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Timber Islands
Barreldeep is a dwarven city carved inside an enormous living tree, where root-halls, barrel lifts, sapworks, brew chambers, and wood-stone craft make depth feel less like mining and more like a long conversation with a patient giant.
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Barreldeep dwarves do not live under the mountain. They live under the bark, which they insist is completely different and, if anything, more sensible.
Timber Islands, Nu Hamsterdarn, Timber Island Green Route Index, Verdant Colosseum, Root Barrel Farm, Grovewake
Angelique Martinique, known as Angeldust, was a VQU student when she witnessed Albert Rallus murder a fellow student, a moment that turned campus glamour into survival instinct. With blonde hair and high-fey poise, she helped Josette move from that Violince into the Queefdom elite of Velvet Cross.
characterArcanos Brightgleam is a gnome enchantment scholar and public spokesman for the Arcanist Ascendancy. Once an adjunct professor at Von Queef University, he built his reputation on theatrical lectures, applied illusions, and making dangerous arcane theory sound wonderfully reasonable.
characterRose Mary, known as Auntie, is an undead hag and former paragon of Gertie whose fall from divine favor curdled authority into bitterness. Once a feared figure in Gertie’s paragon courts, she was replaced during generational succession and withdrew from hag politics with her undead brother Marky as both enforcer and proof of what she could still preserve. Now serving the Road Warriors, Rose Mary breaks morale through hexcraft, fear illusions, curses, and sharp knowledge of personal weakness. Neutral Evil and cruelly funny, she may have lost divine status, but not the talent for making people feel collected before they are destroyed.
characterArthur is a surviving M.A.I. experiment, Vorpal founder, and portal-route ally now headed to VQU with Elmyra for Baron-backed support.
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characterBarney Rootbarrel, known as Brawny, is a halfling agricultural alchemist and co-founder of Medusa’s Farm near the Glow Pools. Once a beet farmer outside the Queefdom, Barney helped turn abandoned land into a working commune through patience, labor, and quiet strength.
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characterOrval Finkus is the performative Colonel of Root Barrel Farm, a suspect protector of Castro-displaced dragonborn workers and a contact in Havyk's demon-debt thread.
characterCrone — Greta Wunsch is the senior Von Queef University administrator who keeps missions, records, discipline, and institutional containment moving while more dramatic figures break the rules around her.
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characterM. A. I. C. E. , self-named ENEMI, was engineered in the M. A. I. Experiments as a hexelf weapon built for chaotic supremacy. Born from void infusion and mutation design, he survived by eliminating rival alignment-coded variants and claiming command of EVILS.
characterNick Kremp, the Firestarter, was an infernal wizard and adventurer of My Alchemical Romance whose lawful heart burned as brightly as his flamespeaking. Raised without privilege, Nick became the group’s public voice, hype man, and emotional warmth, using charm, optimism, and fire magic to lift others even when the world turned dangerous. His relationship with Iwlvflybadofsjhhu Jr. and bond with Princess Beatrix, his beloved polar bear companion, grounded him beyond spectacle. Nick believed in doing good, following the law where he could, and keeping the spark alive for his friends; his death in 2100 MB left My Alchemical Romance without one of its brightest lights.
characterAsh Stonefist was raised in seclusion by the Temple of the Equinox Vale, where discipline, balance, and physical mastery shaped every part of his life. His training made him focused and precise, but left him unfamiliar with much of the wider world. When void-born tentacles emerged from his body, Ash treated the change as part of his spiritual path. His power now tests the teachings that formed him, forcing him to balance serenity with mutation and control with uncertainty. As a member of My Alchemical Romance, Ash brings loyalty, speed, and strange wisdom to the group. His journey centers on mastering the tension between discipline and the void within him.
characterGeneral — Orlandus Spokovich was a wood elf/forged VQU student from the Timber Islands whose charm, humor, and theatrical confidence made him one of Floor 3’s defining presences before the campus broke open. His murder by Albert Rallus matters because it removed the student who made rooms feel alive, turning early VQU from a place of performance, jokes, and memorable trouble into a site of public grief and factional fracture.
characterZsaZsa Glittergold, known as Glittergold, is a mountain dwarf dancer, glamour bard, and flamboyant performer of the Pink Pony Tavern whose art turns spectacle into soft rebellion.
