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Mainland Jericha
Drakthar is a post-war continent-scale region with Driftmark as its old capital anchor, where Maiden's Mark, Hollowed Peaks, the Geistatts, Evermorn, Brimstone Hollow, Crimm, sacred dragonborn memory, and salvage economies all sit in tension.
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Drakthar is not dead. That is exactly why its ruins are dangerous.
Driftmark, Drakthar Sacred / Edge Route Index, The Geistatts, Inner Geistatts, Emrys Sacred Site, Drakthar Edge Cities, Maiden's Mark, Evermorn, Brimstone Hollow, Crimm
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characterArthur is a surviving M.A.I. experiment, Vorpal founder, and portal-route ally now headed to VQU with Elmyra for Baron-backed support.
characterFrod Wingkin is a black dragonborn rescued from the Vayne chapel rafters near Root Barrel Farm and returned toward Orval's farm.
characterIgnotus, known as Blaze, is an infernal sorcerer and former member of the Swarsbard Three whose pyrokinesis manifests through flamespeaking. A strategist more than a hero, he built the Black Company into a mercenary aid organization with darker business beneath the surface. Through his partnership with Maskara Azur, Ignotus distributes enchanted masks to criminals, then profits again by retrieving them. Now tied to the reformed Centrum, he treats fire as symbol, weapon, contract, and warning.
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characterK’rilith the Bloodscourge is a Duthka’Castro commander, engineered through blood alchemy into a living argument for Castro supremacy. Part Castro and part dragon hybrid, she leads void-theater operations with ruthless discipline, targeting dragonborn subjects and advancing experiments in draconic evolution. Her alliance with Dr. Malevolus Krane makes her work even more dangerous, blending battlefield command, transmutation science, and imperial ambition. Armed with a psionically enhanced silver greatsword, K’rilith does not treat war as conquest alone. To her, every battle is research, every captive is material, and every victory brings the next form of dominance closer.
characterValbrandt Wingkin is a blue dragonborn tied to Vithyrex Maze refugees, lightning-made glasswork, Orval's farm, and a questionable Byrash role among the Emrites.
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.
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.
characterFinnian Varnsworth II, known as Commander, built the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery from old military discipline and a refusal to ignore what others dismiss as superstition. A decorated Geistatts veteran, he turned from battlefield command to supernatural investigation, leading his lodge against hauntings, occult threats, and dangers polite society would rather name coincidence. His danger sense gives him only moments of warning, but Finnian has spent a lifetime making moments count. Outdated or not, he is still watching the dark.
characterGreta Wunsch, known as Crone, keeps Von Queef University functioning by doing what most mages fear most: reading the rules and enforcing them. A senior administrator from Le Queef, she oversees compliance, discipline, records, and the fragile bureaucracy holding VQU together after collapse, reopening, and reform.
characterTheadora du Montclair, known as Cutlass, left aristocratic comfort behind for locked windows, moonlit rooftops, and duels worth remembering. An elven swashbuckler of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, she brings charm and unpredictability to the group’s investigations, especially when noble doors need opening from the wrong side. Her shapeshifting makes her a natural infiltrator, though she rarely lingers in any borrowed face. To Theadora, identity is a tool, freedom is the prize, and every secret has a weak point.
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characterEmrill, later remembered as Emrys II, was an extradimensional Castro whose arrival during the Drakkuskan War changed Jericha’s history. Presenting themself as a prophet and claimed paragon of Emrys, Emrill guided dragonborn zealots toward resurrection rites, void invocation, and rebellion against the world above them. Their influence helped ignite the conflict tied to Xorrika Mjokmek, the militarized Drakkuskan House, and the death of Phalaxiflore von Queef. Though now presumed dead, Emrill’s doctrine survived as the foundation of the Black Ward, proving some outsiders do not need to remain present to keep corrupting the future.
characterTimaeus Smiteclaw, known as Fallen Star, was a red dragonborn paladin whose name suggests both radiance and ruin. The records leave much of his life unwritten, preserving only his lineage, calling, and death, but even that outline carries weight: a Smiteclaw sworn to sacred purpose, now remembered as something that burned bright before falling. Whether he died in battle, disgrace, sacrifice, or prophecy, Timaeus remains the kind of figure whose absence invites stories to gather around it. In Jericha, a fallen paladin is rarely only a corpse. Sometimes he is a warning, a relic, or a vow still waiting to be answered.
characterDiarmaid, called Flynn by Dallas Dalton, is a massive long-haired Highland cow with the calm patience of a pasture and the impact force of a runaway wagon. Raised alongside Dallas and gifted to her as a calf, Flynn has followed her from home to the Pink Pony Girls as companion, guardian, and family.
characterHad a meeting with my supervisor and she said that when she pulled my data this morning she realized that the tracker that has been being used in my monthly meetings was set up incorrectly so that since she took over my numbers have been wrong And I basically was like “Well it’s obviously not your fault, since you’re…
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characterMagistrate Verik Thorne is Gravenhurst's Lawful courtroom controller, central to Maine's trial, Krane's testimony pressure, and the legal machinery around Castro-era panic.
