The NPC area is meant to list things that the PC’s know (or think they know) about the NPC’s of the game. Descriptions and facts generally. As always things are not always what they seem and some of this information may be false but it is what the characters believe to be true.  The three sections show the NPC's that are currently involved in the campaign, not currently in the campaign but could turn up again, and lastly those that have passed beyond the scope of the campaign.  

[Present  NPC's] [Near Past NPC] [NPC's Not to Return]
Hand Stops the Heart

Little is known about this Abyssal. Only that he attacked the village of Thorns when "Nameless" was younger, and that he was probably working for Mask of Winters.
Steel Ribbon

Steel Ribbon is a quiet Ronin Blade Master of the East. He is currently a lieutenant in Tepet Augustus' budding Legion.
Kenshin

Kenshin is a known Sidereal who acts as mentor for Valkryst. He claims to have sent the assassins after Pathad to stop the boy from killing his father, Nanabe. Little else is known about him, though most are sure Valkryst knows more, but he isn't talking about it.

Orchid Eyes

A Night Caste Solar that attacked Lore Pathad. In her final attack on Pathad she poisoned the food that was to be served to the young boy. In the end she was killed by Pathad father Nanabe. She died in Valkrysts arms saying with her last breaths "You should be helping me.... Kenshin"

Swan is a mystery to the group. He seems to be both completely mad and fairly powerful all at the same time. For example he knew Valkrysts name even though Valkryst only had told him his name was "Val". Swan... while seemingly crazy does have a soft side to him. For those that he truly likes he makes then a little pillow  that coo's to the person sleeping on it. This coo is extremely comforting.

Newly discovered when Nanabe seemed to push Swan's buttons by talking about fair folk and wyld areas, swan turned into a one hundred foot long white scaled, four toed dragon (Chinese Dragon).


Nellens Chenault Linus

UnExalted Nellens House member. He has wealth and power in the shipping industry. He is also highly connected, having contacts and informants in many ports of Creation.

Forming an Alliance with House Tepet, Nellens Linus married into House Tepet by marrying Tepet Loge Aethra

Currently Linus, Aethra and Pathad are in Lords Crossing living in a Mansion Manse Linus is having built for them.


Loge Pathad
 Tepet  Loge Aethra and Admiral Nanabe's son.

Pathad is a "God-Blooded", the product of parents with high amounts of essence. His full powers are not yet seen but he seems to be able to defend himself. Fairly well. During the meeting between House Tepet and House Nellens in The Lap, there were several attempts on the life of Pathad. This attacker was a Night Caste Solar called "Orchid Eyes". In her final attack on Pathad she poisoned the food that was to be served to the young boy. In the end she was killed by Pathad father Nanabe. She died in Valkrysts arms saying with her last breaths "You should be helping me.... Kenshin"

Currently Linus, Aethra and Pathad are in Lords Crossing living in a Mansion Manse Linus is having built for them.


Tamuz

The "Silver God" worshiped by the Tamuz Tribes common in the South East. The Tribes believes that by following the ways of Tamuz they will join Tamuz in "Silver Grass", a land where they will hunt the great beasts of the field waiting for the day Tamuz storms the "Land of Stone Creeks" (civilization) to free its people of slavery. 


Dawn Flower

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  • Friend of Athos from the Barbarian Tribe he came from. She witnessed his Exaltation. Current location unknown

Loge Falen

Retainer and friend of Tepet Tilis Augustus. Augustus has just recently sent for his services. He was responsible for the Legion in "The Lap", until it was reassigned to be under Nanabe's control.


 Hoshi Tora (Star Tiger)
A supposed Twilight caste traveling with Arkantos. He did not want to reveal his caste mark to the group but he did cast a spell that helped with his escape from the Tepet House Troops. He was here in town to get a letter of marquee, for some unnamed person in Nexus. After getting the letter he left with Arkantos on a Caravan headed east. 

Arkantos
Dawn caste Exalted that the circle saved from the Tepet house troops. He was here in town to get a letter of marquee, for some unnamed person in Nexus. He didn't seem to want to mention this persons name. After getting the letter he left with Hoshi Tora on a Caravan headed east. 

Samir-Muhshin
A Delzahn noble within the city of Chiaroscuro.

Tilis Nolis
Retainer and friend of Tepet Tilis Augustus. Currently he is in charge of the house troops stationed in Chiaroscuro. He also is the only point of contact the group has with the Tri-Khan. He seems to have a rivalry going with the House Cathak troops in the city. Cathak Keris has men watching him most of the time.  

