player character

Dotharl

Dotharl character reference sheet with front, side, and rear views.

Summary

Dotharl is a player character played by Joshua: a mysterious armoured construct who became aware roughly twenty years ago near Rimewatch. He is connected to the constructs and prison systems of Lady Evalina Hartwall’s Laboratory, and Valenth Cardonal identified him as one of her mother’s early creations, similar to a sentry drone. Part of Dotharl is linked to Bridged, while his possible ancestry as an Excellency descended from Anorazorak, with Squwal as his supposed grandfather, remains unresolved. His visions and exploration of Squwal’s tower continue to expose fragments of his history and possible purpose.

Character Details

Player: Joshua.
Ancestry/species: complicated; sentient construct, with unresolved lightning elemental implications.
Class/role: fighter, Eldritch Knight.
Description: a mysterious armoured construct whose stoic demeanor conceals a complex past. Reliable in battle and steadfast in purpose, Dotharl often serves as the party’s shield against threats both mundane and supernatural.

Character Voice

Dotharl’s table personality is steadier and more action-defined than some of the longer-running party members. He often comes through in moments of danger: holding position, striking decisively, enduring strange circumstances, and pursuing his own questions with a quiet seriousness. As the newest member, his dynamic is still unfolding, but recent records give him a distinctive place as a martial, observant presence whose personal mysteries sit beneath a practical readiness to act.

Character Art

Dotharl in Squwal’s Tower, surrounded by vision-symbols of form, family, loss, and change.

Dotharl character reference sheet with front, side, and rear views.

Known Details

Day 45 says Dothral had only been aware for twenty years.
A soul crashing into the tower awakened a few constructs; Dothral awakened around Rimewatch about twenty years earlier, near a door, and something forcefully propelled him through it.
Day 47 records Dothral recognizing Lady Evalina Hartwall’s Laboratory architecture, encountering Dothral automatons, and being called the door guard for a prison.
Sunserene’s court did not want to question Dotharl because they did not question machines, but questions appeared anyway: “Help me, Grandson.”
Day 52 says Dothral wanted to know more about his father and thought the answer might be Anorazorak, making Dothral an Excellency, with Squwal, god of the lost, as his grandfather.
Bridged said part of Dotharl was Bridged and framed a future choice: Dotharl could keep his humanity or rejoin Bridged’s realm.
Day 55 gives Dotharl a warning dream involving a glass dome, a blue-eyed figure, a green-eyed woman, her hurt friend, her hostile brother, and possible Envy.
Day 56 uses Dotharl, through Hracency’s death and Ruby Eye’s eye, to locate Ruby Eye and Cardinal.
Day 57 records Dotharl entering paintings, casting See Invisibility, and being one of the named jumpers into the death realm.
Day 58 records Valenth Cardonal identifying Dotharl as one of her mother’s early creations, like a sentry drone.
Dotharl stayed in Brass City while the others traveled, kept one of Morning Dew’s sending stones, and explored Squwal’s tower alone.
Squwal’s tower showed Dotharl symbols from his visions and possible history: a living whirlwind with lightning eyes, a vulture figure in a sandstorm, an eagle crackling with lightning, lost or humble objects, a burned house, library, white-flower field, a pigtailed girl near an abandoned building, Freeport warehouse imagery, a stuffed silver dragon toy, bloodied tissue, a funeral or gravestone scene, and a white-dragon-like eye in the glass dome.
The old man in Squwal’s tower asked if Dotharl was Errol, said Dotharl was there because he expected to see him, said Dotharl was not like his father and was different, liked change, found being kept a prison because there was no change, and said everyone needed to decide about their forms.

Open Questions

Is Dotharl’s father Anorazorak, and is Squwal truly his grandfather?
What does it mean that part of Dotharl is Bridged?
Who is the voice offering to free Dotharl from mortals?
What is the meaning of Dotharl’s Day 55 dome dream?
What do Squwal’s tower visions mean for Dotharl’s father, Errol, the white dragon eye, Freeport, the silver dragon toy, and the bloodied tissue?
What decision about form is Dotharl being pointed toward?

Images

Dotharl in Squwal's Tower

Dotharl character reference