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Chult Characters

Characters appearing in campaigns set on Chult or sharing continuity.

Player Characters

Escape from Semolo Plateau

    Bontan 
Played By: Beej Dery
A Chultan dwarf with the gift of magic who wants to learn healing spells. Apprenticed under the local necromancer as the only magic user he was aware of. Arrested for being a necromancer. Not a necromancer.
  • An Arm and a Leg: His left arm is replaced with a giant demon arm after he makes a pact with a giggledemon parasite.
  • Auto-Revive: The tattoos he and the other necromancer apprentices have automatically revive them as sapient undead should they die.
  • Insistent Terminology: Bontan is apprenticed to a necromancer. He occasionally uses necromantic magic. He is not a necromancer.
    • Until the finale of Escape from Semolo Plateau, at least, where he accepts being a necromancer so he can control an undead giggledemon.
  • Shoot the Medic First: In the first few sessions he's consistently incapacitated during fights despite being the only healer. It gets to the point that he buys himself a suit of plate armor to try to die less.

    Snak 
Played By: Graham Stark
A batiri from the Dino Skull tribe who left them and became a guard on Semolo Plateau. Arrested for stealing guard equipment.
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The Dino Skull tribe is incredibly affectionate and Snak is their smallest member. Their treatment of him is part of why he left.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: The fact that he left his original tribe and was then imprisoned by the militia group he joined make the rest of the party think this. Subverted; turns out he's just not that fond of his tribe and was only stealing supplies to leave Semolo Plateau.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Snak's never really fit in anywhere, explaining his shifting loyalties in the past. Part of his sticking with the party is because he's actually become friends with them.
  • Our Goblins Are Different: Particularly the Dino Skull tribe that Snak comes from, who are quite friendly and whose war dances are more for fun than intimidation. Snak himself is an outlier from them in that he's asocial.
  • The Napoleon: Because of his stature he's been made fun of his whole life and has a lot of pent-up aggression over it.

    Morra 
Played By: Kathleen De Vere
An elf from Faerun who traveled to Chult to rescue the lizards used in the Semolo Plateau's poison trade. Arrested for interfering with the poison trade.
  • Animal Wrongs Group: Her enthusiastic activism doesn't really help anyone; she doesn't know where the lizards would be safe on Chult, so she just lets them loose in the zombie dinosaur-filled jungle.
    • In addition, the group she works for seems more interested in destroying Semolo Plateau than helping the lizards.
  • Disappeared Dad: Morra's dad died when she was younger. As Dale points out that resurrection magic is common on Faerun, they infer that he opted not to come back so as to free himself from his terrifying wife.
  • Mighty Whitey: Subverted. Morra has this mindset (albeit in culture rather than race) but causes more problems than she solves when trying to stop the lizard crushing.
    • Notably, the native Dino Skull tribe and a Semolo Plateau defector go farther in reforming the poison trade than Morra ever did, and completely without her involvement.
  • Prehensile Tail: Develops one after making a pact with a giggledemon parasite. She couldn't be more elated.
  • Skewed Priorities: Above just about anything else, Morra's really focused on fixing her mother's cloak.

    Dande 
Played By: Paul Saunders
A particularly fluffy manul tabaxi working on a guidebook to the continent of Chult. Arrested for arson.
  • Arch-Enemy: Aside from Bebbo's role in the general weirdness around Chult, Dande had already marked him as having probably framed him for arson.
    • When they eventually face off Dande is the one who attacks Bebbo directly and nearly kills him.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: His class. Other party members sometimes joke that his AC is due to his thick fur obscuring his body's location and acting as armor.
  • Cat Folk: A very fluffy tabaxi. He gets things stuck in his fur constantly.
  • He Knows Too Much: His discovery of a patch of red ferns outside Semolo Plateau would threaten their monopoly of the lizard poison trade. The poison master frames him for arson and sends Bebbo to destroy his guidebook and the ferns.
  • Frame-Up: While they may or may not have had justification, the other characters really did commit the crimes they were accused of one way or another. Dande, on the other hand, was framed by the poison master.

Murder on the Semolo Plateau

    Rigen 
Played By: Ben Ulmer
A happy-go-lucky human bard whose songs elicit mixed reactions.
  • Draw Aggro: While under attack from a wyvern he uses the corpse of a pteradon as bait to give the rest of the party time to grab evidence and call reinforcements.
  • Life of the Party: At the surprise party for Seni's release he goes straight for the moonshine, starts a limbo competition, and plays music.

    Lenta 
Played By: Cori Dickinson
A dwarven barbarian and the team's heavy hitter.
  • Cool Sword: She has an obsidian greatsword with some kind of magical enchantment to keep it from breaking.
  • Dynamic Entry: After ringing an alarm bell during a fight with a wyvern she gets back into combat by leaping down from her platform onto its back weapon-first.
  • Walking the Earth: After the case she takes her sword and becomes an adventurer.