Abu-Jafar
A Delzahn Noble who collects taxes, duties and fees at the docks of Chiaroscuro. Abu-Tohmahs has warned the circle of his influence and power here in Chiaroscuro. Many Nobles avoid talking to him because he is so persuasive. Tales are told among the nobles and traders of people dealing with Abu-Jafar and  agreeing to absolutely absurd deals with him. Most feel that he would be the next Tri-Khan if it were not for Prince Mubari-Bihjin.

Abu-Tohmahs
 A Delzahn Noble who collects taxes, duties and fees at the docks of Chiaroscuro.  Augustus has had dealings with him in the past when he was traveling through the Threshold, though he does not know him very well. Nameless Jake seems to have connections with him though what they are has not been made totally clear yet. 

Tohmahs has come up missing, his employees and family have not seen him. Chada Thoon admits some involvement in his disappearance but in what way it is unclear. 


Tri-Khan Aziz-Mubari
Aziz-Mubari, son of Namir-Aziz, is the current Tri-Khan of Chiaroscuro. He is widely considered a proud, powerful and clever ruler. Under his rule the wealth of Chiaroscuro has grown while the grip of the realm has decreased. The Tri-Khan has strong connections with The Guild.

Prince Mubari-Bihjan 
Son of Tri-Khan Aziz-Mubari. Prince Mubari-Bihjan often walks the streets looking for those that might slight him. He partakes in Delzahn Dueling far more then his father cares for. 

Btao (Ba-dou)
Survivor of the events that took place on the Island of Little Foxes. Btao traveled with the circle to the Island of Broken Masks, but stayed on the boat with Bo as ordered. He lived on Fakharu's island as his guest and enjoyed the local amenities, until the "Silver Birch" came back to Fakharu's Island with Chadid'Thoon.

Now he is with the Circle again, where he is trying to learn about the worship of the Unconquered Sun. He wishes to be a Holy Man of the sun some day.


Fakharu, Celestial Censor
Fakharu is a Lesser Elemental, a Dragon  of Water.  When the Celestial Bureaucracy still ran heaven and earth he was a feared Celestial Censor. Now with the old order of heaven broken down he is still feared and much respected but he is no longer a real Censor.

Fakharu asked the circle to rescue his beloved human lover, which they did. (see Chapter Two: Spirit Exiles of the Western Ocean ) After their return from her rescue he was the first to let them know of the destruction of Coral Archipelago's major cites and government. 

He is acting as a patron for the group, he has given them a magical ship the Silver Birch , access to his library, and a number of other magical items.  

He is now traveling with the circle under the name Hoshi and within human form.


Bo [DEAD]
Serving on Kinison's crew as their Weather Witch when he exalted at the Battle of Man Eaters Cove. Since joining the Circle he has studied the library of Surazal and assisted with the few spells he knows.  (see Enduring Bubble)

Bo was killed in a night time attack on the Circles ship. In this attack he was cut to ribbons by some sort of daggers that Chada Thoon used against his. The books he was learning Magic from were stole in this attack. 


Enduring Bubble
Enduring Bubble is a water spirit that is bound to Bo. He is never too far from Bo although he is not always seen. He has a great fear of Fakharu, thinking that if the Censor finds him not tending to his coral beds that he will be send to the Isle of Exiles. 

Scratch 
Nameless Jakes number one snitch. Nameless Jake is training to take over his job as "Vessel Inspector" for Noble Abu-Tohmahs. 

Lyta
Lyta is rumored to be an Exalted who is trying to gain a power base in the West. Little is known about her for sure, but it is rumored that she is merciless to any that do not see things her way. 

It is rumored that she has been troubling costal towns near Blue Haven. It is said she burned them to the ground. Rumor has it that the wild hunt is waiting for her to make a stand again before they strike out after her again. 

Later rumors have her causing problems in the empty isle of coral. But little of her current location.


Ogime the Frog Queen
Little is known about Ogime. While at the Island of Broken masks the circle was approached by a frog that offered them what ever their hearts desire if they just turned Fakharu's lover over to Ogime. Not taking the frog seriously Nanabe threw a barrel of rum at the frog and crushed it. Fakharu has warned against dealing with her, for she is a sworn enemy of the Censor.

The Circle has found out they she has sent her Heketa Frog Maidens to Chiaroscuro to punish the Circle for not accepting her offer. 


