Web Video / Heart of Elynthi

Heart of Elynthi is a weekly Actual Play role playing series using the Dungeons & Dragons system using the website Roll20. It is hosted and DM'd by JoCat on his Twitch (with later uploads to his Youtube account). The series debuted November 30, 2022. In December 2023, JoCat announced that he would be going on indefinite hiatus from regular content creation, but would be continuing other off-site obligations. This includes Heart of Elynthi, where he and his players continue to hold sessions, with edited YouTube uploads being unlisted, but otherwise available to find through the campaign's playlist.

The setting is within the Lustrous Expanse in the year 253. In the kingdom of Elynthi, there lies the life tree known as Queremsia. It provides fertility and life within its land, but the tree itself isn't immune to age. To keep it alive, five ancient relics are gathered every ten years by a group of adventures chosen through the Draconic Pilgrimage to bring vitality back to the tree. However, one of the greatest threats to this journey is the Blot, a weather phenomenon that possesses the carcasses of dead animals & people to attack anyone.

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The main cast consists of:

• Feltheleb as Buck Baccarat.
• Poi Boi PNG as Fritz.
• Red OSP (from Overly Sarcastic Productions) as Laira.
• Runesmith as Wurd.

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Tropes:

• Actually, I Am Him: The party went over to the adventurer's guild in Tigamura to get license from the guild master so they can get a job. On the way, they ran into a self-proclaimed newbie adventurer named Eduardo Borobia. Later on, it turns out that it was actually the guild master in disguise (though his disguise isn't all that good).
• Advancing Boss of Doom: The Humanoid Blot does this in Session 16. How? By becoming a massive fusion of countless Blot that chases and clings to the back of the train that the party is using.
• All for Nothing:
  • It is revealed that the ancient warforge found in the Pallitrios ruins was in fact just an automaton made to look like an ancient warforge as part of a death trap for explorers who came to explore the ruins. This upsets Sergi, as that means that his friends who explored the ruins died for nothing and the 'warforge's heart' is completely useless in helping him stop the Blot.
  • This is Buck's greatest fear. It is revealed that, due to Buck's obsession of meeting Lady Luck again, he had been abandoning the relationships he made in order to continue search for Lady Luck. Buck is well aware that he basically rendered himself all alone, and that only serves to further push him into finding Lady Luck just to make sure all of this wasn't for nothing (even if it is at the cost of any further relationships he could make, like with the other party members).
• All or Nothing: Buck bought a special magic item called the All or Nothing Coin. In-game, the player can roll a D2 die in place of a D20 die, with the results being either a Nat 1 or a Nat 20. After ruining his relationship with the other party members as a result of revealing the extent of his selfishness and destructive obsession with Lady Luck, Buck threw away his enchanted coin.
• Always a Bigger Fish: In Session 5, the party was ambushed by pirates. However, during the fight, a number of pirates had been picked off into the ocean. It is soon revealed that an army of Blot was in the water and attacked both sides once most of the pirates were dead.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Despite being the dragon of Sacia, Elias is shown to be a bit laidback and eccentric, unfortunately for his niece Jidae. It isn't helped that Elias likes to wear pajamas outside.
• Ambiguously Brown: Byron, the conductor of the train from Pallitrios, has dark skin.
• Amicable Exes: Talindra is one of Buck's ex-wives. Despite the divorce being all Buck's fault, Talindra doesn't hold much animosity towards her ex-husband. Though she does love to tease and embarrass Buck in front of the other pilgrims.
• And Then What?: One of Spade's important questions to Buck is what does Buck plan to do after he finally gets that 'major pay off' from all his devotion and faith towards Lady Luck.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Lucia Baztan is not only a stereotypical and prideful noblewoman who looks down on people from the countryside, but she is also a greedy woman who would resort to destroying a town's defenses just to trick the town into hiring her soldiers so that she can take over the town and its crystal reserves.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • Abril the Warforge lost one of his arms as a result of being worked too hard prior to his awakening. He was lucky to be able to get a prosthetic to replace it.
  • After Tyrell got petrified as a result of betraying the party and trying to usurp the gods, Wurd broke off her right hand in order to hinder her ability to cast magic when/if she gets cured from her petrification.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Spade the Warforge asked Buck two of them. One, he asked Buck if the only reason the latter has faith on his goddess is for a big pay off, then would that even be worth it. And two, he asked Buck if the latter finally gets that pay off, then what will Buck do after that. Buck was visibly shaken by those questions, but Spade reassured Buck that he can take his time finding his answers.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • Buck drank a potion to make him grow large in order to fight toe-to-toe with a dangerous large warforge.
  • The Humanoid Blot pulled this off by fusing itself with an absurd number of Blot, forming a massive Blot capable of chasing down a train.
  • To the party's horror, it turns out the Bloat are capable of possessing even a stone tower to attack them with.
• The Baby of the Bunch:
  • Fritz is the youngest in the group. It helps that she is a bit innocent and naive to the more mature or darker topics of the world.
  • So far, Pavita appears to be the youngest of the Elynthi dragons currently active during the campaign.
• Bad "Bad Acting":
  • Eduardo Borobia pretended to be an adventure who very recently arrived in Tigamura. Unfortunately, the over-the-top acting made him too suspicious to the party.
  • The party themselves ended up doing this when he tried to stealthily find and dispose of the Sending Stone being used to eavesdrop on them.
• Bad Liar: Due to Edmund's kind and chivalrous personality, he struggles to lie or to keep secrets from the pilgrims.
• Bait-and-Switch: During the party's investigation into the destruction of Vicerli's sentries, their prime suspect was an obnoxious noblewoman named Lucia Baztan. However, when the party laid in wait during their trap for the culprit, they were surprised to see the mayor of Vicerli arrive instead. Turns out that it was a false alarm, as the mayor was just nervous with the trap and wanted to talk to the party. And then, surprise surprise, Lucia showed up as the true culprit.
• Batman Gambit: The pilgrims speculated that Lord Nicholas tried this on Edmund. Since Pallitrios, Lord Nicholas forced Edmund to tail the pilgrims in secret despite Edmund not being provided anything or any assistance for the mission. So the pilgrims suggest that the lord, knowing that Edmund was sent to Elynthi by Belkinus to re-establish relations between the two, set Edmund up to fail in order to justify kicking Edmund out and keeping the relations to Belkinus broken in order to prevent Belkinus from sticking its nose into the lord's business. It also helps that Edmund is very loyal to Lord Nicholas, especially due to his mission, and his personality makes him a poor liar and a poor spy.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: The Collector Warforge attempted this. Wurd hid inside the clothes of a magically enlarged Buck in order for them to tag team against the warforge. The Collector, in turn, released a few regular warforge from inside him in order to attack the party. Unfortunately for the Collector, it wasn't enough and it still defeated in the end.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Dozin revealed that he and Astrapio became friends as a result of the latter defending him when Dozin was accused of stealing from his captain. As a result, Dozin had no problems accepting Astrapio's request to raise the latter's child.
