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.
Contents
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
Other Massalioi
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.
