Mollymauk Tealeaf

Mollymauk Tealeaf is a tiefling blood hunter. He is played by Taliesin Jaffe.

Appearance
Molly is a lavender tiefling with red eyes. His curled horns are pierced and extremely ostentatious, with little gems and baubles. He has a peacock tattoo that seems to be running up the side of his face, as well as a serpent tattoo on his right hand. His flamboyant appearance is often commented upon and he wears a bright and colorful robe covered with arcane symbols. Molly has two swords and a pouch that dangles from his hips. He also has many straight, overlapping scars on his neck, upper chest, and arms, presumably from drawing his own blood to activate his swords.

Personality
Molly is described as a "literal and figurative peacock". He frequently tells extravagant lies with little mind for whether or not his audience believes them. He does not seem visibly affected by insults, as shown by his lack of reaction when the old man in Ye Olde Mudhole called him a devil and told him to leave town.

Molly is very confident about his appearance and often mentions nudity, both his own and others.

Background
According to Toya, Molly joined the carnival two years ago. During this time he wasn't talking. Molly claims to have been in the carnival for as "long as [he] can reasonably remember".

Molly acted as a promoter for the carnival and as a "fortune-teller" within it. His "abilities" in the latter area are the result of the application of cold-reading techniques and sleight of hand, not actual magic. He never developed an act for the show itself.

Molly has connections to the Gentleman and may have previously gone by the name Lucian.

Jester
Molly read Jester's fortune for two copper pieces, using a small set of cards. He predicted that there is something bright and adventurous in her future.

At the Traveling Carnival of Curiosities, he showed her the moon and shadow cards together and asked if she understood what they meant.

Beauregard
Molly finds Beau very annoying, to the point of describing her as "awful" to fellow carnival members. Beau, in return, is put off by Molly being rude to her. Mollymauk dislikes monks because of an unspecified event that happened in his past.

Yasha
Molly and Yasha seem to be well acquainted from working with the Carnival of Curiosities. Molly appears to have met Yasha when she joined the Carnival a few months ago. When asked whether or not Yasha would be coming along with the party, Molly immediately accepted, referring to her as "the Charm."

Notable Items

 * Pair of "enchanted" Scimitars
 * Marked "fortune-telling" deck
 * "The Silver Dragon"
 * "The Anvil"
 * "The Serpent"
 * "The Eye"
 * "The Moon"
 * "The Shadow"
 * "The Chariot"
 * Disguise Kit
 * Pouch, bedazzled with gems, containing incense
 * Periapt of Wound Closure
 * Old, rusted, iron helmet that is at least two hundred years old (obtained from a cemetery)

Feats

 * Tough

Variant Tiefling Abilities

 * Darkvision
 * Devil's Tongue
 * Vicious Mockery cantrip
 * Charm Person spell (as a 2nd-level spell)
 * Hellish Resistance

Blood Hunter Abilities

 * Blood Curses
 * Blood Curse of the Eyeless
 * Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Ghostslayer
 * Esoteric Rite: Rite of the Dawn
 * Blood Maledict (1 use)
 * Crimson Rite (1d4)
 * Primal Rite: Rite of the Frozen
 * Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting
 * Hunter's Bane

Quotations
Beauregard: Are you patronizing me, Mollymauk? Mollymauk: No, I'm hoping that you’re going to patronize us.
 * Mollymauk: Can you hand me your staff so I can watch this? I want to see this limp of yours. Purely for my own entertainment.
 * "We're carnival people: we all have our issues. You don't wind up here if you don't have some kind of issues."
 * ‪"Mother always told me to never give away a story for free.‬"
 * "When in doubt, if something goes wrong, just... nudity. It usually works."
 * "BECAUSE I'M WEIRD!"
 * When asked why he travels with weird people in the circus.
 * "I'm always ready to make a fool of myself."
 * “Be the chaos you want to see in the world.”

Trivia

 * Molly has implied himself to be a worshiper of Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon (based on what he said to a carnival-goer in ). The veracity of this claim was supported in episode nein after Molly asked the innkeeper about the location of the shrine of the Platinum Dragon.
 * Taliesin Jaffe confirmed that "Mollymauk" is named after Alan "Mollymauk" Musgrave in the 1966 teen comedy film "Lord Love a Duck", which had been directed by Taliesin's grandfather, George Axelrod.
 * "Mollymauk" is a modification of "Mollymawk", the name of a species of albatross in the genus Thalassarche that originates from the Dutch "mallemok" (mal - foolish, and mok - gull).
 * The word "albatross" is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse.
 * In maritime superstition, to be followed by an albatross was considered a sign of good luck for a ship; killing the bird, such as in Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is said to bring a curse onto the killer and their ship.
 * "Tealeaf" is a suggested surname for Halflings in several editions of the Player's Handbook.
 * "Tea leaf" is also Cockney rhyming slang for "thief".
 * Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a method of divination or fortune-telling that interprets tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.
 * Molly was the first player character of the second campaign's party to be knocked unconscious in combat.
 * Taliesin has compared Molly's personality to that of Hunter S. Thompson.