• Beneath the Mask: In the public, Cecilia acts as a stereotypical wrestler who shows off her strength as a gladiator. However, she's actually pressured by the expectations of both her fans and her own father as both a gladiator and one of Elyhthi's dragons.
• Benevolent Boss: While Wurd loves being praised and pampered by his minions, he is very protective of them and sees them as family.
• Benevolent Abomination: Non-Stop Begonia is a terrifying (but hot) creature that resembles a bulky stone golem with three glowing eyes and sharp teeth. He wanted to help Wurd in exchange of Wurd spreading the entity's name whenever Wurd achieves something big or gains reputation.
• Berserk Button:
  • Trying to even threaten to destroy a dragon's heart is a really bad way to get the entire party on your bad side. As Liam found out, it didn't matter if he didn't realize that he threatened to destroy a dragon's heart, the party would seriously consider tearing the fae's wings off and even outright killing him for trying to pull that stunt.
  • Buck serves as this towards Pamyel (one of Buck's ex-wives), who hasn't forgiven Buck after their divorce.
  • It turns out that a good way to anger Wurd is to run away from responsibility, especially important ones with people's lives on the line, like Pavita.
• The Big Damn Kiss: While only on the cheek, Rama kissing Cecilia is to be celebrated.
• The Big Guy: Being a bugbear, Buck is the largest of the group. It helps that he is a barbarian who wields a large hammer.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: The train's bar has a cocktail containing an unknown piece of animal flesh because the cocktail caters to goblins, who are known for their hearty and meaty dishes.
• Black Sheep: Not by choice. Pavita is the only dragon to lack any friends, family, or loved ones because she was an orphan and Lord Nicholas prevented her from making any relationships when the former became the dragon of Trevesetta. As a result, she also the only dragon to lack a true dragon's heart and had to create a substitute by bonding with a cheap ring that would act as her 'heart'.
• Blessed with Suck: Cecilia is popular for being the strongest gladiator of New Bascay and the city's dragon. However, it led her to not only be pressured by the city's people but also by her father to live up to that reputation.
• Blob Monster: The Blot usually takes this appearance. Even when possessing a corpse, their body still look like sludge.
• A Boy and His X: The 'great and evil' La Destructora the Destroyer and her 'evil hell-hound' El Coco.
• Broken Pedestal: Buck became this to the rest of the party when it is revealed that he had been ruining all his relationships in the past in order to meet Lady Luck again, and when he admitted that he would still continue ruining any future relationship done the line in order to meet his goddess. With this horrible revelation out in the open, all of Buck's party members could no longer see him as a friend.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • The general population in Elynthi treats the Draconic Pilgrimage as a tradition and even a festival. Furthermore, the participants of the pilgrimage see it as a means for achieving fame or fortune. Laira is understandly confused at why everyone is so lax with the pilgrimage or using it for more personal reasons, despite the life tree and the kingdom's fate being dependent on it.
  • Apparently, La Destructora the Destroyer has been attacking and losing to pilgrims every Draconic Pilgrimage for so long that Sacia's dragon Elias Verdugo and Lord Candela are nonchalant with her existence. It turns out it's more or less a tradition for Jidae to pretend to be La Destructora and keep an eye on the pilgrims every year when she isn't one of the pilgrims herself.
• Call-Back:
  • The Stick of Stickiness, which first appeared in Belkinus Necro Hunt, returns once again as an item sold by No Tails.
  • The Church of the Builder is a religion that appeared from Belkinus Necro Hunt as the religion that Enoch followed. Even the church's god Kothusung is actually the renamed version of the god Erathis from the first game.
  • Shade, a follower from the Church of the Builder, described an acquittance of his that share similarities with Enoch from Belkinus Necro Hunt.
  • It is revealed that Edmund is a representative sent by Belkinus to Elynthi in order to re-establish connections between the two. Edmund even vaguely mentions how Belkinus were through some serious hell from the first campaign.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: Fritz called her biological father by his name, Astrapio, because he is a stranger to her, her Parental Substitute Dozin is seen by Fritz as her real father, and a part of Fritz is upset with how Astrapio abandoned her as a child.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Fritz called out on her biological father's actions of abandoning her being more out of cowardliness than out of giving her a chance of a better life.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • When the party tried to convince Sergi that they encountered a Blot with enough intelligence for communication, while he didn't think they are lying, Sergi did think the party were hallucinating or misunderstanding things.
  • Played with in Session 15. Laira failed to convince Lord Eufrasia Biel that the ruins near Pallitrios is being used as a trap by a noble from Trevesetta to kill off potential explorers looking into ruins from the old world. However, due to how suspicious Lord Eufrasia has been acting and how dependent she already is on Trevesetta, it's possible she is part of the ploy revolving the fake ruins being used as a death trap. This is later confirmed in Session 26 that Lord Eufrasia did indeed know the truth about the fake ruins.
  • Pamyel warned Fritz, Laira, and Buck that Buck is a horrible selfish person who would abandon people and break their hearts. The party at least believed that Buck is no longer the kind of person Pamyel described him to be. But, they soon learn that Buck is actually not that different to who he was described to be by Pamyel when it was revealed that Buck put the party in danger for his obsessed attempts to meet Lady Luck, and that he is willing to continue going down this path even if it means continuing to ruin any future relationships with him.
• Catchphrase: Laira has the habit of saying "Fantastic" and "Interesting" a lot, may it be straight or sarcastically.
• Central Theme:
  • The theme of family, both biological and not, appears throughout the campaign.
  • The theme of self-worth and responsibility also appears in several characters, including the party members, in the campaign.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • During Session 10, the party found a Lanturn of True Sight (an item that counters invisibility) for sale. Later in that same session, they learn that culprit behind the sentries' destruction is using an invisibility spell to hide their identity. Put two-in-two together on what the party did next. Furthermore, they started running into more issues with troublemakers and enemies using invisibility in the next session.
  • During Session 16, the party learned that the train had a lever meant for activating a barrier against outside intruders. Unsurprisingly, they had to use it when the train gets attacked by the Blot.
  • Back in Session 2, Wurd stole a Ring of Certainty from No Tails. The ring allows the user to identify the DC for a situation as well as the outcomes for the success and failure of the situation. Fast forward to Session 25, Wurd uses the ring to help plan out a coup in Trevesetta.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • During Session 12, the party noticed a group of children cheering for La Destructora. In the next session, they run into a kid who was from that same group of children. That kid is being taken cared of by the dragon of Pallitrios.
  • Do you remember Lucia, the troublesome noblewoman who caused trouble in the town of Vicerli? Her family seemed to be responsible for the creation of the Collector Warforge that killed Sergi's adventurers. Furthermore, her guards make up a good portion of the soldiers defending Pallitrios.
  • The party sent Edmund to hide in Tigamura for the latter's safety. Some time later, Edmund would send the party a Sending Stone that would help out the party for their planned coup in Trevesetta.