    Aten 
Played By: Ian Horner
A human ranger and a rather professional guardsman.
  • Aloof Archer: He uses a bow in combat and is comparatively stoic and professional.
  • Genre Savvy: Suggests questioning the mayor about the murder victim without telling him they know he was poisoned. His reasoning being that Everyone Is a Suspect and that the mayor used to be the poison master.
  • Old Soldier: He's getting up there in years, enough so that the rest of his family has died of old age. The fact that he's lived so long in Chult of all places speaks to his experience.
  • Walking the Earth: After the murder is resolved he quits the guard and leaves Semolo Plateau to spend the rest of his days exploring Chult.

    Daji 
Played By: Kathleen De Vere
A human rogue and the note-taker of the party.
  • By-the-Book Cop: Daji takes his job pretty seriously compared to his fellow guardsmen. He also doesn't have a problem with turning in other guards for not doing their jobs properly.
    • He gets a pat on the back after the case for managing to both follow protocol to the letter and avoiding implicating his fellow guardsmen in anything illicit.
  • Nothing Personal: Tries to make small talk with Seni after she's released from prison, apparently ignoring the fact that he's the one who turned her in in the first place.note 

Semolo Plateau

    The Sage 
The only magic user allowed on the Semolo Plateau and responsible for any sorts of magical affairs.
  • Hypocrite: Magic is outlawed on the Semolo Plateau as they believe it corrupts the soul. The Sage claims to have selflessly sacrificed her soul to provide magical aid... and ensures no one else gets to use magic.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: Along with the Mayor, both of whom have been raised from the dead before. It turns out to be afflicting anyone who's been raised from the dead.

    Bebbo 
The Sage's meek assistant.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Bebbo is a squeaky-voiced low-level employee, frequently teased by the prisoners he interacts with as well as his boss, and can't take a punch. He's also a warlock who can summon demons so he doesn't need to.
  • Big Bad: Set up as this, as he appears to have framed the party for murder and is trying to do something to Semolo Plateau involving the poison trade and a summoned demon army.
    • Subverted. He doesn't know anything about the murder and is just trying to undercut their poison trade to make a profit and 'because they're jerks'. The demons are just henchmen.
  • Deal with the Devil: Bebbo turns out to be a warlock. His patron lets him summon demons and turn invisible.
  • Flunky Boss: If fact, he's all flunky. His standard procedure is to summon a bunch of demons, turn invisible, and hide until the coast is clear. He takes very few hits before he's at one health point and begging for his life.
  • Unwitting Pawn: He's only going into the poison trade to make a profit and screw over Semolo Plateau. The fact that he ends up gaining demonic powers and working for a freaking dragon would imply something else is going on that he's missing.
  • Walking Spoiler: As evident by the numerous tags. He initially appears pretty ordinary, so once he attracts the party's attention what exactly he's up to becomes a major plot point.

Chult

    Abu-Nihar 
A prominent necromancer who controls the undead population by taking control of them and using them as building materials.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: He has the whole range of powers that would typically be ascribed to a villainous necromancer, but he uses them to make Chult a bit safer.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He has skeletal wings and lives in an ever-growing citadel built entirely out of undead. He also keeps the wandering undead population down, provides amulets to repel undead to local communities, and trains apprentices to provide the same services.
  • The Eeyore: Not on-screen, but he's described as such whenever Bontan isn't around. He falls into depression when he thinks Bontan's been killed, preemptively graduating his other apprentices and hiding out in his quarters.
  • Love at First Punch: When the party returns to the stronghold to find Abu-Nihar gone Jaliya explains that Morra's mother had a duel with him and now no one is allowed to disturb their honeymoon.
  • Necromancer: He doesn't do a whole lot of raising the dead, but he takes control of the zombies wandering around Chult to keep them from being more of a nuisance than they already are.

    Armdo and Lemji 
Armdo is the dim yet affable leader of a tribe of nomadic humans while Lemji (called 'Legdo' by Armdo) is his husband who acts as more of a diplomat.
  • Brains and Brawn: Lemji and Armdo respectively.
  • Connected All Along: One of the prisoners in Semolo Plateau, Shakes, who dies in an attempted revolt, is Lemji's brother.
  • Dumb Muscle: Armdo might not be very smart but his name is appropriate, and he's all too eager to help his friends out in a fight.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Between the two of them they make one. Armdo makes dumb decisions but Lemji keeps him from getting in over his head; Lemji can be underhanded but is tempered by Armdo's straightforwardness.

