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

Family

Menesthios - the Massalioi aristocrat who hired the PCs. Known to be a populist (and leader of that faction) seeking to expand the franchise. A generous man with many enemies.

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. After the deaths of Apollodoros and Lykon, now the sole heir. Hates his father.

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

Staff

Polykratis - steward responsible for external trade, ie that with the Mediterranean. Also runs the mining interests in Iberia

Zoilos - steward responsible for trade into Gallia. Runs the horse-breeding estate and wheat-growing areas.

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. Leader of his own faction in the Carthaginian senate who favour the status quo.

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.

Hasdrubal Barca - leader of the Barcid faction in the Carthaginian senate and in favour of Sikelian expansion.

Himilco Saunites - a Carthaginian senator who is a governor in southern Iberia. Tried to buy off the band not to intervene in Massalia. Leader of the faction in the Carthaginian senate in favour of Iberian expansion.

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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