Fearne Calloway

Fearne Calloway is a faun druid and member of the Crown Keepers and later Bells Hells. She is played by Ashley Johnson.

Fearne was raised in the Fey Realm by Morrigan. In 842 PD, she journeyed to Exandria in search of her parents, Birdie and Olly Calloway. There, she traveled to Emon where she met and joined a group of adventurers who came to be called the Crown Keepers, as well as a wildfire spirit in the form of a monkey she named Little Mister. In 843 PD, she and two members of the Crown Keepers, Orym and Dorian Storm, traveled to the city of Jrusar in Marquet, where they would join another adventuring party named Bells Hells.

Description
Fearne is a six-foot-tall faun with large eyes, large furry ears, and sea-foam green hair. Her hooves have bits of moss around them. She wears flowy clothing and is covered in poisonous flowers including hemlock and oleander. After holding the Circlet of Barbed Vision, her left hand blackened and became claw-like.

When Fearne gets in contact with the Fey Realm, her features temporarily change, becoming sharper with otherworldly feel to them. Her ears and limbs lengthen, eyes get bigger and deeper with rectangular, goat-like pupils, and the flowers she wears begin to turn and open.

Personality
Fearne is unperturbed and direct. Her soft, demure voice contrasts with her somewhat erratic, insensitive, and self-possessed behavior, in much the same way as the wonderful-looking flowers she wears are actually all poisonous. Fearne loves to collect various trinkets, and she enjoys stealing them. In combat, she always goes for the kill. Bells Hells frequently see her behavior as potentially reckless, but Fearne does not see herself that way.

She is described as coming across as sweet or naïve and as having "a darker streak that manifests itself in her wildfire nature magic". She is fond of stealing from others and inventing stories.

Background
Fearne was born on the Material Plane in the Verdant Expanse of Tal'Dorei, Exandria to Birdie and Ollie Calloway. She was born as Ruidus flared, making her Ruidusborn. Shortly after the newborn Fearne and her parents returned to the Feywild, Ruidus' light started bleeding into the plane when it hadn't before. Birdie and Ollie sought an explanation for the goings-on but couldn't find one, all while becoming outcasts in the eyes of the Seelie Court and pursued by the Unseelie Court. Eventually, Fearne's parents left the Feywild in search of more answers, leaving Fearne in Morrigan's care because it was an unlikely places for the Unseelie Court to go or look.

At home in the Feywild, Fearne had a beautiful bedroom where she kept all of the trinkets she had stolen on her travels around the world. At some point, she had fey animal friends named Sweet Pea, Bompers, Peepers, and Dr. Nesbitt. Nesbitt was a bird, and the other three were a bear, a crocodile, and a rabbit, though it is not necessarily clear which was which. Fearne also visited the Unseelie Court, to which several of her aunties belong to.

Fearne traveled from the Feywild to the Material Plane through Artagan's Gate, built by Vox Machina for the archfey Artagan. She came to the Material Plane to explore, to see the rest of the world, and to find her parents, believing they left to do something important, although she isn't sure what. Morri also gave her a Weave Lens before she left, to be given to her parents if she ever saw them. According to Fearne's memory, they last saw one another approximately 90 years before Campaign 3, Birdie believed it had only been almost six years.

During her travels, Fearne has received letters, gifts, and postcards signed in the name of her parents, Birdie and Oleander Calloway. Although, according to the forlarren sent by Lady Elmenore to retrieve Fearne, her caretaker, Morrigan, was the one who sent her the gifts, Fearne was convinced she was lying, and still maintained that idea visiting Jrusar and in her early days in Bassuras, but accepted it after meeting her mother.

Exandria Unlimited
With the rest of the Exandria Unlimited party, Fearne woke up in a house in Emon with no memory of the preceding week. When the party found a baby ankheg in a warehouse they robbed, she was very worried about it and had to be talked out of going back to get it. Later, she suggested taking the crown, they had found, to Morrigan in the Feywild, but wasn't sure how to get there right now.

During the battle on the Oh No Plateau, Fearne transformed into a dire wolf and was able to save Little Mister when Dariax attacked him while thinking he was an enemy. She was also instrumental in getting the group away from Poska's attempted kidnapping by casting Charm Person on Poska and convincing her to tell the Nameless Ones to stand down.

