Timorei

 is one of the Somnovem of the mutated Cognouza Ward of the city of Aeor. As an NPC, is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
Timorei's appearance, age, race, or gender prior to the flight of Cognouza into the Astral Plane and its subsequent transformation are unknown.

When Timorei was encountered by the Mighty Nein in the warped and mutated flying city, he had apparently become part of the single organism. He was able to assume the shape of the blank people-like creatures that populated the area, and spoke telepathically through the form of a giant red eye consuming one of their heads.

Personality
While it is unknown what the pre-Calamity Timorei's personality was, he was almost completely mad at the time the Mighty Nein met him. His overpowering personality trait was fear, expressed over and over. He insisted that at all costs, the oblivion of death must be destroyed and "they" must endure.

Biography
Timorei was one of the nine leaders, the Somnovem, of the Aeorian neighborhood called Cognouza. Those leaders led the ward to escape the destruction of Aeor by the gods and transport themselves into the Astral Sea, where they encountered a "psychic storm that wracked every mind and spirit and shattered them until they became one with their own city." "Thousands of people and the Somnovem that guided them were broken, and over time slowly reformed, powerful, the instinct of their dreams driving them, in a place where they could will their dreams to be, were their will not so fragmented."

Timorei was the first of the Somnovem that the party encountered. He contacted Caleb Widogast telepathically in the form of one of the quasi-people populating the courtyard where the group had landed, causing one of its eyes to turn red and swell massively, and saying, "You know the terror of the end, mortal ones. The nothing, the acceptance of fate or even oblivion. We-- we cannot end. No, at all costs, oblivion must be destroyed. We will endure!"

Timorei seemed desperate and insane, with a profound sense of terror. He said they could protect one another and begged for their aid, adding that Elatis and Luctus tried to bring darkness by embracing the unknown, their reasons were madness, and they must be stopped. Their essence could be found and destroyed within the Aether Crux. Timorei also asked Caleb, "Where is he? Where is the Nonagon? His second walks, but he is beyond our sight." He explained that the Nonagon was going to help Cognouza go home. The Somnovem were nine, and under the nine and within them, many. As he said "many," all the artificial passer-bys in the street joined in unison. Timorei warned Caleb that they must be wary of "the rest." He could sense them coming. The eye then reverted to normal and the person liquified into the ground.

Timorei's named eye attack by Lucien (when he was transformed into the composite Neo-Somnovem) created Fear. Even on a successful Wisdom save, however, the eye sometimes gave the target a new red eye marking.

Relationships

 * The Somnovem

Quotations

 * "You know the terror of the end, mortal ones. The nothing, the acceptance of fate or even oblivion. We-- we cannot end. No, at all costs, oblivion must be destroyed. We will endure!"
 * "Driven by fear, you are powerful."

Trivia

 * The name "Timorei" likely is derived from the Latin word for fear, "timor".