Yeza Brenatto

Yeza Brenatto is a halfling alchemist and Nott's husband. As an NPC, Yeza is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
Yeza is short even for a Halfling. He has bushy brown hair, long sideburns, narrow shoulders and a large nose. He is described as "not a looker" though he is to Nott.

Background
Nott told the Mighty Nein that her former goblin clan captured Yeza after Nott became the torturer's assistant. Due to her position, Nott had contact with him and treated him kindly, and the two become friends. The goblin clan despised this, their initial orders were for him to be killed, but allowed this to continue as he provided information they deemed valuable. Nott learned a lot from him, including alchemy, the halfling language, and information on the halfling settlement of Felderwin Village. When the clan requested that Nott kill Yeza after extensive interrogation, Nott decided to free Yeza and escape. She got drunk and shot another goblin in the butt, with Nott and Yeza running in opposite directions away from the clan. She never found out what happened to Yeza. Nott told this story without saying Yeza's name. Nott later revealed Yeza's name to Caleb (and to Kiri, unintentionally) while they searched for a rock together. Upon returning to the rest of the group, Kiri mimicked the name to the Mighty Nein, much to Nott's displeasure.

This version of events was later revealed to be mostly untrue. Yeza was actually Nott's husband. Nott was born as a halfling woman named Veth. Yeza was dared to kiss Veth as part of a game. They became close and got married. They had a son named Luke. When all of them were captured in a goblin raid on Felderwin, Veth distracted the goblins to give Yeza and Luke a chance to get away. They did get away, but Veth did not.

When the Mighty Nein reached Felderwin, they discovered that Yeza's shop/home had been burned down in the Kryn Dynasty assault. A local crownsguard noted that Yeza went missing during the attack and had not been seen since, though no body had been found. Inside a chest in Yeza's basement, the Nein found two pages from a diary or letter by a Cerberus Assembly researcher, who had worked with him. The second page of this document referred to him as an alchemist "obnoxious in his simplicity" who had good instincts but wasn't intelligent enough to betray the Cerberus Assembly. Yeza apparently produced a vial of dunamis extract, which the Nein took with them.

Jester cast Sending to Yeza, asking him to cough once for "Yes" and cough twice for "No". Yeza coughed twice for "Are they moving you?" and once for "Are you safe?" Jester cast Sending again and asked him to cough once for each person guarding him. Yeza coughed three times.

Jester cast Sending to Yeza, asking if he had any more information on his location or his captors' plans for him. Yeza responded that he is in an underground cell and has not been interrogated. Jester cast Sending a second time to ask why he was taken. She added that Nott missed him and asked if he has heard of The Traveler. Yeza responded that he believes he was taken because he was working with the Cerberus Assembly. He did not know who Nott was. He added "Are you still coming?"

Luke Brenatto
Luke assumed that Yeza was dead after the raid on Felderwin. Yeza hid his work with the Cerberus Assembly from Luke, telling him to hide whenever "the mean lady with the pointy ears" (likely Vess DeRogna) came to their house.

Veth Brenatto/Nott
Since becoming a goblin, Nott has sent Yeza letters and signed them as Veth. Despite this, Yeza told Luke that goblins killed Veth. He gives Luke the presents Nott has sent, but does not tell Luke who they are from. It is unknown if Yeza believes Veth is alive or what he feels about her now. Yeza is unaware of Veth's transformation into Nott the goblin.