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Phlakin, often spelled Phalkin in Titian Journal material, is a South Aerovian knowledge-route settlement where scholarship, hidden storage, relic dealers, old books, counterfeit armor discoveries, and dead witnesses sit uncomfortably close together.
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Phlakin promises answers in the front room. The better questions usually start behind a locked door.
Von Queef University, Old VQU, Gefang, Timber Island, Lonely Islands, South Aerovia
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.
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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characterUthred, known as Bastard, is a claimant to the Uthred name whose records preserve more uncertainty than proof. Unlike Uthred Uthredson, the legendary Ragnarok of Kremgrad, this Uthred exists in the margins: family claimed, status unknown, and identity unresolved. Whether illegitimate heir, pretender, survivor, or political inconvenience, the title Bastard makes his place in Jericha’s histories deliberately uncomfortable. In a lineage already tied to war heroism, sparkspeaking, and common resistance, his existence raises dangerous questions about blood, inheritance, and who gets to own a legend. Some names are given. Others are fought over.
characterBobbi Prindle, known as Bauble, became the loudest voice among the Reborn: students who died during the Battle of VQU and returned when the school reopened. Her resurrection turned tragedy into recruitment, making her both proof of the Phoenix Circuit’s promise and a symbol of how far VQU would go to refill its halls.
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characterCynthiana of the Wilds, known as Boho, is an elven druid who serves as a bridge between Von Queef University and the untamed territories of the Wilds. Her Witchborn animal mimicry lets her borrow senses, instincts, and behaviors from the natural world, making her a subtle but vigilant guardian of ecological balance.
characterBrunk 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.
characterBowflex was the beloved magically enhanced tyrannosaurus mascot of Von Queef University and former companion of groundskeeper Al Dyrio. More than a campus symbol, he served as a living defender during the Drakkuskan War, holding the line against a Dragonborn assault long enough for students and faculty to evacuate.
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characterAleron Bonapate, known as Caesar, is a Castro-aligned voidling invader who rides Bowflex into Gravenhurst and pressures the southern gate route.
characterJonah Subramountian, known as Cardinal, believes every disaster is a miracle that arrived before anyone was ready. Raised in a secluded temple of the Creator, the mountain dwarf cleric learned faith, craft, and relentless cheer before a divine mishap carried him to Von Queef University. Now with My Alchemical Romance, Jonah heals wounds, lifts spirits, and meets despair with illegible pamphlets and unwavering conviction. His earthspeaking power steadies the ground beneath his friends, while his joy reminds them why they keep standing.
characterJeff 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.
characterSaphira Enn, known as Ceremony, came to Von Queef University carrying the quiet weight of a Black Ward upbringing. Once shaped by cult doctrine, she now studies as a cleric among the First Five, searching for redemption through healing rather than obedience.
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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.
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.
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characterRico Bial, known as Dupe, is a human fighter from South Aerovia and a former arena trainee whose discipline was forged under pressure long before he reached Von Queef University. His Witchborn power manifests as form duplication, letting him split a temporal shard from himself so a second strike lands beside his own.
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characterTimberlake von Queef, known as Encore, is a half-elf bard, noble scion, and former member of the Queefdom boy band 32 Degrees. Charismatic, scandal-prone, and theatrically self-aware, he turned celebrity into both weapon and shield, wielding sonokinesis through performance, glamour, and crowd emotion.
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.
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.
characterHorton, known as Forespoke, has spent decades at Von Queef University watching futures arrive badly, early, or not at all. A former Centrum archivist during the Drakkuskan War and brother to Poe, Jericha’s leading astrologian, he now teaches divination with a calm precision that unsettles even seasoned faculty. His Witchborn precognition grants glimpses of possible outcomes, but Horton treats prophecy as evidence, not destiny. As overseer of predictive combat simulations and student foresight training, he stands as one of VQU’s quiet defenses against timeline corruption. Some say he already knows the date of his death.
characterFoulcrum — Ash Stonefist is a disciplined monk from the Temple of the Equinox Vale whose void-tentacle mutation forces him to test balance, restraint, and spiritual control against powers that may have been engineered around him. His importance to My Alchemical Romance comes through his loyalty, trauma, and unresolved origin, with active hooks around Wisdom/Charisma instability, Salvatore Mentali, Soldier, counterfeit scrying, and the revelation that his power may not truly come from the Aboleth.