Heketa "Frog Maidens"
Water Elementals under the command of Ogime the Frog Queen. They appear as lithe women with the heads of frogs. The Heketa have caused it to rain severely hard in Chiaroscuro for almost a week now. When the circle tracked them down they fought the group with poisoned water jets. In their anger they turned day to night and caused the clouds to rain frogs on the city. 

The Circle tracked down all of the Frog Maidens that were harassing them in Chiaroscuro.


Cathak Keris

Dragon -blooded envoy for house Cathak, and commander of the largest Realm unit of troops in Chiaroscuro. Keris is considered to be brash and very sure of himself. The Delzahn respect him and normally give him a wide birth. Most allow him to do as he pleases, letting the Tri-Khan deal with any disturbance he might cause. 

Keris seems to have it in for Tilis Nolis. He resents that Nolis and his Cathak troops are being picked over his to attack known Anathema. He is having Nolis watched, and suspects him of dealing outcast dragon-blooded. 


Grand Mother Bright
Grandmother is one of the only City Spirits still active in creation. While all cities have a Spirit of one sort of another, Grandmother dates back to the founding of the city of Chiaroscuro. She protects the area of town known as "The Plaza".  She can be found in her linen pavilion in the plaza or walking around the plaza meting out justice on her own. 

 
Tepet Loge Aethra

She is a tall shapely female, dressed in Armor and Garb commonly seen on travelers from the Realm. Her most striking feature is her platinum white hair, and the constant swirl of wind that seems to blow it hypnotically about. She claims to be a sorcerer, and has shown that she does has some magic powers. Speculation within the Circle has her as being a Air Aspected Dragon-Blood, or maybe what she claims… a Sorcerer.

She claims to be on the Island of Blight's Eye looking for help in her fight against Pirates from Skull Port. Captain Jasper (as she calls him) is said to be the one that killed her Father. She has also been seen talking with the merchants of  Blights Eye, but little is know of this business. This is all anyone knows about her back ground and her story has not been looked into any further. 

 She hired a band of Mercenaries to assist her in her mission to find Captain Jasper. She helped the Circle with the War against Shull Port, but says she did not get the killer of her father.  Shortly after Jake became the Sea Lord in Coral Archipelago she left for the Blessed Isle. It is thought by some that she had a child 10 months after leaving Blight's Eye, but no father has come forward so far. 


Chadid'Thoon
A Lunar for the first age trapped on the Island of Blights Eye. Little is known about this enigmatic creature but is known is as followings... 

In the first age he was the lover of a Twilight Exalted called Hala of the Elders Crown... also known as Hala the Steel Inquisitor. He was Present at the betrayal of the Hala's Circle where she cursed him and imprisoned him in a tome on the same island in which she was killed. 

When his first age  mate Exalted once again he was able to become active again, but he could still not leave his prison. From his lagoon like tome in the middle of the forests of Blight's Eye he organized the Wyld Barbarians. Once organized he instructed them to raid all of the towns on the island of Blight's Eye, where they would bring him all the women of the island. Once all of the women had been brought to him, he layed his seed in all of them. Then he used sorcery to speed up the time it took them to give birth. The Circle rescued half of the women at this point. After the women returned to their villages it was not long before they started to give birth to children. These children were not normal for all of them had strong animalistic features. The villagers started killing the children as they were born and stoning the  women for giving birth to such evil. 

When the circle went back to  Chadid'thoon's lagoon he tried to get them to release him, but they would not. He did however release the rest of the women, all of which were very pregnant. The Circle defeated the remaining Wyld Barbarians and killed Tatoo,  sealing Chadid'Thoon's tome. 

Later it was found that Chadid'Thoon had been released from his prison by Surazal. Surazal worked a truce with  Chadid that would protect the group from his vengeance. Surazal seemed to have a soft spot of the Lunar after learning that he was his lover in the First Age, thus making Surazal Hala. 

It is unknown what has happened to Chadid'Thoon after the fall of the Coral Archipelago, and the death of Surazal. It is also unknown if Chadid'Thoon knows of his First Age lovers death, but some in the Circle figure he does.  His tell is unknown at this time. 

More info coming soon.


Blight's Eye Merchants ( Chakar and Tyden)
These two merchants were always hanging out at the tavern "The Rusty Wheel". They were rarely ever seen trading in town, taking more time to gossip and drink then trade in the markets. Both were well known to Admiral Nanabe. Also Aethra was seen talking to them, as if they were well known to her. 