During the party's travel south toward Byroden, Fearne realized they were on the road she took to travel to Emon. While in the main thick of the Verdant Expanse, she led the group off the Wildwood Byway and deeper into the woods, feeling a strong sense that she needed to check something. Her eyes began looking more goat-like. They reached an open glade with a strange gate in its center, which Fearne recognized as the gate she came through from the Feywild. She found herself wanting to go through the gate, but when she tentatively put her hand in, a misshapen twin stepped out wearing the Circlet of Barbed Vision. The creature invited Fearne to come home, saying, "I found my power," and a battle ensued.

Fearne took part in the Gem of Byroden pageant, but failed to place. Along with others in the party, she dreamed about the Circlet and heard the voice of Lolth, and she was contacted by the Wildmother at the obelisk near Qoniira. Within the ruins of Niirdal-Sarqet, Fearne deciphered the final side of the cube and seized control of it, shattering it and releasing bright blue arcane energy.

In the final battle, Fearne again utilized her dire wolf form. The party decided to stay together for at least the time being.

Campaign 3
Following the events taking place in Exandria Unlimited, the party returned to Byroden. When Keyleth sent Orym on a mission to Marquet, she told him that his friends Fearne and Dorian could be helpful. Keyleth used Transport by Plants to sneak them to the skyship port in Emon, on which they traveled eventually to Jrusar. They soon found themselves responding to a mysterious attack of animated objects in the streets, fighting alongside Ashton Greymoore, Fresh Cut Grass, Imogen Temult, and Laudna, and they attracted the attention of Bertrand Bell, who was able to arrange them work with Ariks Eshteross.

Toymaker Chetney Pock O'Pea hired them to locate Gurge Kisgregg. Imogen suggested to Fearne that Chetney might make her a toy, and off Fearne's, Laudna's, and Dorian's excitement, Chetney agreed to pay them in crafted wooden toys. During the investigation, an attempt to distract the cook Pretty led to him asking her, Laudna, and Imogen on a date. They accepted, but after the date, Pretty declined to pursue anything further with them. The group tracked Gurge to a secret workshop of Ira Wendagoth, the Nightmare King. Ira recognized Fearne as a Calloway, though Fearne did not recognize him. Because of her presence, he hesitated to cast an acidic spell on the group and instead chose to escape.

As Armand Treshi was connected to many of these strange events, Eshteross wanted to plant a tracker on him by replacing his ring at a Chandei Quorum ball. Fearne successfully engaged Treshi in a dance. Despite his wariness of her as a fey, due to his distrust of Ira, she was able to slip his ring off, allowing the others to eventually replace it with the tracker. During the ball, Preston Drodelon became enamored with her; though she gently rejected him on the basis that she was "a bit old" for him (despite Preston being an older man). Events during the ball forced Dorian to flee Jrusar with his brother Cyrus Wyvernwind during the night, upsetting Fearne greatly.

The next day, she and Chetney arranged to meet at his room at 3:00 am to have sex. However, he slept through the night and missed the signal, and she returned to her own room. In the morning, Laudna asked Fearne about her life in the Feywild and the reason she was in Exandria. Fearne said that she was seeing the world and that Morri told her that she might find her parents here. She had not seen her parents since she was young, but she received numerous postcards from them, the latest of which from Aeor.

Some time later, they departed for Bassuras via skyship to capture Treshi. There, they met Dusk, who was also searching for Fearne's parents. Fearne told the others that her parents left because they "had to do something very important". With her permission, Imogen contacted Fearne's mother Birdie over Sending and arranged to meet them at Imahara Joe's workshop in a few days. Over the next days, Fearne and Dusk bonded over their experiences in the Feywild and desire to find Fearne's parents. Bells Hells examined the postcards more closely and discovered that they were in unusually good condition and hand made. Fearne grew confused and uncertain when they suggested that Morri lied to her about the origin of the cards, but her friends reassured her that they supported her regardless of what happened with her family. That night, while on watch, Fearne showed Chetney a green gemstone that Morri said Fearne's parents needed. Chetney, in turn, gave her the toy he had been making as payment: a wolf. He again extended an open invitation for a sexual relationship but felt tonight was "tone deaf" due to personal revelations in the group throughout the day.

