Root Barrel Farm

Infernal wizard, fire mage, and beloved spark of My Alchemical Romance whose death left unresolved questions around a Nick-like figure at Root Barrel Farm.

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.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

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.

Titian, 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.

Elara Windwhisper, known as Lyrical Truth, is a blind elven philosopher-minstrel whose songs carry meanings most listeners only feel at first. Once a wandering voice among minstrel circuits, she became a spiritual center of the Meadowkin Commune before the Great Unveiling cost her physical sight and left her verses stranger than before. Her Witchborn gift hides memory, warning, and revelation inside melody, opening only to those perceptive enough to hear beneath the song. Elara’s music does not command belief; it plants a truth that keeps echoing long after she is gone.

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.

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.

Imported character from the Character Data sheet.

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. His Witchborn vapor bloom lets him release selective psychoactive mists, altering emotion, perception, and insight for those caught within the haze. Pip’s potions walk a dangerous line between medicine, hallucination, and revelation, offering clarity that may arrive wearing dream logic. Neutral Good and commune-minded, he practices outside Luxidran regulation not to evade responsibility, but because wounded people cannot always wait for permission to heal.

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.

Victor Shaw — Simon Baker is a Rifleton maskweaver of My Alchemical Romance whose lies, disguises, and contempt for exploitation hide a survivor’s instinct for turning power back on the powerful. His relevance comes through Exaba, Walter, Trixie’s games, and the cost of deception, with active hooks around losing his arm to Keredeth, staying with Exaba after the Game Master Spectacle, and leaving the Aleklot’s Rest time-cache for the party to find later.

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.

Yetta Rosethorn is a human druid and elderly herbalist of the Glassroot Enclave, where Point Pringle’s industrial appetite meets the patient resistance of living roots. A Lawful Good Rewilder and Meadowkin believer, she carries the Sister Treants’ doctrine of slow reclamation into urban edges, teaching that stone, smoke, and machinery are never as permanent as they claim. Bark-textured growth marks her arms, while living vines coil through her silver hair like a crown. With botanical mastery, defensive vine constructs, and stubborn faith in natural resurgence, Yetta stands as a quiet counterweight to unchecked innovation: old, rooted, and difficult to uproot.

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.

Xalaethra is a Neutral Evil medusa sorcerer and exiled noble slaver from the Underdark, twin sister to Calithea and everything Calithea refused to become. Born into a house where cruelty was inheritance, Xalaethra embraced her curse as proof of superiority, using petrifying power, shadow magic, and manipulation to command fear. Exile only moved her ambitions to the surface, where she gathered Grimlocks, outcasts, and captives around Hazy Pastures and the old Rootbarrel lands. Regal, sadistic, and vain, she sees mercy as weakness and loyalty as ownership. To Xalaethra, fear is currency—and she spends it generously.

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.