Teb

> "*I think what's beauty is when you have a pretty green rock, and what's not beautiful is when you drop it into a pool of water.*"
> ― Teb, describing to him why it is not what's inside the rock that counts
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Teb was a Nothic met by the party during Episode 1 - The Lonely Lurker. He lets the party into the Evocation Department Storage Room after some convincing and he asks them to retrieve a Green Stone for him. The party agrees to do so and afterward they follow him to his home, discovering that, possibly as they suspected, there is far more to this school than meets the eye. Teb was ultimately killed by Neska.

## Appearance

Teb was described as Nothics typically appear - small, scaly, a bit jumpy. Naturally, he was also described to have one large eye.

## Personality

Unlike most Nothic, which are naturally Neutral Evil, Teb appears to be totally friendly and may be True Neutral in alignment, though he has never truly been given a chance to demonstrate his alignment. He is, however, very accommodating and a gracious host, welcoming his new friends into his home and listening to them when they describe what he's done with his place as 'interior decorating', proceeding to almost comically start doing so. Teb is not a very good liar, showing visible tells when he lies about not knowing who Digger is, even if his voice was well maintained. He is also shown to be fairly gullible, however, not only falling for an illusion when the party 'borrow' his Green Stone, but also trading potentially very valuable alchemical reagents for a few gold to Integrity. He is also shown to be fairly forgiving - despite finding that the party had deceived him, he simply takes what's his and decides to search for his friend Digger.

## History

In Episode 11 - Meet the Mentors, it is revealed that Teb was a former student at Wildcliff named Tebethy and the friend of Artis Artisian. It is currently unknown what transformed Teb into a Nothic, but according to Dain, it happened a couple of years after he graduated.

In Arc 1: The Sunken Hatch, Teb encountered the students, asking them to recover the Orb of Reverence for him, which he had dropped in the reliquary. The students agreed to do so, and Teb invited them into his small home in The Sunken Hatch. After meeting with Teb for a while, they stole his orb, placing it into the hatch and proceeding through the hatch's trials. After Teb awoke, he removed the orb from the hatch, telling them that he was leaving to find Digger and warning them about the hatch's dangers. He later gave the orb to Artis Artisian for safekeeping.

It is unknown exactly what happened to Teb during his excursions to find Digger; however, he travelled into the desert, and at some point acquired Digger's old butterfly net. In Arc 10: Faint of Heart, after having been missing for approximately two months, Teb met Integrity Idleberry in the school's sewers. Notably, his mental state was significantly weakened, and he seemed incoherent and could only focus on demanding the orb back.

It was later revealed that Teb had received multiple dreams from The Progenitor, constantly telling him to kill Integrity, Artis, and Ferimel, and take the orbs for himself. Teb refused all of these demands. Teb was given his orb back, which did not seem to heal his incoherent mental state, and Artis brought him to his cabin.

After the students decided to kill Neska, they left the cabin along with Yog; Artis later followed to join them. Teb was left in the cabin, alone with a sleeping Delnys Raethran, in possession of the green Orb of Reverence. While the students, Yog, and Artis were looking for Neska, she entered the cabin in humanoid form, killing Teb and taking his orb.

## Speculation/Trivia

* Despite being a bit gullible, Teb is likely average intelligence for a Nothic if not fairly smart - most Nothic only know Undercommon, but he is shown to speak Common fluently.
* Teb is either very respectful or unaware of his power, as he never seems to use the Nothic ability, Weird Insight, to learn any facts or secrets about the party, as the party is never asked to make a spontaneous Deception check to resist this ability. Presumably it is the former, as he seems to be friendly all around. It is also possible he is incapable of using this ability.
* Nothic are drawn to magic, but in Teb's case, he claims that he is simply drawn by pretty things - shining, sparkling or shimmering, it doesn't seem to make a difference as long as it is good to look at.
* In his time at Wildcliff, Teb was in a team consisting of Dain, Artis, Fidan and himself, which the fan community has nicknamed "DAFT".