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.
characterRemington Debris, known among the Exiles as Garbage, is a raccoonfolk paladin who turned dismissal into devotion. Raised in the Timberlands with a fierce sense of duty, he left home to defend those the world would rather overlook.
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.
characterEveline Pringle, known as Glintfang, was raised to embody the polished future of Point Pringle’s most famous family, but her life has always strained against the image built for her. At Von Queef University she presents as a refined noble student, while privately carrying the wild magic and lycanthropy her family worked to conceal. Glamour charms and a silver locket help hide the wolf beneath the heir, but emotion and moonlight make secrecy fragile. Now married to Faephine Moonhold Pringle, Eveline stands between legacy and self-rule, determined that her curse will not be owned by anyone but her.
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characterDarius, known as Grimclaw, is a Catfolk fighter forged by mercenary Violince, survivalist instinct, and the hard lesson that loyalty must be earned in blood. His supernatural senses make him a predator on any battlefield, tracking danger through darkness, movement, and fear. Once part of My Alchemical Romance, Darius has repeatedly been pulled away by a shadow self that hunts him and tempts him toward slaughter, a darkness that once made him a destroyer across dimensions. Now he seeks a simpler path back to Von Queef University, old classmates, and adventure without losing himself. Strong, direct, and more open than he once allowed, Grimclaw remains shield, claw, and unfinished warning.
characterHavyk is a half-orc, half-elf rogue of Kickassery Inc. and the Pink Pony Girls whose story carries the commune, medusa, Vayne, and Gertie’s Forge threads through grief, steel, and queer protection. Her current relevance centers on Root Barrel Farm consequences, Xalaethra’s rescue, blind commune workers, Mortellus Vayne’s second mass-resurrection scroll, and unresolved choices about control, aid, and freedom.
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.
characterMona Rey, known as Herald, is a human noble barbarian of Isla Rey whose royal bloodline burns with volcanic memory and storm-fed pride. Raised on the Lonely Islands with tales of ancestral courage, she became a fierce protector of her people and the elemental balance beneath their homeland.
characterAerovius Dawngear, remembered as High Cleric Dawngear, was the Scholar Era theologian whose words became law long after his death. As a leading voice of the Concord of Flame, Ink, and Order, he argued that divine order required classification, hierarchy, and strict control of magic’s place in society.
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characterJacey Fox, known as Hood, is a human outlander and ranger whose survival is bound to the thing that destroyed her life. After a wolf killed her family, Jacey did not simply become a hunter of beasts; her Witchborn Eidolon Bond tied her to that same predator, turning trauma into a living, stalking presence she can never fully escape. She moves through the wilds with patience, suspicion, and the hard knowledge that vengeance does not always arrive cleanly. Hood’s story is not about mastering nature, but enduring the bond between grief and instinct until one finally teaches the other how to survive.
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characterIgor is Jonah Subramountian’s loyal homunculus companion, stitched together from clay, wax, alchemy, and more sincere devotion than most full-sized believers can manage. Created for delicate rituals and hazardous labwork, he now scuttles through Von Queef University as Jonah’s assistant, candle-bearer, relic-carrier, and tiny squeaking echo of the Creator’s faith. Igor cannot speak beyond one beloved word, but his frantic gestures, devotional mimicry, and hoarded sweets say plenty. Small, comic, and endlessly useful, he proves that even a servant made of scraps can carry belief like a sacred flame.
characterIslo Frid, known as Incubus, is a dhampir bard resurrected through void leakage after the destruction of Port Hollow. At Von Queef University, he joined the First Five less from loyalty than curiosity, ambition, and the pleasure of watching new power take shape. Polished, predatory, and socially precise, Islo treats charm as both art and weapon. His Witchborn nightmare resonance lets him intrude upon dreams, amplify fear, and turn psychic terror into performance. He is not the loudest threat in a room, but he may be the one already waiting in someone’s sleep.
characterIronhoof — Astrid Ironhoof is a centaur alchemist, Head of Alchemical Studies at Von Queef University, and a practical magical researcher whose blunt loyalty to students makes her more than a professor or quest giver.
characterIronhoof — 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.
characterBaron von Queef is VQU's revived dhampir institutional figure and the support target Arthur and Elmyra are seeking for the next Act 5 operation.