• Chick Magnet: To the shock of Fritz, Laira, and Wurd, apparently Buck had at least two ex-wives. They cannot help but question how many wives did Buck have.
• The Comically Serious: Much of the humor inherit to Laira is that she's a very stoic individual whose self-identified issues with communication mean she has a difficult time making friends or conversing at length. There's a lot of comedy derived from her staid reactions to some of the more outlandish and colorful characters and events around her.
• Commitment Issues:
  • The reason that Buck and Talindra had a divorce is because the former didn't want to settle down due to having 'other plans'... which came to nothing in the end. It is revealed that the true reason that he couldn't settle with Talindra, as well as Pamyal, is because he is obsessed with meeting Lady Luck again, causing him to constantly travel for any clues or means to meet his goddess.
• Cooldown Hug: Fritz gave one to Lord Candela because the lord was stressing out from all the work she had.
• Cool Train: Sergi worked on building a train powered by magic that can run from Pallitrios to Trevesetta in a day. It even comes with a barrier for emergency protection, even due it isn't perfected yet for multiple uses.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Despite knowing a powerful gravity spell, Lucia is surprising weak as she goes down in one hit from Wurd's attack.
  • With only one dragon heart powering her, Tyrell is easily caught by the Beholder and instantly turned to stone.
• Cuteness Proximity: Fritz loves cute creatures like her pet kitten Ceefa and the slime that works in Sacia's temple.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Astrapio and his wife left Fritz to Dozin because the parents believed that they couldn't raise Fritz in a good environment due to a falling out between Astrapio and his wife. It is also implied by Dozin that at least Astrapio was struggling in his life due to his ragged state when Astrapio gave Dozin the former's child.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • In Session 5, Buck was forced to see glimpses of his past failures by a humanoid Blot, causing him to be temporarily paralyzed. These include visions of Talindra and Pamyel, Buck's ex-wives. It is ultimately revealed in Session 19 that Buck became obsessed with seeing Lady Luck again after being blessed by her, with led him to meet and then abandon Talindra and Pamyel. Buck admits that he had practically burnt down every bridge with everyone important to him, leaving him all alone with no friends or family.
  • Also in Session 5, Wurd implied that he had a rough past where he had to crawl his way up from poor living.
  • Pavita grew up as an orphan before she was forced into becoming Trevesetta's dragon. From there, she had to tackle countless problems of the people with no end in sight, all the while not receiving much gratitude. In addition, her guardian is the strict Lord Nicholas Tejero, who prevented her from making any lasting relationships with anybody. These all contributed to Pavita finally reaching her breaking point and abandoning her dragon duties, running away from the city.
  • Roberto implied he had one that led him into going into the Underthrone Society in an attempt to escape it, only to end up as a slave.
  • Dozin implied that Astrapio struggled in his life when he gave Fritz to him because of how ragged the latter was at the time.
• Deadpan Snarker: Laira is prone in talking sarcastically in a somewhat stoic manner.
• Defiant to the End: In Session 26, when the party were ambushing a group of Baztan guards, there was one mage guard who was very defiant to the party. He refused to surrender despite the odds being turned against him, landing a strong magic attack on the whole party. He only surrendered because his terrified co-worker was constantly begging him to surrender for their survival. Even then, the mage guard was still being defiant and uncooperative despite Wurd's threats to kill him. Eventually, Wurd had it with him and killed the guy. Wurd then proceeded to wake up a different captured mage guard for answers while showing him what he did to the defiant one.
• Dirty Coward: Wurd accuses Pavita of being this because she chose to abandon Trevesetta because she couldn't handle the pressure and responsibility of being the dragon anymore.
• Dramatic Irony: In Session 16, La Destructora loses her greatsword during her serious fight against the pilgrims and the greatsword ended up planting itself onto the roof of the train. With the reveal that La Destructora is actually Jidae in disguise, it becomes ironic as it echoes back to how Jidae planted her greatsword early in the campaign when she finally retired from becoming a pilgrim again.
• Dramatic Unmask: La Destructora, upon removing her helmet, is revealed to be Jidae, the niece of Elias Verdugo.
• Dreadful Musician: According to Fritz, Captain Dozin is terrible in singing.
• Drunk with Power: A minor example. According to Cecilia, her father wasn't always a jerk who shows of his daughter's status or berates his daughter whenever she loses a fight. He apparently changed after Cecilia became the Dragon for New Bascay.
• Eat the Bomb:
  • Wurd ended up trying to eat an enchanted egg that has a small chance of increase his ability score and a large chance of just blowing up from inside his body. Unsurprisingly, the latter happened and Wurd barely survived the internal explosion.
  • Wurd ended up using one of his explosive eggs on a sleeping Bulette (land shark). It hurt it badly, but it didn't kill it off. So the injured Bulette proceed to alert its sleeping family of the attack.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Both played straight and defied respectively in Buck's cases with his ex-wives. Because of how kind-hearted Talindra is, she was able to forgive Buck for leaving her, although she cautions Buck against hurting anyone in the future by abandoning them too. Pamyel, on the other hand, refuses to ever forgive Buck for breaking her heart and her trust, even if Buck were to change.
  • Played with in Astrapio's case. As an adult, Fritz forgives Astrapio for abandoning her because she understood the circumstances. However, Fritz wanted her birth father to understand what the latter did to a child and she wanted him to apologize for it.
  • Defied hard in Buck's case in Session 19. Wurd was forgiving Buck for getting them involved in a death trap, but that was put to a stop when Fritz made it clear that she is definitely not forgiving Buck because his actions almost got Laira killed. And when Laira herself tried to forgive Buck because she thought Buck did it to look into the situation surrounding Old Diosia and the Life Tree, Buck cut her off when he had to make it clear that he did all this for more selfish reasons. Once Buck finally let the truth about his obsession with Lady Luck out to the party, the rest of the pilgrims couldn't forgive him anymore.
• Epic Fail: During the cage match, Buck attempts to finish Cecilia off with an RKO wrestling move. Unfortunately, he failed and ended up landing on the ground hard, just injuring himself.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Wurd makes it clear that he and his gang would never steal from the church because Wurd recognize how powerful and dangerous the church can be.
  • While the casino isn't below cheating its customers of their money, Buck refuses to cheat himself or work with anyone cheating like Wurd.
  • Upon learning about how Buck's obsession with Lady Luck ruined all his relationships and yet Buck will still continue with his search, Wurd made it clear that even he can recognize when a path becomes too much for it to be worth it, no matter how much he wants what is at the end of it.
• Evil Is Hammy: La Destructora the Destroyer is the evilest and most powerful villain that the pilgrams have ever face! Along with her trusted hound El Coco, they are invincible! It makes sense since La Destructora, or rather Jidae, isn't actually trying to be evil on purpose.
• Exact Words: Dosario gave a discount to Wurd for the latter's purchase in exchange for making No Tail leave the shopping area. However, the merchant didn't say anything about keeping No Tail out of the area. No Tail and the party were happy to exploit that loophole.
