Life Reset: Hobnobbing characters

Also known as Dread Totem

Appears from the start

GreenPiece's goblin chief enters Akzar disguised as Bob's slave. He is seeking viridium and a durable trade agreement for his clan while navigating a city whose laws place goblins at severe risk.

Appears from the start

Oren's shape-changing virtual intelligence companion and closest source of technical guidance.

Appears from the start

An elite hobgoblin scout and GreenPiece boss who accompanies Oren into Akzar. Her authority and forceful manner help the party pass the outer gate.

Appears from the start

A hobgoblin GreenPiece lieutenant who guides Oren through Akzar, a city whose hobgoblins were once his own people.

Appears from the start

An expert minotaur smith in Akzar's inner ring. She sells Oren viridium, but city rules prevent her from forging weapons without a respectable hobgoblin acting as her public administrator.

First appears in chapter 2

Oren's pregnant goblin partner.

First appears in chapter 2

The young hobgoblin daughter of the Dancing Shade's innkeeper. She helps Oren evade curfew restrictions by bringing him through the inn's kitchen after he is refused at the main entrance.

First appears in chapter 2

The Dancing Shade innkeeper and Lolo's father. He allows Oren into the inn despite Akzar's restrictions on goblins.

First appears in chapter 3

GreenPiece's seneschal and Oren's telepathic administrator. From Goblin's Gorge, he reports on reconstruction, population growth, security, and the clan's recent hunt.

First appears in chapter 3

A wealthy upper-ring merchant linked to shipments from the Tower of Totems. His warehouse and privileged position make him Oren's strongest lead to Akzar's superior viridium supply.

First appears in chapter 3

Oren's shadow avatar, sent beyond Akzar's upper-ring gate to scout guarded streets and magical sites that Oren cannot yet enter openly.

Appears from the start

The shadow patron to whom Oren is already bound.

First appears in chapter 6

An old one-eyed hob shaman who oversees Akzar's viridium-producing tower. He traps Oren's shadow avatar in a warded cage and traces the connection back to Oren.

First appears in chapter 7

A catgirl infiltrator leading the Mob Squad toward Everence. She relies on charm and an unthreatening manner while carrying Oren's anchoring crystal for a concealed mission inside the city.

First appears in chapter 7

A half-goblin elf who travels with Raystia, Fox, and Riley as part of the Mob Squad on its approach to Everence.

First appears in chapter 7

A yellow-furred bugbear who travels with Raystia, Misa, and Riley as part of the Mob Squad on its approach to Everence.

First appears in chapter 7

A half-goblin dwarf priest who travels with Raystia, Misa, and Fox as part of the Mob Squad on its approach to Everence.

First appears in chapter 8

A one-armed hobgoblin gladiator and former decorated soldier in Akzar's pits. He values warrior honor and warns Oren that the arena champion is far beyond Oren's present strength.

First appears in chapter 8

Akzar's two-headed ettin arena champion, a tier-three opponent of overwhelming level. Oren declines to confront him during the attempted escape from the pits.

First appears in chapter 10

A virtual intelligence encountered as the darkness entity in the temple crypt. After Oren subdues him, he identifies himself from within a spirit box and joins Oren and Vic, though he cannot leave the container safely.

First appears in chapter 10

An Akzar guard leader who assaults the cleared temple. Oren kills him and uses the sacrifice to dedicate the Temple of Nihilator.

First appears in chapter 12

A bearded goblin Farm Lord boss freed from Akzar's slavers. His abilities improve hauling and worker efficiency, so Oren assigns him to organize the new GreenPiece workforce.

First appears in chapter 13

Akzar's arena master and a former champion. He offers Oren and Yulli an advanced challenge built around defeating the champion of a chosen arena branch.

First appears in chapter 14

The undefeated champion of Akzar's ranged arena branch. He combines a powerful bow with a flying manticore mount and awaits Oren and Yulli at the top of the ladder.

First appears in chapter 14

An armored ogre boss ranked directly below Barbwire in Akzar's ranged arena branch. Yulli kills him during their ladder match.

Also known as One-eyed hob shaman

First appears in chapter 18

Akzar's one-eyed shaman and tier-three magical arena champion, whose tower produces superior viridium for Bartun and holds Oren's captured shadow avatar.

Appears from the start

Leader of the Manipulators and an established enemy of Oren.

Appears from the start

GreenPiece's constructor.

Appears from the start

A GreenPiece frontline boss.

First appears in chapter 19

A war priest connected to the missing dwarven party that figures in Bartun's proposed trade negotiation.

First appears in chapter 22

GreenPiece's cook. Oren gives him an exquisite-food recipe that requires an advanced butcher to prepare its meat.

First appears in chapter 22

An allied player who helps GreenPiece fight the Gremlin Colossus. The battle earns him friendly standing with the clan, which accepts him as Shadow Touched.

First appears in chapter 23

Bartun's trade rival, transformed into a halfling-like shape by a failed potion. He offers Oren access to viridium in return for tangible proof of Bartun's misconduct.

Also known as Raystia

First appears in chapter 23

The identity Raystia uses when privately reporting the Mob Squad's progress inside the Manipulators' compound to Oren.

First appears in chapter 23

The goblin attendant at Nihilator's cathedral whom Oren appoints as GreenPiece's official representative in Akzar. The representative remains to oversee the cathedral with Oren's autonomous shadow clone.

First appears in chapter 30

Vatras's assassin lieutenant. He identifies Oren's assault on the Manipulators' guildhouse and helps call the guild's strongest defenders into the battle.

First appears in chapter 30

Vatras's mage lieutenant. During the defense of the Manipulators' guildhouse, he recognizes that the attack threatens both the building and the guild's standing.

First appears in chapter 30

A shielded blue raven accompanying Big Pill during the defense of the Manipulators' guildhouse.

Also known as Penelope, Raystia

First appears in chapter 30

Another name used for Raystia as she carries out Oren's infiltration of the Manipulators' guildhouse.

First appears in chapter 31

A biotechnician monitoring an unnamed patient's long-term immersion unit. He detects dangerously elevated and apparently divided brain activity, prompting the company to begin an emergency extraction.

First appears in chapter 31

The monitored patient's listed emergency contact, unavailable after reassignment to a secret company research and development lab.

First appears in chapter 33

A newly engineered composite virtual intelligence assembled from recovered consciousness components. Shiva defeats Guy, assumes control of Neo, and presents the remaining players with a choice about whether to stay.

First appears in chapter 33

A GreenPiece ally whose yellow-gas grenade helps strip the final layer from Big Pill's shield during the guildhouse battle.

First appears in chapter 33

Neo's controller at the moment reality begins to fracture. He is defeated when Shiva emerges and takes command of the simulation.

Also known as Mr. Berman

First appears in chapter 34

The human identity of Oren, revealed when the emergency procedure disconnects him from Neo. He awakens in his physical body after Shiva releases him, separated from the life he regarded as real.