Crickets Conundrum:NPCs

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Citizens of the Iron Isle

Alvise Zorzi

Mortal; Paluan

A self-styled adventurer, treasure-seeker and dealer in antiquities…Alvise mostly dredges up junk and scrap - scavenging from the remnants of pirate engagements, unwisely plundering tombs and generally being a slimy, opportunistic rat. He may not be good, but it can be said he’s lucky! And while his nose for a quick score may lack the ability to find riches (though not for lack of trying!) it hasn’t steered him too wrong just yet. Is a terrible judge of character and knows far too many of the wrong people.

Was almost instantly murdered while trying to unseal Connie’s tomb. Sensibly decided to sell the info to a bunch of weirdo robots instead. They seemed grateful! Has possibly decided that sticking around them will – this time! – lead him to riches for sure.

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (neutral)

Elder Min

Mortal; Paluan

“A creature of ancient death shall rise from the sea…and the West shall burn.” A common enough prophecy – especially around the volcanic island chains of the Terrestrial West. But Elder Min knew, like many others in the village, where this ‘creature of ancient death’ slept. He had guarded it, as his mother before him had, as did the elders before her. But to his eternal shame, that rat – Alvise – snuck past him and pried into the tomb’s secrets himself…and then sold that knowledge to the Exalted Masters! They foolishly unsealed the tomb and released the thing within…a thing that looked just like them. Elder Min now fears for Paluans more than he has in a very long time, and is convinced something must be done.

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (enemy)

Gale "Kraken" Glade

Mortal; Paluan

A well-known healer skilled in treating diseases and injuries common to sailors. Lost her eyesight due to a spray of venomous kraken ink that stained her eyes permanently black, but was aided by Diamond in integrating her new disability into her everyday life. Often exchanges news and gossip from the ships that travel the West.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (neutral)

Marama Peleps Kaimana

Mortal

Koa's twelve year old daughter with Liriope. She lives with him on the Iron Isle, assisting at the forge and generally getting into trouble.

Relationships: Koa-Mika Kaimana (ally)

Maran, exemplary technician

Mortal; Autochtonian

An expert engineer from Autochthon – though mostly retired to a teaching role due to his advancing age. While on excellent terms with the circle at large (as you would expert) he does not trust Devoid of Due Consideration: he considers her demeanour both alien and unbefitting for a supposed ‘hero’, and her caste makes him worry she has ulterior motives.

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (neutral)

Agents of the Realm

Captain Peleps Liriope

Water Aspect Terrestrial

Captain Peleps Liriope, a lifer in the Imperial Navy, plys the supply convoy circuit for the Imperial outposts that dot the Western Isles. She and Koa had a relationship in Wu-Jian years ago, before either of them Exalted. Now she's a Water-aspected Captain with a ship of her own and he's the Exigent of Warstriders, raising their daughter on an obscure Island far from the Realm's eyes. They still meet on Wu-Jian from time to time. They were never going to make it as a couple - but they still have the occasional fling when the fleet comes into port.

Relationships: Koa-Mika Kaimana (neutral)

Functionaries of Heaven

Exagryph, He Who Revels in Resplendent Destruction

God of Artillery

Heavenly god of artillery. Had big dreams! Which were promptly shattered when Autochthon left Creation and took the very concept of artillery with him. Insignificant subordinate of the vastly more important god of siege engines. Is frequently forced to make coffee for the god of firewands. Has a kind of sweet friendship with the god of fireworks, but she’s seeing someone else. Is presently freaking out because he’s once again having to process requisition forms for artillery serial #00001, and he remembers the last time he got his hopes up…

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (ally)

Sixteen Shattered Emeralds

Chosen of Secrets Sidereal

A Sidereal Chosen of Secrets that has long tried to pry into the workings and purposes of the circle and their Manse, succeeding on occasion in thieving some insignificant creation or information to report back to her superiors in Yu-Shan. Seems to hold a grudge against the Chosen of Autochthon, but never elaborates on why. Particularly concerned that the circle has started to reactivate long dormant strands of fate...

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (enemy)

Two-Ton Hammer

God of Warstriders

Was profoundly diminished by creation of the Exigence. What remains of his puissance forms the power core of Still Smoldering Ashes, though he also manifests as a cranky old man who loiters around the island shaking his fists at clouds. He has no magical power outside the core, though his knowledge of Artifacts is deep.

Relationships: Koa-Mika Kaimana (ally)

Chosen of the Sun and Moon

Broken and Bloody Fang

Lunar

Triumphant and Feathered Quill was a Lunar who semi-frequently visited Due Consideration. He loved telling the alchemical stories of his wide-ranging explorations and would frequently show up as an animal – playfully waiting to see how long it would take Connie to spot his tell. They were separated by the Usurpation and Connie’s fall into stasis.

