NPC Codex

The Velvet Magistrate

Crime lord · Half-Elf

A half-elf crime lord who runs the city’s shadow economy from a lavish hidden parlor and never gets their own hands dirty. Smiles at everyone; trusts no one.

The Velvet Magistrate

Crime lord · Half-Elf

A half-elf crime lord who runs the city’s shadow economy from a lavish hidden parlor and never gets their own hands dirty. Smiles at everyone; trusts no one.

Captain Wira Holt

City watch captain · Human

A human watch captain who holds a thin line between order and the underworld with too few guards and too little budget. Honest in a job that rewards otherwise.

Scholar Pellin Marsh

Archivist · Gnome

A gnome archivist who has spent decades in the great underground library and knows where every dangerous book is shelved. Will trade rare knowledge for rarer snacks.

Veska Dünn

Guild enforcer · Tiefling

A crimson tiefling who collects debts and enforces guild law on the streets. Prefers a quiet word to a broken arm, but is fluent in both.

Nettle

Fence and information broker · Halfling

A halfling fence who buys what fell off the wagon and sells what people would rather stayed hidden. Friendly to everyone, loyal to no one but profit.

Brother Quist

Inquisitor · Dragonborn

A bronze dragonborn inquisitor who roots out heresy and corruption with cold method. Believes utterly in his cause, which is what makes him dangerous.

Magistra Yune Falk

Court mage · Elf

An elf court mage who advises on matters arcane and quietly catalogs every threat to her patron. Brilliant, guarded, and three plans ahead.

Lord Cassian Brae

Disgraced noble · Half-Elf

A half-elf noble stripped of his titles who schemes from a crumbling estate to claw his way back. Generous to those who can be useful, ruthless to those who can’t.

High Sister Olane

Temple matriarch · Aasimar

An aasimar matriarch who leads the city’s great temple and its hospitals, orphanages, and politics. Beloved by the poor and watched by the powerful.

Chancellor Edrik Vol

Royal chancellor · Human

A human chancellor who runs the realm’s day-to-day while the monarch postures. Trades favors with surgical care and never forgets a slight.

Marek Solt

Fishmonger · Human

A human fishmonger whose stall anchors the wet market and whose voice carries to the docks. Knows the tides, the gossip, and exactly which catch to undersell.

Della Crane

Clockwright · Gnome

A gnome clockmaker whose intricate timepieces and music boxes are prized by nobles. Tinkers past midnight and forgets to eat.

Roop Tanner

Teamster · Half-Orc

A half-orc teamster who hauls freight across the city and treats his mules better than most treat their kin. Reliable, immovable, and quietly literate in three tongues.

Sura Vant

Bathhouse keeper · Genasi

A water genasi who runs the city’s finest bathhouse, a neutral ground where rivals soak side by side. Hears every deal struck in the steam.

Aldous Penn

Apothecary · Human

A human apothecary who fills the gap between the temple healers and the hedge-witches. Stocks tinctures, antidotes, and very particular opinions.

Greta Hollowman

Master smith · Dwarf

A dwarf smith whose blades and tools outlast their owners. Takes few apprentices and fewer fools, but never an unfair price.

Yvon Telmar

Moneylender · Tiefling

A blue-skinned tiefling moneylender whose terms are steep but honest, and whose memory for debts is perfect. The only lender who won’t cheat you — he doesn’t need to.

Pim Quickfellow

Pastry vendor · Halfling

A halfling baker whose cart on the market steps is the unofficial town crier. Knows who’s courting, who’s feuding, and who hasn’t paid their tab.

Corvin Latch

Dockmaster · Human

The human dockmaster who assigns moorings, settles dock brawls, and skims just enough to be human about it. Forgets nothing and no one.

Madam Irsa Sorrel

Guildmistress of weavers · Half-Elf

A half-elf who runs the city’s weavers’ guild with an iron schedule and a fair hand. Her word sets cloth prices for the whole quarter.

Honce Bellweather

Shepherd and weather-reader · Human

An old shepherd whose flock and joints predict the weather better than any almanac. Sells wool, cheese, and uncannily accurate forecasts.

Threnody Vale

Wandering bard · Tiefling

A tiefling minstrel who trades songs for supper and carries news faster than any courier. Knows a verse for every grief and a rumor for every door.

Old Fennick

Beekeeper · Gnome

A gnome beekeeper whose mead and honey are famous three valleys over. Talks to his hives and swears they answer.

Kessa Dunmar

Caravan scout · Human

A scout who rides a half-day ahead of the trade caravans, reading dust and tracks for bandits and worse. Sleeps light, talks little, never misses a meal.

Bram Tully

Road tinker · Halfling

A halfling tinker whose painted wagon carries pots, charms, and gossip between a dozen villages. Mends anything for a fair price and a fair story.

Sael Morrow

Druid of the grove · Elf

An elven druid who tends an old standing-stone grove and arbitrates disputes between farmers and the wild things that raid their fields. Older than the village she protects.

Doral Vane

Prospector · Dwarf

A dwarf prospector who has struck it rich twice and lost it all three times. Sells claims, maps, and tall tales to anyone fool enough to buy.

Mother Tansy

Herbalist hermit · Human

A weathered hedge-witch who lives alone past the marsh and sells salves no town apothecary can match. Charges in favors as often as coin.

Wren Ashdown

Forest ranger · Half-Elf

A half-elf ranger who patrols the wood’s edge and keeps the boundary between farmland and wild. Trades in pelts, rumors, and the occasional rescued fool.

Garrik Stoneknee

Mountain guide · Goliath

A towering goliath who leads travelers over the snowbound passes and has buried more clients than he likes to count. Knows every cornice and crevasse by name.

Lady Orsina Vael

Noble patron · Half-Elf

An elegant noble who funds adventurers for reasons she never fully explains. Generous, gracious, and three moves ahead of everyone at the table.

Whisper

Information broker · Halfling

A halfling who sells what people would rather keep hidden. Never sits with their back to a door, always knows a name, and always wants one in return.

Grimgold Ironfist

Tavern Keeper · Dwarf

Ophelios Zignar

Korrg the Cleaver

Mercenary for hire · Half-Orc

A towering half-orc sellsword with a fearsome reputation and a strict personal code. Expensive, reliable, and entirely uninterested in your moral justifications.