    Mazie 
A particularly mysterious acolyte of Ubtao.
  • Mysterious Stranger: Very little is known for sure about Mazie. Even her name is probably not her name. Her introduction has her show up out of nowhere inside Semolo Plateau's prison, kill a zombie, chat with Rigen, and vanish again.
  • Punny Name: Ubtao's holy symbol is a labyrinth. Her pseudonym is pronounced maze-y.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: She appears and disappears seemingly out of nowhere.
  • Walking the Earth: She says she usually wanders Chult with brief stops along the way.

Not a Drop to Drink Characters

Characters appearing in Not a Drop to Drink: Vancouver Island by Night.

Player Characters

    Jessica Chadwick 
Played By: Heather Dery
The neonate childe of the Toreador Primogen of Vancouver, Jessica is a former art school student trying to get into journalism but stuck writing listicles for a Buzzfeed-equivalent, a part-time Etsy seller, and a full-time Toreador princess.
Jacob: I don't know that you've ever discussed, uh, Jessica's sexuality to Cathy. (one of Jessica's annoying roomates)
Heather: Nope.
Jacob: Alright. ...has Jessica ever discussed Jessica's sexuality with Jessica?
Heather: Nope.
Jacob: ...what a night.

    Oliver Tyndall 
Played By: Adam Savidan
An elderly part time shop teacher turned Caitiff vampire by an unknown individual. Swept off the streets by the Victoria Sheriff in order to keep up the Masquerade, he is abruptly finding himself neck-deep in Kindred politics.
  • Acrofatic: Post-Embrace Oliver has a level of grace no human man of his build and age would be capable of, up to jumping over Silas from a standing start when in a hunger frenzy.
  • Audience Surrogate: Both Adam and Oliver serve to ask questions the audience, especially those in it less familiar with Vampire lore, would be asking.
  • Big Eater: Even as a vampire, Oliver has been eating human food to a similar degree as he did in life. This horrifies most other Kindred, is a source of bile fascination for a few, and turns out to have been a really bad idea when Oliver finds out vampires don't and in fact can't poop after having been one for about three months.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: A firm believer in Bigfoot.
  • Enemy Within: So far, the only member of the coterie shown to consciously consider his Beast a separate entity from himself. This resulted in Oliver having an out-of-body experience during his first Frenzy.
  • Hopeless with Tech: Can't operate a cell phone. Naturally, he's the one given a phone with the Sheriff's number in it. He tends to foist it onto Jessica.
  • Shop Class: His former day job, when not being a vampire afforded him the ability to have a day job, or day-anything, really. His vignette at the beginning of season 2 (covering the days post-Embrace until Quinn stepped in to try to mitigate his damage to the Masquerade) included the heartbreaking decision to remove himself from the teaching rotation, just as he was being offered a full-time position.
  • Vegetarian Vampire: The other way in which Oliver clings to his humanity via food: he only feeds on animals, which he summons to himself via the Animalism Discipline or, prior to learning he can do this, eats his neighbors' Pomeranians. The first time he feeds on a non-animal is in a Frenzy, when he barrels through the rest of the coterie to feed on an injured thinblood.

    Jordan Hinkleman 
Played By: Coriander Dickinson
Finding herself without purpose after a family tragedy and a divorce, Jordan ended up being embraced by a Brujah Archon and hopes to earn the privilege of embracing her remaining family - her college-age daughter.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Has the darkest known past of the coterie: her marriage fell apart after her twin children were killed in an accident.
  • Lightning Bruiser: The only member of the coterie who has any semblance of combat capabilities, appropriately enough for a Brujah "warrior-scholar".
  • Team Mom: Somewhat begrudgingly and extremely exasperatedly; Jordan and Silas are both nominally responsible for Jessica and Oliver, but Jordan usually ends up being the only one attempting to herd the rest of the coterie towards their goals.

    Silas Reed 
Played By: Cameron Lauder
An architect and very good boy Tremere whose life goal of making sure humanity survives has become an unlife goal of making sure the planet survives as long as he does, which he presumes is until the heat death of the universe.

Non-Player Characters

    Quinn Jackson 
Vancouver Island's Sheriff, a Ventrue with considerable personal charisma and far too much on his hands.
  • Stealth Pun: A Black man with the surname Jackson and a first name that sounds like quinque, the Latin word for five.

    Marge 
A peculiar Thinblood the coterie encounters on campus.
  • Loss of Identity: Has forgotten pretty much everything about their life before the Embrace (including their name - Marge is given to them by the coterie) although it's yet to be determined if it was the undeath that did it. Bits and pieces of their memory starts to return thanks to the coterie making attempts to jog it in order to find their sire.
  • Mad Oracle: Comes off as one, making the coterie speculate that they're a Malkavian.

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