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.
characterZhurnuuz Wingkin, known as Ooze the Green, is a green dragonborn sorcerer and acolyte of the Wingkin line, where blood, breath, and doctrine twist together into something corrosive. His power manifests through a toxic breath weapon and the patient cruelty of one who understands poison as both element and philosophy. Chaotic Evil by nature, Zhurnuuz does not rush to overwhelm when he can seep into weakness, erode trust, and let fear spread before the strike. Among the Wingkin Acolytes, he is less a blunt instrument than a living toxin: visible only after the damage has already begun.
characterKuovena Bravespeaker, known as Ouija, is a minotaur warlock of Von Queef University and one of the First Five, carrying the dead with them in more ways than one. Raised in the Bravespeaker tradition after the fall of the Wingkin Mountains, they inherited a spiritual lineage shaped by pact obligations, ancestral voices, and survival under pressure. Their gravespeaking lets them commune with spirits, channel the dead, and bind echoes through ritual, but Kuovena seeks more than obedience to old bargains. Chaotic Good and determined to redefine their people’s path, Ouija treats death not as an ending, but as counsel from those still waiting to be heard.
characterNorman Shankswell is a Geistatts gravespeaker and Benevolent Lodge investigator who reads hauntings, old violence, and the dead as evidence.
characterKrildan Myrex, known as Professor Myrex, is a bronze dragonborn transmutation specialist whose academic disgrace became the Road Warriors’ advantage. Once a Von Queef University faculty member respected for material reshaping theory, Myrex was quietly dismissed after controversial mutability experiments and apprentice disappearances. Under Dr. Malevolus Krane, that same rigor now fuels Boost enhancement, biological destabilization, and mutation-cell operations. Clinical, precise, and Neutral Evil, Myrex treats bodies like arguments waiting to be revised. The tragedy is not that he abandoned scholarship; it is that he still believes this is scholarship.
characterHelga Wingkin is a red dragonborn prisoner from Vithyrex's Maze who allies with Jonah, Vala, and Valbrandt before the Wingkin rescue thread is interrupted.
characterRenfield Hoek was an elven Lawful gate guard stationed at Gravenhurst’s main entrance, where regulations became performance in his hands. Hyperactive, theatrical, and intensely procedural, he treated every traveler, cart, and suspicious pause as an opportunity to defend civic order with maximum volume. Alongside his partner Stimpson Katz, Renfield kept detailed gate logs and served as one of the city’s most visible, if eccentric, faces of enforcement. His devotion was genuine beneath the absurdity. In 2100 MB, he became lost in Vityhrex’s Labyrinth and was killed fighting dragonborn, leaving Gravenhurst quieter than it ever expected to be.
characterSecret Coin is a bronze dragonborn broker and primary negotiator for the Black Company, polished enough to seem diplomatic and dangerous enough to make diplomacy feel like a trap. Once a smuggler, he rose through the underworld by treating secrecy as currency and memory as collateral. His whispering lets him bind agreements into recollection, alter what clients believe they remember, and ensure contracts cannot be casually escaped. Belial keeps his origins obscured while speaking for Ignotus’s interests.
characterStardust — Josette Martinique is a faerie illusionist and former VQU student whose witness to Orlandus’s murder became part of the campus trauma that launched the Martinique sisters toward Velvet Cross and Centrum Security Force power. Her relevance centers on Angelique, Rice Hands, and the way elegance, survival, and social access turned early VQU violence into later institutional influence.
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characterVala Gearsprocket, known as Toolbox, is a gnome artificer and cryptotechnologist of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, where unsolved hauntings meet field-tested machinery. Brilliant, eccentric, and Chaotic Good, she began building constructs in childhood and never stopped improving them. Her Witchborn technogenius lets her create small animated companions, repair equipment under pressure, and deploy “Mystery Machine” devices that turn investigation into controlled chaos. Within the Lodge, Vala provides the technological edge that ghost stories rarely expect. Some of her constructs behave beyond their design, but she insists that is only a problem after the case is solved.
