not been confirmed how Non-Nymph societies handle sexuality, but all known Nymphs have extremely open views on gender and oreintation. Nymphs invented Gender Change Potions as means of people to semi-easily^note change their bodies to the way they want with no consequences. Nymphs are bi by default and their overwhelming female:male ratio means that same-sex couples are extremely common, even leaving out their polyamory. Nobody bats an eye at transwoman Arborea becoming a high-positioned member of the Deep Woods' government, either.
Not Quite Flight: In addition to the standard wings from in-game, it is revealed that the enhancements brought on to the world from entering "Hardmode" also granted every single Nymph the ability to fly "naturally" (IE without any wing accessories) by making wings out of their weird vine organs.
Polyamory: Nymphs are said to be polyamorous by default and can take up many partners, romantically and especially sexually. The only deep Nymph romances seen as of January 2023 are monogamous, Sonata's one-sided crush on Tania and Arborea and Impetua's relationship, but having more than one partner in general is seen as the norm. It is heavily implied that Ingiss, Fulgra, and Aquafla were already a threeway and simply added Sonata (and later Vince and the others) to them, and that the Snow and Sand Gang regularly screw each other.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: The Nymphs are an entire race of these, knowing about Humanity's general nudity taboo and not only not giving a damn, but being actively against it. There's a good reason why "Rule #1" (and the only "definitive" rule among the Nymphs) is that they do not wear clothes. Period. Most of the Variants have elemental/biomass-based things around their arms and legs that they can use to aide their powers, but that's it, and Oreads lack even that. The Dryads are the closest Variant to being a Token Wholesome, as they "wear clothes," but they are very skimpily-dressed compared to Humans, Goblins, Dwarves, and so on. Even then, it's implied that they only really wear "clothes" as a symbol of rebellion against the other Nymph types. The closer Tania is to Sonata and the other Nymphs, the less she wears by default. Fan confirmed that Sonata in particular will never put on a single stitch throughout the entirety of Romancing the Last Dryad at least, meaning that she never develops any sense of modesty nor does she ever have to disguise or go in any situation that would require her to put anything on.
Taken for Granite: This is what happens to Nymphs of any type that are left in an Infectuous Biome for too long without "proper training" or magic to counteract with it, although the process can easily be reversed through purification or just taking them out. Oreads turn in to just stone, Dryads in to wood/a tree similar to what the Dryad does in the game's credits, and the Variants turn in to this color-coded muddy stuff that's like a blend of a statue form and a tree form. In Chapter 4 of Romancing, this happens to Igniss, Fulgra, and Aquafla, and almost happens to Sonata until she manages to send a purification burst that frees all four of them.

Oreads

The type that was just "Nymphs" in the canon game. One of the two "special" types of Nymphs, the other being the Dryads, they have a connection to the undead. They and the Dryads were the two Variants with the highest populations, but after the fall of the Dryads, the Oreads had become the one with the highest population by far. They are also in some ways considered the "generic" Nymph, being that they have no strong ties to any biome (except "generic" caves and the Underworld, neither of which is considered its "own biome" in the way places like the Desert, Snowfield, Skylands and the like are) and their powers are more plain and tied to biome purification than the elements, indirect Zombie-commanding aside. Lastly, they hate clothing even more than the other Variants; unlike any of them, seeing an Oread so much as decorate their limbs with an elemental/natural material is rare, and seeing them outright have an accessory, let alone being fully dressed, is unspeakably rare.

While Oreads are all around the world and often live with biome-Nymph Variants, the most noteworthy Oread-majority cultures are the Underworld capitals, and Lindsey's metropolis. These two factions are not even close to being on friendly terms with one-another, putting it lightly.

Necromancer: Their special ability is a connection with the undead, even moreso than Variants like Fogland Nymphs which are somewhat associated with the undead themselves. Their magic out-balancing the Dryad's is the fanfic's explanation for all the Zombies and Skeletons roaming about in the canon game. According to Sonata, "Necromancer" and "Nymph" are practically synonyms — the enemy in-game named Necromancer in fact originated from Oread magic, so most animate undead could really just be traced back to Oreads.