Darius
A former member of the Circle. He sold the Circle out for his own freedom and a small amount of Jade. There is also some evidence that he might have sold the Circle out in the first age as well. 

[See Ruphio Gutman]


Captain Jahfea
Rival, Friend and former captain of Admiral Nanabe. Jahfea helped fight in the war against Skull Port, after which he was highly decorated by the Sea Lord. Jahfea escaped the Wyld Hunt that destroyed most of Coral's fleets and sacked the cities. Currently he is working with a group of pirates known as "The Black band" near Yane.

Death Knight, Worm of Sin
Worm of Sin, 

Death Knight, Deaths Last Breath
A tall and elegant individual, Deaths Last Breath greeted the circle as they landed in Glass Skull. He invited Krispy and Devron back to his manor. The Circle asked Deaths Last Breath if he could bring the former Sea Lord back to a state they could converse with. He agreed and preformed rites on the body that awoke the spirit of the dead Sea Lord. This was more then Krispy could handle and he fled back to the ship, while Devron stayed behind. When Devron was done he tried to go back to the ship but was detained by Deaths Last Breath. 

Mabel
Mabel was once a villager outside of Nanabe's Keep. She worked for Nanabe as his cook and house keeper.  She died in the Barbarian attack that killed the whole village, trapped under a fallen house. What makes Mabel special is that she rose from the dead a few days later, not realizing she was even dead. 

Now Mabel, a Nemissary, haunts near to where she died. Before the Wyld Hunt destroyed the Nation of Coral she had little problem finding new bodies to inhabit, but since the Wyld Hunt attack she has had to go without a body or use the one of an animal. 


Wit Foles
Wit was a local business man in the city of Blight's Eye while Ruphio plundered the city and island. After the death of Ruphio, Wit was appointed as lord of the Island and city of Blight's Eye. Wit's well being and where abouts are unknown, but it is believed that he survived the attack from the Wyld Hunt. 

Steel Sun
Details coming soon...

Jake Mandel
Jake is the paige boy of Nanabe.  Short and rather skinny for a young man his age, he has a worm look to him. He is widely know in town and has many contacts and allies. 

After the defeat of the Skull Port Fleet by the Circle a new Sea Lord was to be voted on and after much work Jake was elected as the new Sea Lord. After 5 and 1/2 years as Sea Lord, Jake's rule came to an end when the Wyld Hunt came to Coral and burnt and sacked the Island Nation in search of the Circle. 


Ruphio Gutmen
Being a tall bald bristly man he makes the perfect Captain of the Guard for the Lord of Blight's Eye. His nephew was recently killed while manning the Keep walls in town who's murder is was under investigation. 

Ruphio tried numerous times to blackmail the circle once he found out that they were exalted. Darius told Ruphio about the circles secret in exchange for freedom and jade.  In the end Ruphio was robbed badly and ended his own life. He was deathly afraid of cherub messengers, and in an attempt to escape the their torment he cut off both of his ears and hung himself. 


Surazal

Surazal was a mid level advisor in the city of Blight's Eye, until he became Exalted. Now he is on leave from his duties as an advisor, but still stays in touch with his friends in the local government.  His main purpose in life these days is learning all he can about the Manse under Nanabe's Keep. He knows that it currently is as big as any he has ever read about. He also knows this one has the potential to go one step beyond that. He was recently asked to look into the death of Ruphio's nephew, which he turned down. 

Surazal became a PC at this point. He enjoyed a long career as the Circles Sorcerer, but he did loose his life while trying to rescue the lover of a powerful Water Dragon. 


Tattoo
Described as a tall wild looking barbarian, he is the soul survivor of a conflict with the Cirlce. He stands around 6'5" and is covered in dark, bold tattoos. He seems to have a cat-like air to him and sprouted claws from his finger tips in the last battle with the Circle. 

After many battles with Tattoo in which he managed to retreat from, the circle had thier way with him and thus ended his life. The Circle believed him to be a Wyld touched Barbarian that was also enhanced by Magic. 

[See Chadid'Thoon]


Scarlet Empress
Details coming soon. 

Kinison
Kinison is a mercenary leader that Exalted shortly after the Circle came to Azure. He agreed to help the Circle with his band of Mercenaries. With his help the Circle was able to kill the Sea Lord and escape without being caught by the citizens of Coral. 

The death of the Sea Lord plunged Coral in a war with Skull Port. Kinison was instrumental in the victory over the Black Fleets of Skull Port.