Fearne was reunited with Birdie at Imahara's workshop. However, Dusk revealed themselves to actually be Yu Suffiad, an agent of the Unseelie Court sent after the Calloway family due to their theft of the Moontide Crown. After Bells Hells convinced Yu to come back in a month for both Birdie and the Crown, Birdie explained to them that she and Ollie had been working with Ira on a device to learn more about Ruidus, as Fearne was Ruidusborn and Ruidus had been recently encroaching on the Feywild, seemingly due to her influence. Birdie also believed to have only left Fearne behind six years ago. Bells Hells followed Birdie to her and Ollie's hideout outside Bassuras. Ollie corroborated Birdie's story, though several members of the party, notably Ashton and Chetney, were suspicious. Fearne realized that Morri had created the postcards, and asked her parents if she had been given to Morri in exchange for the Weave Lens, which they denied but which Ira evaded answering.

After Ira completed the Veilscatter Scope and teleported away, Fearne began to express her frustration with her parents for leaving her behind for so long. After it became clear that her parents had been manipulated by Ira, and possibly Morri, she spoke with them, telling them that she was angry and felt she didn't really know them at this point, but that she was willing to slowly build a relationship on her own terms.

Fearne was killed in the battle against Otohan Thull, but resurrected by FCG immediately after.

While the party was in Yios and the Elemental Plane of Fire, Fearne suggested that the party visit Morri to ask for help in dealing with the Malleus Key in the Feywild. After her and Imogen's encounter with Ludinus Da'leth, the party agreed, and Ryn transported them there. In the Feywild, she brought the party to Ligament Manor, where she had grown up, and happily reunited with Morri.

Calloway family
Fearne's caretaker, Morrigan, sent her from the Feywild to Exandria. She passed through a gate and arrived near Syngorn.

Fearne's parents are outcasts. Fearne was told by a dark version of herself that the Archfey Elmenore wanted her back. After the battle that followed, Fearne could feel the displeasure of Elmenore at the dark alter ego's failure.

Little Mister
Little Mister is Fearne's wildfire spirit, a monkey whose mouth is a gaping furnace, burning anything that he decides to eat. Little Mister is also energetic, especially when he was running with Opal to the docks.

Orym
Fearne and Orym have contrasting personalities: she with a chaotic fey nature and he soberly making a conscious effort to do good and not screw people over. Despite Orym's worrying about the trouble Fearne will get herself and the party into, they are attentive to each other and are close friends.

Ashton Greymoore
Ashton and Fearne seem to get along with one another, and enjoy each other's mischief. They pickpocketed her when they first met, stealing a large earring of the Allhammer's symbol, which she herself stole from a pachydan priest she met on her first day in Jrusar. She then stole the earring back and offered it to Preio Madali as payment for a bottle of Elvish alcohol. In return, Ashton stole the chamber pot with a flower growing out of it (which she originally lifted from Dugger's house) when she was blinded by electric shock. She offered to let Ashton drink some of the liquor out of her hair after Bertrand Bell accidentally threw it at her.

Chetney Pock O'Pea
Fearne and Chetney have a flirtatious relationship. Fearne is fascinated by Chetney's lycanthropy, and asked Gurge Kisgregg to bite her, which Chetney supported, although Gurge refused.

Exandria Unlimited stats
Fearne's character stats were rerolled between Exandria Unlimited and Campaign 3. Her original stats at level 2 were:

Notable items

 * Staff of the Adder
 * +1 Moon Sickle
 * Stonky's ring
 * Eyes of Charming
 * Gloomscale Breastplate
 * Weave Lens from Morri. Shattered by Ashton and Mended by Laudna, it is no longer enchanted.
 * Enchanted toy griffon, purchased in Whitestone
 * Wooden wolf carved and gifted by Chetney, payment for helping find Gurge Kisgregg
 * Hand mirror containing corrupted versions of Unseelie Court assassins used to assassinate targets, taken from Yu Suffiad. Likely a Yore Mirror.
 * Pan flute
 * Ceremonial saber from Vali Dertrana
 * Golden skeleton key

Former items

 * Spyglass stolen from Captain Xandis; stolen from her by Orym
 * Coin of the Changebringer, loaned to Fearne by FCG to decide on the destination of Revivify spell between Orym and Laudna. After the Changebringer chose Orym, FCG asked Fearne to give the coin back. At first, she refused but eventually returned it reluctantly.
 * Portable hole, containing various other items

Faun (satyr) abilities

 * Ram
 * Magic Resistance
 * Mirthful Leaps
 * Reveler
 * Proficient in Performance, Persuasion, and one instrument (dulcimer)

Druid abilities

 * Druidic language
 * Wildshape
 * Druid Circle: Circle of Wildfire
 * Summon Wildfire Spirit
 * Enhanced Bond

Rogue abilities

 * Expertise: Persuasion
 * Sneak Attack (1d6)
 * Thieves' Cant

Spells
In addition to her Circle spells, which are always prepared, Fearne has access to all druid class spells. As a 7th-level druid, she can prepare up to eleven spells per day.

