Beryl Hatebad

Official image of Beryl, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Beryl Hatebad is a Player Character of Arc 6 and played by Julia. She is level 8.

## Description

Beryl is a Dwarf Battle Master Fighter. She has dark brown hair that she keeps in two messy buttons atop her head, with a bunch of loose strands hanging down. Her most notable feature is her one missing eye, which she replaced with a jade stone in the eye socket. When asked what happened, she will tell a different story every time. To make up for the missing eye, Beryl wears goggles called The Eyes of the Eagle, which help her see better than most people do.

She is small but mighty, and a stout and stern woman, but she has a caring heart and is like a mother to Lottie. Generally, she prefers to keep her life to herself, and doesn't tell a lot about her past.

She has a love for weaponry, and for keeping things organised, which makes her a good quartermaster for the crew. Most of the time she is occupied with keeping track of their treasure and loot in her notebook, or calculating things with the abacus that she brought from home. There is no treasure that the crew gets their hands on without Beryl knowing about it, even if the rest of the crew is not always aware of it. Even as they are travelling through the Upnorth, Beryl still has the crew's financial records with her. Apart from being the quartermaster, Beryl also tries to keep the chaos of Captain Remeny Gratz in check, for example by sometimes just adjusting the direction in which she points before agreeing to fly there.

Beryl joined the sky pirates as she was trying to find herself, something she has not achieved as of Arc 6.

As she left her family, her mother gave her a Scimitar of Warning as a gift, which lets her know when danger is near and gives her the feeling of being protected by her mother.

She carries with her a notebook in which she tries to write down the adventures and events she experiences, a collection to tell their tale should she not live to do so.

## Backstory

Beryl grew up in the mountains with a miner family. The biggest influence on her had her mother, a tough woman that taught her how to read, write, fight, and anyting else she needed to know in her life. In addition, her motherly instincts rubbed off a bit on Beryl.

As she grew older, she had the feeling that there was something more she was meant to do, and so she packed up everything that was important to her went out to find herself to figure out what that would be. She left on good terms with her family, and could technically go back to them and start working with them whenever she has to. On her way, she joined the first crew of sky pirates she came across.

About 5 years after Remeny had become a sky pirate, Beryl met her, and the two of them got along so well that they became a package deal and hopped sky pirate crews together. Remeny is Beryl's best friend, and despite her sometimes questionable decisions, Beryl trusts her.

5-10 years prior to Arc 6, the two of them joined the crew of Kix and Airyc.

## Character Arc

During the arc, Beryl proves to be a practical person that does not tend to let emotions cloud her mind, but neither does she become emotionally cold or distant. As Kipp dies, she is heartbroken, and promises them that she will write a beautiful letter to their university and family. She can barely suppress her anger at Remeny for endangering the whole crew like that, and yet, she knows that their survival comes first, so she actively works towards getting along with her captain and lifting up the mood. She was also the one who first came up with the idea of skinning Airyc to get blankets, putting their safety over any grief or sentimental feelings. Generally, her main goal is to get everyone home safely, and she is willing to sacrifice some short term comfort for that.

Beryl is also a very cautious person, keeping her eye on Salas as they first join the crew. She is especially protective of Lottie, who is like a daughter to her. This is something she openly tells Lottie, especially when she worries about loosing the crew once they get to Glaceria. Beryl promises her that she will always be there for her. Her protection even goes as far as telling Lottie something they both know is a lie, just to try and calm her down.

As Remeny starts acting weird, Beryl knows that she has planned something, and soon suspects her of still hunting after the treasure despite the life-threatening circumstances they are in, and her suspicions are later confirmed by Kix. She doesn't want to confront her right away, but when Remeny attempts to cast a spell on them to get to her treasure, Beryl demands to know what is happening and tries to hold her accountable. This leads to a full-blown argument, during which Remeny even lashes out enough to attack Beryl. As they manage to talk her down again, Beryl can forgive Remeny for that. Still, her using her magic on her own crew erased a lot of the trust the two of them had built together.

During this argument and even before that, another thing Beryl emphasizes regularly is that not only does she want the crew to be safe, but she wants them to be allowed to make their own decisions.

As Remeny and Beryl try to make peace between them, Beryl gives her her jade stone eye as a sign of trust. Kix later makes her a fancy eyepatch instead.

As the party moves through the storm around Glaceria, Beryl breaks into the ice and is saved by Remeny. Just shortly after, Beryl is the only survivor of the crew, and, as a completely magic-less Fighter, unable to save her friends. She alone makes it to the city, and across its border into its warmth and safety, although badly wounded. A gnome named Hopkins Williamhead greets her there, and helps her get back to strength.

Later, she buys a coat with cold resistance so that she can venture out again and retrieve Kix's hard drives. They are restored an unknown amount of time in the future, in a very futuristic setting. Because of the thin ice, she is unable to bring any of the bodies into the city, and has to leave them out there.

Wrecked with survivor's guilt, she doesn't want anyone to ever feel helpless again, and so she dedicates her life to the business she establishes: Hatebad Weapons LLC, with the LLC standing for Lottie Leremy Company. She already loved weapons before, and comes from a mining family, so this is something that she is very good at. The company becomes very successful, and when Beryl eventually starts a family of her own, she brings them into the business as well, thus establishing the Hatebad Family as a major player in Glaceria, and the biggest weapons manufacturer in Hyranor.

Apart from this noble cause, she is also filled with a need for revenge, though. It doesn't take her long to realise that the Lovejoy Family is not only incredibly powerful, but their history also interwoven with that of the city. Combined with the things she and her crew found in the mine in Mount Ornament, and the rumours around the city, Beryl realises that some Lovejoy, hundreds or thousands of years ago, was responsible for the dangers of the Upnorth, and she wants to get her revenge for the death of her chosen family.

About eight years after she arrived in Glaceria, she is approached by a young Half-Elf, who was born the day her crew died. This Half-Elf is the reincarnation of Salas, and the two of them become friends again, with Beryl becoming a motherly figure for them.

## Trivia

* Julia got a range of 6-8 for Beryl's level and chose 8.
* A beryl is a precious stone, which fits to her coming from a family of miners.
* At least by the time of Arc 2, the Hatebad family is one of the main rivals of the Lovejoy family, and one of the biggest weapons manufacturers in Hyranor.
* Remeny and Beryl regularly play card games together. Usually, Beryl wins, except when Remeny has done something that upsets her enough to distract her.