The Heroes of the Party
Veyric de Venaris
Veyric is a kenku aristocrat, alchemist, and hunter of aberrant creatures. During the Third Omen he ascended upon the heaven to protect the world from Malady.
Zaine Eshtiaq
Zaine is an operative connected to the Verdugo Syndicate and its artifact-recovery work. He is one of the party’s main investigators of the Syndicate, the Imperial Church, and the strange mirror encountered during their missions.
Stará Zverina
Zverina is a healer and alchemist who treats disease, poison, and magical contamination. She brings medical knowledge, aristocratic contacts, and a practical concern for the people affected by the party’s investigations.
Temporary Members of the Party
Irek Dowd
Irek is a scholar and adventurer whose interests include rare books, artifacts, and stolen memories. He traveled with the party during the early Redguard investigation before leaving to pursue his own path.
Primus
Primus is a healer and religious figure the party met during the Absolution Square incident.
Akith Nialli
Charismatic ish’karri who fell in debt to Uriel Cabeth and tried to kill Nivara de Veneris. Ended up helping Veyric de Veneris rescue his sister from the clutches of Kharaki. At the end managed to sever the chains that bound him to Uriel Cabeth.
Seweryn
Survivor deep in the Belly of the Beast. Took revenge against the Beast who caused the death of his brother. Helped cleanse the decaying body of the Lady of Bloom.
Malefica
Malefica is small child of a local tavern owner Alfred. She became entangeld in the happenings in Korso. Her appearance was copied by a R’aulek in a weird experiment overseen by Jean-Pierre Lucrece.
Orynthia
Ellyria
Empress Teva Arrkoth
Empress Teva Arrkoth is the human ruler of the Arrkoth Empire and the center of its political and religious order. Her government combines military expansion, industrial progress, imperial administration, and a Church whose authority is increasingly contested.
Ukan
Ukan is a dwarf innkeeper who runs Door 78, a discreet meeting place connected to tunnels and hidden doors. She knows the city’s rogues, thieves, and travelers better than most official informants.
Sera Voss
Sera Voss is a leader of a worker union and an artificier who designs and builds specialized prostheses in Ellyria. She provided Zaine the highest-tier prosthetics hand.
Lord Dunhart
Dunhart was an aristocratic collector whose ship, the Loyalty, contained aberrant specimens, research notes, and evidence of coercive experiments.
Lady Corvessa Dunhart
Corvessa is Dunhart’s politically connected wife and a member of the Eternal Court.
Verdugo’s Syndicate (former)
Ismael Francisco Verdugo
Ismael was the head of the Verdugo Syndicate, a network of factories, banks, shipping firms, and artifact operations. He recruited a squad to investigate a Syndicate traitor and the Imperial Church’s involvement in dangerous research. Adopted and manipulated Zaine Eshtiaq, who ultimately made sure Verdugo will not use him again and killed him in his own office.
Santiago Laurens
Santiago lead the Syndicate’s Arcane Containment Bureau and its militant interests. He is cautious around Zaine and treats the Syndicate’s security, artifacts, and succession as matters of public danger.
Nazar “Dynamite” Dyres
Dynamite is a university lecturer and Syndicate representative responsible for research and development. He is intelligent, volatile, and willing to provide support when the scientific freedom and Syndicate interests align.
Marcelle Edith
Marcelle represented banking and aristocratic finance within the Syndicate.
Prada
Prada represented gambling, distilleries, and parts of the Syndicate’s illegal business. She is quiet and pragmatic, and she judges people by their close relationships rather than by rank alone.
Riccard Donato
Riccard Donato controlled a large share of the Syndicate’s businesses and industrial companies. He is impatient, ambitious, and willing to use economic pressure against rivals and workers. Now serves as a head of Ellyria’s most prominent political party.
Antonio Honorbrow
Antonio is a prominent merchant and a more principled Syndicate representative. He wished for the organization to abandon at least some of its illegal trade and activities.
Imperial Bureau
Iskra
Iskra is a senior imperial official and trusted agent of the Empress. She tests the loyalty of her contractors and provides gave them access to imperial resources and identities.
Chantal Anne-Marie
Chantal is an Imperial squad bard and informant. She supplied the party with intelligence, transport, and warnings about the Blind Messengers and the crisis in Redguard.
Kabál
Kabál is an Imperial mage attached to Chantal’s squad. He helped respond to the Loth Rakk crisis and used his remaining power to battle the Blind Messengers in Redguard, where he was seen for the last time.
Redguard
The Duke of Redguard
The Duke ruled a fortified frontier duchy of Redguard, split between imperial authority and elven freedom fighters. Bearing the fragment of Voormithadreth, better known as Voreth, former god of death, he was a target of Uriel Cabeth who wanted the fragment to himself.
