Orval Finkus Neighbor Farm

The Hollow Creed / Necrobotany

Cornelius Plegg, known as Blacklung, is a human physician exiled from The Hollow Creed for pushing healing beyond doctrine and into necrobotany. His fungal symbiosis lets him preserve bodies, treat impossible infections, and animate corpses or plant matter through mycelial control. Desperate communities may accept his cures, but few welcome the mildew scent, spore-laced breath, or questions his work raises about life, death, and identity. Blacklung does not heal to restore what was lost; he cultivates what comes after.

S.S. Daddy / Thieves Guild adjacent / Volatile Manipulation

Bella Andrews, known as Blastbelle, is a human demolitions specialist whose Witchborn energy blasts are hidden inside compact alchemical canisters. Working as an independent contractor for the Thieves’ Guild and the S.S. Daddy, she turns raw arcane force into bombs used for break-ins, sabotage, diversions, and dangerous extractions. Most underworld clients credit her genius to alchemy alone, and Bella is happy to let them. Unstable, inventive, and fiercely independent, she prefers spectacle to subtlety and refuses to belong to anyone.

Meadowkin Commune / Rootbarrel Brewing / Supernatural Strength

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.

Voidling (Castro) / Void Manifestation

Aleron Bonapate, known as Caesar, is a Castro-aligned voidling invader who rides Bowflex into Gravenhurst and pressures the southern gate route.

Black Ward

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.

Root Barrel Farm / Force Field

Orval 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.

Pink Pony Girls / Teleportation

Dallas Dalton, known as Dally, 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.

Steamwright Union / Pyrokinesis (Flamespeaking)

K'Zhara Flamehand is Dallas Dalton's fire djinni mother, an embersmith rescued from Gertie's Forge after digging an escape route and piloting Arthur's ship back to Jericha.

My Alchemical Romance / Pyrokinesis (Flamespeaking)

Nick 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.

Pink Pony Girls / Pyrokinesis (Flamespeaking)

Diarmaid, 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.

My Alchemical Romance / Void Manifestation

Ash 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.

Dwarf (Mountain) / Illusioncraft

ZsaZsa 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.

Hazy Pastures / Alchemy

Grimclaw — Darius is a Catfolk fighter of My Alchemical Romance whose supernatural senses, blunt courage, and mercenary instincts make him a protector shaped by survival rather than polish. His relevance comes from the tension between strength and slaughter, especially through Shadow Darius’s temptation, Githyanki/Castro trauma, his Gertie banquet return, and the unresolved question of whether he can keep choosing loyalty over the violent path his shadow self offers.

Pink Pony Girls / Magnetic Control

Havyk 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.

Black Ward / Experiment fallout / Castro target / Void Manifestation

Hollow / Alfred Rallus, formerly Kuzon, is a transformed Black Ward void manipulator tied to Kaya, Salvatore, Castro targeting, and Arthur's void-healing plan.

Von Queef University / Alchemy

Ironhoof — Astrid Ironhoof is a centaur alchemist, Head of Alchemical Studies at Von Queef University, and a recurring academic anchor around fieldwork, horticulture, and practical magical research tied to the Little Shoppe. After losing her expected place in the reformed Centrum, her investigation into void-resonant potions and altered Boost-era alchemy made her an active source of clues, reform pressure, and regulated-power conflict.

Castro Forces / Void Manifestation

J’Oan was a Castro scout and warrior from the Astral Territories, sent into Jericha with a mission narrow enough to sound simple: capture Walter, the dragon bonded to Victor Shaw, whose cross-planar potential made him valuable to forces beyond the world.

Pink Pony Girls / Astral Projection

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.

Graven Scourge

Ephram Glowes is a Graven Scourge alchemist formerly tied to VQU and Boost development from void runoff after the Centrum collapse.

Wandering Minstrels / Meadowkin Commune adjacent / Battle Hymn

Elara Windwhisper, known as Lyrical Truth, is a blind elven philosopher-minstrel whose songs carry meanings most listeners only feel at first.

Queefdom / Velvet Cross / Cathedral Estate / Necromancy (Gravespeaking)

Mortellus 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.

Meadowkin Commune / Rootbarrel Brewing / Botany

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.

My Alchemical Romance / Technopathy

Dhaz 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.

Whispering Woods Monastery (Former)

Podon Xopip Kelbar Lokas is a forest gnome monk who left the Whispering Woods Monastery when stillness could no longer answer a father’s fear. His daughter, C’Ment, vanished into Jericha’s urban underworld, with rumors tying her to Boost addiction and Queefdom drug networks. Now Podon moves through danger like a quiet vagrant, following whispers, protecting the vulnerable, and using Flowing Wind discipline to redirect Violince without becoming what he hunts. In Act 5, Jonah found him alive but badly diminished in Vithyrex’s Maze.

First Five / Chaos Magic

Elmyra 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.

Pink Pony Girls / Illusioncraft

Rhys 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.

Von Queef University / Illusioncraft

Gullie 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.

Queefdom Postal Service / Aura

Gemma Goldgrace is a Queefdom postal worker and advocate who warns the party about Gravenhurst shifts involving Pesto, Kaya, Kuzon, Nick, I.J., and P.B.

Meadowkin Commune / Artifice

Merris Tumbletwig is a Meadowkin-linked gnome wandcrafter, artificer, and traveling merchant contact in the Rootbarrel/Hazy Pastures support network.

Meadowkin Commune / Alchemy

Pip Thistlebloom, known as Vapor Bloom, is a blind gnome alchemist of the Meadowkin Commune whose work at Rootbarrel Farm blends herbal craft, spiritual mysticism, and Glow Pool strangeness.

Queefdom / Phasing

Aria 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.

Meadowkin Commune / Necrobotany

Bracken Rootfoot, known as Verdant Echo, is a blind hexelf elder and shepherd-druid of the Meadowkin Commune, tending cycles of loss, regrowth, spectral flora, and rural prophecy near Hazy Pastures.

My Alchemical Romance / Maskweaving

Simon 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.

New Students / Healing

Ellenthyra 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.

Meadowkin Commune / Geokinesis (Earthspeaking)

Calithea 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.

Meadowkin Commune / Umbrakinesis

Xalaethra is a Neutral Evil medusa sorcerer and exiled noble slaver from the Underdark, twin sister to Calithea and everything Calithea refused to become.

Temple of the Equinox Vale

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Stormcall StormCrows / My Alchemical Romance / Sanguinomancy

Vic 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.

Root Barrel Farm / New Goblin City

Madam 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.

Pink Pony Girls

Was a gift to Havyk from X Grymmeye when she wanted to be able to look into the eyes of a Medusa. Her eyes were pecked out and Chaos was able to see for her. After Chaos was killed in battle, Havyk eventually regained her eyesight.