• Eye Scream:
  • Noriam lost her right eye from a Blot attack in the past.
  • Eduardo lost his left eye in the past. Supposedly, he lost it while traveling through the Blot-infested region of Old Diosia.
• Fatal Flaw: Buck's fatal flaw is Obsession. Buck became so obsessed with meeting Lady Luck again that he ruined all the relationships he had made in the past, like with his ex-wives Talindra and Pamyel. This ultimately left him all alone, as best shown when he is the only pilgrim who didn't have anyone that when to intentionally see him again during the reunion in Tigamura. However, despite this, he is willing to continue ruining any future relationships he makes just to see Lady Luck again, in part because he didn't want all his efforts and sacrifices to be All for Nothing. This reveal was so bad that is ruined the relationship Buck had with all his party members.
• A Father to His Men: While he isn't the nicest person, Wurd is very supportive and protective of his underlings.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Session 16 does this leading up to La Destructora being revealed to be Jidae, like how she used a greatsword when she fought the pilgrims seriously and how she said "I'm too old for this" during the fight (just like when she said that during the fight back at Session 1.
• Foil: Tyrell serves as this to Buck. Both of them are/were pilgrims who have more selfish goals at hand. Tyrell wants to become a goddess for the perks, and Buck wants to meet Lady Luck again just to understand why the goddess appeared to him in the first place. Both of them have abandoned people in the past in order to pursue their goals, and are willing to completely isolate themselves from everyone in order to do so. However, Tyrell portrays her situation as if the people around her are the ones in the wrong for not supporting her and that she is justified in leaving them. In contrast, Buck implies that he is highly aware that he is the horrible one in the situation for leaving his love ones behind for his selfish goal.
• Friend to All Children: La Destructora the Destroyer (or rather Jidae) seemed to be quite friendly with children, as she had children cheering for her during her fight against the pilgrims and she even allowed the children to draw on her cardboard spear.
• Friend to All Living Things: Prickly Pear is a grandmotherly Warforge who loves taking care of kinds of animals and monsters.
• Funny Background Event: During the campaign, at least one of the players would draw something funny on city maps. One example is the New Bascay map having a drawing of an odd sea monster.
• The Gambler: Buck takes the gambler motif to a new level. His weapon is designed after a roulette wheel, his Wild Magic uses playing cards, and his goddess is Lady Luck.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: The pilgrims consist of two males (Buck and Wurd) and two females (Fritz and Laira).
• Godhood Seeker: It was revealed that Tyrell wanted to enter the realm of the gods in order to usurp them.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Played with. Fritz wears a pair of goggles on her head for protecting her eyes from bugs while flying. However, she still wears them even while she's walking or flying low.
• Gone Horribly Right:
  • After a run-in with a chest mimic, Wurd started stabbing chests with his dagger as a safety precaution against more mimics. Unfortunately, Wurd accidentally stabbed a chest so deep that his dagger broke one of the potions inside of it.
  • Laira used "Dispel Magic" to get rid of a tracking rune on the party's cart so that nobody can tract them down anymore. Unfortunately, it worked 'too' well as, in addition to the tracking rune, the spell also dispelled the cart's levitation crystals (which helped it move in place of wheels).
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Tyrell created a portal to the realm of the gods so she could usurp them. However, to her horror, something clearly went wrong because, instead of a god, a Beholder came out instead and proceeded to petrify her into stone.
• Good Samaritan: Apparently, the Underthrone Society abuse this by helping those who are down on their luck in order to use those people and get them in debt to the criminal group.
• Gravity Master: It turns out that the culprit behind the sentries' destruction at Vicerli had been using Gravity Sinkhole, a powerful gravity spell, in order to crush the sentries easily.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: During the fight against the Beholder, the party shut down the portal while the Beholder was in the middle of it. As a result, the Beholder got cut in half when the portal cut off with the creature inside it.
• Harmless Villain:
  • Both La Destructora and her pet dog El Coco fall under this. It helps that their armors are made of cardboard and La Destructora's spear is pretty shabby. It makes more sense once it is revealed that La Destructora is actually Jidae. Hilariously, while most of the party feigns fear and gravitas during their encounters, Laira genuinely perceives them to be actual serious enemies (due to her critically failing an Insight check on them in their first encounter and nobody bothering to correct her).
  • The real La Destructora is this. According to Jidae, the real La Destructora is pretty incompetent.
• Hidden Depths: Edmund trained in many kinds of fields besides in being a knight. Fritz also realized that Edmund had the natural skills in stealth, with only the heavy armor getting in Edmund's way.
• Hidden Eyes: Grumble has very thick white eyebrows that cover up his eyes, helping out with hiding his expressions.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Elias considered setting the greasy floor on fire, burning Fritz in the process. Unfortunately for Elias, Fritz finished the dragon off by setting the greasy floor where he stood on fire.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Roberto runs a temple that does 'treatment for the body'. Nevertheless, he has shown to want to help out the pilgrims when he noticed that they were getting dangerously too close in their investigation into the Underthrone Society and Torrellan's disappearance.
• Hostile Weather: The Blot is a strange weather phenomenon unique to the Kingdom of Elynthi. It acts like a black rain that possesses the dead bodies on the ground to attack people.
• I Call It "Vera":
  • Buck named his large roulette-themed hammer as "Big Blind".
  • Later in the campaign, Wurd named his special dagger as "Negotiation".
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Chinges, the author of Buck's favorite book "Lost and Adrift", appeared to be a typical snobby rich man like the other nobles in Trevesetta. But it turned out that he hated living in lifestyle of the nobles, to the point that it was clearly driving him insane. He admitted that he prefers a quiet life living at his hut.
• Innocently Insensitive: After Buck calls out Aurelia for cheating against Fritz on roulette, Buck tries to iron out their relationship by giving a bit of money to Aurelia. Unfortunately, this act only seemed to have insulted Aurelia as it hurts a bit of her pride to accept money from someone who had just exposed her cheating. Understanding what he had done, Buck decided to just leave the casino with Fritz before he soured Aurelia's mood any further.
• Internal Reveal: During the first fight against the Humanoid Blot, Buck gets paralyzed by the Blot when he is forced to remember all his past failures like this ruined relationships with his ex-wives Talindra and Pamyel. It also showed when Buck received his blessing during his encounter with Lady Luck, which serve to send Buck into a downward spiral where he essential isolates himself from everyone during his attempts to meet Lady Luck again.
• Ironic Echo:
  • When the Blot ambushed the fight between the party and the pirates, Buck decided to put his focus on the Blot over the pirates. When he decided that, he asked the pirate next to him to not make him regret changing targets since both his party and the pirates have bigger problems now. The pirate's response was just "We'll see where it goes". Not long after that, that same pirate got trapped by the humanoid Blot and screamed for help to Buck. Buck just replied, "We'll see where it goes".
  • In Session 10, after discussing about the strained relationship between Pyria and Coriac, Wurd convinced Pyria to at least meet with Coriac halfway and see where it goes. In the next session, after acting dismissive and rude towards her birth father, Fritz realized that she should at least give her biological father a chance and meet him halfway.
