Beryl

**Beryl** is a toymaker and bookbinder from Jorenn Village.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Beryl is described as "a young woman with stone-gray skin, darker than Wick's silver-gray, and rougher too." While working, she wears a set of double glasses. Her voice is lower and more resonant than Wick's.

### **Personality**

Beryl avoids making eye contact, both with people familiar to her and with strangers. When Vex'ahlia looked directly at her, Beryl quickly looked away and flapped her fingers. She appears to be an organized person: the books in her shop are neatly stacked and sorted by language, all of them identified with notecards in her "spidery handwriting." Wick described her as "somewhat of a book lover."

## **Biography**

### **Kith & Kin**

Around 807 PD, Beryl was running her own shop in Jorenn Village called Binds and Dolls, where she sold handmade dolls as well as books. The shop was brightly lit, with blue curtains and dolls sitting in the windows and in the front of the shop. Beryl's workbench was in the middle of it, and behind it were bookshelves. Her dolls were varied in their materials (including fabric, sticks, metal, leather, and thread), but all had gemstones for eyes, including ruby, sapphire, and emerald. She sold dolls to collectors and to the local children, including Aswin.

Several days after Vex'ahlia's arrival in Jorenn Village, Derowen visited Binds and Dolls to pick up a doll Beryl had mended for her daughter Aswin, and mentioned to Beryl that Vex'ahlia was looking for books on dragons. Beryl found one on a bottom shelf and put it aside. The next day, Wick brought Vex'ahlia to the shop to collect the book. Beryl would not accept payment for it, offering it as thanks for Vex'ahlia's help in protecting the village.

Several days later, when ash walkers attacked Jorenn Village, Vex'ahlia saw Beryl on a rooftop, holding a doll and sending bolts of fire at the undead.

When Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan returned to Westruun, Vax noticed "a wooden doll with emerald eyes" in Spireling Gideor's office, possibly a doll crafted by Beryl.

## **Relationships**

### **Wick**

Wick and Beryl have a friendly relationship. When Vex'ahlia visited Beryl's shop, Wick was sensitive to Beryl's communication needs and redirected Vex's attention so that Beryl didn't have to make eye contact.

## **Character information**

### **Abilities**

Beryl is able to cast "bolts of fiery light" from her hands, which is possibly the cantrip *Fire Bolt*.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 149.
2. ↑ See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 149. Beryl's skin is grey and similar to Wick's, and they share a language.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1  Critical Role (@CriticalRole) on Twitter: "Check out our updated timeline featuring ALL of our epic adventures throughout Exandria -- including Campaign 3! ⚔️" (2021-10-28).
4. ↑ See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 149. Beryl speaks to Wick, who is a goliath, in a "guttral language that Vex didn't understand."
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 150.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 323.
7. ↑ See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, p. 349.
8. ↑ See *Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin*, pp. 149–150.

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