Tyche's Favourites/Other NPCs

Here is a listing of any other NPCs who the players and their hapless GM wish to remember, once they've been established.

Massalia

Menesthios' family and household

Menesthios - the Massilioi aristocrat who hired the PCs. Known to be a populist seeking to expand the franchise.

Dianan - Menesthios' partner, a Salyens woman and mother to four of his children. A capable fighter in her own right, badly wounded in the attack on the house.

Xanthe - Menesthios' youngest daughter, survived the attack on the house unscathed thanks to her parents and older brother.

Demetreia - Menesthios' older half-Keltoi daughter, married to the son of a Salyens chief.

Idomeneus - Menesthios' Greek son and named after his grandfather. Hates his father.

Melita - Menesthios' Greek daughter, married to a merchant in Emporion.

Timoukoi

Presidents

Pelopidas - senior president, a dithering old fool who relies upon his wife to make decisions.

Laodamas - a fair man open to reasoned argument, wearied by forever playing peacemaker between the factions.

Cleonymos - a rival of Menesthios' in the council. Leader of the aristocratic faction and most junior of the three presidents.

Aristocratic faction

Diodoros - Pan-Hellenist in his leanings, not attracted to women. Noted to be a moderate.

Hieronymos - led the hippeis to investigate the fires at Menesthios' estate.

Parmenides - a non-entity who got to where he is because of his ancestry; hopeless with money and being robbed by his steward. Hates Satyros.

Satyros - a lecherous man who thinks no one knows he has a mistress. Hates Parmenides.

Populist faction

Kritias - nicknamed Philokeltoi, a champion of the mixed blooded population and married to a Keltoi woman, Gwenddolau.

Menelaos - newest timoukos, an ambitious man very much in love with his exceptionally talented wife, Evadne.

Oenomaus - lost a fleet in a spring storm, imperilling his finances. Secretly hates Menesthios.

Councillors

Hippeis

Hoplites

Artisans

Isandros - master bronzesmith and armourer

Telekles - master shipwright

Foreigners

Greeks

Etruscans and Italiots

Hastia - a successful Etruscan merchant whose husband is an equally-successful pirate.

Carthaginians and Phoenicians

Bodeshmun - a Phoenician banker who handles a lot of Carthaginian finance.

Eshmunash - a major Carthaginian merchant

Metallo - a Carthaginian merchant and the richest man in Massalia. Controls mining interests in Iberia and has his own trade fleet. A fat man who is often underestimated.

Milkherem - a major Carthaginian merchant

Celts, Celto-Ligurians and Ligurians

Lugobelinus - an exiled Celtic chief; old but still dangerous.

Iberians

Keynea - an Iberian noblewoman ousted from her lands by a pro-Carthaginian faction.

Others

Haremsat - Egyptian master ironsmith and weaponsmith

Northern Italia/Liguria

Bolgios - a chief of the Insubri and now guest-friend of Rhyanidd.

Drostan - Bolgios' son, a youth eager to prove himself in war.

Laris of Perusia - an Etruscan aristocrat present at the feast.

Lobharan - A Ligurian chief who reacted well to the PCs, granting safe passage through his lands.

Vidogern - an Oxubii chief who attacked the PCs at the instigation of Himilco's agents. When his warband was defeated, he was taken prisoner, then ransomed back to his people.

Carthaginians

Astegal - a negotiator sent to buy off the band in Antipolis. Either lacking in initiative or loyal to his master, Himilco.

Abdelmiki - a Liby-Phoenician warrior accompanying Astegal in Antipolis. Captured on the coastal road between Antipolis and Olbia.

Himilco - a Carthaginian senator who is a governor in southern Iberia. Tried to buy off the band not to intervene in Massalia.

The Shades of the Dead

Apollodoros - Menesthios' half-Keltoi son and trusted envoy. Killed during an attack on Menesthios' country house shortly after the PCs arrival in Massalia.

Lykon - Menesthios' younger half-Keltoi son. Murdered in his sleep when the house was attacked.

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