Aldric Headstrong
Aldric owns docks and property in Redguard and presents himself as a respectable aristocrat. The party discovered his cooperation with a conspiracy against the Duke.
Elijah Bjornsson
Elijah is a local aristocrat, prison administrator, and tavern owner associated with the Redguard conspiracy. He supplied prisoners and local forces to Lord Dunhart while publicly presenting himself as a regional authority.
Ichor
Ichor was the Duke’s astronomer, whose observatory was found empty after he disappeared. His records connected the meteorite to unusual celestial activity.
Grimoald Rutherford
Grimoald was an Imperial archbishop and lead researcher at Loth Rakk.
Wilhelm Rutherford
Wilhelm is Grimoald’s son and a researcher at Loth Rakk. He worked directly with experimental subjects and represented the main scientific staff at Loth Rakk. He was abducted and put into a liminal space connected to Seer’s archives. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
Rosalinda
Rosalinda is an elderly trader who knows secrets to Kempel’s Gas and other artifacts.
Stella
Stella was a thief hired by Lord Dunhart, who was captured, questioned and kileld by Zaine Eshtiaq.
Lena
Lena is an enemy of Zaine who pursued him after he killed her twin sister Stella.
Korso
Jean-Pierre Lucrece
Jean-Pierre Lucrece is a wealthy publisher and collector who owns the JPL printing works in Korso. His public image is that of an eccentric entrepreneur, but his fascination with rare creatures and unusual specimens has made his household a place of suspicion.
Anne-Sophie Marais
Anne-Sophie Marais is Jean-Pierre Lucrece’s current mistress, described by witnesses as frightened, withdrawn, and deeply unhappy. Her position places her close to the JPL household while offering little protection from its owner.
Father Maxim
Father Maxim is a Priest of a Hempen Rope a decaying gothic church in Korso whose teaching competes with popular reverence for the Porcelain Lady.
Shagar
Hunter who lives near the grotto. He knows the local countryside and has encountered rare creatures which escaped the JPL collection.
Caelith
Thiala Duskstar
Thiala is an elven academic with a focus on exobiology and restricted artifacts.
Maer
Brother Falcon, Sister Viper and Brother Mountain Lion
Maer representatives involved in the negotiations surrounding the JPL and the R’auleks. They have some unspecified business with the Porcelain Lady.
Vesper
Al’Zafira
Nivara de Venaris
Nivara is a kenku alchemist from Veyric’s family line. She investigated the Bloom and the Emperor of All Maladies, was targeted by the Blind Messengers and Kharak, and disappeared under circumstances first reported as a murder.
Kane Keaton
Kane is a former Syndicate associate accused of embezzling money and betraying the organization. Betrothed and sposored Nivara de Veneris and her ritual.
Azra Taher
Azra is an academic associated with the Sapphire Academy and research on liminal spaces. Targeted by Kharak’s agents because of her connections to Nivara.
The Blue Eye
An experimental Kharaki construct and the operational mind of a powerful underground laboratory. Its conciousness is a result of a mix of powerful souls.
Rajaa
Rajaa is a slave, former main assistant of Nivara de Veneris. Escaped and started a new life thanks to Zverina.
Ascendants, spirits and oddities
Ascendants
Crassus Arrkoth
Crassus is the founder of the Arrkoth Empire, an ascendant and a de facto god-emperor of Arrkoth Empire.
Uriel Cabeth
Uriel was an occultist of Malady and a leader of Blind Messengers. His plan was to get world rid of pain, war and suffering by uniting all living things using Bloom. Died when Veyric de Veneris in a crazy amok turned his body into a pile of blood and bones.
The Domain of Death
Sussane
Sussane is a mysterious Child of Death ordered to search for Uriel Cabeth. She travels with Onyx, her loyal guardian.
Onyx
Onyx is Sussane’s monstrous wolf-like guardian. It protects Sussane and has intervenes when Sussane is in danger.
Dakhumin Bonebrew
Dakhumin Bonebrew is an eccentric but kind priest of the Hempen Rope who suffers from sleeplessness, hallucinations, and a severe spiritual illness.
Arlan
Arlan is a Child of Death, victim of Uriel’s anger and curiosity.
Balmil
Balmil is a priest of the Hempen Rope and an investigator who reported suspicious shipments, disappearances, and the JPL printing works in Korso. He vanishes after sending a warning, leaving behind notes that point toward the White Sorceress and the dangerous secrets of the city.
Phoebe de Veneris
Phoebe is a young girl, part of the Venaris family and raised under Zverina’s protection. Her childhood is plagued by unusual dreams, escape from her biological mother and cursed heritage.