Altheya: The Dragon Empire NPC Guide

For a sortable list of characters, races, and when first seen, see the Altheya: The Dragon Empire NPC Table.

## Adrianna Peony

Innkeeper of The Peony Post inn, the quainter and more down-to-earth inn in Burnell. Wildheart with deer characteristics, including speckling/freckles, brown and creamy skin colouring, stubby antlers, and a small bushy tail. Adrianna is more Humanoid in appearance than some Wildheart.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine

## Reverend Arthur Teathistle

Reverend of Burnell. He is friendly and talkative, and has resided in Burnell for many years with his wife. The Reverend is a halfling, with short, curly brown hair and small mutton chops. He wears black and white robes and a symbol of a crescent moon with a star attached to it

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## The Baron

A client of Kalifris with a collection of relics from which Berrick Brassfist stole The Hand of the Lightless Pilgrim. The Baron is a Planar Lord, perhaps an Efreet, a Djinn, or a Dao.

**Episodes**
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)

## Belaynn

The Embered Goddess (also known as “She Who Hungers” and “The Worm of the Depths”) was one of the original Gods that came with Sovereign to Altheya and helped shape the world. The Protomagi killed Belaynn, so Sovereign resurrected them with their flame. When they came back to life, they came back full of grief, rage, and anger just like Sovereign. As a corrupted Goddess, she wanted to wipe out all life on Altheya, warped from her original purpose. She is now one of the three Embered, ancient beings that have become evil deities. Belaynn is often tied to greed and the depths, and is said to live in rock, deep in the earth, and loves to devour gems and ore. She is particularly feared by the Dwarves who themselves become those materials, since Belaynn is said to hunger for their transformed bodies. Anyone who now worships and Embered God is said to be a cultist and a heretic by the Church of the Scions – the punishment for this crime is execution.

**Episodes**
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)

## Berrick Brassfist

Escaped criminal suspected of killing a priestess of Ashen Rest. Though a petty criminal, he has been a thorn in Authorator Tekis' side and has been pursued unusually hard. It is thought by Authorator Tekis that he is a member of the cult of The Embered Goddess due to Kalifris planting scrolls in one of his hideouts. He is a middle-aged male Dwarf with greying-brown hair cut short, a beard braided and entwined, with brass-like patterns of jagged lines up his neck and encroaching around his face

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Cade

Private in the arm of Duke Ignarius who is normally stationed in Ashen Rest. He is a simple soldier, not a tracker. He was adopted by his two fathers in Ashen Rest, who own a little business in town that has struggled due to his Elven father's melancholy. Cade signed up to military service so that his fathers could save up and get themselves into a better financial position. Cade is a Half-Elf, a well-dressed man who carries a halberd and is aged around 17.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm (Mentioned)
Episode 5: Blood and Fire
Episode 6: The Ashen Road

## Finn

A miner of Blackrock mine who lost his life to the creatures in the mine and had a family in Burnell. His co-worker noted that he was always slower than the rest of them because of his 'duff leg'.

**Episodes**
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine

## Gabrylla Tintoes

A stone statue seller and resident of Burnell from whom Rowan purchased a statue. She built many of the buildings and cut many of the flagstones in Burnell, which appear incredibly well made, and sells statues carved from rocks from Blackrock Mine. An elderly woman, she is a Dwarf whose leg had become pure tin, and growths of tin, most of which had been carved into the shapes of spikes and chains but are becoming jagged and random, emerge from her neck. Three of her fingers are likewise entirely tin, and the metal is slowly growing up her arm. When met with by Rowan, she believed she only had a few years or even months til, per Dwarvern nature, her inner substance overcame her.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories

## Duke Ignarious

The Red Dragon noble of North Vale. His residence is in Ashen Rest. Known Knights under his service include Sir Griold Steeleye.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm (Mentioned)
Episode 5: Blood and Fire (Mentioned)
Episode 6: The Ashen Road (Mentioned)
Episode 7: The House of the Rose (Mentioned)

## Kalifris

*See main page*

**Episodes**
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Captain Lukas Vecaro

Captain who serves Duke Ignarious as the commander of his Second Talon. He came to Burnell with his men to search for those accused of killing a Priestess of Ashen Rest. He shows respect for formality and has the disposition of a Knight. A Human, he is a very well dressed man who wears a breastplate with leather and chain armour, tall leather boots, a helmet that is carried in one hand, and a resplendent orange cape. He is handsome, with shoulder-length hair.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 3: Into the Depths (Mentioned)
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Reeve Lynette

