NPCs

A wizened gnome teacher at the Vos Wizardry School who repeatedly outfitted and guided the party on Resistance missions, including the jailbreak of Commander Red Ryan.

Charges in maps, not coin. Says the interior changes from year to year.

Took the parish last winter. Asks too many questions about the wreck on the bar.

Will not drop a depth-bell for anyone who has not paid the gas levy.

Interested in the Vault’s riches — but not its dangers.

A pirate with a tariff sheet; politer than the constabulary in Vichey.

Investigating wartime overspend. Reasonable. Lonely. Useful.

Will not ask after your ship if you do not ask after his bridge.

Trades in favors and writs; never in promises.

The deep gnome proprietor of The Eagle and Child Inn, secretly a sorceress and Resistance member who nearly turned her wrath on the party over a stolen vault before standing down.

A friend — and the source of more trouble than coin.

Sympathetic to the workers; impatient with imperial inspectors.

A piper bard who posed as a kindly elder wizard at The Eagle and Child, then murdered Brother Maynard and robbed the party before being tracked to the Brackle airship hideout and killed by Cal.

Will pour for a story and a copper.

A bugbear freed from a fighting pit and bound to Gandalar by a lifedebt; once the party subdued and revived him, he marked Gandalar's hideout on a map and joined the Resistance council at Vos.

Manages the town in her absence. Tired.

Stamps writs for a fee and a favor.

Coordinates tariffs and writs along the Bastion coast.

The arrogant, cowardly Imperial magistrate of Vos who presided over Ronan Thatchroot's execution under the Purity of Light Act and remains the party's recurring antagonist.

Quiet, brisk, has not written home; reasons unclear.

Will sell the path through the lava-glass tunnels for a song.

A towering goliath who leads the fragmented anti-Empire Resistance network out of the Vos Wizardry School and recruited the party into its cause.

Has a chart of everywhere he has never been.

Runs the village and the wharf with the same ledger.

Seeks to protect the Vault’s secrets at any cost.

Charts the venting cycles. Will trade safe-passage notes for ground meal.

Pours for friend and foe alike. Listens twice as much as he talks.

Trades wind-spells for fresh water. Do not owe her three of anything.

Trades poultices for company.

Knows the inland trade roads and which barbarian camps to avoid.

The eldest of the four Thatchroot sisters, left to raise her siblings alone after their father Ronan's execution and their mother's death; the party returned her newborn sister and escorted the family toward Monte-de-Amour.

Pays a kickback to the constabulary; you do not want him to learn your shape.

A Resistance officer captured and tortured by the Empire after an informant betrayed her; the party broke her out of the magistrate's jail beneath Vos and she remains under Benjamin Bell's protection.

Will refit anything; ask no questions about the timbers.

Stays out past the lights. Says the stones tell him where the lambs are.

A scholar of the Empire's pre-colonial wars; pays well for old maps.

A Thatchroot sister troubled by recurring visions of a demon she calls "Andy," whose nightmares turned real when the entity manifested and attacked Osbourne while he stood watch over her.

Says he is the only dwarf left who remembers the old striking-rhythms.

Keeps the town breathing. Drinks too much when the pumps grumble.

Knows every reef from here to Anchorhedge. Buys a round for any ship that brings him news.

Wants to reactivate the Vault’s defenses for unknown ends.

Will guide pilgrims; will not bargain with traders.

Will buy any tincture that promises to halt the rot.

Patron of the vines and the war-yards both. Gracious and exact.

Will lead a convoy through the worst stretches for a share of cargo.

Has cataloged every wreck the storms have left.