Broken and Bloody Fang survived the Usurpation and subsequent centuries. Scarred and greying, he has become a bitter old man and, like many Lunars, a violent thorn in the side of the Realm. He is aware of Connie’s intended purpose and used to accept both it and her desire to be different. But these days he may care more for the former than the latter.0

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (ally)

Leviathan

Lunar

A massive and ancient Lunar that rules over the lost sunken city of Luthe filled with First Age treasures and hoards of valuable magical materials. Diamond has traded his medical services to renew the Lunar's tired body and cure his subjects in exchange for some of his protected valuables on occasion.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (neutral)

Minions of Darkness

Bruno il Veccio di Milani

Ghost

A ghostly noble politician of Skullstone seeking to make overtures into the Wavecrest Archipelago by any means necessary. Diamond and him have clashed many times over the years. We don't talk about Bruno.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (enemy)

Scalpel Against Flesh and Steel

Abyssal

An Abyssal obsessed with forgotten technology and the twisted ends it can be turned to. And the West sure is full of such treasures – sunken and otherwise. Treasures like god-powered warstriders, titan-slaying cannons and walking, talking soulsteel. Every time someone sights her, it’s rumored her appearance always differs – a result of the experiments and implantations she performs on her own body. Said to be working with Kael the Bloody and other such unsavory characters to source more fodder for her warped designs.

Scalpel Against Flesh and Steel is Koa's primary rival for the magitech treasures hidden in the West, and a dark and twisted mirror of his own desires of lost greatness. Her ghoulish band of half-dead scavengers are a favorite target of Koa's blade, and he's exchanged blows with the Abyssal more than once.

Relationships: Devoid of Due Consideration (enemy), Koa-Mika Kaimana (enemy)

Tebitha

Infernal

Tebitha is an Infernal Exalt sorceress, who runs a floating asylum for those devoured by the Fair Folk. The two crossed paths when they both tried to recover magitech scrap from a watery battlefield south of Wu-Jian. They crossed swords briefly, but were ultimately able to come to an agreement and split the booty. Since then, Tebitha has become a patron of Koa-Mika's forge, supplying a steady stream of orders for artifacts. They also have an on-again/off-again romance, depending on the mood of the focused and mercurial Exalt.

Relationships: Koa-Mika Kaimana (ally)

Revelers of the Wyld

Lirael of the Coral Court

Water-Aspected Faerie;

A self-styled adventurer, treasure-seeker and dealer in antiquities…Alvise mostly dredges up junk and scrap - scavenging from the remnants of pirate engagements, unwisely plundering tombs and generally being a slimy, opportunistic rat. He may not be good, but it can be said he’s lucky! And while his nose for a quick score may lack the ability to find riches (though not for lack of trying!) it hasn’t steered him too wrong just yet. Is a terrible judge of character and knows far too many of the wrong people.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (ally)

Wanderers, Vagabonds, and Others

Bastiano Auditore il Sangallo

Mortal

Merchant Prince and head of the Resplendent Emporium, a floating market where merchants sell their wares from the decks of brightly painted ships. Diamond uses him often as a means of sourcing rare and unusual items from the Wyld or areas outside the Western Ocean, and they share drinks aplenty during these times. Bastiano has tried every time to drink Diamond under the table, and has always failed.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (ally)

Captain Kael the Bloody Corsair

Mortal

A daring pirate who sails the seas with a crew of loyal and ruthless sailors, always on the lookout for the next big score. Particularly fond of trying to target Iron Isle due to the quality of their manufactured goods and the skills of their artisans.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (enemy)

Mnemon "Dredge" Miquella

Water Aspect Terrestrial

A Water Aspect fisherman who has abandoned the politics of his former life in the Realm in favor of a quiet existence fishing the waters of the Western Ocean. Occasionally strays into the Bordermarches and ends up catching strange, aberrant fish that Diamond often purchases to use in concocting sorcerous elixirs. Fond of a hearty homecooked meal but not talkative in the slightest, Miquella is usually an introvert and constantly roams the ocean in his small ship, Ocean's Riches.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (neutral)

Qiu Jia

Mortal

A Wyld-tainted master cartographer who has mapped much of the Western Ocean, and is always eager to discover new lands and treasures. The Adamant Caste and him get along like Wu-Jian meat buns and strong alcohol (that is to say, swimmingly) and the cartographer is often a frequent guest at the Manse between his excursions.

Relationships: Radiantly Transcendent Diamond (ally)