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characterEphram Glowes is a Graven Scourge alchemist formerly tied to VQU and Boost development from void runoff after the Centrum collapse.
characterMaine — 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.
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.
characterMasquerade — Nora Rabe von Queef is a shapeshifting noble, Centrum co-founder, and VQU power architect whose control of identity, politics, and survival shaped Jericha’s postwar order. Her current relevance runs through the revived Centrum, Baron’s resurrection and New VQU ambitions, Albert Rallus’s unresolved rat-form escape, and the possibility that every public role she plays is also a strategic mask.
characterNora Rabe von Queef is a VQU and Velvet Cross power broker using the Rabe House network and Sinclair to support the party while keeping her own position ambiguous.
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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.
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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.
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characterAlbert Rallus, known as Pinocchio, was a mighty forged monk and member of Centrum whose hunger for survival became the doctrine that destroyed him. Once shaped by experimentation and void mastery, Albert came to believe that only the strong deserved to endure.
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.
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characterNatasha 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.
characterSinclair is Nora's VQU retainer and Rabe House courier, making the Velvet Cross support network visible through gifts, access, and controlled hospitality.
characterRobert Creel, known as Rifleton Rob, is a human gunslinger, bounty hunter, and gambler from the lawless city of Rifleton, where survival is often treated as a skill until Rob makes it look like a joke. Famous for impossible shots, reckless contracts, and escapes that strain probability, he moves through Jericha as an artifact retriever, contract enforcer, and recurring contestant in Trixie’s reality-bending games. Chaotic Neutral and proudly theatrical, Rob treats danger as entertainment and conflict as a stage. Whether blessed by luck, marked by Trixie, or hiding a latent Witchborn gift, he keeps walking away from odds that should have buried him.
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.
characterZetch, known as Rubber, is a VQU New Student with elastic/bouncing physicality and a reckless appetite for action. In Act 5 near Root Barrel Farm, Zetch argued with Ellenthyra Mew and Nell Quiv over cave loot, bounced off Vic Vaurr, and became excited by Vic’s murderball-style throws.
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characterAlison Whiteheart, known as Salve, is a Lawful Good human healer from Phalkin serving at Von Queef University. Though trained in clerical traditions, her restorative gifts are Witchborn rather than divine, focused through direct touch and steady proximity. Alison can stabilize critical trauma, cleanse void-tainted wounds, and sustain healing under crisis conditions without losing emotional control. She avoids politics, doctrine, and spectacle, measuring her work by whether the patient lives. With her soulbonded raven Liora nearby, Alison has become one of VQU’s quiet anchors in the Void Age: not a savior seeking praise, but the person who stays because someone must.
characterBaby Titian, known as Sapling, is a young treant dryad rooted in the grounds of Von Queef University. Grown from the remains of the original Titian, they are both a living memorial and a sign that something ancient may yet return.
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.
characterSalvatore Mentali, known as Shadow King, is a soul flayer investor and criminal mastermind whose empire is built from secrets, fear, and carefully measured charm. Unlike flayers bound to the Elder’s agenda, Salvatore forged his own path through the Queefdom’s underworld, commanding spies, enforcers, informants, and debtors with psionic precision. Impeccably dressed and theatrically controlled, he treats every negotiation like a performance and every betrayal like an art form. His shadow empire seeks more than wealth; it seeks obedience. Cross him, and the mind may surrender before the body knows the war has begun.
characterGerald Shadowplay, known as Shadowplay I, is a Whisp elf of Gloomspire and a member of one of the Queefdom’s more ominous family lines. Brother to Gerard, father to Jayk, and uncle to Jeremiah, Gerald stands at the center of a lineage split between blood magic, light, secrecy, and survival. Unlike Gerard’s sanguinomancy, Gerald’s reputation is tied to weapon mastery: skill made sharp enough to become inheritance. His current status remains uncertain, but the Shadowplay name still moves through Gloomspire like a rumor with a blade behind it. In that family, silence is rarely emptiness. It is usually preparation.