• I Shall Taunt You: Wurd does this to Cecilia during the cage match in the form of his Kobold ability "Grovel, Cower, and Beg" in order to give the others advantage on attacking Cecilia.
• It Can Think: During the party's second run-in with the humanoid Blot, they found out to their horror that the Blot seems to possess a form of sentience and intelligence. Not only can the humanoid Blot be able to understand people and use a form of communication, but it is capable of preparing ambushes, commanding other Blot in strategic attacks, and identifying who possesses the dragon hearts.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Captain Arzire appears to be a somewhat stoic and strict guard who just follows orders by Lord Nicholas and lack care for people outside his duties. However, the party noticed signs of when he feels guilty of doing something he knew is wrong despite being his duties and joy when the party actually successful helped a civilian despite it hindering his duties.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Edmund Goldback seems to fit the picture of a traditional chivalrous knight, from the personality to the looks. He is forced to abandon the knight armor and to bend his knightly code when the pilgrims made Edmund face the reality of how dangerous his lord Nicholas is.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In Session 26, the party ambushed a group of Baztan gaurds who were experimenting on a Kobold named Gola. A rather defiant mage guard was able to land a nasty attack on all the pilgrims. However, a frighten footman (who was being pinned and mauled at by panther-form Laira) quickly surrendered and begged his wizard co-worker to surrender to.
• Large Ham: Elias was all out with the ham as he fought against the party as the finale to their trial.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Torrellan tried to earn more money through the bets done during the tournament by hiring a weather witch to summon the Blot in the middle of the event in order to delay it. It went wrong HARD. Not only did it fail because the Blot was summoned after the fight, but he also lost all his money because he bet it all against Buck's team (who won). To top it all off, he now owes a thousand gold to the Underthrone Society, which he can't pay. And it is only thanks to Buck's persuasion that Torrellan was only exiled from Sacia for being unable to pay his debt instead of... much worse.
  • Andre Aviles is quite terrible to his own daughter, whom he berates whenever the latter loses in a match. He also has no problems bad-mouthing people like the pilgrims of Sacia or Cecilia's own teammates behind their backs. He finally gets a taste of his own medicine when he is endangered by the Blot with only a cane to defend himself, and the only people able to rescue him is his own daughter and the pilgrims. And after saving the jerk's butt, when he still had the nerve to complain and badmouth his daughter, Cecilia finally had enough and punched her dad unconscious.
  • Tyrell used the pilgrims and stole their dragon hearts in order to create a portal to the realm of the gods so she could usurp them. However, it went horribly wrong when the portal released a Beholder instead. And because Laira was able to relinquish most of the dragon hearts from Tyrell, the weather witch didn't have enough power to free herself from the Beholder and ended up being petrified by it. To top it all off, Wurd broke off the petrified Tyrell's right hand off to hinder her ability to use magic against them.
• Late to the Tragedy: Within the ruins near Pallitrios, the party found a ruined civilization that showed signs of it being attacked and possibly massacred by a third party in the past. It is suggested that the third party are people from Elynthi.
• Laughably Evil: La Destructora is this because not only is she and her partner are Harmless Villain, but they are also pretty hammy to boot. With the reveal that La Destructora is actually Jidae in disguise, it makes sense that she wasn't really trying to be evil.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": The party named their second horse Efficiency because Lord Nicholas described the previously nameless horse having good efficiency.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Fritz found out that Astrapio Bescires, an official from Pallitrios, is her birth father.
• Mean Boss: According to Adrian, one of the pirates, his boss Paula the Rattler is this to her crew.
• Meaningful Echo: Back in Pallitrios, Spade asked Buck what does he plan to do if the latter finally gets the pay off from his worship for Lady Luck. Buck struggled to reply to this question, showing how aimless the gambler is. Later on, Buck got the party caught in a trap that nearly killed Laira because he was desperate to finally meet Lady Luck again. When learning this motive, Wurd asked Buck what he is going to do once the latter gets his wish, which again leaves Buck speechless. This shows the true extent of how truly bad Buck's pursuit with Lady Luck is.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Fritz seemingly didn't have a birth name before Captain Dozin adopted her — he gave her her name because she never cried as a baby, jokingly describing her as "being on the fritz".
  • Spade the Warforge got his name because he saw a spade when he awakened.
• Mysterious Veil: Shymaia wears a mushroom-themed hat with a veil to conceal their face. During Session 18, Shymaia finally reveals her face to her pupil during a serious and heartwarming conversation.
• Never Learned to Read: Wurd isn't even able to read Common, with a Running Gag being that he has to have other people read important documents for him. This especially becomes a problem after he tasks Non-Stop Begonia to dig up some info on Trevesetta and Lord Nicholas, to which he returns with important books.
• Noodle Incident:
  • In Session 1, Fritz remembers Wurd for 'the incident' involving the latter a month prior to the first session's setting.
  • Fritz said that once should wear goggles in order to prevent bugs getting in their eyes when they flies, implying this happened to her.
• No Social Skills:
  • Laira falls under this due to her upbringing under Shymaia, someone who is also unsociable. However, despite her own social isolation, Shymaia tries to teach her pupil how important it is to interact with other people during the pilgrim.
  • Though Laira is the most notable example of this trope, a frequent point of hilarity among the cast, especially out-of-universe, is that despite 5e having several classes and subclasses devoted to the charisma attribute, the entire party utterly lacks anyone actually specialized for talking. Ironically, Laira has the highest charisma in the entire party at a +2. Of the group, Wurd and Fritz are the most gung-ho about attempting diplomacy, but are held back by being smart-mouthed and scatterbrained respectively. Any successful social skill checks are treated as pennies from heaven by the party as a result.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: During the discussions about contacting the gods for answers about the true nature of the Bloat, Buck told Laira that he doesn't give a damn about the truth with the Life Tree Queremsia and Old Diosia, as he only cares about is meeting Lady Luck again no matter what.
• Not So Above It All: Despite Non-Stop Begonia lashing out on Wurd for eating a suspicious magical egg grown from a magic bean that exploded Wurd's stomach, the creature would later ask Wurd what the magical egg tasted like.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Tyrell claimed that she and Buck are the same: people who are willing to do anything for their goals and leave anyone who tries to get in their way.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Lord Nicholas Tejero seems to show signs of this. Not only does he want to alter how the pilgrim works for the sake of efficiency, but he has even went as far as taken over New Bascay and plans to implement several laws that could get in the way of the citizens' lives. There is even suspicion that he may be working with the Underthrone Society to take over Elythi.
• Odd Friendship: Dozin and Astrapio used to be this in the past. Dozin was the sociable dwarf with an interest in the sea, while Astrapio was the more reclusive individual who had an interest in books and learning.
• Official Couple: Seems to be the case between Rama and Cecilia by Session 8, thanks to the party's help.