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characterSimon Baker, better known by the hexname Victor Shaw, is a human maskweaver from Rifleton whose life has been defined by deception, disguise, and the refusal to let the powerful go unpunished. After turning against the nobleman who exploited his mother, Simon fled into the Fey Realm and learned to survive through false faces, poison, humor, and misdirection. As a member of My Alchemical Romance, partner to Exaba, and companion to the dragon Walter, he hides vulnerability behind jokes and insists he would never lie even when deception is his sharpest tool. Simon looks out for himself first, but his hatred of exploitation keeps pulling him toward peasants, street kids, and anyone crushed under wealth or power.
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characterLady Marnette Duskshade, known as Widow, is a Lawful Evil human noble, potion master, and Abyss power broker from Driftmark exile nobility. Born into an alchemical empire built on patents, assassination, and inheritance, she refined her family legacy into a weapon of high society. Her Witchborn sanguinomancy lets her transmute her own blood into venom, antidote, binding resin, or crystalline tools, each use weakening the body that ambition refuses to spare. Composed, generous when useful, and socially indispensable, Marnette controls outcomes through salons, contracts, and perception. Even at the Masquerade, scandal bent around her rather than breaking her.
characterSarn Brightscale is a gold dragonborn of the Brightscale family, remembered in the records with more absence than certainty. Listed as good-aligned and presumed deceased, Sarn’s life has become the kind of unfinished entry that suggests either tragedy, secrecy, or both. What is known is simple: he belonged to a noble draconic lineage whose name implies radiance, honor, and the burden of expectation. In Jericha, presumed death rarely closes a story cleanly, especially when dragonborn blood and contested histories are involved. Sarn remains less a settled memory than a missing light, still capable of casting questions from beyond the page.
characterAleklot the Green is the deceased dragon whose resting place became Aleklot's Rest and later a dragonborn pilgrimage site.
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characterAn unnamed 20-year-old high-fashion elf who appeared in the Velvet Cross crowd.
characterAn unnamed high-fashion elf mother who appeared in the Velvet Cross crowd with her 20-year-old son.
itemA historical artifact and in-world source rather than a combat item. Reading or citing the journal can provide context on Drakkuskan War-era travel, early student adventuring, cult activity, dragonborn involvement, relic rumors, old routes, and people who later became Centrum figures. Exact dates should be treated as provisional when newer canon disagrees.
itemCondensed Void energy equal to 100 Void Dust. Spend diamonds equal to power tier to unlock Void-aligned abilities; consume for long-rest benefits and +1 resonance; used as catalyst for Void enchanting/upgrades requiring matching tier count and crafting skill in a Void-aligned ritual space/forge/evolution chamber.
locationThe Drakthar Sacred / Edge Route Index gathers the living ports, edge cities, haunted interior roads, mountain shrines, dawn settlements, sulfur hollows, and marked ritual sites that make Drakthar more than a ruin belt.
locationBrimstone Hollow is a Drakthar hazard site where sulfur vents, hot stone, and fire-linked secrets make the road feel less like travel and more like a warning from the earth.
locationCrimm is a Drakthar settlement marker that can anchor local civic life, hard travel, and regional rumors between the harsher mountain sites.
locationDrakthar Edge Cities is the living-city belt around Drakthar's more dangerous interior, preserving trade, government, refugee life, and salvage economies without pretending the continent is only ruins.
locationDriftmark is a Drakthar port and trade hub where living city politics meet relic risk, refugee movement, and salvage routes into the continent's scarred interior.
locationEmrys Sacred Site is a Drakthar holy ruin and historical marker where Emrys-linked legacy, rites, miracles, and protected memory can carry campaign-facing sacred stakes.
locationEvermorn is a map-visible Drakthar settlement or region whose dawn and renewal imagery offers a softer counterweight to the Hollowed Peaks, Brimstone Hollow, and the region's harsher routes.
locationInner Geistatts names the deeper small-town belt of Drakthar's haunted interior: ghost towns, scams, odd crimes, desolate farms, and things pretending to be ordinary.
locationMaiden's Mark is a map-visible Drakthar marked site with ritual possibility, settlement traces, and scar-like significance, suited for vows, warnings, old power, and careful local history.
locationThe Geistatts are Drakthar's cursed or exploited interior terrain, a region of ghost towns, strange crimes, desolate fields, and salvage stories that rarely end cleanly.