NPCs
spooks and supernaturals
Bhed the Wolf
11-foot-tall anthropomorphic wolf ghost. Vicious. Free.
Blighter
Centuries-old systems demon. Fragmented multi-consciousness hyper-genius.
Casta
Bounty hunter with a shady past. Currently working as a bodyguard to Viktoria Karhowl. Girlfriend It’s complicated with Ykaterina Volkova. Rival to Sizzle.
Doctor Friedrich the Crow
Amorphous plague doctor. Devoted to the Immortal Emperor and vivisection. On a boat!
Doctor Heinrich the Crow
Embodiment of an amorphously-formed plague doctor. Quite nice, fond of cats.
Doctor Sven the Crow
Amorphous plague doctor. New owner of one of Flan’s kidneys.
Elia Wickham
See Elia Wickham
A pre-calamity ghost of a shadow witch, who has become “contagious” to those who interact with her spirit essence. Middling comedic actor.
Lord Scurlock
See Lord Scurlock
A dangerous vampire with powerful connections. Ancient and immutable. Merged with an instance of Blighter, merged again into the Spider, and ultimately beaten to death by Render.
Lugos
Remorseless clockwork robotic assassin. Massacre fetishist. Decapitated currently.
Mikh
Casta’s dad. A Black Knight. Quite old.
Render
Centuries-old ??? demon. Eleven foot tall armored juggernaut. Taking over Duskwall (or, trying).
Sam
Casta’s mom. A Black Knight. Quite old.
Setarra
Centuries-old storm demon gone to seed with a journalistic fetish. Extremely dead.
The Deadlands Fiddler
Seven-foot-tall fiddler ghost. Vibes.
The Horned One
Shapeshifting mega-spirit. Partially trapped in a box, partially possessing a body. Has a plan.
The Immortal Emperor
Formerly known as “The Cinder King”. All-powerful. Bored/sad. Beginning to notice Duskwall after the death of Breaker.
Vazara
A centuries-old sky goddess that fought the Cinder King during the Calamity.
Victoria Karhowl
Former super-mechanist. No longer possessing Cole Ardmore.
criminals
Arlene Dunleavy
Widow to Winslow. The truth is out there!
Baszo Baz
Lampblack gang leader. Dead.
Boris Volkov
Ykaterina Volkova’s brother. Had a large box that contained an instance of Blighter. Indebted to the Dimmer Sisters. Has good days and bad days.
Caleb Hollow
Reconciled ghost and confidence man. Currently possessing Commander Vale of the Bluecoats.
Charity
Mercy’s sibling, on a mission of revenge. Current rival to Callus. Quite alive.
Coran
Nephew to Erin. Once the heir presumptive to the Billhooks. Now possessed by the Horned One.
Erin
Billhooks gang leader. Cunning. Had her nephew killed (if you count ego death) by the Nameless to consolidate power. Gone.
Fitz
Purveyor of antiquities (legal, illegal, unhaunted, and otherwise). Primary contact for the Nameless, and member of the Circle of Flame.
Grace
Killer-for-hire. Potentially too old for this shit.
Margaret Clave
Workplace enemy of both Jammer and Winslow Dunleavy. Once punched Katya’s bird out of the air.
Mercy
Killer-for-hire. Pretentious. Former rival to Callus. Quite dead.
Mulligan
Gondolier. Perpetually stressed by the Nameless and their ghostly shenanigans.
Myleria Klev
Iruvian diplomat and gang leader for the Red Sashes. Willing to teach swordplay.
Nessa
Leader of the Gray Cloaks, back when they were a thing. In hiding.
Old Bootsy
Drunkard, lunatic, minor purveyor of chaos.
Oopsy Poopsy Bootsy ("The O.P.")
Ex-soldier and legendary former assassin. Out of the game. Collects ceramic figurines.
Prudence
Killer-for-hire. Works for the upper-crust.
Puerto Rico Strauss
Enigmatic and strangely charismatic restauranteur with a string of failures and several low-end goons to his name.
Tarvul
Escaped and reinstalled Billhooks gang leader. Owes the Nameless for his freedom.
The Clockmaker
See The Clockmaker
A nefarious clockwork clone of Arkin Wollstonecraft. Deviating new and terrible methods of science to create clockwork weapons and servants, for aims unknown.
Valanthe
Red Sash. Drug dealer. Sapphic disaster. Now missing an eye.
Veldren
Psychonaut. Has a relationship with Jesus Christ and Bonky Bill the frog. Once again an ally to the Nameless.
Winslow Dunleavy
Cutthroat Leviathan Hunter captain. Manslaughtered by the Nameless, framed as a Spirit Warden. Deceased.
nobles and notables
Anastasia Bowmore
Daughter of the lady Bowmore. Crucified by Render.
