NPC Codex

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Old Hessa

Village herbalist · Human

The herbalist and unofficial healer of a small village who has delivered half its children and buried a few of its secrets. Sees more than she says.