Dorthun Underhollow

Healthy and enduring. Capable of long nights without rest, his powerful legs suited to both patient standing during rituals and sudden bursts of digging when ley conduits threaten to burst. His fur is meticulously groomed — an important sign of respect among badgerfolk.

His claws are exceptionally large and slightly curved, ideal for carving shallow spirals into earth or cavern walls to mark ley flows. His back is unusually broad, sometimes bearing hand-painted glyphs in luminescent mushroom ink for ceremonies.

A deep scar across his left shoulder from a ley storm that manifested physically as a slicing wind. Often partially hidden by his cloak.

• Moon Sense: Can feel the push and pull of ley tides under his feet, a sensitivity that sharpens under moonlight.
• Dream Keeper: Enters willing dreamers’ minds to chase out nightmares or plant calming visions. This leaves his own mind foggy for hours afterward.
• Eclipse Trance: During eclipses, he becomes nearly impossible to rouse, communing with ley lines directly through his consciousness.

• Heavy forest-green robes layered over deep blue sashes embroidered with silver thread depicting various moon phases.
• Wears a rough leather belt with dangling pouches of chalks, powdered crystal, and small fossils used to stabilize rituals.
• A moonstone circlet rests between his ears during official ceremonies.

• Staff of Hollow Echoes: A thick knotty staff topped with a luminous chunk of crystal that seems to catch stray moonlight even underground. When tapped against stone, it produces a low resonance that reveals hidden ley currents.

Born into the Underhollow line, known for generations of tunnel-crafters and burrow wardens. As a cub, he was caught in a cave-in caused by a ley tremor, rescued by the then-steward of Moon & Tides. That steward became his mentor, teaching him not only druidic moon lore but the subtle listening required to track ley pulses.

• Trained under old Master Brilthik of the Crescent Pool, who taught him Moonsign and the rites of dreamkeeping.
• Studied ley geometry with gnome geomancers, learning to chart subtle gradients of magic underground.

Serves the Circle full-time. Often called to other regions of the Vale during unstable ley periods, particularly after heavy rains which can shift subterranean flows.

• Once calmed a dangerously surging ley node by performing a six-night moon vigil alone, etching stabilizing runes until his claws bled.
• Helped rescue a lost generation of mushroomfolk sprouts whose colony had been scorched by accidental exposure to raw ley energy.

Early in his stewardship, he misread a lunar triple alignment as benign — it unleashed a blight wave that had to be contained by emergency fire. Still haunts him.

Terrified that his misreadings might one day allow a true ley rupture that would swallow entire groves.

Brilliant at three-dimensional ley mapping, can read multi-layered arcane glyphs as easily as most read books. Struggles with quick arithmetic — often uses small stones to count out offerings.

Believes life is a vast interwoven tapestry where each creature is a luminous knot. To tug at one is to move many. Thus, he intervenes only after careful thought.

• Will not cut old root networks — considers it murder of unseen friends.
• Refuses to look directly into mirrored pools on new moons, fearing it invites spirits to take his reflection.

To protect the delicate equilibrium of moon phases and ley tides, ensuring future generations inherit a Vale that still sings under the stars.

• Savvy:
• Reading the subtle moods of ley currents
• Comforting children plagued by bad dreams.
• Ineptitude:
• Terrible at large gatherings — easily overwhelmed by overlapping conversations.

• Likes
• Moonlight reflecting on dew
• Quiet starlit walks
• Soft humming from families in burrows.
• Dislikes
• Loud feasting drums
• Destructive mining,
• Overly complex bureaucracy.

• Patient beyond reckoning
• Almost never interrupts
• Makes others feel deeply heard.

Can become so lost in introspection that he fails to act until nearly too late. Often shoulders burdens alone.

Has close ties with forest gnome ley wardens and twilight elf sky-watchers. Often exchanges charts or rare minerals.

Large Underhollow family — siblings and cousins tend communal gardens. Regularly brings moon-kissed roots to share.

Soft-spoken, with a rumbling baritone. Listens with head slightly tilted, as if physically bearing the speaker’s words.

Traces small circles on the ground with a claw tip when pondering, an unconscious echo of ley spirals.

• His hawk companion Tashyr rides his shoulder or circles overhead, trained to spot corrupted magical glows from afar.
• In spare moments, he carves tiny badger figurines from driftwood, leaving them anonymously near children’s dens.