characterHavyk is a half-orc, half-elf rogue from the Free Coast, raised under Orlac’s brutal doctrine and determined to become something sharper than the Violince that made her. She fled her tribe, survived alone, and found peace with Devaireaux, a gentle noble whose love gave her a life beyond bloodshed before his death tore it apart. Now fighting with Kickassery Inc. and the Pink Pony Girls, Havyk protects queer lives, breaks abusive power, and turns grief into purpose. With psychic blades, magnetic control, Chaos the raven, and a broken pocket watch ticking like a heartbeat, she does not seek permission to be kind or dangerous.
characterTitian, known as Hemlock, was a tortle druid-necromancer and former elf whose exile from Timber Island transformed both body and philosophy. As a scholar of Von Queef University and founding member of Centrum, he pursued necrobotany not as corruption, but as synthesis: root and bone, bloom and rot, regeneration and decay held in the same living system. His work shaped magical ecology, Centrum governance, and the dangerous belief that endings could be cultivated into beginnings. Betrayed by Albert’s rise and presumed dead, Titian’s legacy still grows through rumor, scholarship, and the strange life rooted from his remains.
characterM. A. I. N. E. , known simply as Maine, is a Hexelf and forged construct survivor of the M. A. I. experiments, rebuilt by void science into something part sorcerer, part warlock, part detective, and part warning.
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characterMortellus Vayne, known as Mortis, was a Velvet Cross arch-necromancer who treated death not as tragedy, but as a system waiting to be mastered. His gravespeaking shaped resurrection theory, soul-binding vessels, grief constructs, and the infamous Scroll of Mass Resurrection, earning him awe in fringe circles and fear from regulated arcanists. Yet his deepest failure was personal: when Aria’s mother left by choice, no spell could undo it. Mortis turned legacy into obsession, even bargaining with Gertie the Collector for forbidden knowledge at the cost of Aria’s future child. Now presumed dead, his relics, writings, and possibly his soul remain dangerously unaccounted for.
characterBorn Rahab on the Timber Islands, Musk was a daughter of love and laughter who left home chasing adventure. Instead, she found captivity under Malevolus Krane, who twisted her biology into a weapon, and cruelty under Solar, who mocked her pain. She survived both, emerging furious and unbowed.
characterMarnie Rootbarrel, known as Mycelia, is a halfling spore druid and guardian of the Glow Pools, where broken bodies, strange fungi, and arcane corruption all find their way into the soil.
characterDhaz Pelosh, known as Nightshade, is a human technogenius and noble heir of Stormcall rebuilt from an explosion that should have erased him. Once a promising alchemy student, he survived maiming, partial deafness, and the collapse of certainty by forging prosthetics, concealed weapons, and a colder way of asking questions. His ties to Yuri Pelosh, Andrea Pelosh, the Lawful, and My Alchemical Romance leave him caught between family duty and hard-earned suspicion. Dhaz does not chase power for glory. He wants truth, revenge against Solar, and tools precise enough to make whoever broke his life answer for it.
characterElmyra Manticore, known as Prism, is an infernal Witchborn sorcerer from Dreadport whose magic first kept her alive as street performance before earning her a place among VQU’s First Five. Flashy, unpredictable, and Chaotic Good, she turns raw instability into color, motion, and sudden elemental transformation.
characterFelix Anthony, known as Prototype, is the Hexelf founder and supreme figurehead of FLESH, a failed survivor of the M. A. I. experiments who turned abandonment into ideology. To his followers, he is proof that flesh must reclaim supremacy from forged bodies, constructs, and the institutions that made them.
characterRhys Martinique, known as Rice Hands, was a flamboyant faerie wizard, former performer, and beloved member of Kickassery Inc. Raised between street acrobatics and dangerous stage magic, he earned his name juggling scalding rice in a circus fire act before turning those same hands toward delicate illusioncraft and expressive spellwork. With ink-black tattoos, rose-colored beads, and striking pink wings, Rhys made rebellion look radiant. He was deeply bonded to Havyk as soulmate, mirror, and grounding force, and his death before the campaign still burns through the Pink Pony Girls’ story. Even gone, Rice Hands remains proof that grief can glitter.
characterGullie Wave, known as Ripple, is a fae-touched human sorcerer from Willowhearth whose magic moves with the same restless sparkle as her personality. Clever, impulsive, and fiercely independent, she uses illusioncraft, charm, and misdirection to turn danger into something confused, glowing, and easier to escape.
characterOskar Duskshade, called Ruin, is a fallen celestial paladin, noble, and adventurer bound to the Abyss and to the family that chose him.
characterJosette Martinique, known as Stardust, was a VQU student when she and Angelique witnessed Albert Rallus murder a fellow student, binding their campus story to the Violince that reshaped the age. Black-haired, graceful, and quietly strategic, Josette helped turn survival into social ascent through Velvet Cross society.