The Reeve of Burnell, Reeve Lynette is a middle-aged, meek-looking woman with grey hair wearing round spectacles who wears a neat dark crimson red bodice with small gold buttons, and a pencil hoop skirt. She carries a book.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories

## Marrion Delamere(sp?)

Foreman of the Blackrock Mines. She resides in a cottage with a pretty garden close to the market in Burnell with her elderly mother and father. Marrion is a regular of the Peony Post and has been heard arguing with the Reeve about a money-related matter. Marrion a broad-shouldered, strong, athletic Human woman in her forties with grey-streaked brown hair tied into a tight bun.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Nim

*See main page*

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm
Episode 5: Blood and Fire
Episode 6: The Ashen Road
Episode 7: The House of the Rose

## Percival

Trusted assistant to Ophelia who unwaveringly follows her commands. He does not speak. It it unknown who he was in life other than that he was a commoner who did good things, and as a worshipper of the Grave Father was blessed with the gift of reanimation after his death. Percival is a skeleton, who usually appears in heavy and draping black friar-like robes. He looks like someone who was alive once but is now perfectly clean and well-preserved, and yet silent with empty eye sockets.

His appearance as a skeleton means that some citizens of Altheya think they have seen Saint Dethyr when they witness him.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm
Episode 5: Blood and Fire
Episode 6: The Ashen Road
Episode 7: The House of the Rose

## Priestess of Misara

Murdered Priestess of Ashen Rest.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)

## Raul Tovas

Inkeeper of The Lordly Reigns in Burnell. He is a personable but curious individual who is happy to share his significant knowlege about Caldra. Raul is an older but handsome Human man with a thick moustache and slicked back dark hair who carries a cane and walks with a limp.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine

## Regina Violatte

A duellist and escaped criminal suspected of killing a priestess of Ashen Rest. She is a Human Caldran woman in her early twenties, with short dark hair shaved on one side and long on the other, hugging her cheek. She is slender and tall.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Sarah

A vegetable seller in Burnell and friend of the Reverend. She is a Halfling of grandmotherly apperrance.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories

## Countess Uramen Orsa

Ophelia's sponsor in the House of Blood.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)

## Marshal Valgra

The Marshal of Burnell, she is very confident in her soldiers despite their seeming lack of discipline and does not take kindly to perceived insult. She is a Dwarven lady with her thick black hair shaved on the sides and the top braided to fall down her back. She is heavily scarred and looks rough and dangerous. Her armour is cobbled together. A large hand axe is in her belt loop, and she carries a short sword in one hand.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Yurgo the Eel

Escaped criminal suspected of killing a priestess of Ashen Rest, a disgraced runaway from Urdas Kirr, a thief and a lock breaker well-trained at stealth and hiding. Yurgo is a Kobald, three-feet tall with back scales.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories (Mentioned)
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine (Mentioned)
Episode 3: Into the Depths
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm

## Authorator Zaron Tekis

An Authorator who works with Captain Vecaro. He is a proud, noble, and imposing figure who takes his job seriously. Tekis records his investigation in great detail in a leather-bound black journal, stamped with the symbol of an eye on the head of a hammer, in a mysterious jagged shorthand. He hates cults of The Embered Goddess and has a long history with Berrik Brassfist. He is a sinister-looking, tall, lithe, and athletic Orc with a glowing scar the runs down their neck and under their black leather jerkin. The rest of their kit is a black coat, black trousers, black boots, a hood, and a badge of office on their lapel – they also carry blades and other weapons.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories
Episode 2: What's Yours is Mine
Episode 3: Into the Depths (Mentioned)
Episode 4: The Lightless Chasm
Episode 5: Blood and Fire

## Unnamed Characters

### Unnamed staff of The Lordly Reigns

A member of staff at The Lordly Reigns inn in Burnell seen sweeping the staircase. She is a Halfling woman with pink dyed hair tied into a bun.

### 'Friend' from Xantheus' past

A figure presumably from Xantheus' past who has appeared in his dreams as a cloaked figure. He recognised them as a friend, yet also remembers them as becoming angry and hissing at him after interacting with an object on a pedestal.

### Burnell Clothing Vendor

An Elf who sells beautiful, rich, hand-made clothing at the market in Burnell.

### Marrion's father

An old man who lives in Burnell with his daughter Marrion, and his wife. He was questioned by the party as to whether he recently witnessed any criminal activity.

**Episodes**
Episode 1: A World of Stories

### Blackrock Mine Miner

A Orcish miner of Blackrock mine who expressed anger at Marrion for how her actions endangered the miners. She advised the party on finding Marion in the mines and lead the surviving miners back to Burnell after the conflict.