Deepwyrm Enclave
Starter Player Character — Deepwyrm Enclave
Name: Kaelen Darkstone
Race: Duergar (Deep Dwarf)
Class (Suggested): Fighter, Rogue, or Wizard (Underdark / Psionic focus)
Faction: Deepwyrm Enclave
Appearance:
Kaelen is short and heavily built, with ashen-gray skin and red eyes adapted to the darkness of the mountains. He wears dark leathers reinforced with chitin and obsidian shards, and carries a dagger engraved with psionic runes. His movements are silent and deliberate, adapted to life in tunnels and shadowed halls.
Backstory:
Born in the Deepwyrm Enclave’s cavernous mountain stronghold, Kaelen was raised amidst ancient wyrm-worship and psionic training. He learned to navigate twisting tunnels, mine rare minerals, and manipulate magical currents of the deep. When a territorial dispute erupted with the Ironhold Compact, Kaelen proved his skill defending the enclave’s subterranean holdings. Now, as a young operative of the enclave, he explores the surface for intelligence, rare resources, and potential threats to his homeland, all while upholding the secrecy and traditions of the Deepwyrm Enclave.
Important Characters of the Deepwyrm Enclave
1. High Wyrm Matriarch Zyrrathra
Race: Duergar
Class/Role: Psion / Matriarch
Title: Supreme Leader of the Deepwyrm Enclave
Appearance & Backstory:
Zyrrathra’s gray skin glows faintly along psionic nodes etched into her temples. Born into the ruling wyrm-worshiping bloodline, she commands both the enclave and its ancient draconic allies. She enforces strict secrecy, believing the surface-world cannot understand the enclave’s power. Zyrrathra guides psionic development and controls political and military decisions with ruthless precision.
2. Overseer Rulvik Stonehand
Race: Duergar
Class/Role: Fighter / Engineer
Title: Head of Mining and Forging Operations
Appearance & Backstory:
Rulvik is broad and stocky, with iron-stained skin and a permanently soot-smudged face. Tasked with managing deep mines and crystal forges, he ensures the enclave’s wealth in rare metals and magical gems. Rulvik grew up in the lower tunnels, learning to survive both environmental hazards and rival duergar clans. He is loyal to the enclave, but ambitious enough to experiment with newly discovered crystal veins.
3. Mistress Selvra Shadecoil
Race: Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin)
Class/Role: Rogue / Spy
Title: Master of Secrets
Appearance & Backstory:
Selvra is pale-skinned, with violet-tinted eyes and quick, precise movements. From a young age, she learned infiltration, sabotage, and espionage to serve the enclave. She gathers intelligence on enemies like the Ironhold Compact and monitors potential surface incursions. Her loyalty is absolute, though she quietly questions some of the enclave’s more brutal rituals.
4. Seer Varok Mindshard
Race: Duergar
Class/Role: Psion / Mystic
Title: Oracle of the Deepwyrm
Appearance & Backstory:
Varok has faintly crystalline veins visible beneath gray skin, a sign of intense psionic attunement. Trained from childhood in the ways of subterranean mind-magic, he interprets signs from ancient wyrms and deep-earth currents. Varok advises the enclave’s leaders on threats, resource management, and mystical anomalies, ensuring that surface and subterranean incursions are anticipated and neutralized.
5. Captain Thrynn Obsidianveil
Race: Duergar
Class/Role: Fighter / Commander
Title: Chief Defender of the Enclave Gates
Appearance & Backstory:
Thrynn is solid and grim, his gray skin scarred by years of fighting in narrow tunnels. He commands the defense of the Deepwyrm Enclave’s entrances and subterranean forts, often using ambush tactics and psionic-enhanced traps. Once a miner’s apprentice, he rose through skill, courage, and strict adherence to the enclave’s code of secrecy.