Starter Player Character — Umbra Dominion
Name: Veyra Nocthal
Race: Tiefling
Class (Suggested): Warlock (Shadow/Great Old One or Hexblade), Rogue (Soulknife), or Sorcerer (Shadow Magic)
Faction: Umbra Dominion
Appearance:
Veyra’s skin is ash-violet, her eyes gleaming like dying embers in darkness. Horns curve back along her skull, etched with faint runic scars that pulse when she channels shadow magic. Her attire blends layered leathers and arcane sigils, woven to absorb light rather than reflect it.
Backstory:
Born beneath a perpetual eclipse within the Umbra Dominion’s twilight cities, Veyra was raised in an academium that taught survival through secrecy and power through knowledge. Though trained in shadowcraft, she questions the Dominion’s reliance on corruption over control. Sent beyond the Dominion’s borders as an agent and observer, Veyra walks the thin line between loyalty and self-determination—seeking to master shadow without being consumed by it.
Important Characters of the Umbra Dominion
1. Archshade Malreth Veyne
Race: Human
Class/Role: Wizard (School of Shadow / Enchantment)
Faction Role: Supreme Autocrat of the Umbra Dominion
Appearance & Backstory:
Malreth is tall and gaunt, draped in robes of layered black silk that ripple like smoke. His eyes are void-dark, reflecting no light. Once a high magister of a Solarian splinter order, he turned from celestial dogma after uncovering truths about the cost of divine magic. He now rules the Umbra Dominion through fear, loyalty, and carefully rationed enlightenment.
2. Inquisitor Nyssara Blackvein
Race: Tiefling
Class/Role: Paladin (Oath of Conquest, Shadow-aligned)
Faction Role: Enforcer of Ideological Purity
Appearance & Backstory:
Nyssara wears blackened plate etched with crimson veins, her tail wrapped in chains of office. She leads the Night Inquisition, rooting out heresy and uncontrolled corruption. Raised in the slums and elevated through ruthless devotion, Nyssara believes the Dominion must be harsh to survive—and that mercy is a luxury of the lightbound.
3. The Umbral Oracle, Thalos
Race: Shadar-kai
Class/Role: Cleric (Twilight Domain)
Faction Role: Prophet of Shadow
Appearance & Backstory:
Thalos’s skin is corpse-pale, his eyes glowing with cold violet light. Permanently half-phased between planes, he speaks in layered echoes. Thalos claims to hear the voice of the living shadow that birthed the Dominion, guiding its fate. His prophecies have correctly predicted Solarian movements, making him both revered and feared.
4. Mistress Kaelith of the Veil
Race: Elf (Drow)
Class/Role: Rogue (Arcane Trickster)
Faction Role: Spymaster of the Black Veil
Appearance & Backstory:
Kaelith moves like smoke, her obsidian skin marked with silver sigils that blur her outline. She commands a vast network of informants, smugglers, and assassins operating across Andorea. Once exiled from the Deepwyrm Enclave for surface dealings, she found freedom and power in the Umbra Dominion’s shadows.
5. Warden-Captain Drovek Ashclasp
Race: Human
Class/Role: Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
Faction Role: Commander of the Twilight Legions
Appearance & Backstory:
Broad-shouldered and scarred, Drovek bears a cloak infused with shadow essence that hardens like steel in battle. A former Valecrown soldier captured during border skirmishes, he defected after witnessing the hypocrisy of light-blessed rulers. He now leads Umbra’s armies, believing shadow offers honesty where light offers lies.