• Only Friend: It seems Cecilia's only companion whom she can drop her gladiator persona and show how she really feels is Rama from the Soft Shore's Inn. Though, that friendship seemed to have grew into something more, as the party saw them holding hands and kissing in secret.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Fritz is usually the Nice Guy of the group, only showing anger towards jerks like people who insulted her or her companions. However, when she meets her biological father Astrapio, she showed signs of Tranquil Fury towards the man who gave birth to her despite the man seeming to be rather mannerly. Even Fritz herself admits later on that she acted rather out of character from someone who is normally kind towards most people, and should have not outright dismissed her birth father despite him being absent for her whole life.
  • Buck normally has a cool head, even in some tense situations. However, he attacked La Destructora the Destroyer after she already lost, even though the 'villain' seemed pretty harmless. This is because this was soon after he survived a Blot attack, learned that the Blot had intelligence, and suspected that the Blot are somehow tracking the pilgrims. So Buck was under a lot of stress and paranoia.
  • Buck is usually a gambling type, even to the dangerous degree. But it says a lot that even Buck refuses to risk starting a coup in Trevesetta until he is absolutely certain of their chances of succeeding.
• Opposites Attract: Eduardo Borobia is a reckless, energetic, and friendly adventurer. His husband Iker is a cautious, tired-looking, and somewhat stern healer.
• Our Dragons Are Different: While traditional D&D dragons do exist in this world, the Kingdom of Elynthi also have five people who can transform into dragons. These five dragons are responsible for the 'hearts' that help bring vitality back to the life tree.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Wurd is very protective of his followers. When he meets the weather witch responsible for the Blot that endangered his minions, he attempted to kill her for putting his people in harms way.
  • Captain Dozin makes it clear that he won't let anyone, may it pirates or even the Blot, so much as get near his crew.
• Parental Abandonment: Fritz was left behind by her parents to Dozin because her parents fell out of love with each other (leading to their divorce) and believed that they wouldn't be able to give Fritz a stable life for her to be raised properly.
• Parental Substitute:
  • Shymaia acts as this for her pupil, Laira.
  • Captain Dozin is this towards Fritz.
  • Sergi, the dragon of Pallitrios, seem to act as this for Miquel as he is the only one willing to look after Miquel despite the latter's mischiefs.
• Precision F-Strike: Fritz gives two of these in the same session. The first one is when she told Buck that she doesn't give a 'fuck' about her biological dad. And the second one is when she straight up called her birth dad a 'fucking coward' to his face.
• Poor Communication Kills: The strained relationship between Pyria and Coriac was caused because Pyria's letters to Coriac went strangely unanswered for a whole decade. This led to Pyria moving on with her life and Coriac seemingly being under the misconception that nothing much had changed back home.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • When the party discussed about activating the divination circles in order to open the magical seal blocking their passage deeper into the Pallitrios ruins, Wurd suggested that the party tie up or move the skeletons that are near the divination circles because he feared that they would reanimate once the circles are activated. The party ultimately didn't do Wurd's suggestion. Turns out that Wurd was right to be worried as the skeletons do reanimate after the divination circles are activated. And said skeletons immediately attack the party, who were separated because the divination circles are spread throughout the ruins.
  • After the party's run-in with the humanoid Blot near Pallitrios, the party started to get concerned that they are somehow being tracked down. This is further enhanced with their reunion with La Destructora soon after that. As it turns out, the party found a tracking rune on the cart gifted to them by Lord Nicholas.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Laira isn't the type of person to raise her voice and let her emotions loose when anger, as seen with her interactions with jerk characters like Andre. However, she finally snaps at Lord Eufrasia when she reached her limit as a result of the lord's attitude and flawed argument against the party, as well as her recent near death experience from the city's nearby ruins.
  • Fritz reached this when she got furious at Buck for getting the group caught in a trap that nearly killed Laira. She made it clear that a simple apology from Buck isn't going to be enough to make up for this.
• Rags to Riches:
  • While we don't know Talindra's entire financial situation in the past, we do know she had struggled during the early days of her baking business (and that's not taking into account when she had to support Buck's gambling loses prior to their divorce). However, Talindra now currently runs a successful and popular bakery that caters to the coliseum.
  • Roberto was in such a bad situation in the past that he ended up involved by the Underthrone Society, only to end up as a slave. However, he would later be able to claw his way up to the point that he became powerful enough to leave the criminal group and start the Temple of Saphira in New Bascay.
• Rail-Car Separation: When the Humanoid Blot breaks into the back of the train, Buck disconnected the carts at the back of the train in order to prevent the Blot from getting to the others. Unfortunately, this also led the party to lose their stuff that was left behind in those carts: their carriage, their Lantern of True Sight, and Wurd's horse snacks for Butterscotch and Efficiency.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • Alyandra, the Trevesetta representative in Tigamura, seems to be this.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • While the target of the speech (Andre) wasn't around, Fritz had no problem giving out that speech to Cecilia after seeing how Andre treated his own daughter despite there being nothing special about himself.
  • Laira, after reaching a Rage Breaking Point, snaps at Lord Eufrasia for how flawed her logic is on thinking that the party would go to the trouble of forging evidence against someone who had been confirmed guilty for a crime after said party had just survived ruins that were used as a trap while being denied a powerful ally by the lord herself. Sergi would also chime in with the party to both defend them and criticize Lord Eufrasia's questionable reasoning.
  • Wurd gave out a serious one to Pavita, saying that she made the conscious choice to abandon everyone in Trevesetta and causing potentially the city to become worse as well as causing an unknown number of people to die as a result. He even added that Pavita doesn't have the right to justify herself with being forced to become the dragon by chance or birth because there are people like the plague victims who had gotten sick due to chance or birth too.
• The Reveal: Buck reveals that he had been blessed by Lady Luck in the past, granting him his Wild Surge ability with the magic deck. However, Buck became obsessed with meeting Lady Luck again, leading him into a long journey. During that journey, he met who would be his later wives: Talindra and Pamyel. However, because he still wanted to seek out Lady Luck, he abandoned them. He also admits to having abandoned other people he met in the past for that search for Lady Luck, rendering him all alone. The worst part is that Buck made it clear that he still will continue searching for Lady Luck, and that he is willing to continue burning down every new relationship he makes in the future in order to make his wish come true. This revelation soured the relationship between him and his party members.
• Rebellious Spirit: Liam has a strong dislike towards authority and the current norms, especially the current norms for the fae. He prefers the old ways of the fae, finding the older versions of fae as mischief makers and troublemakers to be way more fun.
• Recruiting the Criminal: Wurd recruited Paula the Rattler to both run the Soft Shore's Inn and gather information in New Bascay in order for the party to be kept updated on the movements of Lord Nicholas and the Underthrone Society in New Bascay.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The large humanoid Blot that attacked the party in the middle of the sea had a single red eye. It is also obviously very powerful and shows signs of sentience.