characterGerard Shadowplay, known as Shadowplay II, is a Whisp elf of Gloomspire whose place in the Shadowplay family is defined by blood, secrecy, and inheritance. Brother to Gerald, father to Jeremiah, and uncle to Jayk, Gerard belongs to a lineage where power passes through both family bonds and dangerous magic. His sanguinomancy marks him as a wielder of blood’s hidden language, able to turn lineage from history into weaponry. Much of his current status remains uncertain, but in the Queefdom’s darker corners, the Shadowplay name is rarely spoken as trivia. It is spoken like a warning.
characterMaskara Azur, known as Shroud, is a human illusionist, maskmaker, and former Von Queef University student whose art turns identity into a tool. Once a street performer, she refined her craft during the Drakkuskan War, using illusion to defend VQU before her work found darker markets through the Black Company. Her Witchborn maskweaving lets her imbue masks with alternate personas, abilities, and dangerous emotional truths, making each creation part disguise, part weapon, and part temptation. Chaotic Neutral and theatrical by instinct, Maskara sells transformation to people who may not survive becoming someone else.
characterNash, known as Sirocco, is an earth djinni paladin of the First Five, raised among desert caravans where survival demanded both discipline and adaptation. Drawn to Von Queef University after its reopening, he sought structure in a world still shifting beneath everyone’s feet.
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characterMarvin Purnell, known as Skull Boy, is a human rogue and stealth enforcer for FLESH, operating out of Stormcall’s darker cells with the quiet cruelty of someone who prefers panic before impact. Often linked to Reclaimer, he serves as the knife in the riot: slipping through confusion, striking from ambush, and vanishing before the target understands where the wound came from. His skull mask has become part of the fear around him, with rumors claiming it belonged to a former victim. Chaotic and obscure, Marvin is not the loud face of FLESH ideology. He is what waits after the shouting starts.
characterNell Quiv, known as Slip, is a VQU New Student and cautious merfolk/water djinni student. In Act 5 near Root Barrel Farm, she appeared with Zetch and Ellenthyra Mew after the trio looted a cave; she objected to Jonah Subramountian’s proposal to break a legendary wand into thirds and argued it should go to whoever wanted to preserve it.
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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.
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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.
characterVithyrex, known as The Eye, is the cyclopean deity of the Power Nine who embodies obsession, focus, and singular vision. Dwelling within the Singular Maze, he constructs labyrinths not to confuse wanderers, but to strip away distraction until only one truth remains. Where Trixie scatters chance and the Aboleth preserves all memory, Vithyrex narrows the world to purpose, stone, and fixation. Architects, maze cults, extremists, and certain Lawful sects invoke him when clarity becomes more sacred than mercy. His gaze can steady, harden, or consume. To follow The Eye is to see one path—and lose sight of every other.
character"You only live once. Not me."
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.
characterTamber Soot, known as Timbre, is a 17-year-old kenku phantom rogue and abandoned courier from the Lonely Islands, now counted among VQU’s new students. True Neutral and guarded by necessity, they learned early that a voice can open doors, carry lies, or disappear without leaving a body behind. Their Witchborn voice theft lets them mimic any creature heard within the past day with near-perfect accuracy, bypassing even magical detection and making identity dangerously portable. As a courier, survivor, and student, Tamber moves between messages, ghosts, and secrets with quiet precision. They rarely raise their own voice, but they know how to borrow yours.
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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.
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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characterWhisperstep — Exaba is Trixie’s satyr paragon and collector, a chaotic agent whose life is tangled in cruel games, temporal errands, missing memories, and the lingering damage of Gertie’s forgetfulness curse.
characterWildpaw — Fang is a former VQU student and adventurer remembered as a quiet guardian figure around early campus unrest, with animal mimicry that makes instinct and protection part of his identity.