Additionally at her level, Fearne should know three druid cantrips. Despite this, she has been shown to have cast more than that. It is unknown if she has replaced her cantrips known at some point or if she is erroneously preparing them like the rest of her spells.

Behind the scenes
Fearne was initially developed as a character concept for Campaign 3 and was brought into Exandria Unlimited for further development. Afterward, Ashley had the option to choose another character for the campaign, but she chose to continue playing Fearne. Her stats were then rerolled under the same rules as other characters in Campaign 3 and prior campaigns: using the rolled method in the Player's Handbook with a homebrewed rule that if the sum of the scores was less than 70, they could reroll the scores.

Fearne's "innocently mischievous" personality came from Ashley Johnson's mother.

Appearances and mentions

 * Exandria Unlimited
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except
 * Campaign 3, every episode played by Ashley except

Quotations

 * "Time is a weird soup." (a repeated phrase.)
 * (at the end of Exandria Unlimited) "I had some things that I needed to do, but I think there's still some things that we maybe need to complete. And I don't think I'm ready to leave you all yet. Because thinking about that just makes me very sad. So, let's just keep going."
 * (said while looting Bertrand's corpse) "Well, one man's trash."
 * "Jazz is chaos, and I don't know how you can't love it."
 * "Oh, well, that's where I draw the line. I don't like sharing."
 * "Time is a construct that man uses to define change. So be whatever age you want, I guess."
 * "It's 112, and that's my age. But I feel about 732."
 * "It's just hard when you feel something and the other person doesn't. It just happens. Every time. Always the bridesmaid.
 * "I realize I'm not as good at lying as I thought. Which is weird because I do it all the time."
 * (a toast) "May the hair in your ears never fall out!"
 * "I don't really [steal]... I just borrow for a long time."
 * Fearne: We talked last night, and I am in a whole new headspace of just living life balls to the wall. FCG: What does that mean? That's great. That's fantastic. You're just, you're free? Fearne: No rules. FCG: As opposed to before? Fernae: I mean, now, I'm just going to do whatever I want to do.

Trivia

 * Although the official name of Fearne's race is "satyr", she consistently refers to herself as a faun. In mythology, Fauns are virtually the same as satyrs, the main difference being their depiction throughout history. Satyrs were initially shown in ancient Greece iconography as male nature spirits often portrayed with the ears and tails of horses and an exaggerated erection, and were associated with indecency. Over time, they began to be represented as more goat-like. Fauns were spirits of peace and fertility originating in ancient Rome who borrowed their appearance from satyrs although their animalistic features are taken from deer as opposed to goats; this can be seen in Fearne's thin legs and deer-like fur patterning, as well as her horn shape similar to a kudu and other such African deer. Eventually, however, the differences between the two mythic creatures were blurred, and the terms came to be interchangeable.
 * It's possible that Ashley chose to use the term "faun" because of its association with gentle, foolish spirits.
 * Her name likely is a variation of the name Fern, which itself is derived from the fern plant. The word "fern" is from the Old English "fearn" referring to the same plant.
 * According to the co-founder of Eldritch Foundry in a now-deleted post on Reddit, which created the Exandria Unlimited miniatures, Fearne's miniature was redone at least four times to meet requests about the "fullness" of her bosom. By the final result, photos of Christina Hendricks were involved as references. Fearne was also known as "Fergie" at the time.
 * Fearne is the first Critical Role player character in a main campaign to have a creature type other than humanoid. However, she's not the first one in canon Critical Role D&D episodes, being preceded by Buddy the ogre played by Liam O'Brien in.
 * The animation on her Campaign 3 stat card is of falling pink flower petals. One of the flowers she wears in her hair, oleander, commonly has pink petals, and Oleander is also the name of Fearne's father.
 * Fearne being from the Feywild makes her one of two members of the Crown Keepers who are not from the Prime Material Plane, the other one being Fy'ra Rai. She would also be the only confirmed non-Exandrian member of Bells Hells.