Editing Urban Shadows Ashes of The Archmage (section)

=NPCs=

==Mortality==
===Drishti===
Works bar at the Blackbird

==Night==
===Dante Slade===
A vampire of some renown, though rumours abound that he serves a darker master

===Big Tom Grady===
Well known across Soho as the de-facto leader of the Soho Night Worker's Alliance, a secret labour organisation that protects bar staff, doormen, street cleaners, and after-dark vendors from predation or exploitation. They ensure that their members are paid, protected, and respected. Those that abuse members of the SNWC find their businesses trashed, at the very least, though rumours abound of much more violent conclusions. Everyone in Soho knows that Big T is a good guy, though he may have a slightly quick temper.

Algy knows Big T in an entirely different capacity. While on assignment for the Order of Saint Martin at the London Palladium, the two crossed paths. For reasons unknown, Algy was sent to ensure that an understudy took to the stage playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, but found that the theatre was under the protection of a werewolf pack called the Howling Collective. This was unexpected, as during his pre-mission recon he had identified the territories of local packs, and none should have considered this an intrusion on their territory. During the fracas it came out that the Howling Collective consider their territory people, rather than places; an unconventional take for an unconventional pack.

==Power==
===Dame Corvina===
Dame Corvina was the one who did the bulk of Algy's training (and is one of his contacts within the order) - a no-nonsense immortal with centuries (or maybe a millennia!) of combat prowess that she's more than eager to bestow upon those she deems worthy of her tutelage. She's definitely the one who has handled the training of all the Sworn the Order has had over time.

Despite Algy's feelings that she would kill him in a heartbeat for stepping a toe out of line (and he's right), I'm thinking she may have something of a soft-spot for him, which isn't something that happens often. Perhaps she may be willing to look the other way in some instances, though if he does something that directly harms the Order she'll take appropriate action.

===Theodora "Theo" Rothwell===
BA Fine Art Student at Central Saint Martins. Theo is sharp-tongued and cool-eyed, with a voice that rarely rises above conversational but still commands attention. Her family, the Rothwells, are archivists, interpreters, and the silent watchers of the Order's relic history. Thea's mother, Margot Rothwell, is high-ranking within the Order's curatorial wing—devout, severe, and quietly disappointed in her daughter's tendency to question doctrine. Theo and her entire family are mortals that have served the Order for a very long time and have proved themselves to be quite useful to the organization's goals. Theo was marked into service at age sixteen, tattooed with the family sigil beneath her left shoulder blade during a ritual she doesn't fully remember.

Algy is one of the few people Theo actually lets in. Their friendship formed not in lectures or society functions, but in the claustrophobic dark of the Order's archive annex, elbow-deep in cursed pigment analysis and poorly documented relics that whispered.

She finds Algy infuriating and essential in equal measure. His irreverence and aplomb nature cracks the shell the Order's bred into her. He, in turn, finds her unnervingly composed, frustratingly private, and utterly magnetic when she lets the mask slip. They've covered for each other more than once. Shared a flask on rooftops after long nights. Shared silence when it mattered more than words. And maybe—maybe—shared a look or two that lingered a moment too long.

==Wild==
===Zdan===
An ancient maalem, the leader of the band in gnawa rituals at the court of Amon, working in harmony with Amon's daughter Rayah, who led the sacred dancers.

Now, in exile, he is visited only by his old mentor Zdan, who never fails to share how disappointed he is in his old pupil for embracing profane modern music over the divinely ordained rhythms of the gnawa; and for forcing Zdan to play on long after he should have retired and passed down his Sintir. He had earned the rest, but without Ashja there are none good enough to take his place and lead the ritual. So he plays on.

===Rayah===
Amon's daughter, who led the sacred dancers. Ashja's rival and once-betrothed, she has not visited in the decades since Ashja's exile. A carved driftwood windcatcher – hand-painted by the King's own daughter, back when he was a favourite of her father, and of her besides – hangs limp in Ashja's kitchen. If he ever actually cracked a window and allowed in the wind, it might spin hypnotically and produce an low, droning note. It might call across the skies to the Other Realm, to its maker the Princess of the Wind... if you believe in that sort of thing. And if he ever.

===Amon===
Lord of the Court of Tradewinds

===Nyxis===
Nyxis of the Unkind Echo. Nyxis of the Silvered Vow. Nyxis of the Last Lullaby. 
A member of the Court of Moonlight, imprisoned in the manager's office of the Blackbird by Dante Slade; freed by Ashja.
''She owes him a Debt.''

==Unknown==
===Brynja, of the Valkyr===
Leader of a bunch of Valkyries. May be acquainted of Ragna Fairhair, who Kayin did a favour once.