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characterYebbediah Grymmeye X, known simply as X, is a void-touched elven necromancer and diminished lich whose name remains one of Von Queef University’s darkest academic stains.
characterZeus Beefcake is an undead Gigas introduced by Baron von Queef as New VQU's powerful second-in-command and part of the Ex Force reveal.
characterRafael Manticore is a Chaotic Good infernal blood hunter and independent adventurer whose life stands in deliberate contrast to his brother Pedro’s infernal ambition. Born into the Manticore line, Rafael chose sacrifice over power, undergoing brutal Blood Hunter rites to hunt fiends, void abominations, and the monsters that prey on the helpless. His cursed blood magic strengthens his blade at personal cost, leaving him disciplined, wary, and grimly compassionate. A frequent protector of Kremgrad and father to Elmyra, Rafael still feels bound to check Pedro’s schemes when family loyalty becomes a public danger. He is proof that cursed blood does not have to choose damnation.
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characterSalah is X’s assigned intake clerk for QUEST operations at New VQU, responsible for personnel confirmation, incident summaries, receipts, and item declarations when field teams return from missions.
characterSoldier is a darker void figure seen by Ash Stonefist in the same corridor vision as Salvatore Mentali. Soldier appears to be invested in Oskar Duskshade as a chosen vessel and is more direct than Salvator about moving toward that purpose.
characterJixie is a goblin collector working for the Dimoggio Clan in New Goblin City. Fast-talking, exhausted, and survival-focused, he became a reluctant guide for My Alchemical Romance after the party intervened in a collector dispute over a chained four-lock box.
characterBrakko is a named Dimoggio Clan collector or associate whose absence became suspicious at Runner Landing after Jixie guided My Alchemical Romance into New Goblin City.
characterMyrne is a named Dimoggio Clan collector or associate whose absence became suspicious at Runner Landing after Jixie guided My Alchemical Romance into New Goblin City.
characterClick Clack is a named Dimoggio Clan collector or associate whose absence became suspicious at Runner Landing after Jixie guided My Alchemical Romance into New Goblin City.
characterA failed merchant with a background in Astrology and Healing, Auric teamed with the Pink Pony Girls in the Whispwoods and ventured with them through a portal to a time-altered version of Gertie's Forge to help the team figure out how to enter the Forge in the present time and save K'Zhara Flamehand and the other surviving Embersmiths.
itemOn failed Intelligence saving throw, possessed by bridge troll spirit: Strength becomes 21, Intelligence becomes 9, enraged, must attack nearest creature, cannot cast spells or focus. Ends when taking damage or succeeding DC 13 Int save at end of turn; no memory retained.
itemThree returning darts. When attacking, may forgo attack roll to automatically hit for 1d4+1 force damage, mimicking Magic Missile; can apply to multiple attacks; return to hand at end of turn.
itemSilent blade. On hit target takes +1d6 damage; if attack has advantage, bonus becomes 2d6. On critical hit, casts Silence centered on target without concentration until end of your next turn.
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.
locationVon Queef University is the campus where Jericha learned that a school can become a government, a battlefield, a prophecy engine, and a relic-politics machine before the first year is even over.
locationGefang is a Titian Journal route stop tied to murdered students, the ghost of Ballus, Silver Crystal evidence, and the sense that the Emrys secret was being protected by violence before the war became public.
locationAerovia is Jericha's western continental body, split in practice between South Aerovia's Queefdom-centered school, shrine, port, and fortress routes and North Aerovia's Pringle, Stormcall, frontier, and coastal systems.
locationThe Lonely Islands are the off-map Jericha places where Vithyrex Maze exits, void-scroll shorelines, old toll routes, discarded relics, cult danger, dragonborn pressure, Lawful accusations, and portal crossings keep proving the world did not end at the coastline.
locationOld VQU is the damaged historical campus layer: part ruin, part memory site, part abandoned research map, part Housemaster silence, and part proof that resurrection, relic politics, void engineering, and student death did not begin cleanly.
locationSouth Aerovia is anchored by the Queefdom and its satellites: VQU, the student/faculty village, Raven's Bay, Phalaxifore's Folly, Dreadport, Seaside Flats, Hazelhurst, Bearfell, Sunken Library, Verdant Vault, Pilix, Ragefort, and Aleklot's Rest.
locationLarge regions should usually be border/guide only, not single plotted cells.
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.
locationVQU is a institution / campus hub with land / settlement map context.