Dryads

A near-extinct Variant and one of the two "special" ones along with Oreads. They were the self-proclaimed guardians of nature and defenders of the planet. Some time in the distant past, they had a falling out with the Oreads and the other Nymph types in-between them, and created a barrier keeping them underground. Centuries later, all but one of them were killed by Cthulhu breaking free from his temporary lunar prison, and the Nymphs became free to roam the surface again for the current hundred years. The Last Dryad is both trying to purify the world of all the hostile Evil Biomes and eliminate the last of Cthulhu's remains.

This folder details the Dryad race in general, mainly historically; tropes covering the last surviving Dryad are under Tania's folder.

The Dreaded: Dryads as a whole scare Nymphs, with Tania being a heroic example. Fridginy's gang implies when having Vince, Iris, and Madeline over that they don't like talking about or thinking about the Dryads for very long, and want the subject changed when it comes up. Fulgra spells out "D-R-Y-A-Ds" when bringing them up in a conversation at one point, suggesting them as a race who must not be named. If the side stories are any indication, Tania is one of the few people capable of making Sonata in to a nervous wreck. According to Impetua, if Arborea were to kill the Eye of Cthulhu and get Tania's attention towards the Deep Woods, Tania and the Deep Woods would immediately fight each other, and Tania would have a chance at single-handedly going against the whole forest of at least thousands.
Token Wholesome: Compared to the other types of Nymphs. They not only wear relatively more clothes than any Nymph Variant, but they are much more reserved about sex and the like compared to their open free-love cultures. It is played for drama in that this is seen as the Dryads giving a huge middle finger to the other types of Nymphs, putting clothes on and distancing themselves, being "closer to the Humans" as a result... with all signs pointing to this not being a good thing, unlike most cases of clothing being used to "humanize" and nudity being used to "dehumanize."

Other Races

Humans

A race of Nymph-like beings with significantly less magic, durability, and more complex and vulnerable internal organs than the Nymphs' internal vine systems. They might seem familiar to most readers of the story. Their capital continent is a poluted, overpopulated, hellish wasteland of overworking where only the rich top percent of the rich top percent have remotely comfortable lives, so much that several people have volunteered taking the role of "Adventurer" to go off to the Nature Islands because they think it's a better way of life. Vince is one such Adventurer, and several other town residents are as well, albeit with some secondary job of theirs.

Humans Are the Real Monsters: Downplayed. The Human Capital is corrupt, polluted, and most of its population are downright miserable, to the point where living on a Death World island filled with Zombies is considered something people who lived in the Capital save up and train up to do because they see it as a preferable way of life. But they have a pretty small track record of antagonizing other races, and most of them aren't saints themselves. The Elves are portrayed as more antagonistic and racist, and the Nymphs in general are portrayed as more hostile and creepy. Nymphs don't really care about Humans; they antagonize them, but that's because they see them as a nice food source and hate their support of the Dryads, they're not mad for destroying their environment and risking it spreading to the rest of the world. Tania is pissed at them, but her anger is only at the higher ups, and she's mad at them for making other Humans suffer. In short, the opinion on Humans by the other races is less "They're vile monsters who will kill us all" and more "Heh, look at those idiots slowly choking themselves to death."

Dwarves

A race of cave-dwelling, short people that have a fondness for bombs and digging. As of January 2023, the only member seen is the one from the original game — the Demolitionist, in this case named Tordak.

Shameless Fanservice Girl: Tordak comments something about getting nudity in the Mountains in Chapter 3 of Romancing that implies that Dwarves aren't as strict with clothing as Humans are, and he's the exception rather than the rule. When Impetua talks about "prudes" in a flashback in Chapter 6, she mentions Humans, Goblins, and Elves, but leaves out Dwarves, supporting this.

Goblins

A rather militant race considered aggressive and known to start wars over something like cloth.

Harpies

A race of bird-people who dwell in the skies. Said to be territorial and aggressive, they don't like other people going up there.

One-Gender Race: Averted. Great Pikmin Fan's profile explains that male Harpies do exist, but they are less common, like male Nymphs/Satyrs.