Claire Strangford
Daughter to Lord Strangford. Had a terrifying experience at Makeout Mine that caused her to don the mantle of The Spider. A symbol of fear for cowardly and superstitious criminals. Beaten to death by Render.
Cole Ardmore/Boris Karhowl, Mysterious Heir
Brother to Valanthe. Jeremy’s cool friend. Has a robot skeleton now.
Jeremy Pendryn
The fuckin’ Shmeek. Will eat, drink, take, or fight anything for one silver and the fleeting respect of his peers. Sports entertainment phenom (even if diehard fans are starting to boo).
Lady Bowmore
Grande Damme of Duskvolian society. Unflappable. A great respecter of lineage. Dead by trampling.
Lady Claddage
Minor noblewoman, now vanished. Possibly a traitor to the Empire? Ambiguous.
Lady Pendryn
Major name in the Circle of Flame. Friendly with Arcade, and the Nameless by extension. Antiquities researcher in her spare time.
Lord Claddage
Minor nobleman, private banker, definite traitor to the Empire. In custody, awaiting trial.
Lord Clelland
Paranoid and stimulant-addicted blue-blood to the bone. Abrupt. Has shat himself publicly on multiple occasions. Currently flayed and crucified and dying-to-dead on suspicion of treason.
Lord Pendryn
Drama king. Patron of academia. Member of the secretive Cult of Vazara. Healthy/unhealthy marriage (YOU DON’T KNOW).
Lord Strangford
Eminent noble and ruthless Leviathan Hunter captain. Killed by Casta and the Nameless, puppeted around by Lord Strangford for months. Very dead.
Stuart Bowmore
Son of the lady Bowmore. Abruptly thrust into the co-managment of the Bowmore clan. Dead by drug/Monotheism combo.
Valerie Pendryn
Ambitious antiquities grad student. Former mentee of Carver Malleus, current mentee of Ykaterina Volkova.
law and order
Cassiopeia Beasby
Former undercover Spirit Warden, outed by the Nameless. Turned vampiric ally to Lugos. Now definitively dead.
Chuck Morgenstern
Former Inspector from the Capital, turned full supervillain. Canonically based on Charlie Day. Part Crow, park Old Wickhamm, all Chaos. Jammer’s ex.
Jeren
Bluecoat archivist. Has had a bad run of things lately.
Morgan Clelland
Son of the current Lord Clelland. Has the family stimulant problem. Police captain, has greater ambitions. Former Nameless asset. Flipped, killed by Spirit Wardens.
Nat Marseilles
Inspector from the Capital. Phenomenal deductive powers. Canonically based on Natasha Lyonne.Half-burnt face. Sandro’s best friend, also Jammer’s ex.
The Spider
Masked vigilante alias of Claire Strangford. Allied with the Clockmaker, Bea, and possibly others. Enhanced. Not wearing hockey pads.
others of note
Bea
Former sous-chef to François. Wielder of an enormous claymore. Formerly a vampire in François’ body, now trapped in Cruncho.
Beppo
Chef extraordinaire to the Bowmore family. Possibly fired.
Dr. Carver Wrackham Malleus, PhD, IFD
Former chair of Antiquities and Social Sciences at Charterhall U. Asshole. Deposed, and currently stuck with a haunted penis (the Babadick). Crucified by Render.
François
Chef extraordinaire. Rival to Giancarlo, murderer of Giancarlo’s master and destroyer of their school. Sought eldritch perfection in cuisine. Ruined, currently trapped in Cruncho.
Giancarlo Valentini
Chef extraordinaire. Backup medic for the Nameless. A master of his craft, but understands the limits of cuisine.
Joseph Woodward
See Joseph Woodward
Joseph Woodward is Sizzle’s father and the former CEO of Seventh Tower Consortium. He traded most of his humanity to become the head of a semi-sentient corporation. Approximately 60% ego-dead. Currently apprenticed to Giancarlo Valentini.
Marlene
Enthusiastic pugilist. Speaks only the language of the punch.
Old Meachum
Owner and operator of Meachum’s hagfish farm. Now deceased.
Quellin
A witch with a focus on rituals and folk physicking, now a devoted priestess of Vazara.
Reek
Purveyor of drugged seasoning mixes. Frantic, at his wit’s end. Runs on his own product.
Slane Karlstadt
Supernaturally-bastardly foreman, frequent abuser of his workers. Partially empowered by Old Wickhamm/Young Hamwick. Now quite dead.
Studebaker Spud
Impresario, entrepreneur, idiot. Catspaw for the Seventh Tower Consortium. Arrested and under suspicion after Joseph Woodward’s failure and framing. Flayed and dead.
The Babadick
Former haunted member of Dr. Carver Wrackham Malleus, PhD, IFD. Now possessing/possessed by Jammer.
Vinculus Swing
Charterhall University President. Member of the Cult of Vazara. An old man longing for excitement.