Darklands» Blinding Are Its Mysteries (dramatis personae)

Non-player characters appearing in Blinding Are Its Mysteries.

NOTE: Female characters are marked with a superscript ‘f’ after the characer’s name (e.g. Aliz Arvai^f).

Celdic Empire

Imperial court

• His Imperial Majesty, Nikephoros IV (emperor)
  • sovereign of the Celdic Empire
• Laskaris, Andreas (vestarch)
  • patrician of a wealthy noble family
  • vestarch of the Imperial court
  • close ally of the emperor
  • senior diplomat

Imperial army

Army Intelligence

• Emil Varga (centurion)
  • together with Xenia Galanis, serves as contact/handler for the player characters
• Xenia Galanis^f (Arcanum centurion)
  • together with Emil Varga, serves as contact/handler for the player characters

External Assets Division

• Michael bin Haddad (Arcanum drungarios)
  • External Assets division chief
  • oversees all Army Intelligence cooperation with the player characters

Expeditionary Force Gamma

EF Gamma (formerly the Third Division of the Southern Army) is one of the spearheads of the Emperor’s “pervasive dominion” policy.

• Origenos (general)
  • commander of EF Gamma
  • strong supporter of the “pervasive dominion” projects
  • formerly commanding officer of Castor
• Aliz Arvai^f (Arcanum drungarios, first class)
  • senior Arcanum specialist of EF Gamma
• Philokrates (decarch)

Other military personnel

• Pavlos of Gitron (centurion)
  • formerly the garrison commander of the Imperial garrison at Brineci and toll keeper for the Brineci border post
  • following his resourceful handling of the dao emissary from the yak folk, has been reassigned to Celdanna

Other Imperial officials

Imperial embassy at Stoneheart

• Her Excellency Sotiria Chondrogionnis^f
  • Imperial Ambassador to Stoneheart
• Nektarios of Krontis
  • senior attache to Her Excellency the Imperial Ambassador at Stoneheart

Rem (imperial province)

• His Excellency Tariz of Samalla
  • governor of Rem

Civilians

• Leah^f (archmage)
  • renowned conjurer
  • designer, landscape artist, master decorator
  • trend-setter and bellwether of high fashion

Town of Brineci

• Florin Sala (mayor)
• Tenoch
  • half-elf
  • friend of mayor Sala
  • ranger & fur trapper

Rem (imperial province)

• Saffron^f
  • halfling guide (and ???) in the service of Governor Tariz

Dwarven nation

• His Resplendent Majesty, Yrtunnen the First
  • Sovereign of the Vaults and Protector of the Deeps, etc., etc.
  • a.k.a. the King-at-Stoneheart

Dwarven Unified Army

• Vilann (administrator)
  • Coordinating Director at the Interim Headquarters of the Dwarven Unified Army, at the Overlook
• Jaris ‘Landslide’ Uruk
  • former leader of a dwarven strike team
  • famous among dwarves, heard of even in the Empire
  • now in charge of special operations for the Dwarven Unified Army; based at the Overlook
• Tarja Icethorn^f
  • former commando, member of Landslide’s strike team
  • now on assignment as arcane specialist at the Overlook

Orcs of Raknal

All characters in this section are orcs unless otherwise specified.

Krallen (village)

The small fishing village of Krallen, boasting a population of barely 200, is one of many such villages along the northern stretch of Raknal’s coastline.

• Haig
  • half-orc
  • fisherman
  • rescued by the player characters from yak folk captivity, along with Haig
• Bogosh
  • half-orc
  • Haig’s younger half-brother
  • rescued by the player characters from yak folk captivity, along with Bogosh
• Mannig^f
  • Haig’s wife
• Khav
  • Haig’s father
• Gurgen
  • chieftain of Krallen

City of Raknallar

• Gahar^f (anassa)
  • the “chief of chiefs”
  • said to be a mighty warrior and wise woman
  • said to be able to see, and speak with, the spirit of her dead husband (the great warrior Anzor the Serpent-Killer)
    • Gahar acts as if this is the case
    • not clear whether it is true or if Gahar is simply insane
• Luronn
  • half-orc
  • rabble-rouser, street orator, and general disturber of the peace
  • has many young half-orcs and (particularly female) orcs among his supporters
  • seems to possess frost-related power similar to Avarak’s
• Hasmig^f
  • aunt of Gurgen
• Varteni^f
  • daughter of Hasmig, younger cousin of Gurgen
• the Crone^f
  • priestess of Luthic
  • strong proponent of cultural traditionalism
  • supplies Gahar with drug that… lets her / makes her think that she can (not clear which)… see and speak with her deceased husband
• One-Hand
  • orc clan chieftain
  • said (by Luronn) to be open to possibility of challenging Gahar’s leadership
• Club-Foot
  • orc clan chieftain
• Glass-Eye
  • orc clan chieftain
• Bald Zerak
  • orc clan chieftain
  • said (by Luronn) to be open to possibility of challenging Gahar’s leadership
• Red Whip^f
  • orc clan chieftain

Drow

• Vicara Zorae^f
  • deceased
  • high priestess of Lolth
  • killed by the player characters
• Akordia Zorae^f
  • drow priestess
  • new matriarch of clan Zorae
  • spared by the player characters along with the rest of Vicara’s acolytes

Other (humans)

The “uphill folk” of the Mol Mountains

• Dinu
  • a young boy (10 years old in 1129 A.D.)
  • member of clan Droch

Other (savage races)

Frost giants

• Skrymir (jarl)
  • leader of a frost giant tribe
  • said to be unusually clever and tricky

Sigil, the City of Doors

• Kylie^f
  • tiefling
  • a tout (guide, gofer, and general middleman… or rather, middlewoman)
• Harys Hatchis
  • human
  • wizard, pitch-man
• Rule-of-Three
  • cambion (half-fiend)
  • rumored to be a son of the demon lord Graz’zt, the Dark Prince
  • currently posing as an old githzerai

The Demonweb

• Gethshuq
  • deceased
  • unique advanced bebilith demon
  • herald of Lolth
  • killed in battle against the player characters
• Glorious Arachno-Communist Collective
  • a collective intelligence, made up of innumerable spiders
  • loyal followers of Lolth
  • opposed to drow followers of Lolth

Celestia

Empyrea

The “City of Tempered Souls” is located on the Platinum Heaven, fifth layer of the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia. Ruled by the archangel Raziel, Empyrea is known throughout the planes as a place of healing and respite.

• Dyadic (Guardian of the Extremities)
  • sword archon
• Lazaros (doctor)
  • former (deceased) human (now petitioner in Celestia)
  • born, lived, and died on Irra, in early 8th century A.D. (by the Celdic Calendar)
  • in life, was a field medic in the Celdic Imperial Army

Other (extraplanar)

• Moonstone
  • a kirin (unicorn-like celestial creature)
  • one of the offspring of Star Thought, the legendary kirin companion to Pelor, the Sun Father
  • rescued by the PCs from captivity in the Demonweb
• Vlad Tolenkov (Prince of Night!)
  • vampire
  • encountered in the Demonweb

Monsters

• the Withered King
  • dracolich