Elves

A race that almost everybody else absolutely hates. Unlike the hundreds if not thousands of types of Nymphs or Slimes, there are only two sub-types of Elves: Northern Elves that mostly live in the North Pole, fit the "Christmas" type of Elves, and are not as hated; and Wood Elves, who mostly live in Fortifica, resemble Tolkienesque Elves, have been known to nag people about cutting down trees, and everybody really hates.

Blue-and-Orange Morality: They have no problem in killing members of other races, slavery, rampant colonization, and using their own children as soldier fodder, but they really hate it when people cut down trees. Seeing that even Nymphs do this, they butt heads with every other race in Terraria.
Bullying a Dragon: They have been known to pick on other societies despite being implied to be weaker in terms of both physical attributes and their gear, especially the Nymphs. This worked to some extent as they managed to set up some colonies, but it eventually backfired, and revolutions kicked them out.
Butt-Monkey: The Wood Elves are presented as tree-hugging weaklings that everyone else hates, and the abuse of their military and leaders is played for laughs. Their military and especially King deserve this, as Chapter 6 reveals that they are racist, colonizing assholes.
Fantastic Racism: They see Nymphs in general as horrid animals who need to learn modesty and put some clothes on. Based on the sheer hatred that other races have to them, they don't treat the others much better, and the Elves are widely loathed by everyone else in return, the Wood Elves in particular. Even the otherwise neutral recap narrator drops an F-bomb when describing them in the Snow and Sand recap.
Hate Sink: While Elves are not inherantly born evil and it has been suggested that some minor civilians truly are innocent, the Elven society as a whole are meant to be seen as the jerkass faction of the confirmed races. They are imperialistic, hypocritical assholes who loathe the Nymphs and their nudity^note, the first significant leader shown is a cowardly hypocrite, and the "main" Elf of the story (Nillea) is a downright horrible person with a creepy fixation on Vince. While the story makes the villainous Nymphs cool and attractive to different degrees, the Elves don't even get that, instead relying on boring and old-fashioned bows and swords as opposed to the flashier magic attacks the rest of the world has.
Hypocritical Humor: They preach about nature and the importance of not cutting down trees, but they despise any ecosystem that isn't a vanilla Forest, and have no problem trying to terraform the land to suit their needs. They also consider the Nymphs animalistic and ultra-militant, despite having at least one ruler who is perfectly willing to draft teen soldiers to die just so that he can take over more land.
Screw You, Elves!: While the Elves love to lecture others about (their take on) nature and brag about being the superior kind, nobody rolls with it. The whole rest of the Terrarian world hates them outright and considers them annoying scum, rather than wise nature guides better than them.
Shout-Out: Great Pikmin Fan's profile confirms that the sheer hatred at Elves is inspired by the Dwarf Fortress community and game, which is reflected by their love for trees.

Slimes

Slimes initially seem like ordinary, generic, weak (for the most part) enemies and fodder for the sword. However, they are in fact their own race, possibly from another dimension, and are ruled by the true Slime monarchs, sapient beings. Slimes and Nymphs are enemies with one-another.

Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed as they were still enemies in the original game (except the summons, pets, and Town Slimes), but the Slimes are portrayed as unamibguously sapient, hostile, and working under the Big Bad of a side-story. In Terraria, it's not clear if Slimes without faces are even sapient, including King Slime or Queen Slime. Even the Town Slimes had limited intelligence.
Blob Monster: As with the canon Terraria, Slimes are simple blob beings that hop around and digest things.
Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: To an Adventurer that "kills" King or Queen Slime. Turns out those aren't the actual leaders of the Slimes. Their proper leaders are much, much more powerful, with the True King Slime at least being the main villain of a side story.

Characters / Zenith Nymph's Adventures

"Naked Empire," Main Trio

"Naked Empire," Nymph Army

Sun Island

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Faded Island

Overcast Island

"Naked Empire," Other Town Residents

Lindsey's Gang

Cthulhu, His Organs, and the Lunatic Cult

Other Canon Bosses

True King's Court

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