Gravenhurst

Fallen celestial paladin with bonecraft, Duskshade obligations, Abyssal ties, and QUEST field-mission relevance.

Infernal Castro hunter, trapper, and party-adjacent ally whose revenge thread now points toward active Castro hunting.

Minotaur sanguinomancer and former Stormcall StormCrows player who joins the post-Maine-arrest roster.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Brunk Charleston, known as Bones, is an undead gravekeeper and necromancer bound to the Queefdom Cemetery near Gravenhurst. Once a mortal scholar tied to Von Queef University and the Phlakin Library, he preserved his soul inside his own decaying body and has guarded the dead for centuries. His gravespeaking allows him to commune with those interred beneath his care and command cemetery-bound undead when graves are disturbed. Bones is not a conqueror of death, but its custodian.

Retyunskikh Braskawyk built the name Braska the Red in the streets and strongholds of Gravenhurst, where reputation is earned loudly or not at all. Once a Thieves Guild contractor, he cut ties and rose as a captain of the Graven Scourge, favoring open dominance over quiet deals. His Witchborn brawling makes him dangerous in any close fight, but his real weapon is presence: red-haired, sharp-tongued, and always ready to turn Violince into a public lesson.

Barney 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. His Witchborn power grants steady supernatural might, better suited to rebuilding walls than breaking them. As brewmaster of Rootbarrel Brewing, Barney creates tonics that support his community and draw attention from powers beyond the farm.

Valara Cirio is known to Gravenhurst as The Blade, guildmaster of the Thieves Guild and a quiet protector of mutates displaced by Dr. Krane’s experiments. Under the alias C.C., she moves through the city as an independent broker of secrets, gathering intelligence while keeping her true strategy buried beneath layers of rumor. Her altered senses can detect Krane-touched mutation nearby, making her both hunter and shield. Few know C.C. and The Blade are the same woman; fewer survive misusing that knowledge.

Jeff Low, known as Castaway, is the Black Ward’s least intimidating cleric: a farm boy who followed a stranger’s whispers into the Void because they sounded like belonging. More earnest than fanatical, Jeff prays too long, smiles when frightened, and mistakes ordinary coins or barn stains for divine omens. His communion brings muddled dreams and fleeting visions, usually misunderstood but sometimes strangely useful. Captured by the Castro, he survived by being too harmless to fear and too sincere to discard. Now he drifts between cult and captors, unsure whether he was chosen, forgotten, or simply left standing where the universe last dropped him.

Dallas Dalton, known as Dynamite, was raised in a close-knit community where loyalty meant survival and family meant everything. When her mother, K’Zhara Flamehand, was taken by powerful men, Dallas carried the loss like a live coal. Now a fire djinni barbarian with the Pink Pony Girls and Kickassery Inc., she brings teleportation, rage, and stubborn devotion to every fight. With her Highland cow Flynn at her side and a broken pocket watch in her pocket, Dallas never starts trouble—she just makes sure it ends.

Captain Helena Briar, known as Guardian, is a Lawful field commander in Gravenhurst whose authority was earned through merit rather than politics. A human paladin commander with a reputation for discipline and restraint, she leads civilian protection operations while trying to preserve moral clarity inside an institution beginning to show its fractures. Helena believes order means little if it cannot defend the vulnerable, and her command style reflects that conviction: firm, practical, and unwilling to confuse obedience with justice. In the Void Age, she stands as one of the Lawful’s better promises—and one of its possible breaking points.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Alfred Rallus, known as Hollow, was once Kuzon, a friend of Kaya and a life with a name before the Black Ward remade him. Now transformed into a voidforged construct, he is treated as proof that Albert Rallus’s ascension could be refined into something stronger, colder, and more obedient. His void manifestation twists gravity itself, letting him strike with impossible weight, move with sudden lightness, and turn force into doctrine. Within the Black Ward, Hollow is revered as a perfected vessel. Outside it, he is a tragedy wearing armor: a person carved down until only purpose remained.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Kaya is a quiet storm—disciplined, devout, and scarred by tragedy. Raised in a monastery alongside her beloved friend Kuzon, her life shattered when her adoptive monk family was slaughtered. Now she travels the world seeking justice, strength, and spiritual clarity, wielding her spear with a pacifist’s heart and a warrior’s rage. Kaya fights not just for vengeance, but to become the kind of person her fallen family would still believe in.