• Revenge Before Reason: As the party confronts the Tyrell the weather witch, she only agrees to explain her methods on how she summoned the Blot in exchange for them never telling anyone that she was involved, enforcing it with a hex. Most of the party reluctantly agrees to the deal, but Wurd — knowing that she's complicit in hurting his minions — pulls a dagger on her and has to be talked down by his friends to cooperate.
• The Rival: Purposefully invoked by La Destructora, who goes well out of her way to antagonize the party in petty ways that in no fashion actually threatens them. This is deliberate, because Jidae simply wants to track their progress through the pilgrimage across Elynthi with silly rival battles inspired by the original La Destructora that was equally as ineffectual when she fought Jidae's crew. When the party explains to her that things with the Blot are getting particularly tense, Jidae actually puts effort into fighting them on the train to truly test their capabilities, showing herself to be far stronger than she presented herself as being during the competition to become a pilgrim again during the first session, before officially revealing herself to the party. The party and Jidae mutually agree following the real fight to keep up the appearances of being rivals, and fights following the train encounter return to being silly, fun affairs to help the group and Jidae relieve stress. Humorously, until the train fight and Jidae's confession, Laira actually considers La Destructora to be a threat that's holding back against them for some nebulous reason. The rest of the party doesn't bother to correct her.
• Robbing the Dead: Wurd has no issues desecrating the dead when he dug into a random grave in Old Diosia just to look for some loot from the dead.
• Rooftop Confrontation: The true fight against La Destructora went from the train to the top of the train's roof.
• Save the Jerk: While not a villain, Andre is a massive jerk to both the party and even his own daughter Cecilia. Nevertheless, the party begrudging save the old man's life from the Blot, but only for Cecilia's sake.
• Save the Villain: A group of pirates attacked the ship that the party was on. Unfortunately for everyone, both sides were ambushed midway the fight by a group of Blot seemingly led by a large humanoid Blot. In the end, Fritz saved one of the remaining pirate minions (Adrian, a tiefling) and Wurd saved the pirate leader, Paula the Rattler.
• Scars Are Forever:
  • Buck has scars over his body, which are usually hidden by his poncho. He got them during his travels to meet Lady Luck again.
  • Grumble has scars and bruises on his arms, possibly due to his job as a protector and mechanic behind the town's sentries.
  • Noriam has a scar on her face as a result of a Blot attack.
  • Eduardo got a scar across his face, over his right eye.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • After Laira pushing the powerful humanoid Blot out of the ship and back into the ocean, Fritz uses Gust of Wind to push the ship's sail so they can drive the ship as far and as fast away as possible before more Blot arrive or the humanoid Blot returns.
  • When Paula walked in to see La Destructora making a scene outside the Soft Shore's Inn, she decided she didn't want anything to do with it and went back inside the inn.
  • Pavita chose to abandon her duties as Trevesetta's dragon and run away from the city because she couldn't handle the stress and pressure from the unending troubles of the people as well as the lack of appreciation she could from her job.
• Secretly Selfish: It was revealed that Buck is obsessed with meeting Lady Luck after his first encounter with her in the past. As a result, he was willing to abandon his former wives Talindra & Pamyel and breaking their hearts, as well as ruin many other relationships he had. If fact, he is still so obsessed with seeing Lady Luck again that he put the party in danger. And even after admitting how aware he is on the isolated he made himself due to this obsession, he is still adamant on continuing his search for Lady Luck and is still willing to ruin any future relationship he might make.
• Secret Test of Character: Eduardo pretends to be a newbie adventurer seeking help from potential candidates to see if they have what it takes to be adventurers.
• Sex Slave: Roberto from the Temple of Saphira strongly implied that he was this during his younger days when he was part of the Underthrone Society.
• Ship Tease:
  • Lord Candela seems to have a crush on Jorbib.
  • Rama and Cecilia seem pretty close as they were Only Friend of each other. This relationship grew by Session 8, when the party saw the two secretly kiss.
• Shipper on Deck: The party is this with Rama and Cecilia, as they helped the two become an Official Couple
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: After surviving the Blot attack near New Bascay, the party and Cecilia grew sick and tired of listening to Andre (ranging from complaining how 'bad' they did their job to demanding his daughter for money). But when the group ignored him and leave him behind, Andre had the nerve to shut that Cecilia would be nothing without him. This finally snapped Cecilia, leading the gladiator to knock her dad out cold in one punch.
• Spiteful Spit: After overhearing Andre berating not just his team but even his own daughter, Wurd made his displeasure clear by spitting on Andre's shoes before the old man left. Wurd would do another aggressive spit towards Andre's direction after the former saved the latter, with Andre still not learning his lesson.
• The Stoic:
  • Laira doesn't show much emotion due to her upbringing and serious personality.
  • Grumble is a man of few words and little expression, helped by the fact that has thick eyesbrows covering his eyes and a bushy beard & mustache covering his mouth.
• Stunned Silence:
  • Played for drama. When Wurd questions Buck on what he is going to do after the latter gets his wish to see Lady Luck again, Buck's player is just as speechless as his character as the player doesn't know how Buck should react to that.
  • When a Baztan guard tried to prevent the pilgrims from choosing to help out a civilian over going to a meeting with Lord Nicholas, Laira silenced him by delivering a nasty insult towards him. Even the DM himself was stunned by how good that burn was.
• Survivor Guilt: Sergi show signs of this as he felt guilty for the death of his group by the ancient Warforge during their exploration at the Pallitrios ruins, and he hoped getting the ancient Warforge's heart for his research could make sure the group's sacrifice wouldn't be in vain.
• Sword Plant: When Jidae decided to retire from joining future pilgrimages, she left her greatsword on the ground in front of Sacia's temple, along with many other weapons left behind by previous pilgrims.
• Taken for Granite: Tyrell got turned to stone by a Beholder during the former's attempts to open a portal to the realm of the gods. The only way she could be cured of her petrification is with a Greater Restoration spell or with a Greater Restoration potion.
• Team Pet: Butterscotch the Horse was bought by Wurd. In the next session, they get another horse named Efficiency.
• Tempting Fate: A Baztan footman was asking his companion why they were needed to stationed in an experimentation room when he gets ambushed by Laira in her panther form.
  Baztan Footman: Hey, you ever wondered why we're here- (gets tackled and pinned by Laira) Oh Gods!
• That Came Out Wrong:
  • While Buck was trying to help Fritz out with her issue about her meeting the father that abandoned her, he made a comment of how Wurd would kill Astrapio if Fritz told him to. Fritz then joked on how that comment made Buck sound like he's the one who wants to kill Astrapio, causing Buck to fluster and panic at how he sounded like.
  • When Wurd tried to convince Fritz to drink someone's leftover alcohol, he ended up describing the drink as "pristine trash". Conveniently, Wurd also rolled a Nat 1 on his Persuasion. As a result, Fritz isn't interested in the idea of drinking something referred to as "trash".
• Token Evil Teammate: Unsurprisingly for a rogue, Wurd fits this to a 'T. Unlike the rest of his team, he isn't above stealing, cheating, and just being a troublemaker.
