Sunday, October 16, 2005

NPC Roster

This is a list of NPCs you have met in various places that you may or may not want to keep track of:

Bronce

  • Jim Oakenbough (and friends Hal, Jacko and Tom): the party believes Jim and/or his friends killed a tax collector from Saragost. Jim and friends left Bronce on the night that the party returned from the mines with warning of the Duergar attack.
  • Davan Gaskell (and deputy Morton Gimbert): the law officers of the village of Bronce. Davan took hobgoblin captives under guard when the PCs returned from the mine.
  • Father Tobias Bronson: cleric of Blediwesse who befriended the PCs and allowed them to dig up the floorboards in the decrepit church to recover the sword of Starkweather John.
  • Murphy Goodchild: the "headman" of Bronce who befriends the PCs after they rescue two missing children from the mines. Murphy Goodchild and Father Bronson were instrumental in seeing to the evacuation of Bronce.

Lichgate

  • Apple Merrywind: halfling ranger Sheriff of Lichgate. She is friendly and a potential ally and/or paramour (for Neil at least). She is leading the evacuation of Lichgate.
  • Harry Smith: a member of the Council of Elders in Lichgate who agreed to call the Council to meet after hearing the heroes' tale.
  • Brandon Timmons: a member of the Council of Elders who tried to raise some people to fight the Duergar, but the party talked him out of it.

Lower Scumsgrove

  • Vanson Braddock: the Captain of the Watch in Lower Scumsgrove. He was murdered by an unknown party after the PCs warned him about the coming Duergar attack.
  • Blaine West: a member of the Guild of Merchants who summoned Celegorm and Rumus to him to learn more about the Duergar threat. He is the primary rival of Jerrol Flinn.
  • Jerrol Flinn: the senior member of the Guild of Merchants. He paid the party 5,000 Caldrazan gold coins for the information about the Duergar threat.

Churney-on-the-Green

  • Cromlin Jass: an ancient elven druid who "leads" the commune of Churney-on-the-Green.
  • Angela Colwin: a young human woman (girl?) who gave the heroes each a cure light wounds potion while they were staying at Churney-on-the-Green.
  • Micha Varnu: a human cleric of Hernun who cast remove disease on Tilk to cure him of his ghoul fever.

Hockton Barrow

  • Captain Lucie Jabril: accomplished archer in charge of the Hockton Barrow militia.

Saragost

  • Council of Saragost
    • Grandlord Peregrine Yomah: leader of the council
    • Lady Arigane Zakawe: council member and leader of the Adepts of the Prism wizard college.
    • Count Thaddeus Crastic: council member and master of coin. A fugitive on the run after murdering Sir Jeren.
    • Michael Dunsany: crippled man with a chair of flying. He is a council member, city archivist and leader of the bards of Saragost.
    • Sir Jeren Falconio: military leader and council member. Murdered by Count Crastic and some drow.
  • Jaramus Artelmay: Acolyte of Firinna who keeps the shrine in Saragost.
  • Sir Talos Greykeep: new Commander of the Guard for Saragost; appointed by Grandlord Yomah after Sir Jeren's death.
  • Captain Tabarak Loman: captain of the Elensil, Lady Arigane's ship loaned to the Starborn for their trip to Caldrazaa.

Chalksmere

  • Wem, the village idiot who protected the villagers from the Huntsman.
  • Garstang, a hunter who brought a curse down on the village by killing the sacred white boar of Wohoon; now transformed into a boar himself by Wohoon.
  • Able Johansen, village elder that was friendly with Neil.

Vannondale

  • The Colombe Family
    • Lord Padraic Colombe: ruler of Vannondale; very wealthy; old money
    • Lady Martina Colombe: Padraic's wife; from Saragost
    • Gustave Colombe: heir to the Colombe fortune
    • Eustace Colombe: second son of Lord and Lady Colombe; escaped Petrus's capture and helped the heroes a bit
    • Justine Colombe: beautiful but arrogant daughter of the Colombes
    • Candia Colombe: youngest child of the Colombes at age fourteen; very clever and resourceful
  • Petrus Carolus: wizard, astronomer, astrologer; held the Colombe's captive while studying the stars using their telescope; seems to know a bit about the Starborn and the Host

Crescent City (and environs)

  • Lord Malthus: governor of Crescent City; appointed by the Church but is not himself a cleric. A charming man with an elegantly trimmed beard and a habit of talking to anyone, princes or peasants, as if they were sat in a tavern together and not in a huge office.
  • Archbishop Vigilence Derrick: head of the Church of Marius; solemn man with wispy white hair and a nose reminiscent of a vulture's beak. Habitually dresses in white vestments while he is in the Cathedral. In his eyes, Crescent City is a dunghill heaving with maggots, a profanation of the past.
  • Father Abstinence Morton: a jovial priest of the Church of Marius who runs a mission in the Hogglepot Marshes tending to the spiritual needs of the heathen swamp elves east of Crescent City.

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