Janna Brightspark, known as Kindle, is a fire djinni scribe and junior analyst working inside the Lawful offices of Gravenhurst. Soft-spoken, precise, and stubbornly ethical, she has learned that a corrected clause can save a life as surely as a spell. Her flamespeaking marks her elemental heritage, but her real influence often comes through documentation, procedural clarity, and quiet refusal to let unjust rulings pass unchallenged. In an institution strained by corruption and fear, Janna is not a loud reformer. She is the margin note, amended filing, and careful spark that keeps the record honest.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Maine — M.A.I.N.E. is a Hexelf/forged survivor of the M.A.I. experiments whose Whispering, warlock path, and detective instincts make them both investigator and living evidence of Centrum’s hidden failures. Their relevance comes through trauma turned into tactics, with active hooks around tsunami guilt, multiple Maine variants, Tono and PP5, Bauble and the Reborn, Lawful accusations, Arthur’s MAI revelations, Vithyrex heart pieces, and the arrival at Bones’s cemetery beside Enemy and another variant.

M.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. Their steel, circuits, and scars are obvious; their real weapon is Whispering, a mental manipulation gift that plants doubt, paranoia, confidence, or questions where certainty used to be. With My Alchemical Romance and the MKN Detective Agency, Maine turns trauma into tactics while searching for the other M.A.I. subjects and the truth of their own making. Power made them dangerous, but their chosen bonds may decide what they become.

Marnie 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. Once a quiet naturalist and beet farmer with Barney Rootbarrel, she became a protector after the Battle of VQU left mutation and Boost contamination spreading through the region. At Medusa’s Farm, Marnie heals what she can, shelters Meadowkin survivors, and uses fungal magic to sense, cleanse, and resist corruption. Calm, slow-spoken, and immovable when threatened, she proves restoration is not gentle work. Sometimes healing has teeth.

Nymeria Duarte is an elven cleric of Kickassery Inc. whose faith brought her to Gravenhurst seeking a clearer connection with the Gamemaster and the meaning behind her visions. Since youth, she has seen flashes of possible futures, each one tangled in danger, prophecy, and unanswered divine intent. Her botany manifests through radiant green spellwork like blossoming vines, matching a spirit that finds holiness in small acts of care as much as grand miracles. Compassionate but pragmatic, Nymeria will seek relics, answers, and power when prayer is not enough. She still believes the gods may be guiding her, but she has begun to wonder whether the visions are blessings—or warnings.

Percival Pringle III, known as PP3, was a human noble artificer of Point Pringle and a celebrated inventor whose legacy still rattles through every experimental district in the city. Hailed as a Drakkuskan War innovator, he helped define the Pringle ideal: progress first, consequences eventually. His Eidolon Bond with his beloved sheep Schnookums became part of both family myth and civic gossip, especially after grief pushed his brilliance into stranger and more volatile directions. His death and funeral became the threshold into Point Pringle’s Act 4 crisis, leaving the city’s future to the surviving Pringle line.

Natasha Brand, known as Redcloak, is an infernal woman whose disappearance turned Tarria Brand’s grief into a crusade against the Graven Scourge. Once fierce, impulsive, and deeply bonded to her sister, Natasha fell into Boost dependency before vanishing into Gravenhurst’s underworld. Rumors place her in Scourge custody, not as a recruit by choice but as a captive, asset, or test subject reshaped by addiction and experimentation. Her current condition remains unknown, with whispers of mutation and a childhood charm from Tarria still carried somewhere close. To the Scourge, she may be property. To Tarria, she is still family worth burning the city to find.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Renfield 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.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Judah, known as Silvertongue, is a human preacher and ideologue of the Black Ward whose voice turns rejection into doctrine. Once denied entry to Von Queef University, he recast academic exclusion as proof that Jericha’s institutions feared the truth of the Void. His Witchborn whispering sharpens rhetoric into mental pressure, inspiring zealotry, obedience, and coordinated action among cultists and voidbearers. Neutral Evil and civil by design, Judah elevates Albert and Alfred Rallus as prophetic symbols while positioning himself as interpreter of their meaning. He does not need to command loudly. He only needs the crowd to believe the thought was theirs.

Stimpson Katz is a human Lawful gate guard stationed at Gravenhurst’s main entrance, remembered by travelers as the kinder half of a famously mismatched watch pair. Where Renfield Hoek brought frantic procedure and theatrical suspicion, Stimpson brought patience, optimism, and a genuine concern for the people passing through the city threshold. Lawful Good by instinct as much as duty, he uses shield training and emotional de-escalation to keep small conflicts from becoming arrests. Since Renfield’s death in Vityhrex’s Labyrinth, Stimpson’s post carries a quieter weight. He still guards the gate, but now every welcome has grief standing beside it.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

Rill Waters, known as Tidings, is a water djinni smuggler and thief operating through Gravenhurst’s hidden waterways and the Thieves Guild’s covert routes. Quiet, efficient, and almost impossible to pin down, she specializes in infiltration, artifact retrieval, lockwork bypass, and clean exits where others would leave wreckage. Her sublimation lets her move like a rumor through water, mist, and shadowed corridors, making restraint her sharpest weapon. Though loyal to the Guild and tied to Redwave Varn, Rill has grown uneasy with its escalating ambitions and Black Ward conflicts. She knows currents change before anyone sees the flood.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.