NPCs
Chief Judge Arbitrix Zivon
Gravenreach Jurist and Head Patent Judge
A proud Dwarven jurist from Gravenreach, Arbitrix Zivon presides over the Patent Duel with iron procedure and a low, gravelly voice. Rigid, commanding, and secretly fond of Fleaspark …
Dockmaster Korrin
Harbor Dockmaster of Uled
The gruff, blunt dockmaster who keeps Uled's cranes turning and its cargo moving. Korrin chews his words in a low dockside growl and cares chiefly about order on …
Elder Vaelor Kesh
Defender of Tradition
The presiding elder of High Clan Vaelor, tall and silver-haired, wrapped in oath-sigiled storm-cloth. He believes the dawn duel is the only thing standing between the clans and …
Guildmaster Velka Iron-Tellan
Keeper of Khalgur's Diplomatic Hostels
An Orderborne Dwarf guildmaster who runs the diplomatic hostels of Khalgur Forgevault. She will host the party formally if the right credentials are presented, and is otherwise inquisitive …
Lt. Sareen Wythe
Hollowbound Officer
A clipped, ambitious Hollowbound lieutenant who drills her troops mercilessly and keeps her manifests under lock. Wythe speaks in sharp, staccato commands and shows no warmth, treating everyone …
Patent-Marshal Vex Glimmercog
Keeper of the Boomcradle Patent Registry
The ageless Goblin who runs Boomcradle's vast patent registry, trading access for invention. Anyone who wants into the files must first file a counter-invention of their own — …
The Abbot of the Stormsong Monastery
Keeper of the Trial
The serene abbot of the cliffside monastery who welcomes storm-battered travelers with warmth, then declares with quiet certainty that the storm has chosen them for its Trial. Gentle …
The Confessor
The oldest voice of the Order
Reckoned the oldest person in the Pale, the Confessor has held his office — for life, as the theology requires — longer than anyone living can remember. He …
Warden-Captain Threy Stoneshaft
Echo Warden of the Stone-Reft Galleries
An Orderborne Dwarf Warden-Captain leading an Echo Warden patrol in the Stone-Reft Galleries beneath Khalgur. His mandate is to contain the kind of resonance that unspools time in …
Wind-Reader Sera Thalen
Troubled by the Storm's Silence
The young omen-interpreter of the clans, copper-haired and wind-burned, her fingers dark from lightning-rod etchings. She reads the storm honestly, and right now the storm is not answering …