characterMerris Tumbletwig is a Meadowkin-linked gnome wandcrafter, artificer, and traveling merchant contact in the Rootbarrel/Hazy Pastures support network.
characterSister Ylthwyn, called The Elder, is the second Sister Treant: a Power Nine deity of decay, endings, and the sacred work of returning all things to the soil. She is worshiped not as cruelty, but as necessary truth. Fallen trunks, fungal crowns, compost, old bones, and buried ruins all belong to her scripture. Ylthwyn teaches that nothing living can grow forever without surrender, and that rot is not failure but transformation. Rural faiths honor her at funerals, failed harvests, and the collapse of false permanence. In her roots, every ending becomes nourishment.
characterSister Vessina, called The Younger, is one of the Sister Treants: a Power Nine deity of growth, renewal, and living return. Where forests push through old roads and wounded soil sprouts green again, Vessina’s presence is felt in saplings, blossoms, root networks, and the stubborn mercy of regrowth.
characterAria Vayne, known as Veilstep and once called the Blue-Haired Girl, is the human daughter of the late necromancer Mortellus Vayne. Raised in the shadow of necromantic nobility, she fled after learning her father’s pact with Gertie the Collector had placed her future in danger. Now hidden beneath the Pink Pony Tavern, Aria survives through caution, quiet resolve, and a phasing power that lets her slip through shadow when threatened. She does not want revenge or power; she wants time enough to be free.
characterEllenthyra Mew, known as Vigor, is a catfolk VQU New Student from the Temple of the Equinox Vale. In Act 5 near Root Barrel Farm, she appeared with Zetch and Nell Quiv after the trio looted a cave and argued over a legendary wand; she recognized Ash Stonefist from the monastery and discussed leaving the Temple while following Albert Rallus’s path from monkhood toward greater power.
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characterCalithea was born to a noble house below the world and cursed into the form of a medusa before she could choose what that meant. Where her twin sister Xalaethra embraced monstrosity, Calithea fled toward mercy. Blindfolded to spare others from her gaze, she hid beneath the farm that would become Rootbarrel Brewery and devoted herself to healing, peace, and the study of petrification’s cure. Gentle by choice rather than weakness, Calithea proves that a curse does not get to decide the shape of a soul.
characterXalaethra is a Neutral Evil medusa sorcerer and exiled noble slaver from the Underdark, twin sister to Calithea and everything Calithea refused to become.
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characterVic Vaurr is a minotaur sanguinomancer and former Murderball player for the Stormcall StormCrows. In Act 5, he entered the active party space inside Vithyrex’s Maze while trapped in the labyrinth and searching for his missing dog.
characterMadam Batdorf is a gnoll matron spirit bound to a bone charm set recovered by Ash Stonefist. She berates, warns, and advises from the charm, especially around poison, preparation, hygiene, and survival.
itemCan cast Fireball at 3rd level as a bonus action from your hand, save DC 14, once per long rest. If you know Fireball, you may cast through the glove using spell slots as a bonus action. After casting, take 1d6 fire backlash.
itemPossible duplicate of Colonel's Volley Glove. Cast Fireball at 3rd level as a bonus action, save DC 14, once per long rest; after casting, take 1d6 fire damage backlash.
locationRoot Barrel Farm is a rural Queefdom worksite where old commune history, dragonborn displacement, Orval Finkus's hospitality, and the impossible Nick question have all taken root in the same soil.
locationThe Timber Island Green Route Index gathers the island's living paths: Willowhearth hearth-roads, Whispering Treetops canopy routes, Obsidian Fang danger trails, Verdant Vault garden-archives, druidic community leads, and void-touched wilderness that still needs careful source review.
locationTimber Island is a magical island region with Willowhearth as its old capital anchor, where Whispering Treetops, Obsidian Fang, druidic settlements, sacred ecology, Titian's home memory, lost medallions, and old Emrys secrets form a compact but powerful map.
locationNu Hamsterdarn is the largest animalfolk city in Jericha, a packed canal metropolis where ferries, market houses, cheese stalls, docks, and merchant politics keep the Timber Islands moving.
locationThe Verdant Colosseum is a druid-maintained arena where the battlefield changes shape between bouts and combatants traditionally fight in wild shape, turning public spectacle into ecological argument, legal ritual, and very loud botany.
locationGrovewake is a Timber Island grove-city where sacred trees, hidden paths, druidic law, and old island memory shape public life before outsiders realize they have entered a settlement.