• Too Dumb to Live: Played with. Out of character, Wurd's player knew that Wurd could still survive if he ate an enchanted egg that had a high chance of blowing up upon being eaten. However, in character, Wurd just knew it as an egg that grew from a magic bean and decided to try eating out to find out what happens.
• Tragic Keepsake: Sergi's heart is a wrench wand that originally belonged to a goliath friend named Viglin, who died during the exploration of the ruins near Pallitrios.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Fritz showed signs of this when she meets her birth father for the first time. She was rather dismissive towards him and even outright calls him a stranger rather than a father.
  • Captain Arzire undergoes this when he learns from the party that the plague spreading in Trevesetta is actually being artificially created by Lord Nicholas and his minions. This is on top of the fact that he learned that Pavita's life may be in danger and that Lord Nicholas plans to make himself as his city's dragon along as the city's lord.
• Trauma Button: The Humanoid Blot is capable to paralyzing people with visions of their biggest failures by staring the target directly into their eyes.
• Trickster Mentor: Eduardo, Tigamura's guild master, tries to be one by pretending to be a newbie adventurer and seeking out help from potential adventurer candidates. Unfortunately, he isn't very good at it due to his Bad "Bad Acting".
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: Buck suffered this as a result of the Humanoid Blot paralyzing him with visions of his past failures.
• Unfinished Business: The party found several lingering spirits inside the ruins near Pallitrios. These spirits are the remaining emotions and thoughts of those who died within the ruins.
• The Unfought: Sergi is the Dragon of Pallitrios, but unlike previous dragons the party encounters, he doesn't fight them at any point. Dragons are in control of the terms in which they hand their hearts to pilgrims, and Sergi decides to simply give it to them after helping explore the ruins of the old world south of the city.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Almost played straight. When the party founded that Liam had stowed away in their carriage, stole their stuff, and ate their food, the party prepared to capture and punish him. Liam then proceed to threatened to destroy a locket that he stole from the party, unaware that said locket is in fact a dragon's heart and destroying it would doom all of Elynthi. Fortunately, the party was able to safely get the locket back thanks to Laira's Entangle spell.
• Verbal Tic: Whenever Laira is nervous about something, she'll very overtly suck in a breath, either during conversation, before talking, or sometimes just mid-conversation with another person.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: During the cage match between the pilgrims and Cecilia's team, Buck took off his poncho after he recovered from a massive beating by Cecilia. This is to show the audience that he is getting serious.
• Walking the Earth: Jidae prefers to travel around the land freely. However, she is currently torn between this and the need to take over her uncle's role as Sacia's dragon as becoming an Elythian dragon robs your freedom to travel.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: La Destructora the Destroyer's spear is just a long pole made of wood with a sharp metal shard tied/taped on top. It was so weak that it was very easy for Wurd to cut in half with just one hit. This, along with her literal cardboard armor, reflect how funny and weak she is. La Destructora pulling out a real greatsword when she challenge the pilgrims to a real fight not only showed she's serious, but also doubles as a Five-Second Foreshadowing to her identiy as Jidae.
  La Destructora the Destroyer: It was the best I could do. What could I say?
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Supposedly, Priest Omar of Sacia's cathedral created the Underthrone Society in order to allow 'unscrupulous people' to still live in Sacia, so long as they honour their agreements and keep in line. However, Elias still has his doubts.
• We Used to Be Friends: Dozin revealed that he and Astrapio had a bit of an Odd Friendship in the past as a result of the latter defending him from a crime he didn't commit. However, after Astrapio gave his daughter to Dozin to take care of, the two men had a fall out when Astrapio barely communicated back to Dozin before all communications just stop all together.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The party runs into this dilemma when they run into an argument between merchant named Ruben and a warforged named Abril. Apparently, Ruben bought an unawakened warforged to work for him, and claims that he would set it fear when it awakens. However, Abril wants the unawakened warforged to be sent to the Pallitrios' lord for storage until it has awakened because he feared that otherwise the unawakened warforged would be worked ragged to the point of being badly damaged before it awakened.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • During the cage fight between the pilgrams and Cecilia's team, Cecilia prioritized healing herself over healing one of her allies, which hurt him. However, this is because of the pressure Cecilia is under by both her father and the audience.
  • During the third fight between the pilgrims and La Destructora the Destroyer, Buck attacked La Destructora again even though the latter lost the fight and was in the middle of monologuing right before leaving. La Destructora was shocked that Buck would do that and even the party were upset with Buck's action. Though, in fairness, Buck was still tired from fighting against the Blot earlier and was currently paranoid with the idea that the Blot was somehow tracking them down.
  • A more comedic example. Buck ended up losing the party's stuff when he performed a Rail-Car Separation during a fight against the Blot. When Wurd found out, he got mad at Buck for losing the horse treats and demanded Buck to pay back for them.
  • A serious and dramatic one. Fritz was absolutely furious with Buck because the latter's interests in taking Tyrell's offer to communicate with the gods led the party into a trap so deadly that it almost killed Fritz's friend Laira.
  • Wurd was angered upon learning that Pavita abandoned her city because she couldn't handle the responsibilities of being the dragon anymore and chose to run away just so she could live out for herself.
• Wham Line:
  • During the rematch against the Humanoid Blot near Pallitrios, the monstrous creature lets out a chilling line in Common as it seemingly dies. This foreboding phrase confirms suspicions and raises concerning questions.
    Humanoid Blot: WE WERE HERE BEFORE.
  • The Humanoid Blot delivers another one during the attack at the train, revealing a connection between the Blot and the fallen civilization that accused Elynthi of betraying and destroying them.
    Humanoid Blot: (to Buck) BETRAYERS.
• Wham Shot:
  • After discovering a restless spirit of a supposed lord that ruled a destroyed town within the Pallitrios ruins, they found dragon scales on the lord's chair that the spirit was at. This is especially shocking because the spirits of the destroyed claimed that Elynthi, the civilization with five dragons that help support the Life Tree, is responsible for their death and destruction.
  • At the end of Session 18, the Weather Witch Tyrell makes a return in Tigamura after suddenly disappearing in Sacia some sessions ago.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Defied. According to Pavita, she was forced into having the responsibility of being a dragon just because she "won the gene lottery". As a result, Pavita was forced to constantly save people her whole life, only for more trouble to arrive soon after. Eventually, Pavita grew sick and tired of it all, choosing to run away and abandon all her duties as the dragon so she could finally live her own life.
• Woman Scorned: Pamyel Masante never forgave Buck for abandoning her after their divorcement. She calls him a horrible person and said to his companions that they shouldn't trust him.
• You Are Number 6 The Awoken Warforge in Trevesetta's secret dungeon is named Number 7. According to him, he isn't allowed to have a real name until he 'pays off his debts' as a Warforge owned by someone. Number 7 plans to change his name into Soup Ladle once he earns his freedom.
• You're Not My Father: Fritz said this to Astrapio as the former sees Dozin as her real father and her birth father abandoned her when she was so young.